Greetings all!
There are a few YouTube channels I watch on a regular basis that I’d put in the science/math bin. Here are a few examples:
NileRed Standup Maths Steve Mould AlphaPhoenix
I was wondering if anyone here had any recommendations for other science/math channels to follow or a resource that aggregates good channels. As a lay person, as in no college level education on these topics, I’m not sure I have the qualifications to determine if a channel is highly accurate or not. I think I’ve done a good job finding channels that are accurate but wanted to check in with folks that may be able to better determine that.
I’m particularly interested in astronomy, cosmology, and evolution.
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Damn Everyone here is nerd too. I am not alone.
Integza does mostly rocket engineering videos but is very good. 12Tone does music analysis (which I didn’t think I’d be interested in but it’s actually super interesting)
Minute Physics is great as well for general physics in bite size chunks.
What If is by Randall Monroe of XKCD where he answers ridiculous questions using science and math to give serious (if crazy) answers.
BPS.Space builds rockets and is very good at explaining the why of what he’s doing.
Mark Rober is good and hits at about a high school level general science and engineering.
Thought Emporium does mostly bioengineering but ventures into a verity of topics.
Legal Eagle is good at US based law topics.
I will 100% vouch for Nebula. It’s a great service that also directly supports creators more than YouTube does. You can find many educational YouTubers there.
This woman give fun talks about paleontology.
Mark Rober is always a good one. And Vsauce if you prefer OG YouTube quality.
3blue1brown is phenomenal. It taught me how to understand a bunch of things better than studying them academically did.
“Journey to the Microcosmos” is wonderful.
ZeFrank has quite a lot of accurate biology if you want a humor channel in there.
PBS Eons is great.
I haven’t checked them out, but I feel like things like Nebula or CuriosityStream may be becoming better sources for this stuff than YouTube is. YouTube seems like it is becoming a chess, and I see no real reversal of that in the cards any time soon.
I’ll second 3blue1brown.
Scott Manley is, of course, mainly interested in rockets, but does cover sciencey things too (I believe he’s a former professional astronomer).
I like Cleo Abram’s “optimistic science” shorts.
Love Scott Manley!
After looking up Cleo Abram I remembered I watched a video where she was hanging out with a paleontologist and that I enjoyed how geeked out she was to find some fossils :) I’ll check out those shorts! Shorts are nice with the kids too. They’re still a bit younger but are curious so that may be the perfect length.
Awesome, thanks for the recommendations!
I’ll have to take a closer look at Nebula and CuriosityStream. I think they come up in ads enough that they wind up on my mental ad blocker so I’ve never looked closely at them :)
Yeah. I haven’t looked at them yet for that exact reason, but the argument is making sense to me.
I like Nebula. It’s not too expensive, there’s a lot of great creators, and it’s an easy way to support a variety without subscribing to all sorts of Patreons.
Thanks, saving this for the future.
I’d add Electroboom (Electrical Engineering), Tom Stanton (Engineer who makes a lot of engines to fly planes), Crime Pays But Botany Doesn’t (Botany), Periodic Videos (Chemistry), Practical Engineering (Civil Engineering), Nick Zentner (Geology).
Angela Collier has some great stuff on physics, and she’s a great teacher.
Seeing all this science and nature content made me think of watching CBC’s The Nature Of Things as a kid. Their long-time host David Suzuki managed to piss off some powerful people, including the Prime Minister of Canada, so make of that what you will. It seems The Nature Of Things is still going, and they have a YouTube channel.
What did Suzuki do?
He challenged conservative politicians on climate science issues.
What specifically can be pointed to? Are there any articles discussing it?
Sixty Symbols is great.
Journey to the microcosmose is pretty great.
I use Hank’s narrating the episode to help me to sleep, it’s so soothing.
Sad that it’s over now, the footage is absolutely stunning.
Smarter Every Day, Veritasium
I would classify those as pop science, preferring storytelling to science. A bit too handwavy.
That Veritasium video about electricity was absolute bullshit. For however many minutes long it was, he didn’t once use the word “induction” or try to actually explain anything. The video was basically “electricity is voodoo”. I immediately unsubscribed, and I can’t even stand seeing his face anymore.
If your shitty science video spawns multiple video responses from your betters calling you out on your bullshit, you are a bad science YouTuber and should stop making videos.
The good thing about it is that it can hopefully spark intrigue in some or many.
I remember young self, equally interested in pop science (then magazines).
But yes, the bad part is people thinking they learned something from the videos. It’s mostly entertainment, not reflecting the science honestly.
Dr. George S Diaz PhD nuclear physicist goes through the math and the experiments. Has a very satisfying voice and you never see him so no egotistical BS
Universe today. Fraser Cain. Great in depth interviews with astronomers and other space scientists.
Hyperspace Pirate is making something in his garage. I don’t really know what, but involved cryogenics and electric arc furnaces.
Tech Ingredients seems to be gearing up to arm the resistance after the seven hours war.
Atomic Frontier is a young Aussie kid trying really hard and doing a great job of teaching pop science.
list
Geology hub (inactive/amateur/recent vulcanologist)
Shawn Willsey (professor of geology)
Sabine Hossenfelder (inactive physicist)
Two Minute Papers (active AI light researcher)
Real Science (dunno, but cites proper sources)
Fraser Cain (Masters, astronomy news and media)
Arvin Ash (Mechanical Engineering/ claims life long learner and posts physics content with sources)
7 Days of Science (few kids presently in Uni with VERY bright futures in paleontology reporting on papers and discoveries)
Ben G Thomas (principal Uni kid of 7DoS and apparent future paleontologist)
DJ Ware (Masters/Doc? In CS? and a former Bell Labs guy)
Curious Marc (Masters/Doc? EE? another former Bell Labs guy)
The Signal Path (Masters/Doc? EE, Grand Master of the dark arts of high frequency and radio, currently at Bell Labs)
Scott Manley (Masters/Doc? inactive astronomer, rocket nerd)
Dr. Becky (Professor of astronomy)
Stewart Hicks (Professor of Architecture)
Anything from Hank Green (SciShow) or from Brady Haron (Computerphile, Deep Sky Videos, Periodic Videos, Objectivity)
The Thought Emporium (Masters/Doc? in organic chemistry)
Breaking Taps (Professor of applied science)
Mathias Wandel (EE and former lead engineer from Blackberry)
Stuff Made Here (lead engineer from Form Labs)
Economics Explained (Professor of Economics)
Cool Worlds (Professor of Astronomy, a leading researcher for exo-moons)
Dr. Ben Miles (Physicist, head of a venture capital firm)
Stephen Milo (Masters/Doc? in archeology)
Practical Engineering (Civil Engineer)
Andreas Spies (retired EE and best source for hobby electronics and Arduino type stuff)
EEVBlog (EE)
Ben Eater (Professor of CS)
Hexibase (audio engineer)
Huygens Optics (Retired Professor? Hints like he worked at ASML. The principal optics YouTuber)
Nile Red (Chemist)
Prompt Engineering (CS, applied AI, active dev)
Robert Miles (Doctorate, AI alignment researcher)
Tech Ingredients (Applied Science)
Yannic Kilcher (Doctorate, AI researcher for Meta and probably the most advanced present researcher posting content directly)
Applied Science (Doc of Applied Science, magnetics specialist)
Others I watch were already mentioned like Anton Petrov, Nick Zentner, etc.
