Wow!
You can now greet by name two new residents of the period table of elements: Flerovium and Livermorium.
The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially approved names for the elements – which sit at slot 114 and 116, respectively — on May 31. They have until now gone by the temporary monikers ununquadium and ununhexium.
Both elements are man-made, having first been synthesized at the Joint Institute of Nuclear Research in Dubna, Russia, in 1998 and 2000. The discoveries were confirmed with further work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California. Suggested names for the two elements have been pending since they were submitted to the IUPAC last year.
The elements were created by smashing calcium ions (with 20 protons) into curium targets (which have 96 protons), combining to form element 116, Livermorium. This element decayed almost immediately into Flerovium, with 114 protons.
Sounds like a plan.
Where was this when the office’s internet connection went down?!
Oh.
Right.
It was on the internet.
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My online friend Susanna researched newsrooms that are successful when it comes to the use of Pinterest. She’s releasing research for a Poynter article and has collected a pretty cool Pinterest page about her findings.
Oops.
Pretty on the outside, but as Fast Company wrote in 2008 it’s plagued with problems.
Yes, MIT, the very apogee of tech sophistication, seems to have bought itself a bright-yellow lemon. The showstopper home for its computer-science, linguistics, and philosophy departments cost $300 million to build ($200 million more than initial estimates) and opened in 2004 (four years behind schedule). And now the school has turned to the courts to express its buyer’s remorse. A lawsuit filed in October against both the construction firm and the architect alleges “design and construction failures,” negligence, and breach of contract, which have cost the university $1.5 million in repairs already, with millions more likely to come.
Weekend Hashtag Project: #electricalsky
The goal this weekend is to capture photographs of electrical wires against the sky. Telephone circuts, overhead electrical wires for buses — just don’t forget to look up!
PROJECT RULES: Please only submit photos you yourself have taken over this weekend. Any image taken then tagged over the weekend is eligible to be featured here on Monday morning!
