Word Association Game! With Derek Muller from Veritasium

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In this episode, Jayde puts fellow Aussie science YouTuber Derek Muller – from the mega-popular science channel, Veritasium – to a reflexive vocab test! Derek clearly has science on the mind.... but is that because of Jayde's leading questions – all pointing towards famous science personalities? Find out what reminds Derek of: Bill Nye the Science Guy, Destin Sandler (Smarter Everyday), Henry Reich (Minute Physics), CGP Grey, Brady Haran and Neil DeGrasse Tyson. Interview recorded at the NASA Carbon Panel in Washington, DC, in February 2015. This video is presented by Jayde Lovell, shot and edited by Bec Susan Gill. LINKS TO SCIENCE YOUTUBERS Derek Muller (Veritasium): https://www.youtube.com/user/1veritasium and his second channel https://www.youtube.com/user/2veritasium Destin Sandler (Smarter Everyday): https://www.youtube.com/user/destinws2 Henry Reich (Minute Physics): https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics CGP Grey: https://www.youtube.com/user/CGPGrey Brady Haran: http://www.bradyharan.com/ MORE ABOUT DEREK MULLER (AKA VERITASIUM) Derek Muller (born 9 November 1982) is an Australian-Canadian science communicator, filmmaker and television presenter. He is best known for creating the YouTube channel Veritasium. Muller has appeared as a television presenter on the Australian television program Catalyst since 2008. Muller was born in Traralgon, a city in regional Victoria, Australia, and moved to Vancouver, Canada, when he was two. In 2004, Muller graduated from Queen's University in Ontario with a B.Sc in Engineering Physics and completed a PhD in physics education research from the University of Sydney in 2008 with a thesis, Designing Effective Multimedia for Physics Education. Muller has been listed as team member of the Australian television program Catalyst since 2008. In January 2011 Muller created the YouTube channel Veritasium, the focus of which is "addressing counter-intuitive concepts in science, usually beginning by discussing ideas with members of the public". As of 26 August 2015 it had 219 video uploads, 2,784,942 subscribers and 199,010,498 video views. Muller's works have been featured at Scientific American, Wired, Gizmodo, and i09. Since 2011 Muller has continued to appear on Catalyst, reporting scientific stories from around the globe, and on Australian television network Ten as the 'Why Guy' on the Breakfast program. In May 2012, he gave a TEDxSydney talk using the subject of his thesis.[13] In July 2012, Muller created a second YouTube channel, 2veritasium. Muller uses the new platform to produce editorial based videos that discuss such topics as film making, viewer reactions to popular Veritasium. As of 17 November 2015 the channel had 194 video uploads, 3,029,984 subscribers and 229,533,537 video views. In 2015 he presented the documentary Uranium – Twisting the Dragon’s Tail, which aired in July/August on several public television stations across the globe. SCIQ ON THE YOUNG TURKS Produced by Jayde Lovell and Bec Susan Gill. ScIQ is a partner of the TYT Network. Follow SciQ on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/ScIQ_TYT Follow SciQ on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sciq.tyt?ref=hl Follow SciQ on Tumblr: http://dssscience.tumblr.com/ Follow Jayde on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jaydelovell Follow Jayde on Instagram: www.instagram.com/jaydelovell Follow Jayde on the interwebs: www.jaydelovell.com Follow Bec on Twitter: https://twitter.com/becsusangill Follow Bec on Instagram: https://instagram.com/becsusangill Follow Bec on Tumblr: http://becsusangill.tumblr.com/ CONTACT For enquiries – please email bec@tytnetwork.com or jayde@tytnetwork.com