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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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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'll second 3blue1brown.

Scott Manley is, of course, mainly interested in rockets, but does cover sciencey things too (I believe he's a former professional astronomer).

I like Cleo Abram's "optimistic science" shorts.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Love Scott Manley!

After looking up Cleo Abram I remembered I watched a video where she was hanging out with a paleontologist and that I enjoyed how geeked out she was to find some fossils :) I’ll check out those shorts! Shorts are nice with the kids too. They’re still a bit younger but are curious so that may be the perfect length.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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 :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

I like Nebula. It's not too expensive, there's a lot of great creators, and it's an easy way to support a variety without subscribing to all sorts of Patreons.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Yeah. I haven’t looked at them yet for that exact reason, but the argument is making sense to me.