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Ruben Meerman

Ruben Meerman

a.k.a. the surfing scientist

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Albany Creek State School rocks, every year. This was my seventh so I’ve seen the Year 6 kids since they were in Prep. They’re enrolling Preps for 2021 now. I’ll see those kids when they’re the graduating Class of 2028 🤓
Brisbane Grammar is packed to the rafters with super keen kids who love learning science. And I just learned (realised from this selfie) that their school opened the same year the element Helium (He, atomic number 2) was first discovered on the Sun (by spectroscopic methods, not by actually setting foot on the joint)... small world, big Universe. Thanks to Mrs Palmer and all the teachers and the music department for letting me hijack the theatre (and letting me tinkle that beautiful grand piano’s ivories) but mostly to the boys for being a brilliant audience! 🤓
25 years since I first visited a school with a Dewar full of liquid nitrogen and a bag of balloons and it’s still the best job I’m the world. Thank you to Year 5 & 6 for a super fun morning of explosions and excitement with the Periodic Table of the Elements. Quarter of a century and my job is even better and funner and more explody than ever 🤓
Hey Queensland Teachers! Awesome opportunity for your students from @thinkinc ... FREE TICKETS to @seanmcarroll’s “Our Preposterous Universe” at the Brisbane Convention Centre on 26 Feb. We are looking for young science fans who would absolutely LOVE to see and hear Sean discussing quantum mechanics (and parallel universes and many other mind blowing ideas about the cosmos) but that they would not normally have the opportunity to attend. You know the kind of kids we mean, whose lives could be forever changed and take a completely different path they might never have even dreamed was possible… yeah, those ones. There are also tickets for an adult to accompany them (eg YOU or a parent or guardian). Direct message me or track me down with your skills for more details. (ps Sean Carroll is my and most people I know’s favourite living physicist and he currently occupies the Caltech office formerly occupied by Richard Feynman, who is nearly every physicist’s favourite physicist of all time, so Professor Carroll is kind of a VERY BIG DEAL in the nerdy world I love and live in).
Last school visit for 2019! Xavier Catholic College is just across the road from Skennars Head between Lennox Head and Ballina. Heaven on Earth! Thank you to Mrs Jukes and all the teachers (and prac teachers!) and all the Year 8, 9 and 11 students for being the best audience I could hope for on my last school day of the UNESCO International Year of the Periodic Table 🤓 Youse rock!!!
Today’s guest lecturer for the third year Human Biochemistry BIOC3261 students (me) who now know precisely where fat goes and also where it definitely doesn’t go and why low carb keto dieters and intermittent fasting enthusiasts sometimes hallucinate and feel euphoric and full of energy. And much more. And we filmed it. Video coming soon 🤓
Ormeau State School is a bonza little bush school between Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Years 5 and 6 lapped up the lasers and liquid nitrogen demos and learned about infrared light and how plants convert water and carbon dioxide into carbohydrates to boot. Thank you Mrs Hines-Smith and all the teachers for having me back. Keep smiling!
Crackin’ arvo at Bracken Ridge where the Year 7’s now know where all the “C” in exhaled CO₂ comes from. KEZAM! Thank you Mrs Burton and all the staff for having me back and see you all next year 🤓
Woohoo Coorparoo!!! Thank you to Year 2 for inviting me to your very own Science Week! I loved all your questions as much as you loved all the explosions 💥🤩💥 And thank you for the groovy badge that says “Science is magic that works”... what a perfect gift! 👌🤓
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