Hey I'm Jordan and this is Knowledge of Living
Derek Muller or as I should say doctor
Muller has become a huge educator on YouTube
with this channel Veritasium. Now I have taken on the task of
telling his story using copious amounts
research about his life. Derek was born in
Traralgon in the region of Victoria Australia
Derek has two sisters Kirstie and Marilouise
Born on November 9th 1982, Derek is currently
31 years old but to me he doesn't look a day over 22
he moved to Vancouver Canada at the age of two
and fell in love with science as he grew up
from the youngest age he wanted to devote his life to learning
understanding and ultimately
teaching science; and I'm right there with him
YEA SCIENCE!
he graduated from Queen's University with a bachelor's in
engineering physics in 2004 he wanted to return to his birthplace
mostly because it's a lot warmer and moved to Australia to work on his PhD
at the University of Sydney. Now deep down, Derek wanted to be an entertainer
actor and look being in from the camera on editing some videos
so he took his love for science and his desire to be an actor
and combined them to what we see today. He then ended up getting his P hD in
physics education research
in 2008 he actually gave a TED talk on his
PhD thesis designing affective multimedia
for physics education . In January 2011 he made his now-famous
channel: Veritasium. Veritasium is a mixture
of the Latin word Veritas meaning the truth
and the suffix -ium which a lot of elements end in.
Combining these, Derek was able to create an element
truth; Veritasium. The mass number is 42
which is a joke about the answer to life the universe and everything else
from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the galaxy. So from that we can assume that
Derek probably has a pretty good sense of humor.
the name Veritasium was actually taken on YouTube when Derek
made his first channel. he ended up making the channel
1 Veritasium in its place. Derek later acquired the channel named Veritasium and
uploaded a video asking everyone to unsubscribe to Veritasium
and go subscribe to 1Veritasium
his first videos were just interviews with
random people around town asking them questions about science that most
physicists and scientists would consider
common sense. He did a video interview about what causes the seasons and how
they work
and surprisingly a lot of people didn't actually know anything about them
this became the main focus on this channel addressing science
misconceptions
a lot of his videos involve going out to the public asking random questions about
science and stuff
and seeing their response and then actually educating them to how
science actually works. Derek also became a television presenter
for the Australian show catalyst over the years, Derek has guested on many
Blogs
and videos such as shark after dark for shark week Scientific American
and wired he also starred as the white guy from the Australian program
breakfast. I actually found that video link and you can watch it and description
if you want. he created his second channel 2Veritasium
in July 2012 where he mostly post videos that wouldn't really fit on his main
channel
it's mostly just advice and short info about scientific facts
and now we arrive on the present. so i'd like to ask
what's your favorite Veritasium video? leave me a comment below
overall thanks for watching this video and thank you Derek for
inspiring me and so many others to love science. You're hands down my favorite
youtuber
and physicist. I'm Jordan this is Knowledge of Living
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