Comments on: Periodic Table of Videos: elements as short YouTube episodes. http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Sun, 19 May 2013 18:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: mmbb http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232465 mmbb Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232465 I got my hopes up when I saw that large chunk of sodium. Way to disappoint me. "Quite a substantial amount," my ass! I got my hopes up when I saw that large chunk of sodium. Way to disappoint me. “Quite a substantial amount,” my ass!

]]> By: mmbb http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232469 mmbb Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232469 Go big or go home: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY7mTCMvpEM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ld07hrEy8U http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2JL6pcWajA (+ 14 more videos on youtube) Go big or go home:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HY7mTCMvpEM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ld07hrEy8U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2JL6pcWajA

(+ 14 more videos on youtube)

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232477 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232477 real scary sodium http://file.sunshinepress.org:54445/monju-nuclear-accident-2.wmv real scary sodium
http://file.sunshinepress.org:54445/monju-nuclear-accident-2.wmv

]]> By: hohum http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232507 hohum Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232507 Not as good as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0dyvoVV5Tk">Look Around You</a> with some awesome British folks. But, seriously... Fun video, and I expect the others will be as well. Will be following them... The disjointed edits bugged me though, I guess it's the result of amateur editors stuck in the generation of "MTV editing." The content was interesting enough without the awkward cuts between crystal-lamp-man and you-have-sodium-on-your-camera-man. Not as good as Look Around You with some awesome British folks.

But, seriously… Fun video, and I expect the others will be as well. Will be following them… The disjointed edits bugged me though, I guess it’s the result of amateur editors stuck in the generation of “MTV editing.” The content was interesting enough without the awkward cuts between crystal-lamp-man and you-have-sodium-on-your-camera-man.

]]> By: jtegnell http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232512 jtegnell Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232512 Is that guy Swedish? His accent is subtle. Is that guy Swedish? His accent is subtle.

]]> By: Kieran O'Neill http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232514 Kieran O'Neill Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232514 #9: o.O that first one! Man, if only high school were like that... #10: Takuan, that's one of the eeriest things I've seen in a long time. The soundtrack would make an awesome background to an industrial track. (Or the soundtrack to the next <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doom_(video_game)">Doom</a> game...) #9: o.O that first one! Man, if only high school were like that…

#10: Takuan, that’s one of the eeriest things I’ve seen in a long time. The soundtrack would make an awesome background to an industrial track. (Or the soundtrack to the next Doom game…)

]]> By: Nawel http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232772 Nawel Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232772 ah, dear commenter number 3! you stole my words! I saw an NCIS episode where some guy uses this song for encoding something. Tom Lehrer is great. ah, dear commenter number 3! you stole my words!

I saw an NCIS episode where some guy uses this song for encoding something.

Tom Lehrer is great.

]]> By: hassan-i-sabbah http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232517 hassan-i-sabbah Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232517 "ooooh ye 'ave got soom on yer camra!" "ooooh ye 'ave too!" “ooooh ye ‘ave got soom on yer camra!”
“ooooh ye ‘ave too!”

]]> By: JDspeeder1 http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232527 JDspeeder1 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232527 That Julius Sumner Miller is like the bastard love-child of <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Popeil>Ron Popeil</url> and <url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Von_Drake>Ludwig von Drake</url>! That Julius Sumner Miller is like the bastard love-child of Ron Popeil and Ludwig von Drake!

]]> By: Ugly Canuck http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232551 Ugly Canuck Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232551 For you spiritual types I recommend reflection upon the very fact that there is a periodicity of the elements. For you spiritual types I recommend reflection upon the very fact that there is a periodicity of the elements.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232566 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232566 The two scientists in this video are Martyn Poliakoff (he's on Wikipedia if you're interested and is the brother of the film-maker Stephen Poliakoff) who is the chap in the office, and Pete Licence who is the chap in the fetching green lab-coat. We also have blue and red lab-coats here at Nottingham. The two scientists in this video are Martyn Poliakoff (he’s on Wikipedia if you’re interested and is the brother of the film-maker Stephen Poliakoff) who is the chap in the office, and Pete Licence who is the chap in the fetching green lab-coat. We also have blue and red lab-coats here at Nottingham.

]]> By: Pipenta http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-233594 Pipenta Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-233594 Thank you. This was great. Thank you. This was great.

]]> By: haaz http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232589 haaz Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232589 May I refer you to the classic MST3K episode/mockery "Horror at Party Beach"! Specifically, please see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWcvg4-5jn8">part 8</A>. And with that, I will say... <I>....sssodium.....</I> May I refer you to the classic MST3K episode/mockery “Horror at Party Beach”! Specifically, please see part 8. And with that, I will say…

….sssodium…..

]]> By: umgrego2 http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232615 umgrego2 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232615 "it's really quite a large rod" (sorry, couldn't resist) Also, at 0:41: DOT MATRIX PAPER! “it’s really quite a large rod” (sorry, couldn’t resist)

Also, at 0:41: DOT MATRIX PAPER!

]]> By: farmerdave http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232616 farmerdave Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232616 "It's really quite a large rod." Sounds like Spinal Tap. "We've got armadillos in our trousers. It's really quite frightening." “It’s really quite a large rod.”

Sounds like Spinal Tap. “We’ve got armadillos in our trousers. It’s really quite frightening.”

]]> By: SC_Wolf http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-233158 SC_Wolf Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-233158 Watching this video, my first thought was "Pool's closed, due to sodium." I need to start cutting back on my internets. Watching this video, my first thought was “Pool’s closed, due to sodium.” I need to start cutting back on my internets.

]]> By: Hanglyman http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232422 Hanglyman Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232422 Fantastic link! I'll certainly be watching the other 102 episodes as they come out. Fantastic link! I’ll certainly be watching the other 102 episodes as they come out.

]]> By: Eduardo Padoan http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232424 Eduardo Padoan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232424 Fantastic indeed! Awesome episode, wonderfull to show kids how much awesome is chemistry. Fantastic indeed! Awesome episode, wonderfull to show kids how much awesome is chemistry.

]]> By: Art Carnage http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232426 Art Carnage Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232426 Nice try, but Tom did it better, many years ago: There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium, And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium, And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium, Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium. There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium, And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium. There’s holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium And manganese and mercury, molybdinum, magnesium, Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium, Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium, And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium. There’s sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper, Tungsten, tin and sodium. These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard, And there may be many others but they haven’t been discovered. - Tom Lehrer Nice try, but Tom did it better, many years ago:

There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,
And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium
And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,
And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,
Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium
And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium
And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium
And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

There’s yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium
And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium
And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,
And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.

There’s holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium
And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium
And manganese and mercury, molybdinum, magnesium,
Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium
And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,
Palladium, promethium, potassium, polonium,
Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium,
And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

There’s sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium
And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium
And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium
And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper,
Tungsten, tin and sodium.

These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,
And there may be many others but they haven’t been discovered.

- Tom Lehrer

]]> By: Frank_in_Virginia http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-233205 Frank_in_Virginia Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-233205 Read "Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood" by Oliver Sacks if you love Chemistry even a little bit. Read “Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood” by Oliver Sacks if you love Chemistry even a little bit.

]]> By: Neuron http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232438 Neuron Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232438 Not as good as <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCcZyW-6-5o" rel="nofollow">Demonstrations in Physics</a> (YouTube) with Professor Julius Sumner Miller. Not as good as Demonstrations in Physics (YouTube) with Professor Julius Sumner Miller.

]]> By: Xeni Jardin http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232442 Xeni Jardin Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232442 @#4, OMG thanks for reminding me of him. "Of all the things I like to do, and there are hundreds!, in this business of demonstration...." @#4, OMG thanks for reminding me of him. “Of all the things I like to do, and there are hundreds!, in this business of demonstration….”

]]> By: Takuan http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232444 Takuan Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232444 love the hair! I forget who, but there was a naughty physicist (are there any other kind?) who used to toss foil wrapped bits of sodium into mud puddles that he has just ostentatiously spat in. love the hair! I forget who, but there was a naughty physicist (are there any other kind?) who used to toss foil wrapped bits of sodium into mud puddles that he has just ostentatiously spat in.

]]> By: WaveyDave http://boingboing.net/2008/07/13/periodic-table-of-vi-1.html#comment-232446 WaveyDave Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-232446 Fantastic. Such enthusiasm. And the hair. Its like watching 1970's Open University tv programmes all over again ! Thank you. I'll be watching the rest. And the physics demos mentioned. I remember my Chemistry teacher doing similar demonstrations at school, but with much smaller amounts of sodium. But a sodium rod - I have never seen so much in one place at one time! Oh the fun that could be had with that ! I have one concern though - what happens when they get to uranium and plutonium.... Fantastic. Such enthusiasm. And the hair. Its like watching 1970′s Open University tv programmes all over again !

Thank you. I’ll be watching the rest. And the physics demos mentioned. I remember my Chemistry teacher doing similar demonstrations at school, but with much smaller amounts of sodium. But a sodium rod – I have never seen so much in one place at one time! Oh the fun that could be had with that !

I have one concern though – what happens when they get to uranium and plutonium….

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