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My list of recommended educational YouTube channels, in no particular order, paired with a recommended starting video:

1) Technology Connections. Talks about important/interesting technology, and goes into a level of detail that I find satisfying. Currently in the middle of a series going through how a car works, which I’m loving.

Technology Connections

Share your videos with friends, family, and the world

2) Tom Scott. Currently posting a weekly series of visiting an interesting place in a different county in the UK each week. But I’m really recommending him for all his older videos (before he took a long hiatus), where he does a variety of things — visiting cool places, seeing interesting technology, educational videos on computer science basics or linguistics, short-form science fiction, and other stuff. Has good principles, does good research, and showcases good things.

Tom Scott

Hi, I'm Tom Scott. These are some of the things I've made and done. They'll probably come back to haunt me in a few years' time. Contact me

3) XKCD’s What If? The most sensationalist channel on this list. An adaptation of XKCD’s book of the same name, this channel does well-researched short-form explorations of different science-based scenarios people wrote in asking about. Has to be seen to be believed.

xkcd's What If?

What If? The Video Series is the official adaptation of the 'What If?' books by Randall Munroe (xkcd.com) and is produced by Neptune Studios

4) StandUpMaths/Matt Parker. Talks about math. Has an ongoing series of Pi Day videos about calculating pi through different, ridiculous means that I love. Also, his top 15 most popular videos have 12 of my favorites, so that’s a good place to start.

Stand-up Maths

I do mathematics and stand-up. Sometimes simultaneously. Occasionally while being filmed. (It's quite the Venn diagram.) You can send busin

5) Scott the Woz. Makes themed videos about video game history with a great comedy style. Is a great way to become well-read on Nintendo, and decently knowledgeable about XBOX and PlayStation. I credit him for getting me there.

Scott The Woz

Hey all, Scott here. Scott The Woz is a comedic video game centric variety show that focuses on reviews, editorials, retrospectives and muc

6) Steve Mould. Talks about a grab-bag of interesting science stuff. Prioritizes having an intuitive way for you to understand what he’s talking about. Has a great physicality to his style, including lots of custom models.

Steve Mould

I make videos about science. I also write books! You can get them here: https://stevemould.com/books You can support me on Patreon here: h

7) 3Blue1Brown. Does well-animated math explanation videos. Unlike other channels on this list (including and especially the next one up), I have a bit of trouble tolerating his style when I don’t care about the topic. But when he hooks me with an intriguing thumbnail and opener, or just covers a topic I want to learn more about, I’m there.

3Blue1Brown

My name is Grant Sanderson. Videos here cover a variety of topics in math, or adjacent fields like physics and CS, all with an emphasis on v

8) Secret Base/Jon Bois. I don’t care about sports. Or at least, I didn’t, until I started watching Jon Bois. He’s an amazing, passionate storyteller, and his engaging, analytical style sucked me in. He uses a variety of charts, maps, diagrams, and statistical techniques to tell stories, usually a collection under some common theme like “NFL games which ended with a new final score” (aka his moderately popular original term “Scorigami”) or “mound-chargings in MLB history” or “athletes named Bob” or “the documented history in the United States of slipping on banana peels.” Maybe my favorite on this list, despite being on paper what you’d expect to be the opposite.

Secret Base

Welcome to Secret Base. We like sports. We hate secrets. Tell everyone about us.

9) AlphaPhoenix. Does a 50/50 mix of absolutely unbelievable science experiments (like making a camera that can record light moving across his garage) and believable ones that are in service of unbelievably cool and/or effective mental frameworks (like how gravity is really a fictitious force experienced from our perspective standing on the earth’s surface). Competent presentations of FANTASTIC ideas and work.

AlphaPhoenix

I'm Brian Haidet - PhD in Materials Science, but I'd also describe myself as artist, maker, and Hawaiian shirt enthusiast. On this channel,

10) UdiProd. Doesn’t upload very much at all, but I’m recommending them for their (limited) existing body of work. They’ve done animated visualizations of basic computer science concepts in a way that I find fun and compelling.

udiprod

Original visualizations in 3D animation

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Real life Road Runner

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Looney Tunes is real and happening outside.

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good lord its feet really do spin around in a circle when going fast

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"Your consciousness is an ancient map written in a language you're still learning to speak. This is the journey of unmasking the ego, Every symbol scratched into your experience is a coordinate leading you home—not to a place, but to the infinite version of yourself that was always there, perfectly patient, waiting for you to stop looking and finally see." -ebebbeenaga

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My son's tattoo hurt me deeply

When Tess Morgan's son came home with a tattoo, she was griefstricken. She knew her reaction was OTT (he's 21) but it signalled a change in their relationship

This is gold this, absolute gold, the most over the top melodramatic hysterical ridiculous thing I’ve ever read

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This is actually so interesting to read- it’s from 2012 but its full of the same anxieties, even some of the same phrasing that many of the guardian’s later pieces on transness use. really hammers home how much of the terfism that emerged in the late 10s was middle class mothers angry at a loss of control over their adult children- whether that be their bodies or their friends or their opinions- and making that everyone’s problem because they have the power to do so

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He says, “I’m still the same person.”

I look at him, sitting there, my 21-year-old son. I feel I’m being interviewed for a job I don’t even want. I say, “But you’re not. You’re different. I will never look at you in the same way again. It’s a visceral feeling. Maybe because I’m your mother. All those years of looking after your body – taking you to the dentist and making you drink milk and worrying about green leafy vegetables and sunscreen and cancer from mobile phones. And then you let some stranger inject ink under your skin. To me, it seems like self-mutilation. If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood. I would have done everything to make you feel better. But this – this is desecration. And I hate it.”

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Also just the classism of her associating tattoos with “vest tops, dogs on chains, broken beer glasses”; like, just say you hate poor people

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Coming to America (1988)

Directed by John Landis

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