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3Blue1Brown: Essence of Linear Algebra

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Various Mathematicians

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4.6
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PBS Space Time: Quantum Entanglement

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4.5
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Grant Sanderson

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4.8
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Derek Muller

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4.7
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Vsauce: How to Count Past Infinity

Michael Stevens

mathematics
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4.7
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Numberphile: TREE(3)

Tony Padilla

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4.5
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DeepLearning.AI

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4.6
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StatQuest with Josh Starmer

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4.7
9/10DeepFeb 2025

The AI Epiphany

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technologyai
video
4.2
9/10DeepMar 2025

PBS Space Time

PBS Space Time

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4.8
9/10DeepMar 2024

Aswath Damodaran: Valuation

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economics
video
4.6
9/10DeepJun 2026

Veritasium: The Simplest Math Problem No One Can Solve

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4.7
8/10ModerateNov 2024

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4.8
8/10LiteNov 2024

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4.8
8/10ModerateOct 2024

Exurb1a: 27

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4.6
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4.5
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4.6
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4.5
8/10DeepFeb 2024

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4.6
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4.4
8/10ModerateJun 2024

Lemmino: The Great Silence

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4.7
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Technology Connections: Why LED Bulbs Flicker

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video
4.5
8/10ModerateJan 2024

NativLang: How Languages Evolve

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4.5
8/10DeepJan 2024

SmarterEveryDay: The Backwards Brain Bicycle

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4.6
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Up and Atom: The Impossible Problem No One Can Solve

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4.5
8/10ModerateOct 2024

Domain of Science: The Map of Mathematics

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mathematics
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4.6
8/10ModerateMay 2024

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John D. Boswell

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4.8
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Captain Disillusion: The Escherian Stairwell

Captain Disillusion

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4.6
8/10ModerateJan 2024

Adam Neely: Music Theory and White Supremacy

Adam Neely

historyphilosophy
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4.4
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Climate Town: How the Auto Industry Carjacked the American Dream

Rollie Williams

historypolitics
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4.4
8/10ModerateApr 2024

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4.6
8/10ModerateJul 2024

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4.5
8/10DeepMay 2024

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4.4
8/10ModerateOct 2024

Jacob Geller: Fear of Depths

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4.6
8/10DeepDec 2024

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4.6
8/10ModerateMar 2024

Historia Civilis: The Battle of Agincourt

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video
4.5
8/10ModerateAug 2024

Not Just Bikes: Why North American Cities Are Broken

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politicseconomics
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4.6
8/10ModerateApr 2024

Climate Town: Who Is Responsible for Climate Change?

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4.4
8/10ModerateNov 2024

Fireship: 100 Seconds of WebAssembly

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4.5
8/10ModerateSep 2024

The Coding Train: Neural Networks

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4.5
8/10DeepMar 2024

Sebastian Lague: Coding Adventure — Chess AI

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4.7
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Numberphile: Juggling by Numbers

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video
4.5
8/10ModerateMay 2024

Periodic Videos: Uranium

Brady Haran / Martyn Poliakoff

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4.5
8/10ModerateAug 2024

Medlife Crisis: Why Doctors Hate Alternative Medicine

Rohin Francis

science
video
4.4
8/10ModerateJun 2024

The Royal Institution: Christmas Lectures

Various Scientists

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4.5
8/10ModerateJun 2024

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Károly Zsolnai-Fehér

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video
4.4
8/10ModerateMay 2024

Like Stories of Old: The Philosophy of Blade Runner 2049

Tom van der Linden

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video
4.5
8/10ModerateAug 2024

Practical Engineering: How Sewers Work

Grady Hillhouse

technology
video
4.5
8/10ModerateApr 2024

Physics Girl: Quantum Entanglement Demo

Dianna Cowern

science
video
4.4
8/10ModerateApr 2024

Science Asylum: What Is Spacetime, Really?

Nick Lucid

scienceai
video
4.3
8/10DeepDec 2024

Arvin Ash: What Is Entropy?

Arvin Ash

science
video
4.3
8/10ModerateDec 2024

Astrum: The Moons of Jupiter

Alex McColgan

science
video
4.4
8/10ModerateOct 2024

ContraPoints: Envy

Natalie Wynn

philosophypolitics
video
4.5
8/10DeepAug 2024

Philosophy Tube: The Philosophy of Work

Abigail Thorn

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4.4
8/10ModerateNov 2024

Lindsay Ellis: Manufacturing Authenticity

Lindsay Ellis

philosophyliterature
video
4.4
8/10DeepJul 2024

Objectivity: Newton's Principia at the Royal Society

Brady Haran

historyscience
video
4.5
8/10ModerateMar 2024

Thought Emporium: Growing Real Crystals

Thought Emporium

science
video
4.3
8/10DeepAug 2024

Zach Star: Applied Math for Engineers

Zach Star

mathematicstechnology
video
4.3
8/10ModerateAug 2024

Kurzgesagt: The Immune System Explained

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

science
video
4.7
8/10LiteJul 2024

Vsauce: Is Anything Real?

Michael Stevens

philosophyscience
video
4.7
8/10ModerateFeb 2024

CGP Grey: Humans Need Not Apply

CGP Grey

technologyeconomics
video
4.7
8/10ModerateApr 2024

Wendover Productions: How Overnight Shipping Works

Sam Denby

economicstechnology
video
4.5
8/10ModerateAug 2024

Real Engineering: How SpaceX Lands Rockets

Brian McManus

technologyscience
video
4.6
8/10ModerateJul 2024

Not Just Bikes: Stroads Are Ugly and Dangerous

Jason Slaughter

politicseconomics
video
4.6
8/10ModerateAug 2024

AI Explained

Philip

technologyai
video
4.5
8/10ModerateJan 2025

Sentdex: Neural Networks from Scratch

Harrison Kinsley

technologyai
video
4.3
8/10DeepFeb 2025

Computerphile: AI & Machine Learning

University of Nottingham

technologyai
video
4.4
8/10ModerateFeb 2025

Ray Dalio: How the Economic Machine Works

Ray Dalio

economics
video
4.7
8/10ModerateMar 2026

Ben Felix: Common Sense Investing

Ben Felix

economics
video
4.6
8/10DeepMar 2026

Patrick Boyle: The Inevitable Decline of WeWork

Patrick Boyle

economics
video
4.5
8/10ModerateMar 2026

Marginal Revolution University: Principles of Economics

Tyler Cowen & Alex Tabarrok

economics
video
4.6
8/10ModerateJun 2026

Money & Macro

Joeri Schasfoort

economics
video
4.4
8/10DeepJun 2026

Asianometry

Jon Y

economicstechnology
video
4.6
8/10DeepJun 2026

Barack Obama & Malcolm Gladwell: How Reconstruction Still Defines America

Barack Obama

historypolitics
video
4.5
8/10ModerateJul 2026

The School of Life: Why You Will Marry the Wrong Person

Alain de Botton

philosophypsychology
video
4.4
7/10LiteAug 2024

Cleo Abram: What Is Fusion Energy?

Cleo Abram

technologyscience
video
4.4
7/10LiteAug 2024

ColdFusion: The Rise and Fall of BlackBerry

Dagogo Altraide

technologyeconomics
video
4.3
7/10ModerateOct 2024

Einzelgänger: Stoicism for Hard Times

Einzelgänger

philosophy
video
4.4
7/10LiteMar 2024

TierZoo: Are Humans OP?

TierZoo

science
video
4.5
7/10LiteJun 2024

Crash Course Philosophy

Hank Green

philosophy
video
4.4
7/10LiteOct 2024

Wisecrack: The Philosophy of Westworld

Wisecrack

philosophytechnology
video
4.3
7/10ModerateJul 2024

ElectroBOOM: Rectifying Myths About Electricity

Mehdi Sadaghdar

technologyscience
video
4.6
7/10ModerateDec 2024

Tasting History: Garum — Ancient Rome's Favorite Condiment

Max Miller

historysociety
video
4.6
7/10LiteDec 2024

Ali Abdaal: Evidence-Based Study Tips

Ali Abdaal

psychology
video
4.3
7/10LiteAug 2024

Big Think: Michio Kaku on the Future of Humanity

Various

sciencetechnology
video
4.2
7/10LiteMar 2024

Journey to the Microcosmos: Tardigrades, Chubby, Misunderstood & Not Immortal

Journey to the Microcosmos

science
video
4.5
7/10LiteSep 2024

It's Okay to Be Smart: Why Do We Dream?

Joe Hanson

sciencepsychology
video
4.3
7/10ModerateJun 2024

Map Men: Why Every Map of the World Is Wrong

Jay Foreman & Mark Cooper-Jones

sciencehistory
video
4.5
7/10LiteNov 2024

Economics Explained: Why Japan's Economy Is Stagnant

Economics Explained

economics
video
4.3
7/10ModerateNov 2024

Company Man: The Decline of Toys R Us

Company Man

economics
video
4.2
7/10LiteNov 2024

Townsends: 18th Century Biscuits

Jon Townsend

history
video
4.5
7/10LiteMar 2024

CNBC: Why the US Has No High-Speed Rail

CNBC

politicseconomics
video
4.3
7/10LiteJan 2024

Mark Rober: Glitter Bomb Trap for Package Thieves

Mark Rober

technology
video
4.6
7/10LiteJun 2024

Steve Mould: Non-Newtonian Fluids Explained

Steve Mould

science
video
4.4
7/10ModerateJun 2024

Tibees: A Day in the Life of a Mathematician

Toby Hendy

mathematicssociety
video
4.3
7/10LiteMar 2024

Thought Slime: The Philosophy of Property

Thought Slime

philosophypolitics
video
4.1
7/10ModerateApr 2024

Answer in Progress: I Memorized 3,141 Digits of Pi

Sabrina Cruz

mathematicsscience
video
4.3
7/10LiteOct 2024

Kurzgesagt: Optimistic Nihilism

Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

philosophy
video
4.7
7/10LiteDec 2024

Wes Roth: AI News & Analysis

Wes Roth

technologyai
video
4.1
7/10ModerateFeb 2025

CrashCourse: Economics

CrashCourse

economics
video
4.4
7/10LiteMar 2026

LegalEagle: Real Law Review

Devin Stone

law
video
4.3
7/10LiteMar 2026

TED-Ed: How does the stock market work?

TED-Ed

economicshistory
video
4.5
7/10LiteApr 2026

Economics Explained: The Economy of the Soviet Union

Economics Explained

economicshistory
video
4.3
7/10ModerateJun 2026

Extra History: The History of Paper Money

Extra History

economicshistory
video
4.4
7/10LiteJun 2026

The Plain Bagel

Richard Coffin

economics
video
4.4
7/10ModerateJun 2026

Vox: How tax brackets actually work

Vox

economicspolitics
video
4.3
7/10LiteJun 2026

Mr. Beat: Supreme Court Briefs

Matt Beat

lawhistory
video
4.4
7/10ModerateJul 2026

CrashCourse: Government and Politics

CrashCourse

lawpolitics
video
4.4
7/10LiteJul 2026

David Heacock: I Run a US Factory. What I Just Saw in China Should Terrify You.

David Heacock

economicstechnology
video
4.3
7/10ModerateJul 2026

Matt Wolfe: AI News & Tools

Matt Wolfe

technologyai
video
4.2
6/10LiteJan 2025