[frosted-flakes]

Especially Mark Rober. His videos aren't really about science at all, but rather attention-grabbing feats like package thief glitter bombs, squirrel mazes, and chemical volcano explosions—pure entertainment. None of his videos teach you anything like Steve Mould's videos do.

[rectang]

Rober is surely an entertainer first, but he claims to be an engineer rather than a scientist. The videos are more about building things which solve specific problems rather than revealing scientific truth.

Off the top of my head, I remember how the pin failed in the automatic placekicker video, how the cameras worked in the moving dartboard, how they had to use different materials to contain the large scale elephant foam...

[motoxpro]

I think the point is to get people excited about science and show what is possible/spark curiosity rather than trying to recreate a classroom. You can see this by all the kids that take his classes. There is space for both to exist.

[userbinator]

I wonder how many of those kids are going to reconsider once they find out that doing "real science" is, in reality, far more boring.

[spookthesunset]

Same could be said about almost all of the "technology" field most of us work in. I mean think of how many people dream of being a game developer... what a shock that must be.

[6nf]

Excited about engineering, not really science.

[an1sotropy]

Yes, and he might even agree, since he now uses his youtube videos to advertise his $249 creative engineering course on monthly.com.