Mostly agree, but I have learned stuff from Vsauce, usually seeing something in his videos and thinking "huh, that's cool, I'm gonna look it up to learn more".
Now I'm gonna talk about popular physics and math channels that actually teach you stuff because that's what I know.
Sabine Hossenfelder is very cool, she makes videos explaining physics as well as ranting about the current state of theoretical physics. I don't always agree but she has some good points.
PBS Spacetime is one of the rare pop physics channels which actually explains what something is really about in a specific manner instead of just throwing a bunch of flashy images at you.
Veritasium is OK. He has gotten a lot better recently imo.
3Blue1Brown is one of the best math channels, he does very beautiful visualisations of math concepts, and his vids are cool and useful whether you know about this stuff already or not. His vids usually require at least remembering some basic stuff from highschool math.
BobbyBroccolli is not really a science channel per se, but he is doing a series on Jan Hendrik Schon, the greatest fraudster in physics, so that's cool.
I will add two: Anton Petrov's "What da math?"? It's not about math at all, but mostly astronomy and sometimes other science topics. More of a vlog style, but entertaining. I just find him to be a really pleasant guy to casually listen to.
The one I most highly recommend Cool Worlds which is not exactly about cool worlds, but just really interesting and astronomy topics, and they are extremely well-scripted. The guy is an astronomy professor at Columbia, and he presents a couple of videos of his original academic research, such as the Terrascope video that hypothesizes you put a space telescope the right distance away from Earth, and use the atmosphere as a gigantic lens. You could call a lot of the content "futurism" but not an unhinged Kurzweil or Michio Kaku way. The video titles make it appear he's a kook at first glance, but the topics get a very serious, rigorous treatment based on real science.
I watch her videos sometimes but her content is more frequently about studying physics than actual physics. Another similar channel is Andrew Dotson, which is sometimes helpful but also he is kind of a cringey stembro.
Mostly agree, but I have learned stuff from Vsauce, usually seeing something in his videos and thinking "huh, that's cool, I'm gonna look it up to learn more".
Now I'm gonna talk about popular physics and math channels that actually teach you stuff because that's what I know.
Sabine Hossenfelder is very cool, she makes videos explaining physics as well as ranting about the current state of theoretical physics. I don't always agree but she has some good points.
PBS Spacetime is one of the rare pop physics channels which actually explains what something is really about in a specific manner instead of just throwing a bunch of flashy images at you.
Veritasium is OK. He has gotten a lot better recently imo.
3Blue1Brown is one of the best math channels, he does very beautiful visualisations of math concepts, and his vids are cool and useful whether you know about this stuff already or not. His vids usually require at least remembering some basic stuff from highschool math.
BobbyBroccolli is not really a science channel per se, but he is doing a series on Jan Hendrik Schon, the greatest fraudster in physics, so that's cool.
I will add two: Anton Petrov's "What da math?"? It's not about math at all, but mostly astronomy and sometimes other science topics. More of a vlog style, but entertaining. I just find him to be a really pleasant guy to casually listen to.
The one I most highly recommend Cool Worlds which is not exactly about cool worlds, but just really interesting and astronomy topics, and they are extremely well-scripted. The guy is an astronomy professor at Columbia, and he presents a couple of videos of his original academic research, such as the Terrascope video that hypothesizes you put a space telescope the right distance away from Earth, and use the atmosphere as a gigantic lens. You could call a lot of the content "futurism" but not an unhinged Kurzweil or Michio Kaku way. The video titles make it appear he's a kook at first glance, but the topics get a very serious, rigorous treatment based on real science.
I really like Physics Girl, neat demonstrations and explanations of real life physics
I watch her videos sometimes but her content is more frequently about studying physics than actual physics. Another similar channel is Andrew Dotson, which is sometimes helpful but also he is kind of a cringey stembro.