The Edison Effect
December 17, 2025 • EPISODE 291
Join Roger Billings, a technology thought leader and innovator, as he draws from his diverse range of life experiences, inspiring students of all ages to love science and to understand the value of education in empowering their life missions.
This highly motivational and informative lecture series, hosted by the International Academy of Science, is part of the Roger Billings Mentoring

About DrB
Dr. Roger Billings is a visionary innovator whose work has touched the lives of millions of students and transformed the landscape of education. Widely known as “DrB” to the countless kids who benefit from his groundbreaking Acellus learning system, Dr. Billings has dedicated his life to advancing education through technology.
As part of DrB’s lifelong commitment to supporting education, Science LIVE was launched as a way to “give back” by mentoring students in conjunction with the Roger Billings Scholarship Program.
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About the Roger Billings Scholarship Program »



Hi from kentucky
I want to learn ASL. That telescope is really cool. I didn’t know all that about Thomas Edison.
Love this school
I loved learning about Thomas Edison. Science lives are the best even when I have the flu!
I love your show!!
It is so fascinating how the Edison effect works!
I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Incredible as always & an ASL course is genius. Oh, & happy holidays!
Awesome Live!
Awesome as always!
Watching from Las Vegas, Nevada!!❤️❤️
Wednesday is my favorite day !
Wow! Thomas Edison is so smart the thing he invented I use almost everyday.
Hello from West Virginia. Science Live is always so interesting.
What a great video this week. I enjoyed the other ASL course they have. I am really looking forward to the conspiracy theory course Mr. Edmonds plan on making.
The part about Edison was very interesting!
the way the keyboards predicted the words really fascinated me during Mr Tobias’s sciences vid
We should go over how a jet engine works, after all you were considering purchasing a jet, and it’d be quite interesting to learn exactly how jets work.
Science isn’t my personal favorite subject but ever since joining Acellus and watching these videos I’ve grown to really love the subject! Thank you for being a great teacher, see you next Wednesday!
I love acellus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
The Eddison effect by Thomas Eddison is one of my favorite effects because it really shows the power of what vacuum tubes can do.
Love acellus! Happy holidays!
I can’t wait to start the ASL course. I’m gonna be starting it when I get into 9th grade, so I can get a credit.
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays From Minot!
Wow! That’s SO cool!
I can’t believe this is the last Science Live of the year! I’m looking forward to next years Science Lives. I can’t believe the year is already over.
I like writing stories with acellus
I love science live! And R-51!!!
Howdy from Georgia!
I love this live, Merry Christmas everyone
Good evening from Georgia!
Hello from Minnesota. Love this school.
this one was interesting! Thank u Acellus, and happy holidays!
merry christmas! loved the live
Merry Christmas to everyone. Also I love science lives. I look forward to watching them every week and I really like this episode of science live and.I hope all of you that see this comment. A Merry Christmas🎄
fascinating live once again you all did amazing as always! these lives are the highlight to my week merry christmas all!
Awsome!!! Acellus really helps kids find the education they need, and these lives help so many students in so many ways. Its so AWSOME!!!!!!
The Hubble telescope looks so cool!
I’m so happy for the student released book. The telescope is super cool. I’m extremely excited about ASL 2!!
I hope everyone will enjoy their upcoming Christmas! Happy holidays from California!
Merry Christmas, another great science live! 🙂
Great science live! Happy holidays everyone!
these science lives are so intriguing!!
Hello from Texas i love science live
Acellus is actually pretty entertaining.
Merry early Christmas! (or any other holidays you celebrate in this lovely month of december) I loved hearing about more advances in space!
R-51 is so amazing!
Dr. Roger Billings is so funny as always. I always asked myself is the r-51 AI or real person.
Thank you for the live merry Christmas!!
The telescope was really interesting. Happy Holidays !
I love Acellus!!!
Happy holidays!! amazing episode
I love watching the Science live! Acellus Academy is the best program for kids no matter what age!
I enjoyed learning about the Edison Effect! Thank you as always!
Hi Acellus! I love these science lives and look forward to them every single week thank you! And really enjoyed this live! l like that it is funny too.
Acellus Academy is the best homeschool program. We learn so much!!!
Enjoy winter break everyone!
Great science live today! Happy holidays!!
Watching from Tennessee. Happy Holidays everybody!
Merry Christmas! R-51 always makes me laugh. This Science live was interesting and fun!
I love Acellus Academy is the best.
i loveeeeee Acellus!!!
Acellus Academy is the best homeschooling program!!!
Love the live as always !
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!! From Alabama!
Merry Christmas Everyone!
I think Thomas Edison is cool.
I love science lives! Happy holidays!
Love ASL so excited to hear about ASL 2 also very interesting information on iPhone !
Omg I hope he’s okay! Still a great live!
Happy holidays everybody!
It’s fascinating to know that Dr. Billings was in a way mentored through certain knowledge of Thomas Edison himself. Just goes to show the brilliance of him.
I love science lives!
I really enjoyed this live. Happy holidays!
Ai can help cure viruses????? I don’t know about that.
🤩 awesome
Thank goodness for light bulbs
Acellus Academy is the best homeschooling program!!!
Amen!!!!!!! I LOVE Acellus!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you so much, Acellus Academy for the Science Live! Always looking forward every Wednesday!
Hi from Texas.
I learned so many news things about Thomas Edison it was so interesting
Amazing!
The Hubble had to walk so the Roman could run!
Awesome as always❤️.
The new upcoming ASL class will be a great addition to the course lineup.
The Eddison effect by Thomas Eddison is one of my favorite effects because it really shows the power of what vacuum tubes can do.
Hahaha so funny! I love science live.
I loved it
Hi Acellus! I love these science lives and look forward to them every single week thank you! And really enjoyed this live!
very interesting science live happy holidays!!!
R-51 was so funny
R-51 was so funny! I really liked this live.
Love Acellus homeschool!
Yes R51 is very funny I love the videos of R51 there are amazing things you can learn from Acellus school district.
yea he was😆😁🤣
Hello from Florida! Loved today. Dr. Tobias, very interesting session. Thank you to Acellus!
I like the space telescope
I love how different subjects intertwine with each other like how in history class we always learned about Edison inventing the light bulb but you learn the science behind it in science classes or lessons like this.
Sciencelive is a important way for learning
This science live was very funny!
Hi from Nashville tennessee!
I can’t you how excited I am for the new ASL course!!!As someone who has tried to learn languages before none of them have really been able to stick except ASL. Thank you so much and I can’t wait to see it.
Great science live thank you!
Very cool live merry christmas!
It seems like Thomas Eddison was a pretty busy guy. And I didn’t have any idea that AI had any use in keyboards. This is why I like Science Live, I learn something new nearly every week!
this one was so interesting to watch!
I love r-51!!!
THIS WAS SO FUNNY
thank you for hosting another wonderful video
Hi from Alabama
Marry Chistmas! Great live, enjoyed watching.
I agree, I think the iPhone revolutionized America (and smartphones as a whole)
I really liked learning about Thomas Edison!
As a soon to be graduate, I wish you guys could set up technical careers on IST that we could take online while we make up our minds on what we will study in college. Als that the careers on IST could be expanded.
Hey, I’m graduating soon as well. I think that having online college courses would be a huge, but useful step for Acellus graduates. I know of a few colleges that offer online courses but I think that the Acellus classes are very eye-opening and are a great way to learn new things. I’m with you Francesca!🤗 If you agree with us comment in this post to!!
A senior,
Shelley
Happy Christmas y’all, and a merry new year 😉
I’ll have you know that the Edison effect fascinates me in ways you can’t even imagine.
love it Roger billings.
I am thankful for electricity and to those people and mentors who made it happen😊
Happy holidays!
Hello! I love the new sign language course. I want to try it!
I actually want to see more of the asl classes
The Iphones creation is amazing! Thanks!
Merry Xmas to all Acellus instructors and to Dr. B and Ms. Pajai!!!!!!
Happy Holidays!
Science life was as exciting as always! I look forward to seeing for future lives.
Hello from Virginia, Merry Christmas everyone ,
I love learning new things on science live!
Merry Christmas Acellus friends and teachers! Thank you for this great video.
Very interesting to watch definitely! Happy holidays to you all!
I live in Japan and in my life this is my favorite science live.
I am thankful to have electricity and also to those people and mentors who made it happen 😊
Hi from Japan. I did not know that was where touchscreen originated from. Happy holidays.
Hi from Mississippi! I love how I learn things from these videos and how fun and humorous they are at the same time.
Learning more about Thomas Edison was very interesting.
I really appreciate how engaging and informative your science live is!
I love that the Iphone and the road it took to become a success
I love science live.
I loved this episode of electronics and how they are made and electricity in general. See you next year.
I think the ASL courses sound really cool. I really enjoyed the first half of Science Lives for my first year with Acellus.
nice live, keep up the good work.
Loved the live. happy holidays!
Dr. Billings, could we have an Astronomy class please?
love science live
I’m so exited for the new sign language course
hi hope everyone has a merry Christmas and a happy new years.
Eddison was such a profound inventor, one of a kind! His inventions revolutionized things for his time.
Loving the Science Live today!!
I’m happy Edison invented lightbulbs!
Always appreciate the Area 51 segments!
Happy Holidays to everyone!!
I love these lives this one was one of the best
Hello from texas
I saving credits for a tee shirt!
Same!!!! I want the R-51 did it shirt.
Great Science Live!
Merry Christmas Everyone
this science live was really interesting! i hope everyone at acellus has a happy holiday!
💡 love learning about Thomas Edison
Happy Holidays! 🎄
Best science live!
Science live shows a lot of cool stuff.
love this
The iphone idea was really interesting!
This was amazing!
I love watching these!
Happy Early Christmas Acellus Community!
Happy Holidays!!
I didn’t know that the iphone was the one that first had the touch screen.
I already knew of the Apple typing AI because of the Autocorrect, but I thought it was only used for the Autocorrect. Now I know it’s also used for ease of typing! It’s definitely a strange system, but if it works, it works! I do wonder what the other keyboard prototypes looked like. I’d guess that they’d look a bit silly. Thank you!
I love watching science live!
Happy Holidays!!
Hello teachers, how long would it take to photo the whole the whole Milky way with the new telescope? Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!
Hi from Texas
AWESOME!!! i loved today’s science live!!!
Science live is so fun!
Science is awsome!
Hi from Tennessee!
Loved learning about the story on how the iphone was created, learned some interesting new facts today!
Really enjoyed learning about how the iPhone was created! Game changer in technology! Science Live ROCKS!
Great video. Have an Merry Christmas
Thanks for the live today!
hope everyone has a great christmas
Thank you. It was a wonderful episode.
It would be sooo cool to learn ASL!!
Merry Christmas teachers, and have a great New Year!
Never would have guessed that the biggest challenge of fully touch screen phones was the keyboard.
I hope that it launches in 2026. I know there has to be more planets like ours.
loved tonight live!!! cant wait for next week
Watching from Mississippi 🙂
I love science live!
Thanks for the live, happy holidays!
I went to the Edison home and Museum in Ft Myers, Fl where many of the experiments could still be seen in his workshop. There were original light bulbs.
Thank you for the video from Wyoming