I am a hydrogen ... not a walrus or "mashed potatoes"? :)

I didn't ever have any disinterest in science, nor did I have problems with it as a student.  I was actually, ahem, pretty good at it.  (editor: will you stop tooting your horn, and get to the point sometime soon?)
Yet, when I read science in some wonderful storybook fashion, I can't help thinking whether I might have enjoyed science that much more.  And, more importantly, whether many of my classmates who dreaded science would have actually enjoyed learning the materials.
Case in point: the ongoing series about the periodic table and some of the elements.  Here is an excerpt from the entry on Antimony:

Antimony has enjoyed wide use throughout history, and not just in alchemical experiments. Egyptian women used one form of antimony, stibium, as eyeliner (hence the symbol for antimony, Sb, even though neither letter appears in the element's name). Pills of the element became popular as a medicine in the 1700s, especially as a laxative, able to blast through the most compacted bowels. It was so good the chronically constipated would root through their excrement to retrieve the pill and reuse it later. Some lucky families passed down antimony laxatives from generation to generation.

Absolutely fascinatingly hilarious.
And how about the following remark about hydrogen and the relative unimportance of all the other elements of the periodic table:

The periodic table is a colossal waste of time. Nine out of every 10 atoms in the universe are hydrogen, the first element and the major constituent of stars. The other 10 percent of all atoms are helium. That's already 100 percent. The rest of the periodic table, Elements 3 through 118, lithium through ununoctium, barely register on a cosmic scale. The rest of the universe, you and I included, is a rounding error.

Looks like the author's book will be neat ... a complement, in a way, to Tungsten :)