It is an interesting concept to make science fun in our current pop culture.

It's so fun to watch someone watch and react to this beautiful video for the first time. It makes me feel very proud of Tim Blais.

The singing was pretty good, but WOW was the video visually busy! If the intent was to convey information about finding exoplanets, they failed (IMO). The constant video shifts were too distracting. If, on the other hand, their goal was just to try to stimulate interest in science, then their attempt is very laudable. As a retired chemist, I am appalled at the lack of science knowledge in our society. Any effort to address that is worthy of praise.

@BennoWitter

6 жыл бұрын

Since most of Tim's videos deal with more complex issues, like string theory, the discovery of the higgs boson, CRIPR Cas9, etc. I don't thing the main goal is education of non-scientists here. It's primarily aimed at people with at least some knowledge of science. If you don't understand what's going on (like me half of the time), you can always enjoy the music though. I've picked this particular video, because it's the best musically and the topic of exoplanets might be something most people heard about in the media. I'm thinking about adding another A Capella Science clip about "the arrow of time (entropy)". It's a concept that can be easily explained (you can't make a scrambled egg whole again) and the video was shot in a very interesting way. It's based on Billy Joel's "For the longest time".

@COMALiteJ

3 жыл бұрын

As a retired chemist, you should check out Tim’s videos on various aspects of chemistry, including (but not limited to): • “The Molecular Shape of You” - parody of Ed Sheeran - starts with an electron and proton forming a hydrogen atom, goes through orbitals, to carbon, to benzene rings, to polymers, to complex organic molecules, to lifeforms, and shows how it’s all made possible by the electron orbitals from Diraq’s equations, _etc._ - all set to a modern pop song. • “Evo-Devo” - parody of “Despacito” - basically starts where the above leaves off and brings us into the world of evolutionary developmental (evo-devo) biology. • “CRISPR Cas-9, Bring Me a Gene” - parody of “Mister Sandman, Bring Me a Dream,” about the amazing and terrifying potential of precise gene editing made possible by CRISPR. This one is arguably Tim’s most musically intricate non-collaborative video to date. It starts off simple, but progress musically through decades of musical styles and genres, ending with dozens of tracks. • “Nanobot” - a parody of Havana - molecular machines both natural and artificial, including the ones that we basically are.

@annesmith9642

2 жыл бұрын

I think one of the main points is that it's enjoyable to watch over and over and over again and you absorb more information each time.