Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements. The order in the universe seemed miraculous.
I still have a vivid memory of my excitement when I first saw a chart of the periodic table of elements.
The actual atoms and molecules that make up my brain and body today are not the same ones that I was born with on September 8, 1954, a half-century ago this month.
I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.
Until four years ago, in fact, I was absolutely in love with the atom.
About seven years later I was given a book about the periodic table of the elements. For the first time I saw the elegance of scientific theory and its predictive power.
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September.
The Atomic Age is here to stay - but are we?
My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily.
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