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You forgot Technology Connections

Ahoy.

Anyone here like Folding Ideas? He's done some good stuff about flat earthers, crypto bros, and such.

I'd add 3blue1brown (3b1b) to that mix! Also xkcd's What If, Minute Physics, and maybe VSauce

I stopped watching kurzgesagt after their copium video on global warming where we all hold hands and sing and magically reverse it.

Sam O'Nella, the most chaotic of the four no doubt

I'd like to submit

Steve Mould

SmarterEveryDay (Highly suggest this video of the James Webb Telescope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu97IiO_yDI )

Honorable mention (because 'retired') Tom Scott

And because it's a good channel Dad How Do I?

They're pretty okay for shallow understanding on a subject, but Wendover (not on the list), Economics Explained (not on the list), and CGP gray all get stuff pretty wrong once you get past shallow depth. I know because I'm a huge transit/urbanism nerd. If these channels haven't wronged you in some minor way, they just haven't talked about something you're a subject matter expert in yet. The point here isn't that they're bad, just understand that these are shallow explainers, the next step in from like a news article, Wikipedia, or a blog, and take them with a grain of salt.

My personal list is Kurzgesagt, XKCD explained, and The Action Lab.

How in the actual hell is technology connections not on that list and also why have I not seen it in any of the comments yet

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.

I miss Mike Rugnetta's PBS Idea Channel so much, and it absolutely would have belonged on this list, imo.

Kurzgesagt is cancer

Like all pop-science I think they're really educational on topics I know nothing about. On topics I do know well, I think: well that's wrong and that's wrong.

CGP Grey is a meh channel for a very long time now

Shout out to PBS Space Time

2019 Kurzgesagt: "I guess we will fact check, if that's important to you."

Me: “Sam O… haha cute name. I’ve never heard of it. I’ll see if they have a YT channel. Oh they do! What?! I’m already subscribed??!”

I wish YT actually respected subscriptions. Here I am subscribed to someone and I’ve so thoroughly forgotten it that their name doesn’t even ring a bell.

There's a pretty good astronomy channel called SEA

Kurgesatz was really good before they started the black mirror season, where every video is about how humanity can get killed by various things.

Never heard of the other ones but I'll give it a try.

And there's a PBS video for anything you can think about, sometimes they just don't surface properly with search.

My problem with threads like this is that I only have 24 hours a day, and I've accumulated a critical mass of content creators to the point where I cannot keep up.

Which of these awesome people do I ignore?! What information do I leave behind!? How am I supposed to get anything useful done with my life?!?

Also, check out Chris Boden if you want to see something cool!

+Practical Engineering