This was enjoyable to watch. Great answers. As for "mind reading" superpowers, sometimes I'd just like to be able to know the answer to: "What the hell was I thinking?"
Hi, physicist/teacher here. I really enjoyed this, thanks! Your comments on learning, understanding and teaching are right on point. I have the great good fortune to do most of my teaching one-on-one with grad students, and I tell them that I never really understand something myself until I hear myself explain it to somebody else- and, really, to multiple others! That's because everyone comes at a particular subject from a different angle, and the more angles and questions you encounter, the deeper your own understanding becomes. This is maybe especially true of physics because there are almost always multiple complementary ways of looking at any given subject, and a proper physics education returns to a subject several times over years, each time at a deeper level of sophistication and connection with other areas.
You two are the best! Thank you both for all your efforts. Nick, your channel is just awesome. One of the best physics teachers online. Thank you mate.
Learning to teach from experience is so true. I'm a tutor, not a teacher, but almost all my teaching skills come from experience. When I was first hired as a stat tutor at my school I wasn't given an training ahead of time -- they just gave me shifts in the tutoring center and I learned as I went along, and a little from observing tutoring sessions with the more experienced tutors. I will say that tutoring forced me to learn the subjects themselves really well. I started out not really caring for stats very much because I didn't have that great of a grasp of it - I could tutor the basics but that was it. But after spending years explaining the same basic concepts over and over again, I gained an understanding of them on a much deeper level and it sparked an interest in learning more. Probability used to be one of my least favorite things, but now it's one of my favorites.
I would love a video where Emily is explaining something about biology to you, similarly to the videos where you're talking with her (and us) about physics. My question for Emily would be: Are there things about biology that we'll never know, or is it all knowable, learnable, given enough research?
Explaining things is definitely the best way of learning. I used to explain the class I was in maths the easy way (because my teachers often explain maths in a very difficult way) and I discovered that I really perfected my math skills that way. About the same things happened with physics.
Betrayal at house on the Hill is so good! I love how it is exploratory at first and then the Relics changes it to a 1 vs all game! They actually have a Betrayal at Baulders Gate game which puts it in a D&D setting with the same type of rules.
the college tips actually help, even tho I'm not in a science program. My program coordinator also said to treat it like a full time job and he said that for ever 1 hour of lecture you need to do 3 hours of work
Whether doing the reading is actually helpful really depends on the textbook. Some textbooks are just really poorly written and just make things more confusing. I often find it more effective to just make note of the topics covered and find better explanations online. Heck, it's often Nick's videos that take the place of the reading for me because he just does a _much_ better job actually explaining stuff than the book. Professor Dave Explains and Crash Course are also really effective for that purpose. Even Wikipedia is helpful sometimes.
@@NickLucid Well my program is online so I actually usually don't have live classes (though we have forums where we can post questions for the professor and/or TA's or other students to answer). That's a choice I made because 1. I wanted the convenience of being able to do class at whatever time place is most convenient and 2. more often than not I get little out of lectures anyway and so I prefer to just teach myself the material and get tutoring as necessary and/or post questions online. I never really get it when people complain about how college requires so much self-teaching because, to me, that's kind of the whole point -- we live in a world with practically all the information we could want freely and instantly available. There's little a professor can tell you that you can't find online or in a book -- knowing where to find the information you need and how to use it effectively to actually gain an understanding of a subject is what's important.
I finally got to this and you two never disappoint! I really appreciate these videos you both seem like such great personalities and I love getting to know a bit more about you both! Cheers can't wait for pt 2
I don't know what superpower I would want. But I definitely want a superpower no one would be able to discover. Imagine the attention you would get if you could do something considered impossible. Maybe I would choose being able to feel if someone is a true friend or not.
Learning is neuroscience. First comes familiarization, then with time and application comes consolidation and then with more time and application comes knowledge.
You guys are awesome. I have only one question, would you consider doing this say... once a month or a quarter rather than once a year? Seriously, I don't know if you realize just how much of a breath of fresh air like you two is needed in this world especially at this time in our history.
Once a month might be too much. I have the main channel to maintain. We honestly do these as soon as we find the time and motivation. I don't really want to commit to a schedule.
Very cool. I actually read things told by teachers. I still do. Also I would like to have the power to teleport within 3 meters of a person whose face and name I know, with my rotation and position be relative to the person with the earth I am looking for so that I am not thrown out in space while teleporting with the ability to sense where and what that person's body position is so I can also safely teleport inside a moving car. I could find missing people, and just go from college to my home town in just a fraction of a second.
I have about 9-10 hours of class time 5 days a week, so by this 3 hours per hour in class approximation, I only need to spend 27-30 hours a day studying. Or 19.5 to 21.5 hours daily spread over the week. (6 course load)
I liked your honest approach to learning and concluding that even specialists dont know everything. Watching you I wonder how your brain can accept a question and then knows how to respond. Is this biology or physics or something else?
Absolutely great episode yet again, you two complement each other so well, but Nick, regarding "the superpower question" at 15:00...you really don't want immortality, it leads to literal insanity which is SO well depicted in the episode "Death Wish", Star Trek Voyager: Season 2, Episode 18. I highly recommend this episode even for non-trekkie fans, the whole episode is about immortality and what massive problems it has. The episode can be found in Netflix.
I also say that I disagree with the premise of that episode. Of all the immortal "Q" beings, this one individual seeks death? Just him, the rest are good with it? That's text book aberrant behavior. Other SF has approached the immortality issue similarly -- but, like any SF, it's literally speculation. Or, sour grapes. Mortals writing about theoretical immortality, and pretending it's actually a bad thing to have.
@@chuckoneill2023 "Mortals writing about theoretical immortality, and pretending it's actually a bad thing to have." Exactly! In Tolkien's universe, mortality was supposedly a _gift_ from the creator and humans would have appreciated it if they hadn't been corrupted by the dark lord. It's just an author trying to feel better about being mortal.
@@chuckoneill2023 I am off to sleep, just saying that the rest of the Q-beings were definitely not good with being immortal, they tried extremely desperatly find any new "thing"/stimulus to do like being a scarecrow or dog etc etc. They had seen everything, heard everything, done everything in the whole universe and there wasn't even anything left to say..so Q asked Capt Janeyway: "You are an explorer, what if there was absolutely nothing new to explore..would you want to live under those circumstances indefinitely?" Of course it's all speculation, how could it even be anything else with lack of any empirical data....but I speculate I wouldn't want to live forever in those circumtances that Q-being lived in nor would I want to be immortal as captive in a prison like Q was forced to so as not to kill himself, he might have been inprisoned indefinitely if Voyager hadnt taken a sample of the prison in space. Immortality being good/bad thing depends on the circumstances that you can live as immortal, some circumstances can indeed be bad. That's why an off-switch would be desirabe if one would be truly immortal.
I see a pretty much normal couple half of which is known to address people 'hey crazies'. 😆 /no offense. I like your videos. Pun was intended/ Your insight on the hours for learning might be helpful. Thank you!
Understanding how the brain works isn't a biology problem. It's an engineering problem. Jeff Hawkins did some presentations about it. They're on RUclips.
I'd love to know about neuroscience please and wishing so bad that we understand how neuron is work and how to deal with neurological damage, as if it fully understandable it will definitely helps people who has symptoms of these debilitating disease on daily basis, i have essential tremors, but yeah least we know about it at some point we even confused between ET & Parkinson's still not well understood.
Wow computational advances making that language superpower more within reach all the time - however yeah linguistics at the center of philosophical reality along with physics, (biology plus physics in neurological consciousness if it exists bla bla bla) psychology etc so wow yeah wow mind reading with Neuralink etc whoa who knows🤯😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰😘😘😘😘☮️💟🥂🌈🗽🔥♾🤖
One student question that always sticks out in my memory: "Everything with an ordinary temperature emits a lot of infrared light, right? Where does that energy come from?"
@@NickLucid That is an interesting question! I think I learned that answer to that question when we covered black body radiation in physics 3 last year, but now I can't remember it and I'm curious, so I'm gonna go look it up.
Nick, I thought youd find this video interesting. For one thing, at first sight it seems wrong, but deeper analysis reveals its right, I wonder how it strikes you? ruclips.net/video/8G7YfTFDQn8/видео.html Keep crazy and enjoy life. Were put in this world we do our thing and we go. Its up to us to do the best we can and make it fun for ourselves while bringing joy to others. Trust me theres a lot of people that just spend their time complaining, hating and seeing whose life they could ruin. I think those are the really sad cases they pass through life just adding negatively. So keep positive and best of wishes for you and your family.
Don't worry. There were so many good questions! This is only part 1 👍. (I didn't want the video to be over 30 minutes long.)
@Black_No_Sugar just guessing! Conway's GOL
@@nikhilPUD01 That was my guess as well
@Black_No_Sugar It's a pixelated outline of my U.S. State: Michigan
Way to represent Michigan! Are you a yooper or a down stater?
Looking forward to part two, thanks. Longer would actually work OK for myself, but I know The Algorithm is a harsh master.
Neuroscientists would love to know more about neuroscience as well 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😂 I bet!
This was enjoyable to watch. Great answers.
As for "mind reading" superpowers, sometimes I'd just like to be able to know the answer to: "What the hell was I thinking?"
Only q&a ive ever finished. I was charmed the entire way thru. You guys are great
Hi, physicist/teacher here. I really enjoyed this, thanks! Your comments on learning, understanding and teaching are right on point. I have the great good fortune to do most of my teaching one-on-one with grad students, and I tell them that I never really understand something myself until I hear myself explain it to somebody else- and, really, to multiple others! That's because everyone comes at a particular subject from a different angle, and the more angles and questions you encounter, the deeper your own understanding becomes. This is maybe especially true of physics because there are almost always multiple complementary ways of looking at any given subject, and a proper physics education returns to a subject several times over years, each time at a deeper level of sophistication and connection with other areas.
Great fun listening to you both and your insights into education
You two are the best! Thank you both for all your efforts. Nick, your channel is just awesome. One of the best physics teachers online. Thank you mate.
Learning to teach from experience is so true. I'm a tutor, not a teacher, but almost all my teaching skills come from experience. When I was first hired as a stat tutor at my school I wasn't given an training ahead of time -- they just gave me shifts in the tutoring center and I learned as I went along, and a little from observing tutoring sessions with the more experienced tutors. I will say that tutoring forced me to learn the subjects themselves really well. I started out not really caring for stats very much because I didn't have that great of a grasp of it - I could tutor the basics but that was it. But after spending years explaining the same basic concepts over and over again, I gained an understanding of them on a much deeper level and it sparked an interest in learning more. Probability used to be one of my least favorite things, but now it's one of my favorites.
I would love a video where Emily is explaining something about biology to you, similarly to the videos where you're talking with her (and us) about physics.
My question for Emily would be:
Are there things about biology that we'll never know, or is it all knowable, learnable, given enough research?
Explaining things is definitely the best way of learning. I used to explain the class I was in maths the easy way (because my teachers often explain maths in a very difficult way) and I discovered that I really perfected my math skills that way. About the same things happened with physics.
I was hoping to see this one, for a long time.
Betrayal at house on the Hill is so good! I love how it is exploratory at first and then the Relics changes it to a 1 vs all game! They actually have a Betrayal at Baulders Gate game which puts it in a D&D setting with the same type of rules.
the college tips actually help, even tho I'm not in a science program. My program coordinator also said to treat it like a full time job and he said that for ever 1 hour of lecture you need to do 3 hours of work
1:03 me too !
but Those nomenclature
Got me! 🤯😰😫
And iam like im done..
I just keep my body healthy that would be enough 😄
Fun peoples, those two are.
I've been waiting for this!
Whether doing the reading is actually helpful really depends on the textbook. Some textbooks are just really poorly written and just make things more confusing. I often find it more effective to just make note of the topics covered and find better explanations online. Heck, it's often Nick's videos that take the place of the reading for me because he just does a _much_ better job actually explaining stuff than the book. Professor Dave Explains and Crash Course are also really effective for that purpose. Even Wikipedia is helpful sometimes.
That works too! 👍 Whatever makes you more prepared to ask questions during class.
@@NickLucid Well my program is online so I actually usually don't have live classes (though we have forums where we can post questions for the professor and/or TA's or other students to answer). That's a choice I made because 1. I wanted the convenience of being able to do class at whatever time place is most convenient and 2. more often than not I get little out of lectures anyway and so I prefer to just teach myself the material and get tutoring as necessary and/or post questions online. I never really get it when people complain about how college requires so much self-teaching because, to me, that's kind of the whole point -- we live in a world with practically all the information we could want freely and instantly available. There's little a professor can tell you that you can't find online or in a book -- knowing where to find the information you need and how to use it effectively to actually gain an understanding of a subject is what's important.
I finally got to this and you two never disappoint! I really appreciate these videos you both seem like such great personalities and I love getting to know a bit more about you both! Cheers can't wait for pt 2
I don't know what superpower I would want. But I definitely want a superpower no one would be able to discover. Imagine the attention you would get if you could do something considered impossible. Maybe I would choose being able to feel if someone is a true friend or not.
Great video, Cheers! Love the 8-Bit Yoopers T-shirt!!
You are both amazing! I wish you all the best!
Thanks!
Thank you teachers.
You Guys make me proud to be a Michigander!
Learning is neuroscience. First comes familiarization, then with time and application comes consolidation and then with more time and application comes knowledge.
You guys are awesome. I have only one question, would you consider doing this say... once a month or a quarter rather than once a year? Seriously, I don't know if you realize just how much of a breath of fresh air like you two is needed in this world especially at this time in our history.
Once a month might be too much. I have the main channel to maintain. We honestly do these as soon as we find the time and motivation. I don't really want to commit to a schedule.
1:24 - well, not mine anyway 😑 love these vids, thanks both
It’s great to see you guys!
I love you both
you are awesome!
How life appeared probably would be much more important.
Very cool. I actually read things told by teachers. I still do.
Also I would like to have the power to teleport within 3 meters of a person whose face and name I know, with my rotation and position be relative to the person with the earth I am looking for so that I am not thrown out in space while teleporting with the ability to sense where and what that person's body position is so I can also safely teleport inside a moving car. I could find missing people, and just go from college to my home town in just a fraction of a second.
LOVE the pixel Michigan shirt! Fellow Michigander! I went to EMU too... fine art though.
I got the shirt from Michigan Awesome.
Such a lovely couple. 💚
I have about 9-10 hours of class time 5 days a week, so by this 3 hours per hour in class approximation, I only need to spend 27-30 hours a day studying. Or 19.5 to 21.5 hours daily spread over the week. (6 course load)
What are your favorite pieces of media? Tv shows, games, movies, music, etc.
Seem to be you are a very harmonic couple! 👍
I liked your honest approach to learning and concluding that even specialists dont know everything. Watching you I wonder how your brain can accept a question and then knows how to respond. Is this biology or physics or something else?
Nice video Nick 👏👏♥️♥️👍👍
Thanks! 😃
Absolutely great episode yet again, you two complement each other so well, but Nick, regarding "the superpower question" at 15:00...you really don't want immortality, it leads to literal insanity which is SO well depicted in the episode "Death Wish", Star Trek Voyager: Season 2, Episode 18. I highly recommend this episode even for non-trekkie fans, the whole episode is about immortality and what massive problems it has. The episode can be found in Netflix.
I've seen the episode. I just disagree with the premise.
I'd rather have "immortality with an option to revoke it"-superpower.
I also say that I disagree with the premise of that episode. Of all the immortal "Q" beings, this one individual seeks death? Just him, the rest are good with it? That's text book aberrant behavior.
Other SF has approached the immortality issue similarly -- but, like any SF, it's literally speculation.
Or, sour grapes. Mortals writing about theoretical immortality, and pretending it's actually a bad thing to have.
@@chuckoneill2023 "Mortals writing about theoretical immortality, and pretending it's actually a bad thing to have." Exactly! In Tolkien's universe, mortality was supposedly a _gift_ from the creator and humans would have appreciated it if they hadn't been corrupted by the dark lord. It's just an author trying to feel better about being mortal.
@@chuckoneill2023 I am off to sleep, just saying that the rest of the Q-beings were definitely not good with being immortal, they tried extremely desperatly find any new "thing"/stimulus to do like being a scarecrow or dog etc etc. They had seen everything, heard everything, done everything in the whole universe and there wasn't even anything left to say..so Q asked Capt Janeyway: "You are an explorer, what if there was absolutely nothing new to explore..would you want to live under those circumstances indefinitely?" Of course it's all speculation, how could it even be anything else with lack of any empirical data....but I speculate I wouldn't want to live forever in those circumtances that Q-being lived in nor would I want to be immortal as captive in a prison like Q was forced to so as not to kill himself, he might have been inprisoned indefinitely if Voyager hadnt taken a sample of the prison in space. Immortality being good/bad thing depends on the circumstances that you can live as immortal, some circumstances can indeed be bad. That's why an off-switch would be desirabe if one would be truly immortal.
I see a pretty much normal couple half of which is known to address people 'hey crazies'. 😆 /no offense. I like your videos. Pun was intended/
Your insight on the hours for learning might be helpful. Thank you!
Understanding how the brain works isn't a biology problem. It's an engineering problem. Jeff Hawkins did some presentations about it. They're on RUclips.
OH MY GOD!!!! The dice..... You used to have a felt bag that you made yourself it was a burgundy type color if I remember correctly.
I recently retired that bag because not all my dice were fitting inside it anymore.
I'd love to know about neuroscience please and wishing so bad that we understand how neuron is work and how to deal with neurological damage, as if it fully understandable it will definitely helps people who has symptoms of these debilitating disease on daily basis, i have essential tremors, but yeah least we know about it at some point we even confused between ET & Parkinson's still not well understood.
Autism spectrum makes people special, not disabled 👍
Nick: "I want to sleep in my bed.." Solution: Make your Camp mobil!
I'm not sure I could live like that.
@@NickLucid Only for travel. It is like my home. Even when i visit friends i prefer to sleep in my VW Bus.
I am first crazyyy 😋
Hey it's Awkward M. or is it Awkward Em?
It's spelled "Awkward M."
@@NickLucid Ok, thanks, It can be so hard spelling one letter names in English. :p
Wow computational advances making that language superpower more within reach all the time - however yeah linguistics at the center of philosophical reality along with physics, (biology plus physics in neurological consciousness if it exists bla bla bla) psychology etc so wow yeah wow mind reading with Neuralink etc whoa who knows🤯😍😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🥰😘😘😘😘☮️💟🥂🌈🗽🔥♾🤖
7:29 Do you have any examples of specific questions that you'd never thought of before and prompted you to learn something interesting?
One student question that always sticks out in my memory: "Everything with an ordinary temperature emits a lot of infrared light, right? Where does that energy come from?"
@@NickLucid That is an interesting question! I think I learned that answer to that question when we covered black body radiation in physics 3 last year, but now I can't remember it and I'm curious, so I'm gonna go look it up.
Biology is chemistry and chemistry is physics.
Route?? Not root? We must be on the same side of the tracks.
The rooter people drive me nuts.
...phonetics!
That was my problem: I'm paying how much to read what I can read for free?
No arguments over things getting moved to another cupboard?
From a 15 min impression: perfect D&D characterization.
Nick, I thought youd find this video interesting. For one thing, at first sight it seems wrong, but deeper analysis reveals its right, I wonder how it strikes you?
ruclips.net/video/8G7YfTFDQn8/видео.html
Keep crazy and enjoy life. Were put in this world we do our thing and we go. Its up to us to do the best we can and make it fun for ourselves while bringing joy to others. Trust me theres a lot of people that just spend their time complaining, hating and seeing whose life they could ruin. I think those are the really sad cases they pass through
life just adding negatively. So keep positive and best of wishes for you and your family.
Please make sure you have a few children 👍
Nick autistic? You would never know.