His methods are not scientific.

Now, are we done? Have we written what we have here in scientific notation?

let's remember what it means to be in scientific notation.

But this is not quite official scientific notation.

And this is, obviously, not less than 10.

Why do apples fall down?

Descartes said we need an entire new way of thinking.

This is no way to treat a man of science.

This isn't used so frequently.

And we still have this 4.01534 times 10 to the negative 8.

That's what gets us to that eight.

But you know what we need to combine it with?

It also shaped Darwin's scientific method, as well as that used by his peers.

Devices like the cymascope, which you can see here, have been used to scientifically observe cymatic patterns.

Francis Bacon and then, later, Isaac Newton, had proposed an inductive scientific method.

The first thing that anybody who knows science, and has been around science, is that the stuff you learn in school as a scientific method is wrong.

Vaccines, modern medicine, our ability to feed billions of people, those are triumphs of the scientific method.

Law school?

However, errors and nature have something in common, none of them are under our control.

Okay, you need to cut out all your loser crybaby crap right now and think of something scientific.

sciencey?

So I have 1.75 times 10 to the negative 3.

There's a whole video on that.

So x and y have to be single digit numbers.

And when I went to find out something,

So that's what I would do if they were just asking us to write it in scientific notation.

And I think in that sense, this fits really nicely with this lateral thinking idea.

Science is the way to prepare for the 21st century.

Let's do another one.

Of course, I am. It's the scientific method.

And so many of the talks here at TED are about meaning, about bringing meaning to our lives in all kinds of different ways, through technology, through art, through science, so much so that I think we focus so much on that side of our lives, that we haven't given enough attention to the food and the water and the shelter, and what we need to raise the kids.

But they're not asking us to write it in scientific notation.

replied in true scientific fashion...

Hopefully it will clarify things a little bit.

Actually, before we do that,

With some eastern medicine I'd learned.

Uh, I'm reading advanced forensic science... by Annemann.

We investigate claims of the paranormal, pseudo science, fringe groups and cults, and claims of all kinds between, science and pseudo science and non science and junk science, voodoo science, pathological science, bad science, non science, and plain old non sense.

like these.

But finding the hard evidence is a very complicated endeavor.

0, 2, 7.

But this number is not less than ten.

This isn't very scientific.

like, Okay, what I want to do with my life is change the world.

Let's call that p.