Comments on: European Chemistry Commercials

By: Miss French » My life story

Miss French » My life story — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:05:54 +0000

[...] have never seen such a wonderful, wonderful video that depicts my life so well right now. It is only 90 seconds, and probably the best thing you [...]

By: Chemistry Blog » Blog Archive » News from the NanoPutians

Chemistry Blog » Blog Archive » News from the NanoPutians — Tue, 27 May 2008 08:52:51 +0000

[...] having a strange taste in humour, we wacky Europeans are also a bit crazy. [...]

By: Mematoid

Mematoid — Tue, 27 May 2008 00:09:27 +0000

I’m from Mars. I also find this funny.

By: Xsjado

Xsjado — Mon, 19 May 2008 19:45:14 +0000

I’m from Europe. I’m also a physics undergrad. This is brilliant. Would have liked to see the H2O break down into H+ and -OH though ☺

By: psi*psi

psi*psi — Mon, 19 May 2008 02:56:10 +0000

I thought it was cute.
Wonder how effective hanging out with actual scientists would be in getting kids interested? We’re not all geeky white men in lab coats. Pretty much all of the most fun people I know are in science.

By: Attila Gárdos

Attila Gárdos — Sun, 18 May 2008 15:33:20 +0000

I found this video funny… perhaps because I am from Europe having a strange taste of humor.

By: halitus

halitus — Sun, 18 May 2008 11:05:24 +0000

acctuay Penny, this is just a bit of light hearted fun its not ment to be educational

i would like to add that what turns young people away from science is alot of things such as it being perceived as irrelevant to them, and that they see people like you who says they can like science or have a bit of fun not both.

the sketch was funny not particularly serious dont for a second think its going to turn children away from science

By: Penny

Penny — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:42:46 +0000

Morover, the kind of kid who becomes a scientist would this sort of garbage video distracting and moronic.

It would be a turnoff, and they would cringe–and then run off to the library, or their home lab.

By: Penny

Penny — Sun, 18 May 2008 09:39:50 +0000

No future scientist would EVER be created from this garbage.
Science turns children on because of natural curiosity, because of elegant reasoning etc. ( Chemistry also because of the power to influence nature.)

In the USA, my generation–the children of the 1950’s–were turned on to science by “Mr Wizard”. That show was all about science. The next generation–which was far less generative of scientists, was given Bill Noyes–who taught science to song and dance and comedy skits.

Clearly, the non-scientists who created Bill Noyes’ shows, and the morons who wrote this video, find SCIENCE BORING, and they just can’t understand that some children ( aka the future scientists) actually find SCIENCE itself interesting.

Ding in Sich.

By: bloomhero

bloomhero — Sun, 18 May 2008 03:19:52 +0000

That was great! Except the diatomics were running around all by their lonesome!