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A Long List of YouTube Channels For The Curious Minded

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This is the second post in three-part series of useful online resources, covering podcasts , YouTube channels, and Chrome extensions. The best plan is the plan you'll actually execute. What do I mean by that? I've found over the years that sometimes, there are things I'd like to learn, or feel like I should learn, but the thought of picking up a pop sci book... too effortful. Time passes, and I don't get around to it.  Then I realise there's a YouTube channel with videos on that topic!  It's perhaps not quite as efficient as reading, but at least I get around to it, and enjoy myself while doing it. So, as an infovore, I've amassed quite a library of informational/educational/infotainment YouTube channels in the past 13 or so years. These channels cover these topics, everything between them, and more: ecology, economics, philosophy, cosmology, anthropology, tech, geography, politics, history, chemistry, news, rationality, physics, productivity, futurology,...
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A Long List of Podcasts You Might Enjoy

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This is the first of a three-part series of useful online resources, covering podcasts, YouTube channels, and Chrome extensions. So, I think it'd be accurate to call me a prolific e-explorer: during the past years I've amassed quite a library of internet resources that perhaps not everyone is aware of. As such, I'd like to share the best stuff I've found. The podcasts span a very wide variety of topics of interest to me, but they're centred around my main interest of ethics, futurology, Effective Altruism, rationality, philosophy of mind, natural sciences (especially biology and physics), social sciences (especially economics and psychology), politics, geopolitics, world events, history, self-improvement and more. My podcast habit is to a large extent responsible, for those of you that know me, for my incessant trivia dropping and ability to say something about a pretty large variety of topics. I'm not entirely sure how useful knowing a little bit about a ...
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