Monday, October 19, 2015
Periodic Table arena rock
In my high school chemistry class, each student was required to give a report before the class about one of the elements in the Periodic Table. The teacher asked us to pretend to be our assigned elements and speak in first person. My presentation on nitrogen earned me a score of 98%, but there's a way I might have been able to push that up to 100%. It would have been a stretch, as my singing range has always been limited, but what if I had gotten all the necessary facts about nitrogen into my report by singing, "I am nitrogen...," to the tune of Black Sabbath's "Iron Man?" Any student who pulled that off with any three-syllable element would have deserved a perfect score, I think, just for sheer moxie.