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6 Chemistry in Video, in Movies, and on the Radio
Pages 47-54

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From page 47...
... Martyn the center of Nottingham demonstrating supercritical fluids Poliakoff from the University of Nottingham described how just before Christmas. A video of Poliakoff demonstrating supercritical fluids on YouTube was recorded by Brady Haran he and his team created the very successful Periodic Table of Videos on the Internet.
From page 48...
... The top 100 words in picture of Sam Tang demonstrating dry ice on the stage at frequency they found included chemistry, element, and the Broadway Cinema. Because of the success of that event, love, "which is quite encouraging," Poliakoff said.
From page 49...
... The program is listened to in all different formats, scientific research is important.7 He said it makes sense that on commercial and public radio. Salazar explained, "People scientists are looked to for guidance on difficult, complicated who might catch a clip of our EarthSky are not necessarily issues such as global warming and stem cell research.8 listening for science, are not necessarily wanting to listen to Salazar talked about one of the series that EarthSky some science, it will just kind of sneak up on them and before did, with funding from the Camille and Henry Dreyfus they know it they will have heard a little bit of EarthSky." Foundation, focused on scientists' green chemistry and EarthSky was awarded the first ever award from the National sustainability.
From page 50...
... Salazar explained how EarthSky is constantly looking for a relevancy factor. "I think it is really important when chemists want to tell their story to be able to connect Questions and Answers it to something that people are really interested in." Steve Lyons asked Salazar to estimate how many sci "Radio is still relevant," Salazar explained.
From page 51...
... Griep described it as a generic Elvis movie, except in this case Elvis happened to be a chemist. In the movie, Elvis states, "I am an engineer," which Griep explained means he is a chemical engineer because there are FIGURE 6-4 Comparison of real chemicals with the fictional a lot of bubbling apparatuses in back of him.
From page 52...
... comedy, 4 thriller 3 Chemical weapons & terrorism 8 thriller, 6 drama 4 Bad companies 8 drama, 4 thriller 5 Addiction & psychoactives 8 drama TOTAL: 26 drama, 16 thriller, 14 horror Bright Side 6 Inventors 8 comedy 7 Forensics 7 drama, 7 mystery, 7 thriller, 5 action, 5 crime 8 Chemistry classroom 7 comedy, 4 sci-fi, 4 romance 9 Good researchers 5 drama, 4 comedy 10 Drug discovery 8 drama, 8 sci-fi, 6 horror, 6 comedy TOTAL: 25 comedy, 18 drama, variety SOURCE: Mark Griep, University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Chemistry in Movies Griep explained that when chemists appear in movies, they tend to have a white lab coat, they work obsessively, and "So what qualifies as chemistry in the movies?
From page 53...
... This is 1961 and World War II, a lot of synthetic rubbers, this is fantastic stuff." The third surprise was that there are many women chemists in the movies. Figure 6-6 shows the number of movies they found featuring a woman as a chemist versus time and the percentage of physical sciences doctorates earned by women in the United States.
From page 54...
... And they may have been pulled watches movies, and they probably know more about movie in by something spectacular, but then they get into the more actors than they know about chemistry. He said that if these dense chemistry." movie clips were shown in the classroom, there would be an Following up on Griep's talk, Bill Carroll observed that automatic connection between chemistry and movies, and the "Jekyll and Hyde" metaphor also applies to the discus that would link into the larger network most people have sions about the perception of chemistry -- the Jekyll side that with movies.


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