Is it just me or has Kurtzgesakt gotten really weird over the last couple years? Like, their videos seem like they want to be clickbait, but they’re really bad at it.

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

+Practical Engineering

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

slow start

Suibhne

Thought Slime

Tom Nicholas

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.

Shout out to PBS Space Time

I stopped watching kurzgesagt after their copium video on global warming where we all hold hands and sing and magically reverse it.

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

I'd like to submit

Steve Mould

SmarterEveryDay (Highly suggest this video of the James Webb Telescope https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu97IiO_yDI )

Honorable mention (because 'retired') Tom Scott

And because it's a good channel Dad How Do I?

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.

Angela Collier completes a nice Venn diagram of (making me feel like I'm) learning stuff, righteous anger, and being a person with a face who isn't some new media production studio

https://youtube.com/@acollierastro

Like all pop-science I think they're really educational on topics I know nothing about. On topics I do know well, I think: well that's wrong and that's wrong.

Veritasium?

The Rest is History is always a good listen.

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

You forgot Technology Connections

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

I’ll add Captain Disillusion to this thread

None of them on the fediverse :/

wheres wendover and reallifelore?

CGP Grey is a meh channel for a very long time now

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.

Also:

LockPickingLawyer

How To Cook That

Captain Disillusion

Pilot Debreif

Stand-Up Maths

Kur is being shit recently with Bill gates

If you wanna learn from the best chef in the world:

You Suck At Cooking! Yeah, you totally suck!

Or Preppy Kitchen if we're being serious

Legal stuff:

Meidas Touch and Legal Eagle

Retro video and music devices:

Techmoan and VWestlife

Also: Tom Scott. Or at least his backlog because he retired.

And a very important one! - Science stuff: Potholer54 I can't believe he doesn't have millions of subs. It actually kind of makes me sad.

I'm more of a Real Engineering and Mustard kinda guy