[Applause]
science to comedy now there’s a promise
for you
science comedy in the same room I don’t
think so
well it’s not going to be quite stand-up
comedy can’t keep that going you might
kill me or but but ba ba ba ba what is
the point what we’re trying to do is get
it so that we remember stuff it’s got to
be memorable that’s what we’re really
hoping okay here we go there so and we
just got the that’s it yeah fantastic
okay what we have here science it’s to
do with technology isn’t it so
technology let me see a three C’s
compact well very compact yeah look at
this clicker mm-hmm and if I open it now
I got them worried at their back here
it’s complicated yeah if you want to see
what it’s like inside a handphone or
something like that take one apart not
your somebody else’s just in case yeah
ha ha that’s the way and the other thing
too is that well technology it’s crucial
we really depend on it how crucial gosh
the other day I went out and I got about
half a kilometer away and you know what
I forgot my phone oh I forgot my phone
I forgot you know a few ten years ago so
but now it phoned us so much it’s very
crucial now why is it so hard because
someone’s got to think of the next
wonderful invention and it could be one
of you wonderful people here that
probably needs that person over there
yeah you yeah yeah so how are you gonna
do it how can he possibly invent always
want all things when they are so
complicated well is it complicated let’s
try something here we go now what they
always try and do is they first of all
tell you in science where electricity
comes from and what
what am i holding my hand what do you
think it looks like a battery actually
no batteries interesting but if I did
put it back to you on here
this thing will whiz round like that
it’s a motor actually it’s a motor but
today I’m not going to use it as a motor
it’s going to be a generator yes it
really is yes let’s go Wow okay all
right now now here we go I’ve got it
connected to some light bulbs here and
I’m going to spin the spindle that’s why
it’s called a spindle because you spin
it okay and the lights are gonna turn on
now you may need to shield your eyes a
little bit okay right careful they are
look at it
Wow okay so not maybe right right but
what’s interesting is when you say oh
it’s not very bright is it then I know I
can’t do it here because it’s not
interactive here but if I got one of you
to come up guaranteed anybody in this
room would not be able to do this and it
makes me feel so good old man young
people young strong and all get the
strong guys it’s a technique it’s a
flick flick flick flick flick flick
flick flick flick flick flick and
they’re just going like this hey I said
you can start anytime you like yeah
there’s a switch on here they try and
switch it you can try it oh it’s easy to
turn I’ll show you this watches if I
switch it off
I hold the spindle I can spin the motor
we I’m supposed to be serious now if I
turn the switch the other way it just
yeah okay nothing happens right now I
try and turn the motor it’s a bit like a
lot of my students doesn’t want to go
yeah
because what’s happening is the energy
I’m putting in to turn the motor is it’s
heating
the balls but not enough to light up
hello so it’s memorable but it’s a bit
small so sometimes you just need to have
another way or do anything what are you
looking worried don’t worry it’s okay I
just took this on the MRT just now
and I got some funny looks I can tell
you yeah from the police all right okay
watch it seem you know all right cameras
down on the ground here Wow yeah so way
that’s the way to do it yeah that’s it
doing the same thing but bring it to
life that’s amazing okay here we go
well quite tomorrow for that so that
means now because we’ve brought it to
life not necessarily comedy but brought
it into some vivaciousness or whatever
we got some we’ve got some memorable
stuff happening and you’ll always now
remember that you can use a motor to
turn things around now I got so excited
like you made it go to bit too far yeah
so just the other thing okay nobody what
can help ah that’s it now what’s
actually happening is that you need to
be confident and that’s the thing too so
if you can be confident then you can
start positive thinking and so on so
what we have there is our my friend that
that’s me and my closer just confident
with my my parachute will not kill me
and so on
be confident start small and so on so
you can I leave you to read all that
stuff good I’m having more fun down here
now we go much further than saying you
can generate electricity from Turney
motors later on when you go into science
technology and so on sorry but you are
going to have to learn about transistors
and then integrated circuits or then
computers and the big message is and
this were say start small no matter how
big complicated something is it’s always
using the same building bricks
that’s really nice you get to learn the
building bricks it’s the clever ways he
put them together that’s what really is
key now how do we teach about
transistors well there’s one way this is
a little bit more animated than you have
in the okay in the classroom you could
say this is a picture of a transistor
and it’s got holes and electrons inside
and there’s doping in materials and
right here you get really good REM sleep
okay
yeah the best sleep ever I just remember
and a few years ago in the Science
Center’s great science center they have
this planetarium and I sat down to watch
your stars and there’s this lovely warm
red lights there nicely places the
constellation coming over the horizon I
had the best sleep ever is wonderful so
anyway I don’t want people to sleep in
my lessons so here we go now again our
camera friends are going to have to look
down a bit in science quite often
you cannot see what is happening you
have to believe what’s going on inside
the circuits has anyone seen any
electrons recently actually you’re
seeing them all the time but you don’t
know about it so what do you have to do
is get down in a nice lay the hands down
and feel lectrons going down oh it’s
good they feel it all electrons so ok
that’s a good trick but how does it
happen well you could go into this I’ve
only got a few minutes to talk to you so
but inside there guess what is the magic
magic thing it’s in there Wow how do you
give that transistor yes that’s right
seeing your lawyers remember that but
sometimes maybe that’s a little bit
obvious and people say well maybe I’m
doing a trick I put my hat on here maybe
I’m pressing a switch or something like
that well how about something else here
I like to modify toys okay so you relate
to toys right yeah
even I’m old men I love toys and you are
my excuse to play with toys now I’m
gonna turn this on and it lights up but
it doesn’t good oh ah I know why we have
not given it any fuel now I could tell
you a story here you’ve seen this stuff
here play-doh played with it yeah what’s
it made of you starts people yeah it’s
flour yeah it’s flour and some water in
there sand salt basically it’s made out
of similar stuff to bread and we eat
bread right why do we eat bread it’s not
that it’s not that interesting is it oh
I eat bricks I love the flavor well no
it’s just it keeps me alive right
luckily bread doesn’t look like this
play-doh I wonder how they got that name
right play poop hold on yeah okay but Oh
naughty boy you mustn’t say that right
what have I told you that bread has got
energy right and the energy is what
keeps us going what keeps us living so
this has got the same ingredients
maybe this also has amazing energy
it could go wrong I’m gonna now put it
up underneath the car and see if we can
extract energy from the flower inside
this play-doh oh he’s working wow it
really is going wow so hot there you
am I being honest with you
am I really taking energy out of here
I’m sorry I’m a big fat liar yeah not so
fat these days not eating off bread or
play-doh
but what’s happening here is that this
actually isn’t giving energy I’ll tell
you a secret its batteries inside oh
that’s why you don’t believe me
batteries inside computer says Intel
Inside
this one says batteries inside okay so
what’s happening is we are using the
same circuit as inside the lights when I
put the hands on a tiny current is
passing through me I’m still here so
it’s tiny thank goodness and it turns a
light on with the help of a transistor
same thing here with this a tiny current
is passing through the play-doh because
it lets that happen and it’s turning on
a transistor and so the motor goes but
then I can spin that story about all
extracting energy from here okay I tell
you later
it’s a big fat lie but you will now
remember that there’s something clever
here and there’s another another very
very nice thing is that is that the
principle behind this is the same as a
principle behind that thing down there
so you take your choice but the main
thing is it’s much much more interesting
then everyone open up your textbooks to
page 36 and we will go by the vent yeah
forget that okay so ladies and gentlemen
can’t keep talking for hours they’ll
just kick me out but what I want you to
do is yeah take science seriously by all
means but don’t be scared if you can
approach it with good humor fantastic
you’ll be confident and you’ll make
friends because you work together on all
this lovely to talk to you and thank you for letting me play with my toys
science to comedy now there’s a promise
for you
science comedy in the same room I don’t
think so
well it’s not going to be quite stand-up
comedy can’t keep that going you might
kill me or but but ba ba ba ba what is
the point what we’re trying to do is get
it so that we remember stuff it’s got to
be memorable that’s what we’re really
hoping okay here we go there so and we
just got the that’s it yeah fantastic
okay what we have here science it’s to
do with technology isn’t it so
technology let me see a three C’s
compact well very compact yeah look at
this clicker mm-hmm and if I open it now
I got them worried at their back here
it’s complicated yeah if you want to see
what it’s like inside a handphone or
something like that take one apart not
your somebody else’s just in case yeah
ha ha that’s the way and the other thing
too is that well technology it’s crucial
we really depend on it how crucial gosh
the other day I went out and I got about
half a kilometer away and you know what
I forgot my phone oh I forgot my phone
I forgot you know a few ten years ago so
but now it phoned us so much it’s very
crucial now why is it so hard because
someone’s got to think of the next
wonderful invention and it could be one
of you wonderful people here that
probably needs that person over there
yeah you yeah yeah so how are you gonna
do it how can he possibly invent always
want all things when they are so
complicated well is it complicated let’s
try something here we go now what they
always try and do is they first of all
tell you in science where electricity
comes from and what
what am i holding my hand what do you
think it looks like a battery actually
no batteries interesting but if I did
put it back to you on here
this thing will whiz round like that
it’s a motor actually it’s a motor but
today I’m not going to use it as a motor
it’s going to be a generator yes it
really is yes let’s go Wow okay all
right now now here we go I’ve got it
connected to some light bulbs here and
I’m going to spin the spindle that’s why
it’s called a spindle because you spin
it okay and the lights are gonna turn on
now you may need to shield your eyes a
little bit okay right careful they are
look at it
Wow okay so not maybe right right but
what’s interesting is when you say oh
it’s not very bright is it then I know I
can’t do it here because it’s not
interactive here but if I got one of you
to come up guaranteed anybody in this
room would not be able to do this and it
makes me feel so good old man young
people young strong and all get the
strong guys it’s a technique it’s a
flick flick flick flick flick flick
flick flick flick flick flick and
they’re just going like this hey I said
you can start anytime you like yeah
there’s a switch on here they try and
switch it you can try it oh it’s easy to
turn I’ll show you this watches if I
switch it off
I hold the spindle I can spin the motor
we I’m supposed to be serious now if I
turn the switch the other way it just
yeah okay nothing happens right now I
try and turn the motor it’s a bit like a
lot of my students doesn’t want to go
yeah
because what’s happening is the energy
I’m putting in to turn the motor is it’s
heating
the balls but not enough to light up
hello so it’s memorable but it’s a bit
small so sometimes you just need to have
another way or do anything what are you
looking worried don’t worry it’s okay I
just took this on the MRT just now
and I got some funny looks I can tell
you yeah from the police all right okay
watch it seem you know all right cameras
down on the ground here Wow yeah so way
that’s the way to do it yeah that’s it
doing the same thing but bring it to
life that’s amazing okay here we go
well quite tomorrow for that so that
means now because we’ve brought it to
life not necessarily comedy but brought
it into some vivaciousness or whatever
we got some we’ve got some memorable
stuff happening and you’ll always now
remember that you can use a motor to
turn things around now I got so excited
like you made it go to bit too far yeah
so just the other thing okay nobody what
can help ah that’s it now what’s
actually happening is that you need to
be confident and that’s the thing too so
if you can be confident then you can
start positive thinking and so on so
what we have there is our my friend that
that’s me and my closer just confident
with my my parachute will not kill me
and so on
be confident start small and so on so
you can I leave you to read all that
stuff good I’m having more fun down here
now we go much further than saying you
can generate electricity from Turney
motors later on when you go into science
technology and so on sorry but you are
going to have to learn about transistors
and then integrated circuits or then
computers and the big message is and
this were say start small no matter how
big complicated something is it’s always
using the same building bricks
that’s really nice you get to learn the
building bricks it’s the clever ways he
put them together that’s what really is
key now how do we teach about
transistors well there’s one way this is
a little bit more animated than you have
in the okay in the classroom you could
say this is a picture of a transistor
and it’s got holes and electrons inside
and there’s doping in materials and
right here you get really good REM sleep
okay
yeah the best sleep ever I just remember
and a few years ago in the Science
Center’s great science center they have
this planetarium and I sat down to watch
your stars and there’s this lovely warm
red lights there nicely places the
constellation coming over the horizon I
had the best sleep ever is wonderful so
anyway I don’t want people to sleep in
my lessons so here we go now again our
camera friends are going to have to look
down a bit in science quite often
you cannot see what is happening you
have to believe what’s going on inside
the circuits has anyone seen any
electrons recently actually you’re
seeing them all the time but you don’t
know about it so what do you have to do
is get down in a nice lay the hands down
and feel lectrons going down oh it’s
good they feel it all electrons so ok
that’s a good trick but how does it
happen well you could go into this I’ve
only got a few minutes to talk to you so
but inside there guess what is the magic
magic thing it’s in there Wow how do you
give that transistor yes that’s right
seeing your lawyers remember that but
sometimes maybe that’s a little bit
obvious and people say well maybe I’m
doing a trick I put my hat on here maybe
I’m pressing a switch or something like
that well how about something else here
I like to modify toys okay so you relate
to toys right yeah
even I’m old men I love toys and you are
my excuse to play with toys now I’m
gonna turn this on and it lights up but
it doesn’t good oh ah I know why we have
not given it any fuel now I could tell
you a story here you’ve seen this stuff
here play-doh played with it yeah what’s
it made of you starts people yeah it’s
flour yeah it’s flour and some water in
there sand salt basically it’s made out
of similar stuff to bread and we eat
bread right why do we eat bread it’s not
that it’s not that interesting is it oh
I eat bricks I love the flavor well no
it’s just it keeps me alive right
luckily bread doesn’t look like this
play-doh I wonder how they got that name
right play poop hold on yeah okay but Oh
naughty boy you mustn’t say that right
what have I told you that bread has got
energy right and the energy is what
keeps us going what keeps us living so
this has got the same ingredients
maybe this also has amazing energy
it could go wrong I’m gonna now put it
up underneath the car and see if we can
extract energy from the flower inside
this play-doh oh he’s working wow it
really is going wow so hot there you
am I being honest with you
am I really taking energy out of here
I’m sorry I’m a big fat liar yeah not so
fat these days not eating off bread or
play-doh
but what’s happening here is that this
actually isn’t giving energy I’ll tell
you a secret its batteries inside oh
that’s why you don’t believe me
batteries inside computer says Intel
Inside
this one says batteries inside okay so
what’s happening is we are using the
same circuit as inside the lights when I
put the hands on a tiny current is
passing through me I’m still here so
it’s tiny thank goodness and it turns a
light on with the help of a transistor
same thing here with this a tiny current
is passing through the play-doh because
it lets that happen and it’s turning on
a transistor and so the motor goes but
then I can spin that story about all
extracting energy from here okay I tell
you later
it’s a big fat lie but you will now
remember that there’s something clever
here and there’s another another very
very nice thing is that is that the
principle behind this is the same as a
principle behind that thing down there
so you take your choice but the main
thing is it’s much much more interesting
then everyone open up your textbooks to
page 36 and we will go by the vent yeah
forget that okay so ladies and gentlemen
can’t keep talking for hours they’ll
just kick me out but what I want you to
do is yeah take science seriously by all
means but don’t be scared if you can
approach it with good humor fantastic
you’ll be confident and you’ll make
friends because you work together on all
this lovely to talk to you and thank you for letting me play with my toys
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