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Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED
Mark Rober’s $60 Million Science Experiment | TED
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I want to start off tonight with a two-step experiment.
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For step one,
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I've got a two-liter bottle here.
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It’s half-filled with liquid nitrogen
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that’s negative 320 degrees Fahrenheit.
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As you can see, it's violently boiling off into a gas,
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just like boiling water does on a hot stove,
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because to this freezing-cold liquid nitrogen,
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the nice comfy air in this room is super hot.
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But here’s the catch:
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the gas form of nitrogen
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occupies 700 times the volume of the liquid,
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so you’ve got to be really careful, as it’s turning into a gas
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you don’t trap it in a small container --
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like if the lid was screwed on top here.
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So then for step two,
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I'm going to go ahead and screw the lid on top.
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And when I do, if everything goes according to plan,
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the contents of this bottle should experience
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what we refer to at NASA
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as an “energetic, spontaneous, rapid disassembly.”
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(Laughter)
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It's going to explode.
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(Laughter)
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All right, here we go.
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Put that on.
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OK, now, this is going to be --
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Oh, you know what?
1:05
What the heck, might as well throw these on top.
1:08
(Laughter)
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This is going to be real boring until it's not.
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If you don't like loud noises, cover your ears.
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But according to my calculations,
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things could get real interesting here
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in about three, two, one.
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One.
1:25
(Laughter)
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One.
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I said one.
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I’m just kidding -- it’s really impossible to actually calculate exactly --
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Whoa!
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(Cheers and applause)
1:39
Let’s go!
1:40
(Applause)
1:43
How's your jet lag now?
1:44
(Laughter)
1:47
Alright, my apologies,
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my friends in the front row,
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you should be warned, it will get worse before it gets better.
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(Laughter)
1:56
I'm like science Gallagher up here.
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So a lot of people would look at that --
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Thank you, yeah.
2:03
You keep those as souvenirs, actually.
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Please don’t throw them back the whole time.
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A lot of people look at that and be like,
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"Oh, neat, the ping-pong balls exploded."
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But what actually happened is so much cooler.
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Because as more and more of that nitrogen turned into a gas,
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those gas molecules got more and more crowded
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as they pushed back on the plastic molecules
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comprising the walls of the two-liter bottle.
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And then eventually,
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the pressure got so great, it got so crowded,
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the walls of the two-liter bottle lost the game of molecular Red Rover,
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and all the gas came rushing out.
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But where could it go?
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Because it can’t go down or to the sides --
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trash can's too thick.
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Therefore, the only option is to go up,
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and since all the ping-pong balls are in the way,
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they just happen to go along for the ride.
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But here's the really cool part.
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This is exactly how cannons fire cannonballs.
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It's how Nerf blasters fire Nerf darts.
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It's how T-shirt cannons fire T-shirts.
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And for my friends in the front row,
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it’s how straws fire spit wads.
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I'm just kidding.
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(Laughter)
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The trick for all those is you simply build up enough pressure,
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you suddenly release it in one direction
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and plop whatever you want in the way to go along for the ride.
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And I love when I get like, that aha moment.
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When I understand the world around me with a new framework.
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But even more than that, I love giving that to other people.
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This is why, for the last 15 years, once a month,
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I've uploaded a free science or engineering video to YouTube
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to my now 75 million subscribers
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who also have a taste for those aha moments.
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And the videos --
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(Applause)
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The videos can range anywhere from an elephant toothpaste volcano
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that sets a world record
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to a satellite that's orbiting above us right now that we built,
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that you can upload your picture to for free,
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and it will display it on a screen
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and then give you a selfie in space with the Earth photobombing you.
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(Laughter)
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Or even a soccer goalie [that]
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moves back and forth at 40 miles an hour,
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and then we track your shot so effectively,
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not even the world's greatest player can score on it.
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(Laughter)
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Sorry Ronaldo.
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(Laughter)
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And 16 billion views later,
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what I've learned is I can't teach you
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if I don't have your attention.
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But if I can get your attention with something remarkable,
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well, now I suddenly have something to attach the learning to.
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This is why it kills me if someone's like,
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"Oh, I don't like science because it's boring."
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But at the same time, I get it.
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Because instead of learning about pressure
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the way I did with these ping-pong balls,
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a lot of the times it’s something like this --
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with curiosity-murdering phrases
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like, "consider a rigid container of volume V."
4:57
(Laughter)
4:59
It’s a freaking trash can, all right?
5:01
(Laughter)
5:03
And don’t get me wrong, there is a time and a place for equations,
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but for a generation that is growing up on TikTok and YouTube,
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you have to make it matter
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with something that gets them to lean forward in their seat.
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Something that ignites a little curiosity fire in their brain.
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And we need that today more than ever.
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I like to call this style of teaching “hiding the vegetables.”
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(Laughter)
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For example, it's really boring if you make a video
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about the scientific method.
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But what's not boring is if you make a video
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about a 15-ton Jell-O pool
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you can actually belly flop onto.
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And in the process, I'm going to sneak in
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all six steps of the scientific method.
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What's also really boring is memorizing an equation about terminal velocity.
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But what's not boring
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is you point out that squirrels are one of the only mammals
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that can survive a fall from any height
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at their terminal velocity.
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And then, in an effort to keep them from stealing all your birdseed,
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you set up an eight-part Ninja Warrior obstacle course in your backyard,
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and in the process,
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what you might find
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is they will voluntarily demonstrate this principle for you.
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(Laughter)
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It's a very true story.
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(Laughter)
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There's also a ton of super boring microcontroller tutorial videos online.
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So when someone came by and stole a package from my porch,
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I decided to dedicate a year of my life
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to making the world's least boring microcontroller tutorial video.
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Step one: you make a bait package like this.
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And on the outside, you have something like a picture of headphones.
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But inside, instead of headphones, you have this contraption.
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And at the top there is a cup that spins a pound of the world’s finest glitter.
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You have four phones that will record,
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then upload their footage to the cloud in real time,
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and as the pièce de résistance:
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a very uncharitable amount of fart spray.
6:53
(Laughter)
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That's foreshadowing.
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And then step two: you have the thief come by,
7:00
and when he lifts the lid, takes it home --
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of course -- it sprays the glitter followed by the fart spray.
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I should point out, by the way,
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this whole video was sort of a modern-day homage
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to the greatest film of a generation.
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I'm talking, of course, about "Home Alone."
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And so the thief here, who’s pretending,
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is none other than my buddy Macaulay Culkin.
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(Laughter and applause)
7:26
And so then for step three:
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what you and Macaulay are going to do
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is you're going to make 20 of these,
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put them on porches all across America,
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and it won't take long
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before you start getting back some incredible footage like this.
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(Video) Hello.
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Machine: Keep the change, you filthy animal.
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Person 1: Whoa!
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Machine: Hello.
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You guys give up?
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Or are you thirsty for more?
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(Fart spray)
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Operation “Whoever Smelt It, Dealt It” initiated.
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(Laughter)
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Person 2: Oh.
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Machine: Operation "Butt Trumpet" initiated.
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(Laughter)
8:17
Person 2: Oh.
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(Fart spray)
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Person 2: Alright, alright.
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Alright, we get it, OK.
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Smells like ... in here.
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(Laughter and applause)
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Mark Rober: By the way, I was watching.
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And when that thief was about to lift the lid on the glitter bomb,
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not a single one of you was looking down or was on your phones.
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I had your undivided attention.
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And that makes for the most fertile brain soil,
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because learning is best when it’s attached to a visceral experience.
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Basically, if you feel something here, you remember it here.
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This is why memorizing a boring equation is hard.
9:00
But you know, remembering that song you sang as a teenager
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that made you feel all those feels, that’s easy --
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and you remember every single lyric, you know, 30 years later.
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And to be fair, I didn’t come up with this style of teaching --
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all great teachers know this.
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For me, it was Mr. Malloy.
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He was my high school statistics teacher.
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Hello, Mr. Malloy, if you're watching this.
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And he was great,
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not just because he had a killer Doctor Evil impression --
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(Laughter)
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Or because, and I mean this with all sincerity,
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he had way better hair than whatever I was trying to figure out here.
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(Laughter)
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He was great because he made it matter.
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Like encouraging us to use what we learned in statistics
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to predict where our arch-rival soccer team
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was going to kick their penalty kicks.
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And it worked.
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He was so good at attaching emotions to learning.
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He was so good at hiding the vegetables.
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And the thing is, with a really good teacher, their impact is immeasurable.
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Just like Mr. Malloy impacted his students
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and we're now, in turn, impacting the world.
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That's why I love teachers.
10:00
I think they have the most important job on the planet.
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In fact, please.
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(Cheers and applause)
10:08
I've said for like a decade,
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my dream job is to be a middle-school science teacher,
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and I will be.
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But until that time --
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and buckle up,
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because this is the first time the world is hearing about this --
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for the last two and a half years,
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myself, with a team of about 50 people,
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including some of the best science teachers in the country,
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have been secretly working on a full science curriculum,
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and it uses all the tricks I’ve learned from the past 15 years
10:35
on how to hide the vegetables.
10:37
(Cheers and applause)
10:41
And the reason we're doing this is because it breaks my heart
10:46
when I see teachers who get paid salaries [that],
10:48
as a society, we should be ashamed of,
10:50
spending their own money on resources that totally suck.
10:53
(Applause and cheers)
10:59
So it's got everything they'd need,
11:00
from banger videos the kids are going to beg to rewatch,
11:03
that demonstrate the science --
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yes, that is a wrench in an MRI machine,
11:08
because how else am I supposed to talk
11:10
about the invisible magnetic fields all around us?
11:13
It's got ready-to-teach classroom slide decks
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that are super clean and easy to use.
11:18
And then it’s got these really thought-out
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curated science demos
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where the kids get to viscerally interact with the science
11:25
that the teachers can make
11:27
just with stuff they have lying around their classroom.
11:29
The idea is that together we teach the classroom,
11:32
and the teacher becomes the hero,
11:34
as we engage the students in real science and engineering
11:37
they actually care about.
11:39
We're starting with grades three through eight.
11:42
It exceeds all the state science standards,
11:45
but most importantly,
11:46
it’s exactly what science class is meant to be:
11:49
super freaking fun.
11:51
(Video) Your teacher and I are about to launch this class into hyperdrive.
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Let’s go!
11:58
[You've never]
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[Had a class]
12:02
[Like this]
12:04
We’ll build stuff,
12:06
ask a ton of questions
12:08
and even smash a few things along the way.
12:12
If everything goes according to plan,
12:15
you'll see the world around you in an entirely new way.
12:19
Kristin Bell: Oh my God, that’s crazy.
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MR: Buckle up. It’s going to be a wild ride.
12:25
It's basically magic,
12:27
but science.
12:30
Which makes it cooler than magic.
12:33
Mr. Beast: I knew it felt too light.
12:37
MR: What do you guys want to do now?
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(Cheers and applause)
12:45
The world has evolved,
12:46
and teaching science is long overdue for disruption.
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I'm happy to report that of the teachers
12:51
who are assigned to teach the pilot lessons to their students,
12:54
because of our ability to explain complicated things simply
12:58
and for our very unique experience in solving the science motivation gap
13:02
for 15 years,
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95 percent of the teachers said that when we're done,
13:06
they would want this to be their full science curriculum.
13:09
And so the idea is you combine incredible teachers
13:13
with incredible resources
13:14
to get this explosive output,
13:15
sort of like you'd expect to see
13:17
if you combine this bucket of boiling water
13:19
with this trash can of freezing-cold liquid nitrogen.
13:22
(Laughter)
13:24
So to all those teachers out there in the trenches,
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I want you to know reinforcements are on the way.
13:29
In fact, a bunch of the videos and lessons are already available right now,
13:33
and we'll finish the rest over the next four years,
13:36
because I know this will be the most important thing I do my whole life.
13:40
And even though this is going to cost us $60 million to make,
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my official declaration tonight is every single lesson plan,
13:50
every teacher training,
13:51
every original class demo
13:53
will cost exactly zero dollars
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and be 100 percent free for all teachers forever,
13:59
as we work to ignite those brain fires of curiosity
14:02
in the next generation of big problem solvers.
14:05
(Cheers)
14:07
Thank you so much.
14:08
(Cheers and applause)
14:12
Thank you.
14:13
(Cheers and applause)
14:16
Thank you.
14:17
(Applause)
