- DIY Perks, which is on the project/creation end of things

- Xyla Foxlin for a variety of projects

- Veritasium for well basically anything and everything science

- Simone Giertz does a lot of projects to solve problems in both ridiculous and entertaining ways

- Element14 Presents, if you're interested in building your own electronics

- Hugh Jeffreys for device repair

- Both Steve Mould and Joe Scott for miscellaneous general science learning

- Major Hardware, all you wanted to know about computer fan design and then some

- Primitive Technology, an almost zen-like demonstration of building things the way our ancestors mostly had to

- The Modern Rogue, for all things shady and interesting

- Electroboom for all things electricity (and loud noises)

- Undecided w/Matt Ferrel, for a look at emerging tech

- The Hook Up for a wide variety of Home Automation and IoT reviews and projects

-Climate Town https://youtube.com/c/ClimateTown

-Advoko makes https://youtube.com/c/Advoko

-AdamSomething https://youtube.com/c/AdamSomething

-AppliedSience https://youtube.com/c/AppliedScience

-Carykh https://youtube.com/user/carykh

-Wendover Production https://youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions

-StuffMadeHere https://youtube.com/c/StuffMadeHere

-SteveMould https://youtube.com/c/SteveMould

-SmarterEveryDay https://youtube.com/c/smartereveryday

-PhysicGirl https://youtube.com/c/physicsgirl

-NileRed https://youtube.com/c/NileRed

-nighthawkinlight https://youtube.com/c/Nighthawkinlight

- Undecided w/Matt Ferrel

This one is probably the most questionable. I was always a bit leery due to the titles being a bit too accepting of anything you might find on r/Futurology, and then happened on a Thunderf00t Busted (not a regular viewer there either) about some of his videos and yeah. I think it's safe to say he's not doing much of a critical evaluation of anything as he is just reading whatever cool sounding press releases he finds. I'm usually fairly allergic to more absolute statements (part of the reason I'm not such a regular viewer of Thunderf00t's), but even with the limited amount I've seen I'm pretty confident in writing off Undecided w/Matt Ferrel. At the very least, it deserves the same kind of credibility as anything you might find on r/Futurology.

- Veritasium

Yeah, I know. But his repeated issues with basically doing ad-spots as videos, and his lack of acknowledging the issue, really soured me on him. If I'm learning about something through somebody like Veritasium, it's not a topic I'm well versed in to begin with and it's unlikely that I'm going to pursue it all that much further independently. That sort of format is also particularly prone to causing me to drop my more rigorous filters. All of that means credibility is particularly important there, and Veritasium completely lost my trust that he wouldn't try to slip advertising by me while pretending it's relatively unbiased information that's been checked in good faith.

Even before that, he seemed to me to tend a little too far towards fully selling high school style explanations, without making it clear that that's what he's doing. By high school style explanations, I mean those that are nearly outright lies, serve to help students work their way to the point that they can make use of the next more nuanced and complex explanation which is closer to the truth.

There's nothing inherently wrong with using those sorts of explanations, but when addressing such a wide audience with no expectation that they will be looking deeper later, I think it's very important to be clear about the limitations of the information provided. With Derek, you get exactly as much nuance as he thinks makes for a good story, and he does his best to leave you with the impression that's all there is.

It's an entertainment channel, and if you want light science entertainment, and expect to forget everything within a few hours, it's a good channel. If you want a science/learning/education channel, it isn't.

an unfortunate appeal to the recommendation algorithm that is now a must. You are leaving views on the table without employing these clickbait methods. One solution that many channels use including Veritasium is trying out various clickbait packaging for the first 24-48h, then swapping to something more descriptive.

When these videos represent not only one person's livelihood but also the salaries of a team of producers, camera operators, scriptwriters, etc it just makes unfortunate sense to appeal to the algorithm

But I sit on the other side. I hate it and will tell everyone how much I hate it.

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Or, if you prefer, in market terms: Because I am not alone, there is a market for non-clickbaity titles, non-exaggerated thumbs, and there are channels that cater to this market.

This thread might prove an excellent case study for YouTube. I was subscribed to all of the channels I listed and a few more along the same lines; my recommendations have never shown me videos from some of the other channels people have posted in this thread or in reply to my own post. If you want a good recommendations system, this thread has been better than YouTube's algorithm for discoverability on these kinds of topics.

I can't imagine anyone is actually happy with how YouTube works on this front.

Absent action from YouTube, this appears to be what you're looking for on a different page: https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions?flow=2

He actually talks about that here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

Apparently an early video of his about a spinning basketball originally had a non-clickbait title; someone else posted it with a clickbait title and got at least an order of magnitude more views. So now, he makes clickbaity titles.

Disliking Veritasium because of some ads is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. If he manages to sneak in an ad without me noticing, all the better, he's getting paid and I wasn't annoyed. I watched all of his video and I don't remember any annoying ads. He also produces some of the greatest and most beautifully produced explanations of interesting maths and physics concepts on YouTube, all for free.

I don't think we're talking about the same things here. I'm talking about wholesale videos that are effectively a big, undisclosed ad. I don't mean I don't like how he does ad reads. I mean I don't like how he's created entire videos that are basically ads and then passed them off as his own original good-faith attempt to inform.

It's not so much actively annoying as is it actively deceitful.

Whenever I've seen people trot this argument out in the past it's typically sourced from a couple of old Twitter threads and it's a 20/20 hindsight thing wherein he is talking about something exciting and new looks like a shill five years on because they were only talking about that one specific company's thing, ignoring the context of the video and the "at the time this was completely new" factor.

I've seen the same happen for things like ML as applied to a variety of things, most notably Tesla's autopilot features.

But no, nothing like that. These were relatively recent videos about newish but well-established industries. In particular Waymo's self-driving cars and, to a lesser extent, some company doing consumer DNA testing.

These were pretty blatant immediately, no hind-sight or digging required. And full videos too, not ancillary comments like on Twitter.

I don't know what to tell you if you believe Thunderf00t's "debunking" is more valuable than your own viewing of any given channel. Thunderf00t is someone who is on his own very problematic and misleading.

The question posed was about things for the intellectually curious, not for "who is the most accurate science communicator on YouTube" so I think including people who cover topics in a simple way are useful.

I'd encourage you to look at many of his videos that cover basic things like how geothermal heating and heat pumps work.

Regarding Veritasium, that is an even weaker argument IMO. If we're going to try to pillory everyone trying to make a living off communicating STEM topics I'm not sure who we'll have left in the space. The boring altruistic rich people?

I'd love to see examples of him outright lying or misleading his audience if you have it, because that would certainly change my mind on recommending his channel to people.

I appreciated the episodes on emerging solar cells and battery technologies. And now if I want to know more about perovskite solar cells, for example, I have a clue where to start.

I also like that Matt has some skin in the game, relating his own experience with roof top solar. It'd be most awesome if Matt chronicled his own new home like Matt Risinger's The Build Show just did. https://www.youtube.com/user/mattrisinger

I wasn't very inclined to view Matt Ferrel's videos much in the first place. I was too leery of the way they were presented to consider it worth my time to investigate further. I was wondering if I was missing out, but never decided to really try to find out first-hand as it just wasn't worth it to me.

It was at that point that I saw Thunderf00t's video, and I decided to see what his take was. As you note, I'm a bit wary of Thunderf00t as well. I don't watch his videos often and when I do I ensure to remain a little more actively critical. Based on what I saw there, I didn't feel inclined to further wonder if I was missing anything by avoiding Ferel's videos.

I'm sure that video, and the follow up, were probably some of the weakest from Ferel. However, it was less the actual content and rather the approach that didn't fit what I'd want to watch. Uncritical readings of pie-in-the-sky press releases isn't my thing, and the follow-up in particular made it clear that that was not where Ferel thought the problem was.

> Regarding Veritasium, that is an even weaker argument IMO. If we're going to try to pillory everyone trying to make a living off communicating STEM topics I'm not sure who we'll have left in the space.

Making a living is one thing. But that isn't my problem. I wouldn't recommend avoiding his channel if it was just a matter of him running ads and/or doing some ad-reads.

> I'd love to see examples of him outright lying or misleading his audience if you have it, because that would certainly change my mind on recommending his channel to people.

The largest straw for me was probably the one on self-driving cars with Waymo. For an in-depth look, Tom Nicholas did a pretty good job[1] covering it from what I recall. In particular the comments on that video from Veritasium really shook my trust, IIRC.

Around the same time I also took issue with several of his other videos. The one that I recall now was about some kind of DNA testing company. It was another one where the company both sponsored the video and provided exclusive access. There my issue was largely with how he soft-balled the interviews and even outside of them didn't bring up what I felt were the most pertinent - and well-known - arguments against such companies in general, as well as (again, IIRC) that specific companies actions. These ones weren't, as far as I know, as extreme as the Waymo one. But they - and the lack of any sort of response from Veritasium when many people brought the issue up - were enough to already have me teetering on the edge when the Waymo one nailed the coffin shut.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CM0aohBfUTc

Thanks for the follow-up, I'll give it a watch (and a read, as I see there was some back and forth in the comments).

Tom Nicholas' set of arguments are in general good fodder for discussion but the premise is ultimately undermined by the video clickbait title and thumbnail calling several different creators' works abject propaganda. I get it, there's a counterculture cottage industry to be had going after larger creators.

To pick one example of problematic information: Tom presents his argument that the figure of 94% of accidents being caused by human error is a misleading statistic and argues an example scenario that would seem to assign blame to the driver unfairly (a hedge or tree branch obscures a stop sign, road markers have been worn away, etc.).

The issue with this presentation is that as a counterargument to the roughly 2.1 million accidents being compared to, it utterly fails on its face. There's no possible way that represents a substantial enough portion of the accidents to be more than a rounding error. I haven't poured over the NHTSA/CDC data around that, obviously but this just doesn't pass the smell test of "how likely is the described counter-scenario?" However, the overwhelming majority of accidents have been shown to occur close to home during a daily commute, in areas you are likely familiar with.[1] Additionally, it also doesn't square with the evidence that shows the majority (~55%) of fatal car accidents are single vehicle accidents.[2] It's an example of a contrived example that is so contrived so as to be meaningless. In a section of the video with the title "Lying with Statistics" it's an interesting choice to Lie without Statistics instead.

If you don't believe the researchers of the Waymo-funded study were ethical based wholly on where their money comes from and its lack of peer review, that's very reasonable. However, the funding source is less problematic to me than the lack of peer review because the system of scientific study is broken throughout the world, and we often see companies commissioning studies for whatever their particular area of operation is because they're the only ones with a vested interest in examining it. I'd love to see a separate solution for that.

Another example: In his text responses to Veritasium, Tom responds with:

    It is, again, completely disingenuous to refuse to mention the maps which Waymo vehicles rely on when it suits your argument during your initial video but to now hold them up as a vital part of the technology. You spoke as though those maps didn’t exist in the video and so it was only fair, in critiquing your video, to respond in kind.

    A further point for consideration here is the extent to which creating maps/scans for the entirety of even the United States (let alone other countries too) is practical. That seems like a highly intensive task which would be very costly, possibly to the point it’s unworkable.

Secondly, the idea of crying foul that because Veritasium didn't mention the maps "enough" in their video when they they responded to him about it is a further example of goalpost shifting. Furthermore, if you're trying to get to the source of truth, don't you think it's wise in terms of critique to you know, BE ACCURATE about what you're saying? This kind of thing should be unacceptable for someone proclaiming to be exposing "the extent to which a creator signing up to one of these sponsorship deals results in them compromising the editorial content of their videos to the point where education becomes misinformation."

I'm not going to rehash the entire argument between them. I think the primary thing Veritasium is guilty of here is of overstating and over-believing how ready for use autonomous cars are. I get it, Derick's ridden in one, so that likely leaves an impression (the psychology of "I wouldn't have done this if it was unsafe" at play). I disagree though, as I've said in other threads on HN, I'm staunchly against putting these things on the road until they're better than humans. It certainly doesn't rise to the level of propaganda in my opinion, even though I disagree with Veritasium on how ready the things are.

This is a good example of why I'd recommend the channel though. Veritasium actually responded to the criticism video with their own points and responded to Tom Nicholas when he sent them requests for comment. If nothing else this at least demonstrates a willingness to engage.

[1]: https://www.autoweek.com/news/a2108966/survey-finds-vehicle-... (I can only find contemporary articles, not the survey itself, though this particular fact is repeated here in Australia/New Zealand with an actual study: https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/yes,-car-crashes-are-more-li...)

[2]: https://www.iihs.org/topics/fatality-statistics/detail/urban...

Perhaps. But even if that was the case, the circumstances around it was enough to destroy my trust for Veritasium.

The way in which Waymo was interacting with him and other YouTubers should have set off all kinds of alarm bells. I couldn't come up with a more perfect hypothetical situation in which I'd expect him to be fully engaged in skepticism and critical analysis.

I normally wouldn't blame people too much for any specific instance of getting caught up in something cool. But if there was ever a time to do so, it was this.

A big company in the most recent field joining the list of perpetually-just-around-the-corner technology, and one aimed directly at consumers at that, grabs a bunch of YouTubers together to make a bunch of videos for simultaneous(-ish?) release and gives them some group presentations and special access to the company. If you aren't going to be maximally critical of the companies claims in this circumstance, when are you?

So even if he just got caught up in the coolness despite the best intentions, I don't think he deserves a pass. I can't just go back to assuming he's actually properly evaluating his sources in all his other videos.

And it wasn't even like we just got a video devoid of heavy review. We got a video with outright non-cited nor disclaimed statements straight off the presser being presented as if they were his own original thoughts/analysis.

The real problem for me here was mostly one of ethics and trust. I didn't feel like the way he went about making the video was particularly ethical - especially without a much stronger level of disclaimer. And I lost my trust in his ability to actually critically review the information he presented.

If I'm going to have to watch his videos with full alertness and skepticism, his videos aren't useful to me. I don't watch Veritasium or other such channels for information that is all that important to me, but rather as a mildly intellectual way to pass time and be exposed to new ideas - often while eating, doing something menial, or winding down for the day. It's still important to me that that information is reasonably accurate, as it still tends to join the hoard of random things in my head that 'I've heard somewhere...'.

If I don't trust the presenter to both have a good head on their shoulders, and to have actually used it in good faith when creating the video, their videos are useless to me.

> I would hope the flaw in this concept is obvious to anyone here but there are OPEN SOURCE high-quality sources of mapping information, let alone maps that could be built by someone with funding.

I honestly don't remember much about this specific point by now, but the use of the word 'scans' in the quote makes me suspect we're talking not about just about something like OSM but rather something more like a curated and processed point-cloud.

If so, that does seem like something beyond the capabilities of the open-source mapping movement without crazy amounts of funding just to generate the raw point clouds. And even then, how many volunteers do you need to validate a map/scan as correct and accurate enough for a self-driving car to use it as a primary data source?

But maybe I'm just getting thrown off by the word 'scan' and this is a non-issue.

As for the rest... honestly I'd have to dive in to even begin to address any of it. I don't doubt Tom Nicholas made some errors, at least. But as I said earlier, this stuff wasn't really my main concern to begin with.

> This is a good example of why I'd recommend the channel though. Veritasium actually responded to the criticism video with their own points

Conversely, this was one of the major strikes for me. Of course responding is good in general, but I found his response extremely poor. Based on memory, I felt like he avoided the larger issues and instead quibbled about specific details that weren't even related to the major issues I had. I was left thinking that he was clearly more interested in PR than in a good-faith discussion about the various issues.

To be fair, at the point I read the response, I was already disinclined to cut Veritasium a whole lot of slack. But his response was about as bad as it got for me, and cut off any desire I had to continue giving him some slack.

> Tom Nicholas' set of arguments are in general good fodder for discussion but the premise is ultimately undermined by the video clickbait title and thumbnail calling several different creators' works abject propaganda.

I won't disagree with you there. I'd honestly forgotten about that aspect of his video by now. Though if you're willing to cut Veritasium some slack on his titles and thumbnails, I'd say Tom Nicholas deserves some too. But really I'd prefer nobody did it in the first place.

I'm guessing his presentation has similar issues even though you didn't mention it. And I agree with you again. I've actually just stopped watching some otherwise interesting videos partway through recently because that sort of thing started bugging me so much. I can't fault you there.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=foerbert#32223515

That being said, I really like his videos and don't mind most of the issues people bring up with him here.

https://www.youtube.com/c/JustHaveaThink/videos

Person with soothing voice reads PR releases of mostly fluff and hype. It is like a tabloid of "science-y" things. I don't think he belongs on an otherwise fine list, just an opinion.

He also does a number of videos explaining basic concepts and also covers some first-hand experiences he has doing various things, such as adding solar to his home and what that did for his electrical bill.

https://www.youtube.com/c/TechnologyConnections

https://www.youtube.com/c/DIYPerks

https://www.youtube.com/c/xylafoxlin

https://www.youtube.com/c/veritasium

https://www.youtube.com/c/simonegiertz

https://www.youtube.com/c/element14presents

https://www.youtube.com/c/HughJeffreys

https://www.youtube.com/c/SteveMould

https://www.youtube.com/c/joescott

https://www.youtube.com/c/MajorHardware

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA (Primitive Technology)

https://www.youtube.com/c/ModernRogue

https://www.youtube.com/c/Electroboom

https://www.youtube.com/c/UndecidedMF

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHookUp

I also watch PBS Digital shows like Eons and Be Smart with my kids. They're definitely for a younger audience, but still interesting.

Applied Science - impressive reproductions of existing science https://youtube.com/c/AppliedScience

Stuff made here - impressive maker/engineering projects https://youtube.com/c/StuffMadeHere

Explosions & Fire - (and related channels) Home explosives synthesis. Fun explosions. Notable for it’s honest look at how science works (and doesn’t work). Low production value. https://youtube.com/c/ExplosionsFire2

   - 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown

   - Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/c/numberphile

   - Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile

   - PBS Spacetime: https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime

   - Philosophy Tube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thephilosophytube

   - Folding Ideas: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoldingIdeas

   - ContraPoints: https://www.youtube.com/c/ContraPoints

   - Nerdwriter: https://www.youtube.com/user/Nerdwriter1

   - Patrick H Willems: https://www.youtube.com/c/patrickhwillems

   - Every Frame a Painting: https://www.youtube.com/c/everyframeapainting
   
   - https://www.youtube.com/c/LessonsfromtheScreenplay

Math: - 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown

   - Numberphile: 

CS: - Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile

Physics: - PBS Spacetime: https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime

Philosophy and Pop Culture: - Philosophy Tube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thephilosophytube

   - Folding Ideas: 

   - ContraPoints: 

Film: Nerdwriter: https://www.youtube.com/user/Nerdwriter1

Patrick H Willems: https://www.youtube.com/c/patrickhwillems

Every Frame a Painting: https://www.youtube.com/c/everyframeapainting

https://www.youtube.com/c/LessonsfromtheScreenplay

There's a term for this, I can't remember. You read a newspaper article about a subject you know, and can't believe how much in it is incorrect or misconstrued, then you read another article about a different topic and it seems fine.

Their video on 1+2+3+... = -1/12 was so bad that another Math channel (Mathologer, which is highly recommendable btw) did a whole 40min video tearing it apart: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YuIIjLr6vUA

In their video on fluid mechanics, they say that the Navier-Stokes equations describe all fluids on earth, while they only show the incompressible version (without clarifying). The examples shown on screen at that moment also include a Ketchup bottle, and they don't discuss non-Newtonian fluids either (Ketchup is non-Newtonian, that's why you can get a lot of it coming out at once if you shake a bottle too hard). It's a bit nitpicking though, because apart from these missing caveats it's a great video (with a guest lecturer from Tom Rocks Maths, another great math channel).

Out of curiosity, can you give a recent example of a video from Computerphile that was incorrect?

Recent videos? I haven't watched it in a while. But looking now, I immediately found an example, because the problems are always with the history. In the video below [1], the guy absolutely mangles the story of the byte and why it's 8 bits long. He turns what was a fuckup in the launch of the System/360, into some urban legend of IBM's technical superiority and vision.

"IBM said, 'Let's be brave! 8 bit characters!'"

FFS, no. IBM said (in summary), "Crap, we really wanted to use 7 bit ASCII - an evolution of the 6 bit teleprinter code, since we're on the federal standards committee, but ASCII peripherals won't be ready in time for the System/360 launch, so uh, let's use this 8 bit extension to our old 6 bit punch cards instead and wing it." It turned out to be a massive blunder. [2]

The System/360 still succeeded and its success meant a bunch of software was written for it, which all assumed an 8 bit byte, competitors copied IBM, and the rest of the market followed, but it took a decade or so. There's lots of fun stuff in the actual story - including the rich history of today's character standards which goes all the way back to the telegraph - to summarize without making things up.

1. https://youtu.be/ixJCo0cyAuA

2. https://web.archive.org/web/20180513204153/http://www.bobbem...

Numberphile probably has less "inaccuracies" - because maths can probably be summarized easier to the layman than computer science.

Math:

Mathologer (university-level math explained with visualisations) https://youtube.com/c/Mathologer

Black Pen Red Pen (calculus problems) https://youtube.com/c/blackpenredpen

Tom Rocks Maths (in the style of a university tutorial, not surprising since the guy is a university lecturer) https://youtube.com/c/TomRocksMaths

Politics:

VisualPolitik EN (they also have a Spanish channel, the original, plus some other languages) https://youtube.com/c/VisualPolitikEN

https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths

Brilliant lectures on Western Philosophy.

https://www.youtube.com/c/CNLohr - making electronics and software projects while working around amusing constraints

https://www.youtube.com/c/scanlime - hardware electronics hacker, thorough knowledge of transistors to gateware

https://www.youtube.com/c/SladorSoft - small pieces of info on logic design

https://www.youtube.com/c/SammSheperd - drone and UAV design. simply best of the best. unfortunately he passed away. RIP SNRS

https://www.youtube.com/c/PhilS94 - PCB design

https://www.youtube.com/c/RobertBaruch - logic design

https://www.youtube.com/user/0033mer - laid back electronic circuits

https://www.youtube.com/user/MacPuffdog - fully home brew quadcoptor design

https://www.youtube.com/c/CarlBugeja - Carl Bujega - Does cool things with circuits, including making robots out of flexible PCBs.

- Kirsten Dirksen, for videos about self-sufficiency and architecture https://www.youtube.com/user/kirstendirksen

- Hainbach, music-making using test equipment and esoteric synthesizers https://www.youtube.com/c/Hainbach

- Linus Boman, graphic design https://www.youtube.com/c/LinusBoman/videos

- Sebastian Lague, game programming 'coding adventures' https://www.youtube.com/c/SebastianLague

- Great Art Explained https://www.youtube.com/c/GreatArtExplained

- Martijn Doolaard, dutch guy is renovating a house on a mountain in Italy https://www.youtube.com/c/MartijnDoolaard

- Afrorack, guy in Africa makes DIY synths https://www.youtube.com/c/Afrorack/videos

- Voices of the Past, first hand accounts from people throughout history https://www.youtube.com/c/VoicesofthePast

- Mr. Chickadee, large scale carpentry using hand tools https://www.youtube.com/c/MrChickadee

- Jorge Rodriguez, game math https://www.youtube.com/c/JorgeVinoRodriguez

Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't: https://youtube.com/c/CrimePaysButBotanyDoesnt

A foulmouthed, self-taught botanist walking through deserts: urban, sub-urban and actual; talking about the origins and habitats of plants he encounters, while slagging off shitty city planning, dying lawns and ocasionally, Wholefoods.

* Real Engineering - in-depth videos with amazing visuals on all sorts of subjects like how and with what materials were used for supersonic planes, what went wrong with the Concorde design, how did logistics for D-Day work, how does pumped up hydro work, etc. - https://youtube.com/c/RealEngineering

* Real Time History - historical channel, the team behind The Great War channel (highly recommend as well) with long in-depth videos on historical subjects such as the Russo-Japanese war, Napoleon's invasion of Russia, Franco-Prussian war - https://youtube.com/c/realtimehistory and https://youtube.com/c/TheGreatWarSeries

* similarly to The Great War channel/Real Time History, World War 2 and TimeGhost - WW2 week by week, with extra focus in separate videos on crimes against humanity, spying, etc. - https://youtube.com/c/WorldWarTwo and https://youtube.com/c/TimeGhost

- PBS Space Time (w/ physicist Matt O’Dowd) [1] for deep space and fundamental astrophysics in an accurate but approachable way

- Kurzgesagt —- In a nutshell [2] for entertaining yet informative, beautifully animated videos on everything from science to politics to philosophy

[1]: https://m.youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime

[2]: https://m.youtube.com/c/inanutshell

Steve Mould - Physics https://www.youtube.com/c/SteveMould

Project Farm - Product Testing https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectFarm

Lock Picking Lawyer - Lock Picking https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer

Scott Manley - Space Flight https://www.youtube.com/c/szyzyg

The Plain Bagel - Finance https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePlainBagel

Perun - Geopolitics https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC3ehuUksTyQ7bbjGntmx3Q

Almazan Kitchen - Cooking https://www.youtube.com/c/AlmazanKitchen

Practical Engineering - Infrastructure https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel

Mind Your Decisions - Logic Puzzles https://www.youtube.com/c/MindYourDecisions

Dr. Zsolnai has been a great recap for computer graphic and AI research as its released. He presents the authors' research, sometimes shows his own attempts on their models, and often reflects on the authors' previous publications.

America's Test Kitchen - https://www.youtube.com/c/AmericasTestKitchen

Always a nice addition; America's Test Kitchen is consistently referenced on other channels as the reason they do X thing for their recipe.

Disney Research Hub - https://www.youtube.com/user/DisneyResearchHub

Disney doesn't post weekly videos, typically they drop 4-5 videos at once. Similar to Two Minute Papers (and sometimes covered there as well), it gives you a nice look in where we are in state of the art CGI.

Um, Actually - https://www.youtube.com/c/umactually

This is more in case you're a nerd, but still like some general fun. Um, Actually is a game show format from Dropout.tv/CollegeHumor where a statement from geeky franchises you know and love is slightly incorrect, and its the job of the guests to figure out the mistake. They're releasing their COVID-Zoom videos right now, but they're back in the studio now and have stated those videos are coming.

Here are some more mathematics channels:

https://www.youtube.com/user/HarveyMuddCollegeEDU

https://www.youtube.com/c/Aleph0

https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown

Here are some channels on physics:

https://www.youtube.com/c/TenMinutePhysics

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPZvrtffxEZ7KZQ9dYCG0xg <- Carver Mead's channel.

Here's something of historical interest: all of the episodes of The Computer Chronicles. https://www.youtube.com/user/ComputerChroniclesYT

- Ben Eater: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCS0N5baNlQWJCUrhCEo8WlA

- Fran Blanche: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMLgHbpJ8qYqj3CkdbvC0Ww

CuriousMarc has an amazing series on the Apollo Guidance Computer, as well as great one-off videos like running a linux terminal on a teletype (https://youtu.be/2XLZ4Z8LpEE).

Ben Eater does amazing videos on low level electronics, and has a great series on understanding how a computer really works.

Michael Penn https://youtube.com/c/MichaelPennMath: Covering calculus, number theory and more. Classic black board lectures, highly enjoyable.

Andreas Kling https://youtube.com/c/AndreasKling: Livestreaming development on SerenityOS (https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity)

In no particular order:

Lex Friedman podcast, lots of scientific interviews: https://youtube.com/c/lexfridman

Crecganford, This one I discovered recently, expert in ancient and prehistoric mythology: https://youtube.com/c/Crecganford

Isaac Arthur, science and futurism, some sci-fi, but very very stimulating: https://youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g

Matt Ferrel, weekly interesting topics, generally about coming soon scientific products (like, it’s is joe possible to do X with grapheme, how does it compare to y): https://youtube.com/c/UndecidedMF

Joe Scott, same format, but more generalist (spaces from climate change solutions to Victorian era to urban legends): https://youtube.com/c/joescott

Sabine Hossenfelder, an actual scientist explaining physics-related topics, her articles usually made it to top HN: https://youtube.com/c/SabineHossenfelder Blog http://backreaction.blogspot.com/?m=1

-Advoko makes https://youtube.com/c/Advoko

-AdamSomething https://youtube.com/c/AdamSomething

-AppliedSience https://youtube.com/c/AppliedScience

-Carykh https://youtube.com/user/carykh

- Adam Something (https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamSomething) - urban planning and eviscerations of transportation grifts with a leftist bent

- Oh The Urbanity! (https://www.youtube.com/c/OhTheUrbanity) - urban planning with a focus on biking in Ottawa, CA

- Alan Fisher (https://www.youtube.com/c/AlanFisher1337) - urban planning with a focus on trains and Philadelphia

- Eco Gecko (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJZV6sai-juDs4zAbAMVhfA) - particularly his "The Suburban Wasteland" series - video essays about the negative impacts of suburbanization (video "essay" as in it's much closer to academic essays read aloud)

- RMTransit (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCf4iKXL_SJQ5d0qsKkboRRQ) - Public transportation - primarily Canadian rail

- WorldwideRailfan (https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldwideRailfan) - An incredible repository of information about primarily American trains

The videos are always thought-provoking, intelligent and hilarious as well.

I can recommend every single video of him.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCimiUgDLbi6P17BdaCZpVbg

https://youtube.fandom.com/wiki/Exurb1a#Controversy

Like you said, it's a wonderful mix of comic thought provoking rides.

Physics/Math:

Physics Girl: https://www.youtube.com/c/physicsgirl

Dr. Becky: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrBecky

3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown

Physics Videos by Eugene Khutoryansky: https://www.youtube.com/user/EugeneKhutoryansky

Electronics:

Usagi Electric: https://www.youtube.com/c/Nakazoto

James Sharman: https://www.youtube.com/c/weirdboyjim

FriendlyWire: https://www.youtube.com/c/FriendlyWire

She really has a knack for taking what are some really advanced topics and explaining them clearly.

It's a sign of a great communicator when you feel like you've learned and understood something immediately after being told it.

https://www.youtube.com/c/inanutshell

https://www.youtube.com/c/AlphaPhoenixChannel

https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel

https://www.youtube.com/c/TechIngredients

https://www.youtube.com/c/thethoughtemporium

https://www.youtube.com/c/MattRisinger

Humanities:

https://www.youtube.com/c/answerinprogress

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

Shop:

https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisOldTony

https://www.youtube.com/c/Clickspring/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/JersWoodshop

Computing:

https://www.youtube.com/c/jdhvideo/videos

For Breakthrough Tech : https://www.youtube.com/c/CleoAbram https://www.youtube.com/c/UndecidedMF

I like to follow the standford blockchain club: https://www.youtube.com/c/StanfordBlockchainClub

Helps me know how the smartest kids and mind are thinking of the new tech.

For Excel Geeks: https://www.youtube.com/c/ExcelTutorials

For Personal Knowledge Management : https://www.youtube.com/c/VisualPKM A underrated channel with brillant insights and tools.

They help me with identifying and knowing which areas can be of focus in the next few years if they progress as planned

He's like a younger version of Applied Science: https://www.youtube.com/c/AppliedScience

I also consider the likes of

Bismuth https://www.youtube.com/c/Bismuth9 and

SummoningSalt https://www.youtube.com/c/SummoningSalt

to be intellectual in the deep dive historian type of way.

LPL has already been linked: https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer

I used to follow NightHawkInLight but his content has slowed recently: https://www.youtube.com/c/Nighthawkinlight

Matt Parker is awesome (I have his book, too): https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths

He appears often on: https://www.youtube.com/c/numberphile

FarmCraft101 (repairs/restoration, woodworking and useful tips) - https://www.youtube.com/c/FarmCraft101

KYLE.ENGINEERS (aero and car tech) - https://www.youtube.com/c/KYLEDRIVES/

Machine Thinking (history of machining) - https://www.youtube.com/c/machinethinking/

Greg's Airplanes and Automobiles (historical, technical deep dives) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCynGrIaI5vsJQgHJAIp9oSg/

Huygens Optics (optics history and manufacture) - https://www.youtube.com/c/HuygensOptics/

w2aew (RF electronics and tutorials) - https://www.youtube.com/user/w2aew/

Aaron Lanterman (electronic classes, esp audio) - https://www.youtube.com/c/Lantertronics/

MicroType Engineering (electronics and pcb design) - https://www.youtube.com/c/MicroTypeEngineering/

Project Farm (unbiased tool/hardware reviews) - https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectFarm/

Tod's Workshop (historical weapons) - https://www.youtube.com/c/TodsWorkshop1

rctestflight (RC stuff) - https://www.youtube.com/c/rctestflight

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMjTcpv56G_W0FRIdPHBn4A

Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan, formerly All Gas No Brakes (had a falling out with behind-the-scenes business types) - a feet-on-the-ground look into various subcultures and events. If you see beyond what's usually a hilarious and definitely slightly voyeuristic facade of "haha people are weird", at its core it's excellent vox populi journalism. Kind of a left field recommendation for this thread, but genuinely something that broadened my horizons by a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Channel5YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtqxG9IrHFU_ID1khGvx9sA

Transit/city planning:

Jago Hazzard (mostly London focused) - https://www.youtube.com/c/JagoHazzard

Distraction Bucket (also London) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB4CG5PB7DCp4R4sxRqrRGQ

Geoff Marshall (UK) - https://www.youtube.com/user/geofftech2

RMTransit - https://www.youtube.com/c/RMTransit

Jay Foreman - https://www.youtube.com/c/JayForeman

Chemistry:

NurdRage - https://www.youtube.com/c/NurdRage

Other:

MyTechFun (3D printing) - https://www.youtube.com/c/MyTechFun

History Matters - https://www.youtube.com/c/TenMinuteHistory

jan Misali - https://www.youtube.com/c/HBMmaster

The titles can be a bit clickbaity but the videos are pretty good

Justin Solomon (MIT): https://www.youtube.com/c/justinmsolomon Keenan Krane (CMU): https://www.youtube.com/c/keenancrane Cem Yuksel (Utah): https://www.youtube.com/c/cmyuksel Inigo Quilez (ShaderToy): https://www.youtube.com/c/InigoQuilez The Art of Code: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheArtofCodeIsCool

Physics (Besides what others have listed):

ScienceClic: https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceClicEN Simons Foundation: https://www.youtube.com/user/SimonsFoundation Quanta Magazine: https://www.youtube.com/c/QuantaScienceChannel

Robotics:

Cyrill Stachniss: https://www.youtube.com/c/CyrillStachniss Russ Tedrake's Underactuated Robots: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChfUOAhz7ynELF-s_1LPpWg

Art:

Entagma: https://www.youtube.com/c/Entagma Creators: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheCreatorsProject

[MITCBMM - Center for Minds, Brains and Machines] https://www.youtube.com/c/MITCBMM - great lecture source for AI, cognitive science, neuroscience.

[Steve Brunton] https://www.youtube.com/c/Eigensteve - great lecturer on applied math for engineering and computation science. Like an advanced Khan academy

[The Royal Institution] https://www.youtube.com/c/TheRoyalInstitution - science talks for lay audiences, like Ted Talks but more advanced.

[Mathologer] https://www.youtube.com/c/Mathologer - misc math topics, like 3blue1brown. This guy is quirky and funny and good at explaining some advanced math topics.

[Numberphile] https://www.youtube.com/c/numberphile - topics on mostly math, but also CS adjacent.

I very much like the approach taken by Big Clive and Diode Gone Wild: taking apart everyday items, explaining what they do, sometimes also showing how they would make something similar themselves from scratch. I assume there are lots of other channels out there that do the same but for other things than just electronics.

The Modern Martial Artist: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheModernMartialArtist

Adam Ondra (Olympian Climber): https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamOndra

Wylie’s Art and Science of Boxing: https://www.youtube.com/c/LeeWylie1

Also, I see no one mentioning Real Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/c/RealEngineering

Would also like to highlight Terra Mater (animal extinction & habitat): https://www.youtube.com/c/TerraMaterOfficial

Playlist of all Susskind Physics lectures: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyX8kQ-JzHI&list=PL6i60qoDQh...

Sanderson Writing class (fantasy but applies to all genres): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cf-qdZ7GbA&list=PLSH_xM-KC3...

Channels:

Andreas Spiess aka Guy With the Swiss Accent for embedded / microcontrollers: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasSpiess

Hoopers Beta for a scienctific/medical POV about climbing: https://www.youtube.com/c/HoopersBeta

IppSec for HackTheBox to learn security: https://www.youtube.com/c/ippsec

LiveOverflow for security: https://www.youtube.com/c/LiveOverflow

Yannic Kilcher for ML news / overviews: https://www.youtube.com/c/YannicKilcher

French Guy Cooking: https://www.youtube.com/c/FrenchGuyCooking

Along those lines, I would also add John Hammond:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVeW9qkBjo3zosnqUbG7CFw

1. Mentour Pilot https://www.youtube.com/c/MentourPilotaviation/videos

Petter from Sweden explains aircraft systems, crash investigations, how pilots handle awkward situations in the air. Very thorough.

2. Captain Joe

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC88tlMjiS7kf8uhPWyBTn_A

Joe is from somewhere in Europe, and he explains flight systems, how things work. Lots of overlapping content with Mentour Pilot.

3. 74 Gear

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCovVc-qqwYp8oqwO3Sdzx7w

Kelsey from America has tonnes of incredibly funny anecdotes.

Unlike the other two pilots who do mostly short flights within Europe (though Captain Joe recently changed jobs I think, and so I'm not so sure anymore), Kelsey does long-haul in a 747, and his stories are also diverse.

Plainly Difficult for radioation accidents and and other science/technology gone wrong stuff - https://www.youtube.com/c/PlainlyDifficult

VWestlife for reviews of various old audio equipment and other thrift store finds - https://www.youtube.com/c/vwestlife

Tim Traveller for trip reports from various unusual places (weird country borders and stuff) - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheTimTraveller

Tentacrul for UX explained on DAWs and other music stuff - https://www.youtube.com/c/Tantacrul

Railways Explained for... well explaining the history and future of various world railways systems - https://www.youtube.com/c/RailwaysExplained

NFKRZ for explaining context of living in Russia - https://www.youtube.com/c/MultiNfz

Bald and Bankrupt for unusual travelogs in post-soviet countries and other places - https://www.youtube.com/c/baldandbankrupt

https://www.youtube.com/c/ZackFreedman

https://www.youtube.com/c/whatdamath

https://www.youtube.com/c/Bisqwit

Less technical:

https://www.youtube.com/c/PeterDraws1

https://www.youtube.com/user/cmbroad44

https://www.youtube.com/c/JamesGurney

Relevant to current events, interesting Russian channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/NikiProshin

I like the no-nonsense, ~5mins video from the authors summarizing core message of their research/book.

Examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovBtoHkeK68

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJL8A6vQyW0

Georgia Tech professor Aaron Lanterman has class lectures on music synthesis, electric guitars amps and effects, and general electronics: https://www.youtube.com/c/Lantertronics

Documentaries Particle Fever CERN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Lx109jdGCc

Slingshot, Dean Kamen - has the origin of FIRST Robotics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0AsJXjK0CSo

Dr. Sten Ekberg: https://youtube.com/c/drekberg

Diet Doctor: https://youtube.com/c/DietDoctorVideo

What I've Learned: https://youtube.com/c/WhatIveLearned

K Boges: https://youtube.com/user/Kbogea

To improve your understanding of the ongoing culture war:

Academy of Ideas: https://youtube.com/c/academyofideas

Ryan Chapman: https://youtube.com/c/RyanChapmanPolitics

Animal Logic - https://www.youtube.com/c/animalogic

NHK World - https://www.youtube.com/c/NHKWORLDJAPAN

Asu (Bonsai with water features, if you want to calm yourself down.) - https://www.youtube.com/c/AsuGreen11

Goto Conferences - https://www.youtube.com/c/GotoConferences

Simple History - https://www.youtube.com/c/Simplehistory

TED - https://www.youtube.com/c/TED

TED Ed - https://www.youtube.com/teded

Economist - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheEconomist

The First Take (Japanese Music done in one shot) - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9zY_E8mcAo_Oq772LEZq8Q

Vice Asia - https://www.youtube.com/c/VICEAsia

Wired - https://www.youtube.com/c/WIRED

When I got interested in Asian cuisine, I learned a lot from Chef Wang Gang, there is a retired F1 engineer called Malcolm Oastler documenting his project of motorbike-powered race car, a Canadian artist David Bull living in Japan and specializing in Japanese poster art. It takes much longer to find them, but I find the results much more satisfying in the long term.

Also highly recommend Chinese Cooking Demystified: an American + Chinese couple living in Guangdong do deep dives into the complexities of regional Chinese specialties.

And for something much lighter but still informative and fun: Blondie in China. Aussie girl fluent in Mandarin exploring all things China.

While we’re talking food: I have learnt so many great techniques from ThatDudeCanCook: if you do no other thing, you should watch his video on preparing filet mignon I never eat out for steak because it’s never as good as what I can make myself.

He repairs old worn down items and shows every step of the way in high details. Very satisfying to both learn the elegant mechanisms of old items, as well as to see something broken become beautiful once more.

* Andreas Kling: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling

Continuously posts videos on him+his community developing the operative system SerenetyOS (I know he's been posted here on HN before)

* Economics Explained: https://www.youtube.com/c/EconomicsExplained

Explains... economics..

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/search/?q=economics%20...

another underrated channel is https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC06HVrkOL33D5lLnCPjr6NQ - Breaking Taps - which is all about making, and using electron microscopes as well as other projects like that.

They all have corresponding YouTube channels (including many already listed in other comments)

DUST Sci-fi: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sDT8jZ76VLV1u__krUutA Great free sci-fi movies.

Robert Murray-Smith's maker channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RobertMurraySmith A British maker who builds stuff and shows them step-by-step.

Those are the well known ones, but there is also smaller channels like Sci-Fi Central and Screamfest which also put out longer-form (for YouTube) fictional shorts (and some feature length stuff).

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell: https://www.youtube.com/c/inanutshell

Practical Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel

StatQuest with Josh Starmer: https://www.youtube.com/c/joshstarmer

Engineering: Practical Engineering https://youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel

Philosophy: School of Life https://youtube.com/c/theschooloflifetv

Math: 3Blue1Brown https://youtube.com/c/3blue1brown

(1) make a list of channels;

(2) learn to use YouTube-DL:

https://youtube-dl.org/

(3) have a script that auto-runs the YouTube-DL script

(4) then drop videos watched input a watched folder; generate a spreadsheet and columns to note who has watched watch and filepath; create a basic website; etc.

— easy to do, used to do it when I knew I would have no or bad internet.

I'd also suggest that Nebula has quite a few creators in the STEM space, though not nearly enough to make it the one-stop-shop you're looking for.

I find the 'X in 100 seconds' series great for keeping an eye on CS topics outside of my everyday work, like the history of gzip compression or the advantages of a new CSS Post-Processor.

We've covered Unison, Multi-modal and multi-task models, Zig, Transformers, NFTs, Semantic Web, Local-first software, etc. I think it'd be up your alley.

- Zig: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wie5YuzoUQI&list=PLZ8NrLhP6G...

- TLA+: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1drTz6GYpZU

- Unison: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvJwaGHy768&list=PLZ8NrLhP6G...

- Transformers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb0II5DuDE0&list=PLZ8NrLhP6G...

Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCl_rEKDGBw4myn0uOnPxYsg

Ben Eater (low-level digital hardware stuff, builds a computer from gates basically)

Thought Emporium (Molecular Bio)

The Coding Train (Creative Coding)

Also nice to just watch random MITx & similar lectures sometimes

- Neuroscience: Andrew Huberman | https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewHubermanLab

Absolute Gem and really sparked my curiosity of human biology. He spends a lot of time going over the neuroscience literature, essentially giving a lecture. It's quite dense, but a lot of practical advice you can apply which is backed by science.

- History: Oversimplified | https://www.youtube.com/c/OverSimplified

A comedically narrated hyper summary of historical events. It made me very interested in learning more about events of the French revolutions, the founding of USA and it's civil wars, and more. For more depth, highly recommend the OG podcast hardcore history.

- Construction: B1M | https://www.youtube.com/c/Theb1mGoogle/featured

Lots of interesting videos about the development of unique structures.

- Theories of Everything with Curt Jaimungal - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheoriesofEverything

- Tech Ingredients - https://www.youtube.com/c/TechIngredients

- Lex Fridman - https://www.youtube.com/c/lexfridman

- Andrew Huberman - https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewHubermanLab

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2m77KGMIKZCD0Kw35-4shQ

He talks about philosophy, social trends and politics (I know this can be controversial, but he does quite in depth analysis of current trends based on a philosophical background)

Lex Friedman is imo the best podcast out there, but if he's got an interview with someone you dislike, I'd skip it because he'll not press on where you think he needs to press on to get to the heart of it.

https://www.youtube.com/c/worldwartwo

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUcyEsEjhPEDf69RRVhRh4A

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLfMmOriSyPbd5JhHpnj4Ng

https://youtube.com/c/ThePostApocalypticInventor

He's repurposing things found on the scrapyard with a high focus on self-sufficiency.

He does beautiful, calming videos of his meticulous machining work. He recently worked on recreating the Antikythera mechanism.

Michel Van Bizen has hundreds (thousands?6 of university level lectures on many topics science and math: https://youtube.com/c/MichelvanBiez

Discovered that channel trying to understand all modes of heat transfer through windows. Covered under thermodynamics. https://youtu.be/r3tC-ocdVoQ

- car aerodynamics -> https://www.youtube.com/c/KYLEDRIVES

- rockets and space travel -> https://www.youtube.com/c/EverydayAstronaut

- geopolitics -> https://www.youtube.com/c/CaspianReport

- random subjects but always interesting -> https://www.youtube.com/c/PolyMatter

- Innovation: https://www.youtube.com/c/ColdFusion/

- Constructions: https://www.youtube.com/c/Theb1mGoogle

- Informational: https://www.youtube.com/c/RealLifeLore/

https://www.youtube.com/user/captaindisillusion

SmarterEveryDay is probably my second favorite. Definitely a lot of talk, but really interesting random experiments and builds.

Also try UpandAtom for Physics

ParallaxNick https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0QdW-H7_l0zh_CoNhlwoBw

Cool Worlds https://www.youtube.com/c/CoolWorldsLab

CarlSagan42, watching him play intricate "troll" levels on Mario Maker 2 is hilarious

8-Bit Show and Tell, who does some deep dives into mostly Commodore-related things

Michael MJD, who explores various older Windows and PC-related things

Modern Vintage Gamer, who has documented some of the piracy and emulation scenes (especially watch his "Mistakes Were Made" series on console security)

guitarheroROXS, a top Guitar Hero console player who also does some deep dives into more obscure GH-related sub-topics

https://youtube.com/c/Thunderf00t

Did he improve at all?

He sometimes covers interesting stuff, but the style/etc rubs me wrong.

I remember one of his arguments was that starship was nothing special because fully-reusable launch vehicles had already been tested - but who cares about that? On the other hand, his criticism of musk's vegas tunnel is fairly spot-on IMO.

They explain complex systems with quality 3d animation.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/

- Technology Connections - Somebody already mentioned his channel, but it's worth it to find out how the stuff we take for granted works. - Today I Found Out - One of Simon Whistlers channels, he covers a wide range of topics, diving in to where you are just almost over your head. - Answers With Joe - Joe Scott covers many topics with a bend towards science appreciation. I would use his videos in late high school lessons if I were a teacher. - Knowing Better - History. Mostly American History, but it's a really deep dive. I like his delivery and his unapologetic way of discussing the really bad parts of history that people tend to sweep under the rug. - Half as Interesting - It's from Wendover, but short and funny. - Kyle Hill - The Internet's knockoff Thor, he explores deep science and physics in an approachable manner, especially when he is in "The Facility".

* Epimetheus - Ancient history https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp9ZtilfKJds0iWytR_pnOQ

* Everyday Astronaut - Rocket engineering breakdowns and other space stuff https://www.youtube.com/c/EverydayAstronaut

* Forgotten Weapons - Discussions of interesting and often obscure firearms, usually by disassembling working examples. https://www.youtube.com/c/ForgottenWeapons

* Have History Will Travel - US Civil War history https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbhl9yTKO6685Ssam0hXTCw

* Historia Civilis - In depth history, with ongoing series about Rome, the English Civil War, and the post-Napoleonic era. Uploads infrequently but worth waiting for. https://www.youtube.com/c/HistoriaCivilis

* Illinois EnergyProf - Energy, with some focus on nuclear. Uploads infrequently. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKH_iLhhkTyt8Dk4dmeCQ9w

* NativLang - Linguistics throughout the world https://www.youtube.com/user/NativLang

https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/w1zyn8/favourite_math...

Of those listed there I would like to highlight this one:

https://www.youtube.com/c/Aleph0/videos

A few others that I've found recently also in math/physics:

https://www.youtube.com/c/PhysicsExplainedVideos/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/SimulatingPhysics/videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3L8AcX1xJEhTofnCF2MAaQ/vid...

https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceClicEN/videos

The French version of the above channel has a lot more videos but unfortunately aren't translated to English yet.

Proper lectures by professors of various math/physics topics unfortunately are scattered around YouTube and I'm surprised no one has gathered a big list of them given that during COVID a lot of stuff has been put online. I've only found the following two channels which gather various lectures given however at a graduate/research level so you're unlikely to learn much unless you have a significant background:

https://www.youtube.com/c/GraduateMathematics/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/GraduatePhysics/videos

Absolute gem, especially for people that are already aware of the plethora of good but well-known channels and are looking for something new and not recycled. Highly recommended!

I find myself totally absorbed in them, then I look at the clock and realise "What the hell am I doing? It's 1AM and I've just watched 3 hours of in-depth information about grinding a solid glass compact telescope for a micro-sat with refraction collimation techniques using equipment I have absolutely no chance of ever even understanding, let alone using?"

Yet, I persist.

Quite good at explaining the whys of a crash without going into the hyperbole of shows like air crash investigations.

BPS.Space: Dude building model rockets & flight controllers. Just landed a model rocket propulsively, video out soon - https://www.youtube.com/c/BPSspace

Brian Oltrogge/Grunblau: Metalworking, often combining 3D printing with sandcasting of metal - https://www.youtube.com/c/Grunblau

BaxEDM: Dude building his own Electrostatic Discharge Machining-machine - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy4kgsAYxcraee8w5SfqXPA

- An interview with a NASA programmer that worked on the Apollo computers (with Linus from LTT)

- An embed on a nuclear sub

- Several videos with the US Coast Guard

- A VERY technical tour of a Kodak film factory.

Don’t sleep on some of the longer extended videos on the secondary channel either, the film chemistry one from just this week is fascinating.

Samo Burja is a social theorist with a scientist's soul. He manages a political consulting firm by day, and tries to explain how civilizations work by night. He often touches on geopolitics, technology, institutions, epistemology, societal collapse, etc in one stroke. A lot of his claims seem outlandish for three seconds, but are actually very thought out. The guy's really sharp and did many podcasts throughout the pandemic, which was a treat. Don't be put off by the low view-count, the guy's a rising star and I hope to see more of him

Civilization: Institutions, Knowledge, and the Future: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACdYmuFyjWM

Also, if you're interested in Rust at all, Jon Gjengset is great: https://www.youtube.com/c/JonGjengset

0: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1usFRN4LCMcfIV7UjHNuQg

1: https://www.youtube.com/c/MissingSemester

John Michael Godier/Event Horizon astrophysics interviews with speculative science mixed in

BilliSpeaks cat with word buttons. Loves the mad button.

William Spaniel-geopolitics/game theory

Ian builder complete off the wall “experiments“ but mostly chaos

Quinns ideas-sci-fi/fantasy

The Royal Institution

Yoga with Adrienne the yoga GOAT

Scott Galloway Econ/decent rage interpreter

- The Engineering Mindset https://www.youtube.com/c/Theengineeringmindset

- hpp3 (low level software series) https://www.youtube.com/user/hhp3

- Andrew Huberman / Huberman Lab (neuroscience) https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewHubermanLab

Topics: life, the universe, and everything...

- Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell https://www.youtube.com/c/inanutshell

Lesics - engineering/tech videos

Defunctland - history of extinct theme parks, entertainment

Chinese Cooking Demystified - how to cook authentic Chinese food

making stuff/testing/tearing down

https://www.youtube.com/c/frankhowarth https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcoReps https://www.youtube.com/c/FireballTool https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAnvil https://www.youtube.com/c/arduinoversusevil2025 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

music

https://www.youtube.com/c/AdamNeely https://www.youtube.com/c/12tonevideos https://www.youtube.com/c/8bitMusicTheory

food and drink

https://www.youtube.com/c/JKenjiLopezAlt https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMb0O2CdPBNi-QqPk5T3gsQ https://www.youtube.com/c/TheEducatedBarfly

misc/niche

https://www.youtube.com/c/AGADMATOR https://www.youtube.com/c/NickSibicky https://www.youtube.com/c/Drugslab https://www.youtube.com/c/GreatArtExplained

- Dr. Ekberg: https://www.youtube.com/c/drekberg (2M subs)

- Dr. Berg: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrEricBergDC (8M subs)

Car repair & detailing:

- Chris Fixx: https://www.youtube.com/c/chrisfix (9M subs)

Piano:

https://www.youtube.com/user/cedarvillemusic

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3vYz1SAtcbRhsatydObGQw

https://www.youtube.com/user/PianistMagazine (Graham Fitch)

https://www.youtube.com/user/SteveMass1101

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr0BMA5yu3AS0alkR7kYwEQ

https://www.youtube.com/user/aw4piano

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLsMRd097KLJMvkNzC4rYAA

https://www.youtube.com/c/DanielBarenboim/videos

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6tpkZhNpJiTnlUgoiUe9QQ

This is really different from all the other suggestions here. An overall nice guy does walkthrough videos of some of the worst hoods in the US. Eye-opening stuff in many ways. Many good stories too.

Hobo Shoestring - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHoboShoestring

This guy has lived on the rails for decades and knows everything about train hopping and (hobo) life in general. Awesome videos and stories.

A channel with great content on nutrition science and latest research: https://youtube.com/c/FoodLies

A young making rocket in his garage: https://youtube.com/c/BPSspace

- Tantacrul - Music and software design, he is now involved in Audacity and MuseScore

I follow a number of really good French channels as well, if anyone is interested I can post them.

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCLXDNUOO3EQ80VmD9nQBHPg - Fouloscopie - he studies crowd behaviors (it's his research). Very funny and interesting.

Linguistics:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCofQxJWd4qkqc7ZgaLkZfcw - Linguisticae - a fervant defensor of descriptivism, has a really good long video presenting the Academie française and its numerous faults

History (the two unmissable French channel on the topic):

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCKjDY4joMPcoRMmd-G1yz1Q - C'est une autre histoire - she has a PhD

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCP46_MXP_WG_auH88FnfS1A - Nota Bene

Critical thinking, avoiding fake news, reasoning biases:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCMFcMhePnH4onVHt2-ItPZw - Hygiène Mentale

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCU0FhLr6fr7U9GOn6OiQHpQ - Officiel DEFAKATOR

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCNgudhx2s_ubmiA2L_2NMmg - Defakator Vite Fait - short versions of his long videos

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCAoUBng0Mfu0qn4lPimS6MA - G Milgram - handles stuff like QAnon, witches on TikTok, etc

(if you are really into the subject of critical thinking and zététique (the discipline where you try to check paranormal phenomenon with rigorous scientific method), I guess you can check out Richard Monvoisin's lessons at the Grenoble Alps University - https://skeptikon.fr/c/5f74ed4b-cc3c-4b33-a33d-06f49282ada5/... - quite comprehensive, not everybody likes his tone, Hygiène Mentale will probably sound more balanced to these people. I guess I'll need to check out the whole Peertube skeptikon instance)

Math:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UC0NCbj8CxzeCGIF6sODJ-7A - Science4All

- https://youtube.com/channel/UC4PasDd25MXqlXBogBw9CAg - Mickaël Launay

General science stuff:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCaNlbnghtwlsGF-KzAFThqA - ScienceEtonnante - He has a PhD in the area of quantuum physics. A bit like Veritasium, but a bit less sensational

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCeR8BYZS7IHYjk_9Mh5JgkA - Scilabus - she also has a PhD, usually on random things of everyday life

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCaZRpfXzlHVchIJMpf-PVFw - Sci+ - her meta channel on vulgarisation

- https://youtube.com/channel/UC4Jrte_YtwWfANKNyzse5iA - Avides de recherche

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCcziTK2NKeWtWQ6kB5tmQ8Q - e-penser 2.0 - general science stuff. His videos from a few years ago are entertaining. He does not like putting his sources though

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCE_LWXcsdp7cWbo4DR4ZA-A - Science de comptoir - fun, with a lot of puns everywhere. I fail to focus on her videos unfortunately, I'll need to try harder.

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCZxLew-WXWm5dhRZBgEFl-Q - Le Vortex - ARTE - a vulgarisation series with many of these people on this list posing as roommates - really good, interesting, fun. You really need to check this out. I've been discovering a lot of those great channels thanks to this series.

Economics:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCyJDHgrsUKuWLe05GvC2lng - Stupid Economics - economics stuff

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCynBu7PDfJsCXeCSqT1QUQw - Vous Avez Le Droit - legal stuff

Marketing:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCAiy7bY8nTQCWrkSRh6Wu9w - Un Créatif - about marketing, mostly fun but he stopped recently

Astronomy:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UC5X4e8ScZI2AFd_vkjSoyoQ - AstronoGeek

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCS_7tplUgzJG4DhA16re5Yg - Balade Mentale, mostly philosophical for the few videos I've seen

Computer science:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCYnvxJ-PKiGXo_tYXpWAC-w - Micode·Enquêtes - nice for people who are not strong in computers but curious. He infiltrated a network of scammers, his videos on this are quite interesting

Philosophy:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCqA8H22FwgBVcF3GJpp0MQw - Monsieur Phi

Stuff I need to check out but seems promising:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UC9BnGZLT4iPaJtDOXYwQuHQ - Primum Non Nocere

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCV6uM3y-8TeO7JlCtcEN-Bg - ScienceClic

- https://youtube.com/channel/UC1EacOJoqsKaYxaDomTCTEQ - Le Réveilleur - the few videos on climate change I listened to are worth checking out

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCHGMBrXUzClgjEzBMei-Jdw - Le dessous des cartes - famous geography TV (ARTE) program - I've heard it was better in the past so maybe check out older videos first

And my favourite, the fantastic TV Show "C Dans L'air" from France 5, is a great daily 1h balanced deep dive into topics of local politics or geopolitics, broadcast into youtube for archival/rewatches with 1 day delay.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Cdanslairofficiel

Be aware people in France will have the last 1 week of C Dans L'Air shows blocked from Youtube (GeoIP) to favour the annoying France TV Pluzz VOD platform, so VPN away if you need, or hop to non-YT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwgIjBUYVc

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSl5Uxu2LyaoAoMMGp6oTJA

He has a variety of content, all things that the creator enjoys, presented clearly no subscribe to me prompts just a chap trying new things and doing his projects in a nice calm way. Theres a great community there as well.

Knowing Better (https://www.youtube.com/c/KnowingBetter) is a master of the "talking head babbling about stuff" genre, if that's your cup of tea.

Absolutely! It's too bad he's not on the top of everyone's list!

He doesn't make a bad video in my opinion.