Science videos · mostly 2021–2022科学视频 · 大多在 2021–2022 年
Lab science, played for laughs, so kids would stay for the science把实验室科学讲得好笑，让孩子们为了科学留下来
X-WOW's founder made short videos that showed real lab technology (centrifuges, microscopes, stains) in an entertaining way, with memes and humour, to get young people into science, especially molecular science. Of the 68 we have dates for, 64 came out between September 2021 and September 2022, while the pandemic was still disrupting school.
X-WOW 的创办人做过一些短视频，用好玩的方式展示真正的实验室技术（离心机、显微镜、染色），配上梗和笑点，想让年轻人对科学感兴趣，尤其是分子科学。有发布日期记录的 68 个视频里，64 个发在 2021 年 9 月到 2022 年 9 月之间，那时疫情还在打乱孩子们的上学。
The channel: Dr Ding's Molecular Cuisine on YouTube.
频道：YouTube 上的 Dr Ding's Molecular Cuisine。
For grown-ups: the YouTube links on this page leave X-WOW; YouTube's terms say anyone under 18 needs a parent's or legal guardian's permission, and under-13s may use it only if a parent or legal guardian enables it (YouTube's Terms of Service (UK), 17 March 2025).
给大人：本页的 YouTube 链接会离开 X-WOW；YouTube 的条款规定：未满 18 岁要有家长或法定监护人同意；未满 13 岁要由家长或法定监护人开启才能使用（YouTube 服务条款（英国版），2025 年 3 月 17 日）。
The doubt担心
The founder worried that serious academics and professionals would find it silly, or even offensive: a scientist in a panda mask, putting crisps under an electron microscope. Some did, and said so in the comments. It was worth it anyway. The jokes put a microscope in front of people who would never have opened a textbook, and some of them stayed for the science.
创办人担心严肃的学者和专业人士会觉得这很幼稚，甚至被冒犯：一个戴熊猫面具的科学家，把薯片放到电子显微镜下看。确实有人这么觉得，也在评论里说了。但还是值得。这些笑点把显微镜带到了本来不会翻开课本的人面前，其中有些人就此留给了科学。
What didn't work没成的事
The first time X-WOW re-homed a scanner, to Kenya, it didn't work out. The receiving end had no technical support to keep it running, and it made far less difference than the founder had hoped. That was a lesson about support, not about anyone there: a scanner nobody can service is an expensive ornament. It's why Back to Shine now says "ship the optics, not the stand", and why every X-WOW invention is designed to be easy to run.
X-WOW 第一次把扫描仪送去肯尼亚，没有成功。接收的一方没有技术支持来维持它运转，结果作用比创办人希望的小得多。这是关于"支持"的教训，不是谁的错：一台没人能维护的扫描仪，只是一件昂贵的摆设。所以"旧仪器再发光"现在说"只寄光学件，不寄镜架"，所以每个 X-WOW 发明都设计得容易上手。
What did成了的事
The founder says people still write to say the videos sent them into science; some of them watched as kids, during the pandemic. Those letters stay private. In public, people who say they are scientists or doctors have left kind words in the comments, and others say the videos made them want to study science. That is the part of the mission anyone can check: those comments are public, under the videos.
创办人说，直到现在还有人写信来，说是这些视频把他们带进了科学；其中有些人是在疫情期间、还是孩子的时候看的。这些信不公开。公开的部分是：自称科学家或医生的人在评论里留下了好话，也有人说视频让他们想学科学。这是使命里谁都能去核对的部分：这些评论就公开在视频下面。
X-WOW today is the same mission, with inventions instead of videos: show people the invisible, make them laugh if possible, and leave them able to do it themselves.
今天的 X-WOW 还是同一个使命，只是把视频换成了发明：让人看见看不见的东西，能逗笑就逗笑，最后让他们自己也能做到。