Greetings all!
There are a few YouTube channels I watch on a regular basis that I’d put in the science/math bin. Here are a few examples:
NileRed Standup Maths Steve Mould AlphaPhoenix
I was wondering if anyone here had any recommendations for other science/math channels to follow or a resource that aggregates good channels. As a lay person, as in no college level education on these topics, I’m not sure I have the qualifications to determine if a channel is highly accurate or not. I think I’ve done a good job finding channels that are accurate but wanted to check in with folks that may be able to better determine that.
I’m particularly interested in astronomy, cosmology, and evolution.
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Hyperspace Pirate is making something in his garage. I don’t really know what, but involved cryogenics and electric arc furnaces.
Tech Ingredients seems to be gearing up to arm the resistance after the seven hours war.
Atomic Frontier is a young Aussie kid trying really hard and doing a great job of teaching pop science.
Skeptics Guide to the Universe. They’re mostly a podcast but have good content on YouTube as well.
Mark Rober is always a good one. And Vsauce if you prefer OG YouTube quality.
Clint’s Reptiles: He does great videos covering phylogeny as well as pet scores for individual species.
Professor Dave Explains: A huge variety of content explaining science, my favorites so far are on phylogeny.
Mothlight Media: Videos on evolution of modern and extinct species. One of my favorites!!
Others mentioned PBS Eons, you would most definitely like it.
Damn Everyone here is nerd too. I am not alone.
Lot of stuff already listed so here are some more niche channels if you are interested:
Meteorology: WeatherWest
Geography & climate: Casual Earth
Nutrition: No Lab Coat Required
I left YouTube a long time ago for a couple reasons. But besides the content creators you mentioned, I also used to follow:
- ElectroBOOM: Mehdi talks about electrical engineer in a practical, humorous way. He has a segment called “Rectifiy” where he debunks internet videos, particularly these fake “Free energy” internet videos.
- The Action Lab: didactic experimentations with physics.
- Computerphille: interviews with teachers and specialist from several scientific and engineering fields, especially IT-related fields.
- 3Blue1Brown (IIRC): mathematician.
- Tom Scott, back when he produced videos: I guess everyone knows about him.
- Technology Connections: often focuses on household appliances (refrigerators, air conditioners, dishwashers, lamps, etc) but also explains applied scientific knowledge and also photography.
If I remember other content creators, I’ll update my comment. It has been a long time since I abandoned YouTube.
3blue1brown is phenomenal. It taught me how to understand a bunch of things better than studying them academically did.
“Journey to the Microcosmos” is wonderful.
ZeFrank has quite a lot of accurate biology if you want a humor channel in there.
PBS Eons is great.
I haven’t checked them out, but I feel like things like Nebula or CuriosityStream may be becoming better sources for this stuff than YouTube is. YouTube seems like it is becoming a chess, and I see no real reversal of that in the cards any time soon.
Awesome, thanks for the recommendations!
I’ll have to take a closer look at Nebula and CuriosityStream. I think they come up in ads enough that they wind up on my mental ad blocker so I’ve never looked closely at them :)
Yeah. I haven’t looked at them yet for that exact reason, but the argument is making sense to me.
Cool Worlds and Dr Becky are both pretty good for astronomy and general space stuff.
Anton Petrov (“Hello, Wonderful Person!”) is quite good IMO.
PBS Space Time and Eons (and as others have already said, Journey to the Microcosmos).
Kurzgesagt is fun and AFAIK always tries to be accurate (they’ve been quick to publish correction videos when necessary).
I’ll second other’s recommendation for CuriosityStream and Standup Maths. Matt’s also part of at least one good podcast, “A Podcast of Unnecessary Detail” which is informative and entertaining.
kurzgesagt is a bit…controversial…when it comes to their “current affairs” content:
for example: their climate science content is blatantly misleading in almost all videos.
they push a kind of “tech optimism” at the cost of presenting practical solutions among other “solutions” that are just straight-up greenwashing bs.
here’s a video that lays it all out, there’s a LOT to cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCuy1DaQzWI
that said, their “what if?” and futurology content is excellent!
just have to stay skeptical about anything related to capitalism…including climate change and green tech.
Hmm, I will have to check that out. Thanks.
Integza does mostly rocket engineering videos but is very good. 12Tone does music analysis (which I didn’t think I’d be interested in but it’s actually super interesting)
Minute Physics is great as well for general physics in bite size chunks.
What If is by Randall Monroe of XKCD where he answers ridiculous questions using science and math to give serious (if crazy) answers.
BPS.Space builds rockets and is very good at explaining the why of what he’s doing.
Mark Rober is good and hits at about a high school level general science and engineering.
Thought Emporium does mostly bioengineering but ventures into a verity of topics.
Legal Eagle is good at US based law topics.
I will 100% vouch for Nebula. It’s a great service that also directly supports creators more than YouTube does. You can find many educational YouTubers there.
Flammable Maths and matholiger for maths.
Cody’s lab for general crazyness. Currently building a mars base replica.
Al muqaddimah for arab history and kobean history for european history. Dime store adventures for new england history.
Bruce Yeany for small and fun science experiments.
Computerphile. Periodic Videos.
Deep look for (insect) biology.
EEVblog and greatscott for electronics.
Engineerguy for deep dives into products.
NightHawkInLight, NurdRage, for fun diy chemistry.
Sui Generis Brewing for fermenting.
ThreeBlueOneBrown is a good math channel, helped me understand calculus way easier than school did.
The Engineering Mindset is a good engineering one, explains how all sorts of things work from inverters to refrigeration to vehicle transmissions
Dr. George S Diaz PhD nuclear physicist goes through the math and the experiments. Has a very satisfying voice and you never see him so no egotistical BS
Universe today. Fraser Cain. Great in depth interviews with astronomers and other space scientists.
