Hunting the Elements (2012) | NOVA | PBS America

Ғылым және технология

Where do nature's building blocks--the elements--come from? They're the hidden ingredients of everything in our world, from the carbon in our bodies to the metals in our smartphones. David Pogue examines the world of extreme chemistry: the strongest acids, the deadliest poisons, the universe's most abundant elements, and the rarest of the rare-substances that exist for only fractions of a second.
First Broadcast Date: April 4, 2012
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  • @patsmith9360
    @patsmith936018 күн бұрын

    Love that literal (periodic)table. I have only ever really wanted a helicopter .my shopping list just grew to a table and helicopter.

  • @raindropsrising7662
    @raindropsrising76622 ай бұрын

    Thank you. Wished this was available when I was starting high school. So educational and fascinating.

  • @user-pz2lt7ox1r
    @user-pz2lt7ox1r2 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this video

  • @larrywalsh9939
    @larrywalsh99392 ай бұрын

    David Pogue is the only scientist who can take an absolute rock-solid 10-star documentary and turn it into a 2-star unwatchable cringefest.

  • @thundermothstudio5446

    @thundermothstudio5446

    19 күн бұрын

    Bro... salty and combative, much? This video was my childhood and seeing you rag on it like this makes me wonder who the hell raised you to be so bitter and mean.

  • @edwinmaywa
    @edwinmaywa2 ай бұрын

    The comments are bad but the video is really good i wonder why they complain ❤❤❤

  • @gardengeek3041

    @gardengeek3041

    Ай бұрын

    Why complain? Because the humor isn't very funny. Mr.Pogue is like the class clown interrupting at the wrong time.

  • @emiliomunoz-ledo6881

    @emiliomunoz-ledo6881

    Ай бұрын

    😢 1:15 1:18

  • @ryanrutledge922
    @ryanrutledge9222 ай бұрын

    Hate to be negative but it's true , that host should not be in film , video , radio, animation, any job where he speaks .....

  • @reb2322
    @reb23222 ай бұрын

    At 1:33:56 they show how a magnet repels sharks. Seriously? It was the sudden noise of the magnet hitting the tank that scared the shark! What rubbish!

  • @sivaswamiramesh1128
    @sivaswamiramesh11282 ай бұрын

    Great Documentary of knowledge about Elements

  • @TommyTumma
    @TommyTumma2 ай бұрын

    I’m first comment and for some reason that’s a thing on the internet

  • @shlomoaziz411

    @shlomoaziz411

    2 ай бұрын

    🤣

  • @OhCanadathebest

    @OhCanadathebest

    2 ай бұрын

    Shut up

  • @thefitnessinstructor8937

    @thefitnessinstructor8937

    2 ай бұрын

    yo. congratulations!!! i was first on a video several years ago. it was a dashcam car crash compilation, that went on to be viewed 50,000 times (and counting!). it's an unforgettable high, but be careful. olympic gold medalists often feel lost in the years after their win, as if they've already peaked in life. the same thing can afflict us first-commenters. stay safe buddy

  • @bowboysam
    @bowboysam2 ай бұрын

    You science producers are trying to make your viewers go blind. Constant cut-cut-cut, flash, flash, flash, zoom in, zoom out, and over the top music and sounds. When trying to learn something have you ever sat in a classroom with a strobe light in your face, someone moving your seat forwards and backwards, with booms going off all the time? No, thought not. Stop producing tv science this way.

  • @larrywalsh9939

    @larrywalsh9939

    2 ай бұрын

    Agreed! I'm here for the science, not for the cartoons. It's like they feel that they can't get our attention unless they make it incredibly flashy, because apparently we're all toddlers.

  • @TheSnoeedog

    @TheSnoeedog

    2 ай бұрын

    @@larrywalsh9939 You ever give a thought to the parade of mouth-breathing buffoons you encounter in a day who might benefit from a dose of science? ....and it might be difficult to communicate/engage with them when they consider good TV to include The Kardashians (I don't even know if that's what that bilge was called), The Jersey Shore, The Bachelor, or any of the myriad takes on the same basic premise: the viewers at home are stupid and if you show them enough shiny things the advertisers will line your pockets. I'm missing the damned show as I type this (let's not get distracted by my deficiencies here), so i have no idea (I was 4 min into my first viewing when I saw these two posts), but perhaps the purpose of whatever effects you guys are put off by isn't to make it more accessible to you; it might be in the hopes that some of the assholes who manage to move through life despite clearly needing help with their velcro shoes will expand their thinking and join the ranks of the rational, the competent...the worthy.

  • @rorobrown2440

    @rorobrown2440

    2 ай бұрын

    Bro this came out in 2012 idk what you expected

  • @larrywalsh9939

    @larrywalsh9939

    2 ай бұрын

    @@rorobrown2440 Professionalism? Quality documentaries? Not treating us like morons?

  • @rorobrown2440

    @rorobrown2440

    2 ай бұрын

    @@larrywalsh9939 I think this was designed for children learning the element but yeah fair enough

  • @BobRadioFM
    @BobRadioFM2 ай бұрын

    Parker Schnabel wants to know your location

  • @anonymousprotein
    @anonymousprotein2 ай бұрын

    These letters represent atoms that represent every single thing in universe, comon. Antimatter, neutron stars, black holes? Not to mention neutrinos, photons, all the quark stuff. Should use terms correctly, if pretend to be ‘scientific”

  • @thisiszeev

    @thisiszeev

    2 ай бұрын

    You are only pretending to be "scientific" if you don't write shit down. When you write shit down, then it's science.

  • @plcamp1
    @plcamp12 ай бұрын

    This guy Pogue ruins any and all credibility the subject deserves. Why does PBS think making a topic “goofy” is a good way to present it? Unwatchable.

  • @ness576

    @ness576

    2 ай бұрын

    it premiered in 2012 TV, not a justification but it was probably meant to attract a different and new kind of audience to nova documentaries.

  • @PedroFerreira-ze5yp

    @PedroFerreira-ze5yp

    2 ай бұрын

    Goofy is NEVER the way to go. Not even for children. Goofy is only for catching the attention and explaining stuff to dumb people. I'd love to see DW or BBC making this doc.

  • @ChadLuciano
    @ChadLucianoАй бұрын

    you know why the dislike is disabled....

  • @curmudgeonlyluddite6660
    @curmudgeonlyluddite6660Ай бұрын

    destroy the world for an ounce of gold

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