Niche sites spread science on the Web
| December 3, 2007 |  View for printing |
Haim Weizman is a chemist by trade and an Internet moviemaker on the side.
In his first video, a telegenic narrator in a lab coat swirls a flask as electronic music plays in the background. Created by four science and film students at the University of California, San Diego, the video shows a typical recrystallization experiment straight out of Chemistry 101.
The six-minute epic complete with bloopers got 1,205 views on Google's YouTube, but the number increased fourfold when the video was posted to SciVee, one of a number of online video-sharing start-ups designed to let scientists broadcast themselves toiling in the laboratory or delivering lectures.
Fans of the niche sites say they help the lay public — and students — understand the scientific process, allow researchers to duplicate one another's results and may help discourage fraud.
By Alicia Chang, Associated Press
Full Story: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science ... sites_N.htm
No reader comments so far. Be the first to comment by clicking the button below.
Reprinted under the Fair Use doctrine of international copyright law. Full copyright retained by the original publication. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
