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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,...

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,...