The seeds of the idea for Elemental came to Peter Sohn many years ago, in a middle school science class, looking at the periodic table.
"All I saw were apartment buildings," he says. "These blocks and the atomic number and the name to me was like a family or a person that lived there. I would come up with jokes like, 'Copper lives next to helium. But don't trust helium because they're gassy.'"
