Ok. The end of the essential elements theme, look back over the past seven days to see what I’ve been up to. Today I’ve pulled together the theme for the whole week into one piece that I think does a good job of communicating one of the central ideas here: we’re just made up of [...]
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January 9, 2010
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Sulphur
By Philip in 365 DesignsIt’s time for another essential element. Today we’re looking at sulphur. Sulphur is bright lemon-yellow, and is the chemical that gives rotten eggs their smell. In fact, sulphur is also known as brimstone: the brimstone from ‘fire and brimstone’, which evokes images of volcanoes and otherwise hellish scenery. So what’s so important about sulphur? It’s [...]
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January 8, 2010
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Oxygen
By Philip in 365 DesignsYes, oxygen. Pretty much everything important in your body contains oxygen as a fundamental building block. It’s essential to the way life has evolved on earth: only very few creatures (some bacteria basically) can survive in an anaerobic (no oxygen) environment. Oxygen is very reactive, so earth is unusual in having pure oxygen (O2) in [...]
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January 7, 2010
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Calcium
By Philip in 365 DesignsCalcium is an abundant mineral, the fifth most common element on the planet, and is essential for proper cell function. In humans, calcium helps your muscles move, and helps your heart saty functional. Most importantly though, 99% of the calcium (Ca) in your body is in your teeth and bones:
Calcium is also important in many [...]
January 6, 2010
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Nitrogen
By Philip in 365 DesignsNitrogen is essential to all life on earth. It is a fundamental building block of amino acids and thus of DNA. I wanted to take a look at a particularly important aspect of nitrogen today: as it is necessary for plant life, it is a primary constituent of fertilisers used to grow most of the [...]
January 5, 2010
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Hydrogen
By Philip in 365 DesignsDay two in my essential elements series: hydrogen. Hydrogen is the lightest, most elementary element: sort of the lego brick from which every other atom is built. It is also the most abundant, 75% of the total of all stuff* in the universe, and is the power source of the sun, when combined with oxygen [...]
January 4, 2010
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Carbon
By Philip in 365 DesignsIt’s Monday, and the first full week of daily designing. This week I’m going to design to the theme of essential elements. You remember the periodic table right? Well this week we’ll meet some of it’s most important members.
First up is carbon. Carbon is the essential building block of all known life, the chemicals in [...]
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