Dow/Popsci Periodic TableSometimes the best things in life are just a big mistake. My writing PopSci’s chemistry column the past few years? All based on a complete misunderstanding. I read in Oliver Sacks’s Uncle Tungsten that Sacks liked to visit a periodic table at the Kensington Science Museum in London, and I actually thought it was a real table with samples sitting on it for people to look at. Disappointed to learn t
