The best thing about SpaceTime is the balance of how much content is slightly out of reach for an average viewer. Pushing that boundary is an important thing to do with educational content especially in a world where so many things are dumbed down.
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Kurzgesagt has acknowledged this was a problem with some of their earlier videos, but they're trying to do better with presenting any uncertainty around the topics they cover from now on.
Do you remember where they did this / have a link? I'm not "citation needed"-ing you, I'm just curious when they said this.
I believe they did it on this video called "Can You Trust Kurzgesagt?". They also removed a few of their older videos at the time because they had this exact issue of presenting as fact some things that were not at all certain.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
>making it consumable for the population that's interested in science and physics, but doesn't pursue it on a daily basis. While I love the channel, it seems like they're more targeted to someone with a lot of physics education, more so than lay people. This is the only channel I've ever watched and genuinely felt dumb on a regular basis.
Hah. I agree, but I'll add that his style is more like it's easy to follow for a while, then suddenly the car drives off a cliff and you need upper division college physics to understand. I really love Anton. He has a way to ELI5 that's really effective and really genuine.
Hello wonderful person. Are you referring to Anton Petrov? I also really enjoy his channel.
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#104If you enjoy Matt @ Spacetime, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Kurzgesagt, and are into astrophysics, I would highly recommend Anton Petrov’s YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/c/whatdamath
To pile on with the recommendations, I really enjoy "Launch Pad Astronomy".
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#106A similar channel I've found recently that tackles the same kind of content is ScienceClic [1]. The visualizations are some of the best and most intuitive I've yet seen.
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#107If you enjoy Matt @ Spacetime, Sabine Hossenfelder, and Kurzgesagt, and are into astrophysics, I would highly recommend Anton Petrov’s YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/c/whatdamath
I started off really liking Kurzgesagt but got tired with how often they started with conclusions and then constructed narratives to justify it, rather than starting with observations. It's just the wrong way to think and present things.
Kurzgesagt seemed out of character for his rant video on dairy, it was odd.
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#108If nothing else to add a differing voice, I cannot stand PBS SpaceTime. I will be completely honest and say that it's probably more due to my lack of understanding than fault of theirs. But, that said, I'm perfectly fine following other science "bloggers". I enjoy them, and I learn from them. PBS however bugs me to no end, because I rarely feel I've understood it, or even learned anything. I'm likely in the minority.
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#109If you like PBS Space Time, you'll likely also enjoy "Science Asylum": https://www.youtube.com/c/Scienceasylum This channel covers the same subjects of physics and space, but does so with some incredible insight that I've seen no other channels dig into, and thoughtful animated diagrams that really help in comprehending the subject. Here are some great episodes: "What is Quantum Spin?": https://www.youtube.com/watch?…
Science Asylum is great, but I dislike the 90s educational show presentation format. An absolute gem I've stumbled across is ScienceClic:
https://www.youtube.com/c/ScienceClicEN
They have amazing presentations on Relativity, my favorite being:
"A new way to visualize General Relativity" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrwgIjBUYVc
"Hawking Radiation" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=isezfMo8kW
Another, while heavier and less accessible channel is Physics Explained:
https://www.youtube.com/c/PhysicsExplainedVideos
These are closer like lectures, but I enjoy them because they go into the histories of some of these experiments; and what the prevailing wisdom was around the time the experiments were performed:
"What is the Ultraviolet Catastrophe?" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCfPQLVzus4
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#110If nothing else to add a differing voice, I cannot stand PBS SpaceTime. I will be completely honest and say that it's probably more due to my lack of understanding than fault of theirs. But, that said, I'm perfectly fine following other science "bloggers". I enjoy them, and I learn from them. PBS however bugs me to no end, because I rarely feel I've understood it, or even learned anything. I'm likely in the minority.
I always feel like I learn something, but by the end of an episode I'm completely lost. I love it.