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Boy, those chemistry teachers have lots of fun!

Many of you will have enjoyed Tom Lehrer's Elements Song. Well, combine the Elements Song with Google Instant, which launched today, and you get this:



I think we will all enjoy it, but trawnapanda, being a professional chemist, is bound to enjoy it more than the rest of us will (unless we're also chemists). Me, I never took Chemistry in high school, which is just as well.

I was reading an interview in the Grauniad this morning with the head of the Health and Safety Executive. There has been a lot of grumbling among members of the new coalition Government and some members of the general booboisie about intrusive rules purporting to emanate from the HSE which, for example, forbid schoolchildren from playing conkers in school unless the children wear goggles (conkers is a peculiarly British children's pastime which involves attaching horse chestnuts to a string and clinking them together in the hope that your opponent's conker will shatter). There is no HSE advice on conker playing in particular, although apparently several children each year are injured by flying pieces of horse-chestnut shell.

In any case, the quotation in the Grauniad is as follows:

Not surprisingly, it bothers (Judith) Hackitt that myths about the HSE continue to be bandied about as though they really happened. For the record, the HSE doesn't want to ban school trips, or make science lessons dull. "I'm a chemist," she says, "I know that setting hands on fire, for instance, can be perfectly safe if done properly."

Quite.

Again, nothing to do with P**ps, but jelly marbles seem to be the flavour of the month.

Thanks to smlee4, here is something you might find professionally useful.

I promise that no Peeps[tm] were harmed in the production of these videos, which might be of professional interest.