These awesome Periodic Table of Elements Taxis and Buses serve as mobile advertisements for the Oxford Science Park in the U.K. I wonder if one of these bad boys will go up for sale after they’re done with the marketing scheme.
A ride like this would go perfect with a set of Periodic Picnic Tables.
She might have blinded you with science, but what are you going to do when you start getting hungry? Filling your belly is a lot more difficult when you can’t see your own food. This Periodic Picnic Table is cool enough to bring sight to the blind. Prove me wrong.
I don’t know what I’d do to own a table this awesome, but I assure you, the limits are few and far between. Would I steal from a blind man? Are you kidding? I’d do that just for the fun of it. Well, only if I was stealing candy. I love candy. My next chemistry-themed BBQ is going to ROCK!
You can pretend all you want that your kid is husky or big-boned, but when it takes donuts to get him interested in science, he’s straight-up fat.
When I think of famous side profiles the first person I think about is Alfred Hitchcock. A team of scientists at the University of California at San Francisco “injected light-sensing and communication genes from various bacterial species into Escherichia coli.” That’s right, the poopy virus.
The scientists then projected an image of Hitchcock onto a plate of bacteria, leaving an etched image of the famed director in the petri dish. Eventually, the team plans on creating color imaged by adding special color-sensing genes.
Despite popular belief, chemical engineers weren’t spawned from a mixture of radioactive materials, but they actually have a birthday like us normal people. During these birthdays they like to ingest sugary spongy material through their mouth holes, this material being known as “cake.”
This Chemistry Cake was made for a chemical engineer at Nintendo, who promptly started making guttural noises at the sight of the baked yuminess. Though his disappointment was palpable when he realized the cake included not even one zombie reference.
Now you can act like a mad scientist all while secretly being a complete drunk. This $40 Cocktail Chemistry set features a drink shaker, as well as some test tubes and a beaker all with laboratory logos slapped on ‘em. Mix some battery acid, Jack Daniels and seltzer water together and you’ve got yourself a Dirty Hyde. It’s a drink I invented when I was tripping balls and reading the Robert Louis Stevenson classic.
Seriously, don’t drink it.
Three scientists have won the Nobel Prize for chemistry. Americans Martin Chalfie and Roger Tsien and Japan’s Osamu Shimomura discovered and successfully developed a fluorescent protein found in jellyfish. Jellyfish will glow under blue and ultraviolet light because of this protein which the three scientists have become known for.
It might not sound like much, but this jellyfish protein has been widely used to study the spread of cancer, how brain cells develop and bacterial growth. Still don’t think it’s a big deal?
The academy compared the impact of the protein on science to the invention of the microscope, saying that for the past decade the protein has been ‘a guiding star for biochemists, biologists, medical scientists and other researchers’.
Yes, this is a big deal.
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Every single object in our universe is composed of an infrastructure of elements, yet many children are not retaining the information which tells us the building blocks of the universe. Elementeo is a card game created by a 14-year old whiz kid, hell bent on teaching chemistry in an effective and fun fashion.
Much like games such as Magic: The Gathering, Elementeo is based around a card set, 121 cards in total, in which players must “reduce the opponents electrons to zero through strategic use of each card’s chemical properties.” The elements are given fantasy-driven names such as “Oxygen Life-Giver”, to develop a system of lore around the game. — Andrew Dobrow
