Very Top Five: Very Top Five… Ways to name a chemical element.
This fun article goes well with the deliciously different Periodic Table of Cupcakes. Note the snide reference to an element named after Stanford University. There isn’t one. Berkeley has four.

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This picture was taken in a park a few miles east of my house and about 600 feet higher. Naturally, the park is closed for the day; there might be 3 to 6 inches of snow. This sounds silly to my winter-toughened Northeastern self, but most Bay Area Californians can’t even drive in the rain, much less snow. Also, we have no snowplows.