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Glad to see Grady’s channel get a mention on here. He, along with aVe, NileRed, Steve Mould, Big Clive, and Ben Kraznow are some of my favorite YouTube science creators.

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Agreed, Grady does great work on his Practical Engineering channel. Other channels I appreciate are Smarter Every Day, The Action Lab, Veritasium, and Chubbyemu. What are others people would recommend?

Engineering Explained - If you're into cars and the technology behind them

Technology Connections - History and operating principles of consumer electrical devices

PBS Space Time - Astrophysics etc

This Old Tony - Hobbyist machinist

My list of recommended Youtube subscriptions, built from over a decade of curation. No Particular ordering within the categories. (D) means possibly defunct, hasn’t uploaded in awhile.

A tier educational / edutainment

  3Blue1Brown - High level math, explained simply with good animation.
  Captain Disillusion - Visual Effect explainers
  Everyday Astronauts - Deep dive rocket science explainers (also a mix of news and live streams)
  Game Maker’s Toolkit - Video Game design breakdowns
  Jay Foreman - Mostly humorous looks at maps, best in video sponsor spots on Youtube
  Kurzgesagt - In a Nutshell - Animated with a board science focus
  Mark Rober - Engineer tackles interesting projects
  Mathologer - Long and novel math explainers
  Minute Earth - Ecology focused animation
  Minute Physics - Physics focused animation
  Numberphile - Math and number based curiosities
  PBS Infinite Series (D) - Math 
  Primer - Simulated economy and behavior
  Rare Earth (D, likely to pick up after the pandemic?) - Stories from traveling around the world
  SmarterEveryDay - Science meets engineering, often meets highspeed camera
  Stand-up Maths - Humorous math
  Steve Mould - Everyday life curios phenomena underlined by physics
  Technology Connections - Deep dives into non-computer technology in your home
  Tom Scott - Interestings things, places, and ideas
  Veritasium - General science, slight physics focus
  Scott Manley - deep dives into space news, kerbal space program

Good educational edutainment (but not quite A-tier by my personal preference)

  Ben Eater - Computing projects made with low level electronic components.
  Code Bullet - Coding Projects, often automating video games
  Colin Furze - Crazy physical builds by an insane Brit
  EngineerGuy (D) - engineering explainers
  Jill Bearup - Fight choreography
  Jordan Harrod - AI / Machine learning
  LeiosOS - Various computer science
  Linus Tech Tips - Computer projects and products mostly with a gaming focus
  Lock Picking Lawyer - See every lock in existence get easily defeated by an expert
  Noclip - Video Game Documentaries
  Objectivity - Archived objects from science history
  PBS Space Time - Astrophysics
  People Make Games - Video Game Documentaries
  Periodic Videos - Chemistry, and a deep dive into every element on the periodic table
  Practical Engineering - Civil engineering
  Primitive Technology (D) - Ancient techniques for building and crafting, relaxing
  Scam Nation - Small scale magic tricks
  Sebastian Lague - Coding Adventures
  Simone Giertz - Previously queen of shitty robots, maker style projects
  SingingBanana (D-ish, appears on numberphile mostly now) - Math
  Sixty Symbols - Astrophysics explained by professors
  Stuff Made Here - Engineering/crafting projects
  Think Twice - Math animations
  Tom Stanton - 3d printer powered home engineering projects
  Vihart - math 
  vlogbrothers - Mixed in with nerdy vlogs are some gems of thought and introspection on our world
  Zee Bashew - Animated D&D spells and more
  BrainCraft - Human psychology
  Computerphile - Computer Science concepts, explained
  SciShow / SciShow Space - Science news

Video Essayists

  Errant Signal - video games
  Joseph Aderson - video games
  Mathewmatosis - video games
  Writing On Games - videogames
  Every Frame A Painting (D) - movies
  The Royal Ocean Film Society - movies
  Just Write - movies and literature

Humor

  Brian David Gilbert - Surreal skits
  Casually Explained - Witty introspection on life
  CrackerMilk - Short, weird, to the point
  David Mitchell’s Soapbox (D) - British rants
  Felix Colgrave - Animation, probably tied to drug use
  Joel Haver - skits/animation
  videogamedunky - video games

I just wanted to come back and say thank you for this fantastic list.

The Thought Emporium - does next level biology hacking (e.g. cured his own lactose intolerance through genetic engineering) and some physics Applied Science - Great engineering, he built his own electron microscope for example. His video on the helium-disables-iPhones phenomenon was surprisingly more in-depth than the best writeups I'd read.

Stuff Made Here.

What’s the back story with that channel? Is he an independent maker or is there a production company behind him?

Not knocking him or the channel, I enjoy watching his videos and the recent collaboration with Lock Picking Lawyer was great.

Just wondering how it’s structured because it was so well produced from the first video.

It’s rare to see a maker create such polished videos from day 1. If he’s truly independent, he deserves even more credit for his talent.

He works (worked?) at Formlabs, and seems to have access to some incredibly nice tools for machining, cutting, and forming all the various bits he designs.

While not mentioned in the videos, I'm guessing he also has the ability to ping some tough questions off people who would point him in the right direction quickly, but my guess is it's just a big passion and he's good at it.

He left his job at form labs to do it full time. I’m told he did a lot of research to learn how to make viral YouTube content.

Tech ingredients is also a fantastic channel

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