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Anniversary of the Periodic Table

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The Science of Dreaming

Mendele: There are quite a few legends about people having dreams and day dreaming. And last week we did a show about the science of dreaming. We were actually hearing about mendele that it was in a dream he had, he spent days and nights trying to get the sense of the periodic table that he ultimately achieved. It was within his kind of dream work that he then found the patent he was looking for. He reate ot, we just presumed it was going to be a pun. Is that? Is that true? I mean, ye, that's always the legendand actually, in chemistry, there are quite a many legends about people Having dreams is not necessary. They

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