What's the general consensus on the ranking of /sci/ Youtube channels?
Which ones should be avoided?
>>8870006
Anything Republicans watch should be avoided, banned if possible. I usually report all their videos to hopefully get their drivel taken off of youtube.
>>8870006
Just watch MIT lectures and you'll be good to go. The rest is just largely useless entertainment.
>>8870012
This. Science entertainment should only be to spark in an interest in kids, not provide conversation fodder for boring twenty year olds.
>>8870006
Isaac Arthur is currently my favorite if I just want entertainment.
the njwildberger videos are a must watch.
>>8870011
bizarre thread to try to bait in, mate
In addition to the many scientific lectures available, I also like to delve into the unique perspective of subnormal abstract behavior mechanisms and their ramifications. The channel that most elegantly displays that aspect is FailArmy.
>>8870006
Depends on if you want to learn or just want to go "oh that's vaguely interesting" and then forget about it by tomorrow. There are plenty of full-length lectures available for the former and there's Vsauce for the latter.
>>8870016
Science entertainment can be a decent jumping off point, regardless of age, but unfortunately a lot of people never make the leap. The ideal process would be something like:
>Watch video on subject you may not know much about
>That was neat, I wonder if [insert query]?
>Look more into that subject (and if necessary, others subjects related to the original subject) in order to better understand it
>Gain increased appreciation of subject matter and/or new skills
>>8870006
I fucking hate SciShow the videos are too long.
>>8870011
/pol/ pls go
I would personally recommend in no particular order:
>3blue1brown
>CGPgrey
>Wendover Productions (does very detailed research and looks at issues from all sides, it's great)
>Real Engineering
>GreatScott! (Electronics, Signals, Arduino things, famously sounds like arnold schwarzenegger)
>Carykh (Alot of AMAZING stuff about neural networks and evolutionary algorithms, he also does childrens content, you just have to ignore that)
>Stated Clearly (Talks about biology alot)
>KREOSAN (Russian, but they do crazy cool things and the auto translated auto subtitles are okay sometimes)
I like mathologer and sixty symbols
Sciencephile the AI is laff
Wendover
CGPgrey
Isaac Arthur
Kurzgegzat (or whoever you spell it)
No love for Tom Scott?
>>8870011
I didn't think republicans figured out how to use the internet yet
>>8872031
that makes no sense
>>8872035
Doesn't if you're a republican, probably
http://www.conservapedia.com/Video_game
>>8872041
>one guys article represents a giant population that I haven't even met.
Ah, you're retarded I see.
>>8872004
> Bachelor's degree in linguistics
> /sci/
No
>>8872073
this is singingbanana, I love this guy
>inb4 someone says TED talks
>2017 and watching youtube videos for anything more than entertainment
If you want to learn something then read papers and widly accepted books.
>>8872041
>huurrrr durrr le republiCAN more liek republiCANT
Quit being a moron. this isnt a politics board so dont let your personal beliefs get in the way of the small portion of you that can think critically
>>8872004
He's not strictly /sci/ per se, but he is educational