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Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by hnu0847 » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 6:00 AM UTC

russellbeattie wrote: post #62

runjake wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clickable links. Math: - 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown - Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/c/numberphile CS: - Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile Physics: - PBS Spacetime: https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime Philosophy and Pop Culture: - Philosophy Tube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thephilosophytube - Folding Ideas: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoldingIdeas - ContraPoints:…

The amusing thing about Computerphile is it makes me wonder how inaccurate or inexact Numberphile is, as I'm very knowledgeable about the former and clueless about the latter. Computerphile is unwatchable to me, they'll just say stuff that is flat out wrong, but I eagerly await each new Numberphile vid. There's a term for this, I can't remember. You read a newspaper article about a subject you know, and can't believe…

Gell-Mann Amnesia

Out of curiosity, can you give a recent example of a video from Computerphile that was incorrect?

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by sascha_sl » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 6:02 AM UTC

agnosticmantis wrote: post #49

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

Thunderf00t covers interesting topics, but last I checked his editing style was extremely obnoxious with large segments - sometimes 80%-90% - of new videos being a retelling of other videos (and too often one about Anita Sarkeesian for no reason).

Did he improve at all?

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by smolder » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 6:04 AM UTC

runjake wrote: post #19

logshipper wrote: post #10

Math: - 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown - Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/c/numberphile CS: - Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile Physics: - PBS Spacetime: https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime Philosophy and Pop Culture: - Philosophy Tube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thephilosophytube - Folding Ideas: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoldingIdeas - ContraPoints: https://www.yout…

Clickable links. Math: - 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown - Numberphile: https://www.youtube.com/c/numberphile CS: - Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile Physics: - PBS Spacetime: https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime Philosophy and Pop Culture: - Philosophy Tube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thephilosophytube - Folding Ideas: https://www.youtube.com/c/FoldingIdeas - ContraPoints:…

PBS Spacetime is very well done; dense with info, but concise and well explained.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by mrmumin » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 6:04 AM UTC

Lots of great content mentioned already, but one less known channel I really like is Classics In Color. She makes videos about ancient Greece and Rome, but the subjects are often things that aren't talked about much in the mainstream, like sexuality.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by Calamitous » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 6:05 AM UTC

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

He does beautiful, calming videos of his meticulous machining work. He recently worked on recreating the Antikythera mechanism.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by dcow » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 6:08 AM UTC

Stuff Made Here is super cool: https://www.youtube.com/c/StuffMadeHere

He's like a younger version of Applied Science: https://www.youtube.com/c/AppliedScience

I also consider the likes of

Bismuth https://www.youtube.com/c/Bismuth9 and

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

to be intellectual in the deep dive historian type of way.

LPL has already been linked: https://www.youtube.com/c/lockpickinglawyer

I used to follow NightHawkInLight but his content has slowed recently: https://www.youtube.com/c/Nighthawkinlight

Matt Parker is awesome (I have his book, too): https://www.youtube.com/user/standupmaths

He appears often on: https://www.youtube.com/c/numberphile

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by unityByFreedom » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 6:08 AM UTC

I think podcasts would be a better source. Audio only is great because you can be doing something else while listening.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by dskrobak » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 6:09 AM UTC

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/SteveMould

-SmarterEveryDay https://youtube.com/c/smartereveryday

-PhysicGirl https://youtube.com/c/physicsgirl

-NileRed https://youtube.com/c/NileRed

-nighthawkinlight https://youtube.com/c/Nighthawkinlight

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by failTide » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 6:11 AM UTC

agnosticmantis wrote: post #49

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

I think he's good as long as you can remain critical - he's brings up some good topics but people need to come to their own conclusions. He's pretty anti-SpaceX, but I think some of his criticisms are off there.

I remember one of his arguments was that starship was nothing special because fully-reusable launch vehicles had already been tested - but who cares about that? On the other hand, his criticism of musk's vegas tunnel is fairly spot-on IMO.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Post by jcparkyn » Mon, Jul 25, 2022, 6:17 AM UTC

baalimago wrote: post #14

* My mechanics: https://www.youtube.com/c/mymechanics He repairs old worn down items and shows every step of the way in high details. Very satisfying to both learn the elegant mechanisms of old items, as well as to see something broken become beautiful once more. * Andreas Kling: https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling Continuously posts videos on him+his community developing the operative system SerenetyOS (I know he…

I'd recommend avoiding Economics Explained. A lot of his takes aren't very well researched and don't align with "mainstream" econ (not that I'm an expert on the subject).

https://www.reddit.com/r/badeconomics/search/?q=economics%20...