Lab Out Loud®

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Dr. Theo Gray

Our guest this week has some serious accolades that would make any geek proud: he has won an Ig Nobel prize (2002), been referenced in a Foxtrot comic, and owns the domain name periodictable.com.  Dr. Theo Gray talks to us this week about his tables, science experiments and safety, Wolfram Alpha, and even answers some student questions.

Links:

• TheodoreGray.com
• PeriodicTable.com
• Wooden Periodic Table
• Gray Matter (Popular Science Column)
• Wolfram Alpha – Computational Knowledge Engine
• Wolfram Research
• 2002 Ig Nobel Winner
• Interview on NPR

Books:

• The Elements (get it from Amazon.com)
• Mad Science (get it from Amazon.com)

Making Salt the Hard Way




Bacon: The Other White Heat




Direct download: LOL37.mp3

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Dr. Martyn Poliakoff

Our second international podcast brings us to the University of Nottingham, where The Periodic Table of Videos is hosted.  An online periodic table that includes short videos about each element, the PTOV has been watched over 3.9 million times.  Dr. Martyn Poliakoff, CBE – a research professor at the University of Nottingham – tells us about The Periodic Table of Videos, a project made possible with his team and video journalist Brady Haran.

• periodicvideos.com
• Visit the PTOV Channel on You Tube
  
• Subscribe for free at www.youtube.com/periodicvideos or via rss.
• Is You Tube blocked at your school?  Try Use www.periodicvideos.com/nyt/.
• Test Tube – Behind the Scenes in the World of Science

• Press Release from the University of Nottingham
• Article from C&EN
• Article from the Telegraph
• Links & Praise