Theo Gray is the co-founder of Wolfram Research, and as a science geek he's commissioned a rather unusual piece of furniture for himself: A Periodic Table that is literally a table, with samples of material contained in compartments within. (Unsurprisingly, the gold, silver and other precious metals are stored in a nearby safe rather than in the table, and we imagine the radioactive stuff is similarly tucked away.)

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As you saw in the video, Gray's idea for the table amusingly came about after he read a book's description of a periodic table with samples, which he mistook to mean was an actual table. (It would be funny if he read, say, an account of Joseph Stalin being an architect of destruction, and mistook that to mean he was an actual architect.)