Mark Rober's Brief But Spectacular take on being amazed at the world around us
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🗓️ 31 December 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, we have a brief but spectacular take on being amazed at the world around us. |
| 0:06.0 | Mark Rober discovered his passion for engineering as a kid, tinkering with gadgets and creating contraptions. |
| 0:12.0 | Today, the former NASA engineer is a YouTube sensation who runs Crunch Labs, taking young minds and sparking their curiosity and innovation. |
| 0:21.6 | The greatest thing about engineering is if something doesn't exist, and you want it to exist, |
| 0:28.6 | you can just freaking will it into existence. |
| 0:31.6 | I think for a lot of people, you know, maybe they were in high school and they took a math |
| 0:39.7 | or a science class and they didn't get it. |
| 0:42.2 | So they have this negative connotation to math and science and to physics and that kills |
| 0:48.9 | me. |
| 0:49.9 | I'm about to plug in this fan to test whether blowing on this sail, we'll move the boat forward. This is space, and this is an egg, moments before I attempted the world's highest egg drop. |
| 0:59.3 | The channel now has 58 million subscribers. |
| 1:02.6 | So there's other people like you who said they weren't good at science and they didn't |
| 1:06.3 | enjoy it, who myself and other creators like me have kind of convinced, actually there's some part of your brain that does love this. |
| 1:13.0 | Just never looked at it in this way. |
| 1:14.4 | Oh, this is crazy. What am I doing? |
| 1:17.1 | I think the key to really learning something is to not frame it as learning. |
| 1:21.6 | So on my YouTube channel, I like to do what I call hide the vegetables. |
| 1:24.6 | So you might see a really clickbait thumbnail |
| 1:28.0 | of a 15 ton jello pool. |
| 1:29.4 | And it's like, well, that's real interesting. |
| 1:30.8 | I'm going to click on that. |
| 1:31.9 | This is the world's first ever actual pool of jellop. |
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