What are your favorite educational or informative YouTube channels?
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PBS Space Time
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Renaissance Periodization - working out, dieting, bodybuilding and steroids.
Dr Mike Isratel is a Dr of exercise science and doesnt chat shit. They make their money pretty transparently, and give honest to god research backed information. Lots of information that can be extracted from Beginners to Advanced and he loves a good dick joke enough for all of his content to feel fun.
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If you're into an academic study of the occult or comparative religion, I like Esoterica by Doctor Justin Sledge (he's the guy from the tumblr alchemy meme about making a Paracellcian era anti-depressant)
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Crash Course! They have series on history, politics, games, psychology, philosophy, folk tales, and almost every host is very good.
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I’m a big fan of Practical Engineering — https://youtube.com/@practicalengineeringchannel
I second this. His teaching style is perfect.
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Garry's Economic
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Renaissance Periodization - working out, dieting, bodybuilding and steroids.
Dr Mike Isratel is a Dr of exercise science and doesnt chat shit. They make their money pretty transparently, and give honest to god research backed information. Lots of information that can be extracted from Beginners to Advanced and he loves a good dick joke enough for all of his content to feel fun.
I watched a couple of Mike's videos. Seems like good information and he is entertaining. No music, no ads, no goofie sound effects.
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]Not Just Bikes
Tales from a Canadian from Suburbia, Ontario who moved to the Netherlands.
He talks about public transit and city planning.They say falling into this rabbit hole is to take the "orange pill".
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[email protected] - is this the one?
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]Ooo just thought of another. Animagraffs — https://youtube.com/@animagraffs
Takes large scale things (Hoover Dam, locomotive, F1 car, etc) and breaks them down into their components in a long-scale video format (30+ minutes). It’s oddly soothing to watch.
I think the Steam Locomotive one is my favorite so far. https://youtu.be/Hszu80NJ438
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]Esoterica is great. It’s mostly about gnostic side of western religious history. Dr. Justin Sledge is doing awesome research on the relevant topics. I’m watching that to know more about to put religion in a historical context.
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wrote on last edited by [email protected]Most of my youtube subs are educational/informative in some way or another, so I'm gonna break it up by category a bit..
General
- Half as Interesting
- Wendover Productions
- Answer in Progress
Religion/Philosophy
- Religion for Breakfast
- Esoterica
- Bart D. Ehrman
- PhilosophyTube
- Wisecrack (though it's dead as of a month ago it still has tons of great content)
- Michael Burns (the guy who did Wisecrack, now has his own channel, though it's more politically-oriented)
- UsefulCharts (not exclusively religious content, but largely)
- SatansGuide (I keep hoping they'll make more videos like their original 2, but it's been a year...)
General Science:
- Veritasium
- Dr Ben Miles
- Kyle Hill
- Stand Up Maths
- Primer
Science Experimentation:
- Nile Red
- Thought Emporium
- Styropyro
- Tech Ingredients
- Alpha Phoenix
- Applied Science
- BPS.Space
Programming/AI:
- Sebastian Lague (his Coding Adventure series is super fun and informative)
- Emergent Garden
- Code Bullet
Engineering:
- Practical Engineering
- Real Engineering
- SuperfastMatt (guy builds crazy cars for fun, love his sense of humor)
History:
- History Matters (great short videos on historical topics)
- Miniminuteman/Milo Rossi (mostly archaeology and such)
Geography:
- Daniel Steiner
- Map Nerd
- Jay Foreman (Map Men is hilarious, and the rest of his stuff is pretty good too)
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I'm waiting got hbomberguy to come back.
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I'm Grady, and you just read this in my voice.
I totally did.
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I second this. His teaching style is perfect.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]If you haven’t, I recommend checking out his book, too! Takes the video explanation style he has and turns it into text format and it works really well. My kids are fascinated by it. Maybe a future engineer in the making!
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PBS Space Time
Best channel on YouTube.
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sage the bad naturalist
️She hearted one of my youtube comments the other day
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Historia Civilis—excellent history videos. Primarily their story of the fall of the Roman Republic, which does a shockingly good job of making you feel emotions for a little coloured square with the channel's iconic simple animation style. Good if you're interested in the intricacies of the politics and culture of the time.
Extra History—shorter historical overviews of a much wider range of topics than the above. Quite transparent about their process with their "Lies" episodes at the end of each series, where they explain any errors that slipped through, as well as aspects they left out for the sake of keeping the story focused within the time they had.
ReligionForBreakfast—a scholarly, secular take on religion and religious practice. I think the first thing I saw was their series on American Civil Religion, which is the idea that Americans' attitude towards their country and its processes is similar to religion belief and practice.
UsefulCharts—history and religion, told through charts. The ones that interest me the most are the ones that touch on the creator's PhD in religious studies, such as about the historicity of various aspects of the bible, and on his actual thesis topic on the Psychology of Atheism.
And since you said "informative", I'll add some that I probably wouldn't have included solely under the "educational" category. Not Just Bikes, CityNerd, Radical Planning, Oh the Urbanity!, among others. Urbanist channels across a range of the political spectrum (from Oh the Urbanity which are relatively libertarian, to Radical Planning which is quite marxist). But all of them deal with the problems inherent to the way cities are designed especially in the anglosphere (and among that, especially in America) and how car-centric design creates miserable places while also being economically ruinous.
Since you mention a few Urbanism channels, I'll add a couple more that I like:
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The backlog is fantastic! Great explanations and examples of manufacturing and design choices.
And all videos are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY).
