T-Shirt Alert: Heroic Elements
The Heroic Elements t-shirt is the perfect back-to-school shirt for comic book loving kids (and adults).
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Tag: Periodic Table of Elements
Four New Elements: What Would You Name Them?
Four new elements have recently been added to the periodic table but are yet to be named. Most recent discoveries have been called after modern people and places, but surely we can do better than that, especially in the geek-friendly world of science. How would you name the new elements?
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Build This Periodic Table of Spices For Your Kitchen
Add some science flair to your kitchen with a periodic table of spices to organize all your seasonings.
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Mad Scientist Halloween Tablescape on a Budget
GeekMom Maryann shows you how to use neon paint to create a glowing Mad Scientist tablescape.
Continue ReadingWeekly GeekMom Video Playlist
Do you want science videos? We have the periodic table, animals, music, and a rapping sign language interpreter (because, why not?).
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'Scrabble' Meets the Periodic Table in 'Elemensus'
Hands up, who has ever tried to make words from the elements on the periodic table? It’s a game that most people who have ever spent time in a science lab have played at some point, and Elemensus has evolved the concept into a fully fledged board game that will have you tearing your hair out trying to think of a word that incorporates the chemical symbol for lead or magnesium.
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Five Recent Geeky Things We Like
In my nerdy Internet, the forces of Facebook, Google+, Twitter and George Takei act like a powerful tractor beam to suck up geeky stuff and spit it my way. A lot of junk ends up in the trash compactor on my detention level. But some cool stuff floats to the surface. Here are five examples of recent flotsam and jetsam I’ve collected. Stand back! And be amazed.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains The Origins Of Atomic Elements
In our favorite astrophysicist’s latest installment on AOL On’s “School of Thought” series, Neil deGrasse Tyson discusses a little-known-about paper written in the 1950s, titled “Synthesis of the Elements in Stars” and published in several scholarly journals such as Reviews of Modern Physics. This paper discussed the formation of the fundamental elements on earth, those that are taught to us in the periodic table of the elements.
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Wonderful Life with the Elements: Getting personal with the periodic table
In Bunpei Yorifuji’s new book, Wonderful Life with the Elements: The Periodic Table Personified science comes alive as elements get personalities and become a lot more fun.
Continue ReadingIt’s a Wonderful Life With the Elements
I won’t go so far as to say this book might have made a difference in my chemistry grade back when. And I’m certain it would not have swayed me to consider any kind of career that involved chemistry. But …
Continue ReadingThe Periodic Tables of Everything but Elements
Geeks love the periodic table. They love it so much, they’ll apply it to almost anything. Go ahead–Google “periodic table of [your favorite thing]” and somebody’s probably done it. Or, you can save the effort and enjoy these that I gathered for you. The Periodic Table of Sci-Fi Film and Television Order a poster-sized version […]
Continue ReadingWatch Theodore Gray Describe His Periodic Table Table
We’ve written about Theodore Gray before. A co-founder of Wolfram Research, and all-around cool science guy, Gray brought us one of the best early apps on the iPad, The Elements, and features all sorts of science goodness on his website. …
Continue ReadingYouTube Geek: Say the Right Words
If you’ve spent much time on YouTube lately, you’ve probably heard about VidCon, the great big vlogbrothers-organized convention for the amusement and edification of YouTubers that happened in Los Angeles last weekend. By all accounts, it was a smashing success, a rocking good time, and caused jealousy in the hearts of vloggers everywhere who were […]
Continue ReadingScience in Short: Leading Ladies
So I was walking down the internet one day (doo-dah, doo-dah) and I found something small but significant to me as a woman and a science-lover. It sounds a bit dull at face value. After all, it’s a very brief video of several chemists telling the tales of how, as children, they first became interested […]
Continue ReadingNew Heavy Elements Need Geeky Names (GeekDad Weekly Rewind)
The journey to gain official status can be a long trip. Take Elements 114 and 116, for example. First created in a lab a dozen years ago, the isotopes were the focus of a few collaborative teams of scientists working …
Continue ReadingNew Heavy Elements Need Geeky Names
The journey to gain official status can be a long trip. Take Elements 114 and 116, for example. First created in a lab a dozen years ago, the isotopes were the focus of a few collaborative teams of scientists working …
Continue ReadingNew Year’s and Weight (Atomic and Otherwise)
It’s that time of year again, when old calendars hit the recycling bin and humans hit the gym. Yes, brace yourself for the annual flood of blog posts demonizing food and canonizing exercise. Or, as I prefer to call it, the season of shrinky self-destruction. But this New Years Resolution post is not like the […]
Continue ReadingGeek Cinema Gets the Vapors: Oxygen
If every element on the periodic table got this sort of treatment in school, future colleges might be overrun with chemistry majors. This funny little piece of edutainment could only be better if it was the trailer for a video game. For related educational amusements, read on: Rather like a latter day version of […]
Continue ReadingGeekDad Puzzle Of The Week Solution: Spades, Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, Over, Under, Around, Through
Congratulations to Briac Pilpré, who correctly solved this week’s puzzle and won a $50 gift certificate to ThinkGeek. Puzzle: OK. I made it back from Comic-Con weary and only somewhat alive, but entranced with all the glorious things I saw …
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