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I’ve also been watching Tom Scott since he started, and love his content. I’ve put a few others that I enjoy below, that also produce what I consider to be high quality and entertaining content. Mind sharing any others?

Nile Red

Nick Zentner

Practical Engineering

Real Engineering

Ivan Miranda

Joe Makes

Tom Stanton

Veritasium

Numberphile

Deep Sky Videos

Objectivity (Honestly all of Brady’s channels are great)

3Blue1Brown

CGP Grey

Undecided with Matt Ferrell

The B1M

Kurzgesagt

Scott Manley

PBS Space Time

Deep Look

Looking Glass Universe

Institute of Human Anatomy

Smarter Every Day

Be Smart (formerly Its OK to be smart)

I’ve also recently started watching Scam Nation, which is a walkthrough of various magic tricks, in a relaxed setting. It’s not as dense as some of the others, but very good.

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Answer in Progress - a bit of everything, personal favourite right now!

Simone Giertz - engineering

EEVBlog - engineering

ElectroBoom - engineering

Technology Connections - stories about technology

Cathode Ray Dude - stories about technology, watch if you like technology connections!!

Socratica - math, science, programming explainers

VWestLife - retro consumer tech

TechMoan - retro consumer tech

AvE - Canadian in a workshop, a special kind of content

RobWords - language (Tom’s Language File fans check him out!)

Art of the Problem - math/programming but so varied, really worth a watch

Patrick Kelly - medical history, how did we discover a drug, stories about research

Epic Gardening - gardening! Big focus on fruit and veg.

Paige Saunders - Transit, Montreal, whatever he’s interested in!

RMTransit - Transit policy and operation

To continue with the transit/urbanism channels...

* Not Just Bikes

* City Beautiful

* Alan Fisher

* donoteat01 (not really uploading anymore since he has a podcast that takes all his time)

* Eco Gecko (also doesn't really upload anymore)

* Adam Something

And also others...

* Folding Ideas (popular topics video essays)

* hbomberguy (popular topics video essays)

* Epoch Philosophy (drier more academic video essays)

* BobbyBroccoli (intersection of science and politics, very well animated)

* Jacob Geller (media analysis)

* Explosions&Fire (aussie backyard chemistry, like NileRed, more of a vlog style)

* Mustard (engineering, similar format to Real Engineering)

YouTube has been trying to constantly recommend me BobbyBroccoli for a while! I’ll give it a go on your recommendation, thanks!

If there isn’t a curated “Awesome Educational Channels” list, this should be the beginning of it.

I would love a monthly “Where cool things are” post on here. Kind of like the Who’s Hiring post, but simply for listing channels, blogs, people etc. No specific works that would be better served by a regular post, but a comment with [name] and [what they do].

More urbanism/transit on YouTube:

* Oh The Urbanity!

* CityNerd

* Yet Another Urbanist

* RMTransit

* Miles in Transit

* The War on Cars (audio)

* The Urbanist Agenda (audio)

Geoff Marshall makes great videos mostly focused on UK trains too.

I'll also chuck in:

- Two minute papers (quick reviews/demos of new science papers in rendering and ai)

- Extra history (historic events / stories detailed and animated)

- Jeffiot (just recently gained popularity, hbomberguy-style)

Great list and the majority I watch also. But you are missing Technology Connections. You'll probably find them interesting.

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

Hehehe. This channel is full of videos about "boring" topics and still you play them and bam, you are sucked into 15 min of nerdy details about a 90’s microwave that doesn’t even exists anymore and now you are wondering why you can’t have it. Amazing channel.

What sold it for me, was the Sunbeam toaster. I always wondered why in the cartoons people would get shocked sticking a fork in a toaster. And into the rabbit hole I went...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y

15min? try 50.

I always think I will watch just 10-15 and end up watching the whole thing and then wonder why learning about a crappy refrigerator was so interesting.

Steve Mould (himself a good science educator on YouTube) said that Technology Connections makes videos about things you didn't know you wanted to watch until you watched them.

Love him! I felt my list was getting too long, and left a lot off.

Some of my subs I haven't seen mentioned yet in no particular order:

FarmCraft101 (fixing and learning)

ProjectsInFlight (IC manufacturing at home stuff)

Lafayette Systems (rockets)

Air Command Rockets (air rockets)

Tod's Workshop (medieval weapons, history and testing)

Les' Lab (lasers!)

Erin's Audio Corner (speaker reviews)

Lubrication Explained (100% lubrication)

Process with Pat (process engineering)

Clough42 (fabrication etc)

Breaking Taps (machining and materials)

Stapleton42 (NASCAR history and more)

Projects With Everyday Dave (mostly solar power stuff)

Brandon Acker (classical guitar and more)

Building Integrity (building engineering and construction)

Nebula Photos (astrophoto)

Teaching Tech (3d printing)

Machine Thinking (machining history)

Stumpy Nubs (woodworking)

Andy Cooks (cooking)

Yesterdays Machinery (vintage machines and restoration)

BPS.space (rockets)

Jim's Automotive Machine Shop, Inc. (automotive machine shop stuff)

Ballistic High-Speed (Slowmoguys but weapons only)

StuffMadeHere is also an absolute gem. Truly incredible feats of engineering for a single person to tackle, explained in an entertaining way.

There are so many great channels on there! Here are a few of my recent favorites:

Laura Kampf - german maker and problem solver, currently renovating a 120 year old house

Jimmy Diresta - maker and designer, also renovating an old house in upstate New York

Adam Savage - from MythBusters, interesting builds, and interesting discussion of shop and building techniques

Rambling Wild Rosie - former long-distance hiker and interior designer, renovating an old house in the forest Sweden, figuring things out as she goes - very beautiful and peaceful videos

Also loads of great wood working channels: Paul Sellers, Woodworking for Mere Mortals, Izzy Swan, Samurai Carpenter, and on and on!

Laura Kampf is new to me, and right up my alley! Subscribed!

Mattias Wandel for the woodworking channels list as well!

Absolutely, I was just outside working, thinking of building some shelves, and thought, "what about Matthias?!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QeXOb9rxRY

Laura Kampf is wonderful, very inventive and knowledgeable builder, and great attitude.

Paul Sellers is a giant among us mere woodworkers.

Frank Howarth is my guy, but admittedly I watch him to fall asleep (while marveling at how good he is)

This thunderf00t video made me avoid "Undecided by Matt Ferrell": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDXqOfC61U

Thanks, another sign removing the dislike button was terrible for mankind.

Neither of them are really worth watching imo.

I don’t see Steve Mould and Technology Connections, but thanks for your list :)

One more vote for Steve Mould. I don't follow him directly but I still end up watching a bunch of his content through random suggestions, he's quite good.

Through the magic of subscribing to both of them...

https://youtube.com/watch?v=r_LG8FDt51U&t=59

And I already have a subscription, right here!

Ahaha completely forgot about that one, perfect.

I'll add some:

AlphaPhoenix - science

Jay Foreman - UK centric cartography skits, very funny

Atomic Frontier - various, Tom Scott style

Climate Town - US centric climate related skits, very informative, also very funny

Dr. Becky - astronomy

Into Europe - light, EU related informative skits

Johnny Harris - journalist turned YouTuber, opinionated but tries to keep a politically neutral stance

Atomic frontier definitely feels like a baby Tom Scott. It's been lovely to see him grow.

Climate Town is savage

Can’t recommend Cody'sLab enough. A very curious and clever guy doing backyard experiments in most of the sciences.

Camden Bowen (dude is making a 3D printed internal combustion engine)

AustinMcConnell (random shit)

Two Minute Papers (ML paper review)

Plainly Difficult (industrial accidents/disasters)

Perun (military science)

EEVBlog (electronics engineering)

Summoning Salt (speedruns)

High Performance Academy (cars/tuning)

Ordinary Things (random shit)

Grind Hard Plumbing Co (cars/fabrication)

Engineering Explained (cars/explanation)

Half as Interesting (random shit)

Wendover Productions (random shit, but high quality)

Economics Explained (self explanatory)

Mini Air Craft Investigations (self explanatory)

Renegade Cut (leftist content)

LegalEagle (law)

Townsends (historical foods)

Casual Navigation (maritime/shipping)

How To Drink (mixed drinks)

Huygens Optics (optics/fabrication)

EmpLemon (weird video essays)

minutephysics (physics, and general science communications)

All of these I'd recommend for a general audience/nerdy person. Some of them are informative, some of them are funny. I've got much more that I'm personally interested in, but generally won't be interesting for the average person.

On the food topic, Tasting History with Max Miller is a favorite - it's interesting seeing him try to recreate recipes from historical primary sources and provide historical context.

Also, Adam Ragusea has some good content on food science, among his regular cooking videos.

Also on the food topic: How to Cook that with Ann Reardon is one that I like, aside from her more useful cake-related videos, she has a great series on historical recipes as well as amusing food hack debunkings.

Retrotech:

Adrian's Digital Basement (retrotech repair)

RMC The Cave (retro curation and stories)

Cntl Alt Rees (retro eclectic)

Jan Beta (repair)

LGR (eclectic)

Mr. Carlson's lab (repair of generally older RF, but some newer)

CuriousMarc (repair, testing, stories. Did a complete repair of the Apollo Guidance Computer)

Not quite in the same theme, but as far as gaming goes I'd put both videogamedunkey and MandaloreGaming there.

Dunkey doesn't post hour long video essays, but I find that apart from the occasional filler and joke content, his focus is on fun and it is completely infused with an empathetic passion for gaming.

Mandalore does the occasional deep dives into the weird and obscure but he's thorough and doesn't take it too seriously. Again, seems like a guy who is passionate about games but prefers to go off the beaten path in terms of game coverage.

- Stefan Milo – Archeology, mostly the human evolution. [1]

- Adam Ragusea

- fern

[1] I have the desire to list him here 10 times in a row – definitely my current favorite!

Interested in the geology and history of industry in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? Alexis Dahl is a great informative source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3EE_jNDRg&ab_channel=Alexi...

Applied Science

Ze Frank

Asianometry

Premodernist

Integza

There are just so many great educational/maker channels, here's a bunch more that are least known on my list (in no particular order):

Not David

iforce2d

Chronova Engineering

Posy

SuperfastMatt

Michael Rechtin

AlphaPhoenix

Hyperspace Pirate

Nicholas Rehm

James Biggar

Casual Navigation

Kraut

Spanning Tree

Geo History

EgyptologyLessons

Carl Bugeja

electrosync

Historia Civilis

Jeremy Fielding

there oughta be

Andreas Spiess

Posy!! I can't believe I forgot him on my list! +1

Same with casual navigation! Have I ever worked on or piloted a boat? No. But will I watch little 10min explainer videos about bilge pumps and anchor chains? Definitely.

Sam Aronow is great if you are interested in Jewish history.

Don't forget Vsauce! He doesn't make as many videos anymore but he has a huge backlog of great videos.

A couple I don’t see that I love watching are good machinists and restoration. So here are my go tos:

my mechanics

Hand Tool Rescue

Cutting Edge Engineering

Inheritance Machining

CEE is great!

Also: I Do Cars

This Old Tony

Oh this is a GOOD one. How did I never see this before? Thanks for the rec!

Stuff Made Here

Sebastian Lague is in the same vein, makes some of the best code exploration project videos I've seen. Highly entertaining and informative.

He and CodingTrain are my favorites.

Asianometry

Yeah, the one that says dramme instead of D-RAM.

Thanks for these!

StyroPyro :)

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