What's your favorite "Learn something new" video channel off YouTube?

BBC Reel Documentaries.

This is really cool. Thanks for sharing. Amazing how innovative is that soda can engineering. I wonder if this is the absolute pinnacle of perfection or if it has room for further optimization.

For science: Smarter Every Day.
For music: Rick Beato.

Engineering explained.

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Okay so this might be “controversial” but I’ll post it anyway: I really like some/most of the documentaries of Vice, saw a really interesting piece on Cobalt mining recently for example. Sure sometimes it feels like there is a certain “agenda” in some of the videos but one just has to look through that :slight_smile:

If they ever successfully derive a personality AI from existing recordings, they should do Feynman… and use that AI to teach science courses.

Things I learned from MrBallen videos:

Don’t go scuba-diving, or you’ll die.

Don’t go caving/spelunking, or you’ll die.

Don’t go into the woods, or you’ll die.

Don’t go exploring mine shafts, abandoned warehouses, etc., or you’ll die.

Don’t go hiking/skiing/snowboarding/hunting/etc. in the wild, or you’ll die.

Don’t climb down chimneys, into crawl-spaces, into air-ducts, etc., or you’ll die.

And so on.

My life’s greatest ambition is to not end up in a MrBallen video.

Mr. Ballen has really good presentation skills. I watched the first 2 videos. Informative, entertaining stuff. Thanks, LB.

Project Farm -https://www.youtube.com/c/ProjectFarm

And the 3 I’ve been enjoying for electronics….

Eevblog https://odysee.com/@eevblog:7?&sunset=lbrytv

Marco Reps https://www.youtube.com/c/MarcoReps

Louis Rossman https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup

Technically not “learn something new”, unless you participate in these particular hobbies:
Luke Towan does absolute top-tier life-like dioramas and My Mechanics restores things with precision and finesse that would impress a Swedish watch maker.

Tom Scott. Random subjects that answer questions you didn’t even know were there to be asked.

This one, Creative Explained: creative explained - YouTube

he gets kind of “preachy” sometimes,
but fast-forward is my friend.

Speaking of which, this was pretty awesome…

He’s also got some good docs.

To keep it flashlight related

Ah, the Nitecore TIP…

I had such high hopes for that one. Bought the CRI version with a little less output. Frankly, I liked it except for some glaring flaws like the casing being in two complete halves with edges that didn’t line up perfectly. But the real breaker for me was the parasitic drain in lockout mode. In about a week or two the light would be totally drained and that’s with minimal use (maybe a minute or two total on lower modes). Nitecore couldn’t figure this out, something they’d solved in other lights like the EC4GT. So their solution? No electronic lockout, but instead a plastic covering to protect the buttons from accidental activation. Wow, what a fail!

Somehow i like things that challenge things i am in no way able to keep up with, like math.

So things like astronomy - quantum mechanics - string theory - entropy tickle my brain, which is kinda funny cuz the reason i am bad at math is i have a very hard time learning something when it can not be properly explained to me, so saying ” thats just how it is ” well that make me shut down hard.

Maybe it is due to i do not need to know these sciences / subjects, i can just make do sitting back and marvel at its glory.

I do also enjoy watching craftsmen make just about anything, and as a machinist i can almost get sexually aroused just watching a 5 axis mill do its thing.

Hoho, I’ve seen those videos!