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Curious how stuff works? Do a hands-on experiment at home, says physicist Nadya Mason. She shows how you can demystify the world around you by tapping into your scientific curiosity — and performs a few onstage experiments of her own using magnets, dollar bills, dry ice and more.
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The minute this video started, I knew I want to watch this till the end! She’s amazing ❣️
Big takeaway for me: hands on learning is more enriching than simply learning online. I’ll have to incorporate that. Awesome video!
Totally agree
They’re gunna take apart and rebuild a lot of stuff. Do kids really not do that anymore?
No, unfortunately. Things are too integrated, parts are too miniature.
No, they have videogames
Oh my! Lovely lecture!
1:14 That’s where you remind me of Leonard Hofstadter.
So what was it that caused the cold none magnetic substance, to react to the magnetic force ?
This speech was awasome! It’s just shown me I have to adopt hands-on learning in my life.
We need more educators at the middle and highschool levels who are also award winning researchers like she is.
i loved her !! great ideas 4:50 i wrote that part in my notebook!
Right to Repair!
You can use a phone’s touch screens with gloves. A lot of generic styli aren’t conductive either.
It’s a bit reductive on both my end and hers.
“In fact, one survey found that almost 80% of smartphone users in this country have never even replaced their phone batteries…”
In all fairness, mainline manufacturers keep making this process increasingly and unnecessarily harder.
Yes, Apple, I’m looking at you. (Not that you care.)
@D:side It’s not that just them, everyone started doing it. Big part of the reason I’m still with my old broken phone that barely runs internet apps. Being able to take out the battery after dropping the phone in water or having an app not responding has been a life saver.
It is necessary…. For their profits.
Nice video.
However I still didn’t get the conclusion:
Do we stimulate our curiosity with questions about the mechanisms of things?
Or do we stimulate our curioisity through experimenting?
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Learning is in the doing and the idea of hands-on thinking through experiments is truly one of the best ways to learn. If we think about, mastery can only be achieved through hands-on application and not just reading about something. Think learning how to ride a bicycle or doing math. Awesome idea!
“Open your textbooks to page so-and-so. Make sure read this before we touch the project”
*[boring]*
“Now try doing this. What happened? What do we understand? How are we going to solve this?”
*[interesting]*
Wonderful video, thank you! As a parent I want to spark curiosity in my children (9 and 6 y.o.), but still I’m so used to tell them: careful, don’t break, etc. Thank you for reminding me that breaking things for the sake of curiosity is a good thing!
Thank you. I was an experimenter when is as young. As an adult I worried about breaking things I might need. Now I see I can experiment without fear of breaking thins.