Harry Potter meets Science meets Wizard Rock...of variety as PBS Nova has a newborn primary online titled "Secret Lives of Scientists"  and features Joe DeGeorge of Harry and the Potters. Many of you strength know that Joe is digit half of the favourite Wizarding sway group, but he is also a serious Physics student at adventurer University, and on the place we crapper see more most his passion for both power and music in a enthusiastic program of videos with this  funny, talented and rattling smart young man. Quotage from PBS: "We were pretty agog when Joe DeGeorge came to our set. We’d met whatever other scientists who thought they were sway stars. But Joe rattling is one. In his SLoS videos, Joe talks most whatever similarities between rocking with his band, Harry and the Potters, and doing his science. In digit of the pieces that got mitt on the cutting shack floor, he also crosspiece most digit of the differences:

“The variety of spirit I intend discover of music is that there’s almost this instant spirit of making somethingâ€"when you endeavor a show, grouping are there, and commendation for you, and agog for you. Whereas in science, if I’m meet at my lab, mixing whatever clog up, maybe I attain a newborn compoundâ€"but nobody’s there, cheering for me. There aren’t a cardinal grouping standing right my lab, feat ‘Yeah! Do it again! One more!’ I mean that would be enthusiastic if that happened in science. But it’s hornlike to envisage a colossus work on stage with whatever man mixing stuff unitedly and not lettered what’s feat to happen. Most of the time, grouping would meet be like, ‘Ohâ€"that didn’t work….’”

For better and for worse, what Joe says is true. In digit of his videos, you crapper center us commendation after he sings his impromptu composition, “Dick Feynman.” But we didn’t clap at all when Joe was informing us most ontogeny crystals in the lab. Not even a little.

So if power is short on rock-star adulation, what’s in it for Joe?

“I intend a enthusiastic spirit in lettered that we as a species are hunting for newborn things and exploring the aggregation we live in, to see what’s rattling discover there, and trying to see how it works, and where it’s goingâ€"and where it came from. It’s almost same it fulfills, that variety of religious nature grouping have, the need to explain the universeâ€"that’s what power does for me. So, existence healthy to explore the unexplored isâ€"I envisage I intend the same opinion that an ancient shaman would, employed with magical materials. When I do science, I’m trying to do something no one’s ever done before.”

Clap. Clap. Clap. Clap.

Dumbledore would be proud.

Hear hear! Thanks for the unification Daniel!