{"id":2410,"date":"2008-07-15T08:18:58","date_gmt":"2008-07-15T08:18:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/07\/periodic-table-of-videos.html"},"modified":"2011-12-20T11:09:25","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T11:09:25","slug":"periodic_table_of_videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/07\/periodic_table_of_videos.html","title":{"rendered":"Periodic Table of Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OK OK, it&#8217;s another periodic table &#8211; but we&#8217;re <span class=\"caps\">CHEMISTS<\/span> and we love &#8217;em. This one really is quite different though.<\/p>\n<p>Martyn Poliakoff and his colleagues at Nottingham University have got together with video journalist Brady Haran to create <a href=\"https:\/\/www.periodicvideos.com\/\">short videos<\/a> about every single element. It&#8217;s still a work in progress, but they&#8217;re only missing 20. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/main.jhtml?xml=\/earth\/2008\/07\/15\/scielements115.xml\">The Daily Telegraph<\/a> describes the clips as &#8216;lively&#8217; and containing &#8216;explosive experiments that are now rarely carried out in British schools&#8217; &#8211; you have been warned!<\/p>\n<p>You can even subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/periodicvideos\">YouTube feed<\/a> to be notified when they upload new ones.<\/p>\n<p>For those hungry for more explosions, we can recommended searching for Group 1 or 2 metals on YouTube&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Neil<\/p>\n<p>Neil Withers (Associate Editor, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/nchem\">Nature Chemistry<\/a><\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK OK, it\u2019s another periodic table \u2013 but we\u2019re CHEMISTS and we love \u2019em. This one really is quite different though.&nbsp; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/07\/periodic_table_of_videos.html#wpn-more-2410\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/2008\/07\/periodic_table_of_videos.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neil-withers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.nature.com\/thescepticalchymist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}