Truly delightful

Is it just me or has Kurtzgesakt gotten really weird over the last couple years? Like, their videos seem like they want to be clickbait, but they’re really bad at it.

How in the actual hell is technology connections not on that list and also why have I not seen it in any of the comments yet

+Practical Engineering

I learnered about some interesting looking channels from this thread so I'll pay it forward and share some that I like.

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Angela Collier

Bobby Broccoli

Climate Town

Computerphile

Defunctland

fern

Folding Ideas

JimmyTheGiant

KnowledgeHusk

Lextorias

Not Just Bikes

Odd Compass

Ordinary Things

PBS Space Time

slow start

Suibhne

Thought Slime

Tom Nicholas

Kurgesatz was really good before they started the black mirror season, where every video is about how humanity can get killed by various things.

Never heard of the other ones but I'll give it a try.

And there's a PBS video for anything you can think about, sometimes they just don't surface properly with search.

Shout out to PBS Space Time

I stopped watching kurzgesagt after their copium video on global warming where we all hold hands and sing and magically reverse it.

Anyone here like Folding Ideas? He's done some good stuff about flat earthers, crypto bros, and such.

I'd like to submit

Steve Mould

SmarterEveryDay (Highly suggest this video of the James Webb Telescope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu97IiO_yDI )

Honorable mention (because 'retired') Tom Scott

And because it's a good channel Dad How Do I?

Angela Collier completes a nice Venn diagram of (making me feel like I'm) learning stuff, righteous anger, and being a person with a face who isn't some new media production studio

https://youtube.com/@acollierastro

They're pretty okay for shallow understanding on a subject, but Wendover (not on the list), Economics Explained (not on the list), and CGP gray all get stuff pretty wrong once you get past shallow depth. I know because I'm a huge transit/urbanism nerd. If these channels haven't wronged you in some minor way, they just haven't talked about something you're a subject matter expert in yet. The point here isn't that they're bad, just understand that these are shallow explainers, the next step in from like a news article, Wikipedia, or a blog, and take them with a grain of salt.

My personal list is Kurzgesagt, XKCD explained, and The Action Lab.

Like all pop-science I think they're really educational on topics I know nothing about. On topics I do know well, I think: well that's wrong and that's wrong.

Nothing like turning on Sam O'Nella for some entertaining educational comedy for the kids only to hear "removed" over and over again

Veritasium?

The Rest is History is always a good listen.

Historia Civilis and others like Kings and Generals etc are often good too.

CGP Grey is a meh channel for a very long time now

You forgot Technology Connections

I’ll add Captain Disillusion to this thread

wheres wendover and reallifelore?

None of them on the fediverse :/

Kur is being shit recently with Bill gates

Kurzgesagt is cancer

Also:

LockPickingLawyer

How To Cook That

Captain Disillusion

Pilot Debreif

Stand-Up Maths

What a weird bunch, to me these are 2 titans, 1 serial one-hit-wonder, and 1 guy whose humour is family guy cutaway gags.

If you wanna learn from the best chef in the world:

You Suck At Cooking! Yeah, you totally suck!

Or Preppy Kitchen if we're being serious

Legal stuff:

Meidas Touch and Legal Eagle

Retro video and music devices:

Techmoan and VWestlife

Also: Tom Scott. Or at least his backlog because he retired.

And a very important one! - Science stuff: Potholer54 I can't believe he doesn't have millions of subs. It actually kind of makes me sad.

If anyone likes music theory, Adam Neely, Nahre Sol, Charles Cornel, and Open Studio Jazz are all amazing.

I really would love to hear what a non musician thinks about them too. I bet maths heads would love it.

CGP Grey is a Tesla shill

vsauce. no, you haven't watched all of his videos. also i think his previously exclusive series is available now.

I’ll throw Dr Becky (Smethurst) and Numberphile into the mix

2019 Kurzgesagt: "I guess we will fact check, if that's important to you."

Me: “Sam O… haha cute name. I’ve never heard of it. I’ll see if they have a YT channel. Oh they do! What?! I’m already subscribed??!”

I wish YT actually respected subscriptions. Here I am subscribed to someone and I’ve so thoroughly forgotten it that their name doesn’t even ring a bell.

• Kraut
• Varitasium
• OBF
• Astrum
• miniminuteman
• Wendover Productions
• Hankschannel
• Practical engineering
• NileRed, NileBlue
• Fern
• Hoog
• Plainly Difficult
• NEO
• Versed
• ColdFusion
• Thoughty2
• DamiLee
• Facts in Motion
• Barely Sociable
• Mark Rober
• Deep Dive

Edit: Also know you can watch videos without ads AND without sponsor parts (using sponsor block) on desktop and android with grayjay.app

Im suprised nobody here mentioned extra history

No love for Veritasium?

Also veritasium, 3blue1brown, practical engineering, adam savage kinda too

University course lectures are still the best and you can find tons of them in YouTube in their entirety.

My problem with threads like this is that I only have 24 hours a day, and I've accumulated a critical mass of content creators to the point where I cannot keep up.

Which of these awesome people do I ignore?! What information do I leave behind!? How am I supposed to get anything useful done with my life?!?

Also, check out Chris Boden if you want to see something cool!

Vsauce

that's just dipping your toes in the shore of the bast ocean that is yt educational content.

kurzgesagt whores themselves out to corporate donors

My four horsemen:

1. Uri Tuchman
2. Hyperspace pirate
3. Hand tool rescue
4. Apetor

Hmmmm... I prefer cold fusion and astrum.

History Matters is my personal favorite

I love threads like this where we collectively come together and share our YouTube subs and we all grow stronger every time we find a new one to add to our list

People in this thread who dislike CGP Grey because of one bad traffic video.

Sam O'Nella, the most chaotic of the four no doubt

Anyone know a good channel for film a vfx? I like Corridor Crew but they're a bit too noisy for me.

I'd add 3blue1brown (3b1b) to that mix! Also xkcd's What If, Minute Physics, and maybe VSauce

I might be in a niche. Here's my fav, Religion for Breakfast, Let's Talk Religion, Esoterica, Al-Muqaddimah, Tablets and Temples, Useful Charts. Not religious but I like Religious Studies because it's overlaps to history.

In addition, the Crash Course series to Religious Studies by PBS is also very good.

Also few history channel, Dan Davis History, A Historian's Craft, Kings and Generals

Also for graphics programming and game development, I will add:

• Sebastian Lague
• Acerola

CGP Grey fell off

I've got to throw The Budget Museum out there since it's not listed.

Anton Petrov

Missing my personal favorite. https://m.youtube.com/@Physicsduck

Sam O'Nella was caught up in H Bomber Guy's plagiarism tea spill

I misremembered, please accept my apology for being incorrect.

I love how They're positioned.

Colorful on the bottom, black and white (mostly) on the top.

Professional and well researched on the right.

Shitposty on the left.

Ahoy.

I want to add NighthawkInLight and Thought Emporium.

I miss Mike Rugnetta's PBS Idea Channel so much, and it absolutely would have belonged on this list, imo.

hey kids

There's a pretty good astronomy channel called SEA

really? nobody mentioned Knowing Better yet?

Dr. Roy Casagranda gives amazing lectures on history in general, especially political history and the history of the middle east.