![]() ![]() It was so, Kean says, but there was a serious - or hilarious - side effect.Īs a child in the early 1980s, I tended to talk with things in my mouth - food, dentist’s tubes, balloons that would fly away, whatever - and if no one else was around, I’d talk anyway. He'd heard silver had antibacterial effects. ![]() The Montana Libertarian began drinking liquid silver. So he decided he was going to get his immune system ready for the apocalypse in 2000." "He was especially concerned that people wouldn't be able to find antibiotics. "Stan was a big believer that the Y2K virus was going to wipe out civilization," Kean says. In one story, a single element from the periodic table changed U.S. Growing up, Kean says, the science teachers that captured his attention most were the ones who explained science through stories. Kean spoke with NPR's Guy Raz about how he made the periodic table exciting. The book tells the histories of the elements in the periodic table, and in the process, gives a history of famous thinkers, war, literature, protest and more. But Sam Kean makes it just that in his new book, The Disappearing Spoon. Most people wouldn't describe the periodic table of elements as gripping. ![]()
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