Historian's Reaction to Fritz Haber video
Update, 3/9/2024: I took this video off YouTube a while back, so the link died. I suppose there are a few other posts I made in years past that link to videos I have removed. If they turn up, then I’ll repost them with the video loaded up to Substack directly, as I’m doing today with this one. It’s unfortunate in one sense, that I’m no longer putting this content up on YouTube. A young guy (I think from Texas) was inspired by the video and contacted me. He recorded a Zoom interview with me that he used in a History Day project on Fritz Haber that took him all the way to the national contest!
Maybe I’ll put some of these videos on another popular free Video streaming service that is not part of the Evil Empire. What do people think of Rumble?
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The original post: Occasionally I watch other people’s videos about history and comment on them. Yesterday I watched one by Veritasium, a science-oriented creator who made the really cool magnetic atoms he uses to demonstrate atomic bonding. He was talking about Fritz Haber, the German chemist who developed the nitrogen-fixation process we use to make fertilizer, and also chemical weapons during the First World War. I thought his video was excellent, but there were a couple of points I wanted to add, which I think enhance the story.