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Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Two more than weren't posted so far:

Ivan Miranda - 3D printing, machining, "making", all of interesting, fun projects. https://youtube.com/c/IvanMirandaCom

The Action Lab - fascinating and unusual science experiments demonstrated, many shorts https://youtube.com/c/TheActionLab

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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- [Necroware](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKU5nwSWYXa3xfXGBlKyvdw/vid...) Old computer hardware repair (motherboards, graphic card)

- [Cathode Ray Dude](https://www.youtube.com/c/CathodeRayDude) Electronics review, mostly from 1960 to 2000

- [Asianometry](https://www.youtube.com/c/Asianometry) Semiconductor and mostly Asia related

- [CuriousMarc](https://www.youtube.com/c/CuriousMarc) Apollo electronics repair and other things from same era

- [Econoboi](https://www.youtube.com/c/Econoboi/) Discussions about economics

- [That Chemist](https://www.youtube.com/c/ThatChemist2) Monthly organic important papers etc.

- [EEVblog](https://www.youtube.com/c/EevblogDave) Electronics teardown, education etc

- [Marco Reps](https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcoReps) Mostly testing equipment

- [CVP](https://www.youtube.com/c/CVPTV) Film camera and equipment reviews

- [TechTechPotato](https://www.youtube.com/c/TechTechPotato) PC news and reviews

- [Steve Brunton](https://www.youtube.com/c/Eigensteve) Maths Lectures, prof at UW

- [The Signal Path](https://www.youtube.com/c/Thesignalpath) Testing equipment teardowns and repair

- [bigclivedotcom](https://www.youtube.com/c/Bigclive) Random electronics teardown and design overview

- [Sampson Boat Co](https://www.youtube.com/c/SampsonBoatCo) Tally Ho: Rebuilding A 1910 Gaff Cutter Ship

- [Jeff Geerling](https://www.youtube.com/c/JeffGeerling) Raspberry Pi guy

- [Timbah.On.Toast](https://www.youtube.com/c/TimbahOnToast) Video Essays on Music (Dubstep)

- [Mathologer](https://www.youtube.com/c/Mathologer) Accessible explanations for maths

- [Look Mum No Computer](https://www.youtube.com/c/LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER) Music from electronics

- [Zack Freedman](https://www.youtube.com/c/ZackFreedman) 3D printing and electronics

- [SuperfastMatt](https://www.youtube.com/c/SuperfastMatt) Rebuilding cars, recently building a straight line race car

- [NightHawkInLight](https://www.youtube.com/c/Nighthawkinlight) Making stuff from research papers

- [Breaking Taps](https://www.youtube.com/c/BreakingTap) Material science and machining in a garage shop

- [Tech Ingredients](https://www.youtube.com/c/TechIngredients) Building random things and science behind it

- [AgentJayZ](https://www.youtube.com/c/AgentJayZ) Repairing and rebuilding jet engines

- [Michael Rechtin](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHS55yDvORmCpbM_3vNQQsQ) 3D printing usable stuff

- [Curtis Judd](https://www.youtube.com/c/curtisjudd) Lighting and sound equipment reviews

- [econimate](https://www.youtube.com/c/econimate) Explaining economics papers with animation

- [bitluni](https://www.youtube.com/c/bitlunislab) Building Electronics

- [Integza](https://www.youtube.com/c/Integza) 3D printing jet engines

- [Thoisoi2 - Chemical Experiments!](https://www.youtube.com/c/Thoisoi2/videos) Chemistry and reactions

- [2STROKE STUFFING](https://www.youtube.com/c/2STROKESTUFFING) Trying to build a 2-stroke engine in garage

- [Jordan Edmunds](https://www.youtube.com/c/JordanEdmundsEECS) Maths and Physics explainers

- [Ghost Town Living](https://www.youtube.com/c/GhostTownLiving) Living in an abandoned mining town

- [Pezza's Work](https://www.youtube.com/c/PezzzasWork) simulations and graphics

- [Carl Bugeja](https://www.youtube.com/c/CarlBugeja) Electronics

- [Gearknob](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfKNHSWLE3CSs9PXK5RdQCA) Everything TopGear

- [Andreas Spiess](https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasSpiess) Electronics tutorials and reviews

- [FortNine](https://www.youtube.com/c/FortNine) Motorcycle content and gear reviews

- [James Sharman](https://www.youtube.com/c/weirdboyjim) Computers from scratch

- [Brief](https://www.youtube.com/c/BriefVid) CS tutorials

- [jdh](https://www.youtube.com/c/jdhvideo) making games

- [mitexela](https://www.youtube.com/c/mitxela/) Building random electronics

- [Stewart Hicks](https://www.youtube.com/user/stewarthicks) Architecture

- [Keenan Crane](https://www.youtube.com/c/keenancrane) Graphics, geometry and topology prof CMU

- [Practical Programming with Dr. Xu](https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalProgrammingwithDrXu/) Graphics, webgpu, wgpu etc

- [Wesley Kagan](https://www.youtube.com/c/WesleyKagan) DIY car stuff, engine swap etc.

- [Mental Checkpoint](https://www.youtube.com/c/MentalCheckpoint) Game design

- [Brandon Foltz](https://www.youtube.com/c/BrandonFoltz) Introductory Statistics, Finite Mathematics, Management Science, Operations Management and Basic Accounting.

- [WashingtonDeceit](https://www.youtube.com/user/WashingtonDeceit/) Histology and Pathology

- [CNLohr](https://www.youtube.com/c/CNLohr/) Electronics and graphics

- [The Science Elf](https://www.youtube.com/c/TheScienceElf) Electronics and programming like (Ray tracing on graphing calc)

- [Marginal Revolution University](https://www.youtube.com/c/MarginalRevolutionUniversity) Economics

- [EconJohn](https://www.youtube.com/c/EconJohnTutor) Teaching intermediate and advanced economic theory

- [Folding Ideas](https://www.youtube.com/c/FoldingIdeas) narrative theory: the mechanisms of storytelling

- [Potential History](https://www.youtube.com/c/PotentialHistory/) War History

- [TimeGhost History](https://www.youtube.com/c/TimeGhost) History mostly 1900+

- [Applied Science](https://www.youtube.com/c/AppliedScience) Building stuff from research papers

- [Alex Dainis](https://www.youtube.com/c/bitescized/) Genetics and stuff

- [Sixty Symbols](https://www.youtube.com/user/sixtysymbols) Physics and Astronomy Filmed by Brady Numberphile guy

- [Simplifying Synthesis](https://www.youtube.com/c/SimplifyingSynthesis) Total synthesis, pharmacology and organic chemistry education

- [Dr. NEMO](https://www.youtube.com/c/DrNEMO) Science content

- [Sam Zeloof](https://www.youtube.com/c/SamZeloof) Homemade? Computer chips

- [Moritz Klein](https://www.youtube.com/c/MoritzKlein0) DIY euro rack modules

- [Zoe Baker](https://www.youtube.com/c/anarchopac/) History of anarchist thought

- [loopop](https://www.youtube.com/c/loopop) electronic synth reviews

- [Erindale](https://www.youtube.com/c/Erindale) Blender and proceduralism

- [World of Antiquity](https://www.youtube.com/c/WorldofAntiquity) History of ancient civilizations

- [Dr. Trefor Bazett](https://www.youtube.com/c/DrTreforBazett) Maths video Aprof at University of Toronto

- [Source Meets Sink](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCB0KsBKlEcEUaNfd5ylQvCQ/) Writing exploits

- [Al Muqaddimah](https://www.youtube.com/c/AlMuqaddimah) History of Islam

- [Reducible](https://www.youtube.com/c/Reducible/) CS explainers with animation

- [Let's Talk Religion](https://www.youtube.com/c/LetsTalkReligion) Education about various religions

- [MaxBrix](https://www.youtube.com/c/MaxBrix) Building things from Lego technic

- [Professor Leonard](https://www.youtube.com/c/ProfessorLeonard) Math lectures

- [Fredrik Knudsen](https://www.youtube.com/c/FredrikKnudsen) Down the Rabbit Hole on random topics

- [Mr Carlson's Lab](https://www.youtube.com/c/MrCarlsonsLab) Electronics repair, mostly radio

- [Anton Petrov](https://www.youtube.com/c/whatdamath) Daily science news explainers, mostly space

- [Mitch Davis](https://www.youtube.com/c/MitchDavis2/) Microcontrollers

- [This Old Tony](https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisOldTony) Machining

- [The Thought Emporium](https://www.youtube.com/c/thethoughtemporium) Science like growing spider silk from yeast

- [javidx9](https://www.youtube.com/c/javidx9) making games and c++

- [Brian Douglas](https://www.youtube.com/user/ControlLectures) Control System lectures

- [Phil’s Lab](https://www.youtube.com/c/PhilS94) Analogue and digital electronics design, PCB design, control systems, digital signal processing, etc

- [Ian Davis](https://www.youtube.com/c/IanDavisFpd) Making himself a prosthetic hand

- [Amy Makes Stuff](https://www.youtube.com/c/AmyMakesStuff/) DIY stuff and explainers

- [Tim Hunkin](https://www.youtube.com/c/timhunkin1) Arcade machines and public clocks

- [Kimberly Brehm](https://www.youtube.com/c/KimberlyBrehm) Math lectures AP at Bellevue

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Everyone has all the top-tier channels listed already, but here are a few good ones that I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Electronics:

Great Scott! (Electronics projects and components), https://youtube.com/c/greatscottlab

Modern Vintage Gamer (Gaming electronics, gaming history, firmware, and reverse engineering topics), https://youtube.com/c/ModernVintageGamer

Mr. Carson's Lab (Electronics restoration, especially old radios, he has an insane lab), https://youtube.com/c/MrCarlsonsLab

Astronomy:

Cool Worlds (Similar to PBSSpace time, but very good at statistical analysis and modeling, narrator is very calming), https://youtube.com/c/CoolWorldsLab

DeepSkyVideos (Catalog of videos explaining different objects of note in astronomy), https://youtube.com/user/DeepSkyVideos

SciShowSpace (Bite-sized space videos), https://youtube.com/c/scishowspace

General Science and Engineering:

Undecided with Matt Ferrell (Covers topics that are bleeding edge), https://youtube.com/c/UndecidedMF

Engineer Guy (Random engineering topics with a few much longer detailed lectures and audio book reads), https://youtube.com/c/engineerguyvideo

Casual Navigation (Maritime explanation videos), https://youtube.com/c/CasualNavigation

Microcosmos (Huge selection of microbial life videos) https://youtube.com/c/microcosmos

Curious Droid (General science and engineering explanations), https://youtube.com/c/CuriousDroid

Braniac75 (Amateur science experiments, lasers, and random science topics), https://youtube.com/c/brainiac75

Cody's Lab (Mostly backyard chemistry, but often times has other science experiments), https://youtube.com/user/theCodyReeder

Seeker (Well produced mini science documentaries and science news), https://youtube.com/c/Seeker

Quanta Magazine (similar to Seeker), https://youtube.com/c/QuantaScienceChannel

New Mind (Similar to Seeker and Quanta Magazine), https://youtube.com/c/NewMind

Periodic Videos (Chemistry and elements), https://youtube.com/user/periodicvideos

Fermilab (Easily digestible particle physics), https://youtube.com/c/fermilab

Nils Berglund (Library of particle and wave simulations), https://youtube.com/c/NilsBerglund

Royal Institution (Huge catolog of science speeches at the Royal Institution), https://youtube.com/c/TheRoyalInstitution

Ordanance Lab (Explosives science and explosives testing videos), https://youtube.com/c/OrdnanceLab

Domain of Science (Quantum physics, and he also makes knowldge maps in different science and math disciplines), https://youtube.com/c/DomainofScience

Alpha Phoenix (Science experiments and materials science), https://youtube.com/c/AlphaPhoenixChannel

Breaking Taps (DIY materials science) https://youtube.com/c/BreakingTaps

Mentour Pilot (Aircraft Accident Investigations), https://youtube.com/c/MentourPilotaviation

Music Theory, Music Electronics, and Synthesizers:

Benn Jordan (General music topics, he has a good scientific mind and electronics skills that he shows off sometimes), https://youtube.com/c/BennandGear

Adam Neely (Advanced music theory and random music topics), https://youtube.com/c/AdamNeely

Look Mum No Computer (Music experiments with analog electronics), https://youtube.com/c/LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER

Andrew Huang (Random music tech reviews, basic theory, and music production), https://youtube.com/c/andrewhuang

loopop (The most thorough and comprehensive music electronics feature overviews), https://youtube.com/c/loopop

Rick Beato (Music production and music industry analysis), https://youtube.com/c/RickBeato

Tantacrul (Music Software design, he works on Audacity), https://youtube.com/c/Tantacrul

Math and Computer Science:

Zach Starr (Math and computer science topics), https://youtube.com/c/zachstar

Numberphile (General math concepts), https://youtube.com/c/numberphile

Stand-up Maths (General math topics, but goes into more detail than Numberphile), https://youtube.com/user/standupmaths

Mathologer (General math concepts), https://youtube.com/c/Mathologer

Steve Yegge (Computer science and software industry), https://youtube.com/user/SteveYegge

Low Level Learning (Computer science, but the lower levels), https://youtube.com/c/LowLevelLearning

DEFCONConference (Huge selection of hacking-related talks), https://youtube.com/user/DEFCONConference

Strange Loop Conference (Software conference videos), https://youtube.com/c/StrangeLoopConf

Two-mimute papers (Very fast and exuberant machine learning research summaries, hold on to your papers fellow scholars!), https://youtube.com/c/K%C3%A1rolyZsolnai

Video Editing and Special Effects:

Captain Disillusion (Debunks fake videos with image analysis, and creates walkthroughs of how it's done), https://youtube.com/c/CaptainDisillusion

Edit, I almost forgot Adam Ragusea, he does excellent science-based cooking videos, https://youtube.com/user/aragusea

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Big Clive for general how electronics works, really good at tearing down, explaining how circuits work etc https://youtube.com/c/Bigclive

Diode Gone Wild is another channel in the same vein (minus the carbonated beverages): https://www.youtube.com/c/DiodeGoneWild

I very much like the approach taken by Big Clive and Diode Gone Wild: taking apart everyday items, explaining what they do, sometimes also showing how they would make something similar themselves from scratch. I assume there are lots of other channels out there that do the same but for other things than just electronics.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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- Technology Connections for general household "how stuff works" - DIY Perks, which is on the project/creation end of things - Xyla Foxlin for a variety of projects - Veritasium for well basically anything and everything science - Simone Giertz does a lot of projects to solve problems in both ridiculous and entertaining ways - Element14 Presents, if you're interested in building your own electronics - Hugh Jeffreys f…

Familiar to a greater or lesser degree with most, but not all of those. I'd take exception to a couple inclusions. - Undecided w/Matt Ferrel This one is probably the most questionable. I was always a bit leery due to the titles being a bit too accepting of anything you might find on r/Futurology, and then happened on a Thunderf00t Busted (not a regular viewer there either) about some of his videos and yeah. I think i…

Matt Ferrell's Undecided is great. Yeah he just explains interesting press releases, he isn't shy about that either. Why would he want/need to be critical about them? Unless he's reading press releases of companies that don't actually exist I don't see how this could be a bad thing.

Disliking Veritasium because of some ads is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. If he manages to sneak in an ad without me noticing, all the better, he's getting paid and I wasn't annoyed. I watched all of his video and I don't remember any annoying ads. He also produces some of the greatest and most beautifully produced explanations of interesting maths and physics concepts on YouTube, all for free.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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EngineeringExplained ( https://www.youtube.com/user/EngineeringExplained ) is a great addition to this list for anything automotive and whiteboarding the concepts behind it

For more in-depth automotive (and bike) related engineering topics, I can highly recommend Driving4Answers https://www.youtube.com/c/mr2mk1hero

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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- Technology Connections for general household "how stuff works" - DIY Perks, which is on the project/creation end of things - Xyla Foxlin for a variety of projects - Veritasium for well basically anything and everything science - Simone Giertz does a lot of projects to solve problems in both ridiculous and entertaining ways - Element14 Presents, if you're interested in building your own electronics - Hugh Jeffreys f…

Familiar to a greater or lesser degree with most, but not all of those. I'd take exception to a couple inclusions. - Undecided w/Matt Ferrel This one is probably the most questionable. I was always a bit leery due to the titles being a bit too accepting of anything you might find on r/Futurology, and then happened on a Thunderf00t Busted (not a regular viewer there either) about some of his videos and yeah. I think i…

I think it's best not to conflate entertainment and information sources. "Informative" youtube channels fall on a weird middle ground where their content seems to be edifying you but they are so riddles with inconsistencies and inaccuracies, you have to spend a lot of energy filtering it or you might develop misconceptions. I'd rather just watch silly videos and get my information from reliable publishing house that provide some expectation of curation and fact checking.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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In English, absent in these comments at this time: - Tantacrul - Music and software design, he is now involved in Audacity and MuseScore I follow a number of really good French channels as well, if anyone is interested I can post them.

Please do

Crowds:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCLXDNUOO3EQ80VmD9nQBHPg - Fouloscopie - he studies crowd behaviors (it's his research). Very funny and interesting.

Linguistics:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCofQxJWd4qkqc7ZgaLkZfcw - Linguisticae - a fervant defensor of descriptivism, has a really good long video presenting the Academie française and its numerous faults

History (the two unmissable French channel on the topic):

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCKjDY4joMPcoRMmd-G1yz1Q - C'est une autre histoire - she has a PhD

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCP46_MXP_WG_auH88FnfS1A - Nota Bene

Critical thinking, avoiding fake news, reasoning biases:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCMFcMhePnH4onVHt2-ItPZw - Hygiène Mentale

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCU0FhLr6fr7U9GOn6OiQHpQ - Officiel DEFAKATOR

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCNgudhx2s_ubmiA2L_2NMmg - Defakator Vite Fait - short versions of his long videos

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCAoUBng0Mfu0qn4lPimS6MA - G Milgram - handles stuff like QAnon, witches on TikTok, etc

(if you are really into the subject of critical thinking and zététique (the discipline where you try to check paranormal phenomenon with rigorous scientific method), I guess you can check out Richard Monvoisin's lessons at the Grenoble Alps University - https://skeptikon.fr/c/5f74ed4b-cc3c-4b33-a33d-06f49282ada5/... - quite comprehensive, not everybody likes his tone, Hygiène Mentale will probably sound more balanced to these people. I guess I'll need to check out the whole Peertube skeptikon instance)

Math:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UC0NCbj8CxzeCGIF6sODJ-7A - Science4All

- https://youtube.com/channel/UC4PasDd25MXqlXBogBw9CAg - Mickaël Launay

General science stuff:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCaNlbnghtwlsGF-KzAFThqA - ScienceEtonnante - He has a PhD in the area of quantuum physics. A bit like Veritasium, but a bit less sensational

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCeR8BYZS7IHYjk_9Mh5JgkA - Scilabus - she also has a PhD, usually on random things of everyday life

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCaZRpfXzlHVchIJMpf-PVFw - Sci+ - her meta channel on vulgarisation

- https://youtube.com/channel/UC4Jrte_YtwWfANKNyzse5iA - Avides de recherche

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCcziTK2NKeWtWQ6kB5tmQ8Q - e-penser 2.0 - general science stuff. His videos from a few years ago are entertaining. He does not like putting his sources though

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCE_LWXcsdp7cWbo4DR4ZA-A - Science de comptoir - fun, with a lot of puns everywhere. I fail to focus on her videos unfortunately, I'll need to try harder.

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCZxLew-WXWm5dhRZBgEFl-Q - Le Vortex - ARTE - a vulgarisation series with many of these people on this list posing as roommates - really good, interesting, fun. You really need to check this out. I've been discovering a lot of those great channels thanks to this series.

Economics:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCyJDHgrsUKuWLe05GvC2lng - Stupid Economics - economics stuff

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCynBu7PDfJsCXeCSqT1QUQw - Vous Avez Le Droit - legal stuff

Marketing:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCAiy7bY8nTQCWrkSRh6Wu9w - Un Créatif - about marketing, mostly fun but he stopped recently

Astronomy:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UC5X4e8ScZI2AFd_vkjSoyoQ - AstronoGeek

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCS_7tplUgzJG4DhA16re5Yg - Balade Mentale, mostly philosophical for the few videos I've seen

Computer science:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCYnvxJ-PKiGXo_tYXpWAC-w - Micode·Enquêtes - nice for people who are not strong in computers but curious. He infiltrated a network of scammers, his videos on this are quite interesting

Philosophy:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCqA8H22FwgBVcF3GJpp0MQw - Monsieur Phi

Stuff I need to check out but seems promising:

- https://youtube.com/channel/UC9BnGZLT4iPaJtDOXYwQuHQ - Primum Non Nocere

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCV6uM3y-8TeO7JlCtcEN-Bg - ScienceClic

- https://youtube.com/channel/UC1EacOJoqsKaYxaDomTCTEQ - Le Réveilleur - the few videos on climate change I listened to are worth checking out

- https://youtube.com/channel/UCHGMBrXUzClgjEzBMei-Jdw - Le dessous des cartes - famous geography TV (ARTE) program - I've heard it was better in the past so maybe check out older videos first

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