Educational channels on youtube. Interesting channels on YouTube

Biologists Mitchell Moffitt and Gregory Brown, known for their articles in Scientific American and The Atlantic, on their channel ASAP Science each week, they answer a compelling question, like how MDMA affects the brain, why we think babies are so cute, and whether video games can make us smarter. All videos are hand-drawn animation that clearly reveals this or that fact.

Nauchpok can be called an analogue of ASAP Science in Russian. A channel made by the odious team of video bloggers Caramba TV (+100500, BadComedian, etc.), also features hand-drawn videos in a similar style. The topic is also very close, as the titles of the video indicate: “why do people hiccup”, “why do we love spicy things”, “what is topographic cretinism”.

A channel that is already considered a legend in the YouTube community. The slogan Vsauce - The world is amazing reflects its essence: blog author Michael Stevens takes on completely different aspects of our existence and clearly explains why everything happens this way and not otherwise. By the way, not so long ago, enthusiasts launched a channel where selected Vsauce videos are translated into Russian.

Authentic Russian-language channel Kreosan publishes videos with unusual experiments with electricity, radio waves, pyrotechnics, and also demonstrates his inventions. Two Ukrainian physicists from Lugansk share ideas on how to make a high-voltage generator in 15 minutes, what needs to be done to turn a linear thunderstorm into ball lightning, etc. In addition to a channel with scientific experiments, the authors of Kreosan launched a video blog about what it’s like to live on South-East Ukraine in the midst of hostilities. They post reports under fire and other “adventures”.

This is a project of Denis Mokhov from Moscow, who is engaged in the popularization of science among children. The channel, which has become the largest educational video project on the Internet in Russia, was launched about 2 years ago. And his videos with experiments in the field of physics and chemistry now collect 500-600 thousand views. Recently, with the help of crowdfunding, Denis released children's books aimed at stimulating curiosity, as well as an author's program on the Karusel TV channel.

The brainchild of Henry Reich, an American physicist, which cleverly uses funny doodles and a funny narrative to explain fairly complex scientific concepts and ideas in just 60 seconds. The channel's description, which reads "...if you can't explain something simply, you don't understand it well enough," says it all. There is no doubt that Reich had a deep grasp of complex concepts.

Russian-language channel about science and entertaining experiments
and facts, which is done by a blogger named Ignat. In the videos, he covers questions about how man will evolve in the future, what the sixth sense is, and what blind people see in their dreams. Some of the hypotheses put forward by the author frankly reek of pseudoscientific research by “British scientists”, so they should be taken with skepticism.

Google video hosting has long ceased to be an archive of funny videos. On the service’s expanses there are many unusual, interesting videos, and sometimes entire channels, which post quite high-quality and unique content.

Here is our selection of 10 unusual channels:

1. HowToBasic

Number of rollers: 454
Number of subscribers: 8 552 143

This channel has collected more than 8 million subscribers from all over the world, which means that such creativity finds its admirers online.

2. Corridor

Number of rollers: 139
Number of subscribers: 4 183 000

These guys make cool, quality content. They make parody videos of feature films and games. Sometimes it turns out funny, and sometimes it turns out a little strange.

3.Hydraulic Press Channel

Number of rollers: 116
Number of subscribers: 1 643 000

4. The Slow Mo Guys

Number of rollers: 140
Number of subscribers: 8 865 000

The channel develops the theme of the popular show “MythBusters”. The presenters do not set out to refute anything, but simply want to show how this or that phenomenon occurs.

For this, a cool Slo-Mo camera is used, so you can see explosions, falls and collisions in the smallest detail.

5. TheBackyardScientist

Number of rollers: 125
Number of subscribers: 2 411 000

The expediency of some experiments is questionable. For example, why pour molten metal into a watermelon? Of course, to get a cool picture, the guy has the right equipment.

6. Shoe Nice

Number of rollers: 432
Number of subscribers: 557 000

Other alcoholic drinks and he absorbs objects that are inedible for others even faster.

7. Igor Presnyakov

Number of rollers: 523
Number of subscribers: 881 000

Igor Presnyakov is a virtuoso guitarist with Russian roots, living in the Netherlands. He performs famous world hits on an acoustic guitar. Igor gained great popularity online after performing soundtracks for popular TV series and computer games.

8. Smooth McGroove

Number of rollers: 154
Number of subscribers: 1 704 000

9. Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

Number of rollers: 56
Number of subscribers: 3 567 000

Fascinating animation channel. In each video, the authors clearly talk about some natural phenomenon, event or interesting fact.

10. ElectroBOOM

Number of rollers: 57
Number of subscribers: 898 000

A very colorful engineer who talks clearly about technology and shows how the things and gadgets around us work.

These are the kind of unusual videos and channels that you sometimes come across on YouTube.

Dasha Tatarkova

Scientists and inventors today becoming the new rock stars. It turned out that understanding how the world around us works is not only useful, but much more interesting than it might have seemed from the school curriculum. YouTube in this sense is simply a treasure trove where you can find interesting information about everything from modern philosophy to astrophysics. We've found the most fascinating channels dedicated to popular explanations of the world inside and out.

PostScience

"PostNauka" is the first major popular science portal in Russian. Despite the fact that since 2012 the project of the year has grown into a huge website, the main backbone is a large collection of videos. Compared to many channels, PostNauka boasts an incredibly wide range of topics on which both single lectures and an entire course have been filmed. All video lectures are uploaded to official YouTube channel, and on the site - their text versions. Leading Russian scientists talk about science and technology in the fields of astronomy, mathematics, physics, as well as the Russian language and much more - full list items can be found on the website. Perhaps the only drawback is the extreme academic nature of the approach: after all, it was not for nothing that we fell asleep at the university.

MinutePhysics

“Physics in a Minute” was invented by the American mathematician and physicist Henry Reich. The title is a little disingenuous regarding the length of the video, but this is completely unimportant - even the longest explainers of the channel are watched in one go. He already has almost 3 million subscribers, and all because Reich very clearly answers various questions regarding physics that can puzzle anyone: “Why is pink not a color?”, “What is the Higgs boson?” and finally, the most popular video “An object that cannot be moved, against a non-stop force - who will win”? Now the channel has a version in Spanish, as well as a sister project, MinuteEarth, which, obviously, talks about entertaining earthly phenomena.

Kurzgesagt

"Kurz gesagt" literally means "in short" in German. A hint of a short video format is a win-win. Thus, even those not interested in science will not be intimidated by the complex or controversial topic in the title. The name of the channel directly indicates that the discussion will not last long. In general, Kurzgesagt is a design bureau run by Philipp Dettmer and Stefan Rether, specializing in educational animation. It's no surprise that their videos are not just educational, but also the most beautiful of all. Be prepared: after the video about what life is, existential stupor is guaranteed for at least half an hour.

Arzamas Academy

A young but important Russian project: Arzamas.Academy launched at the beginning of the year - but imagine an intelligent Russian information space without him it is no longer possible. However, the team, which includes Philip Dzyadko, Alexey Munipov, and, for example, prefers to call it not educational, but educational. The spirit of the old "rggush" school reigns here, but this does not mean that it will be boring. Essentially, this is an online university for those who don’t have much time, attention deficit, but a lot of interest. A new course is published once a week: from “Architecture as a Means of Communication” to “Crime and Punishment in the Middle Ages,” and for the really lazy, each cycle has a digest. Of course, “Arzamas” is, first of all, a very convenient and beautiful website, but the project also has its own channel on YouTube, where for now there is a series of videos about the classics of Russian literature.

AsapSCIENCE

Mitchell Moffitt and Gregory Brown are responsible for fast-as-can-be science. Before the damn dress of an unknown color appeared, sent from above to punish the Internet, the most popular video on AsapSCIENCE was “What came first - the chicken or the egg?” The channel is full of answers to similar, often paradoxical, questions. Their videos are edited touching pictures drawn with a marker on a white board. This approach well reflects the whole essence of the project: to answer, perhaps naive, but actually interesting questions that inevitably arise in thinking people, with the help of science. AsapSCIENCE has a sister project, AsapTHOUGHT, created by the same authors, who are also partners not just in work, but also in life. Openly gay scientists even made a touching video, in which they discuss both in the scientific field and on YouTube.

Vsauce

Over time, many successful YouTube projects grow into a whole conglomerate. This is the case with Vsauce, one of the most (if not the most) popular science channels on YouTube. It started out as a hodgepodge of formats and presenters, but it quickly became clear what was the most popular. In addition to the very first channel, created by Michael Stevens, who dedicated his life to educating people around the world, there are now two more that are run by other people. Stevens earned his popularity not only thanks to classic popular science and philosophical questions, the answers to which we are too lazy to look for and read in other open sources, but also thanks to his charisma and manner of presentation, which made watching his videos a real pleasure. We also recommend watching his TED talk, where he talks more about his mission and educational YouTube.

Mental Floss

Mental Floss is everything at once: a YouTube channel, a popular blog, books, T-shirts and, of course, the magazine where it all started. What they do best is compile various facts into fun lists, which are especially easy to digest in video format. The area of ​​interest of the creators is the widest, here you can find the most Interesting Facts about alcohol, and English words that are most often pronounced incorrectly, and popular quotes, and what not. Essentially, it's the internet's favorite format for random encyclopedic knowledge told in an entertaining way. One of the successes of the channel is the popular author of youth literature John Green, who is its face. After a couple of weeks of regular viewing, you're easily at the party.

PBS Idea Channel

PBS Digital Studios is an entire network of YouTube channels that connects various content creators to help them make professional online videos. Idea Channel is obviously the best of them. It was invented by Mike Ragnetta, who has repeatedly received the Webby Award for his services to the Internet. This result looks well deserved, since Ragnetta promotes a critical approach to modern pop-cultural phenomena and always tries to find an unusual angle to examine the topic. Each video begins with the phrase “I have this idea,” then the main topic of the video is announced. The creator of the PBS Idea Channel doesn't just talk out loud about the philosophical and cultural issues that concern him - his videos are especially valuable because he explores the subject in detail, citing many authoritative researchers in the philosophy of culture from antiquity to the present day.

Stuff Mom Never Told You

Another channel that is part of a large creative network. Stuff Mom Never Told You is a sister program of HowStuffWorks, designed to educate while entertaining. In the vast field of interests of its creators, Stuff Mom Never Told You occupies a specific niche. The creator of the blog and YouTube channel of the same name, Kristen Conger, talks about cultural and scientific social phenomena that concern her as a woman. Kristen's pro-feminist videos touch on a variety of current issues in modern society, from heels to abortion. Conger actively communicates with readers and viewers and always does detailed research on facts before using them in his work. She and her partner also produce a podcast, which can be found on their website.

Veritasium

Derek Mueller's YouTube channel brings together the best that can be said about modern science and engineering. He chose an obvious name for it: veritas in Latin means “truth.” Thus, masquerading as an item on the periodic table, Veritasium becomes the “element of truth.” Muller not only answers obvious and not so pseudo-scientific questions, but also often inserts interesting practical experiments into his videos. It's the combination of an engineering approach, interviews with experts like Nobel laureate physicist Brian Schmidt or astronaut Chris Hadfield, and popular science that makes his videos so interesting. The most beloved segments on Veritasium are social polls that show exactly what beliefs about science exist among the general audience.

Crash Course

Channel created by the Green brothers: John and Hank. Crash Course was launched as part of the YouTube Original Channel Initiative, which was sponsored by Google to attract professional content creators. This is still the same John Green who helps make videos for Mental Floss, but here it goes beyond compilations of random facts. The Green brothers set out to create an educational space where they could cover big, complex topics while covering only the essentials. Main areas: world history, literature, ecology, chemistry and physics. Videos on a short history course, by the way, are almost the most fascinating. A heap of facts and complex logical connections is easily built into a clear picture, thanks to the excellent combination of sequential presentation and video sequence, which is often interrupted by useful and beautiful animation. Hank, by the way, is creating another popular science channel SciShow.

Khan Academy

It may be hard to believe, but even if you hate math, after a couple of videos on this channel, you'll likely love it. Khan Academy is an entire non-profit organization created by Salman Khan, an MIT graduate and Harvard MBA, to make education accessible to everyone, regardless of their background or location. In his home studio, Khan has already made about 5,000 educational videos, talking about algebra and other branches of the exact sciences. Thanks to his mission, Khan became an Internet celebrity and is known far beyond the scientific YouTube community. If it’s difficult to believe that a video made from a black background and mysterious numbers can be fascinating, we recommend that you just watch at least one to the end. Algebraic problems will then appear the best way stretch your brain and will certainly be more interesting than a crossword puzzle. Among its many affiliated sites, Khan Academy also has a YouTube channel. in Russian.

On the channel Mr. Betts’ Class doesn’t talk about history, but sings. So you can find out what Roosevelt’s New Deal was or how the United States tried to cope with the Great Depression by watching a rather witty parody of “Uptown Funk.” All words of the changed lyrics are in subtitles.

Master classes on hairstyles from the past

Janet Stevens is a stylist who specializes in the history of hairstyles. On her channel, she not only talks about what hairstyles looked like in ancient Greece or medieval France, but also shows in detail how you can make the same ones. In each video, Janet gives a brief historical background: why the hairstyle was the way it was, when and who wore it, in what sources information about these hairstyles was found.

Humorous intensive about everything in the world

The Crash Course channel was created by two brothers: one talks about history, and the other about astronomy, biology and chemistry. They create animation for each video, and in the video itself they joke in a very American way, tell in a simple and clear way why, for example, the Roman Empire fell, or they fit two millennia of Chinese history into 12 minutes. The channel's content is so popular that enthusiasts translate videos into other languages. In Russian, some of them can be found in "In contact with".

Turning points in history in simple terms

Keith Hughes, the channel's creator, has taught history at the State University of New York at Buffalo for the past 15 years. Hughes, of course, is not the kind of professor whose students doze off during his lectures. He talks about free love in the Oneida commune, which was created in the 19th century in the United States, when they seemed tired of Christian morality, and about current processes that will become historical, such as the adoption of a law on same-sex marriage.

The evolution of computers and the IT industry

Channel where information about history is collected computer technology, software and new inventions in the field of technology. ComputerHistory is directly connected to the real-life Computer History Museum in California. It publishes lectures and interviews with those who create and develop technology: for example, with Elizabeth Holmes, “Steve Jobs in a skirt” and the youngest female US billionaire (she is only 31), who made a fortune developing the Theranos health diagnostic system.

Drunk historical tales

From the title Drunk History it is already clear that this is a story that will be told to you by not entirely sober people. While the narrator tries to explain individual episodes from history, Hollywood stars of the first magnitude act out skits. True, their remarks are voiced by the narrator. The project was created by the American cable channel Comedy Central; to get an idea, watch a video about Al Capone, who, in the narrator’s interpretation, turned out to be a complete idiot and a syphilitic (the latter, by the way, is a real historical fact).

“What if...”

The Alternative History Hub channel talks about what would have happened if everything in history had gone wrong: Christianity would not have appeared, Persia would have conquered Greece, and Hitler would not have been a nationalist. Here the established rule “there is no subjunctive mood in history” does not apply, but subscribers are happy with it.

"Gutenberg Smoking Room"

“Gutenberg Smoking Room” is one of the most successful and popular lecture halls of Obrazovac. The channel has videos on various topics, including many lectures on history. For example, about how atheism was formed in the USSR, what punishments were in medieval Rus', or how world architecture developed.

Today - another selection of interesting channels on YouTube: 20 best scientific and educational channels. If you like videos of this kind, you will definitely like this selection!

Interesting channels on YouTube: TOP-20 popular science in Russian

1.Science and Technology - popular science channel in Russian

2. Science 2.0 - another interesting YouTube channel

3. AlexTranslations

4.Intellectual

Documentary and popular science films and television programs, lecture series, television magazines, guidebooks, video lessons, video experiences, etc.

5. Channel interesting video

Archaeological finds that contradict official science are scattered all over the world. Artifacts of ancient civilizations and the newly discovered knowledge of lost civilizations of the Earth.

6. SuperGressus

7. Naked Science

Video about science and technology from foreign sources in Russian.

8. Sci-One TV

Reports from scientific and technical events, interviews with experts and educational stories that reveal certain scientific issues.

9. Science

Animated videos that explain scientific facts in a popular and humorous manner and answer related questions.

10. Gutenberg smoking room

Channel of the educational project “Obrazovac Lecture Hall: Gutenberg Smoking Room.” Videos of lectures from open events dedicated to popular science topics appear here.

11. PostScience

Recordings of lectures on fundamental science, in which Russian scientists talk about their research in the first person.

12. Arzamas

Video lectures and short stories delivered by Russian scientists on issues in the humanities.

13. Attic

14. Lectorium

Recordings of lectures given at different universities in Russia.

15. Everything is like animals

Evgenia Timonova, together with her assistants, travels around the world and films stories about man and the nature around him.

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16. KREOSAN

A channel about inventions, technology, experiments and curious features of nature. Ideas and creative ways to bring them to life.