Good Educational Youtube Channels

[Marik2]

I just want to make a thread sharing good educational youtube channels, because it is hard to find decent material on the internet that isn't a waste of time.

I'm looking for channels that teach anthropology, sociology, economics, finance(stock market), real estate, philosophy, programming, poker, and black jack.

Anything that is actually interesting and thought provoking in general.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwnKziETDbHJtx78nIkfYug

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgRvm1yLFoaQKhmaTqXk9SA

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoxcjq-8xIDTYp3uz647V5A

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsXVk37bltHxD1rDPwtNM8Q

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCX6b17PVsYBQ0ip5gyeme-Q

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCa35qyNpnlZ_u8n9qoAZbMQ

https://www.youtube.com/user/bigthink

https://www.youtube.com/user/ScienceChannel

Discussion Question: Do you guys find it hard to find good educational material on the internet these days?

 

[Saelune]

I do like Vsauce. Their recent video in numbers bigger than Infinity was very interesting. The concept of infinity, probability, and combining the two is super fascinating to me.

Most educational stuff I find is more just random stuff that is suggested to me, that does it in fun ways. I do like Crash Course cause I'm a history nerd. Too bad I really don't like John. It doesn't stop me watching videos hes in that I'm interested in...but he is a shitty author and considers that his primary occupation.

Extra Credits (remember them?) have a lot of great videos. Most relate to video games, but you can learn a bit, plus they have their history series which is good at making you want to learn more of specific events and people.

 

[Marik2]

I do like Vsauce. Their recent video in numbers bigger than Infinity was very interesting. The concept of infinity, probability, and combining the two is super fascinating to me.

Most educational stuff I find is more just random stuff that is suggested to me, that does it in fun ways. I do like Crash Course cause I'm a history nerd. Too bad I really don't like John. It doesn't stop me watching videos hes in that I'm interested in...but he is a shitty author and considers that his primary occupation.

Extra Credits (remember them?) have a lot of great videos. Most relate to video games, but you can learn a bit, plus they have their history series which is good at making you want to learn more of specific events and people.

I kinda got bored with Crash Course, because they are high school level and I want to find someone who lectures in a University level.

 

[Saelune]

I do like Vsauce. Their recent video in numbers bigger than Infinity was very interesting. The concept of infinity, probability, and combining the two is super fascinating to me.

Most educational stuff I find is more just random stuff that is suggested to me, that does it in fun ways. I do like Crash Course cause I'm a history nerd. Too bad I really don't like John. It doesn't stop me watching videos hes in that I'm interested in...but he is a shitty author and considers that his primary occupation.

Extra Credits (remember them?) have a lot of great videos. Most relate to video games, but you can learn a bit, plus they have their history series which is good at making you want to learn more of specific events and people.

I kinda got bored with Crash Course, because they are high school level and I want to find someone who lectures in a University level.

I think a lot of it depends on what you are looking for. Most of the stuff I like feels more entry level to make more people care about learning topics as opposed to helping you get a degree in it. School sucks, so it turns a lot of people away from things they did not know they would enjoy if they just had a competent teacher.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

I am not clicking those blind links

AvE is a nice canadian home fixer that always has something interesting in his garage
https://www.youtube.com/user/arduinoversusevil/videos
http://i.imgur.com/MjxcxJn.webm

Hickok is the nice gun grandpa that teaches us how to respect and enjoy firearms
https://www.youtube.com/user/hickok45/videos

Lindybeige is a mediaeval nerd of sorts
https://www.youtube.com/user/lindybeige/videos

Super Planet Dolan teaches us... things
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3D_ZXHwaKekKwbO_LM48OQ/videos

Big clive is much like AvE, except he specializes in taking apart electronics
https://www.youtube.com/user/bigclivedotcom/videos

I presume most of you know SciShow, a show, about science
https://www.youtube.com/user/scishow/videos

Clickspring teaches us how to make clocks
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCworsKCR-Sx6R6-BnIjS2MA/videos

Life is easy teaches us how to relax
https://www.youtube.com/user/lifeiseasy93/videos

Taofledermaus teaches us what happens when you put mercury in a blender
https://www.youtube.com/user/taofledermaus/videos

Michaelcthulhu teaches us how to forge things
https://www.youtube.com/user/michaelcthulhu/videos

Periodic videos technically teaches you about everything
https://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos/videos

 

[FirstNameLastName]

Most of these are science related, so I'm not sure how relevant they are.

Computerphile; the name is rather self explanatory.

Sixty Symbols; mostly physics, astronomy, ect.

Periodic Videos; chemistry, of course.

CGP Grey; history, politics, voting, geography, etc.

 

[GothmogII]

The Great War is a fantastic week by week look at World War I:

http://youtu.be/6FgaL0xIazk

They do a lot of side stuff too like what certain historical figures were up to, episodes on particular countries and a q&a segment. It's brilliant stuff.

The Brain Scoop with Emily Graslie is great if you're interested in learning about taxidermy and animals. Fair warning some videos are quite graphic as Emily performs a number of dissections.

http://youth.be/i_diEm6st6o

Forgotton Weapons is a fun look at rare or interesting firearms with very in depth explanations on history and function, while Skallgrim talks about swords and sword fighting techniques.

 

[lechat]

apart from ted, crash course and veritasium I also subscribe to Numberphile [https://www.youtube.com/user/numberphile/videos]
Numberphile is cool because you get to see really smart people who are passionate about tiny subsets of mathematics that they spend their whole lives working on that serve no purpose and noone gives a shit about like this:
To be fair I'm sure even the most obscure maths could have practical applications but sometimes its just cool to learn about something that you will never use in your day to day life.
I do wish they went more in depth with some of their topics though instead of just going "yeah dude trust me the maths totally works out on this part but I'm not gonna show you why"

I also subscribe to a bunch of music education channels but where they fall short even worse than most education channels is they constantly have to engage the lowest common denominator to maintain a fanbase so while one video might be about phrasing a mozart concerto the next inevitably has to be about how to play twinkle twinkle on open strings or how to rosin your bow.
The whole point of education channels should be to provide easy access to comprehensible knowledge so we don't need a rehash on a subject that has already been covered several million times and only takes seconds for the average person to grasp.

 

[Marik2]

Thank you all for contributing those channels. I also forgot to mention RSA for their lecture videos that are accompanied by drawings

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL39BF9545D740ECFF

 

[MrCalavera_v1legacy]

I do like tackling technical aspects of filmmaking, like Every Frame a Painting does.
https://www.youtube.com/user/everyframeapainting/videos
I don't like that it'd take you about 1,5h to watch every video on that channel. Eh, quality over quantity, i guess.

 

[Chessrook44]

So remember those old guys who did Extra Credits? Used to be on Escapist, there was some whole kerfuffle involving funds, they're on their own now? They kept on doing Extra Credits. Still not bad. But in addition, they also started doing something new: Extra History.

Starting when they took a sponsor bit from the makers of Rome: Total War, they have since been making a series of vids on various events in history, ranging from the events leading to the start of World War 1, to the actions of Admiral Yi, a surprisingly impressive Admiral of Korea who created the infamous Turtle Ships. And yanno what? Their Extra History shows have actually been quite interesting, and even I, who have never been the best at history, have found myself quite interested. It's worth a watch.

You can go straight to the playlist at this link. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5Aq7g4bil7bnGi0A8gTsawu

 

[The Enquirer]

So remember those old guys who did Extra Credits? Used to be on Escapist, there was some whole kerfuffle involving funds, they're on their own now? They kept on doing Extra Credits. Still not bad. But in addition, they also started doing something new: Extra History.

Starting when they took a sponsor bit from the makers of Rome: Total War, they have since been making a series of vids on various events in history, ranging from the events leading to the start of World War 1, to the actions of Admiral Yi, a surprisingly impressive Admiral of Korea who created the infamous Turtle Ships. And yanno what? Their Extra History shows have actually been quite interesting, and even I, who have never been the best at history, have found myself quite interested. It's worth a watch.

You can go straight to the playlist at this link. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhyKYa0YJ_5Aq7g4bil7bnGi0A8gTsawu

I'll be seconding this. I already enjoy history quite a bit, but their material is easily accessible and very entertaining. Plus they cover less well known things that, if put in other formats, you'd be lucky if they were half as interesting. Seriously, who ever thought Cholera could be so much fun? Learning about it. Not having it of course. That'd suck.

 

[The Eupho Guy_v1legacy]

How about Tom Scott?

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBa659QWEk1AI4Tg--mrJ2A

He's done videos for Computerphile, has his own series on computer bugs and exploits and also has videos about interesting places and things you might not know. He's also a member of the Technical Difficulties; A group of friends that make a show called Citation Needed, a quiz show that uses everyone's favourite source of unreliable knowledge: Wikipedia.

One of his friends has also made what I think is the greatest way to measure temperature: The Freddie Mercury Thermometer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpfz1k-imtk]