Our original version found here [www.artifacturestudios.com] was more detailed and included separate deck pieces for the top and middle levels. Problem was, it took twice as long to cut and was too difficult to assemble. So this version is simplified, but it did lose some detail in the process.

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The Periodic Table of Elements, in Videos

What do you get when you mix a frizzy-haired, grandfatherly chemist with his younger, cackling, explosion-loving sidekick? The Periodic Table of Videos! Put together by a team at the University of Nottingham in the UK, this gargantuan effort of 118 short vids chronicled everything from Hydrogen (very explosive) to…

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Being Lazy Isn't Your Fault — It's Genetic!

Your desire to lie around the house isn't because you're a slacker: it's in your genes. New research from scientists at the University of North Carolina shows that there's finally a good reason why some people would rather read comic books and play video games all day than, say, go run a marathon. According to

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Um, About That Asteroid That Wasn't Going to Hit Us...

For a while there in 2004, the newly-discovered asteroid 99942 Apophis looked like it had Earth's number. Then scientists crunched some numbers, and the odds of a terrestrial bullseye dropped to 1 in 45,000, where they stand today. Sort of. It turns out that there are a few things we still don't know about the orbit…

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How Volcanoes can Stop Global Warming

Click to viewKnown for spewing liquid rock, ash clouds, and noxious gases into the atmosphere, volcanoes seem unlikely candidates for solving Global Warming. But the rocks the fiery mountains leave behind may be exactly that, according to scientists at Columbia University. They say that sequestering carbon dioxide in…

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