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I've been working on a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) proposal so have been following McKinsey because they have the kind of quantitative estimates of markets and spending projections that the funders love to see. I thought people might find this amusing, another example of quantum, quantum, quantum: https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/tech-and-ai/our-insights/three-horizons-of-quantum-a-business-road-map-to-the-future-computing-economy

Here's something else regarding current R&D funding. I saw another NSF site with a tag saying something like "We will soon be inserting the term "superintelligence" " and a link that explains why the NSF (and probably other agencies like DARPA) are using the very scientific term "super intelligence" (yes that's sarcasm): https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/09/inaugurating-the-era-of-super-intelligence/

I do Computer Science research. Before Trump it was usually funded by agencies like the NSF and DARPA, but especially because most of my research is focused on Climate Change, the day of the innauguration, all the potential for future work which looked to be quite certain were dead. But I'm still on various mailing lists. I thought I would share my misery that announcements about building "Super Intelligence" are now coming out of NSF. Check out an email I recieved today: --------------- NSF Email about Super Intelligence---------------- NSF announces teams selected to accelerate efficiency gains in U.S. super intelligence infrastructure Selected teams will deploy at-scale solutions for moving SI efficiency technologies from research to operational use within two years The U.S. National Science Foundation Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships (NSF TIP) announced nine teams selected to accelerate efficiency gains in U.S. super intelligence (SI) infrastructure, the result of a competition that began in May 2026. The selected teams will receive up to $3.5 million over two years as they advance through three stages from decision models to at-scale deployments that will speed the commercial adoption of improved super intelligence technologies. Teams will work to develop and deploy pathways that accelerate commercial adoption of translation-ready technologies to dramatically improve SI efficiency at scale. Efficiency gains reduce the cost of training and inference, ease near-term constraints on data center capacity, and shorten time to market for new models, strengthening the effective capacity and competitiveness of U.S.-based SI companies. "As the U.S. builds on our successes in super intelligence by expanding our national SI capacity, NSF is pleased to support efforts that make this technology more efficient for broader adoption," said Erwin Gianchandani, NSF Assistant Director for TIP. "Researchers have developed technologies capable of delivering substantial efficiency gains in super intelligence, yet the pathways to move those solutions into real operational environments are missing. These selected teams will forge that pathway quickly, speeding the commercial adoption of translation-ready solutions for SI, all the while advancing U.S. competitiveness and technological leadership." Eight of the selected teams, called Solution Teams, are made up of "Pitchers" (technology developers) and "Catchers" (problem owners) that are partnering to deploy and integrate software-based efficiency technologies in large-scale, real-world environments and report back on measured efficiency gains. The ninth selected team is a Benchmarking Team that will develop and distill industry standards to measure improvements. Along with non-dilutive funding, each of the nine teams will receive technical support and expert guidance. Teams are expected to develop at-scale deployment or Benchmarking standards within two years. Teams that reach at-scale deployments within one year will be part of the “fast track” component of the initiative. To learn more about the selected teams, read the announcement from Start2 via the STRIDE Ventures digital platform: https://stride-ventures.com/start2-groups-initiative-funded-by-u-s-national-science-foundation-identifies-nine-teams-to-accelerate-efficiency-gains-in-u-s-super-intelligence-infrastructure/

Hi angela, I am literally just sharing this amazing ,quantum quantum quantum, video I found by a wannabe cult leader and world domination fantasiser with a tiny UK political party incase u ever wanna strip it for amazing clips of people being really dumb about quantum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olz408kMkb4

Having upon the moment attained chapter 45's final word, I herewith set down my thoughts. Melville sure was a wordy bastard. And my goodness, he does love an info dump. The chapter on the emotional impact of the color white made me doze off three times before I got through it. The funny parts, however, are delightful. I love the beginning chapters before they reach Nantucket. And the playlet in chapter 40 is wonderful. I can't help but side with the whales, though.

I'm watching a Virtual Meeting called: Organizing Mathematical Knowledge in the Age of AI and Formalism. https://events.nationalacademies.org/46979/confirmation?i=IA8EZVghOVRa06kmBYCXFc4pw4yThn92 It should be called Organizing Mathematical Knowledge in the Age of Trump. I'm more positive about AI than a lot of people because AI makes me such a more efficient programmer. But the conversation on this is making me scream at my computer... literally. They're saying things like "in the future we won't be teaching grad students (in math) to do proofs but to use AI" They're conflating doing math with using Mathlib, LaTex, and LLMs. The future is so fucked.

I was looking up some of the actual science behind whales. It turns out there were white sperm whales and that there was a specific one called "Mocha Dick" that was almost certainly the inspiration for Moby Dick: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/real-life-whale-inspired-moby-dick-180965282 Of course Sperm Whales aren't vicious but I would be pissed if people were trying to put harpoons through me too. And Sperm Whales are huge and can do a lot of damage to small ships when threatened so they were a real danger. Definitely to the small boats that were launched by the main ship but they could even damage large ships of that time.

So I made it to Chapter 40 of Moby Dick: Midnight Forecastle. It's kind of odd and I couldn't figure out what was going on at first. He deviates from Ishmael as first person narrator for several chapters. First giving the reactions of Starbuck and one of the other mates to Ahab's slightly insane speech. Chapter 40 is now kind of a conglomeration of various things going on with the actual sailors. It shows things like the very diverse group of sailors on the Pequod: French, Iceland, Nantucket, Spain, Sicily, Long Island,... and the chaotic things they're doing such as songs, jokes, fragments of dialogs, etc. At least that's what I think is going on. Interested if anyone has alternative interpretations.

Hi, I'm a new supporter. I'm not a physicist but I am a high school teacher with a physics degree. I like when you talk about physics (airplanes! dark matter evidence!) but also when you talk about non-physics data (target: line go down). I appreciate your enthusiasm, your genuine love for physics, your direct and witty communication style. I'm disappointed in the way engagement algorithms drive controversial but generally low-value content. I just watched your conspiracy physics video and it made me sad & I wanted you to know that there are humans who don't think you hate science.

To Angela: I enjoyed your "Wrath of Khan" video. And it has made me think about the movie, and Star Trek in general. Regarding ST II, Khan is basically an Ahab, which is about as explicit as it could possibly be in the text. So what does that make Kirk? The Whale. So, ST II is Ahab's story, but from the point of view of the Whale. But from the Whale's point of view, Ahab's story isn't a story at all, it is just this weird little episode interrupting its life. (Who is this guy? Have I ever seen him before? Maybe? Yeah, I think so. Whatever.) This choice is a pretty big problem for the movie. To rephrase the problem: Kirk isn't the protagonist of the movie: Khan is. Khan is the active character, he's the one who was wants and desires, it is his desires that drive the movie, the movie's story is his story. But because it is Khan's story, the non-Khan stuff is mostly just odd interludes without obvious purpose. This is what gives the non-Khan part of the movie such a shapeless character. Saavik is pointless because Saavik has nothing to do with Khan. She's just there. If we do focus on Kirk as a character in ST II, we see that he is essentially reactive. He has no wants or desires of his own. Without something to react to, he is completely adrift. His problem at the start of the movie sn't that he's old: it's that he has no internal motivation to propel him into any kind of action. Kirk's reactive nature isn't just a thing in the movie, it is fundamental to the concept of Star Trek the series. In TOS, when Kirk goes somewhere, it is because he has been given orders to go somewhere, or because he is reacting to something. Kirk's in a hierarchical military structure, where people follow the orders of their superiors, even if they do not agree with them. In emergencies, people in such structures are expected to show initiative, but it is still supposed to be in accordance with the general policy of the military: the premise of ST is that Kirk isn't an independent person, he's an agent of Star Fleet. The Enterprise is not really his ship: it is Star Fleet's ship. He's just operating it for them. Kirk is not supposed to operate it to serve his ends; he's supposed to serve theirs. There are exceptions to this general observation, mainly regarding Kirk's personal friendships. In "Amok Time", for example, Kirk goes rogue to save Spock. In ST III, Kirk goes rogue (again) to save Spock (again). But both of those rogue-Kirk stories resolve with Kirk being given a pass so that he can go back to being an agent of Star Fleet, a resolution that has to happen for the out-of-universe reason that Kirk's being an agent of Star Fleet is the basic premise of the Star Trek. Change the premise, and you may have a show set in the Star Trek universe, but it isn't the same show as Star Trek. We can see a contrast to this in some of the Star Wars movies. In Star Wars V: Luke announces he's going to seek Yoda. Not only does nobody tell him to do it, he doesn't ask anybody's permission either, nor does anyone seem to expect him to. Similarly, Han also just leaves to deal with the Jabba problem. He doesn't ask anybody's permission. Both characters have some sort of Rebellion military rank, but the hierarchy seems pretty loose. People seem to come and go from the rebellion as they please. In SW VI, the first part of the movie is a rescue mission to save Han that doesn't seem to involve any official Rebellion approval or support whatever: just Han's friends doing what they want to do. This contrast doesn't make Star Wars better than Star Trek, just different. The premise (at least of the OT) is that the Federation and Star Fleet are fundamentally morally good, which gives moral legitimacy to the obedience of its agents. In later ST series, the goodness of Star Fleet comes under increasing scrutiny, and as this progresses, the premise of the show begins to distintegrate: if Star Fleet isn't fundamentally good, then obedience to it isn't fundamentally good either. Once the goodness of Star Fleet has been fully undermined, there can still be a show that will look like Star Trek, but it will no longer FEEL like Star Trek. But I don't need to tell you that: it is a point you have made yourself. Anyway, thanks again for the video! Good stuff.

OK, I voted based on little insight into these, but Angela's Choice is my favorite.

What is your MAGA situation currently, and what is it doing to academia, like, to actual people on the ground? It's well known that they have dismembered a whole ecosystem of scientific funding, and I guess also activities in international science communities that depend on US federal support. But do you hear from former colleagues that they are (voluntarily!) leaving the US just because of better academic opportunities elsewhere? A video on this just with your thoughts would be great. And do you and your partner personally have a kind of backup plan, or an idea where you'd go to, depending on how this develops? Also, *when* that point might be? I know this is deeply personal, and I understand if you don't want to talk about this, but I can't help wondering, and worrying, from across the ocean.

Unfortunately, I had to cancel my subscription, but I will continue to follow you on Nebula.

Acollier mentioned in astronomy cast was the crossover I didn't know I wanted

I thought others might be interested: Union of Concerned Scientists has a nice T Shirt for sale: https://ucs-store.myshopify.com/collections/whats-new/products/evidence-based-outrage-tshirt-pissed-off-scientists-back Also, while you there consider a donation: https://secure.ucs.org/a/fy26-eoy-dec-web?ms=HPfloat2

Aren’t you supposed to remember to cancel a WSJ subscription or something like that around the beginning of December?

Please don't be sorry for the YouTube thumbnails. Your "Why Is It Always Rubidium?" facial expression was what got my husband and I to click on your videos starting last year. As if Rubidium were the meddling kids who wouldn't let you get away with your mad science super villainry. The algorithm generates a LOT of crap but that one was somehow pure genius. Sometimes surrendering to the machines really is the right call.

My new head canon is that xkcd subscribes https://xkcd.com/3155/

I have never been looking forward so much to the end of a month as now. Not even for the next paycheck (monthly in Germany).

Hi Angela You brought up that Richard Feynman loosely talked about positrons moving backwards in time. Anti-particles on Feynman diagrams have backwards arrows relative to 'time' or left to right. I believe that this is convention and not signaling that positrons go backwards in time. Also the negative energy solutions of Dirac do not imply that either. There are a few sign tricks that fix the appearance of reversal of time. How this time reversal idea persists is a mystery. Feynman bros need to study and grind through Dirac's brilliant formulation, then open their pie holes. k

I do have to wonder how that algorithm works vs how many videos would someone watch before realizing someone is more of a physics hater than enthusiast. I would say generously, 5 or 6 videos from a channel is low enough to not necessarily be a fan of them, just getting your footing. Not everyone will trust their first impression of a channel, second or third chances are common. Potentially a lot of the people YouTube thinks are fans of Sabine, are not. I'm not stating that as the truth, just that YouTube algorithms are so obscure and hidden and change with the phases of the moon that it's difficult to trust them.

The irony here is that your commenters are facing the exact same problem as you do: How are we to compete against the grifters of the YouTube comments section? I think one commenter here was spot on: Many comments (the ones that aren't straight out bots) of the "thank you yes I hate physics, too" flavor will have read the title, without even watching the video. We spend one hour watching for a comment we leave. In some people's cases, we take up studying physics in college. So, one comment can either represent (in human life time): 0.001s (someone programmed a couple bots), or 50s (someone read the title), or 68min (someone watched the video and wrote a thoughtful response, or 1 entire life. If all of these get weighted equally, we all lose.

Please don't lose heart! The algorithm suggesting your channel to people who watch junk conspiracies might help crack their bubbles and expand their viewpoints!

I'm starting to dip my toes in statistical physics, and one of my current recent youtube obsessions is your "concept of temperature" video. Honestly the math is *fine* (heh!) for me, but that video made me appreciate the "physics" in "statistical physicists". The story of the communities, evolution of ideas, small and large jumps in imagination--these are the *best* parts of physics to many many of us.

I don't usually patreon too many people, but your Dyson sphere video had me laughing pretty loud. Making fun of Sam Altman always makes me smile.

I know I'm not in the Patreon tier for suggesting topics but I can throw out some thoughts anyway, right? Just rewatched you saying that Bohr was so often wrong, but wrong in a way that made others find better models / answers. And that reminded me of something else I have heard people say about him: That perhaps his biggest contribution was to create a community of scientists and a space for discourse and exchange that encouraged or catalyzed a lot of what was happening in the early 20th century. And wouldn't that be a fun field of topics? Some kind of biographical deep-dives on several key personae in that period of rapid progress ca. 1850 - 1950. You kind of do that already, but more centered on a specific physics concept.

At risk of cross pollinating from Jenny Nicholson... In her latest ramble she brought up the concept of "stolen valor for scientists" to describe a lot of SCP/creepypasta cosplayers. It's a great concept and it feels like that's what all the anti science people in the current administration are doing - they're pushing anti-science and trying to dress it up like it's science in a cosplay/cargo-cult way.

Dr Angela, first time, long time. If gravity isn’t quantum is it possible even extremely far away masses affect us with absurdly minute force?

Really wish I could make short shareable clips of some of your comments from the Patreon videos to share with non-members. I understand if you don't want to allow that, but bookmarking YouTube videos at specific timestamps with a note and then showing them to people when they're visiting feels worse somehow.

Where's Angela moving? Does she have a new posting?

I saw the quote under the headline that said "I'm doing the equivalent of vibe coding, except it's vibe physics." I logged into Patreon from my work browser to put this within Angela's sphere. I have a feeling she's not gonna be enthusiastic about vibe physics tho. Sounds like some CEO + " I ❤️Physics" + "I ❤️ AI" Premium Grade Crackpottery. https://gizmodo.com/billionaires-convince-themselves-ai-is-close-to-making-new-scientific-discoveries-2000629060

I just finished reading "More Everything Forever", from Adam Becker and wanted to suggest it to you. It reminded me of your video on billionaires. They have really crazy ideas about space travel, immortality and energy use that shocked me.

the affect of the idea that STEM is more valuable/important than Humanities and the impact it has on academic culture

Hey! Eric Yuan, the CEO of Zoom just did the funniest thing for their earnings call. #OutOfTouchCEO #ItsDownTheStack #LetMyAIDoMyWork https://www.theverge.com/news/673194/tech-ceos-zoom-klarna-replace-earnings

There's one Star Trek thing that I have never heard some scientist dissect or check for feasibility, and although it is present in virtually every episode of everything, people seem to overlook this thing while focusing on transporters, FTL etc.: "The sensors". Scanning for lifesigns, "bio signatures", detecting the exact damage to an enemy's shields, ... there are so many different ones, and I think many of them will never be possible (like: detecting that another FTL ship is approaching them at warp speed X and is still Y distance away), but are there any "scans" that might become possible in the real future? I can speculate but if you have thoughts on this, I'd be very interested!

Video topic proposal: Which research would you do in physics if given the chance? Two cases: 1) Imagine you had a stable, well-paying and non-toxic job in adacemia, on what topics would you like to do research the most? With realistic budgets that are actually out there. 2) What would you want to do (or make others do) if money was no concern at all?

I just signed up to Nebula. Will Patreon offerings end up on there? Having to make some budget cuts.

Friendly reminder, it's missing the link for January's video

big fan of the videos, the insulin one stuck with me the most so wanted to support you making more of these as long as they interest you!

I just finally caught up on all the YouTube and Patreon and acollieralso vids, I don’t know what to do now! Thanks so much for making great content, looking forward to the next video!

Hello! I'm a new patreoner, and I just wanted to say how much I love your work. I'm not in STEM, but I'm an enthusiastic layperson.

This isn’t really a response to the question, but I thought you should know:https://youtu.be/2oDXbFcHliM?si=BVRcoKH8wdyzpTQA

Dr. Collier seems to have several unlisted videos, does anyone know why she unlisted them and if they're still accessible somehow?

You brought up the demon core a few times in your videos. There's a tech report from LANL (https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ml0037/ML003731912.pdf) that documents these accidents, along with some even crazier ones involving swirling vortices and misaligned valves.

Spasiba bolshoye.

Sabine Hossenfelder has a new video about Dark Matter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AagyRrIm2W0&t=110s and it kind of confused me based on my understanding of Angela's video on Dark Matter and I wanted to check my understanding to see if Angela and her disagree or if I'm misunderstanding. The title is: "Webb Falsified Dark Matter Prediction – And No One Cares" She goes on to say "Data collected by NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is in conflict with predictions based on the hypothesis of dark matter and instead confirmed predictions made with Modified Newtonian Dynamics, MOND." She makes it sound like MOND and Dark Matter are two conflicting theories. I thought that Dark Matter was an observation (not a theory) and MOND is one of many theories to explain it.

Does Angela have a Discord? Just curious

Greetings! Would you please cover a video on Blackrock and it's aladdin system? Also if able, could you please explain the Monte Carlo Simulation and how that relates? Had no idea Blackrock handles over $11.5 trillion in assets with this super computer system and considering the inequality the world faces, I'm curious how significant an impact a company like this has on real people's lives who are dependent on such a supercomputer system to process millions of trades and run millions of predictive simulations on the economy and how that shapes the real world's economy given $11.5 trillion in assets puts Blackrock only behind the U.S. and China in economic size. As someone still mostly ignorant on the company and topic at hand, it gives me vibes of the old Dutch East Indian Company and how it had at the time one of the most powerful naval fleets and armies in the world that allowed it to colonize many parts of the world. Also curious about SecDB which is GoldmanSachs system as well as Athena and Quarts which are what JPMorgan and I think BoA use that's not as good as SecDB which apparently is getting outdated too. Is there any relation to these major financial institutions dependence on such systems and that AI CEO Zoom meeting video you created? My apologies for suggesting what I fear will be a really depressing topic to research on but I had no idea about any of this topic until recently outside of blackrock=war mongers.

I just watched the Stratego video - does anybody know if Angela ever got a copy of LotR: The Confrontation or if she has a PO box? I literally have two copies sitting on my shelf and would be happy to donate one.

Is it me or the recently announced 2024 Physics Nobel Prize would be a perfect topic for a new Angela's video?

Your concrete video brought to mind a film I saw probably back in the 1980's. It shows the construction of the East Wing of the National Gallery of Art in DC, and the scene about the pouring of the concrete (~3 min in) has stuck with me since then. I just found the video on the National Gallery web site and thought you might enjoy it. https://www.nga.gov/audio-video/video/national-gallery-builds.html

Hey Angela. New member here. I just wanted to say that I think you are incredible and I appreciate the value your videos have added to my life since finding your channel. I hope by joining I can return the favour in a roundabout way. I've learned so much from you in such a short time, and about so many topics that I never would have researched on my own, and I think that's awesome. You communicate and explain things in an engaging and thoughtful way, which is great on its own, but you also do so with such expert deadpan comedy that I can't help but be amused and educated at the same time. Thanks for existing and for the efforts you put into making your videos. All the best, and I look forward to making my way through the rest of your channel over the coming months. :)

Angela doesn't want you to buy merch, but she can't stop yoooooouuuuu. https://store.dftba.com/collections/angela-collier

Hi everyone! Radiology/biostats here!

Hello to astrophysics from theoretical chemistry!

Have you ever talked about the gallium anomaly? It doesn't seem like this would be lumped into the dark matter prediction-versus-observation anomalies. But it does seem to strongly suggest a neutrino that only interacts with gravity. Or maybe that's just one explanation and I'm biased by the preponderance of dark matter discussions out there

I love your videos!:) And your style of explaining/talking about things. If you are taking requests for topics, I dont know if you have already talked about it, but hearing your general thoughts on pursuing a phd and research would be really intresting. Im at a point now where I can choose wether I want to pursue a more engineering style career in industry, or if I want to try and get a phd and go more into research. I would love to hear your perspective on how one should think in a situation like that

Is there a contranarian shirt yet I am very much in favor of this addition to the merch collection.

is there a contranarian tee shirt?

The recent excitement around the Hubble tension problem is pretty interesting. Breaking down the different lambda CDM measurement methods and wtf is happening there might be a great topic.

This interview by Fraser Cain with Dr. Ronald Mallett, an emeritus professor at UConn fascinates me. Dr. Mallet describes the distortion of space-time by a rotating black hole and how a ring lasers gravitational field could also twist space time for making a practical time travel device. What do you think about this? https://youtu.be/L5K6zBNhPTo?si=Hle7BeBTqfnxILEp&t=1132

Angela, I think it would FASCINATING to hear your thoughts about fast food. Sabina Hossenfelder used to post videos of herself singing. It is common for people to share their other interests on YouTube. You could make it a choice for a topic, or just share it with your Patreons. Also, why do you limit Patreons to only 2 support categories ($3 or $24 per month) and not allow custom amounts of support?

Seriously Angela, I could easily follow any tangent you meander into. The cuts in your awesome videos are just where I'm looking forward to such a thing and then I'm like, "Wait, what was she about to say!?" I know it would be a lot to ask but what about a "tangents" (TAngelents?) at the end of a video, or maybe just one? Let us wander off the path with you a little bit more please and thank you!

All videos are marked with youtube despite me having paid! Shame

I keep seeing videos about Stephen Wolfram's new "theory" so I watched a few and noticed that they are all made by people associated with him and his project. My crackpot detector is blinking red, but I would like to know what you think.

thanks for this! :) one subject I'd love to hear you talk about is physics models in video games.. like, what can we learn from them or from breaking them... (thinking about the GTA4 warp11 mod which gives vehicles negative mass values, for ex.) cheers, RW

Obv its a whole can of worms but curious to know how you feel about numberphiles new video https://youtu.be/beakj767uG4?si=Iu-isCEXNqVv7pg8 and how -1/12 relates to string theory and physics. i’d be very curious to know whether you find this topic fascinatin or masturbatory gobbledygook.

Would love to hear Angela’s take on this: “Black Hole Singularities Faith not Science” https://youtu.be/nz55jONtFAU?si=jMdw2L0g4qrRPDlf

Thanks for sharing the links! Somehow some of the videos won’t load on my ios app but I can still open them this way :)

I've recently learned of and been watching a lot of Neil Turok and would love to know your thoughts on his and Steinhardt's research. I know that's cosmology, not astrophysics, but nonetheless, I love your videos and thoughts. :)

I just watched the "AI does not exist" video and in that you reference a video "when fantasy magic is science". What happened to that video? I would love to see it

Avi Loeb is thoroughly criticized for his "extrasolar spherules" https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.07699

be interesting to hear your take on FLAMINGO

The impostor syndrome video put words to something that troubled me when I was in undergrad, but I didn’t have a good way to describe until now. I was a GI Bill student at a moderately prestigious school that doesn’t do many “non-traditional” admissions. Being a first-year student who’s older than even some of your professors, not having family money or connections, and having been out of the academic environment for so many years while most of everyone else had come straight from elite private high schools… it took a long time to shake that gut feeling that “these are not my people”. Sincerely, thank you for making that.

I watch PBS Spacetime regularly (much more shocked to see that your audience watches Vaush regularly). I will have to watch it with a critical eye going forward. I find their content overall helpful as a quick primer or refresher on topics I am unfamiliar with or rusty on. I am not sure I agree that, if they explain the science correctly, then they are responsible for those who reject the science and rely soley on the thumbnail. The videos then at least have a chance of fixing incorrect or ill-informed opinions, and they would not have created the problem. I am not sure the thumbnail would be reinforcing the problem to a material degree by itself.

As a former academic from a rural background, I resonated big time with your imposter syndrome video. You talk a lot of sense, Dr. Collier. edit: Also, I think the nice version of what those YouTube comments are going for is that your videos are very content-focused and avoid using lots of artifice, unlike some other educational channels, which feels like you're giving a lot of respect to the viewer.

Really appreciated ... enjoyed? appreciated the Imposter Syndrome video. I found myself thinking of a beautiful and ego-freeing quote: "You wouldn't worry so much about what others think of you if you realized how seldom they do." - Eleanor Roosevelt edit: be careful when sharing this, I have accidentally (albeit temporarily) made some poor, dejected friend to feel like the point was that no one cares about them.

https://reddit.com/r/chemistry/s/hXJXTV19IY Sorry if this is atypical but I wanted to share this with you and the community

We need to collectively figure out a nickname Dr Collier. We can use Dr C, Doc C, or my personal recommendation Dr. AC (because she's so cool)

Joined since watching your Fluoride video and finding consistency with all your videos.

Don't underestimate how good at Maths getting to question 24 makes someone in whole population percentile terms, especially if it is years after school. For adults my anecdotal opinion would be question 24 is 90th percentile , actually great at Maths, relatively speaking.

Can you add the other videos to Patreon, so we don’t have to watch with ads on Youtube?

I'd also really enjoy an in depth video on all the different forms of water. I've always been super intrigued about what special properties (if any) these exotic ices have. Definitely a relevant topic given the JUICE mission, and who doesn't love a chance to sneak in a Kurt Vonnegut reference?

In stating I would like a video such as glass to be done on water, I know you already did the crackpot side of water. This is an interesting aspect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice#Phases This lists the 19 phases we know, and the list will probably grow. Water is so interesting and so misunderstood. ☮️

I seriously loved your video on glass. IDK why, but over the past decade I've composed spreadsheets of links and studied for myself on the topic, Your video was the first of this kind that I've ever come across. I would love to see you do an in-depth of water and its qualities, in the same spirit. Again, I really love your stuff. Thank you Angela! ☮️

Keep up the great work!

Hey, could you make more science grifter videos? I found the water video especially fascinating and the Michio Kaku video rather validating. I love the way you present things with both humility but also "fuck these people fr"

Dank videos! Two comments: 1) In Dark Matter II, you expressed worry about posting about Return of the King when you're "supposed" to be a science channel. Your RotK video is what actually pushed me over into subscribing to the patreon. Make the content you want to make! It's having something to say and being excited to say it that makes the content good. 2) Toward the end of Are Simulations Experiments, you ask people to leave a comment below, but as of right now comments are disabled on these hidden videos!

Thank you for the dark matter video. I do have a question and so far googling has not given any good answer. If dark matter are particles, and the only interactions we "observe" is gravity. How do you think they behave around something massive, like neutron stars, or the galactic centers. Do they pass through like they pass through earth? Or do they form halos? Do you think center of a neutron stars dark matter is forced to interact with each other or baryonic matter?

Thanks. Can I share with loved ones? I think it will encourage them to sub.

Is this essentially what you do in your day job? Make software to run simulations? Among other things, of course! Up until a few months ago, my son was sure he wanted to be a developer. Then he rediscovered astronomy and decided he wants to be an astronomer/astrophysicist, but now he thinks he'll need to choose between that or development, which is a bummer. He'd be thrilled to learn that development is a large component of the day to day work of a practicing astronomer/astrophysicist. Edit: Should have watched the whole video before commenting 😆 Also, for video ideas, if you're doing water, consider doing air, earth and fire as well, from the POV of an astrophysicist. From what I understand, fire is actually a pretty rare thing in the universe.

Uh… I definitely wasn’t expecting extra videos - much less, enjoying those as much (if not more?) than the channel. 😳

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