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In a world that prizes certainty, hot takes, and quick success, what happens when we celebrate the power of not knowing?

In this talk, scientist and storyteller Harini Bot shares how she built a popular YouTube channel,

Today I Learned Science, where curiosity and not credentials is what drives discovery.

From ancient brains that turn to glass to the origins of life itself,

she reminds us that science isn't just for scientists, it's for all of us willing to ask why and marvel at the answers.

Raise your hand if you don't know what this is.

That is a human brain turned to glass during the Mount Vesuvius eruption.

But it gets weird.

Only this man's brain turned to glass, not his other organs,

leaving scientists baffled about how ash clouds could create the precise temperature conditions to forge glass from living tissue.

If you didn't know what this was, then you're exactly where you should be,

because this talk is about the power of not knowing.

Here's why this matters now more than ever.

We live in a culture that's absolutely obsessed with having the right

answer immediately. Social media rewards confident hot takes over curious questions. Everyone

is supposed to be an expert in everything all the time. Get something remotely wrong?

Cancel. It's exhausting. But I think I found another way. When I started my channel,

today I learned in two years, over two million people followed, not for expert opinions or

hot takes, but for something simpler, shared curiosity, which is ironic because I used to be the complete opposite.

Before this, I was recovering no-it-all, actually a wannabe no-it-all who was failing spectacularly at it.

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