Educational Youtube Channels

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Essentials

• 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/@3blue1brown

  • Breaks down very complex mathematical concepts into easy-to-understand videos using useful analogies and visualizations

• BobbyBroccoli: https://www.youtube.com/@BobbyBroccoli

  • Excellent documentaries about scandals in science

• CGP Grey: https://www.youtube.com/@CGPGrey

  • 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: https://www.youtube.com/@Clickspring

  • Essentially ASMR for engineers

• Dan Carlin: https://www.youtube.com/@dancarlinpodcaster

  • This is the youtube page for his podcasts. He does extremely detailed episodes about interesting points in history

• Technology Connections: https://www.youtube.com/@TechnologyConnections

  • Detailed overviews of things you use every day but never think about

• Two Minute Papers: https://www.youtube.com/@TwoMinutePapers

  • Succinctly explains papers, with an emphasis on AI and computer graphics

• Veritasium: https://www.youtube.com/@veritasium

  • STEM videos

• Vsauce: https://www.youtube.com/@Vsauce

  • STEM videos from a very memable host

Engineering / Science / Technology

• acollierastro: https://www.youtube.com/@acollierastro

  • Informative and entertaining long-form videos about physics, usually concentrating on cosmology and ranting about pop-science and what it gets wrong

• Brainiac75: https://www.youtube.com/@brainiac75

  • Most videos are either about lasers and magnets

• Captain Disillusion: https://www.youtube.com/@CaptainDisillusion

  • Detailed videos about visual effects... using visual effects

• CNC Kitchen: https://www.youtube.com/@CNCKitchen

  • Experiments in 3D printing

• Curious Droid: https://www.youtube.com/@CuriousDroid

  • The history and future of aerospace engineering

• DisneyResearchHub: https://www.youtube.com/@DisneyResearchHub

  • 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

• IIHS: https://www.youtube.com/@iihs-hldi

  • These are the people who run crash tests for the auto insurance industry. Many slow-motion crashes

• minutephysics: https://www.youtube.com/@MinutePhysics

  • Physics in... a couple of minutes

• NileRed: https://www.youtube.com/@NileRed

  • Weird videos detailing weird chemistry experiments

• Practical Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/@PracticalEngineeringChannel

  • Civil engineering-focused channel that often uses scale models to illustrate things

• Real Engineering: https://www.youtube.com/@RealEngineering

  • Details the engineering challenges faced in the design of high-tech machines

• The Action Lab: https://www.youtube.com/@TheActionLab

  • Videos about whatever this guy finds interesting

• Wintergatan: https://www.youtube.com/@Wintergatan

  • Has a series where he is making a marble-machine musical instrument and is detailing his journey in designing and manufacturing it

Math

• Art of the Problem: https://www.youtube.com/@ArtOfTheProblem

  • Each episode presents an ancient problem and follows its journey from prehistoric through modern times

• Udiprod: https://www.youtube.com/@udiprod

  • Animated lessons in computer science

History / Society / Economics / Law

• City Beautiful: https://www.youtube.com/@CityBeautiful

  • Videos about city planning and transportation policy

• Economics Explained: https://www.youtube.com/@EconomicsExplained

  • Good overviews of complex and interesting economic topics. Perhaps a bit surface-level but a good starting point

• Healthcare Triage: https://www.youtube.com/@healthcaretriage

  • 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

• Johnny Harris: https://www.youtube.com/@johnnyharris

  • Education about hot button topics

• LegalEagle: https://www.youtube.com/@LegalEagle

  • Explains the legal context and precedents behind cases in the news

• Not Just Bikes: https://www.youtube.com/@NotJustBikes

  • More videos about city planning and transportation policy

• Rare Earth: https://www.youtube.com/@RareEarthSeries

  • Essentially a travel vlog from a guy who goes to weird places

• Retro Report: https://www.youtube.com/@RETROREPORT

  • Documentaries about important moments in the recent past

• Tomm Scott: https://www.youtube.com/@TomScottGo

  • Not sure where exactly to put this one, but this channel is a grab-bag of interesting topics

Video Games

• Digital Foundry: https://www.youtube.com/@DigitalFoundry

  • Technical breakdowns of videogames. Not always super educational but you'll pick up a fair few things about rendering technologies through their videos

• Kaze Emanuar: https://www.youtube.com/@KazeN64

  • This person is making a romhack of Super Mario 64 and documents the optimizations he is making to the underlying code

• Masahiro Sakurai on Creating Games: https://www.youtube.com/@sora_sakurai_en

  • Insights into game development from the lead on the super smash bros games. Good to watch to see how efficiently he explains things

• Pannenkoek2012: https://www.youtube.com/@pannenkoek2012

  • A lot of these videos give good insight into concepts like variable types and random number generators