I stopped watching kurzgesagt after their copium video on global warming where we all hold hands and sing and magically reverse it.
I wasn’t gone on their video on the cruelty of the slaughter industrial complex where they bent over backwards to avoid suggesting veganism as the obvious solution.
They are a corporate shill, I forget who talked about. I should go find it
Here’s an existential threat to humanity, and the various ways that it’s worse than you think. But don’t worry! Capitalism will save the day by inventing solutions to our problems which won’t necessitate any restructuring of our society or economy!
Thanks as always to our billionaire
ownersdonors!
Kur is being shit recently with Bill gates
It’s been fairly neoliberal for awhile now, I can’t remember which video it was but one of them really put a bad taste in my mouth. Whatever it was, imo it felt very apologist of capitalism. I unsubbed after that.
They did a recent south korea video which was super neolib biased.
wheres wendover and reallifelore?
Dr. Roy Casagranda gives amazing lectures on history in general, especially political history and the history of the middle east.
I love threads like this where we collectively come together and share our YouTube subs and we all grow stronger every time we find a new one to add to our list
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.
I learnered about some interesting looking channels from this thread so I’ll pay it forward and share some that I like.
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Angela Collier
Bobby Broccoli
Climate Town
Computerphile
Defunctland
fern
Folding Ideas
JimmyTheGiant
KnowledgeHusk
Lextorias
Not Just Bikes
Odd Compass
Ordinary Things
PBS Space Time
slow start
Suibhne
Thought Slime
Tom Nicholas
Angela Collier…I also have my fair share of physics classes under my belt due to my engineering degree and she makes me think of things in a way that none of my professors did.
She’s brilliant.
The “magnetic forces do no work” thing is maddening.
The guy who is ‘the guy’ for that level of physics textbooks just happens to be determined to prove a non-quantum mechanics based explanation of magnetism so the book is written from that perspective without actually saying it. Of course.
You should probably note what they focus on so people know.
Unlearning economics is pretty good too
3Blue1Brown?
Yeah that’s a great one! I intentionally didn’t mention channels that I saw others had already listed.
- Kraut
- Varitasium
- OBF
- Astrum
- miniminuteman
- Wendover Productions
- Hankschannel
- Practical engineering
- NileRed, NileBlue
- Fern
- Hoog
- Plainly Difficult
- NEO
- Versed
- ColdFusion
Thoughty2- DamiLee
- Facts in Motion
- Barely Sociable
- Mark Rober
- Deep Dive
Edit: Also know you can watch videos without ads AND without sponsor parts (using sponsor block) on desktop and android with grayjay.app
Branch Education. Rare videos, but so good!
I’ve lost trust in veritasium. I don’t remember the specifics right now but every video he makes I have to take with caution
they did some self-driving car propaganda a while ago iirc. their latest videos have been mostly pretty focused physics and math history though, so they’ve generally been pretty okay imo. but any time they mention anything that can be sold i become a lot more suspicious
In the beginning it was very nice, but somehow the guy became repulsive somehow. I used to watch every video but lately I skip many. But since the older videos were interesting, I added it to the list. I also used to like Mark Rober but his videos I really dislike for a while now. It’s so over the top “look at me, I’m an engineer, I’m going to do extreme shit and be super popular for kids” instead of “I’m going to teach you something super interesting”.
Omg not kraut please god
This video says it all the guy is to historians what tech bros are to programmers.
Isn’t thoughty2 an insane right winger?
I googled it and apparently there’s been some commotion about him and his views. Especially about a video about why people are so easily offended, one I haven’t seen myself. I’m only on YouTube and Lemmy, I completely missed everything else on other platforms.
The videos I’ve seen had no political content so I never noticed anything, but it’s good to know as it might have influence on the information and nuance he provides. So thank you for pointing out his bias.
Shout out to PBS Space Time
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.
That shit’s my jam.
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.
My four horsemen:
- Uri Tuchman
- Hyperspace pirate
- Hand tool rescue
- Apetor
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!
May he rest in peace
Man, I am still sad about apetor. What a horrible way to go.
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.
I’ve got to throw The Budget Museum out there since it’s not listed.
I’ll throw Dr Becky (Smethurst) and Numberphile into the mix
I’d add 3blue1brown (3b1b) to that mix! Also xkcd’s What If, Minute Physics, and maybe VSauce
I’ll add Captain Disillusion to this thread
