“Discovering Science in North Franche-Comte with the Enchanting Fairy Viviane”

The adjective is funny, to make a kid curl up: “You don’t have to be prout-prout to talk about science”. A mannered, haughty, pinched attitude is even counterproductive. It is Viviane Lalande who says it. On Scilabus, his YouTube channel with more than 500,000 subscribers (70% in France, 30% in French-speaking countries), this internationally renowned science popularizer posts videos, lasting about fifteen minutes, twice a month on average.

To explain that “science should not be scary”, this 30-year-old graduate of Belfort Montbéliard University of Technology (UTBM) , now a teacher at the École polytechnique de Montréal in Quebec, advocates for a “softer, more welcoming” approach. Inappropriate, cold or disembodied pedagogy, teachers only having eyes for the top of the class and snubbing all the others…: “Many people have been traumatized at…