And you are here why?

Mark Lorch, at the Guardian , redoes the periodic table of elements as a tube map .  As he puts it Each line on my map contains elements that share a characteristic. Sometimes these correspond directly to regions of the periodic table, so the alkali metals, alkaline earth metals, transition metals, post-transition metals, metalloids and non-metals, halogens, noble gases, actinoids and lanthanoids are all there (see the jargon buster below).  As well as these there are characteristics that aren't immediately apparent from periodic tables, for example liquids (at room temperature and slightly above) have their own line, and there are lines for gases and elements with no stable isotopes (ie they are radioactive).  I also threw in a smattering of history: elements that are manmade get a line of their own, as do those that were first made in a lab before being discovered in nature. The result is a disaster - you can't really tell  anything from this.  Compa...