“After three decades of trying to spread the joy of science through polysyllabic newspaper columns, I’m beginning to think that I should be flushing mercury down the toilet on YouTube, instead.”
That’s the start of my Monitor column today (you can read it here) about a guy who has built up a decent following with clever science-y videos on YouTube (his channel is Cody’s Lab). He’s coming to speak at St. Paul’s School in Concord this Friday, and I argue that his free-wheeling approach is a very effective response to this era of science-is-the-enemy. .