Memorials to Mendeleev!

Dmitri Mendeleev, the scientist who codified the Periodic Table of Elements, obviously features in my new book Mendeleev's Mandala. This week two writer friends sent me links to interesting Mendeleev mentions.

From Julene Weaver, this hilarious yet informative video from Oslo University.

And from Leza Lowitz, author of Jet Black and the Ninja Wind (among many others!), this image of the original periodic table.

It's Elemental

Happy Holidays to All.

From our country/ies of abundance and assumed abundance, here is a chart of the relative abundance of the elements on the periodic table on the surface of the earth, by Prof. William F. Sheehan of the Univ. of Santa Clara, provided by meta-synthesis.com. It even shows relative electro-negativity!

The title poem in Mendeleev's Mandala is about the periodic table, so it's not surprising I love this! Hope you do too.

The Periodic Table in Song

My new manuscript, which I began sending around last November, is called Mendeleev's Mandala. Mendeleev is the guy who discovered (or created, depending on your POV) the periodic table of elements.

So I have a thing for the periodic table (of course I do, what a list: every known thing!). Anyway, I just discovered this video from AsapScience (via Maria Popova's Explore website).

 

Enjoy!

 

 

(And here's the title poem from my manuscript (scroll down) at Thrush Poetry Journal.)