WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.640 --> 00:00:04.280 Oh hey, it's still your neighbor who's always out vacuuming 2 00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:06.480 his car and you're like, is he really clean or 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:08.640 is he so dirty he needs to be vacuuming it 4 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:11.519 that much? Ellie Ward back with part two of the 5 00:00:11.519 --> 00:00:14.919 Potteralogy episode of Ologies. Okay, if you have not listened 6 00:00:14.960 --> 00:00:18.519 to part one, go do that first. So much context 7 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:22.719 and backstory's wizard puns, so go there first. This is 8 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:27.039 like the dessert portion involving your questions, but first go 9 00:00:27.199 --> 00:00:29.559 fill up on the main course. So go on gey 10 00:00:29.640 --> 00:00:31.960 it all right, Okay. Thank you so much to all 11 00:00:32.079 --> 00:00:35.000 the patrons who support the show and sebnic questions, and 12 00:00:35.079 --> 00:00:38.399 the folks who subscribe and rate and who also review 13 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:42.000 because you know that I creepily read them, such as 14 00:00:42.119 --> 00:00:45.479 for example, Funky Fact Friday, who said this week, I'm 15 00:00:45.479 --> 00:00:47.920 not a huge podcast person, and the podcast I've listened 16 00:00:47.920 --> 00:00:50.240 to tend to come and go, but not Ologies. It's 17 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:52.560 kept my attention for over a year plus. I now 18 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:56.280 have fun facts disview at friend and family gatherings. Ali 19 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:59.840 asks my questions and makes quality dat jokes. In conclusion, 20 00:01:00.240 --> 00:01:02.799 I want Ali Ward to be my dad. Good news, 21 00:01:03.000 --> 00:01:05.799 Funky Fat Friday, I am your dad. If you've been 22 00:01:05.840 --> 00:01:07.640 listening for a while and you wondered, why does this 23 00:01:07.719 --> 00:01:10.920 lady call herself my dad? It's dad jokes and just 24 00:01:10.959 --> 00:01:13.799 because of darn love you are kiddos. Also, I do 25 00:01:13.840 --> 00:01:17.680 wear socks with sandals sometimes, I did just yesterday, And 26 00:01:17.719 --> 00:01:20.519 I don't care how that makes you feel. Well, I do, 27 00:01:20.599 --> 00:01:22.480 but I hope that you secretly are okay with it. 28 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:26.280 All right, So buckle up Part two of Potterrology, in 29 00:01:26.319 --> 00:01:28.280 which we ask all of your questions and we talk 30 00:01:28.319 --> 00:01:32.879 about poisons and anecdotes and anecdotes and noble gases and 31 00:01:32.959 --> 00:01:40.079 jerky wizards, dark arts, stun guns, risky business, fireworks, stomach butterflies, 32 00:01:40.439 --> 00:01:44.159 and more, with University of Nebraska Lincoln chemistry professor and 33 00:01:44.319 --> 00:02:07.640 electro chemist and potterrologist, doctor Rebecca Live. Can I ask 34 00:02:07.680 --> 00:02:11.599 you some questions from listeners? Yes? Is that okay? One 35 00:02:11.680 --> 00:02:13.800 hundred and thirteen questions. We're not going to go through 36 00:02:13.840 --> 00:02:16.560 all of them. Oh my gosh. Sarah Nashaw wants to 37 00:02:16.560 --> 00:02:20.120 know are you a real wizard? Be honest. 38 00:02:21.360 --> 00:02:22.400 That I'm not prepared. 39 00:02:24.599 --> 00:02:28.439 Are you a wizard? You can say no comment, I 40 00:02:28.479 --> 00:02:32.560 don't know. Rebecca pointed to a nearby t stained CPA 41 00:02:32.680 --> 00:02:36.639 colored letter in a shadow box frame. It looked like something, say, 42 00:02:36.840 --> 00:02:39.319 like an owl might drop down your chimney. 43 00:02:39.840 --> 00:02:41.960 Okay, I can tell you one thing. If you look 44 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:45.199 at that letter right there, I presumably received I received 45 00:02:45.240 --> 00:02:46.960 that when I was eleven, but then I was not 46 00:02:47.080 --> 00:02:49.759 eleven when when JK. Rowling had those books out, So 47 00:02:50.400 --> 00:02:51.800 I don't think I received it. 48 00:02:52.000 --> 00:02:55.360 You're not a muggle. You are not a muggle. You're 49 00:02:55.360 --> 00:02:56.719 a wizard. I think my. 50 00:02:56.800 --> 00:02:59.759 Brand of magic people have asked at before, my brand 51 00:02:59.759 --> 00:03:03.280 of magic is really weird. I don't think there is 52 00:03:03.319 --> 00:03:06.360 that kind of Harry Potter. See. I think my brand 53 00:03:06.360 --> 00:03:06.759 of magic. 54 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:08.479 I look at it because I like learning. 55 00:03:08.520 --> 00:03:11.800 I like to absorb other people's knowledge, so what they learn, 56 00:03:11.879 --> 00:03:15.360 So I guess my magic is absorbing other people's magic. 57 00:03:15.520 --> 00:03:18.800 People are developing all their great things. And you know 58 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:21.759 what I call magic every day and from whether it 59 00:03:21.840 --> 00:03:26.080 is listening to or ologies or watching YouTube or just 60 00:03:26.120 --> 00:03:29.919 you know, reading encyclopedia. I still like that. So any 61 00:03:29.960 --> 00:03:33.919 of those I'm absorbing other people's magic, magic that has 62 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:36.120 been developed years and years back in the days. And 63 00:03:36.159 --> 00:03:38.560 that's how I look at it. My magic is to 64 00:03:38.639 --> 00:03:39.759 absorb others magic. 65 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:42.639 Sydney Brown wants to know what's your favorite spell. 66 00:03:43.240 --> 00:03:49.319 Favorite spell expects, So patrona expect. I think that is 67 00:03:49.360 --> 00:03:51.800 probably not just mine. I think it's probably the top 68 00:03:51.840 --> 00:03:56.439 one well because it's repulsed de mentors de mentors based 69 00:03:56.439 --> 00:03:56.919 on what JK. 70 00:03:57.039 --> 00:03:57.520 Rowlings. 71 00:03:57.599 --> 00:03:59.479 You know, how she came up with that was related 72 00:03:59.520 --> 00:04:03.120 to when she herself suffered from depression. It's basically something 73 00:04:03.159 --> 00:04:06.400 that is, you know, making you feel sad and unhappy 74 00:04:06.479 --> 00:04:09.680 and just despair, and you have this expectable patronum that 75 00:04:09.759 --> 00:04:13.479 will be an animal. Mine's actually, according to potom More, 76 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:20.680 a beagle, little dog. So that's my that's my patronus. 77 00:04:20.720 --> 00:04:23.639 So I think the Patrona's charm is what I think 78 00:04:23.720 --> 00:04:26.639 is a really great spell because sometimes we're humans, we 79 00:04:26.720 --> 00:04:30.920 do get sad and despair, sometimes sad or sometimes disappointed 80 00:04:31.720 --> 00:04:34.199 or you know, having that to protect us is a 81 00:04:34.240 --> 00:04:34.639 great thing. 82 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:38.240 Yeah, okay, so quick as I is the comfort of 83 00:04:38.279 --> 00:04:42.639 a Patrona's animal magic, is it witchcraft? No, fam, It's 84 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:47.639 just a big frothy stew of biology and chemistry. So 85 00:04:47.800 --> 00:04:53.519 according to psychosocial and psychophysiological Effects of Human animal interactions, 86 00:04:53.839 --> 00:04:57.439 the possible role of oxytocin. This is a meta analysis 87 00:04:57.480 --> 00:04:59.879 of a bunch of studies looking at h a I 88 00:05:00.399 --> 00:05:06.800 Human animal interaction aka snorgels aka so HAI has been 89 00:05:07.000 --> 00:05:11.800 investigated for its effects on hormonal indicators of stress. These 90 00:05:11.800 --> 00:05:16.560 are things like cortisol and on neurotransmitters like epinephrine and 91 00:05:16.680 --> 00:05:19.959 one Australian study found that dog and cat owners had 92 00:05:20.040 --> 00:05:23.399 fewer sleeping problems and went to the doctor less frequently 93 00:05:23.480 --> 00:05:26.720 than non pet owners, and in a Chinese survey, researchers 94 00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.839 reported that dog owners had higher self reported fitness and health, 95 00:05:31.079 --> 00:05:33.839 they exercised more frequently, they slept better, they saw their 96 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:37.399 doctors less frequently, and took fewer days off from work 97 00:05:37.600 --> 00:05:41.240 than comparable non dog owners. There was another study in 98 00:05:41.279 --> 00:05:44.639 the same menta analysis that involved showing participants a live 99 00:05:44.800 --> 00:05:48.839 tarantulaspite her saying they'd have to hold it later on now. 100 00:05:48.879 --> 00:05:51.600 In the interim, they had the subjects either pet a 101 00:05:51.639 --> 00:05:56.800 live rabbit, a live turtle, a toy rabbit, a toy turtle, 102 00:05:57.279 --> 00:05:59.439 or they just had them chill out without a toy 103 00:05:59.680 --> 00:06:02.399 or a life animal, and petting a live animal was 104 00:06:02.439 --> 00:06:06.319 the only option that reduced fear and anxiety, and the 105 00:06:06.360 --> 00:06:10.079 tarantula is like, Hi, Hi, I am a live animal. Kid. 106 00:06:10.160 --> 00:06:11.600 You don't want to pet me because look at my 107 00:06:11.600 --> 00:06:14.519 harry bud. Look at it isn't around, isn't acute. What's 108 00:06:14.519 --> 00:06:16.959 the matter now. The study also said that just loafing 109 00:06:17.079 --> 00:06:20.959 with a critter, especially doggos, can trigger oxytocin release in 110 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:24.879 both humans and dogs, which decreases stress hormones and lowers 111 00:06:25.040 --> 00:06:29.399 blood pressure. So thanks, pops, me rubbing your belly helps 112 00:06:29.439 --> 00:06:32.279 you soothe my soul. Also side note, every once in 113 00:06:32.319 --> 00:06:34.319 a while I will get a really lovely sweet listener 114 00:06:34.360 --> 00:06:38.920 who says that, like squid or toads are their spirit animals. 115 00:06:39.160 --> 00:06:42.160 And I'm sure y'all are very compassionate and kind. I 116 00:06:42.319 --> 00:06:45.360 just wanted to let you know that saying spirit animal 117 00:06:45.560 --> 00:06:50.360 is something reserved for native and indigenous populations. So if 118 00:06:50.399 --> 00:06:53.519 you would not wear a headdress tocochella because you know 119 00:06:53.839 --> 00:06:56.279 it's really not your place, you might want to nix 120 00:06:56.360 --> 00:07:00.480 spirit animal. Just burn that right out of your brain. Alternatives, Oh, yes, 121 00:07:00.680 --> 00:07:02.720 of course there are many. I'm glad you asked. You 122 00:07:02.720 --> 00:07:06.680 can say alter ego familiar, or you can say patronis, 123 00:07:06.720 --> 00:07:09.759 so your patronis might be a toad or a squid, 124 00:07:10.160 --> 00:07:13.319 and some gracious furry folks have said that PERSONA is 125 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:16.800 also fine with them. Okay, so moving into a different 126 00:07:16.800 --> 00:07:21.399 shape entirely. Some listeners asked about the transfiguration realm. These 127 00:07:21.399 --> 00:07:26.639 listeners were Samantha Pinpinto, Claire Meyer, Hannah Riley, Daniello Buchanan, 128 00:07:26.759 --> 00:07:31.720 and first time question asker Ashra Colactar says, on a 129 00:07:31.759 --> 00:07:34.399 scale of one from one hundred, just how cruel is 130 00:07:34.439 --> 00:07:37.759 transfiguration when it comes to animals? What happens when they 131 00:07:37.759 --> 00:07:39.800 mess up a switch and now your beetle is half 132 00:07:39.839 --> 00:07:43.519 button and half beetle? Any idea? That's a tough one. 133 00:07:43.920 --> 00:07:46.920 I think in terms of that is because the transfiguration. 134 00:07:47.000 --> 00:07:51.000 The fact is that I do believe that it's cruel 135 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:53.160 in a way. I would say it's like about seventy percent, 136 00:07:53.519 --> 00:07:55.240 you know, like seventy But the fact is that I 137 00:07:55.279 --> 00:07:57.759 do believe it might not be mentioned here. I think 138 00:07:57.800 --> 00:08:00.439 they probably could reverse it. I think there's some fans, 139 00:08:01.079 --> 00:08:03.360 maybe not everyone can do that. Just don't count on 140 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:05.879 Nevill long Bottom to do that at that time when 141 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:09.079 he was Okay, now he's much improved. But I'm sure 142 00:08:09.160 --> 00:08:13.600 maybe professor McGonagall can do that. I think it could 143 00:08:13.600 --> 00:08:14.240 be reversed. 144 00:08:14.759 --> 00:08:17.560 Lauren Reed and Michelle Grandine both want to know have 145 00:08:17.639 --> 00:08:20.680 you seen improvements in scores since introducing Harry Potter into 146 00:08:20.720 --> 00:08:23.040 your teaching and also what is your Hogwarts house? 147 00:08:23.759 --> 00:08:27.240 I'm Ravenclaw. Okay, yes, I will answer that you, Celia, 148 00:08:27.240 --> 00:08:29.199 I have a mattress my nail. 149 00:08:29.560 --> 00:08:33.120 Rebecca did have a fresh tapered manicure in a lovely 150 00:08:33.279 --> 00:08:37.639 periwinkle hue. And ever the scientist, she said, it's tough 151 00:08:37.679 --> 00:08:40.919 to isolate the data to track down how much better 152 00:08:41.000 --> 00:08:44.440 students did in chemistry after taking her Muggle Magic course 153 00:08:44.519 --> 00:08:48.639 because they're typically enrolled in other chemistry classes from other professors. 154 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.759 But all in all, she hopes it helps students become 155 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:54.559 passionate about chemistry. Myself, I'm going to go on a 156 00:08:54.559 --> 00:08:56.960 limb and say it's got to help. Now. A few 157 00:08:57.000 --> 00:09:02.679 folks posed linguistic queries, including Jack Benjamin Harrison, Wayne Brantley, 158 00:09:03.000 --> 00:09:06.879 Rebecca Zanbrecker, and Okay, so, Destiny Rector wants to know, 159 00:09:06.919 --> 00:09:08.159 I know a lot of spells and their names are 160 00:09:08.159 --> 00:09:10.440 based in Latin. Are there any based in other languages 161 00:09:10.440 --> 00:09:13.159 that are maybe a little bit less common? Have you 162 00:09:13.200 --> 00:09:13.720 ever found that. 163 00:09:15.080 --> 00:09:17.279 No, I have not done too too much on that. 164 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:19.320 Most of them a Latin based, but I think that 165 00:09:19.480 --> 00:09:21.799 might be others as well. I cannot say, but that's 166 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:25.840 why I'm hoping imploring that another professor will continue this 167 00:09:26.159 --> 00:09:28.279 A Muggle's Guide to Harry Potter's. 168 00:09:27.879 --> 00:09:30.039 Linguistic That's amazing. 169 00:09:29.679 --> 00:09:32.000 Because honestly, right now I look at it, it doesn't 170 00:09:32.039 --> 00:09:33.879 have to be in Nebraska. It would just be you know, 171 00:09:33.919 --> 00:09:37.080 it could be globally these days, right because people did 172 00:09:37.120 --> 00:09:39.120 ask me if I could have this class, you know, 173 00:09:39.200 --> 00:09:42.759 broadcast live online. It's it could be done. Of course, 174 00:09:42.759 --> 00:09:46.080 there's some you know, because it's paid and then the 175 00:09:46.120 --> 00:09:48.480 credits and stuff like that. It cannot just be for 176 00:09:48.799 --> 00:09:51.080 you know, no, it's just for fine, But I don't 177 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:53.600 mind if it could be all right, yes, okay. 178 00:09:53.639 --> 00:09:56.919 Side note any Georgetown folks out there, because scan your 179 00:09:56.960 --> 00:10:00.320 course catalog for a class called Nights of Old and 180 00:10:00.480 --> 00:10:05.159 Harry Potter, which explores the medievalism of JK. Rowling's Harry 181 00:10:05.159 --> 00:10:09.120 Potter novels by diving into quote medieval antecedents from the 182 00:10:09.159 --> 00:10:12.679 twelfth and fifteenth century in French, English and Latin literature, 183 00:10:12.879 --> 00:10:16.120 as well as selected volumes of JK Rowling's Harry Potter novels. 184 00:10:16.360 --> 00:10:20.759 So Spooky Muggles, your people, they're out there. They are 185 00:10:20.799 --> 00:10:25.240 teaching classes. Alphie Oi. If Casey asked what Harry Potter 186 00:10:25.279 --> 00:10:28.679 subject is a most like chemistry in your opinion, mainly 187 00:10:28.720 --> 00:10:31.080 between potions and transfiguration. 188 00:10:30.799 --> 00:10:33.879 Potients potions, Definitely potients, because potients and some of them, 189 00:10:33.960 --> 00:10:36.759 I'm we didn't even get to that, actually some of them. 190 00:10:36.840 --> 00:10:38.879 I basically what I did in the class is that, 191 00:10:39.000 --> 00:10:41.799 of course there's potents and then science. I actually look 192 00:10:41.840 --> 00:10:44.559 at a few recipes, such as the Draft of Peace 193 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:48.080 and also the Witch Sharpening potion. I actually look at 194 00:10:48.080 --> 00:10:52.600 the ingredients what jk Rowling listed, and I look at 195 00:10:52.600 --> 00:10:55.240 the chemistry of them and try to prove that whether 196 00:10:55.320 --> 00:10:57.919 jk Rowling is right or wrong to put you know, 197 00:10:58.039 --> 00:11:01.200 valerian root in you know, the draw a piece or 198 00:11:01.320 --> 00:11:04.279 putting ginger in the witch sharpening potions. So I think 199 00:11:04.320 --> 00:11:08.240 there's some correlations. I think she knows her stuff. Yeah, 200 00:11:08.360 --> 00:11:09.840 so potions. 201 00:11:10.679 --> 00:11:14.120 Ps. If you've ever taken Valerian root to calm anxiety 202 00:11:14.240 --> 00:11:17.080 or to help you drift off into a deep, deep 203 00:11:17.120 --> 00:11:20.120 sleep with wacky dreams, there is an acid in it. 204 00:11:20.279 --> 00:11:26.600 That's similar to the neurotransmitter gamma aminomuteuric acid nickname gabbas 205 00:11:26.639 --> 00:11:29.799 called a gabba for short, which handles calming the nerves. 206 00:11:29.960 --> 00:11:32.840 And the jury's still out in the scientific community on 207 00:11:32.919 --> 00:11:36.399 its efficacy, but some trials show that it works better 208 00:11:36.600 --> 00:11:39.639 than placebo at helping you chill out and calm down. Now, 209 00:11:39.679 --> 00:11:46.679 another fun fact, Valerian root smells terrible, so bad, so awful, 210 00:11:46.799 --> 00:11:50.919 So if you try it, just push through that fermenting 211 00:11:51.039 --> 00:11:55.039 dung rancid sock flavor and then it's all good if 212 00:11:55.039 --> 00:11:58.840 you're not left traumatized. I mean, a cursed is the stench, 213 00:11:58.960 --> 00:12:02.919 but just me it's effect trust me. I am in 214 00:12:02.919 --> 00:12:05.399 no way a doctor, though, so ask one first. Emily 215 00:12:05.440 --> 00:12:07.559 Read wants to know what's the most obscure and or 216 00:12:07.639 --> 00:12:08.960 seemingly useless spell. 217 00:12:16.799 --> 00:12:21.000 Oh, I think a killing spell. Sorry, the killing curse. 218 00:12:21.039 --> 00:12:25.320 I don't want to say it. Okay, the killing curse 219 00:12:26.759 --> 00:12:29.679 because I don't think we need such things. 220 00:12:30.000 --> 00:12:33.799 Okay, that's a good answer. And jam Curs wants to 221 00:12:33.799 --> 00:12:36.840 know what potions might actually be medically useful for us muggles. 222 00:12:37.720 --> 00:12:42.279 M Well, I think the witch sharpening potions containing ginger 223 00:12:42.679 --> 00:12:44.919 as one of the ingredients is not bad. People have 224 00:12:44.960 --> 00:12:47.320 studied a lot of ginger has been used in India 225 00:12:47.360 --> 00:12:50.399 and China for many many years, mostly for indigestion or 226 00:12:50.440 --> 00:12:55.159 some digestive system issues, and I correlated to witch sharpening. 227 00:12:55.679 --> 00:12:58.879 It's that well, that may not make you sharper, but 228 00:12:58.960 --> 00:13:00.960 yet if you don't have a cake, you feel a 229 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:03.120 lot better. Okay, right, you can think right, I mean 230 00:13:03.200 --> 00:13:06.519 both of us right now having digestions problem. I don't 231 00:13:06.519 --> 00:13:11.039 think we'll be sitting so comfortably talking right now, all right, 232 00:13:11.120 --> 00:13:13.799 so we might want to be at other places. So 233 00:13:14.039 --> 00:13:16.320 I think it might just have some correlations in that. 234 00:13:16.480 --> 00:13:18.720 I think ginger overall people have studied it for a 235 00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:20.720 lot of different you know, to see if they could 236 00:13:20.720 --> 00:13:23.759 find chemicals and components in that that could be able 237 00:13:23.840 --> 00:13:28.200 to help with other diseases and other maladies beyond digestive 238 00:13:28.240 --> 00:13:29.039 system issues. 239 00:13:29.360 --> 00:13:32.559 So yes, ginger scientists are looking at it for its 240 00:13:32.639 --> 00:13:37.759 pain management and anti inflammatory properties. And of course there's 241 00:13:37.799 --> 00:13:40.399 a reason they serve it on airplanes. It's kind of 242 00:13:40.440 --> 00:13:43.559 like a magic potion. It makes you less nauseous. How 243 00:13:43.600 --> 00:13:45.919 does it do this? Well, I looked into it. It 244 00:13:45.960 --> 00:13:48.720 breaks up gas and it moves things through your system, 245 00:13:49.000 --> 00:13:53.480 So thanks, Ginger, you're a real fartbuster. Also, I think 246 00:13:53.639 --> 00:13:55.960 people drink it on airplanes because if you have to 247 00:13:56.000 --> 00:13:58.799 walk through first class and see people drinking champagne when 248 00:13:58.799 --> 00:14:01.759 you get to your seat, you want something gold and 249 00:14:01.799 --> 00:14:05.240 bubbly but also free. I have yet to pursue this 250 00:14:05.320 --> 00:14:08.039 theory academically, but I have a lot of faith in it. Okay, 251 00:14:08.039 --> 00:14:11.200 speaking of a classroom, this next question was seconded by 252 00:14:11.440 --> 00:14:14.799 l McCall. A couple of people asked Emma Janegelian wants 253 00:14:14.840 --> 00:14:18.879 to know why is it Leviosa and not Leviosa, Like 254 00:14:18.960 --> 00:14:21.600 what if someone has an accent, like if they're German 255 00:14:21.639 --> 00:14:24.159 wizards instead of English wizards, it's Levo. 256 00:14:27.519 --> 00:14:30.200 Well, I think in that scenario, clearly both Ron and 257 00:14:30.200 --> 00:14:33.840 Hermione are to my best knowledge, I think the British. 258 00:14:34.080 --> 00:14:36.120 I don't know why Ron said it that way. Ron 259 00:14:36.240 --> 00:14:38.080 just have a different way of you know, maybe a 260 00:14:38.080 --> 00:14:40.879 different part of UK got different accents as well. Probuately 261 00:14:41.039 --> 00:14:45.240 maybe that right, That is a very I have never 262 00:14:45.279 --> 00:14:49.600 heard of this question. This is lovely and I would 263 00:14:49.639 --> 00:14:52.200 just recommend her to say try her best to say 264 00:14:52.279 --> 00:14:55.440 the right way. Okay, spells, you don't want to get 265 00:14:55.440 --> 00:14:59.639 it wrong. Even though we're levitating this thing or not 266 00:14:59.759 --> 00:15:02.159 is not a big deal, but it could be. If 267 00:15:02.200 --> 00:15:05.039 it's a wrong curse, you might just get into more 268 00:15:05.080 --> 00:15:07.919 trouble than what wrong. God might just poke a person's 269 00:15:07.919 --> 00:15:09.519 eye out or something and beyond. 270 00:15:09.600 --> 00:15:12.720 So okay, And you have kind of a beautiful almost 271 00:15:12.759 --> 00:15:14.960 like a British lilt to your voice too. 272 00:15:15.519 --> 00:15:18.120 I'm originally from Hong Kong, so I learned British English. 273 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:20.600 Oh my gosh, I was wondering because it's like you've 274 00:15:20.639 --> 00:15:22.120 been in la and so yeah. 275 00:15:22.360 --> 00:15:25.519 Yeah, I know, because it's just yeah. 276 00:15:25.039 --> 00:15:28.200 Oh, you have such a beautiful voice. Seriously, how golden 277 00:15:28.360 --> 00:15:30.360 and sparkly and wonderful is her voice? 278 00:15:30.519 --> 00:15:30.960 So much? 279 00:15:31.399 --> 00:15:35.480 Now, Margaret Hammer Sersley had this next question, which spoiler 280 00:15:35.639 --> 00:15:38.679 gets us back to something from episode one that rhymes 281 00:15:38.679 --> 00:15:42.720 with schman visible sphinks. What is the best lab demo 282 00:15:42.799 --> 00:15:45.000 to get people interested in chemistry and science because it 283 00:15:45.000 --> 00:15:45.720 looks like magic? 284 00:15:46.639 --> 00:15:50.600 Yes, a parisium right now, let's see do it again. 285 00:15:51.559 --> 00:15:55.000 Invisible Elie Ward is awesome. 286 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:57.440 Okay, that remains a factual thing. 287 00:15:57.519 --> 00:16:01.360 Okay, this is the best day ever. That is invisible link. 288 00:16:01.399 --> 00:16:04.879 You got to say yes, absolutely basically this art. 289 00:16:06.240 --> 00:16:08.399 Chris Burer wants to know what would be considered the 290 00:16:08.519 --> 00:16:12.240 dark arts of chemistry, and Michelle Grandine says, second that question, 291 00:16:13.000 --> 00:16:14.759 dark arts and chemistry. 292 00:16:14.360 --> 00:16:22.559 Dark arts, dark arts. Well, there are some dangerous chemicals too, 293 00:16:22.639 --> 00:16:25.559 I have to say, but in general in the chemistry lab, 294 00:16:25.639 --> 00:16:28.200 no matter what we work with, we always consider them 295 00:16:28.240 --> 00:16:32.039 being dangerous and also we will take extra precautions and care. 296 00:16:32.120 --> 00:16:35.879 So one thing about me being a professor, training my 297 00:16:35.919 --> 00:16:39.360 graduate student or teaching the class later on, I always 298 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:42.200 remind them safety is the most important because if you're 299 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:44.519 not safe, you're doing dark arts. You know why, because 300 00:16:44.559 --> 00:16:47.240 you could generate an explosion and kill your neighbor right there, 301 00:16:47.679 --> 00:16:50.519 whether you wanted it or not. That could occur, Or 302 00:16:50.519 --> 00:16:52.200 that you're going to break the whole glass case of 303 00:16:52.279 --> 00:16:55.960 chemicals that would cost five thousand or ten thousand dollars, 304 00:16:56.000 --> 00:16:57.440 So that's not. 305 00:16:57.480 --> 00:17:04.000 Good solid advice. Safety first. Unsafe behavior is dark arts, 306 00:17:04.160 --> 00:17:08.519 so texting while driving dark arts, those weird kids who 307 00:17:08.559 --> 00:17:13.000 do parkour on top of skyscrapers, Dark arts, room temperature, mayonnaise, 308 00:17:13.400 --> 00:17:16.880 dark arts. Safety first. Katie Shabas wants to know what 309 00:17:16.960 --> 00:17:19.559 type of elixer will help us live longer and healthier. 310 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:23.720 Well, elixir of life that you can be Nicholas Flamel 311 00:17:23.880 --> 00:17:26.960 to six hundred something. If we have the Sorcerer's Stone, 312 00:17:27.759 --> 00:17:32.680 that would be pretty good. But while we don't have 313 00:17:32.799 --> 00:17:36.920 that yet, I say, drink some green tea. Okay, still 314 00:17:36.960 --> 00:17:40.920 pretty good, antioxygen content, some EGCG in. That's all good. 315 00:17:41.119 --> 00:17:42.720 Actually analyzed it myself. 316 00:17:42.960 --> 00:17:47.200 You are a wizard. But if you're like, hey, Pops, 317 00:17:47.319 --> 00:17:51.480 what's EGCG, I'm about to spill that piping hot green tea. 318 00:17:51.599 --> 00:17:56.119 So it's epicallo catachkin galatee, which is a polyphenal compound 319 00:17:56.160 --> 00:17:59.759 that some studies show has potential to reduce inflammation and 320 00:17:59.759 --> 00:18:04.400 possibly prevent cancer. Needs a bunch more research also, Rebecca, 321 00:18:04.480 --> 00:18:07.720 at this point whispered something alluding to a process involving 322 00:18:07.839 --> 00:18:10.960 tea and gold. But I had to cut it because 323 00:18:10.960 --> 00:18:14.519 that chemistry might be proprietary. Don't worry, Rebecca, I didn't 324 00:18:14.720 --> 00:18:17.640 fully grasp it and would not begin to know how 325 00:18:17.640 --> 00:18:20.400 to steal it now. Next question was also asked by 326 00:18:20.440 --> 00:18:27.240 first time question asker Don Ewald, Carrie Weber, Sydney Brown, crystal, mendoza, Anacomerkelbock, 327 00:18:27.480 --> 00:18:30.240 and Jessica Beard wants to know if you could perform 328 00:18:30.319 --> 00:18:32.119 only one spell, what would it be? 329 00:18:33.799 --> 00:18:34.680 One spell? 330 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:36.920 Wow? 331 00:18:38.920 --> 00:18:42.799 Sorry, I is it's a hard question. Yeah, if it's 332 00:18:42.839 --> 00:18:45.640 just only one spell, it's definitely not the killing curse. 333 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:49.240 You know, anything like that though, should not even exist. 334 00:18:49.440 --> 00:18:57.200 And I suppose I still try to go with expectel patronum. 335 00:18:57.359 --> 00:18:59.000 You know, I would say, you know, on a very 336 00:18:59.000 --> 00:19:01.119 sad day, or maybe if I think that there are 337 00:19:02.240 --> 00:19:05.480 de mentors around or other people around that I don't want, 338 00:19:07.880 --> 00:19:12.240 I will try to protect myself. If not expected patronum, 339 00:19:12.279 --> 00:19:16.039 I would go with I suppose protago because protago you 340 00:19:16.079 --> 00:19:19.480 protect basically you protect from any who knows what would happen, right, 341 00:19:19.480 --> 00:19:21.599 It could be earthquake, could be you know, something following. 342 00:19:21.640 --> 00:19:25.200 So I could use one thing to protect to ones. 343 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:27.160 I think I would do that, you know, but I don't. 344 00:19:27.359 --> 00:19:29.559 Hopefully I never need to use that. Hopefully you won't 345 00:19:29.680 --> 00:19:30.480 exactly right. 346 00:19:31.759 --> 00:19:35.559 This next question was also asked by Rasali Contreres, Sonya 347 00:19:35.640 --> 00:19:40.200 karp A Slaine, and KEM grad student Jessica Beard, and 348 00:19:40.240 --> 00:19:42.400 she also asked Jessica Beard as so, what moment in 349 00:19:42.480 --> 00:19:44.440 your research felt most like magic? 350 00:19:45.920 --> 00:19:49.680 Actually, most of the first Eureka moments. But that's one 351 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:52.559 thing gets back to what I think about research is said, 352 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:55.559 no matter how you know, you like your field, you 353 00:19:55.720 --> 00:19:59.359 really like what you're doing. Is that you know, think 354 00:19:59.359 --> 00:20:01.759 about that the moment that you're doing the experiment, adding 355 00:20:01.799 --> 00:20:04.079 this and that and see that color change. For example 356 00:20:04.160 --> 00:20:06.440 that I do different kind of research, but for example, 357 00:20:06.480 --> 00:20:08.920 that is the case. You know, for that one single 358 00:20:08.960 --> 00:20:10.759 second in the whole world, you might be the only 359 00:20:10.799 --> 00:20:13.400 person who knew about that fact. And I think that's 360 00:20:13.400 --> 00:20:15.799 the Eureka moment. And you can recreate it again again 361 00:20:16.119 --> 00:20:18.079 as you do experiments and you go in the lab, 362 00:20:18.119 --> 00:20:21.279 you like, no matter how am minute, and people think, oh, well, 363 00:20:21.319 --> 00:20:23.640 your discovery is not as significant, but you know at 364 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:26.039 that moment is you're the first, the only person at 365 00:20:26.039 --> 00:20:27.960 that moment to be able to see that. And that's 366 00:20:28.000 --> 00:20:30.720 one thing I really to know the truth of that 367 00:20:31.000 --> 00:20:34.240 reaction or this system or whatnot. It's amazing. I think 368 00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:37.680 that to me, it's not just one, it could be 369 00:20:37.720 --> 00:20:40.680 many of that moment, but you really just that little 370 00:20:40.680 --> 00:20:43.400 Eureka moment that you're like wow, and then you think 371 00:20:43.400 --> 00:20:45.640 about it, that specific moment in the lab that you 372 00:20:45.720 --> 00:20:48.680 found that that's way before you making these beautiful figures 373 00:20:48.720 --> 00:20:52.359 published in a journal and getting news articles written about it. 374 00:20:52.400 --> 00:20:55.279 You know, maybe waybe way before that. Just at that 375 00:20:55.400 --> 00:20:58.400 instantaneously like wow, I'm the only one who knew about this. 376 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:01.279 At that moment, it's kind of really neat. I wish 377 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:03.119 I could go back in the lab to do more work. 378 00:21:03.160 --> 00:21:05.960 These days, I cannot because I run the lab and 379 00:21:06.119 --> 00:21:08.480 I teach and do other things. But those are the 380 00:21:08.519 --> 00:21:12.720 moments I think what scientists will always cherish. Now I 381 00:21:12.799 --> 00:21:15.640 cherish it vicariously, just like last night sending email to 382 00:21:15.759 --> 00:21:18.680 Channing's like, Channing, how did the experiment go? Did it work? 383 00:21:18.960 --> 00:21:23.079 I'm just going Channing is the ologite who told me 384 00:21:23.160 --> 00:21:26.039 about Rebecca. So Channing, thanks for hooking it up. I 385 00:21:26.119 --> 00:21:28.720 are you one high five from your chant. 386 00:21:29.000 --> 00:21:31.480 That's really if you think about it, that moment's pretty unique. 387 00:21:31.519 --> 00:21:34.480 No matter other people think, oh, it's just my notes. 388 00:21:34.480 --> 00:21:37.200 It's not like you need you found a cancer, you 389 00:21:37.240 --> 00:21:40.319 know solution right now, But at that moment, you're the 390 00:21:40.359 --> 00:21:43.880 only one in that world who knew this fact, this truth. 391 00:21:43.960 --> 00:21:47.440 After all, science is about truth finding, right, Yeah, So. 392 00:21:47.680 --> 00:21:50.200 What a special, surreal moment. 393 00:21:50.359 --> 00:21:54.440 Yes, absolutely, it's I don't want to exaggerated or people 394 00:21:54.480 --> 00:21:56.519 think it's overrated or whatnot. But I think at that 395 00:21:56.599 --> 00:21:59.440 moment when you plan so much into that experiment hoping 396 00:21:59.480 --> 00:22:03.559 to see that because experiments are all not just oh, 397 00:22:03.640 --> 00:22:06.319 let's put some stuff together and I'm sure some reactions 398 00:22:06.359 --> 00:22:08.759 going to occur and whatnot. The same goals for spells. 399 00:22:08.799 --> 00:22:12.200 I'm sure put effort into generating these spells, and we 400 00:22:12.200 --> 00:22:14.759 we really you know, carefully plan it and have lots 401 00:22:14.759 --> 00:22:17.119