The Periodic Table of Videos is a series of short videos by Brady Haran, a videojournalist; and Martyn Poliakoff, a chemistry professor at the University of Nottingham. Each video shows examples of an individual element, explains some of the element’s niftier properties and gives a few interesting facts about it. Here’s a “trailer”:

For you consideration: another map game. This one is the geography of the Middle East, and its environs. Hope you know your Stans. Once again, I’ll bet on my brother-in-law Eduardo having no problems with this…but who else gets through more or less unscathed?