One of my sons lives in Seattle with his wife and three children. On a recent phone call with his 9 year old son, Judah, I asked him to tell me about his favorite home school activity during the pandemic. He introduced me to a You Tube Channel with 3.78 million subscribers called “What If?”. Each episode highlights a hypothetical question about some aspect of science in our universe to stir the imagination. His favorite was “What if we dumped our trash into volcanoes?” That drew 13 million other viewers. Naturally the imagination of his grandfather, whose blog “views life and the world through a different lens,” was stoked by this channel, too. Not sufficiently, mind you, to watch his 4:26 video. Though I was able to carve out 6:47 to watch the “What If We Never Aged?” episode. Go figure.
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