Indian schoolgirl recreates periodic table with 90 global issues

A 17-year-old Indian school girl came up with an imaginative way to remember all the elements on the periodic table for her science class. The aspiring artist decided to recreate the periodic table to highlight 90 global issues, using the acronym of each element to highlight a particular problem. 

Kaanchi Chopra , a grade 12 science student from Delhi, designed the table over the course of a week. The 17-year-old uses everything from malnutrition to body shaming and xenophobia in the table. She also focuses on broader issues and social movements such as reproductive rights, net neutrality and LGBT rights. 

"I made this table to spread awareness about these issues and the immediate need to work harder to solve them," Chopra told Mashable over email. "I hope to encourage people to become more inclusive and talk about these movements and rights more openly."

The science student hit upon the idea while flipping through her chemistry textbook. "I was reminded of how we used to make numerous mnemonics to memorise the elements and realised that each and every symbol of the elements in the periodic table was an acronym of a global issue," she wrote. 

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