After observing a wide variety of "Periodic Table of X " posters that are cute graphically — but (mostly!) make no sense organizationally, conceptually, or metaphorically — it's clear that a well-structured "Periodic Table of Periodic Tables" is needed. How to make one?

(cf. [1] for a Google search that will turn up oodles of pseudo "Periodic" tables as grist for the mill, including tables of mathematicians, booze, collaboration, condiments, ...)

TopicHumor - TopicScience - 2007-11-17

(correlates: MagnetohydrodynamicAphorism, OnDuals, GentleGentlyGentling, ...)