View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/curiosity-discovery-and-gecko-feet-robert-full The scientific method is widely used to make many scientific discoveries, but Robert Full suggests...
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Reviewer: Bedirhan CinarNearly every one of your science classesstarts off with the scientific method.You recognize this?Ask a question,form a hypothesis,perform an experiment,collect data,draw conclusions,and then memorize a bunch of facts.This is really boring!Science is not a simple recipe in a cookbook,and learning is not memorizing facts for tests.Yet, that is exactly what we do.We have to change this!We have to look at how curiosity can ultimately benefit societyby looking towards tomorrow,by going through a path from involvementto imaginationto inventionto innovation.And I'd like to illustrate this by telling you the real storyabout how we discovered how geckos stick.First you need to get involved.You need to do curiosity-driv...
