Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making videos [video]

Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by graypegg on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:08PM (#38833833)

Answer in Progress - a bit of everything, personal favourite right now!

Simone Giertz - engineering

EEVBlog - engineering

ElectroBoom - engineering

Technology Connections - stories about technology

Cathode Ray Dude - stories about technology, watch if you like technology connections!!

Socratica - math, science, programming explainers

VWestLife - retro consumer tech

TechMoan - retro consumer tech

AvE - Canadian in a workshop, a special kind of content

RobWords - language (Tom’s Language File fans check him out!)

Art of the Problem - math/programming but so varied, really worth a watch

Patrick Kelly - medical history, how did we discover a drug, stories about research

Epic Gardening - gardening! Big focus on fruit and veg.

Paige Saunders - Transit, Montreal, whatever he’s interested in!

RMTransit - Transit policy and operation

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by treyd on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:33PM (#38834093)

To continue with the transit/urbanism channels...

* Not Just Bikes

* City Beautiful

* Alan Fisher

* donoteat01 (not really uploading anymore since he has a podcast that takes all his time)

* Eco Gecko (also doesn't really upload anymore)

* Adam Something

And also others...

* Folding Ideas (popular topics video essays)

* hbomberguy (popular topics video essays)

* Epoch Philosophy (drier more academic video essays)

* BobbyBroccoli (intersection of science and politics, very well animated)

* Jacob Geller (media analysis)

* Explosions&Fire (aussie backyard chemistry, like NileRed, more of a vlog style)

* Mustard (engineering, similar format to Real Engineering)

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by viraptor on Monday January 01, 2024 @04:05PM (#38835348)

I'll also chuck in:

- Two minute papers (quick reviews/demos of new science papers in rendering and ai)

- Extra history (historic events / stories detailed and animated)

- Jeffiot (just recently gained popularity, hbomberguy-style)

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by graypegg on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:41PM (#38834202)

YouTube has been trying to constantly recommend me BobbyBroccoli for a while! I’ll give it a go on your recommendation, thanks!

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by Waterluvian on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:42PM (#38834208)

If there isn’t a curated “Awesome Educational Channels” list, this should be the beginning of it.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by graypegg on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:46PM (#38834248)

I would love a monthly “Where cool things are” post on here. Kind of like the Who’s Hiring post, but simply for listing channels, blogs, people etc. No specific works that would be better served by a regular post, but a comment with [name] and [what they do].

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by nayuki on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:27PM (#38834574)

More urbanism/transit on YouTube:

* Oh The Urbanity!

* CityNerd

* Yet Another Urbanist

* RMTransit

* Miles in Transit

* The War on Cars (audio)

* The Urbanist Agenda (audio)

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by EE84M3i on Monday January 01, 2024 @03:48PM (#38835204)

Geoff Marshall makes great videos mostly focused on UK trains too.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by magicalhippo on Monday January 01, 2024 @04:31PM (#38835529)

Some of my subs I haven't seen mentioned yet in no particular order:

FarmCraft101 (fixing and learning)

ProjectsInFlight (IC manufacturing at home stuff)

Lafayette Systems (rockets)

Air Command Rockets (air rockets)

Tod's Workshop (medieval weapons, history and testing)

Les' Lab (lasers!)

Erin's Audio Corner (speaker reviews)

Lubrication Explained (100% lubrication)

Process with Pat (process engineering)

Clough42 (fabrication etc)

Breaking Taps (machining and materials)

Stapleton42 (NASCAR history and more)

Projects With Everyday Dave (mostly solar power stuff)

Brandon Acker (classical guitar and more)

Building Integrity (building engineering and construction)

Nebula Photos (astrophoto)

Teaching Tech (3d printing)

Machine Thinking (machining history)

Stumpy Nubs (woodworking)

Andy Cooks (cooking)

Yesterdays Machinery (vintage machines and restoration)

BPS.space (rockets)

Jim's Automotive Machine Shop, Inc. (automotive machine shop stuff)

Ballistic High-Speed (Slowmoguys but weapons only)

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by fellerts on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:49PM (#38834269)

Can’t recommend Cody'sLab enough. A very curious and clever guy doing backyard experiments in most of the sciences.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by zikduruqe on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:00PM (#38833732)

Great list and the majority I watch also. But you are missing Technology Connections. You'll probably find them interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/c/TechnologyConnections/videos

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by pjerem on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:07PM (#38833813)

Hehehe. This channel is full of videos about "boring" topics and still you play them and bam, you are sucked into 15 min of nerdy details about a 90’s microwave that doesn’t even exists anymore and now you are wondering why you can’t have it. Amazing channel.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by zikduruqe on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:52PM (#38834784)

What sold it for me, was the Sunbeam toaster. I always wondered why in the cartoons people would get shocked sticking a fork in a toaster. And into the rabbit hole I went...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OfxlSG6q5Y

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by wscott on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @10:44AM (#38842751)

15min? try 50.

I always think I will watch just 10-15 and end up watching the whole thing and then wonder why learning about a crappy refrigerator was so interesting.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by TRiG_Ireland on Thursday January 04, 2024 @01:43PM (#38870648)

Steve Mould (himself a good science educator on YouTube) said that Technology Connections makes videos about things you didn't know you wanted to watch until you watched them.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by JoBrad on Monday January 01, 2024 @10:16PM (#38837675)

Love him! I felt my list was getting too long, and left a lot off.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by yardshop on Monday January 01, 2024 @03:24PM (#38835032)

There are so many great channels on there! Here are a few of my recent favorites:

Laura Kampf - german maker and problem solver, currently renovating a 120 year old house

Jimmy Diresta - maker and designer, also renovating an old house in upstate New York

Adam Savage - from MythBusters, interesting builds, and interesting discussion of shop and building techniques

Rambling Wild Rosie - former long-distance hiker and interior designer, renovating an old house in the forest Sweden, figuring things out as she goes - very beautiful and peaceful videos

Also loads of great wood working channels: Paul Sellers, Woodworking for Mere Mortals, Izzy Swan, Samurai Carpenter, and on and on!

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by graypegg on Monday January 01, 2024 @03:32PM (#38835098)

Laura Kampf is new to me, and right up my alley! Subscribed!

Mattias Wandel for the woodworking channels list as well!

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by yardshop on Monday January 01, 2024 @05:38PM (#38835969)

Absolutely, I was just outside working, thinking of building some shelves, and thought, "what about Matthias?!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QeXOb9rxRY

Laura Kampf is wonderful, very inventive and knowledgeable builder, and great attitude.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by TheCleric on Monday January 01, 2024 @07:43PM (#38836778)

Paul Sellers is a giant among us mere woodworkers.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by jascination on Monday January 01, 2024 @10:40PM (#38837828)

Frank Howarth is my guy, but admittedly I watch him to fall asleep (while marveling at how good he is)

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by abound on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:22PM (#38833958)

StuffMadeHere is also an absolute gem. Truly incredible feats of engineering for a single person to tackle, explained in an entertaining way.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by ljm on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:24PM (#38833988)

Not quite in the same theme, but as far as gaming goes I'd put both videogamedunkey and MandaloreGaming there.

Dunkey doesn't post hour long video essays, but I find that apart from the occasional filler and joke content, his focus is on fun and it is completely infused with an empathetic passion for gaming.

Mandalore does the occasional deep dives into the weird and obscure but he's thorough and doesn't take it too seriously. Again, seems like a guy who is passionate about games but prefers to go off the beaten path in terms of game coverage.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by namtab00 on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:38PM (#38834667)

I'll add some:

AlphaPhoenix - science

Jay Foreman - UK centric cartography skits, very funny

Atomic Frontier - various, Tom Scott style

Climate Town - US centric climate related skits, very informative, also very funny

Dr. Becky - astronomy

Into Europe - light, EU related informative skits

Johnny Harris - journalist turned YouTuber, opinionated but tries to keep a politically neutral stance

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by lopis on Monday January 01, 2024 @05:47PM (#38836030)

Atomic frontier definitely feels like a baby Tom Scott. It's been lovely to see him grow.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by isntbilly on Monday January 01, 2024 @07:37PM (#38836732)

Climate Town is savage

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by hatsunearu on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:28PM (#38834591)

Camden Bowen (dude is making a 3D printed internal combustion engine)

AustinMcConnell (random shit)

Two Minute Papers (ML paper review)

Plainly Difficult (industrial accidents/disasters)

Perun (military science)

EEVBlog (electronics engineering)

Summoning Salt (speedruns)

High Performance Academy (cars/tuning)

Ordinary Things (random shit)

Grind Hard Plumbing Co (cars/fabrication)

Engineering Explained (cars/explanation)

Half as Interesting (random shit)

Wendover Productions (random shit, but high quality)

Economics Explained (self explanatory)

Mini Air Craft Investigations (self explanatory)

Renegade Cut (leftist content)

LegalEagle (law)

Townsends (historical foods)

Casual Navigation (maritime/shipping)

How To Drink (mixed drinks)

Huygens Optics (optics/fabrication)

EmpLemon (weird video essays)

minutephysics (physics, and general science communications)

All of these I'd recommend for a general audience/nerdy person. Some of them are informative, some of them are funny. I've got much more that I'm personally interested in, but generally won't be interesting for the average person.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by EE84M3i on Monday January 01, 2024 @03:53PM (#38835235)

On the food topic, Tasting History with Max Miller is a favorite - it's interesting seeing him try to recreate recipes from historical primary sources and provide historical context.

Also, Adam Ragusea has some good content on food science, among his regular cooking videos.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by anshorei on Friday January 05, 2024 @09:41AM (#38879527)

Also on the food topic: How to Cook that with Ann Reardon is one that I like, aside from her more useful cake-related videos, she has a great series on historical recipes as well as amusing food hack debunkings.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by comice on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:24PM (#38833991)

This thunderf00t video made me avoid "Undecided by Matt Ferrell": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQDXqOfC61U

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by j-bos on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:38PM (#38834164)

Thanks, another sign removing the dislike button was terrible for mankind.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by moffkalast on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:50PM (#38834274)

Neither of them are really worth watching imo.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by leeter on Monday January 01, 2024 @03:11PM (#38834934)

Retrotech:

Adrian's Digital Basement (retrotech repair)

RMC The Cave (retro curation and stories)

Cntl Alt Rees (retro eclectic)

Jan Beta (repair)

LGR (eclectic)

Mr. Carlson's lab (repair of generally older RF, but some newer)

CuriousMarc (repair, testing, stories. Did a complete repair of the Apollo Guidance Computer)

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by pjerem on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:01PM (#38833749)

I don’t see Steve Mould and Technology Connections, but thanks for your list :)

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by riffraff on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:23PM (#38833973)

One more vote for Steve Mould. I don't follow him directly but I still end up watching a bunch of his content through random suggestions, he's quite good.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by moffkalast on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:51PM (#38834279)

Through the magic of subscribing to both of them...

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by graypegg on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:03PM (#38834382)

https://youtube.com/watch?v=r_LG8FDt51U&t=59

And I already have a subscription, right here!

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by moffkalast on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:12PM (#38834445)

Ahaha completely forgot about that one, perfect.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by orenlindsey on Monday January 01, 2024 @03:10PM (#38834925)

Don't forget Vsauce! He doesn't make as many videos anymore but he has a huge backlog of great videos.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by c54 on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:05PM (#38833801)

Applied Science

Ze Frank

Asianometry

Premodernist

Integza

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by moffkalast on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:10PM (#38834433)

There are just so many great educational/maker channels, here's a bunch more that are least known on my list (in no particular order):

Not David

iforce2d

Chronova Engineering

Posy

SuperfastMatt

Michael Rechtin

AlphaPhoenix

Hyperspace Pirate

Nicholas Rehm

James Biggar

Casual Navigation

Kraut

Spanning Tree

Geo History

EgyptologyLessons

Carl Bugeja

electrosync

Historia Civilis

Jeremy Fielding

there oughta be

Andreas Spiess

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by graypegg on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:20PM (#38834521)

Posy!! I can't believe I forgot him on my list! +1

Same with casual navigation! Have I ever worked on or piloted a boat? No. But will I watch little 10min explainer videos about bilge pumps and anchor chains? Definitely.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by StephenAmar on Monday January 01, 2024 @06:21PM (#38836247)

Sam Aronow is great if you are interested in Jewish history.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by sgeisenh on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:23PM (#38833974)

Stuff Made Here

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by kurthr on Monday January 01, 2024 @01:39PM (#38834186)

Thanks for these!

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by amelius on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:13PM (#38834459)

StyroPyro :)

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by drstewart on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:20PM (#38834518)

Sebastian Lague is in the same vein, makes some of the best code exploration project videos I've seen. Highly entertaining and informative.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by TheCleric on Monday January 01, 2024 @07:44PM (#38836792)

He and CodingTrain are my favorites.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by Mountain_Skies on Monday January 01, 2024 @02:07PM (#38834414)

Interested in the geology and history of industry in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan? Alexis Dahl is a great informative source.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-X3EE_jNDRg&ab_channel=Alexi...

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by TheCleric on Monday January 01, 2024 @07:48PM (#38836823)

A couple I don’t see that I love watching are good machinists and restoration. So here are my go tos:

my mechanics

Hand Tool Rescue

Cutting Edge Engineering

Inheritance Machining

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by pfdietz on Monday January 01, 2024 @08:46PM (#38837170)

CEE is great!

Also: I Do Cars

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by twohaibei on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @06:37AM (#38840571)

This Old Tony

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by TheCleric on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @11:11AM (#38843166)

Oh this is a GOOD one. How did I never see this before? Thanks for the rec!

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by fennecbutt on Monday January 01, 2024 @09:01PM (#38837238)

Asianometry

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by anticensor on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @07:05AM (#38840770)

Yeah, the one that says dramme instead of D-RAM.

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Re:Tom Scott: After ten years, it's time to stop making vide... by nudin on Tuesday January 02, 2024 @04:52PM (#38847597)

- Stefan Milo – Archeology, mostly the human evolution. [1]

- Adam Ragusea

- fern

[1] I have the desire to list him here 10 times in a row – definitely my current favorite!

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