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How to spark your curiosity, scientifically | Nadya Mason

Visit to get our entire library of TED Talks, transcripts, translations, personalized talk recommendations and more. Curious how stuff works? Do a hands-on experiment at home, says physicist Nadya Mason. She shows how you can demystify the world around you by tapping into your scientific curiosity — and performs a few onstage experiments of her…

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Curious how stuff works? Do a hands-on experiment at home, says physicist Nadya Mason. She shows how you can demystify the world around you by tapping into your scientific curiosity — and performs a few onstage experiments of her own using magnets, dollar bills, dry ice and more.

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66 Comments

  1. david bouy

    May 7, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    That was cool

  2. Mykola Dolgalov

    May 7, 2020 at 6:16 pm

    Wonderful video, thank you! As a parent I want to spark curiosity in my children (9 and 6 y.o.), but still I’m so used to tell them: careful, don’t break, etc. Thank you for reminding me that breaking things for the sake of curiosity is a good thing!

  3. Renjith Mathew Roy

    May 7, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    Awesome one, really enjoyed the idea and way of presentation.As a Physics student,just loved it,,,,

  4. Stephanie Elizabeth Mann

    May 7, 2020 at 7:04 pm

    Thank you. I was an experimenter when is as young. As an adult I worried about breaking things I might need. Now I see I can experiment without fear of breaking thins.

  5. KarMa CañQuints

    May 7, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    My gossipmonger neighbor’s curiousity sparks as the fireworks of 4th of July and New Year’s Eve.

    • An Anonymous

      May 7, 2020 at 7:24 pm

      Haha

  6. CPatwal

    May 7, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    Very True !

  7. JellyfishJelly

    May 7, 2020 at 7:32 pm

    Warranty stickers voided our curiosity. You won’t break that stuff (hopefully) or loose warranty, you’ll make it your own!

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  9. 0megalvyz1

    May 7, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    Breaking things is a fair method to understanding how things works.. would it be more practical and fun to have each techy part standardized with still different grades.. like every phone screen size 7 inch or even swappable parts like Cpu, Ram, ssd, speaker, camera, this would benefit the user to customize their own phone style to their preferred career choices..

    No wastage.. since then you could sell it back to someone who needs it.. you start off with a phone and then you buy a second one.. connect them together to get a tablet with even more features to addons.. it could be a mix of all different major tech companies which makes it product sharing and cuatomer caring.. think about it.. Nice one!

    By the way, she is superconductingly hot!

  10. TheMrfrodough

    May 7, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    I don’t think people are scared, they are lazy and or don’t care.

    • katherandefy

      May 8, 2020 at 10:41 pm

      So they don’t care… why? They’re lazy… how did this happen? They’re just worthless?

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  18. bj0rn

    May 7, 2020 at 9:33 pm

    I got to warn you kids that being a researcher comes at a cost. You’ll get little job security. Career prospects are pretty poor. It’s highly competitive, so you’ll probably have to sacrifice private life to get anywhere. You’ll probably have to focus on very narrow topics where there’s opportunity for publishing rather than where your curiosity really is, and you’ll have to spend a considerable chunk of your time begging for funds. You will have an administration over you monitoring your performance in terms of dumb numbers like number of papers published and citations. All of this bullshit aside, it’s pretty fun.

  19. Solidwater

    May 7, 2020 at 10:12 pm

    wait you want to tell me that majority of people do not test stuff? I really though that if encounter a problem you first check if you can easily test/fix it by trying random stuff such as looking and hitting then if you cant fix it you google it and then based on complexity you fix it or go to someone who knows how to fix it.

  20. Heidi Dlr

    May 7, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    I’m still in shock folks! 9:45

  21. Tayeba Ashori

    May 7, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    We were not taught to be curious when we are faced with a new device and we were always very careful not to break something up but I would like to teach my children to satisfy their curiosity

  22. Ou8y2k2

    May 7, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    Where’s the simp that always comments “love it” on YT videos and then leaves?

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    May 7, 2020 at 11:16 pm

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  24. Waris Ansari

    May 8, 2020 at 12:25 am

    Great

  25. Syazwan

    May 8, 2020 at 2:47 am

    I’ve always wish I could talk with confidence like her and everyone else

    • Tom Brady

      May 8, 2020 at 10:55 am

      Keep workinh

    • Syazwan

      May 9, 2020 at 8:15 am

      @Tom Brady alright man. Thanks 🙇🏿‍♂️

    • Prism

      May 10, 2020 at 8:48 am

      I used to be afraid of playing piano. When I was younger I played for my parents, then my whole family, then my whole classroom, then in a restaurant and art gallery, then finally a stage with an audience. Point is ideally you want to start slow and find a way to gradually increase your audience. Rarely do people just decide to jump onto a stage with a huge audience as their very first time doing something in front of people.

    • Falls Grimm

      May 10, 2020 at 11:38 pm

      im a german bürocratic whatsoever – trust me – words are the weapons of your syneptic system – ur präsident has less familiar iq than his grandfather, bad things happen morbus google knew it but nobody reddit. you do have the abilitiy to use bing instead whatsover the internet is amazing even if im born after 84. i kant let my poor ones study for free cause of egoism. Maybe einsteins last words were All Gemein Bildung ist gut and your nurse could just not undestand it. i might be hated for this one but i dont really get hurt feelins from internetcommentsin2020 Im just not autistic enough for this… sorry ais i stayed creative because books are written between the lines of your reading comprehension skills. I honestly start thinking of going G R R Imm, but I guess Shakesbeards hobbit’ich Pipeweeds legalise otherwise this fachkraft starts thinking canada. elon go otherwise new york should start building walls.

  26. Carlos Dyer

    May 8, 2020 at 3:41 am

    Awesome video loved her energy and passion.

  27. eddie E

    May 8, 2020 at 3:42 am

    In the immortal words of Professor Bernhardt: It isn’t faith that makes good science, Mr. Klaatu, it’s curiosity.

  28. Abhishek Nigam

    May 8, 2020 at 3:51 am

    Wonderful talk

  29. TRENDY HACKS

    May 8, 2020 at 7:18 am

    Success is not a destiny
    It’s a journey

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    May 8, 2020 at 8:49 am

    Please ad the subtitles

    • katherandefy

      May 8, 2020 at 10:51 pm

      askar ameen hover at top right on the video itself and click on the icon of three vertical dots. Choose captions and then choose language of preference.

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    May 8, 2020 at 11:45 am

    …Or just google it

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    May 8, 2020 at 4:41 pm

    Have you done a video about terrible ads?

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    May 8, 2020 at 4:41 pm

    Have you done a video about terrible ads?

  35. katherandefy

    May 8, 2020 at 10:40 pm

    Start as young as possible … don’t wait until you’re an adult. Your ability to learn is far less limber as an adult because by then you’ve gone through years of being told things like “don’t try this at home” in the absence of why not or how to try “this” safely.

  36. Wyatt Barriger

    May 9, 2020 at 3:11 am

    Yay now our children can dicect high amp capacitors. JK. Tinkerers discretion is advised.

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    May 9, 2020 at 3:47 am

    put your phone in rice?

  38. LA

    May 9, 2020 at 5:10 am

    We don’t experiment nowadays because we rely on R&D specialist to do it for us. We just wait for the big companies to introduce us new technologies rather than trying to discover it ourselves. We may have a fear that it’s a waste of time to experiment because probably big companies already did it, but the speaker proves the importance of experimenting and being curious.

  39. tom horn

    May 9, 2020 at 5:14 am

    This person is an idiot. god bless her for showing that

  40. John Johnson

    May 9, 2020 at 3:48 pm

    I love when I see high level of curiosity on display. It sets mine on fire.

  41. Alexandria School of Science

    May 9, 2020 at 4:00 pm

    Nadya Mason is a Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She works on the quantum limits of low-dimensional systems. She is a former competitive gymnast who was a member of the US National Team.

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    May 9, 2020 at 5:50 pm

    hehe i did not know that i was clever* lol i think she just said it. can i have more of this please? ..
    fix me ha & help me plis…..

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    May 10, 2020 at 2:02 pm

    My first name is Nadya too 😂😂😂

  47. Trey Wrong

    May 10, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    Lets do experiments on our $1000+ phones…

  48. B Welkinator

    May 10, 2020 at 8:19 pm

    Thank God! A TED talk – by a woman – which actually serves to enrich humanity without resorting to being a SJW or calling on “global warming” or even the use of the word “pandemic”. Thank you. Big thumbs up!

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    May 11, 2020 at 5:19 am

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    May 17, 2020 at 11:36 am

    This speech was awesome!

  57. mig san

    May 19, 2020 at 11:04 pm

    I wish I could comment on ads, those are annoying. Its irritating that he points at the product twice in back to back scenes

  58. Vinoth M

    May 23, 2020 at 3:17 pm

    An experimental physicist just came and explained what she does for a living

  59. Yamen Nazer

    May 24, 2020 at 3:05 pm

    Oh my god i loved this talk!! your laugh is amazing Mrs. Nadya thank you for this

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