Comments on: The Disappearing Spoon http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Mon, 20 May 2013 02:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-852225 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852225 Cadmium paints are still a villain since their sloppy use add enough cadmium to the sewage to make it less usefull as fertilizer and wherever it ends up its poison. I hope cadmium paints get banned. Closing the flow of nutrients to make it a lot easier to feed future generations is much more important then giving them undigitilized artwork that do not fade. Cadmium paints are still a villain since their sloppy use add enough cadmium to the sewage to make it less usefull as fertilizer and wherever it ends up its poison. I hope cadmium paints get banned. Closing the flow of nutrients to make it a lot easier to feed future generations is much more important then giving them undigitilized artwork that do not fade.

]]> By: Xopher http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-852231 Xopher Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852231 So this is how you go from thinking a spoon exists to knowing that <em>there is no spoon?</em> So this is how you go from thinking a spoon exists to knowing that there is no spoon?

]]> By: GreatRewards http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-852237 GreatRewards Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852237 The spoon is a lie. The spoon is a lie.

]]> By: jimkirk http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-852242 jimkirk Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852242 Mmmmm...liquid gallium... Mmmmm…liquid gallium…

]]> By: Thad E Ginataom http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-852254 Thad E Ginataom Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852254 Lay off the colloidal silver! It's not the best thing since antibiotics, it's what antibiotics replaced. Doesn't just make you blue, it makes you blind too. And hey... I want to know what happens to the people who drink the molten gallium? Wouldn't work here: 84F is a cool day! Lay off the colloidal silver!

It’s not the best thing since antibiotics, it’s what antibiotics replaced. Doesn’t just make you blue, it makes you blind too.

And hey… I want to know what happens to the people who drink the molten gallium?

Wouldn’t work here: 84F is a cool day!

]]> By: Antinous / Moderator http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-852260 Antinous / Moderator Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852260 Don't make me link to the Smurf porn again. Don’t make me link to the Smurf porn again.

]]> By: niche assignment http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-852274 niche assignment Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852274 The author has been "Blogging the Periodic Table" (brilliantly) over at Slate; the blog posts include material not in the book. Twenty-three posts up as of today: http://www.slate.com/id/2258112/ The author has been “Blogging the Periodic Table” (brilliantly) over at Slate; the blog posts include material not in the book.

Twenty-three posts up as of today:

http://www.slate.com/id/2258112/

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-853602 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-853602 In a related vein: Primo Levi's Periodic Table is a fabulous collection of stories with an element theme for each one. Good stuff! http://www.amazon.com/Periodic-Table-Primo-Levi/dp/0679444637/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281069811&sr=8-1 In a related vein: Primo Levi’s Periodic Table is a fabulous collection of stories with an element theme for each one. Good stuff!
http://www.amazon.com/Periodic-Table-Primo-Levi/dp/0679444637/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1281069811&sr=8-1

]]> By: Harrkev http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-852323 Harrkev Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852323 Amazon is not the only game in town, you know. Available from Barnes & Noble as a download, or hardback: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Disappearing-Spoon/Sam-Kean/e/9780316089081/?itm=1&USRI=The+Disappearing+Spoon Amazon is not the only game in town, you know.

Available from Barnes & Noble as a download, or hardback:

http://search.barnesandnoble.com/The-Disappearing-Spoon/Sam-Kean/e/9780316089081/?itm=1&USRI=The+Disappearing+Spoon

]]> By: Atomboy http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-852339 Atomboy Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852339 During a recent tour of the atomic bomb complex in Oak Ridge, TN our tour guide, a former engineer in the complex, described how they restarted a filter house/chimney complex too quickly and showered the immediate area with radioactive ruthenium. During a recent tour of the atomic bomb complex in Oak Ridge, TN our tour guide, a former engineer in the complex, described how they restarted a filter house/chimney complex too quickly and showered the immediate area with radioactive ruthenium.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-991396 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-991396 someone actually sells molds & gallium for people to make their own gallium spoons: www.disappearingspoons.com someone actually sells molds & gallium for people to make their own gallium spoons: http://www.disappearingspoons.com

]]> By: Astragali http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-852391 Astragali Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852391 Mark, you've never heard of ruthenium? <i>Surely</i> you've listened to "The Elements" by Tom Lehrer... it's in the first verse of the song! ( In case anyone hasn't, there's a Flash animation of it at http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html - with the lyrics included...) Mark, you’ve never heard of ruthenium? Surely you’ve listened to “The Elements” by Tom Lehrer… it’s in the first verse of the song!

( In case anyone hasn’t, there’s a Flash animation of it at http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html – with the lyrics included…)

]]> By: cuvtixo http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-852210 cuvtixo Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852210 Not just back in the 40s! This June because of cadmium levels, McDonald's recalled movie themed (Shrek Forever After 3D) Drinking Glasses. A search on "cadmium" on the US Consumer Product Safety Commission website brings up dozens of warnings and recalls. Scary stuff. Not just back in the 40s! This June because of cadmium levels, McDonald’s recalled movie themed (Shrek Forever After 3D) Drinking Glasses. A search on “cadmium” on the US Consumer Product Safety Commission website brings up dozens of warnings and recalls. Scary stuff.

]]> By: MrsBug http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-852215 MrsBug Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852215 I am just finishing up this book from our library. It's wonderful and written in an easy enough manner that those without a strong grounding in physics and chemistry can understand it. Wonderful! I am just finishing up this book from our library. It’s wonderful and written in an easy enough manner that those without a strong grounding in physics and chemistry can understand it. Wonderful!

]]> By: MrsBug http://boingboing.net/2010/08/04/the-disappearing-spo.html#comment-852219 MrsBug Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-852219 Oh, also, see <a href="http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&source=imghp&biw=1024&bih=580&q=argyria+photos&gbv=2&aq=0&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=argyria+&gs_rfai=">a Google search</a> for argyria. Wow, that's crazy. Zombie smurfs. Oh, also, see a Google search for argyria. Wow, that’s crazy. Zombie smurfs.

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