When I was growing up, we had discovery channel. That sparked my intrinsic curiousity. My daughter has that intrinsic motivation as well, but only for k-pop now. She likes youtube videos and she likes when I tell her about science stuff. Maybe I can combine that by recommending her some good youtube channels.
Since I didn’t see many creators who are women, here are a few recommendations:
The Space Gal (Emily Calandrelli)
Huge if True (Cleo Abram)
Up and Atom (Jade Tan-Holmes)
Emily the Engineer (content can be pretty rough - profanity and simulated danger)
Simone Giertz
Sometimes, I think science educators aren’t political enough.
Cleo Abram’s interviews with Nvidia’s CEO, Zuck and Sam Altman are her only interviews to date, and they all paint them in a good light without being critical of their work. I get wanting to make it to the top, but simping for the capitalist elite is just not a good look in my book, especially when science communication should try to minimize bias.
I also remember her video about John Deere last year, giving the impression the company is only doing so much good in the world…
Yeah, she has faced a lot of criticism in the last few years; some of it undeserved, some entirely deserved.
Yeah, she’s been doing more sponsored content lately, it seems like.