Edit: Thank you for your responses! I’ll be sure to upvote and check out everyone’s annswers even if I don’t reply to each one individually.
Not Just Bikes
Tales from a Canadian from Suburbia, Ontario who moved to the Netherlands. He talks about public transit and city planning.
They say falling into this rabbit hole is to take the “orange pill”.
I’m waiting got hbomberguy to come back.
Most of my youtube subs are educational/informative in some way or another, so I’m gonna break it up by category a bit…
General
- Half as Interesting
- Wendover Productions
- Answer in Progress
Religion/Philosophy
- Religion for Breakfast
- Esoterica
- Bart D. Ehrman
- PhilosophyTube
- Wisecrack (though it’s dead as of a month ago it still has tons of great content)
- Michael Burns (the guy who did Wisecrack, now has his own channel, though it’s more politically-oriented)
- UsefulCharts (not exclusively religious content, but largely)
- SatansGuide (I keep hoping they’ll make more videos like their original 2, but it’s been a year…)
General Science:
- Veritasium
- Dr Ben Miles
- Kyle Hill
- Stand Up Maths
- Primer
Science Experimentation:
- Nile Red
- Thought Emporium
- Styropyro
- Tech Ingredients
- Alpha Phoenix
- Applied Science
- BPS.Space
Programming/AI:
- Sebastian Lague (his Coding Adventure series is super fun and informative)
- Emergent Garden
- Code Bullet
Engineering:
- Practical Engineering
- Real Engineering
- SuperfastMatt (guy builds crazy cars for fun, love his sense of humor)
History:
- History Matters (great short videos on historical topics)
- Miniminuteman/Milo Rossi (mostly archaeology and such)
Geography:
- Daniel Steiner
- Map Nerd
- Jay Foreman (Map Men is hilarious, and the rest of his stuff is pretty good too)
Esoterica is great. It’s mostly about gnostic side of western religious history. Dr. Justin Sledge is doing awesome research on the relevant topics. I’m watching that to know more about to put religion in a historical context.
CGPGrey
Ooo just thought of another. Animagraffs — https://youtube.com/@animagraffs
Takes large scale things (Hoover Dam, locomotive, F1 car, etc) and breaks them down into their components in a long-scale video format (30+ minutes). It’s oddly soothing to watch.
I think the Steam Locomotive one is my favorite so far. https://youtu.be/Hszu80NJ438
Garry’s Economic
Crash Course! They have series on history, politics, games, psychology, philosophy, folk tales, and almost every host is very good.
FYI, if you love long-format videos, be sure to share on c/mealtimevideos
!mealtimevideos@lemmy.cafe - is this the one?
Yes!
PBS Space Time
Best channel on YouTube.
Kurzgesagt is my go to. I love the art and the style of narration
Posy
Folding ideas is pretty cool https://youtube.com/@foldingideas
Renaissance Periodization - working out, dieting, bodybuilding and steroids.
Dr Mike Isratel is a Dr of exercise science and doesnt chat shit. They make their money pretty transparently, and give honest to god research backed information. Lots of information that can be extracted from Beginners to Advanced and he loves a good dick joke enough for all of his content to feel fun.
I watched a couple of Mike’s videos. Seems like good information and he is entertaining. No music, no ads, no goofie sound effects.
If you’re into an academic study of the occult or comparative religion, I like Esoterica by Doctor Justin Sledge (he’s the guy from the tumblr alchemy meme about making a Paracellcian era anti-depressant)
