BBC | Chemistry: A Volatile History | Ep 2 The Order of the Elements (4 of 6)

[VERGIS92]

Medeleyev would have been the greatest computer hacker today.

[RJL738]

One of the few card games that are useful. The fact that we could not only reduce every physical thing to a series of elements and describe each one's properties reasonably well but to put them in almost an algorithm that relates them that well, is a true and absolutly thorough testament to human scientific enginuity and what inspiration is capable of. Within the near future several more equivilant revolution will take place.

[BubbleGumNipples]

Finking iz ard

[trumpeterteddy]

5:15 is a lie! Copernicium is not present(the newest element)

[NobiscumDeus1]

@trumpeterteddy You're right, but this documentary was done before Copernicium was fully accepted as a new element.

[MethvMouth]

I saw this in my school class today XD

[emmalicious2609]

mcs :)

[TomBernert]

@emmalicious2609 Mrs Fenn?

[samgee2007]

im not amazed by Mandalay's work.cause these works were already have been studied by islamic scholars long before this Russians or Brits!~all this knowledge about chemistries can be found from Arabic books and al quran.please visit islamic miracle discoveries in JEDDAH meuzeum.allah hu kahbar!

[InkaPeru]

@samgee2007 yeah that's why muslim countries are the most advanced in the world :P

[ZaFootyBoy]

@samgee2007

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe it is MENDELEEV, not mandalay, If you're going to try and impose your radical (and false) religious beliefs, do it correctly.

[mddelanoy]

@samgee2007 dude while you are correct that arab scholars did contribute to modern science, they did not start it (they just expanded on the ideas of the Greeks) and they abandoned even that work more than 1200 years ago. What you are saying is like saying that the person who came up with the idea for place value in a number system (ie. the idea that the one in 100 stands for one hundred instead of one) deserves credit for the entirety of modern mathematics. Which is obviously (I hope) ludicrous

[sheemsheem]

the best

[rayearth05]

This is the complete proof that God exist

[sheemsheem]

@rayearth05 how?

[conkt]

@rayearth05 no.

[Lima547]

Thanks very much for posting!

[freshbloos13]

nigggggerrrrssss

[Necromandus666]

where is this>!?

[toyracers]

lol.. 3 days and 3 nights...lol, the guy was jesus... lol

[eaziepeazie]

@toyracers no he was dimitri mendeleev

[kurtilein3]

thinking about one single problem for 3 days and 3 nights is dangerous, it can cause brain damage. many great chess players lost their talent before people figured it out.

limit intense thinking to a few hours until taking a break.

the problem is that if one area in the brain is doing hard work, adjacent areas where the blood flows next can be deprived of oxygen. neurons can survive this for hours, but not forever.

[10mintwo]

nonsense.

[leporidus]

kurtilein3, I'm intrigued, but I demand extraordinary evidence for your extraordinary claim. Any peer-reviewed studies to cite? After all, it's not April 1st yet.

[kurtilein3]

i read it somewhere, but unfortunately not online, didnt manage to find a source.

[liftwaffe]

I once read that the world is flat...had trouble finding a source online...

waffe

[kurtilein3]

liftwaffe: thats in the bible. which isnt a good source, but easy to find online.

i know that there have been cases in the history of chess of people playing extreme simultaneous chess exhibitions, and losing not only much of their talent but other abilities as a result. people noticed that it has to do with time, when people played chess without any break or rest for 50 or 70 hours or more, so they learned their lesson and stayed away from it ever since. happend about 150 years ago.

[kurtilein3]

liftwaffe:

its an anecdote that made its way into some chess literature and that is still known today.

thats why i didnt find any good sources online. so maybe its not true. maybe it cannot be confirmed at this moment.

maybe it will be confirmed some day, or maybe a good source is already online and i just dont manage to find it. another approach would be to look at the more recent cases of death or brain damage connected to massively multiplayer online RPGs, like world of warcraft.

[HashyBee]

Total BULLSHIT. Complete NONSENSE!!

[tebinthehouse]

Wow! My sister is going to love this! Thank AtheistMediaDotCom

[ericscerri]

Great production and visuals.

But scholars doubt that Mendeleev actually used cards, and that the idea came to him in a dream. No matter! It makes for a great story and helps to interest people in chemistry.

Eric Scerri, author of The Periodic Table, Its Story and Its Significance, Oxford University Press, 2007.