Periodic table
Hugh Aldersey-Williams on ‘Periodic Tales’
Remember the periodic table? With its 92 elements and perplexing abbreviations? No doubt, you had to memorize portions of the table back in high school. But beyond high school classes and chemistry jobs, why should we care about the elements? Hugh Aldersey-Williams has some reasons. He’s the author of the new book “Periodic Tales: The Curious […]
Lead Series; The Silent Epidemic: – Part Two (of 3)
The way people get acute lead poisoning is through exposure to old paint right at home. The stereotype is of a poor child eating a paint chip in a dilapidated housing project. But, plenty of cases of poisoning come from lead dust, particles too small to notice. And while children living in low-income homes run […]
Belly up to the Oxygen Bar!
Just south of Central Park, near the corner of 57th Street and Seventh Avenue sits one of the nation’s first oxygen bars. Once as free as the air we breathe, oxygen is becoming a money maker for entrepreneurs pitching products like oxygen facials and oxygen-infused beverages. Neal Rauch took a look, and a sniff, and […]