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Game of Thrones Periodic Table: Noble Houses

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Etsy shop The Geekerie presents a ton of Game of Thrones spoilers in an orderly fashion in the form of a periodic table. The Table of Thrones gives each major character their own symbol and number, a color based on their House or other grouping, and most importantly states whether they’re dead or just dead people that haven’t died yet.

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Cut off some of your hair, sprinkle it on your browser and head to The Geekerie to order the poster. It costs between $22 to $95 (USD) depending on the size you choose.

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Periodic Table Building Blocks For Geeky Kids

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Periodic Table Building Blocks For Geeky Babies

Building blocks are one of those “Must Have” toys for kids. Personally I think it’s a great gift for a 2-years-old. At that age they already have the ability to stack those blocks, they love to build stuff and then crash them afterwards obviously. They understand colors and shapes so it’s a great toy for them.

Instead of buying the traditional blocks you can challenge your kid and take it to the next level by teaching them not only how to stack blocks but also the elements of the periodic table. If that isn’t nerdy, I don’t know what is.

Beside being a very nerdy gift idea for kids, these block can be great for chemistry geeks and science teachers. In this set you’ll get 20 solid wood blocks printed in bright colors. Are you born a geek or are you made one? Doesn’t really matter since geeky kids… or perhaps geeky parents will love these Periodic Table Building Blocks. You can get it here on thinkgeek for $37.99.

I’m not sure your child will be able to tell Helium from Hydrogen on the first go, and explaining to them about Krypton actually being a real-life thing and not just where Superman comes from, but pretty quickly, it won’t be just something colorful and fun to build and tear down. It’ll actually teach them stuff.

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Periodic Table Battleship: You Sank My Beryllium!

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What if the classic game of Battleship got geekier? Karyn Tripp of the homeschooling education site Teach Beside Me decided to make this game geekier and educational in order to teach the kids the elements. So she created a Periodic Table edition.

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She created the game using four laminated copies of the Periodic Table which were labeled alphabetically by row and column, then inserted into two file folders with jumbo paper clips.

“The kids can then mark where they want to place their ships by circling rows of 2, 3, 4, and 5 elements on the lower table.. They play by calling out coordinates. If they miss they put an X on the spot they chose on the upper table. If they get a hit, they circle it.”

They keep going until one person’s elemental ships are all sunken, and on the bottom of the ocean.

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This is an inventive way to teach the Periodic Table, and it breathes new life into an old game. I bet kids learn very quickly using this method.

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Periodic Table Cutting Board Adds an Element of Geekery in the Kitchen

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Etsy seller and fan of our sister site The Awesomer, Gerald Von Bargen recently pointed us to one of his wares. It’s a wooden cutting board engraved with the periodic table of the elements! I’m not sure if the table will come in handy while you’re preparing a meal, as I am sure that you shouldn’t be eating half of what’s listed on there.

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The cutting board is available in maple, white oak, beech and walnut. You can also customize the board and have your name and initials take the spot of the 118th element Ununoctium.

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As you can see in the gallery Gerard can also make a personalized cutting board by using symbols of the elements to form a word of your choice. You can order any of these cutting boards from his Etsy store Elysium Woodworks for $45 (USD) each.

Periodic Table of Spices

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periodic table of spices Periodic Table of SpicesIt’s elemental- create your own geeky spice rack. This Periodic Table of Spices has all the spices arranged by their first few letters similar to the periodic table (not exactly but do you really want to be cooking with helium? on second thought, cooking with helium does sound kinda intriguing). Fun arrangement with the clear magnetic spice tins (like these Periodic Table of Spices), great for your lab kitchen or kitchen lab.

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Periodic Table of Minecraft: Breaking Blocks

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Minecraft is an adventure game. Minecraft is a horror game. Minecraft is an engineering game. Minecraft is a chemistry game. All of it is made possible by mixing and stacking it’s most basic parts, its elements.

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Minecraft: where the oven and TNT are elements. Head to egeres’ deviantART page to see a larger version of his table.

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Periodic Table Gets a New Element You Can Scan(dium) for More Info

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Periodical Table of Elements with QR Code

I love chemistry in ways that few people would understand (unless they also happen to be a huge science geek like me.) It’s the central science, after all, with the rules of order and disorder both working for it at the same time. So what’s note to like?

Unfortunately, school sometimes takes all the fun out of the it by making kids memorize the periodic table and quizzing them about what color flames a certain element causes when it burns. Learning doesn’t have to be such a drag, though, and it doesn’t have to be so taxing either. That’s probably what Yiying Lu had in mind when she came up with interactive QR-enabled Periodic Table of Elements. Aside from each block containing the element’s symbol, name, atomic number, and atomic weight, it’s also got a teeny weeny QR code printed to the side. When you scan the code of the element you’re interested in, you’ll automatically be directed to the Wikipedia entry of that element where you can read all about it and get the bigger picture.

The best part? Lu has made her interactive periodic table free for everyone to download. You can get it here.

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Periodic Table of Cupcakes

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Introducing a pretty darn yummy way to learn about the Periodic Table of Elements.

Now why the hell my chemistry teacher wasn’t awesome enough to come up with this delicious (and educational) way to teach, I do think that the lucky students of this class should eat the cupcake of the ...
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Livermorium and Flerovium take a seat at the Periodic Table

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Just when we thought those pesky scientists had stopped messing with the Periodic Table, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry goes and ratifies another two. The pair of elements were discovered in partnership between the Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, Joint Institute for Nuclear Research in Russia and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the States. Element 114 has taken on the spell-check-worrying nomenclature Flerovium (Fl), while 116 becomes Livermorium (Lv). Eagle-eyed readers will notice that both take a name from the labs where they were discovered, the former named after Georgiy N. Flerov and the latter after Ernest O. Lawrence -- both atomic pioneers in their respective countries. The official names will get their first official publication in July's edition of Pure and Applied Chemistry. We guess those textbook makers will be rubbing their hands in glee at all those revised editions it'll sell next term.

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