• LordKitsuna@lemmy.world
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    How in the actual hell is technology connections not on that list and also why have I not seen it in any of the comments yet

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    I learnered about some interesting looking channels from this thread so I’ll pay it forward and share some that I like.

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    Angela Collier

    Bobby Broccoli

    Climate Town

    Computerphile

    Defunctland

    fern

    Folding Ideas

    JimmyTheGiant

    KnowledgeHusk

    Lextorias

    Not Just Bikes

    Odd Compass

    Ordinary Things

    PBS Space Time

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    Suibhne

    Thought Slime

    Tom Nicholas

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    Kurgesatz was really good before they started the black mirror season, where every video is about how humanity can get killed by various things.

    Never heard of the other ones but I’ll give it a try.

    And there’s a PBS video for anything you can think about, sometimes they just don’t surface properly with search.

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      They’re honest, direct, open, and willing to learn, I love kurzgesagt. The world sucks, but we shouldn’t shy away from understanding why it sucks and how we can improve it

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      I am big fan of their prepandemic work. But if you can get past their click bait videos, I think they still do good content.

      Science pieces spreading awareness about something are their best videos.

      https://youtu.be/m6KnVTYtSc0

      This recent video on fentanyl was very good.

      The south korea one, the vaping and weed ones. Very good at condensing complicated topic while still retaining pertinent information that’s new and not patronizing.

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        I just showed their Fentanyl video to my 13yo daughter over the weekend and it was incredibly effective as a parenting tool. We paused many times and discussed. But their presentation didn’t leave all that much for me to say.

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    Anyone here like Folding Ideas? He’s done some good stuff about flat earthers, crypto bros, and such.

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      One of the greats! Also, if you like Folding Ideas, you’ll love Benn Jordan. The style is very similar. Also, Technology Connections.

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      I love watching Spacetime, but also feel like dum-dum-brain after watch. Me no think good enough to watch this show.

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        Yeah I think it’s a quality channel but apparently there are just SO many people out there smarter than me that they are fine catering only to them. It sucks being left behind by a publicly funded channel :(

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          I’m actually thankful. It’s good to know a little about the bleeding edge of science, and there presumably are people who really do understand it. The fact that I don’t, means that there are smart, passionate people out there doing the work. Not every show needs to cater to the lowest common denominator.

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        I feel like the more you watch the more watchable it is cause you get more and more context

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          They’re definitely building on each other, but they’re definitely ELIApplyingForMyDocotrate degree.

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      For physics enthusiasts, I’d also suggest “floatheadphysics” for his depictions and sometimes cathartic presentation style. I love how he broke down special relativity in an easily understood way.

      Then I’ve also really been enjoying “For The Love of Physics” for his style of showing some of the math. His style is more of a classroom presentation, but in a way that reminds me of my most effective professors that made their lessons as easy to consume as mac and cheese.

      I’m inclined to hit some online courses someday, too, but, for now, these have been great for conceptual stuff and my curiosity vs. time balance.

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      I liked smarter every day but recently I have been kinda put off because of his fairly frequent military propaganda for USA’s military.

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    Nothing like turning on Sam O’Nella for some entertaining educational comedy for the kids only to hear “removed” over and over again

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    They’re pretty okay for shallow understanding on a subject, but Wendover (not on the list), Economics Explained (not on the list), and CGP gray all get stuff pretty wrong once you get past shallow depth. I know because I’m a huge transit/urbanism nerd. If these channels haven’t wronged you in some minor way, they just haven’t talked about something you’re a subject matter expert in yet. The point here isn’t that they’re bad, just understand that these are shallow explainers, the next step in from like a news article, Wikipedia, or a blog, and take them with a grain of salt.

    My personal list is Kurzgesagt, XKCD explained, and The Action Lab.

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      I thought the Tiffany video was pretty meh, but the followup video about how the Tiffany video got made was one of his best. He’s clearly a thorough and passionate researcher. The way he refuses to settle for anything less than the primary source is both entertaining and vitally important in our modern information landscape.

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    Veritasium?

    The Rest is History is always a good listen.

    Historia Civilis and others like Kings and Generals etc are often good too.

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      Don’t like him for the ways he pushes bullshit, even if it technically might be correct under x y z assumptions that are utterly nonsense in real live. Last video I watched was with the interference and “light takes all paths” and the way to actually show it was complete nonsense. Yikes. At 600 nm you are not going to have any measurable amount going 10 cm somewhere else.

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      Oh I love the rest is history, they’re so good at keeping me interested in random history stories. Plus, in my country their ads don’t seem to work.

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    What a weird bunch, to me these are 2 titans, 1 serial one-hit-wonder, and 1 guy whose humour is family guy cutaway gags.

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      Id be interested to hear which are which. My guess are: Family Guy - Oversimplified Hit-Wonder - Grey Titans - Sam and Kurzgesagt

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      Replace Real Engineering with Practical Engineering for me

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      I don’t think it’s on purpose. He got his before the vasy majority knew what a shithead Musk is.