Educational YouTube Channels
I spend a lot of time on YouTube watching what I call “educational channels” on topics ranging from science to geopolitics to philosophy. I started off with most of the “big names” like VSauce, CGPGrey, and CrashCourse, but over the years I’ve amassed quite a collection of channels including a lot of smaller, but equally awesome content producers. I often have friends ask me to recommend them some channels, so I’ve went ahead and created this page to organize my educational subscriptions by topic.
Happy Viewing!
General/Multiple:
CrashCourse
CGPGrey
VSauce
Ted-Ed
Mental Floss
Wendover Productions
Half as Interesting
Thoughty2
Zepherus
Not Exactly Normal
Thought Café
Today I Found Out
Sam O’Nella Academy
Seeker Network
Shorts & Facts
Society of Geeks
The Rest of Us
Soliloquy
vlogbrothers
Vox
Politics & Economics:
CaspianReport
Seeker Daily
Foreign Chronicles
Euporia
Everything You Need to Know
Grant Hurst
Love Life And Anarchy
Political Junkie
Sanket Shah
EconStories
Visual Capitalist
GoldSilver
Current Events:
History:
EmperorTigerstar
Suibhne
Simple History
Step Back History
AlternateHistoryHub (Not Real History!)
History Buffs
Keith Hughes
Ten Minute History
VC3 Productions
KnowledgeHub
Extra Credit
The Great War
Jabzy
NuttyHistory
OverSimplified
Reply History
Technology:
ColdFusion
Computerphile
TechAltar
Techquickie
Blockchain at Berkeley (A little shameless self-promotion)
Business History:
Business Casual
Company Man
ColdFusion
Film and Art:
Nerdwriter1
Every Frame a Painting
RightBrainRants
Folding Ideas
Wisecrack
HoustonProductions1
Now You See It
Bobby Burns
Owen Likes Comics
Innuendo Studios
Lessons from the Screenplay
Patrick (H) Willems
The AtZ Show
The Film Essay
Looper
Oscar Boyson
Geography, Flags, and Country Facts:
ibx2cat
WonderWhy
Geography Now
RealLifeLore
Jay Foreman
The Cartographile
VanDeGraph
An_K
Well… Actually
Science:
Kurzgesagt — In a Nutshell
AsapSCIENCE
SciShow
Big Think
Life Noggin
DNews
DNews Plus
Tell me why
DominicWalliman
It’s Okay To Be Smart
MinuteEarth
minutephysics
SmarterEveryDay
Think Fact
Veritasium
Mathematics:
Psychology and Philosophy:
Nerdwriter1
Quirkology
The School of Life
Wisecrack
The RSA
QualiaSoup
Wisecrack
Adam Westbrook
Philosophy Tube
Quirkology
Charisma on Command