Edutainment

I’d like to curate a collection of educational videos that are a joy to watch. Similar to Awsome go, Awsome Emacs and so on.

Perhaps someone reading this can add more content here (use comments) or just enjoy. This not a complete list by any means, I just wanted to push me to write down an initial list of loved lectures.

• Chemistry

  • Andrew Szyllo - the amount of sheer energy and enthusiasm is, I must say, unparalleled.
  • Sir Martyn Poliakoff - periodic videos - love the quirky humor. Addendum: This episode features the Smell-O-Scope! Amazing!

• Physics

  • Lot of content from Richard Feynman. Too much to list, and also widely available.
  • MIT Physics lectures by Walter Lewin

• Math

  • Standup math by Matt Parker
  • Presh Talwalkar - Mind your Decisions
  • Eddie Woo - I loved my high school math teachers, but I’d love to have Eddie as my teacher, too.
  • 3 Blue 1 Brown - Grant Sanderson’s math channel

• Computer Science

  • Prof Brailsford on Computerphile.
  • Cliff Stoll: The KGB, the computer and me
  • Also other Cliff Stoll videos on youtube

• Other Engineering

  • tech ingredients - not a single lecture where I don’t feel like replicating that stuff right away.
  • Technology Connections - In the nicest way possible, Alec makes the nerdiest of nerds feel that there is someone even nerdier out there.
  • Bill Hammack - engineerguy
  • Project Farm - motor-y, handy things to know, like “can you power your gas engine on diesel or not.”
  • Smarter every day - Science, but fun ;)
  • Andreas Spiess - hands on IOT stuff with a swiss accent.
  • Curious Marc Electronic vlog. Cool topics like reconstructing original Apollo 14 flight software.
  • BigClive - dangerous electronics.
  • LockPickingLawyer - almost everything you ever wanted to know about lock picking
  • RCTestFlight detailed autonomous flight/… project descriptions.

• Popular Science

• Kurzgesagt - awesome short videos about medicine, engineering, society, biology etc.
• THe Royal Institution - moving a bit toward TED (which I find a getting too narcissistic), but a lot of good talks here (e.g. by Andrew Szyllo, whom I discovered there)

• Just Fun

• Adam Savage Tested YT channel
• Scott Manley rocket science

Written on July 21, 2020