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Re: Ask HN: Long-form info-dense videos on YouTube you would recommend to anyone?

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The Biggest Ideas in the Universe by Sean Carroll, an intro to modern physics, including homotopy and quantum field theory. He does some math but you'll follow if you've finished high school. Don't miss the Q&A videos in between the 26 regular episodes. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HI09kat_GeI

Whoa, this will keep me busy for a lot of boring mornings. There are a lot of physics concepts I struggle to understand, like what are electrons if they aren’t orbiting particles as we were taught, and what really is quantum entanglement. This playlist will definitely help, thanks!

FYI if you watch the video and like it, he also has a great podcast (Mindscape) which often involves physics but usually combines it with some other topic being discussed with a guest.

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https://m.youtube.com/c/everyframeapainting Every Frame A Painting. A great channel (that I wish was getting new videos) going deep on about aspects of moviemaking, editing, musical scores etc. High production quality videos and interesting even if you’re not a film buff or movie nerd.

Tony Zhou and Taylor Ramos (of Every Frame A Painting) are involved with Netflix's new show Voir, which seems to follow the same video essay format. Haven't watched it yet, but it's on my list.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80990130

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How The Economic Machine Works by Ray Dalio comes to mind. It's 31 minutes long and provides a great high-level overview of basic economic principles. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHe0bXAIuk0&t=3s

This was my go-to video to put me to sleep, but it has sound effects and I found other videos. The two others are Clayton Christensen's talk at Google, and John Danaher's appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast. These two are just amazing as the dynamic range of everyone's voice is so narrow. They don't have ups and downs. Their voice is rather monotonic and soothing. I'm asleep in less than 5 minutes. I know because I…

You might like this channel called Nomadic Ambience: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqRTj-Nu_8to3jIBlXptOtA

Re: Ask HN: Long-form info-dense videos on YouTube you would recommend to anyone?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

This was my go-to video to put me to sleep, but it has sound effects and I found other videos. The two others are Clayton Christensen's talk at Google, and John Danaher's appearance on the Lex Fridman podcast. These two are just amazing as the dynamic range of everyone's voice is so narrow. They don't have ups and downs. Their voice is rather monotonic and soothing. I'm asleep in less than 5 minutes. I know because I…

You might like this channel called Nomadic Ambience: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqRTj-Nu_8to3jIBlXptOtA

Thank you, jorgesborges. I will try it.

Re: Ask HN: Long-form info-dense videos on YouTube you would recommend to anyone?

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This channel goes deeply (well, as deeply as is possible) into ballpoint pens, fountain pens, and other writing instruments:

* refills: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pr1UfM8PP0U

* Parker Jotter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h8uIjfWqm4

* multi-pens: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAJ9BwHKJU4

Re: Ask HN: Long-form info-dense videos on YouTube you would recommend to anyone?

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Everything from 3 blue 1 brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown

Visualization of Quantum Physics (Quantum Mechanics): https://youtu.be/p7bzE1E5PMY

history of the entire world, i guess: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuCn8ux2gbs

TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K): https://youtu.be/uD4izuDMUQA

Humanity was born way ahead of its time. The reason is grabby aliens. and Grabby aliens: when we'll meet them, how big they are, and other predictions

https://youtu.be/l3whaviTqqg

https://youtu.be/LceY7nhi6j4

Everyday Astronaut videos (he has 90 min documentary on Soviet rocket engine): https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6uKrU_WqJ1R2HMTY3LIx5Q

Cool Worlds - a lot of 25-35 min very nice astronomy explanations: https://www.youtube.com/c/CoolWorldsLab

'A Universe From Nothing' by Lawrence Krauss: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ImvlS8PLIo

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