By Jennifer Napier-Pearce
Salt Lake City, Utah – Mention the periodic table and eyes start to glaze over with memories of dry high school chemistry lectures. But author Sam Kean says behind the elements - carbon, gold, silicon and the 100 others - are tales of madness, passion and adventure. Friday, guest host Jennifer Napier-Pearce talks with Kean about the role the elements have played throughout human history, from war to the arts and to the lives of the scientists who discovered them.
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