Educational Youtube Channels
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3Blue1Brown:
Breaks down very complex mathematical concepts into easy-to-understand videos using useful analogies and visualizations
BobbyBroccoli:
Excellent documentaries about scandals in science
CGP Grey:
One of THE classic educational channels. He doesn't upload often but when he does the videos are at once uniquely educational and amusing
Clickspring:
Essentially ASMR for engineers
Dan Carlin:
This is the youtube page for his podcasts. He does extremely detailed episodes about interesting points in history
Technology Connections:
Detailed overviews of things you use every day but never think about
Two Minute Papers:
Succinctly explains papers, with an emphasis on AI and computer graphics
Veritasium:
STEM videos
Vsauce:
STEM videos from a very memable host
Informative and entertaining long-form videos about physics, usually concentrating on cosmology and ranting about pop-science and what it gets wrong
Most videos are either about lasers and magnets
Detailed videos about visual effects... using visual effects
Experiments in 3D printing
The history and future of aerospace engineering
Disney has a research group that publishes videos about their work. As you might imagine this is very focused on movie making and computer graphics
These are the people who run crash tests for the auto insurance industry. Many slow-motion crashes
Physics in... a couple of minutes
Weird videos detailing weird chemistry experiments
Civil engineering-focused channel that often uses scale models to illustrate things
Details the engineering challenges faced in the design of high-tech machines
Videos about whatever this guy finds interesting
Has a series where he is making a marble-machine musical instrument and is detailing his journey in designing and manufacturing it
Each episode presents an ancient problem and follows its journey from prehistoric through modern times
Animated lessons in computer science
Videos about city planning and transportation policy
Good overviews of complex and interesting economic topics. Perhaps a bit surface-level but a good starting point
Quick and to-the-point videos about healthcare science and policy from a professor of pediatrics and the director of the center for health policy and professionalism research
Education about hot button topics
Explains the legal context and precedents behind cases in the news
More videos about city planning and transportation policy
Essentially a travel vlog from a guy who goes to weird places
Documentaries about important moments in the recent past
Not sure where exactly to put this one, but this channel is a grab-bag of interesting topics
Technical breakdowns of videogames. Not always super educational but you'll pick up a fair few things about rendering technologies through their videos
This person is making a romhack of Super Mario 64 and documents the optimizations he is making to the underlying code
Insights into game development from the lead on the super smash bros games. Good to watch to see how efficiently he explains things
A lot of these videos give good insight into concepts like variable types and random number generators
acollierastro:
Brainiac75:
Captain Disillusion:
CNC Kitchen:
Curious Droid:
DisneyResearchHub:
IIHS:
minutephysics:
NileRed:
Practical Engineering:
Real Engineering:
The Action Lab:
Wintergatan:
Art of the Problem:
Udiprod:
City Beautiful:
Economics Explained:
Healthcare Triage:
Johnny Harris:
LegalEagle:
Not Just Bikes:
Rare Earth:
Retro Report:
Tomm Scott:
Digital Foundry:
Kaze Emanuar:
Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games:
Pannenkoek2012: