The point is to bring people in with a great question, make them curious and once they’re there, accidentally teach them a whole bunch of things about the universe.ĪLSO READ: How to Love Yourself to the Core: Jen Oliver (Transcript) How can you possibly answer that? Well, that’s not really the point. And I get to ask some pretty ridiculous questions. I now am doing more than 30 million views every single month with five and a half subscribers growing more than 10,000 new subscribers every day. So Vsauce in the last couple of years has grown phenomenally. I’ve researched the science, the mathematics, recent theories behind all kinds of things. Why that equation? Why doesn’t the universe operate with some different equation? So, yes, the why game is irritating, it’s annoying and it’s what I do for a living.Įvery week for the past few years I have researched a big question, a funny why question. You can ask why over and over and over again forever even if one day we explain every physical interaction and scientific law and hope and dream and regret with a single elegant equation. Kids do it all of the time and adults should do it more often. They are playing the why game, right, where you just keep asking why, why but why after everything someone says. Why? I don’t - because that’s the way language works. You know, you feel outsmarted for a second until you get the double meaning. Why? Well, because there’s a bit of a surprise factor. What can I say guys I love a good pun? Why, I don’t know because puns are funny, right? What did the piece of cheese say when it looked into the mirror?
I have a head full of cheese puns but I was told I have to keep it brief. What is the best kind of cheese to use to catch a bear? Someone knows over here. Listen to the MP3 Audio here: MP3 – Why do we ask questions by Michael Vsauce Stevens at TEDxVienna Venue: TEDxVienna conference on Novemat Volkstheater Wien, Vienna, Austria.
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