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    Safety Third is a weekly show hosted by William Osman, NileRed, The Backyard Scientist, Allen Pan, and a couple other UA-cam "Scientists". Sometimes we have guests, sometimes it's just us, but always: safety is our number three priority.

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  • @TheGhostOfFredZeppelin
    @TheGhostOfFredZeppelin Рік тому +290

    Kevin saying "My mom doesn't like you because you talk over me too much" while Will was talking over him was just perfect

  • @It-b-Blair
    @It-b-Blair Рік тому +379

    Nigel is amazing. Pure lawful neutral. So dry, so funny.

    • @PaulMab9
      @PaulMab9 Рік тому +55

      Which is hilarious, given that his personal history is 100% chaotic neutral.

    • @lynnashley6247
      @lynnashley6247 Рік тому +2

      Nigel is also my favorite.

    • @legallydoodled9783
      @legallydoodled9783 Рік тому +16

      Nigel is just an entertaining person because he’s always so emotionless while doing crazy stuff in his lab on his normal channel so seeing him just do random stuff and seeing him just react to stuff just entertaining in a weird way

    • @WangleLine
      @WangleLine Рік тому

      Oh yes

  • @g.michealyounger.5061
    @g.michealyounger.5061 Рік тому +142

    One of these days Nigels gonna have a really good story about drinking chemicals.

    • @CRneu
      @CRneu Рік тому +22

      technically we're all drinking chemicals.

    • @TheGhostOfFredZeppelin
      @TheGhostOfFredZeppelin Рік тому +5

      He probably has a lot just that he can't remember them because of the chemicals he drank

    • @chinechine79
      @chinechine79 3 місяці тому

      Because he forgets

  • @caseyleirer9677
    @caseyleirer9677 Рік тому +91

    Just got my safety third sticker pack in, and they look great on my cat.

  • @dapz
    @dapz Рік тому +16

    I can see where you are coming from when you say that teachers should be people who do practical stuff in the industry, but the most important thing about teaching is being able to communicate well. You can be the smartest engineer who ever engineered that has both practical and theoretical knowledge about every field, but if you aren't able to communicate what you know to those that don't have this knowledge, then you would make for a bad teacher. Now sure, there are a percentage of teachers aren't very good at communication. And maybe the people who make it furthest in an industry might be on average better communicators, but I don't think that having teachers with the most practical knowledge of an industry would fix the education system as a whole.

    • @aljazslemc9569
      @aljazslemc9569 8 місяців тому

      You're absolutely right, communication is key. And the trickiest part is understanding a concept in a way where you can explain it in 3 different ways to make super everyone gets it. Funny enough one of my didactics teachers said that it's usually about 50% people who love explaining things and 50% people who have the best understanding of a subject. The tricky part is compensating for your weaknesses, that what makes a good teacher. I think the problem is a lot of teachers didn't really struggle with the subject they teach. If you went from struggling student to master, you know what's hard and unnecessary, what needs more explanation, what you had problems with and what you didn't. And any teacher that loves their subject will probably not want to cut things out. Like asking a parent to choose their least favourite child to sacrifice

    • @invention64
      @invention64 7 місяців тому

      So true, a teacher's job is more to teach you how to learn.

  • @yogtheterrible
    @yogtheterrible Рік тому +175

    "they should stop teaching x because nobody uses it" is just about every every single topic except english, or whatever your native language happens to be. If you don't go into chemistry you don't need to know anything about chemistry. If you don't go into science you don't need to know anything about science. Most people certainly don't need to know welding. The reason why we learn most of the stuff in school is to give us a broad knowledge, a base knowledge of most topics that we can expand upon later. There's always room for improvement but it's beyond unhelpful to say that because YOU don't use something that means it shouldn't be taught.

    • @JordiVanderwaal
      @JordiVanderwaal Рік тому +6

      If you don't talk or write or read, you also don't need to learn English (or your native language). xD

    • @johnsmith-zr2br
      @johnsmith-zr2br Рік тому +14

      I didn't get that out of the conversation, what I think they are asking is to have more practical examples as close to the real world as a justification and less rote memorization. learning is an inate skill, and humans (and especially children) are pretty well prepared to exloration. Kindling their curiosity and making learning accessible is the only task that needs to be done, while they describe some annoying, useless, demotivating experience. Teaching is a thing where you can indeed do more harm than good - for example I loved physics, read books and had a lot of fun with rube goldberg style contraptions, played phun (algoodo) and similar games... but then physics classes started, and in half a year all my enthusiasm dissapeared. If instead of annoying class I was left alone with a book - I am absolutely sure I would've got further on my own. The assumption that kids need to be force-fed data decided by committe without any regards to interests and intrinsic motivation - this is what's beyond unhelpful. man, I'm still bitter and I get safety third guys all too well *shrug*

    • @kerolokerokerolo
      @kerolokerokerolo Рік тому +17

      Studying History enables you to understand the world you live in and how it works. It's a major study every intelligent human being should and would have to learn about.

    • @enbytails
      @enbytails Рік тому +3

      @@kerolokerokerolo i agree, i feel like having a general understanding of world history is important for us to understand the world we live in and the problems we currently have. it's a useful knowledge for sure.

    • @richardhansen1289
      @richardhansen1289 Рік тому

      By year 10 in school you should probably have a pretty good Idea of what jobs you would like to work in, so the fact that we’re required to take english all 4 years doesn’t make much sense for the people who want to be anything else other than a writer.

  • @TheEnoEtile
    @TheEnoEtile Рік тому +19

    STEM people really need to take the humanities more seriously. A history education is important. However the way history is taught at the lower levels is counter productive and unimportant. A good history education is instructive on the consequences of actions and helps a student learn practical critical thinking skills. Learning history isn't about memorizing dates or specific events its about understanding and connecting events. It's about having a basis for understanding why things are the way they are. You can not be adequately informed without a basic knowledge of history.

    • @OriamRepus
      @OriamRepus Рік тому +5

      Also, a lot of the content taught at lower levels is about learning how to research and write a paper. It really doesn't matter what the paper was about.

    • @TheEnoEtile
      @TheEnoEtile Рік тому +2

      @@OriamRepus yeah in high school if youre lucky and freshman/sophomore of college . But in grade school it's mostly just memorization which is bad. They should focus more on how events connect together and causes and effects. Its more useful and the bonus is that's also easier to retain.

    • @eggi4443
      @eggi4443 Рік тому +2

      @@TheEnoEtile where I live it's always just memorization. throughout the entirety of primary school, middle school and high school it's just memorizing dates names that don't seem to connect to anything. it's a mess and I was always terrible at it.

    • @TheEnoEtile
      @TheEnoEtile Рік тому +1

      @@eggi4443 it's being taught wrong then

  • @linden6352
    @linden6352 Рік тому +33

    My school's business teacher is a former IBM executive who retired to a mansion about 45 minutes from my school and picked up teaching business at our school as something to do. He's absolutely the best teacher not because he's good at teaching as a profession, but because he's so knowledgable about business that he's inherently good at teaching it.

    • @mujtabaalam5907
      @mujtabaalam5907 Рік тому

      Does he teach at a public school? Does he have any teaching credentials?

    • @peachierose3356
      @peachierose3356 Рік тому

      damn, so lucky! learning from an expert :)

  • @scotttapper4357
    @scotttapper4357 Рік тому +48

    Canada in WW1 is actually really interesting and they did a lot, they also committed so many war crimes that the Geneva convention was updated because of Canada’s actions

    • @LostLargeCats
      @LostLargeCats Рік тому +6

      @@cmmartti you don't even want to know how they used maple syrup...

    • @scotttapper4357
      @scotttapper4357 Рік тому +15

      @@cmmartti They tended not to take prisoners, they would allow the Germans to surrender then chuck hand grenades at them, stuff like that, Canadians fought in some of the worst battles as well

  • @mateo9944
    @mateo9944 Рік тому +60

    Calculus was the first time I felt like I actually understood math. Everything up to that point was memorizing patterns. Maybe I had good teachers or I’m just weird.

    • @thatguy431
      @thatguy431 Рік тому +3

      Dude same, though. My calc teacher was a beast, for real.

    • @junoismad
      @junoismad Рік тому +3

      same! everything before calc just felt like memorising and just recognising patterns to solve problems, it was boring and repetetive. calculus was like a blow of fresh air for me

    • @inderdeepsingh5498
      @inderdeepsingh5498 Рік тому +1

      I had the exact same experience. I didn't hate math before Calc, but I definitely fell in love with it after learning Calc. It felt like all these little dots of knowledge I had in my head got connected

  • @vintyprod
    @vintyprod Рік тому +12

    “Oysters were popping off” is a really funny statement lol

  • @snuffybox
    @snuffybox Рік тому +9

    Its insane listing to Will reading the eigen vector and eigan value wiki and understanding it and hearing him read it thinking "yep thats what they are" and then right as he finishes he says that it didn't explain what it is.

    • @zacozacoify
      @zacozacoify Рік тому

      Yeah it seemed like a good explanation to me. It does require understanding that a matrix is a transformation though.

    • @countotuscany7061
      @countotuscany7061 Рік тому

      yeah same. I did just finish a semester of Linear Algebra last week though ;)

  • @nawalrashid1174
    @nawalrashid1174 Рік тому +3

    I lived in Canada for a little while as a kid and the only thing I remember was learning about this guy Terry Fox who ran across Canada to raise awareness for cancer, I’m not sure if he was a big deal all over Canada or just where I used to live, but I thought he was a household name there or maybe it was cause I only saw a small glimpse of Canadian life.

  • @hi__im_zack4890
    @hi__im_zack4890 Рік тому +2

    I've always been a firm believer that you don't understand something untell you can teach it. I thought I knew some content pretty well and then I became a TA, and it is incredible how good a class of confused students is at finding the gaps in my knowledge. It really forces you as the teacher to move away from having knowledge and towards problem solving and figuring things out. And my favorite statagy to use when teaching is to just explain my thought process in figuring things out, like showing why it makes sense to do some weird seemingly out of place step. I've noticed that it is exactly the way many technical youtube videos are structured (like 3blue1brown videos).

  • @LamGK
    @LamGK Рік тому +3

    Good educators are few and far between. I'm in my junior year of undergrad and am finishing up Organic Chemistry 2 this semester. My lab professor is new this semester and he worked in the pharmaceutical industry for 40 years and has had many breakthroughs over his career. If every professor was as good of a teacher as he is, school would be much more enjoyable and worthwhile.

  • @TrancorWD
    @TrancorWD Рік тому +1

    You guys hit the nail on the head on teaching concepts vs applied.
    I use trig, algebra, linear algebra, and other matrix transformations daily at work and in my free time
    course I'm over here writing shader code for real time graphics.
    rotation matricies into normal vectors to derive the dot product from the point in space to know if the pixel is being lit by the lights in real time.
    but heck, its all abstract math, just code, you give me a piece of paper and tell me to decompose a matrix, I have no clue

  • @HarryScott673
    @HarryScott673 Рік тому +2

    william secretly trying to start an oyster cult

  • @alecheiser1333
    @alecheiser1333 Рік тому

    So one of my absolute favorite teachers was my auto tech teacher in high-school. He was a super experienced mechanic and he decided he wanted to teach kids his trade and took a massive pay cut to do so. He literally just wanted us to learn automotive stuff. The only things we 'learned' from the book were jammed into a few weeks and he only did it because the school system made him. He wanted us to be hands on, he helped us (those of us who actually had our own cars anyway) build and fix our own cars. like part of the curriculum was to take apart and rebuild an engine, and there were like a dozen or so v6's that were donated to the school system that we would use, BUT if you had a car that you wanted to build, he would help you and teach you how to build your own engine. Obviously you had to pay for the parts yourself, but he literally just wanted to teach younger people how to do mechanics.

  • @kola3880
    @kola3880 Рік тому +7

    theres a 100% increase of pets in this episode of Saftey Third (podcast)

  • @richardchen3283
    @richardchen3283 Рік тому +2

    3blue1brown has a great series of videos on this (eigenvectors and eigenvalues). If you represent the transformation as a matrix (M), M * v maps a vector v from its old value to its new value. This new position could be anywhere and depends on M. The neat thing about eigenvectors is that the direction of the vector after applying the transformation remains unchanged, so the new value is just a scale factor off from the old value. This scale factor is the corresponding eigenvalue.

  • @egg0lina
    @egg0lina Рік тому +2

    have my physical chemistry final next week and really connected to this episode about being lost with derivatives

  • @thenoblerot
    @thenoblerot Рік тому +1

    I used to work in an 'institution' that served a 'just add sugar and water' lemonade mix. It was disgusting. Fluorescent yellow and tasted like citric acid with a fake lemon scent. I'm absolutely convinced it was also sold as a cleaner. It was packaged in the same type of jug as janitorial supplies

  • @legomanc4555
    @legomanc4555 Рік тому +5

    Former history major here. While I switched my major to a science from history, I still believe teaching kids history is important, primarily because it is beneficial to be politically knowledgable and having an extensive knowledge of history is key to being so. To address William's comment, of "What power do i have to do what hitler did," while, no you may never be Hitler, it was people like myself and anyone reading this who brought Hitler to power. The saying "Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it," is significantly deeper than most percieve.

  • @TheMemeBorrower.
    @TheMemeBorrower. Рік тому +7

    Watching this just after getting my college acceptance lol.
    (I’ve been avoiding school for 3 years.)

    • @mf--
      @mf-- Рік тому

      As long as it is not arts, you will probably be fine. Make extra payments if you have student loans. Have a hobby.

    • @partypandamonium9116
      @partypandamonium9116 Рік тому +3

      Congratulations!

    • @TheMemeBorrower.
      @TheMemeBorrower. Рік тому

      @@mf-- it’s for heavy equipment operation

  • @rex_yaldabaoth
    @rex_yaldabaoth Рік тому +1

    So I say this as someone who just finished their masters in physics, regarding imaginary numbers, they are "real" even though they're not "Real" numbers. (And frankly calling them imaginary has not helped with this). Basically, all maths is like, derived from definitions. And under the basic definitions of maths, the square root of -1 didn't have a definition, because no "Real" numbers could be the answer. So we defined it as i. But it does show up in plenty of real phenomena, especially regarding waves. The schrodinger equation uses it too. But in order to get a "real" probability, you effectively square the final result (I am simplifying here). And so, like, yeah, it no longer has an i in it, but i^2 is still part of the answer. So i exists in the same way any number "exists". They're all just constructed from rules and definitions really.

  • @TheVillainsProjects
    @TheVillainsProjects Рік тому +2

    Weird, I saw this video on front page before getting notification, even though I have "all" set as my notification preference.

    • @JoelCook
      @JoelCook Рік тому +1

      That happens to me all the time. I usually don't get notifications for at least half a day after a video posts even for channels I am subscribed to with notifications turned on but if i am online when videos launch they usually show up in my recommended feed .

    • @TheVillainsProjects
      @TheVillainsProjects Рік тому

      @@JoelCook good ol' UA-cam. These awesome new features work 60% of the time, every time.

  • @clonemarine1
    @clonemarine1 Рік тому

    For a long time in the state I live in, fireworks were pretty heavily controlled. That changed about 5 years ago, and now we have fireworks stores all over the place. But before then, the only way to get anything bigger than sparklers and poppers was to go out of state. Thankfully for my brother and me (and all of our friends), our annual family road trip always went through a neighboring state that had ZERO fireworks restrictions. And you can bet your sweet bippy we spent ALL of our lawn-mowing money buying the strongest stuff we could get our hands on.

  • @MawoDuffer
    @MawoDuffer Рік тому

    I am learning trigonometry on the job. I’m a machinist. Short story, you can put a gage pin in a theoretical corner of a part then measure from the top of that to an angle. That’s the best way to measure an angle on a part. There is an equation. You need a diagram of what it’s finding to understand it

  • @rodrovich
    @rodrovich Рік тому +1

    oh yeah can't wait to listen to Mr. Nile "derivative is the area under the curve" Red and his buddies WOOOOO

  • @zealser
    @zealser Рік тому +3

    My favorite podcast! I love this cast of degenerates. You guys should get General Sam on as a guest. I feel like you guys would all vibe really well.

  • @Joemamashouse69
    @Joemamashouse69 Рік тому +2

    Learning is fun, bad teachers suck.

  • @danieldimitri6133
    @danieldimitri6133 Рік тому

    I just noticed the no name laundary detergent powder and the powdered milk come in similar yellow bags. A lot of the canned goods look like they can be confused which is annoying but not entirely dangerous.

  • @leoosborne5965
    @leoosborne5965 Рік тому +2

    Talking about calc and stuff make me want to respond and explain how I use calc ( basic at least) for real problems that I have in life.

  • @TheEthanification
    @TheEthanification Рік тому

    I love No Name brand shit. Beer, lawn chairs, ice cream, chicken tenders, THEY HAVE IT ALL!

  • @artispeedy
    @artispeedy Рік тому +2

    I'm at 32:00 but the reason you learn history is so you can vote.

  • @haydenalbrecht
    @haydenalbrecht Рік тому +4

    Ooh! New ep

  • @SuperT
    @SuperT Рік тому

    It’s so interesting to me that William and Kevin thought there was an actual Canadian King and Queen as opposed to the British monarch

  • @3nertia
    @3nertia Рік тому

    Knowing that those volume equations come from calculus has really helped my understanding - thank you, Will. You've been more helpful in understanding math than any teacher I ever had ...
    My 8th grade math teacher stunted my math education 😢

  • @Ben-ex1kv
    @Ben-ex1kv Рік тому

    The fireworks talk was fun. In my part of Florida people love em, actually last week someone drove an SUV into a fireworks store about half an hour away from me and the whole damn building blew up

  • @smallchannel4661
    @smallchannel4661 Рік тому

    The school I'm going to has an automotive class (where you actually do stuff on cars, not just theory), a really good metal/welding shop, and also a good wood shop, and I've taken all of them. I've made money in my metals class, and used woods and metals to make furniture as well.

  • @vke6077
    @vke6077 Рік тому

    In the IB programme chemistry curriculum they don't separate practical and theory, in fact I'm pretty sure they have a specific amount of required practical sessions that link to specific topics, for example when learning about esters we made our own esters. I think the IB has the chem programme down pretty well

  • @mr_q_02
    @mr_q_02 Рік тому

    Nigel's got it right about the "UA-cam Guru" thing. Requiring the UA-cam Guru to have their own successful channel before listening is like a "Healer, heal thyself!" argument. It's entirely possible to be able to diagnose common problems on someone else's channel and be unable to diagnose them on your own, simply because you're too close to the problem. Paddy Galloway, for instance, is mostly a UA-cam Guru guy; all of his videos are about what other UA-camrs are doing right. But he makes way more money consulting with UA-camrs than he does making videos, so that's where he spends the overwhelming majority of his time. Colin and Samir are another example; all they do is interview other UA-camrs about what that UA-camr knows about being a success on UA-cam; their potential market of viewers is tiny, so of course they'll never be huge massive successes on UA-cam. The only one who's going to watch them is other UA-camrs.

  • @Sauti_science
    @Sauti_science Рік тому

    I'm in my third year of a biology degree, and I had to do calculus in my first year, and as a biologist I am viscerally opposed to doing any more math than necessary, and calc 100 and 101 are the classes I have come closest to failing

  • @mina47879
    @mina47879 Рік тому

    Not sure if Canada works anything like Australia, but over here, if I remember correctly, despite being our own country the British monarch still has very limited powers on paper. I think technically they have the final say on whether a law gets passed after it makes it through both houses, and they technically have the ability to dissolve the current federal parliament (calling a fresh election as a result).

  • @5upr3m3Tr077
    @5upr3m3Tr077 Рік тому +1

    1. Linear algebra sucks
    2. My capstone had to be online due to covid (2020) and I am still salty about that

  • @stupi3874
    @stupi3874 Рік тому

    I love how I am watching this on a snow day

  • @davidnelson2204
    @davidnelson2204 6 місяців тому

    Yes! Moving planes!! Like, you have a 2d sheet moving from top to bottom to map out a 3d space. Then you can find the points where the shape and plane intersect and find the surface area

  • @lord_derbro2568
    @lord_derbro2568 Рік тому +3

    History is a hard topic to teach but its importent bc if you dont learn from history you are destin to repeat it. And in generell you need to lear to lear if your brain dosnt know how to do it will not be able to learn later.

  • @ScireVolo
    @ScireVolo Рік тому

    I worked in a family owned fireworks store that looked like a giant fire-hazard barn (Sheltons), and I always enjoyed seeing grown men get giddy over all the fireworks 😄

  • @AngeloGJ562
    @AngeloGJ562 Рік тому

    I had a metal shop teacher in 6th grade 2008ish and he was also the computer teacher. Old man loved metal shop struggled with computers. It was first semester metal second computer. Boy did I learn absolutely nothing I didn’t already learn in elementary about computers.

  • @bomberutkrec
    @bomberutkrec Рік тому +1

    your problem when talking about learning history and science is that you don't have in mind the fact that those are the assignments where you learn critical thinking for the most part

  • @beatricedonahue-power1780
    @beatricedonahue-power1780 Рік тому

    Canadian thanksgiving is more harvest celebration focused, and it’s only earlier bc our harvest is earlier

  • @Hongoplays
    @Hongoplays Рік тому

    Mexican here, I remember when I was a kid my parents used to give us a lot of firecrackers on holidays
    and they used to give us a cigarette to light them off jaja
    I remember they told us "if you see that it's going out just suck on it a little"
    great parents 10/10
    but yeah over here in Mexico fireworks are legit on holidays

  • @dowdpride1
    @dowdpride1 Рік тому +2

    Nigel we still have a monarchy

  • @joshharp7516
    @joshharp7516 Рік тому

    The best description of irrational numbers I've ever heard.

  • @MrSurvivor115
    @MrSurvivor115 Рік тому +1

    I like Will, and I obviously don't think he was doing this intentionally, but his take on history is exactly how people get into stuff like H*locaust denialism. Learning history is what allows to look at people like Kanye West and say “well he’s complete nutter”
    “Who decides what is true?” It’s better to know something than to know nothing. Also, this is why we don’t use a single source for our information. “What can I alone do to stop history from repeating itself?” it’s about what WE can do to stop it. Imagine if no one voted because “my vote will do nothing”.
    Will’s pragmatic look on education is one I unfortunately see among a lot of engineers. “Why do I need to learn History/Geography/Biology? Teach me physics/welding!” Why would someone who wants to be a nurse or an accountant need to learn either of those things?
    I agree that our education system is wrong for equating memorization to learning, but expanding our knowledge is never bad, if all you learn is your field and your field alone, what makes you different from a little worker ant, focused entirely on their one task?
    I feel like Nigel is the only one with the correct outlook on learning history. It’s about understanding how humas behaved in the past, and using that information to predict our currents behaviors. Also so you don’t look ignorant lol.

  • @Jinkleheimer
    @Jinkleheimer Рік тому +1

    need an educational chemistry channel called NileEd
    Id pay for it

  • @MintyVoid
    @MintyVoid Рік тому

    A big thing people dont understand it the amount of things hindered or actively stifled by the education system(at least in na). Things that should be taught, and needed to function as a human; critical thinking, empathy, constructive communication, emotional intelligence and communication. And teachers need these skills in order to teach, if you don't understand how you function day to day or how to navigate conflict/social respectfully and effectively, all youre gunna do is accidently(or purposefully) advocate unhealthy behavor that hinders the students growth both acedemically and mentally.

  • @GroundByte
    @GroundByte Рік тому

    As some who never learned or understood the concepts of multiplication and division, having to learn math, chemistry, and physics was pretty crazy. Only my junior year high school did I understand that Multiplication is just addition but with less steps, but only for whole numbers.
    So math I did about average to fairly bad, while chemistry and physics I was amazing. With the exception none of my arithmetic made sense nor shouldn't have worked, yet some how by the end of any equation it did. Plus was too poor at the time afford a calculator at the time, and pretty never checked any of my work.

  • @fingernails603
    @fingernails603 9 місяців тому

    Shout out all the chill old people.

  • @justmerc1642
    @justmerc1642 Рік тому

    40:00 My heart goes out to Kevin after learning that he, too, has likely succumbed to the Snail

  • @EmeraldPencil46
    @EmeraldPencil46 Рік тому +1

    No name has a website? I though it was just one of the store brands for the Superstore. That and PC. I didn’t realise no name was a Canadian thing tho

  • @patricktsao9630
    @patricktsao9630 Рік тому

    Also its important to note that for many, many people, history is a source of pride. This means that false history can be co-opted by people with bad intentions, towards bad ends. You may not think what Theodore Roosevelt did was important, but if he suddenly becomes held up by people trying to be racist and exploit the environemtn and say "Theodore Roosevelt was a tough guy who wouldn't have time for today's metrosexual softness and liberal handwringing about the environment!" then knowing history would teach you that Theodore Roosevelt was not only (in addition to being a badass rough rider) an eloquent intellectual who invented the phrase "speak softly (but carry a big stick)", you'd also know that he is the entire reason why our country has the EPA and has protected national parks in the first place. Knowing history then becomes important - and the only way to ensure that this info isn't lost is to continue to teach it.

  • @Aliraldd992
    @Aliraldd992 Рік тому +1

    Teaching is a skill and not anyone has it.
    One of my music teacher was a great drummer, but he couldn't teach for shit, so yes, I had someone with practical knowledge and expertise, but who couldn't give me the information in a good way

  • @Sirshr3dsalot
    @Sirshr3dsalot Рік тому

    outside of june and july phantom used to be buy one get one free store wide at phantom fireworks. not sure if they still are but honestly it would shock me more if it weren't.

  • @metaleggman18
    @metaleggman18 Рік тому

    I actually really like Williams shadow realm explanation, because in a way, complex numbers are essentially a part of the way the universe works, it's just something we can't physically perceive ourselves. It's essentially an extrapolation of the logic we used to help understand our world, something that we didn't expect, but still works. And we know it has to be "real" and not just some logical convenience because of its necessity in physics (necessity is strong, there are people who believe we simply don't yet have the proper "real" equations to represent these phenomena, but nothing has so far disproved their necessity, so to speak).

  • @richardhansen1289
    @richardhansen1289 Рік тому

    I’m really regretting taking calc as a junior right now, implicit differentiation is really kickin my ass

  • @JordiVanderwaal
    @JordiVanderwaal Рік тому +3

    *Oysters are gross*
    YES they are.

  • @snuffybox
    @snuffybox Рік тому

    i is orthogonal to the number line... if reals are positive and negative... than i is up and down.
    You can write a vector as real+imaginary... x+yi.
    Multiply a real(something in the x direction) by i it becomes vertical .
    Which is a 90 degree rotation off the number line.
    Multiply that thing again by i and you do another 90 degree rotation which is why 1*i*i = -1.. rotate 1 around the origin by 180 and you end up at -1
    Thats how I understand them..

  • @BigDFishin
    @BigDFishin Рік тому

    I feel like the morality of history is the most important part the details can be important but idc about dates or battles and whatever

  • @taba1950
    @taba1950 Рік тому +5

    I believe a large part of education these days is for parents to have a "safe" place for their kids while both parents go to work so they can afford to live.

  • @firesquid6
    @firesquid6 Рік тому +4

    I would 100% take a chem course from Nigel

  • @Joemamashouse69
    @Joemamashouse69 Рік тому

    Calculus is kind of like a life hack/exploit for Algebra. I also went through the entire first year of calculus without knowing what a derivative actually was cause I missed that day. I still got near a 100% in the class though.

  • @jAANUSZEK0700
    @jAANUSZEK0700 Рік тому

    About i, what I remember from school. Real numbers are plotted in 1D (in one line). Imaginary numbers go into 2D.

  • @TechNextLetsGo
    @TechNextLetsGo Рік тому

    I love ketchup chips. I first had them in 1998 in Canada. Same with pickle chips, we finally have those in the US. Still waiting on the ketchup. I have to import them at $10 a bag on ebay. So good.

  • @jacogomez1093
    @jacogomez1093 Рік тому

    Meanwhile every historian ever: WHY I HAVE TO LEARN MATH ? IS WORTH NOTHING, I HAVE NEVER USED IT... and also history pays my bills.

  • @_comment
    @_comment Рік тому +1

    Nigel very badly explaining that the Queen/King of England is Canada's head of state.

  • @logan_page
    @logan_page Рік тому

    It’s so funny hearing them say “It’d be nice if we learned stuff that REALLY MATTERS like math!” when the math I learned is useless to me and it would be nice if I had more history taught to me. Not everything is focused on your career. Not everything is focused on my career. They need to teach an array of things, because you don’t know what will be useful to them.

  • @Uppercade
    @Uppercade Рік тому

    In college, my favorite professors are all ones who teach part time and work in the field full time.

  • @Real_Obi-Wan_Kenobi
    @Real_Obi-Wan_Kenobi Рік тому +1

    47:41 out of context

  • @1978garfield
    @1978garfield Рік тому

    Walmart doesn't sell guns anymore at least in my area :(
    Also they stopped selling hand gun ammo.
    I remember the good old days when Wal-Mart sold handguns.

  • @felipedidio4698
    @felipedidio4698 Рік тому

    Wikipedia explained eigenvalues perfectly, you just didn't understand it lmao.
    What is an eigenvalue:
    In linear transformations, there can be some lines that are not rotated (which means that they are the same line before and after the transformation). If tou pick two points in that line, you can make a vector. An eigen value is just how much longer (or shorter) that vector will be after the transformation. It's a stretching factor for that vector.

  • @garrettcorbett3681
    @garrettcorbett3681 Рік тому

    I never realized I was so lucky to have a teacher for all the tech classes who also ran the robotics club and knew what he was talking about

  • @fishnet420
    @fishnet420 Рік тому

    I had a teacher aid in high school who used to do graphic design and the teacher let him just run the class and it was more of a let's learn this because this is how you use it in the industry. Great class learned alot but now I make pizza for a living (best in my town according to Google, yelp and next-door)

  • @esepecesito
    @esepecesito Рік тому

    I did understood cal 1,2 and 3. we were 3 in a class of 30… the other 27 just repeated the pattern.

  • @dijosto
    @dijosto Рік тому

    Wooo safety third podcast isnt in the negative

  • @casawsome
    @casawsome Рік тому

    The article 100% explained what an eigen vector was.

  • @artispeedy
    @artispeedy Рік тому

    1:03:00 I studied real and complex analysis and this is close enough.

  • @wheatbread4779
    @wheatbread4779 Рік тому

    As a highschool student in precalc, i use the guess and check for a lot of stuff. i legit have zero clue about anything we are doing but I get good grades still

  • @Justin_80
    @Justin_80 Рік тому

    Most teachers I had weren't very good at their job and/or seemed to hate kids. Probably 75% of the subject matter I've never used as an adult.

  • @bluewaveonthewaysidebythepier
    @bluewaveonthewaysidebythepier Рік тому +1

    Best podcast so far, mostly because they shit on math. I have a love/hate relationship with math. 1:09:29

  • @Baltux
    @Baltux Рік тому +2

    25:37 Ironic, cause history IS repeating itself and the funny part is that people did not learn jack shit from it. People took the lesson that X=Bad, not understanding that extremism=bad. So they just become extremists in their ideologies, making history repeat itself, while sitting on an ivory throne of privilege, pretending they are on some "objectively good" side.
    I love all of you guys, but I do really hope you one day realize that supporting extremist ideologies will lead to human suffering. No matter how good the core principles of the ideology are.
    Anyone who thinks they are in a war of good vs evil, will always end up creating suffering. That applies to any political and social stances that are executed by people convinced that their fellow human is the enemy, and their own views are objectively the correct ones.
    In order to not repeat history, we need to stay humble, and listen to the people we don't agree with. In compromise we find humanity and community.

    • @seanrush3723
      @seanrush3723 Рік тому

      I think your values might be a bit off. Suffering = bad. While extremism can and often does lead to violence, it's important to understand why more radicalized people are in the position where they feel ready to carry out violence. Often, it is the status quo of one group that ends up creating suffering on an unimaginable scale. ie Indian removal act, slavery, European colonialism etc. When I think of extremism, my mind immediately goes to today's issues, but when thinking historically, we have to understand that often violent extremism is in response to banal, often systematic, oppression. On the idea that seeing someone as an enemy creates suffering too, this is an oversimplification. Would you not say that Oliver Cromwell, or any number of British up and ups, were the enemy of Irish people? Or those profiting off of slavery are the enemy of the enslaved? I'm not endorsing violence against all political enemies, infact I think movements such as the civil rights movement and the work of Gandhi are proof that nonviolence can be used despite violence from opposition. With that being said, in a famous letter from MLK, he stated that it is moderates who were in the way of equality. A man despised in his time as an extremist turned out to be fighting for a righteous cause, interesting

  • @captnpan
    @captnpan Рік тому

    Alright, hot take, but the only history we need to know from school from 1945 - 1990 is in Billy Joel's "We didn't start the fire". Nothing more.

  • @jesseb5378
    @jesseb5378 Рік тому

    You guys took a long time to say "Those who can't do, teach"

  • @lezzbmm
    @lezzbmm 3 місяці тому

    4:24 😭

  • @westie430
    @westie430 Рік тому

    Lol I love this podcast😂🙏

  • @nathankeel6667
    @nathankeel6667 Рік тому

    As someone who is at the end of calc 2 no I don't know what's going on witch is my biggest problem iv always understood math no problem but I can do the problems but understanding them and remembering it is alot harder for me now its nice that the teacher derives everything but with 50 min a day it feels like nothing gets done alot of me doing homework is just looking for patterns in the example problems

  • @Nathan-qc4gz
    @Nathan-qc4gz Рік тому +4

    Being a political economy student, which focuses a lot on modern history, and a math enjoyer, this episode was hard to watch

  • @graxian
    @graxian Рік тому

    Yeah, always hated family vacations. Used to go to disney world every year and fuck it was awful. I'd just spend one day at the parks and the rest I am asleep in the hotel room waiting for the final day. That and I am allergic to heat, fuck vacations

  • @WestonNey
    @WestonNey Рік тому +4

    As a history buff I’m punching the air right now 😅