| I'm exactly the same. Some favourites I've collected over the years: 3Blue1Brown - math essays AlfieAesthetics - Bushcraft, botany and survival skills with some fun english humour mixed in CNLohr - fun hardware hacking livestreams Eliminator Performance - mechanical troubleshooting and maintenance vlogs Engineering Explained - Automotive engineering explainers and mini-lectures FearlessFront - Mechanical engineering, welding, and vehicle hacking How to make everything - multi-skill projects on making things from scratch as much as possible Kurzgesagt - Philosophy and science essays Lie Likes Music - Music essays Mathologer - Advanced (to me) Maths essays Matthew Cremona - Woodworking Matthias Wandel - Woodworking Nativlang - Essays on the history of spoken and written language Nerdwriter1 - Essays on Art, philosophy, and the sciences Nightmare Masterclass - Essays on fringe culture Numberphile - Mini-lectures on Maths Polyphonic - Essays on Music Primitive Technology - Vlogs on primative/ancient building techniques Rick Beato (specifically his "What makes this song great" series) - Essays on what separates iconic music from the rest Strange Parts - Hardware hacking projects, mainly based in Shenzhen, China The Drug Classroom - Scientific essays on recreational drugs This Exists - Essays on cultural oddities and internet culture specficially Uri Tuchman - Very intricate woodworking and engraving
Wendover Productions - Video Essays on a variety of subjects including economics, travel, geography Wisecrack - Essays which examine pop culture through a philosophical lens. |
Invitica - essays on ancient civilizations
Wintergarten - a Swede in France making a musical marble machine to millisecond precision. Good project management tips are included.
Man At Arms ReForged - Baltimore swordsmiths make ridiculous videogame sized swords that are mostly unusable.
EDIT: A few others
Bon Appetite's "Brad Makes": A New Jerseyian mumbles his way through fermenting anything edible. Frequent field trips ensue.
Kiwami Japan: A very very strange Japanese man makes the same knife, over and over, from various materials such as jello, underwear, and pasta. ASMRy.
Primitive Technology: The journey of a mute, nearly naked QLD programmer in the forest and his attempts to make a nuclear reactor from local mud. Turn on English subtitles.
Contrapoints: A trans PhD dropout comments on current issues through the lens of grad-level philosophy and copious innuendo. Impeccable set design and pacing.