Please welcome No. 117 on the Periodic Table: Ununseptium.
But Sam Kean at 3QD says we should 'be prepared for disenchantment.'.
Monday, April 12, 2010
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'She's talking to that mirror again, farther?' says Misst Craddock. Father Cradock turns round slowly from the book he is eating and explains that it is just a face she is going through and they're all the same at that age.
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Ununseptium: isn't that just septium?
From yesterday's NYT Book Review:
“I want to thank the Poetry Center for putting up my poem ‘The Periodic Table of the Elements.’ ” He then proceeded to give a mock-dramatic rendition of the symbols, left to right, down the page. “H, He, Li, Be!” he panted, growled and spluttered. “Why!?” he complained when he got to yttrium (Y). “I!” he declared solemnly for iodine, as if toasting his own ego."
(Full review here)
cat: oon oon does not a double negative make. :D
km: yes, i saw that!
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