January patreon video

This dumbass just realised they never installed patreon on their new phone but plus side I have a whole year of Angela bonus videos to watch!

And regarding your closing remark. As a German, I want to say something to you and all you other lovely patrons of Angela, even though this might be a bit preaching to the converted. After WW II, there was A LOT of reconciliation, restitution, reflection to be done in my country, as well as indictment and prosecution of the top NS guys. And even decades later, one key line of Germans evading accountability for their and their country's crimes on humanity was: "I DIDN'T KNOW". "I DIDN'T KNOW THAT [the moustache man] WAS EXECUTING A GENOCIDE ON AN INDUSTRIAL SCALE. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT ATTACKING MOST OTHER EUROPEAN COUNTRIES WAS WRONG AND LED TO DOZENS OF MILLIONS OF DEAD PEOPLE." Let people know that you know that they know what the MAGA's Project 2025 includes. Tell them that they won't have a hope in hell to afterwards claim they didn't know. It's all on record, the whole world is watching, and people have been warning about the US radical right tilting towards fascism, for years. Everyone has either asked or heard the question: how could this happen? How could the NS tyranny in Germany and the holocaust happen? Why wasn't his prevented? Why didn't people stop them? The answer is so simple that it's really hard to realize. People were complacent, quiet, hoping for the best, telling themselves it will work out fine in the end, that A.H. will surely return to reason at some point. And people didn't realize that the last point at which it could have been stopped *without a major domestic civil war, hint hint* was a point in time that felt, to most Germans, still like normal life. When the police only disappeared alleged criminals. Or homeless people. Or disabled people. Or illegal aliens. At the point where it could still have been stopped, other parts of the population still thought "ah they're only going after these and those people, not me, I'm not in danger". They felt safe. Until they weren't.

I don't think the parents are really supposed to do this with their kids. The company has to put some notice in there for legal reasons I suppose, but of course as a child I would have done this on my own! How lame is it to do this with some adult who is not as fascinated as you are, being a kid? And the kids who want to understand the how and why and what, will search for answers anyway, and kids who don't care about the explanation would probably just be bored if some parent tried to get the concept of pH across .. even if a kid understands nothing except that different things do ... fascinating different things, that's a start. Any kid who loves to watch this "magic" is at least a candidate for wanting to understand it. I also love the mess you made on the tablet right from the start! If a child was using its science calendar and making such a mess, most parents would probably tell them to avoid making such a mess. Also, you making a mess is not exactly vindicating your perspective that adult supervision is required. Like ... microwaved water doesn't need to be really hot, you can just microwave it a bit less so it's only lukewarm? You know all that, but I'm having a great time watching this. And all the rocks ... I guess they weren't just rocks, probably there were several more "experiments" in that book for all those new rocks. So I don't understand why you read the instructions and do the experiment if it's not a rock, and if it's a rock you don't read it. This is a self-fulfilling prophecy: you think having just another rock is boring and a disappointment, and so it becomes just that, because of how you interact with it.

Amen for a weird 2025! Thanks for the fun demonstrations, I enjoy feeling like a kid watching magic happen. Hot polymer snow will linger in my thoughts ^^

Thanks Angela, just joined the Patreon

You warm my heart and teach me so much rabbi 🙏🏼

If I had a kit like this when I was a child, I know I would totally love it. I don't know, I don't mind it isn't a proper "science kit", with just demonstrations and no actual experiments. I remember that I really like to watch entire colony of ants go in and out of their nests. I wasn't doing any experiment, I was just admiring nature. I thought this was a fun kit and I approve it.

I got zapped touching a door knob and I thought, "oh look, a physics!" and I blame you.

Hello! Something I've noticed in your last few videos including this one is your camera keeps changing focus between you and objects in the background, almost giving a zoom-in zoom-out effect a few times a minute, probably you are aware of this but it's happened a couple of times so I wanted to make sure. Anyway I love your stuff, thanks for making it!

Finally some merch I can use as a non-coffee outlier!

"I got a rock" not only made me laugh every time, it got funnier each time it happened. An archaeologist might like this advent calendar - I think most of my peers enjoy generalized STEM science-y things as a pretty generalizable trait (even if that's mostly PH here I guess), but we also all love rocks a lot.

seconded that most parents this stuff is marketed towards (I care about my kids education and/or they seem really into science but I don't have the funds to get them a tutor/take them to the science museum) do not have time to supervise a lot of these demos also, the first experiment where you were saying the only way any actual science is learnt there is if the parent stands and explains acidity - most parents imo cannot explain that. My parents are a teacher and a midwife in the UK, they stopped being able to help me with maths and science homework once I hit about 13. I was learning about acids and bases. Even with highly educated parents (both have a BA/BSci) and a modern liberal education and two professions where basic science knowledge is necessary they do not know it well enough to explain pH indicators off the cuff - a working class parent with a gcse in science is not going to be able to take many of these demos and actually get any science out of them imo. I think both my parents would get it pretty quick if I explained it to them but they definitely couldn't recall and explain it from the science class they took age 17, yk?

Happy new year! I kind of wish they gave the calendar a small fossil as well.

Happy new year! This was fun to watch

there's only one actual experiment here and it's determining once and for all exactly how dumb a box of rocks is

No drinking in the science lab! Happy new year :D

Happy New Year! This video was fun. Finding your channel was one of the highlights of my year and I hope that we all can find a way to stay safe and happy with whatever comes next.

Happy New Year! Thank you for being a highlight of 2024. I hope for all our sake 2025 will be better than we expect. I don't dread it because that won't help. I hold a lower opinion of billionaires than you do. Funnily, crazy stuff going on all over, not only in the U.S. I'll support you. I trust you to use it for your own purposes. As you prosper, so shall we all.

I don't know if it's possible, but could you do a segment on spin angular momentum? It makes my brain bleed. How does a point charge have spin? Or is it just another parameter that is intrinsic but needed a name to identify it?

Thank you for making your videos. They gave me a lot of joy this year!

I *think* I knew what the pH scale was when I was a little kid, but I had STEM parents. I remember getting a bunch of science kits like this but a lot of them were short on anything actually cool. I had science activity books too and these were better because they weren't limited to what you could pack into a box. Also I was big into slime and remember making my own, and any project where there's an end product with play value is pretty great. Anyway Happy New Year, thanks for all the videos!

*Casually tosses away safety goggles.* Angela Collier, renegade scientist.

You are by far my favorite social media personality. Peace and love! - your most inquisitive shoelace

I feel like pH, moisture absorbsion, and rocks are about all you have to go on after taking out all the stuff out of a chemistry set that a young child could injure themselves with.

HNY!

Not only did I watch this on New Year's Eve, I even opened a small bottle of Prosecco to drink along. It just became 2025 over here in Euroland, Happy New Year everyone!

This was fun!

Thank you so much for doing this one! It sounds like the bottom line is that the adult giving the toy needs to have an actual lesson in mind, otherwise it’s just a colorful and messy magic show, plus rocks. A grandparent got something like this for my 7 year old last year, and the experience was pretty much as you described: we got as far as day 6 before everything just became too much to keep up with, and we wound up just busting out all the rocks and putting them them in a jar, and then doing the demos as one big messy blowout. Incidentally, our kids found the Kiwi boxes pretty fun, but like you said, they were more like engineering arts and crafts than science experiments. Happy new year!

Happy New Year !! :-)

this is awesome and also humbling. for some of these im like wait a minute I understand some of it like for the first demostration the ion changes but why the color change? and then I realize that....I dont know. I mean i have to be real with myself and I just dont know.I google with the reddit ending and people are mentioning conjugated system and I realized that this is something that it would probably take time to explain. Which made this GREAT to actually make but not for a 8 year old but probably a high school student who is actually interested (that is another completely different challenge) but yeah. a big ask on parents.

Angela, I need to know; how many pairs of glasses do you have? Happy New Year everybody. Hopefully we all have good times coming down the stack. It's just down the stack.

Happy New years to us all - thanks Angela. So happy to support, and the rewards of the extra videos is a treat to us all. - cheers.

I would like to buy a quantum quantum quantum shirt. I look forward to you updating the merch store. :)

Come on, geology is hard science. Geologists figured out the exact age of Earth before physicists! So perhaps shovel + axe = National Geographic science kit.

Happy New Year!

Pretty fun video! Happy new years to everyone! You didn't touch on it in your video directly but "science" being conflated with just "chemistry" was frustrating to see in this kit as well. And if you are going to do that as a kit maker then maybe at least some info on what atoms are, what molecules are, what a reaction is, etc. would be helpful information even if the items are "activities" not "experiments". I'm interested to see how the Kiwi co one goes.

It's already New Years Day here. 👍 Congratulations on the Billionaires video! Scathing yet highly amusing. Along with the Feynman (& bros) video, more like that would be great.

"Is this science? No, it's just a rock."

Happy New Year, it’s meant to be fun and my guess is the kid connects the dots as they get older. “Oh I remember why that worked!”, when they learn the rest at school.

Happy new year's eve!

I hope you have a happy New Year's Day.

Happy NYE... maybe we all survive 2025 together (and get a video on what is data, also my own vote, for pitpicking sci-fi)

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