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Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by BeefWellington »

dskrobak wrote: post #78
BeefWellington wrote: post #20

- 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…

Nice list I would just add few more: -Climate Town https://youtube.com/c/ClimateTown -Advoko makes https://youtube.com/c/Advoko -AdamSomething https://youtube.com/c/AdamSomething -AppliedSience https://youtube.com/c/AppliedScience -Carykh https://youtube.com/user/carykh -Wendover Production https://youtube.com/c/Wendoverproductions -StuffMadeHere https://youtube.com/c/StuffMadeHere -SteveMould https://youtube.com/c/S…

I follow PhysicsGirl, Smarter Every Day, Stuff Made Here and Wendover Productions as well already but I will def. check out the rest, thanks for sharing.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by gravypod »

Physical Sciences

https://www.youtube.com/c/AlphaPhoenixChannel

https://www.youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel

https://www.youtube.com/c/TechIngredients

https://www.youtube.com/c/thethoughtemporium

https://www.youtube.com/c/MattRisinger

Humanities:

https://www.youtube.com/c/answerinprogress

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAL3JXZSzSm8AlZyD3nQdBA

Shop:

https://www.youtube.com/c/ThisOldTony

https://www.youtube.com/c/Clickspring/videos

https://www.youtube.com/c/JersWoodshop

Computing:

https://www.youtube.com/c/jdhvideo/videos

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by specialist »

BeefWellington wrote: post #191
foerbert wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

> 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 it's safe to say he's not doing much of a critical evaluation of anything as he is just reading whatever cool sounding press releases he fin…

Yup. Undecided is akin to Popular Mechanics. Surveys the field and builds awareness for casual learners like myself.

I appreciated the episodes on emerging solar cells and battery technologies. And now if I want to know more about perovskite solar cells, for example, I have a clue where to start.

I also like that Matt has some skin in the game, relating his own experience with roof top solar. It'd be most awesome if Matt chronicled his own new home like Matt Risinger's The Build Show just did. https://www.youtube.com/user/mattrisinger

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by ChildOfChaos »

agnosticmantis wrote: post #49

I recommend Thunderf00t for (mostly) debunking modern snake oil salespeople: https://youtube.com/c/Thunderf00t

Hmmm.. seen this recommended a few posts on this thread, but just browsing through the channel and it seems to be mostly Elon Musk hate videos.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by loudmax »

branko_d wrote: post #34

Some random suggestions: Steve Mould - Physics https://www.youtube.com/c/SteveMould Project Farm - Product Testing https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectFarm Lock Picking Lawyer - Lock Picking https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer Scott Manley - Space Flight https://www.youtube.com/c/szyzyg The Plain Bagel - Finance https://www.youtube.com/c/ThePlainBagel Perun - Geopolitics https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCC3ehuUk…

Seconding Perun, especially with respect to understanding how the war in Ukraine is being waged.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by tootie »

BeefWellington wrote: post #20

- 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…

Posted yesterday, but Vihart is really interesting. She posts very intermittently, but it's a lot of interesting math topics with a creative bent.

I also watch PBS Digital shows like Eons and Be Smart with my kids. They're definitely for a younger audience, but still interesting.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by j_4 »

Biblaridion - "Alien Biospheres" is a great popsci series about speculative evolution. He also does constructed language stuff, but I haven't gotten around to diving into that.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMjTcpv56G_W0FRIdPHBn4A

Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan, formerly All Gas No Brakes (had a falling out with behind-the-scenes business types) - a feet-on-the-ground look into various subcultures and events. If you see beyond what's usually a hilarious and definitely slightly voyeuristic facade of "haha people are weird", at its core it's excellent vox populi journalism. Kind of a left field recommendation for this thread, but genuinely something that broadened my horizons by a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/c/Channel5YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtqxG9IrHFU_ID1khGvx9sA

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by O__________O »

netcraft wrote: post #208

OT, but I sorely wish there was a way to whitelist channels or playlists in the youtube app and have it show only this content. better yet, be able to subscribe to a curated list of channels and playlists. Id love to give my kids free reign to watch any of this stuff, but there is far too much other stuff that gets pushed on them too fast.

One solution is to:

(1) make a list of channels;

(2) learn to use YouTube-DL:

https://youtube-dl.org/

(3) have a script that auto-runs the YouTube-DL script

(4) then drop videos watched input a watched folder; generate a spreadsheet and columns to note who has watched watch and filepath; create a basic website; etc.

— easy to do, used to do it when I knew I would have no or bad internet.

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