Explosive Science - with Chris Bishop

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The most interesting thing about this children's lecture is that it is age-restricted by youtube edit: wow crazy that a comment from 2 years ago has started generating replies - when I commented this it was age restricted - seems to be removed now, but still funny that years ago it was restricted while still being post for kiids

You had me at "explosive".

He captured the imagination of his audience in the lecture theatre and right here at Youtube. A quality lecture, never a dull moment, keeps you sharp even if its been 30 years since your education. This is how you turn young minds to science.

"And as you'll observe, we've surrounded the entire room in explosive more powerful than TNT" but imagine in it a Bane voice.

Thank you very much for putting this on YouTube. Its great to see chemistry being taught in such an interesting way. This is the way to keep kids interested and wondering about the world around us.

i like how he explained everything. made is sound simple and easy. wish i had teacher like him.

The RI Christmas lectures, very happy memories... As English kids we didnt know how lucky we were as regards educational tv in the Christmas holidays, what better gift could our country give us than knowledge... These have run for nearly 200 years, obviously not on tv though :)

We need more teachers like him to make kids interested and amazed by science. Great lecture!

Watched this demonstration so many times. I can't imagine children not being obsessed with science after veiwing this. Explinations were very simple and clear.

Better than any lecture I have had in school so far!!! Great work thanks for sharing!

That was Brilliant i'm 68 and still love the sciences.

One of my favourite videos on YouTube. Wonderfully presented and wonderfully informative. And you know, it also serves to remind me just how fortunate I am, throughout all of history, to be alive and aware in a reality where we can explore these incredible components of the universe, and teach the next generation about them. Thank you Prof. Bishop, Chris Braxton, and the Royal Institution!

after 55yrs of watching these this man is bye FAR the best most entertaining and informative speaker iv ever seen, BRILLIANT SERIES,.

I experienced a physics lecture where there was some liquid nitrogen in an old school thermos bottle. One of the students absent mindlessly screwed the lid onto the thermos. The physics teacher saw this, went OMG and tried to unscrew the lid, which neatly unscrewed the mercury glass bottle from the metal base, but didn't budge the lid. He pelted to his tiny, crammed office next door to the classroom and left at speed, closing the door after him. Shortly there was a "poof" noise. The glass container and its mercury disintegrated into an incredibly fine dust over every surface of his office. It was a heck of a mess to clean up.  Today it would have required hazmat suits, but back then we just used rubber gloves and shop towels.

What a fine teacher and superb lesson. Every subject should be taught in this manner. I can't understand why anyone would give a thumbs down.

I never knew light can be used to detonate stuff. Well, you learn something new every day.

That was just great. A very well presented lecture using a well-chosen set of examples, e.g. not just "a series of things that went bang" but a lot of different kinds of bangs, each illustrating a slightly different set of physical principles and really getting the audience to think about the material. I know that I was left with a series of questions, such as "I've never even heard of Silane. Why is it pyrophoric, anyway?" so of course I had to go look that up and now I have even more questions, which of course is the goal of all good science, right? :) As a former (very young) chemistry student myself, I'd love it if we taught this kind of material in American schools again.

Those kids will go away with a wonderful new love of science. Thank you Chris Bishop, we need more teachers like you.

I'm ten years late to this party but thank you RI. This was amazing, entertaining, and insightful.