CGP Grey is a meh channel for a very long time now
I thought the Tiffany video was pretty meh, but the followup video about how the Tiffany video got made was one of his best. He’s clearly a thorough and passionate researcher. The way he refuses to settle for anything less than the primary source is both entertaining and vitally important in our modern information landscape.
Shout out to PBS Space Time
That shit’s my jam.
For physics enthusiasts, I’d also suggest “floatheadphysics” for his depictions and sometimes cathartic presentation style. I love how he broke down special relativity in an easily understood way.
Then I’ve also really been enjoying “For The Love of Physics” for his style of showing some of the math. His style is more of a classroom presentation, but in a way that reminds me of my most effective professors that made their lessons as easy to consume as mac and cheese.
I’m inclined to hit some online courses someday, too, but, for now, these have been great for conceptual stuff and my curiosity vs. time balance.
PBS Eons is also pretty good, if you’re into paleontology.
I love watching Spacetime, but also feel like dum-dum-brain after watch. Me no think good enough to watch this show.
Yeah I think it’s a quality channel but apparently there are just SO many people out there smarter than me that they are fine catering only to them. It sucks being left behind by a publicly funded channel :(
I’m actually thankful. It’s good to know a little about the bleeding edge of science, and there presumably are people who really do understand it. The fact that I don’t, means that there are smart, passionate people out there doing the work. Not every show needs to cater to the lowest common denominator.
I feel like the more you watch the more watchable it is cause you get more and more context
They’re definitely building on each other, but they’re definitely ELIApplyingForMyDocotrate degree.
Ahoy.
There’s a pretty good astronomy channel called SEA
+Practical Engineering
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+Real Engineering +Technology Connections +EngineerGuy +Explosions&Fire +NurdRage +NileRed (more entertainment than education nowadays but his old videos are pretty information dense) +Chris Boden +MinutePhysics/MinuteEarth/MinuteFood +LegalEagle +Engineering Explained +Wendover Productions / Half as Interesting
I got tons more but my legs are starting to fall asleep.
The ones I know are good, I’ll be back to check the rest…
Technology connections is so good. I watched a video and wanted to share it but peoples response was always “I’m not fucking watching an hour video on how a dishwasher works” I say but thats the shorten version
Wendover has gotten strange. Their Maldives video was just the same 10 minutes regurgitated over 30.
If you want to learn a bit about machining while also dealing with maximum dad humor: This Old Tony
He spends WAY too long on parting sections of his stock. /s
+3blue1brown, if you need more pain.
+ElectroBoom, if you want to see grown adult play with electricity
He still crackles me up
+Chill Dude Explains needs a shoutout in general here. Fits in neatly between CGP Grey and Sam O’Nella I feel.
+ComboClass +FloatHeadPhysics +Stand-up Maths +Tor’s Cabinet of Curiosities +Oceanliner Designs +Plainly Difficult +ColdFusion +BobbyBroccoli +Unsolicited Advice +Horses +Hochelaga +Inspiraggio +Art Deco +Kyle Hill
I could add more but I use ReVanced and I misplaced my subscriptions page
+styropyro +benn jordan +chubbyemu +hemereview +creganford +esoterica +religion for breakfast +dark science +philosophy tube +wisecrack +gutsick gibbon +metta beshay +Hamilton Morris +PBS eons +sage the bad naturalist +Steve mould +talon fitness +the poopie show +thought emporium +useful charts +weird explorer +writing with andrew
+AlphaPhoenix +Applied Science +Breaking Taps +ProjectsInFlight +suckerpinch
You mean Photonic Induction
What is pain with nice-looking graphics tho
None of them on the fediverse :/
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.
Yeah they’re kinda bullshit.
What exactly is bullshit?
If this is meant to be a tongue in cheek comment on their video titles, then you deserve a dramatic slow clap.
Their videos about the climate catastrophe are paid by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
A lot more than those. It’s usually the ones that say Big Pharma saved the world and will do it again or that things are great actually
SpaceTime and 3Blue1Brown are good science educators for the college level.
Veritasium is good for the middle/high school level.
Kurzgesagt is probably useful for an infant. Or like a smart dog. Maybe an Australian shepherd.
Garbage channel.
Their early videos were very well researched and put together. At a certain point, they became a lot of “What is the purpose of dust? I guess we’ll never know. Isn’t the universe a mysterious place?”
You can tell the Gates-bucks have really leaned them in a neo-liberal slant. It kind of sucks.
It’s not simply the Gates money, but the pivot to pursuing grants by chasing clicks to the exclusion of all else.
They’ve been Mr Beast-ified.
So happy capitalism allows me to experience network decay on the internet.
Oops. Everything is The Learning Channel.
It has been neoliberal biased for ages. For example this is a 2021 article calling out their neoliberal bias. https://aninjusticemag.com/the-inescapable-neoliberal-bias-behind-kurzgesagt-in-a-nutshell-215eb1e9b70f?gi=9574bf28f4a0
But it has undoubtedly gotten a lot worse recently. That south korea video was abymaly blind and baked in unrealistic capitalist assumptions.
Kurzgesagt when its summarizing research papers is alright, but as soon as anything touches on a social or political issue it’s all “vote with your wallet 🙂”
It’s not as good as it used to be, but I still find it comfortable to watch. I like the black hole and space stuff, like what terraforming a planet would look like, but yeah they definitely have some fluff videos. Unfortunately clickbait titles like THE WORLD MAY DIE is just YouTube 101, seems baked into every channel now. Very hard to find a channel that feels organic.
I stopped watching them several years ago. I can’t say it was a specific video or event, but I just started zoning out when trying to watch them. I don’t do that much, I generally only watch, play, listen to and do things I can focus on. I’ve tried to watch some videos since then but I just lose interest after a minute or two. It’s like they refined their style so much that it all became too “samey” and it feels like they’re so scared of offending anyone that they end up saying nothing.
A lot of their political and historical videos are propaganda
Such as?
Not going to give them views, but find any modern history video especially if it’s from a designated enemy nation by the US State Dept
the one that talks shit on so-called third parties is basically all conjecture and poorly interpreted academics.
Oh you were talking about oversimplified… I thought you meant kurzegesagt and was very confused. They don’t do any history, well with a focus on it at least.
Dang, I’m surprised to see how many folks are down on Kurtzgesakt in the comments here! Bummer!
They might not be perfect, ya’ll, but at least they encourage open thought and critical thinking! Better than a lot of other media can say these days! 🙂
But they don’t encourage open thought and critical thinking. They basically tell you what to think.
They seem to be trying to copy xkcd’s video format with the fantasy tier what if questions answered seriously. Seems out of place to me, not sure what Gates Foundation gets out of fluff pieces like figuring out what banana rain would do to the planet while getting the terminal velocity of a banana wrong right off the bat too. What a shit video.
Ah, yes. Their “We found space whales on Nimbus!” video (about speculative Zoology of alien worlds), which was later titled “What actual aliens might look like” was something I could excuse. I don’t consider claiming the impossible click-bait, but seeing the controversy, it was best they changed it.
However, what I really hated was their ad for a “strange matter” vile/necklace (i forgor), not because they lied about it containing reality destroying elements, but because they did the “buy now because they’ll never come back” trick. I consider manipulative sales tactics to be a greater sin than clickbait.
They’re doing the thing where they upload a video and then change the thumbnail and title of the video every few days which I’ve only seen done by all the low effort click bait channels. It’s what finally got me to install the dearrow extension which swaps titles and videos of YouTube videos to be more informative and less click bait.
I believe this is a YouTube feature that effectively runs A/B tests on your behalf. You give it multiple titles and thumbnails and it’ll gauge engagement with each and then use the one that was most popular. I hate it.
Every other week I learn something about YouTube that makes me sad
Damn YouTube is such a shitty platform
A lot of channels do this, you might’ve just not noticed.
Veritasium?
The Rest is History is always a good listen.
Historia Civilis and others like Kings and Generals etc are often good too.
Don’t like him for the ways he pushes bullshit, even if it technically might be correct under x y z assumptions that are utterly nonsense in real live. Last video I watched was with the interference and “light takes all paths” and the way to actually show it was complete nonsense. Yikes. At 600 nm you are not going to have any measurable amount going 10 cm somewhere else.
Which one are you talking about, Veritasium?
Yes
Oh I love the rest is history, they’re so good at keeping me interested in random history stories. Plus, in my country their ads don’t seem to work.
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
Really appreciate her work - the educational stuff is good at putting things into a context and giving laypeople some mental coathooks to hang things off of, and I like how she emphasizes the video explainer format is a provider of jumping off points more than a source of real understanding.
Her discussion of media and news is maybe not as relevant here but still pretty on point in my experience.“Her discussion of media and news is maybe not as relevant here but still pretty on point in my experience.”
I remember being surprised how much I enjoyed her video about Star Trek: Picard, given that it was a multiple hour long rant video — it’s amazing how much difference it makes for someone to be engaging in good faith criticism
Not one I’ve watched yet, but there definitely is some magic to listening to someone talking about something they really care about, if you connect with them as a communicator.
Like, I don’t have any relationship to Disney’s Buzzy animatronic myself, but I’ve rewatched Jenny Nicholson ranting about it more than once because it’s fun. Captain Disillusion talking about the effects work that inspired him also feels kinda similar.
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.
Id be interested to hear which are which. My guess are: Family Guy - Oversimplified Hit-Wonder - Grey Titans - Sam and Kurzgesagt
I don’t see Blue Jay. 😔
I’ll throw Dr Becky (Smethurst) and Numberphile into the mix
CGP Grey is a Tesla shill
I don’t think it’s on purpose. He got his before the vasy majority knew what a shithead Musk is.
Nothing like turning on Sam O’Nella for some entertaining educational comedy for the kids only to hear “removed” over and over again
My four horsemen:
- Uri Tuchman
- Hyperspace pirate
- Hand tool rescue
- Apetor
May he rest in peace
Man, I am still sad about apetor. What a horrible way to go.
Based on that list, you may be interested in This Old Tony, Jeremy Makes Things, Rainfall Projects, and Tyler Bell.
I don’t know the last two, I’ll check them out thanks!
