There is a show on AMC called "Breaking Bad" about a guy in a bind.
Actor Bryan Cranston plays Walt, a high school chemistry teacher--and we know teachers don't make a load of dough--who has a pregnant wife, a disabled teenage son, a mortgage, car payments, the whole shinola--then finds out he has lung cancer that will require surgery and post op treatment. Walt ponders how he will provide for his family in such a pinch, where will he money come from? He has to somehow find a way to use what knowledge he has to overcome this desperate situation. Then he has an idea.

There is a troubled kid in one of his classes named Jessie who has been in trouble with the law for selling drugs, namely meth. Walt interrogates Jessie about where he gets his drugs, about the workings of the business etc. and recruits Jessie to be his aide. Walt will cook meth--and as a chemistry teacher he knows how to produce the purest meth; then he'll send Jessie out to sell it. Walt buys a camper and strips out the inside to install the cookers, and gets gas masks for them to wear during the cooking.

They drive the camper into the Arizona desert and cook up a batch and when it hits the streets, cops know there's a smart cookie making this high quality meth; it's called ice blue. Walt and Jessie make a ton of money off it. But the other sellers and manufacturers are in a hurry to find who's putting the new product out. A scary bunch of drug dealers across the border come looking for Walt; including shaven headed twins who wear cowboy boots with tiny silver skulls on the toe on their boots. Also trying to find the new cooker is Walt's brother, a straight arrow Narc on the police force.

Anyway, as the program starts, elements from the periodic table are highlighted in the casts' names. I know about half of the element symbols, you know, like Hydrogen (H) Silver (AG) Gold (AU) Iron (FE) Lead (PB) etc, but some of them aren't familiar at all. So I called all over, to bookstores and school supply houses to find the Table--none.

Finally I called the Chemistry Dept. at the University to ask where they got their Periodic Table Of The Elements that hang in the classroom--someone is gonna send me their source names. I want two large ones; one to hang on the wall in the dining room so I can see it there, and one in the living room so when that show comes on I will know what element is being highlighted.
PS If you haven't seen this show, it's won the best actor, best drama--all that-- for two years in a row. It's a good one.

susil