#176 Guide to the Periodic Tables - What is Matter, and Why it Matters?

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🗓️ 25 February 2018

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Guide to the Periodic Tables - What is Matter, and Why it Matters?

Smithsonian Associates, Interview Series

The Periodic Table of Elements organizes the essential building blocks of matter in our universe into an elegant visualization that speaks to their common properties. Check out our interview and join award-winning science educators Callan Bentley and Piraba Swaminathan as they introduce the chemical elements that populate the Periodic Table’s columns and rows, and hear their fascinating stories. From hydrogen to gold to americium, and beyond, the elements make our world what it is. Which are the elements required to create a human being? A planet? A supernova? Where can you find antimony in your garage? Join Callan Bentley and Piraba Swaminathan on a journey of chemical exploration that may change how you view the very stuff our world is made of.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Nett Old Better Show, I'm your host Paul Vocal Singh.
0:13.0	As part of our Smithsonian Associates, Art of Living Series, our guests today on the Not Old Better
0:17.9	show are Piraba, Swaminathan, and Callin Bentley. Swaminathan and Bentley are award-winning science educators
0:26.0	and they're here today to introduce or reintroduce us
0:30.0	to the chemical elements that populate the periodic tables elegant columns and rows
0:36.2	of 118 elements of matter that really matter.
0:41.4	What really matters matter the stuff that we're made out of the stuff that everything is made out of the stuff that everything is made out of the stuff that everything is the 118 elements that comprise everything in the universe.
0:56.2	This diverse cast of characters share certain traits in common, certain patterns of size
1:00.7	and behavior that organize them into distinct personalities or flavors.
1:06.0	The periodic table of the elements is an elegant tool that helps us make sense of the
1:11.4	panoply of elements and to predict the properties of elements not yet
1:16.4	discovered. The stories of those elements are insights into the nature of reality, the very atoms that make up our world.
1:27.0	That of course are both our guests today.
1:30.0	Piraba, Swaminathan, and Callin Bentley, who will be at the Smithsonian Associates Program
1:35.0	presenting an evening program, Take an elemental journey, a guided tour of the Periodic
1:41.2	Table of Elements.
1:42.2	Thursday, March 1st, 2018, 645 PM at the Ripley Center in Washington, D.C.
1:50.0	Please join me in welcoming to the Noddold Better Show via Skype,
1:53.2	Piraba, Swaminathan, and Callin Bentley.
1:56.7	Piraba Swaminathan and Callin Bentley.
2:00.0	Thanks very much for joining the show today. Thanks for having us.
2:03.4	Thank you.
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