This video of Tom Lehrer singing “The Elements”, in Copenhagen in or about 1967, is something we’d not seen before. And it may be the only recording of him also performing the earlier version of the song — a performance so rare that that Tom himself later half-forgot about it (Tom generously gave us permission […]
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‘Poisoner’ author reviews Period Table Table inventor’s app
Deborah Blum, author of the book The Poisoner’s Handbook, reviews “The Elements“, the ipad app created by Theo Gray, the Ig Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the four-legged periodic table table: … Gray’s sequel to this success is a print book, Theodore Gray’s Element Vault, which includes actual samples of elements, such as gold leaf, and replicas of […]
Daniel Radcliffe sings Tom Lehrer
Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who plays Harry Potter, sang Tom Lehrer‘s classic song “The Elements” on the Graham Norton show: (Thanks to Ig Nobel Prize winner—for creating the periodic table table— Theo Gray for bringing this to our attention.)
“The Elements”, Lehrerized & Grayed in Japanese
Theo Gray and Tom Lehrer collaborated to produce this video of a Japanese version of Tom’s masterpiece song The Elements. Theo Gray was awarded the 2002 Ig Nobel Prize in chemistry for gathering many elements of the periodic table, and assembling them into the form of a four-legged periodic table table. Tom Lehrer is Tom […]