Youtube Channels
Youtube’s recomendation algorithm is evil and an unsorted list of every subscription isn’t great for finding stuff I want to watch, so I made a categorized list of youtube channels that I like to check occasionally.
Math
- 3Blue1Brown
- Beautiful theorems
- Vihart
- Math Doodles
- Numberphile
- Videos about numbers
- Matt Parker
- More videos about numbers. Took me a while to realize it’s not the same channel as numberphile.
- George Hart
- Origami
Physics and Engineering
- engineerguy
- Elegant videos about everyday engineering marvels
- Illinois EnergyProf
- Clear lectures from Professor David Ruzic
- Steve Mould
- Various Physics Visualizations
- Smarter Every Day
- Dude makin’ videos on all sorts of stuff that interests him.
- Practical Engineering
- Small-scale demonstrations of civil engineering challenges
- Veritasium
- Assorted videos about science and education.
Biology
- Ben G Thomas
- Dino news
- Trey the Explainer
- Paleontology speculation
- PBS Eons
- Old timey animals
- Tier Zoo
- Talking about animals as if they were characters in a fighting game
- Shed Science
- Ze frank
- True facts about animals
- Deep Look
- Footage of small things
- Nautilus
- Deep Sea Livestreams
- Octolab TV
- Chill vids of little octodudes
Chemistry and Metallurgy and whatnot
- Periodic Videos
- Videos about all the elements
- Cody’s Lab
- Also features weird gardening experiments
- How to Make Everything
- Was originally about making a sandwich completely from scratch.
Food and Cookery
- Food Wishes
- Straightforward recipe videos
- Binging with Babish
- Mostly makes meme food
- Bon Appétit
- This is the one where they make gourmet skittles
Interesting Places
- Tom Scott
- Amazing Places
- Jay Foreman
- Map Men and Unfinished London
- Artifexian
- Strange exoplanets and advice about imagining them
- CGP Grey
- Mostly about flags and borders, but also about all sorts of stuff
- Worldbuilding Notes
- Imaginary places
- The Tim Traveller
- Uninteresting Places
Film and other media
- YMS
- His “Top Ten Films of 2015” list has 39 entries and was published in 2018.
- Red Letter Media
- Wisconsin’s finest cultural output
- PBS Digital Studios
- See also Lindsay Ellis’ personal channel
- Captain Disillusion
- Like a 90s childrens science show, but about digital effects
Comedy
- Aunty Donna
- Austrailian Sketch Comedy
- Jenny Nicholson
- Why does she have so many porgs?
- Jenna Marbles
- I love her horrible dogs.
- The Dragon’s Tomb
- Completely accurate board game tutorials.
- Bill Wurtz
- Music?
- Let’s Game it Out
- “As always, we’re going to try to play this game as wrong as possible.”
- Alex Ernst
- Something something apple cider vinegar
Interesting collections
- Grand Illusions
- Tim’s Toy Collection
- Objectivity
- Old artifacts
Reviews of stuff
- Ashens
- Reviews of dollar-store crud
- MKBHD
- Gizmos
- Questing Beast
- Tabletop RPG Books
Reviews of Board Games in particular
- Shut Up & Sit Down
- Skit-based board game reviews
- Actuallol
- More silly boardgame reviews
- Tolarian Community College
- Card sleeves and whatnot
- marcowargamer
- slightly more thoughtful boardgame reviews
- Inside The Box
- Really long skit-based reviews
Animated stuff
- Suncreature Studios
- Animated adventure shorts.
- Sam O’Nella
- Honestly, it’s more of a slideshow of crudely drawn stick figures.
- Explosm
- Depressing Stick Figure cartoons
Making Stuff
- Slingshot Channel
- Strange Handmade Elastic-powered projectiles
- Pocket83
- Neat little doodads
- I Like To Make Stuff
- Woodworking
Making Horrible Stuff
- William Osman
- Reckless disregard for laser safety
- StyroPyro
- Nevermind. This is reckless disregard for laser safety
- Michael Reeves
- William Osman’s angrier housemate
- Simone Giertz
- Queen of Shitty Robots
- Electroboom
- How not to do electrical engineering
- Good Inventions
- Very practical. Great Job.
- Tom Wildenhain
- Using MS Office to commit crimes against nature
- Ian Hubert
- Blender Tutorials which are either awful or amazing.