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Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Rapid chess championships (live and recordings) https://www.youtube.com/c/chesscomlive (Games are short (10+2 > 3+2 > 1+1 ), so a lot of fun to watch and try to guess the moves). p.s. I 'am in no way affiliated with the organizations behind this events.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Two Minute Papers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbfYPyITQ-7l4upoX8nvctg A channel with videos about lot of AI papers.

DUST Sci-fi: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7sDT8jZ76VLV1u__krUutA Great free sci-fi movies.

Robert Murray-Smith's maker channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/RobertMurraySmith A British maker who builds stuff and shows them step-by-step.

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…

So basically Veritasium is selling ads to keep making more videos and sometimes he makes things simple enough that high schoolers can understand it? Ok :)

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Art: Nerdwriter https://youtube.com/user/Nerdwriter1 Engineering: Practical Engineering https://youtube.com/c/PracticalEngineeringChannel Philosophy: School of Life https://youtube.com/c/theschooloflifetv Math: 3Blue1Brown https://youtube.com/c/3blue1brown

have you seen this critique video of school of life? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlkJJygIoVU

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)…

I'd add the very entertaining "Dirty Biology", attacking scientific explanations for the public with heavy editing "a la meme": https://www.youtube.com/c/dirtybiology And my favourite, the fantastic TV Show "C Dans L'air" from France 5, is a great daily 1h balanced deep dive into topics of local politics or geopolitics, broadcast into youtube for archival/rewatches with 1 day delay. https://www.youtube.com/c/Cdanslai…

Sadly, I'm not quite comfortable advertising DirtyBiology currently. It might not be worth speaking about this here, people can search for the channel name in any search engine if they want to know more about this. I think I'll wait for the facts to be (dis)confirmed / things to be clarified.

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

#157
The one which no one has mentioned so far: Big Think - https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink

I like the no-nonsense, ~5mins video from the authors summarizing core message of their research/book.

Examples:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovBtoHkeK68

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJL8A6vQyW0

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

#158
- Primer (uses 3Blue1Brown-style animations to explain concepts) https://www.youtube.com/c/PrimerLearning

- The Engineering Mindset https://www.youtube.com/c/Theengineeringmindset

- hpp3 (low level software series) https://www.youtube.com/user/hhp3

- Andrew Huberman / Huberman Lab (neuroscience) https://www.youtube.com/c/AndrewHubermanLab

Re: Ask HN: YouTube Channels for the Intellectually Curious

#159
TOON215 - https://www.youtube.com/c/TOON215

This is really different from all the other suggestions here. An overall nice guy does walkthrough videos of some of the worst hoods in the US. Eye-opening stuff in many ways. Many good stories too.

Hobo Shoestring - https://www.youtube.com/c/TheHoboShoestring

This guy has lived on the rails for decades and knows everything about train hopping and (hobo) life in general. Awesome videos and stories.

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