An Explosive Passion for Teaching Chemistry | Andrew Szydlo | TEDxManchester
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- Опубликовано: 27 мар 2019
- We live during a time where encouraging students to focus on “STEM” subjects is more important than ever before. And yet these subjects are often considered boring or too hard. Andrew Szydlo is on a mission to inspire students about the power and magic of chemistry and how chemistry relates to everyday life. As performs an incredible 25 experiments in 15 minutes, his passion for the subject is both compelling and occasionally hysterical. Be sure to watch to the end as he concludes with a demonstration worthy of a Hollywood blockbuster and earns a standing ovation. Chemistry is not an Olympic sport, but if it was, Andrew Szydlo would undoubtedly be our reigning gold medallist. Andrew is an internationally acclaimed chemistry teacher and holds a PhD in the History and Philosophy of Science from UCL. He has a particular expertise on the history of alchemy and his 1994 book ‘Water Which Does Not Wet Hands’ is considered to be the standard reference work on the Polish alchemist Michael Sendivogius.
But his polymath spirit extends beyond chemistry: he’s a violin, bugle and accordion player, as well as a professional photographer. Throughout the years Andrew has wowed audiences all around the world with his pyrotechnical approach to teaching and demonstrating chemical sciences on stage and has appeared many times on TV. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx
Believe it or not, this is him talking calmly...
Sci 2311 and he hates applause! That’s the best kind of teacher, one that teaches to enrich and not for self.
That's what he's normally like.
Dr Szydlo appeared in the reality TV series That'll Teach 'Em. He was different from the other teachers in the series, as he was much calmer.
At one point, two girls flicked ink onto the back of his lab coat. He chose to impose a punishment that fitted the crime - he ordered them to wash the ink out of it.
Wow! What a passionate Chemistry teacher. This should inspire students to learn Chemistry.
So true.
That camera guy came well prepared or he used to be a war reporter. Didn't even twitch.
You actually sit on a chair like 5 feet high, move the camera left right up and down, if you let go, it stays in place
@@sam6007 I think the person meant the standing camera guy
He needed to back off he was standing in front of the final experiment when it happened. He needed to be reminded this was a live event with an audience.
Andrew Szydlo is a phenomena of great magnitude...
I'm use to him talking very fast. It's like watching him in slow-motion here.
@Anupam Kumar I'm not, sorry.
Great teacher
Brilliant , scientist , chemist , he is awesome , wish he was my chemistry teacher when I was at school .......:)
Nicely presented - excellent stuff.
this man is GREAT
Great teacher!!!!
Anyone else here using this to be inspired to stay with their chem degree?
Very glorious ❤❤
VERY INTERESTING
Compared to his other lectures, he’s rather subdued in this one.
And doesn’t jump from experiment to experiment (though sometimes he can’t control them like the explosions)
@@joshualeong7894 This man and his chemistry lessons are fascinating. Especially his use and annunciation of the word Fire (Feye-ah).
His energy 🧨
The best. This is how you get youngsters interested in chemistry. It is certainly how I became interested. I was always looking for what made the biggest bang. Unfortunately the headmaster was not amused when the army bomb squad had to come, and the stripes across my buttocks, a years loss of pocket money for reparation's (the detonation in the school playing yard after the school had been evacuated onto the playing field took out three windows), being expelled for a while, and his report to the ministry of education about an 'incident' at a school were pretty bad experiences all around. My backside by that time was becoming more accustomed to the striping. How? The school laboratory full of dense purple smoke, the metal dustbin lid across the school and into someone's greenhouse, mortar charges going off too low and setting my hair on fire, igniting hydrogen from a bell jar, smacking my first girlfriend in the face with the side of of a poorly made mortar charge tube (she was shaken but unhurt) when the mortar stuck in the tube and it blew apart, the phantom chemical snatcher (just who took that white phosphorous and sodium from the chemical cupboard, and how with the lock intact), and other exploits to mention but a few. It was an interesting and colorful childhood. Andrew? Almost like brothers in arms! Potassium permanganate and glycerin? Gunpowder? Simple stuff! How about skimming nitro glycerin. That's more like it.
In the third world it is hard to obtain chemicals for experiments. Because they are expensive 😭
When liquid nitrogen expands into a gas, how many times more does it expand when comparing the liquid state to the gaseous state?
800
He memorized it. Had said ALMOST the same thing to the previous video.
What a speed and talking speed sir has and the stamina wow 🤔😏😏
Top 10 people that were smarter than a rock.
nitric acid on Candle wax?
𝑊ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑛𝑑!
waaw
haha, great 👍😄🤭 the teacher remind me of the high school 😁😅😊😇
Jesse we need to cook
I thought that plasma was a 4th state of matter.
Do you have a gmail
If David Attenborough was American and a chemistry professor:
He is a chemist
@@kaizenryan3390 bro thanks for commenting that, my brain didnt work or function properly back 8 months ago, now ive grown and will never say such cringe ever again. thanks for pointing that out :D
Good examples of substances turning into new substances.... but my goodness, why isn't he wearing goggles?!?