I’ve also been watching Tom Scott since he started, and love his content. I’ve put a few others that I enjoy below, that also produce what I consider to be high quality and entertaining content. Mind sharing any others?
Nile Red
Nick Zentner
Practical Engineering
Real Engineering
Ivan Miranda
Joe Makes
Tom Stanton
Veritasium
Numberphile
Deep Sky Videos
Objectivity (Honestly all of Brady’s channels are great)
3Blue1Brown
CGP Grey
Undecided with Matt Ferrell
The B1M
Kurzgesagt
Scott Manley
PBS Space Time
Deep Look
Looking Glass Universe
Institute of Human Anatomy
Smarter Every Day
Be Smart (formerly Its OK to be smart)
I’ve also recently started watching Scam Nation, which is a walkthrough of various magic tricks, in a relaxed setting. It’s not as dense as some of the others, but very good.
I would love a monthly “Where cool things are” post on here. Kind of like the Who’s Hiring post, but simply for listing channels, blogs, people etc. No specific works that would be better served by a regular post, but a comment with [name] and [what they do].
Hehehe. This channel is full of videos about "boring" topics and still you play them and bam, you are sucked into 15 min of nerdy details about a 90’s microwave that doesn’t even exists anymore and now you are wondering why you can’t have it. Amazing channel.
What sold it for me, was the Sunbeam toaster. I always wondered why in the cartoons people would get shocked sticking a fork in a toaster. And into the rabbit hole I went...
Steve Mould (himself a good science educator on YouTube) said that Technology Connections makes videos about things you didn't know you wanted to watch until you watched them.
I always think I will watch just 10-15 and end up watching the whole thing and then wonder why learning about a crappy refrigerator was so interesting.
There are so many great channels on there! Here are a few of my recent favorites:
Laura Kampf - german maker and problem solver, currently renovating a 120 year old house
Jimmy Diresta - maker and designer, also renovating an old house in upstate New York
Adam Savage - from MythBusters, interesting builds, and interesting discussion of shop and building techniques
Rambling Wild Rosie - former long-distance hiker and interior designer, renovating an old house in the forest Sweden, figuring things out as she goes - very beautiful and peaceful videos
Also loads of great wood working channels: Paul Sellers, Woodworking for Mere Mortals, Izzy Swan, Samurai Carpenter, and on and on!
One more vote for Steve Mould. I don't follow him directly but I still end up watching a bunch of his content through random suggestions, he's quite good.
Wendover Productions (random shit, but high quality)
Economics Explained (self explanatory)
Mini Air Craft Investigations (self explanatory)
Renegade Cut (leftist content)
LegalEagle (law)
Townsends (historical foods)
Casual Navigation (maritime/shipping)
How To Drink (mixed drinks)
Huygens Optics (optics/fabrication)
EmpLemon (weird video essays)
minutephysics (physics, and general science communications)
All of these I'd recommend for a general audience/nerdy person. Some of them are informative, some of them are funny. I've got much more that I'm personally interested in, but generally won't be interesting for the average person.
On the food topic, Tasting History with Max Miller is a favorite - it's interesting seeing him try to recreate recipes from historical primary sources and provide historical context.
Also, Adam Ragusea has some good content on food science, among his regular cooking videos.
Also on the food topic: How to Cook that with Ann Reardon is one that I like, aside from her more useful cake-related videos, she has a great series on historical recipes as well as amusing food hack debunkings.
Not quite in the same theme, but as far as gaming goes I'd put both videogamedunkey and MandaloreGaming there.
Dunkey doesn't post hour long video essays, but I find that apart from the occasional filler and joke content, his focus is on fun and it is completely infused with an empathetic passion for gaming.
Mandalore does the occasional deep dives into the weird and obscure but he's thorough and doesn't take it too seriously. Again, seems like a guy who is passionate about games but prefers to go off the beaten path in terms of game coverage.
Posy!! I can't believe I forgot him on my list! +1
Same with casual navigation! Have I ever worked on or piloted a boat? No. But will I watch little 10min explainer videos about bilge pumps and anchor chains? Definitely.
Nile Red
Nick Zentner
Practical Engineering
Real Engineering
Ivan Miranda
Joe Makes
Tom Stanton
Veritasium
Numberphile
Deep Sky Videos
Objectivity (Honestly all of Brady’s channels are great)
3Blue1Brown
CGP Grey
Undecided with Matt Ferrell
The B1M
Kurzgesagt
Scott Manley
PBS Space Time
Deep Look
Looking Glass Universe
Institute of Human Anatomy
Smarter Every Day
Be Smart (formerly Its OK to be smart)
I’ve also recently started watching Scam Nation, which is a walkthrough of various magic tricks, in a relaxed setting. It’s not as dense as some of the others, but very good.