Math: - 3Blue1Brown: https://www.youtube.com/c/3blue1brown
- Numberphile: CS: - Computerphile: https://www.youtube.com/user/Computerphile
Physics: - PBS Spacetime: https://www.youtube.com/c/pbsspacetime
Philosophy and Pop Culture: - Philosophy Tube: https://www.youtube.com/c/thephilosophytube
- Folding Ideas: - ContraPoints: Film: Nerdwriter: https://www.youtube.com/user/Nerdwriter1
Patrick H Willems: https://www.youtube.com/c/patrickhwillems
Every Frame a Painting: https://www.youtube.com/c/everyframeapainting
There's a term for this, I can't remember. You read a newspaper article about a subject you know, and can't believe how much in it is incorrect or misconstrued, then you read another article about a different topic and it seems fine.
Their video on 1+2+3+... = -1/12 was so bad that another Math channel (Mathologer, which is highly recommendable btw) did a whole 40min video tearing it apart: https://youtube.com/watch?v=YuIIjLr6vUA
In their video on fluid mechanics, they say that the Navier-Stokes equations describe all fluids on earth, while they only show the incompressible version (without clarifying). The examples shown on screen at that moment also include a Ketchup bottle, and they don't discuss non-Newtonian fluids either (Ketchup is non-Newtonian, that's why you can get a lot of it coming out at once if you shake a bottle too hard). It's a bit nitpicking though, because apart from these missing caveats it's a great video (with a guest lecturer from Tom Rocks Maths, another great math channel).
Out of curiosity, can you give a recent example of a video from Computerphile that was incorrect?
Recent videos? I haven't watched it in a while. But looking now, I immediately found an example, because the problems are always with the history. In the video below [1], the guy absolutely mangles the story of the byte and why it's 8 bits long. He turns what was a fuckup in the launch of the System/360, into some urban legend of IBM's technical superiority and vision.
"IBM said, 'Let's be brave! 8 bit characters!'"
FFS, no. IBM said (in summary), "Crap, we really wanted to use 7 bit ASCII - an evolution of the 6 bit teleprinter code, since we're on the federal standards committee, but ASCII peripherals won't be ready in time for the System/360 launch, so uh, let's use this 8 bit extension to our old 6 bit punch cards instead and wing it." It turned out to be a massive blunder. [2]
The System/360 still succeeded and its success meant a bunch of software was written for it, which all assumed an 8 bit byte, competitors copied IBM, and the rest of the market followed, but it took a decade or so. There's lots of fun stuff in the actual story - including the rich history of today's character standards which goes all the way back to the telegraph - to summarize without making things up.
1. https://youtu.be/ixJCo0cyAuA
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20180513204153/http://www.bobbem...
Numberphile probably has less "inaccuracies" - because maths can probably be summarized easier to the layman than computer science.
Math:
Mathologer (university-level math explained with visualisations) https://youtube.com/c/Mathologer
Black Pen Red Pen (calculus problems) https://youtube.com/c/blackpenredpen
Tom Rocks Maths (in the style of a university tutorial, not surprising since the guy is a university lecturer) https://youtube.com/c/TomRocksMaths
Politics:
VisualPolitik EN (they also have a Spanish channel, the original, plus some other languages) https://youtube.com/c/VisualPolitikEN
Brilliant lectures on Western Philosophy.