Leading With Awesome: How to Make a Good Science Video

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As we have been talking about science videos lately, we decided to investigate what it takes to make a good science video.  So we invited Derek Muller, creator and host of Veritasium: An Element of Truth to the show. Veritasium is a YouTube channel of science and engineering videos featuring experiments, interviews, demos, and other cool science topics.  Derek joins us to talk about his work with Veritasium, what he has learned from the experience, and even gives a few hints at how to make a good science video.

Links:

• YouTube Channel: www.youtube.com/veritasium
• veritasium.com
• Video summary of Derek’s PhD on the effectiveness of science videos

• Good Thinking!
• Episode 130: Good Thinking! from @SmithsonianSci
• Crash Course Astronomy
• Episode 122: CrashCourse Astronomy with @BadAstronomer
• Episode 98: NGSS Videos from BozemanScience
• Khan Academy
• Episode 131: Sal Khan Explains the Breakthrough Junior Challenge

Connect with our guest:

• YouTube www.youtube.com/veritasium
• Twitter twitter.com/veritasium
• Google+ plus.google.com/+veritasium
• Instagram instagram.com/veritasium/
• Facebook www.facebook.com/veritasium

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