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by Xortl 2760 days ago
As a huge fan and patron of 3blue1brown's videos, does anyone have recommendations for similar high-quality channels covering other topics? Personally I'm interested in at least:

* History/biographies

* Sciences (physics, chem, astronomy)

* In-depth nonpartisan analysis of political situations, especially current ones. The breaking news cycle does a poor job parsing out useless or incorrect information.

* How we've managed to create the insanely complex technology we have today, starting at the basics

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Applied science. He doesn't cover things in documentary style, but recreates quite a lot of interesting science that one would assume is beyond the level of garage science, and does an excellent job explaining all the concepts.
For Chemistry, I enjoy Periodic Videos [1]

For the history of interesting objects at the Royal Society (and other occasional places), see Objectivity [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/user/periodicvideos

[2] https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtwKon9qMt5YLVgQt1tvJKg

Geopolitics: the Caspian Report is really interesting and if I remember correctly some Wikileaks documents link in to Stratfor. Interesting combination of "amateur" presenter and private intelligence agency pretending not to push a certain worldview.
Search for Eugene Khutoryansky on YouTube.
History: see The Great War channel.
Dan Carlin's hardcore history and common sense podcasts are worth checking out.

www.dancarlin.com