I have restructured WebElements. The restructuring is all style at the front-end and reorganisation at the back-end, meaning all the errors in data are still there but they are displayed more beautifully and efficiently. Fixing some of those errors is now a priority.

Quite by chance I noticed that at Simon Fraser University in Canada members of staff in the Department got together to make a periodic table quilt. Looks to be about 6 feet across. I wonder if it will be updated for the latest elements?

If you go to the SFU site, click on any element to see that panel in more detail. Anyone else made a quilt like this?

...as I see the WebElements A6 size periodic table card (laminated, naturally) is the logo for the FaceBook Group "The united nerd front" - A place for nerds to unite. (if you have a mini-periodic table you get gold card membership).

The printable periodic tables held on this site at

http://www.webelements.com/nexus/Printable_Periodic_Table

have been updated 21 September 2007 to reflect the latest (2007) IUPAC values that will appear shortly in Pure & Appl. Chem. They are pdf files so pretty well anyone should be able to print them.

I'm interested in the periodic table - but not enough to get a periodic table tattoo! And here is one courtesy of o2b and writer Carl Zimmer:

He has a collection of science tattoos for you to browse.

This stamp commemorates the death of Mendeleev (February 1907), one of the lead figures responsible for the periodic table. Absolutely excellent choice of colours if I might say so! The stamp was sent to me by Prof Gabriel Pinto (Departamento de Ingeniería Química Industrial, ETSI Industriales, UPM, Madrid, Spain) and I quote from his web page:

This website (the WebElements Chemistry Nexus) is now incorporated within the main WebElements site at http://www.webelements.com/nexus/ - please adjust your bookmarks accordingly.

If you use a newreader please change your link to http://www.webelements.com/nexus/rss.xml.

I'm delighted to announce that WebElements has collaborated with Theodore Gray to produce a new glossy laminated periodic table poster showing his fantastic photographs of the elements. The style of the poster is such that it pairs nicely with our existing periodic table poster. You can order it now from our online shop

I'm slowly expanding some of the functionality on the WebElements periodic table site and we now have the bare bones of a news and forums site here (the current URL will switch to the main WebElements site in a
while). This part of the site will also house chemistry information pages in a "book " format (this will also be open to contributors in a while) and some other features.

The system I am using does allow individual users to post their own blogs and it seems to me that some of you have something to say. Chemists don't seem to be natural bloggers, however, this is an offer for some of you chemists out there to have your own blog on one of the highest profile chemistry sites around.

Good to see that the complete works of Charles Darwin, one of the greatest scientists, are being published online by Cambridge University. Darwin Online features many newly transcribed or never-before-published manuscripts and is worth anyone's time to browse around for a while. The great English naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882) revolutionized our understanding of life on earth.