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Oslo Uni’s ‘elements attract’ video goes viral

An Oslo University video teaching chemical reactions through showing the 'elements' trying to hook up at party has gone viral -- and rightly so, because it's brilliant.

Published: 11 October 2015 10:54 CEST
Oslo Uni's 'elements attract' video goes viral
Zinc replaces Hydrogen in when bonded to Chlorine. Photo: Screen Grab/University of Oslo
The video, “There are many ways to learn about chemical reactions”, shows Zinc replacing Sodium, who had been 'reacting' with Chorine, Potassium and Water having a 'violent reaction', Carbon attracting four oxygens, and the inert gases as non-reactive wallflowers.
 
If it sounds geeky, if is. But it's brilliantly, brilliantly done and has an excellent sound track. Since being published in March, it has been 36 million times, and shared 664,993 times, taking off in the last few weeks. 
 
The Facebook version below may take a while to load up, so bear with it. 
 
 

Det finnes mange måter å lære om kjemiske reaksjoner på. (Video hentet fra Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions)

Posted by Universitetet i Oslo (UiO) on Sunday, 1 March 2015

 

There's another hard rock version out on YouTube. 

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Police probe opened after poster campaign against ‘Islamophobic’ lecturers at French university

The French government condemned on Monday a student protest campaign targeting two university professors accused of Islamophobia, saying it could put the lecturers in danger.

Published: 8 March 2021 13:35 CET
Police probe opened after poster campaign against 'Islamophobic' lecturers at French university
Illustration photo: Justin Tallis/AFP

Student groups plastered posters last week on the walls of a leading political science faculty in Grenoble that likened the professors to “fascists” and named them both in a campaign backed by the UNEF student union.

Junior interior minister Marlene Schiappa said the posters and social media comments recalled the online harassment of French schoolteacher Samuel Paty last October, who was beheaded in public after being denounced online for offending Muslims.

“These are really odious acts after what happened with the decapitation of Samuel Paty who was smeared in the same way on social networks,” she said on the BFM news channel. “We can’t put up with this type of thing.”

“When something is viewed as racist or discriminatory, there’s a hierarchy where you can report these types of issues, which will speak to the professor and take action if anything is proven,” Schiappa said.

Sciences Po university, which runs the Institute of Political Studies (IEP) in Grenoble in eastern France, also condemned the campaign on Monday and has filed a criminal complaint.

An investigation has been opened into slander and property damage after the posters saying “Fascists in our lecture halls. Islamophobia kills” were found on the walls of the faculty.

One of the professors is in charge of a course called “Islam and Muslims in contemporary France” while the other is a lecturer in German who has taught at the faculty for 25 years.

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