Category * Title Comment URL
Computer News
Bryan Lunduke Light-hearted and opinionated presentations about free and open source software link
Computer News
NDC Conferences Conference videos about software engineering link
Engineering
AvE Irreverent reviews of metal-working and electrical tools, and amusing home projects link
Engineering
Colin Furze Over-the-top backyard projects like “Turbo-jet Powered Scooter” link
Engineering
Curious Droid “Can We Save Hubble?” “Vertical Landing Rockets before SpaceX” “What Happened to the Nuclear Test Sites?” link
Engineering * Engineer Guy “The Engineering of a Disposable Diaper” “How a Wind-Up Music Box Works” link
Engineering * Practical Engineering How common civil engineering things work: dams, sewers, concrete, etc. link
Engineering
Primitive Technology Making shelters, infrastructure, and food using found natural materials link
Engineering * Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur Long essays about the future of humanity expanding into space link
Engineering * Technology Connections Explaining the working principles behind common consumer video and audio gear link
History * Gaming Historian Well-produced stories of the first two decades of the video game industry link
History * Rare Earth On-location presentations about how interesting places and peoples came to be the way they are link
History
The Exploration with William C. Fox Person-focused stories of geopolitical history of the last 500 years link
History
Vintage Space History of the US and Russian space programs link
How Things Work
Austin McConnell “I Made a Movie; it Stunk” “Postal Delivery Trucks Stink. Let’s Redesign Them” “Why Do Reporters Talk Like That?” link
How Things Work * CaptainDisillusion Explaining CGI fakery in viral videos link
How Things Work
Computerphile How computers and software engineering concepts work link
How Things Work
Joe Scott “True Stories of Glowing People” “Did Humans Almost Go Extinct?” “Space Junk: It’s Much Worse than You Think” link
How Things Work
Numberphile Math fun link
How Things Work
Soliloquy “Why Hawaii Flies its Cows” “Why Don’t We Fill and Airship with a Vacuum?” “Why Did the Dutch Give Up New York?” link
How Things Work
Tom Scott “Why do London’s Manholes Keep Exploding?” “Why You Don’t Want to Go Viral” “We Should Let Some Wildfires Burn” link
How Things Work
Veritasium “Is Our Food Becoming Less Nutritious?” “The Sun Sneeze Gene” “The Illusion of Truth” link
How Things Work
Wendover Productions Trains, planes, geography, communications link
Life in China
ADVChina SerpentZA and C-Milk ride motorcycles together and talk about culture link
Life in China
laowhy86 Vlog of C-Milk, SerpentZA’s American expat friend link
Life in China
serpentza SerpentZA’s vlog about real life in China from the Western perspective of an English South African expat in China link
Life in China
Vivienne C-Milk’s Chinese wife link
Miscellaneous
newearth Weird New Age presentations and essays link
Miscellaneous
Pam On The Lam A car nomad travels around the US sharing views of interesting places link
Music Theory
12tone Part-by-part analysis of well known songs, and other topics link
Music Theory
8-bit Music Theory Analysis of well-written video game music link
Music Theory * Adam Neely How music works, and how to be a gig musician link
Music Theory
Sideways How movie music works link
Old Hardware
8-bit Keys Old toy electronic musical instruments link
Old Hardware
LGR Building PCs out of old parts and playing with old gadgets and software link
Old Hardware
Modern Classic Reviews of old game and computing hardware link
Old Hardware
Nostalgia Nerd Old games, old computers, old nerd stuff link
Old Hardware * Techmoan Reviews of old or quirky home entertainment things link
Old Hardware * The 8-Bit Guy History and features of old microcomputers link
Old Hardware
This Does Not Compute Vlog of a tech tinkerer link
Physics and Chemistry
Cody's Lab Home experiments in chemistry, metallurgy and gardening link
Physics and Chemistry
Reactions Everyday chemistry and biology link
Physics and Chemistry * Thunderf00t Deconstructing scam gadgets and scam engineering projects; also vlogging real experiments from a working chemist link
Sailing
Abandon Comfort Restoring a compact blue-water eco-friendly cruising sailboat link
Sailing
EarleWrites Lizbeth from Sailing SV Delos buys and restores her own crusing sailboat link
Sailing
Sailing Sophisticated Lady Another cruising show link
Sailing * Sailing SV Delos Very high quality travel show about a bunch of bohemians exploring the world in a sailboat link
Space and Astrophysics
Astronomic “What is a Comet?” “What is Redshift?” “How Does the Sun Produce Energy?” link
Space and Astrophysics
Fraser Cain “How are We Searching for Dark Matter?” “When will Betelgeuse Go Supernova?” link
Space and Astrophysics * PBS Space Time Lectures about gravty, string theory, quantum theory, stellar mechanics, and space exploration link
TV/Movie/Book Analysis
Film Theory Quirky alternative explanations for things that happen in TV and movies link
TV/Movie/Book Analysis
Georg Rockall-Schmidt Movie analysis link
TV/Movie/Book Analysis
Jill Bearup Analysis of nerdy books, movies and TV link
TV/Movie/Book Analysis
Lindsay Ellis Movie and TV reviews with a bit of sociology mixed in link
TV/Movie/Book Analysis * RedLetterMedia Irreverent movie reviews with lots of advice of how it could have been done better link
TV/Movie/Book Analysis
sfdebris Character and culture analysis of scifi TV series and books link
TV/Movie/Book Analysis
Trekspertise Reviews and analysis of Star Trek series link