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    The Circular Periodic Table of Elements

    And Now, The Periodic Table of Game Controllers

    The Periodic Table of Typefaces

    Periodic Table of Videos Makes Chemistry Extremely Watchable

    Periodic Coffee Table With Embedded Element Samples
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    Image of Monkey Bars Monkey Bars
    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    Obama didn't get the Nobel Prize for chemistry. Two Americans and an Israeli are sharing it for their research into ribosomes.
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    10/09/09

    @Monkey Bars: Did you completely miss the memo on humor? How did you manage that? What's your secret?
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    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    oh whooops i thought that was the map for black rock city 2010.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    The designer could've at least oriented the letters accordingly so that it was akin to a clock, that way, rotating the entire chart would not be necessary. The standard periodic table is not hard to read or navigate. If you need to find anything from Alkali metals to halogens, it's all color coordinated and oriented in the most usable way possible. No thanks.
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    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    Having taken way too many Chemistry courses, I'd say this is pretty useless, at leased in my view. Maybe if the groups were better labeled... But the whole "it shows the sizes of the atom" - so does the current table. I thin kit's way less intuitive also, things like electro-negativity look a bit more confusing to figure out (I guess you just need a starting and ending point, but still.)
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    Image of Don Nguyen Don Nguyen
    10/09/09

    @jamjen: Absolutely agreed. It makes electronegativity harder to intuitively spot. Dumb organization for an already elegant model.
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    Image of tomsomething tomsomething
    10/09/09

    @Don Nguyen: Definitely. With Mendeleev's, you can put the darn thing on a wall, and everyone can glance at it without having to cock their heads.

    Also, when you put them in a circle like this, won't that put certain atoms adjacent to each other when they should actually be opposite each other?
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    Image of Sockatume Sockatume
    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    The regular periodic table gives you an idea of the size of the atoms too. Going from one row - or PERIOD - to another, the size of the atoms increases because you add an electron shell. All he's done is stuck the left and right ends of the standard periodic table together to suggest a nonexistent circularity in properties in each period.

    I can't make head nor tail of the relationships this is supposed to imply. Why are the rare earth metals at the end of the period for the first two rows? Why do hydrogen and helium point at the transition metals? How does the atomic number change across the diagram?
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    Image of phunnyballs phunnyballs
    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    Really?

    Umm, we used this bad boy in my chemistry class:
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    10/09/09

    @phunnyballs: They call this one The Inverted Fallopian.
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    Image of SuperTuna SuperTuna
    10/09/09

    @phunnyballs: So when I roll a 9 - where do I start?
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    Image of kagekiri kagekiri
    10/09/09

    @OCEntertainment: Looks like the infinity symbol developed a malignant growth...
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    Image of hoffmanbike hoffmanbike
    10/09/09

    In reply to The Circular Periodic Table of Elements
    wow... i made something roughly like in highschool ....... my chem teacher told me it was stupid
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    10/09/09

    @hoffmanbike: I hate dickhead teachers that flat out call ideas stupid, rather than actually explaining why something doesn't work.
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    Image of lostarchitect lostarchitect
    10/09/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: A friend of mine had a physics teacher who, when he didn't know the answer to a question, would say "because god made it that way." no joke. this was not a religious school.
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    10/09/09

    @lostarchitect: This makes my brain cry.
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    Image of BigDogues BigDogues
    10/09/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: I had a science teacher in high school that berated me in front of the whole class because I made a reference to being able to see the sun and the moon in the sky at the same time. (she swore this was impossible)
    Try looking up once in a while stupid bitch.
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    10/09/09

    @BigDogues: OK I need to know where the HELL people go to school where these are the kinds of science teachers you have, so I can stay the fuck away.
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    10/09/09

    @Kaiser-Machead: You should know by now Kaiser, no matter what you just heard there will always be something worse:

    [emailsfromcrazypeople.com]
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    Image of tex1ntux tex1ntux
    03/23/09

    In reply to And Now, The Periodic Table of Game Controllers
    Interesting decision to go with the "Duke" and omit the "Controller S"...


    (Xbox controllers)

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    Image of Cordfucious of Tech Clan Cordfucious of Tech Clan
    03/23/09

    @tex1ntux: I was thinking the same thing
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    03/23/09

    In reply to And Now, The Periodic Table of Game Controllers
    WOW.. this is pretty neat. This is more my speed
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    Image of mnerd mnerd
    03/23/09

    In reply to And Now, The Periodic Table of Game Controllers
    I'll be making a shame of my name, but i don't get how these are arranged at all.
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    Image of Gann Gann
    03/23/09

    @mnerd: By atomic weight, of course.
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    Image of SanctusFides SanctusFides
    03/23/09

    In reply to And Now, The Periodic Table of Game Controllers
    Wheres the t-shirt? I'll take 2!
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    Image of ripfire ripfire
    03/23/09

    @SanctusFides: Why wait?
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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/13/09

    In reply to The Periodic Table of Typefaces
    Can you imagine if Giz gave us all the various fonts we wanted? This crowd would be using all the bizarre, obscure ones. (No Tahoma?!)
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    Image of beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid beekerstudios: you are inane and stupid
    03/13/09

    @Curves: And if you knew anything about web design, you would know that would pretty much be impossible. Web, in regards to fonts, is very limited, unless you use something like sIFR.
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    Image of Curves Curves
    03/13/09

    @beekerstudios: It says "imagine". I was referring to the collective Giz reader/commenter creativity and chaos that would reign if we all had our own fonts.
    Thats why its called imagine, to enjoy the thought, and use your brain to see what can happen when anything is possible.
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    03/13/09

    In reply to The Periodic Table of Typefaces
    I just love this! I am printing a copy now.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    03/13/09

    In reply to The Periodic Table of Typefaces
    actually, is there a difference between type face and font?
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    03/13/09

    In reply to The Periodic Table of Typefaces
    incomplete. there is no Simpsons type face listed.
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