Nobel Prizes – Page 2 – The Episodic Table of Elements

Element 8 brings us two different stories about a population that gets a little too swept up in the latest craze, happening to commit mass murder in the process.

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6. Carbon: The Circle Of Life

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February 12, 2018

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Allotropes, Anthropology, Archaeology, Atomic Bonding, Atomic Structure, Biology, Carbon Dating, Energy, England, Gilbert Lewis, Harold Urey, Industrial Revolution, Irving Langmuir, Isotopes, Mineralogy, Nobel Prizes, Pollution, Prehistory, Radioactivity, Stanley Miller, Thermodynamics

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Learn why carbon is the foundation of all life on Earth as we investigate a chemist’s suicide, death by air pollution, and one very, very cold murder case.

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3. Lithium: The Element Of Surprise

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January 22, 2018

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Atomic Structure, Australia, Bolivia, Energy, Ernest Rutherford, Fission, Guano, Imperialism, Mining, Nobel Prizes, Paracelsus, Particle Accelerators, Pharmaceuticals, Psychiatry, Salts, Singapore, Spain, Television, World War I, World War II

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We cautiously approach this explosively reactive element and learn about its surprising ability to stabilize moods, with a brief foray into Bolivian economics along the way.

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