>I follow a number of education channels on YouTube
Any recommendations? I would love to look into channels that you think are like 3Blue1Brown but in other subjects (natural sciences, history, art etc.).
Edit: I realize I overlooked the "like 3Blue1Brown" prereq, instead sharing a list of the educational/interesting channels I find worthwhile. The most like 3Blue1Brown will be the PBS ones (especially SpaceTime), MinutePhysics, and Mathologer, for using diagrams to convey abstract concepts.
PBS Space Time and Eons are both awesome:
* PBS Space Time, covers cosmology and quantum physics:
* Today I Found Out is just on this side of clickbaity, and is this age's "Ripley's Believe It Or Not", but still interesting and more importantly well researched:
* Steve Mould, who covers various topics both mathematical and physical. You may have seen that gif of him demonstrating the "levitating" siphoning "pearl necklace" (also a friend of Matt Parker, above):
* Numberphile, the second-greatest math channel (after 3Blue1Brown), whose recent video finally made me take the Golden Ratio seriously, rather than an architectural gimmick/conspiracy theory:
Apologies for the link spam, this list turned out longer than I expected as I went down my subscriptions, and I've probably missed a few worthy ones!
Edit the final:
I discovered many of these channels through referrals from others I was watching, including from the twitter feeds of the authors. Turns out the educational landscape on YouTube is a well-connected graph!
700? Damn! And I have trouble tracking what to watch with my few dozen subscriptions!
Also, something rant about YouTube's recommendation engine, that doesn't mesh with my subscriptions into account well enough, offering many videos from channels I don't subscribe to and not enough from those I do subscribe to. Does it work better for you with your firehose of subscriptions?
Youtubes recommendations are terrible but occasionally I find some good things. Firehosing my videos subs this way has not made the experience any better
I tend to have a really bad habit of subbing things I dont really need too. I used subbing more as a way to "bookmark" channels I like. I do the same with github, I am that type of person that 700ish repos bookmarked
I do put alerts on channels I know won't constantly spam me with too many videos (e.g. smarter everyday, wendover productions, mark rober, tom scott, primitive technology). Usually i watch every video that gets released there
I dont put alerts on channels that are good quality but high spam (e.g. casey neistat, tested, vsauce, etc). Normally i just binge watch these in one setting.
I dont put alerts on any programming or shiny tech channels. Like tutorials on how to use react, etc. I go to youtube to get away from all of that and would naturally seek those videos out with search terms anyhow.
I put a like button on every video ive watched that doesnt suck and leave comments to timestamp videos. I put dislike on videos that are poorly explained or didntt work for me (e.g. these are usually how to install xyz videos). This way i can instantly know if I've seen a video before ans found it useful or had to debug something years later (IT type stuff) to find it didnt work out
If i liked a video i check the top comment if its mine.
Basically I use google and youtube as my own personal search repository. Its like forking a github repo and adding annotations. I treat it the same way. If im going to 9 times out of 10 google something in the end, i might as well make the process easier to do next time.
Im still looking for a better UX youtube experience that doesnt suck. Havent found it yet.
How i would like to have it is organized by the following.
1. High quality videos low spam first uptop in feed.
2. Everything else sorted by its video category type and or playlist
Y'know, I hesitated. I admit I'm somewhat ambivalent about VSauce, because Michael's somewhat wandering style makes it closer to entertainment than the usually more focused topics the other channels on my list work with. That said, Vsauce is definitely interesting and great for fostering curiosity and an inquisitive mindset.
Also his new channel DONG ("Do Online Now Guys"... wut?):
Any recommendations? I would love to look into channels that you think are like 3Blue1Brown but in other subjects (natural sciences, history, art etc.).