Becoming YouTube's Physics Girl | Dianna Cowern | Talks at Google

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 ก.พ. 2017
  • Dianna Cowern, known to millions of TH-cam viewers as Physics Girl ( / physicswoman , shares why she is passionate about physics and how she turned that passion into a career as a science communicator on TH-cam. Dianna is a science communicator and educator who received her BS in physics from MIT before researching low-metallicity stars at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Dianna pursued her career in STEM outreach at the Reuben H Fleet Science Center and as a physics outreach coordinator at UCSD. Her work on Physics Girl has been featured on the Huffington Post, Slate Magazine, Popular Science, and Scientific American blogs.

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  • @fishandchips8813
    @fishandchips8813 6 ปีที่แล้ว +79

    She is a national treasure. She brings physics to the layperson and is dedicated to encouraging girls and young women to enter the field. We will never advance as quickly as we might if half the population feels estranged from asking the most important and basic questions about the world around us. What a great asset she is!

  • @sent4dc
    @sent4dc 7 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    She is a very bright & optimistic person. You'd be very lucky if you had someone like that in your life. Thank you for everything you do, Dianna!

    • @Lazylarry-ks3hx
      @Lazylarry-ks3hx 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      sent4dc I

    • @irshviralvideo
      @irshviralvideo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      is she single ?

    • @smashandburnyt6938
      @smashandburnyt6938 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@irshviralvideo she's now married

    • @Enn-
      @Enn- ปีที่แล้ว

      The world is very lucky to have her.

  • @Enn-
    @Enn- ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I adore Dianna! Her ability to communicate good information in a friendly way is inspirational.

  • @rodolforamos2597
    @rodolforamos2597 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    ..this girl Dianna Cowern is awesome...she's the lady counterpart of Brian Greene in science info..Bravo!!!

  • @digiryde
    @digiryde 6 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    You are the type of role model I want my grand children to have. Boy or Girl. Let them see that an intelligent person who is passionate about doing good things is among the very best of what a person can be!

  • @kerriohs
    @kerriohs 6 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    She is such a great speaker, love her energy

    • @lancewalker2595
      @lancewalker2595 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Are you fucking kidding? She uses more, like, filler, like, words, than you'd expect from a neglected middle schooler.
      Also, also, also, she is clearly not representative of any demographic she undoubtedly claims to be.

    • @sherryt2711
      @sherryt2711 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lancewalker2595 Love to see you study at MIT one day.

    • @lancewalker2595
      @lancewalker2595 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sherryt2711 What the hell does that have to do with anything?

    • @sherryt2711
      @sherryt2711 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lancewalker2595 The fact that you have to ask that question says a lot about your perspicacity.

    • @lancewalker2595
      @lancewalker2595 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sherryt2711 Its says a whole lot more about your apparent need to google the following words: "logical fallacies". Specifically, you should google "appeal to authority" and "red herring", but frankly you could probably due with a full run down of the concept.

  • @erictaylor5462
    @erictaylor5462 6 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    4:00 One of the best answers to this question was provided by my personal hero. After a lecture on electricity Micheal Faraday was asked, "But what use is it?"
    Mr. Faraday simply asked, "Of what use is a newborn baby?"
    Considering all the uses to which we have put electricity to, I think that really sums things up.

  • @SpaceGal
    @SpaceGal 7 ปีที่แล้ว +76

    Dianna Cowern is my hero

    • @braincraft
      @braincraft 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Totally agree - Dianna is awesome and I loved this talk. So passionate about science and education 🔬❤️

    • @smac919
      @smac919 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      lol she is super sexy too..and her intelligence brings it out even more

    • @martincognito4865
      @martincognito4865 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Why do you have to bring up how "sexy" she is ?

    • @emmanuelgoldstein1089
      @emmanuelgoldstein1089 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Meanwhile amazing scientists who've devoted half a century plus to education get overlooked because they're the wrong gender.

    • @emmanuelgoldstein1089
      @emmanuelgoldstein1089 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Andrew M got triggered. How dare you come in here, Angle Abtuse, with your reason, logic, and science! This is a feeling zone at Google, don't you know? We'll have no reasonable thoughts here, you thought criminal!

  • @jacobmudd8024
    @jacobmudd8024 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    love her enthusiasm. she's adorable when she's geeking out. lol.

  • @TimWeitzel630
    @TimWeitzel630 7 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    Solid talk. Honesty and intelligence for the win.

  • @mikedang3613
    @mikedang3613 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    She's so quirky and passionate, I love her!

  • @paulleavell4317
    @paulleavell4317 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Please Please Please Get Better SOON‼ We Love And Miss You SO MUCH‼🥰🥰🥰🥰❤❤❤

  • @bytmee69
    @bytmee69 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love how amazing she is, yet still a sweet, clumsy and very humanly human 🥰

  • @Praneettigga
    @Praneettigga 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    She’s great. Just recently found out about her and have loved everything

  • @joeshedler6496
    @joeshedler6496 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    ha thats awesome! Physics Girl, is one of my fav chnls, and the others are Veritasium, Smarter Everyday, Vsauce and they were all called out. For me these are some of the best that youtube can offer!

    • @Prober61
      @Prober61 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I never heard of Vsauce. I'll have to check it out.

  • @ProfRonconi
    @ProfRonconi 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So much to praise about her: intelligence, passion, enthusiasm, happiness... Well done, Dianna!

  • @jimranlet7363
    @jimranlet7363 6 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I LOVE her enthusiasm! She’s so good at explaining things in a fun way.

  • @brianstarr
    @brianstarr 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Teachers are soooo important. For instance "don't put your hand on the hotplate" I learned the hard way. Keep it up Dianna!

    • @N1inSK
      @N1inSK 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      My Chemistry teacher "disabled" the "Hot!" flag on his hotplate. Since its definition of "hot" was "your skin will stick to this," he permanently glued the Hot flag in the up position. 'Treat this like it's ALWAYS hot!" was his advice. Nobody got burned by his hotplate.

  • @clydecessna737
    @clydecessna737 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    "....you have to learn how to be a student more than you have to learn the material first."

  • @EngineeringwithDrKelseyJoy
    @EngineeringwithDrKelseyJoy 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love this talk! Thank you! And lover her videos!

  • @rick91443
    @rick91443 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    At 65(young 65,) I want to start over and middle school physics suits me right down to the bone, especially with such a teacher...cheers...rr

  • @SwordsmanRyan
    @SwordsmanRyan 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    As Colonel Saito said in the movie Bridge on the River Kwai: "be happy in your work." Dianna clearly loves her work.

  • @jakmga
    @jakmga 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Watching her videos make me smile!

  • @wyndelsmith8910
    @wyndelsmith8910 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Making science make sense to lay people is HUGE and has the opportunity to forward the future of science as a whole. The more curious you make the masses about science the more impetuous you give the government to fund future science. Pretty much all the advances we love and take for granted come science someone did that we the lay folks have little to no understanding of. We desperately need folks like Neil Degrasse Tyson, and you to make science feel important to all of us.

  • @nickfosterxx
    @nickfosterxx 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    What a great interview. Desperately sad that such a wonderful energetic inspiring human being should be so struck down by covid.

  • @RubenRMunoz
    @RubenRMunoz 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Keep up the good work! Focus on crystalline energy formation and capture, that is the future.

  • @joeshedler6496
    @joeshedler6496 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    In high school I avoided physics because I thought it would be hard. It wasn't until my last year did I take physics, and within days I found I made a mistake, I LOVED IT and wanted more, wished I had stared way earlier.

  • @infantnelson9356
    @infantnelson9356 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    Physics girl, your really awesome. Thanks for your effort in showing many new things through physics way. And I am so interested in your videos
    That your explanation make me more comfortable in learning things. Happy physicsing, Dianna.

  • @Techyfarm
    @Techyfarm 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Awesome "Physics Girl"!

  • @morphmu
    @morphmu 7 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Did you notice that her channel URL is actually "physicswoman"?

  • @xiao2310
    @xiao2310 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    such an underrated channel

  • @zhkule3537
    @zhkule3537 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Dianna illustrates interesting physic experiment and concepts to the pubic and students.
    Good work for the American, good work for the world.

  • @emg4815
    @emg4815 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    keep up the great work for real much respect and love from your boy Buddha out of Waco Texas W.M.H

  • @marekant7776
    @marekant7776 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I love this little woman.

  • @Decalpha
    @Decalpha 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    She is perfect!

  • @andrewedis9907
    @andrewedis9907 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm in love with her ♡

  • @Plan-C
    @Plan-C 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    great channel

  • @stevenwilliams9812
    @stevenwilliams9812 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love Diane's ears.

  • @charles_wipman
    @charles_wipman 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Very interesting.

  • @mikeo759
    @mikeo759 7 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    10:39 the innuendos 11:57 and 12:30 keep on coming...

  • @zephenson
    @zephenson 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I'm a middle schooler, and I am very interested in physics...

    • @FlaminTubbyToast
      @FlaminTubbyToast 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Keep at it. It gets more fun the deeper you go especially as an intermediary with chemistry and biology.

    • @shambosaha9727
      @shambosaha9727 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FlaminTubbyToast No, Physics is fun in itself. There is no need to view it as an intermediary and other mumbo jumbo. As Richard Feynman said, "Physics is like sex. Sure, it might give some practical results, but that's not why we do it."

    • @FlaminTubbyToast
      @FlaminTubbyToast 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Shambo Saha I mean sure, but in my opinion physics is the intermediate. Not because I enjoy another science rather math is more interesting and fun.

    • @shambosaha9727
      @shambosaha9727 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@FlaminTubbyToastIt's alright, everyone has the right to have their own opinion.

  • @0diyan
    @0diyan 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    living physics😍

  • @hmdshokri
    @hmdshokri 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "happy pants".....LOL

  • @danielpas368
    @danielpas368 6 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I wish I had her personal energy.

  • @cilva7able
    @cilva7able 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I have a general question along the science topic of "heat and thermodynamics". How do you view these topics from a Chemistry point of view, (specifically the course "Physical Chemistry", a physics point of view, (specifically the course "Thermal Physics") and an Engineering point of view (specifically the course Thermodynamics). Anyone can answer and feel free to add on to someone else's.

  • @maddyndaddyjeans2892
    @maddyndaddyjeans2892 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    I AM HOOKED

  • @richardgates7479
    @richardgates7479 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    It seems to me that one or a few students remarked "why is she (Dianna) talking?", but it's repeated as "they" with no account of how many students actually thought that.
    People pick out the unusual as if it's usual in some foreign sense, when it's simply unusual. This is the Rotten Apple with a new skin.

  • @ty814
    @ty814 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Beauty with brains perfect combo.

  • @md.arifs_world
    @md.arifs_world 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fan of her....

  • @BraskHouseConcerts
    @BraskHouseConcerts 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    She has very extreme long term covid. Please share and support

  • @ashercicco9713
    @ashercicco9713 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    i am in middle school and i am a quantum physicist and astrophysicist and chemist

  • @jwillisbarrie
    @jwillisbarrie 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Please add captions for the Deaf

  • @moiquiregardevideo
    @moiquiregardevideo 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Only 16 comments after 6 months? 10612 views, 256 likes, 8 dislikes. Sound like binary approximations to me. Dianna Cowern physics girl, congratulation for your hardwork

  • @ZenPanda2023
    @ZenPanda2023 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Now that's a woman of science!

    • @lancewalker2595
      @lancewalker2595 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Can you not see the irony in that statement? In two life times, do you think anyone will give a fuck about her gender? She may well be of Science, but she certainly isn't making any current contributions, fuck the kitchen, she needs to get back to the computer.

    • @sherryt2711
      @sherryt2711 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lancewalker2595 No one would give a fuck about you even in a hundredth of a life's time. Not another misogynistic idiot...

    • @lancewalker2595
      @lancewalker2595 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sherryt2711 Can you enlighten me as to how that comment was in any way "misogynistic"?

  • @RobertWF42
    @RobertWF42 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd explain physics to a kid as "How (and sometimes why) stuff works at big and large scales in our Universe."

  • @BraskHouseConcerts
    @BraskHouseConcerts 28 วันที่ผ่านมา

    She has Severe Long-term Covid. Share and support her ❤️ please...2024

  • @randellrussell2400
    @randellrussell2400 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    So if I can build a super capacitor then I can build a fun spot welder i would imagine.

  • @SumGuyLovesVideos
    @SumGuyLovesVideos 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    anyone else pause to go watch the other Physics Girl videos mentioned... every time? #ShrunkenDimes

  • @xColIcex
    @xColIcex 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Terry Davis brought me here.

  • @teeess9551
    @teeess9551 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Is he Everybody Love Ramon's brother?

  • @venkateshbabu5623
    @venkateshbabu5623 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If you kick something it takes a bend and that is true for even light I mean red shift.

    • @venkateshbabu5623
      @venkateshbabu5623 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      And that is how magnets work and electricity is an outcome.

    • @venkateshbabu5623
      @venkateshbabu5623 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Even nuclear forces.

    • @venkateshbabu5623
      @venkateshbabu5623 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      So end of the day the universe is a spherical and spins means that it is controlled by by something higher and like earth has to go round the sun and so mega multi verses.

  • @tarico4436
    @tarico4436 7 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    11:56. (In a disappointed tone, Cowern says:) "...In the end we didn't get ten inches, we got four inches...."
    Yeah, uh, you forgot the "raging fury" part, k? It's four inches of RAGING FURY. And, last night, it sounded like you were having a good time.

  • @sukmadink69
    @sukmadink69 4 ปีที่แล้ว

    But you can't explain Terry with physics

  • @topguntk870
    @topguntk870 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    this woman is marriage material. dream wifey. shes beautiful and smart and appreciates life and makes you wonder. powerful personality. totally someone id love to spend my whole life with and wouldnt need anything else.

  • @TS_Mind_Swept
    @TS_Mind_Swept 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi Happy Pants!

  • @gagamba9198
    @gagamba9198 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    James Damore is my hero!

  • @John-rw9bv
    @John-rw9bv ปีที่แล้ว

    SHE WORKED ON DARK MATTER!!! OOooooOOoooOOO!!!!

  • @majcorbin
    @majcorbin 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    [Q] What is the opposite of Gravity? [A] COMMEDY

  • @patrickford2670
    @patrickford2670 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When is she going to grow up and become "Physics Woman"?

  • @VeganSemihCyprus33
    @VeganSemihCyprus33 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    So lovely, when will you start speaking about Resource Based Economy and climate change destroying humanity within 100 years? I missed that part???

  • @bearborne
    @bearborne 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    well it was very braindead of the interview to reply to her in "cool, yeah, fine" while she is full of life and ambition and makes his job so much easier. She is your guest, act a bit more interested, god...

  • @cypresstree2333
    @cypresstree2333 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    If I was Diana I would be so hungry because people are just eating😂

  • @tobiashenriksen7068
    @tobiashenriksen7068 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    This guy sort of reminds me of CaptainDisillusion.

  • @ashercicco9713
    @ashercicco9713 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    i am a total nerd and not into anything that diana said other that phisics

  • @nelsonjimenez7939
    @nelsonjimenez7939 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You all appeal to authority, lossers!

  • @zapfanzapfan
    @zapfanzapfan 6 ปีที่แล้ว

    11:58 Yeah, I'd be pretty disappointed too if I was expecting 10 inches and got 4... ;-)

  • @17630973
    @17630973 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I am surprised that Diana believes in Global Warming. If you are a beginner see GlobalWarmingHoax.org .

    • @tyrred
      @tyrred 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Truly? You're surprised a physicist "believes" in global warming? If you are not an expert, see www.goodreads.com/book/show/26261327-climate-change

    • @17630973
      @17630973 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      She's not much of a physicist if she accepts the new state religion of Global Warming. She must be in the pay of the Israelis of PBS. You must be too or you would be a Global Warming Denier. Start your enlightenment with GlobalWarmingHoax.org .

    • @sleepyearth
      @sleepyearth 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Frankly speaking you possess as much knowledge as much as your next door conspiracy theorist. Posting fake sites like this WITHOUT any evidence is childish. This site is probably made by an elementary school kid looking to score points. Upvoting yourself is next level of childishness. But Hey! You have Trump the president standing with you! It's a hoax by CHINA!!! LMAO. Even the Chinese are laughing at Americans because of such inept President. At least it goes down in history books of stupid Americans with a more stupid billionaire president who claimed to be champion of blue-collar. Fake news.com

    • @Tux0xFF
      @Tux0xFF 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Lol what? You sound like a trump supporter.

    • @JayMehtaJay
      @JayMehtaJay 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Watch the video with focus.., she said that she does not need "believe" in Climate Change.., its a Fact !! :)

  • @williammalouhos4142
    @williammalouhos4142 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I WANT HER REAL BAD

  • @samirrimas
    @samirrimas 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    cringe cringe cringe cringe

    • @Mj0Skyver
      @Mj0Skyver 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ok then.