The Periodic Table of Elements is one of the greatest predictive insights in the history of science. Dmitri Mendeleev spotted patterns, and order, and arranged the evidence according to the patterns. When he created the table, there were gaps - and the gaps were predictions. There will be a new element *here*, and it will have properties like this. And those predictions worked. THAT is the power of science, right there, and Mendeleev is therefore one of the great insightful geniuses.
Tom Lehrer is also a genius, a mathematics professor who in his spare time in the late fifties wrote some songs, recorded some albums, did some touring and became globally famous and then packed it all in and went back to teaching because he was bored of fame and hated singing the same things over and over. If you don't know his work, seek it out.
There are some little in jokes in this video, see if you can spot them.
I know this has been done before, and probably better, but this is, like the Arthur Askey video, something that was itching in my head to come out.
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