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“I
know nothing about hassium. At the site of hassium’s synthesis.
Shall we make something up?” Haran and “The Professor” shoot the
A somewhat unusual opening, updated hassium video at the GSI
but what else can one say when trying to (Gesellschaft fuer Schwerionenfor-
film separate videos about each element schung), Darmstadt, Germany, where
in the periodic table? element 108 was first synthesized.
Our project was devised by Brady
Haran, a BBC-trained video journalist, As of May 2011, the site
who had spent a year filming Univer- boasted 320 videos with con-
sity of Nottingham scientists at work (1). tent covering molecules as
Inspired by his time working with chem- well as elements, and each
istry researchers, he suggested making new video attracted several
a periodic table of videos (PTOV, www. thousand views within hours
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