I make Youtube videos on chemistry and energetics occasionally. Would do more but it's hard ok. 'Backyard Science' š¦šŗ
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People in med research are heroes; if I spent 4 years tracking patients and doing studies to end up with a graph as bad as this Iād quit to work retail again
Higher physical activity is associated with lower brain amyloid burden - a key protein linked to Alzheimerās dementia.
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āHow to disable tankā is perhaps the most heavily researched defence problem of the last century, second only to āhow to make a tank survive all thatā
Since the Ukraine and Russia unpleasantness, I've been thinking about how you might disable a tank or armor, can you think of a chemical that would rapidly weaken and corrode steel?
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Itās not always a good thing when the University puts up a plaque to remember you by
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It is worth saying that I am very happy about this. PhD was pretty fun honestly, but it feels good to finally have it all officially done and to never read my thesis again
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A tremendous honour, thank you everyone. Very well deserved
BREAKING: the 2024 Noble Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to E. F. Tom for the synthesis of a cubane using chemicals from a hardware store. In a shed. This is a huge win for brown chemistry, which will now replace green chemistry as the best way to pad grant applications.
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A friendly reminder: if you get arrested for large scale drug manufacturing, the Explosions&Fire discord admins will remove all of your cool server roles. Just something to keep in mind
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ok I said the video would be done in September but it isn't. here's a single screenshot though
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Dankpods just announced he is shutting down his Patreon to focus his efforts elsewhere, which is super cool, but it is wild to see this mentioned in his post:
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A chemistry question asked that honestly just raises further questions, but luckily Reddit was up to the task of answering it
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Added my picture of O2F2 to the Wikipedia page! Thanks everyone who messaged me telling me to add to Wikipedia. I have done it now
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The illegal halon fire extinguishers on the side of the road are free and u can take them home
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I feel like people who handle a lot of lead aren't reliable witnesses for the effects of lead
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Posted a new main channel video yesterday about lighting metal fires. This is somehow an image from it
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Hey my Hydrogen Peroxide video hit a million views. Thatās a cool thing to happen
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YouTuber pro tip: banks love when youāre paid via untaxed bank deposits without an employment contract. Google dumping you money from an Irish tax haven is very trustworthy. The uneven income actually helps you get a loan and the mortgage broker doesnāt think youāre cringe at all
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If the line was perfectly flat would they have published it? Probably, but itās such a huge risk to take for 4 years of research to try and find such small trends impacted by so many factors
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Bad news for everyone who only watches the videos to see me suffer::: The next Extract&Ire video I try something ambitious yet both steps in the project work flawlessly on the first attempt. Sorry.
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I am currently the YouTuber most ahead in the home synthesis of cubane. No one else has posted a complete video ahead of me completing it all. Today is a good day
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Turns out the real PhD thesis was in fact Not the friends I made along the way. Not even close apparently
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Each videoās budget:
Camera equipment: $500
Science equipment: $100
Chemicals and solvents: $50
Online PDFs: $30000
Glassware: $80
Someone who is good at science budgeting help me please
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Imagine having a laser that you rely on for your sole research project, it breaks, and then the person who comes out to fix it is Explosions&Fire
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This building hosted some very cool research around the discovery of radiation! They supplied radium to Marie Curie! That basement is now fully filled in with concrete!
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3kg of lead from the hardware store for the next projectā¦ (I need about 10 grams of it)
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The odds of losing 17 coin tosses in a row is 50%. You either lose 17 times or you donāt.
India's most recent coin toss results in men's ODIs:
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The odds of losing 17 consecutive coin tosses is 0.00076%.
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Just published a new video showing off some "cool" insecticides I found in a shed. Feel free to put on PPE while you watch this video
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Something wild to me has happened: a newly published article āA Laboratory Preparation of High-Purity Calcium Cyanamideā doi.org/10.1021/acs.inorgcheā¦ references one of my YouTube videos! (āVery crude conditionsā haha accurate)
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The next Extraction&Ire video ticks all the boxes of a classic synthesis on that channel:
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uses a reagent I find on the ground
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mysteriously goes yellow
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we get <10% yield
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breaks equipment through misuse
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I don't recall the world being this green when I was filming the chemistry but then again maybe it was and I just didn't notice
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Got a DM from someone jokingly concerned because they said I looked like the person involved in the CEO shooting. I took the ego boost for a few days, seeing posts about how hot that guy was. Just re-read the DM and the message actually says I look like the 50 year old CEO :(
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Oh Iām sorry I didnāt realise Tabs were such a limited resource?! This is a crime I need those tabs
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For the first time in 3 years it appears the most viewed video on my Extractions&Ire channel is no longer going to be a 12 second clip of a lizard
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The guy who invented Neodymium permanent magnets, a material the modern world absolutely is built on, is never discussed for winning the Nobel prize. For sure the impact is hugeā¦ is it just not science-y enough to have invented rare earth magnets??
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Every time I do lead chemistry Iām likeā¦ this shit is amazing- it is truely an incredible element and great fun to experiment with. apart from The Allegations
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New extractions&ire video just posted where I dissolve up a germanium element sample to make some bismuth germanate glass
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Important update: it was our catās first birthday recently and we made him a photo wall and had everyone over to celebrate. Event of the year
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At what point in your life do you learn your blood type?? Is this something Iām just meant to know, do I need to go to a doctor and request a weird form, will they tell me when I donate blood?? Just feels like a weird self-knowledge gap. Does everyone else know their blood type ?
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āThomasā oh Iām sorry did my Mum write this paper??
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