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Nearly every one of your science classes
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starts off with the scientific method.
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You recognize this?
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form a hypothesis,
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perform an experiment,
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draw conclusions,
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and then memorize a bunch of facts.
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This is really boring!
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Science is not a simple recipe in a cookbook,
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and learning is not memorizing facts for tests.
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Yet, that is exactly what we do.
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We have to change this!
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We have to look at how curiosity can ultimately benefit society
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by looking towards tomorrow,
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by going through a path from involvement
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And I'd like to illustrate this by telling you the real story
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about how we discovered how geckos stick.
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First you need to get involved.
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You need to do curiosity-driven research yourself.
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We know that learning by being an active researcher
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is the best way to learn.
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Imagine being in my lab
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and trying to discover how geckos stick.
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"Here is one of our subjects.
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This is a crested gecko.
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We are going to put the gecko on glass
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and we're going to use a high speed camera
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that can capture up to 1,000 pictures in one second.
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There's the animal's toes."
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"So how do their feet stick and unstick so quickly?"
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How do they do this?
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We wonder, it's kind of crazy, right?
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It's hard to believe.
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Well it turns out, it was already known that the geckos have hairy toes,
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and those hairs are really small compared to your hair,
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and the little tips at the end are even smaller.
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Well, my student Tanya,
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who is not much older than some of you when she did this,
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a sophomore undergraduate,
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tried to figure this out,
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and we told that her that in order to do this,
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you'd have to measure the force of a single hair.
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Though we kind of only did this jokingly
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