December Video Poll
Poll ends November 12th!
Comments (31)
I couldn't watch the voting as it happened and forgot to check. I'm so happy 😊
As a molecular biologist, I can say that mitochondria are less interesting than one may think. Or maybe I don't want your videos to touch my work. :) Maxwell it is then.
Yet, from my lay standpoint, it seems the existence of eukaryotes & their organelles is inherently of interest. I for one want us to be able to tell the stories of how they happened. Not that we don't have such stories, but they're kinda the String Theory of biology.
Oh man, definitely Maxwell. I HAVE GOT to know how he redefined physics With This One Weird Trick! Physicists Hate Him!! Buy now!!!
I love Maxwell. I'm looking forward to Dr. Collier's angle. Especially bc "How M did it" is suggestive but doesn't give away what it is. OTOH, Connections feels like a tell. If it means DrC is Burke-aligned, I mean Burke in interviews is both pro-change & anti-god, we tend to say "unapologetic" here, that might align with DrC's stance on the activity of scientists & her framing of the Faust story as suffused with Christian prejudices. Not that I disagree with either of them. And if so, Burke might emphasize that Maxwell spelled out the details of what was just out there at the time. That had he not been the one, it might just have been someone else. As Burke points out, Bell won the race to the telephone by a nose: His competitor lost by only 2hrs difference in the patent filing. I'm also a fan of the math reupholstering by Heaviside & others. But that might just be a weakness of mine, I guess.
Maxwell is what the people need
Team Maxwell.
Muppets when?
Ah, single select this time, apparently. I ticked Maxwell. The others are good. Stuff Angela Likes goes without saying. Cells are so interesting. Books, yeah. Connections jumped out at me as I just rewatched the original (series 1) last week. As for Maxwell, I have my own thoughts, but your take would be enlightening. In any case, thank you.
I have long suspected you are collecting the preference poll data for some as yet unrevealed purpose. That said, mitochondria are a source of endless curiosity.
She training her own AI engine. Angela's AI will soon be on the App Store.
I like the narrower choices. Also was going to vote for Maxwell then I saw, "ooh, mitochondria!" (currently polling low tho)
I voted mitochondria, partly because I want to know how the "powerhouse of the cell" thing made its way into memes. Is that a big thing in north American schools? It was never framed that way when I learned about them in school.
I loved Connections when I was young and then showed it to my kids when they were young. I'm curious about your thoughts.
I'm voting for the Maxwell topic, but I enjoyed "Faust and the Furious" and would welcome more in that vein.
It would be nice for Angela to do stuff she likes. Nevertheless, I chose mitochondria.
Well, we already got our video about what Angela dislikes, it's only fair to ask one about what she likes. That way there is balance. *insert Babylon 5 reference here*
yessss B5 reference. have you rewatched it lately? between the pandemic and the politics it hits a little TOO hard these days lol.
My choice will always be “stuff Angela likes”, but if it’s helpful to have constraints…well, these are all bomb options tbh :p
Oooh please do Connections!
Wow. 'Connections' - I'm old enough to have watched it when it was first run (at least on PBS in the US). Very curious your thoughts on that series
Classic lit? Irresistible
Oh, choose one? So hard. Mighty mitochondria
I always loved Connections because it was the history of technology instead of the history of war as is always tought in school.
I think about the past much like I approach travel. Places are about nature & human life. Most of the stories about those things are unwritten. At any moment, evolution is going on geographically. In space, not time. It's revealing that communities of the Danes & Saxons dotted common landscapes interspersed among each other. Or that Jewish diaspora towns nestled all across Europe. Looking at the stochastic interplay of needs & knowledge, that's how a lens of technological developments gives us at least a little insight into the lost stories of people & places in past times.
Oh man Connections would be great. Loved that show (wait til you reveal James Burke did it to get even with his dad or something)
never heard of it, but I was without a TV for decades. Will check it out on YouTube.
Time to vote for Maxwell, again. 😉
I've like your videos that touch on other sciences. Glad to see mitochondria on the list.
Adenosine Triphosphate
The Powerhouse of the cell?