Periodic table of Death

Is this title deliberately provocative? Maybe. After all, sex sells, hubba-hubba. But we’ll get to that later, after you get a little more information about the periodic table element Neon and meander through its brightly colored world, er, Universe. But before we do that, let’s first explore the Periodic Law because it had a direct effect on the discovery of Neon. The Periodic Law was proposed independently in 1869 by a Russian Scientist, Dmitri Mendeleev, and a German Scientist, Lothar Meyer (1). Sixty-three of the 118 atomic elements (5) had been discovered but there was confusion about how to categorize them: atomic number or chemical properties. Mendeleev and …

A friend of mine writes time-travel books, so let’s use Mr. Peabody’s (1) Wayback Machine (which, shockingly, doesn’t have its own Wikipedia page) to jump back to 1669 and an Alchemist named— No. Wait. We first need to go back even farther to Medieval Arabic and European physicians and the fascinating subject of uroscopy—the divination of disease by the inspection of urine (2). This quote is from the twelfth century manuscript found in Bedside Manners in the Middle Ages:  “While you look at the urine for a long time you pay attention to its colour, substance and quantity and to its contents from …

100% of our Periodic Table of Death and Mystery and Mystery podcast listeners live on Earth. If you don’t believe me, check out this audience information gleaned by my Periodic Table of Death and Mystery partner in crime, Laura Haas, about the geographic location of our fans. Only Earthings are listening! Therefor, I appeal to all Mercurials, Venetians(?), Martians, Jovians, Saturians, Uranians, Neptunians, AND (I don’t care what some so-called solar system “experts” say) Plutonians – click, like and follow our podcast. I bet the deadliness of these elements is Universal 🤣.