When I was growing up, we had discovery channel. That sparked my intrinsic curiousity. My daughter has that intrinsic motivation as well, but only for k-pop now. She likes youtube videos and she likes when I tell her about science stuff. Maybe I can combine that by recommending her some good youtube channels.

  • Hayduke@lemmy.world
    71·
    23 days ago

    In addition to the others mentioned.
    Kyle Hill
    Steve Mould
    Physics Girl
    The Action Lab
    Anton Petrov
    Scott Manley
    Veritasium
    Minute Earth
    Minute Physics
    VSauce
    SciShow
    Hank Green
    Cleo Abram

    • AstralPath@lemmy.ca
      29·
      23 days ago

      Hannah Fry is great too. Becky Smethurst as well.

      I approve of your list but Anton Petrov is a bit much for a 12 year old, I think. Kyle Hill gets a bit dark for a 12 year old sometimes.

      It certainly doesn’t hurt to just start off on the right foot with Carl Sagan and Cosmos.

      • Hayduke@lemmy.world
        5·
        23 days ago

        Ha, yeah. That’s true about some of those channels. Kinda forgot about the age aspect. Like a lot of Simone’s videos have a bit of language, though she is awesome. I see her as far more as a maker than a science communicator. Not entirely sure why she was suggested a couple of times.

      • PetteriPano@lemmy.world
        4·
        23 days ago

        I came here to say Hannah Fry, too.

        She’s been doing a lot of those YouTube shorts or reels or whatever they’re called, so that’s probably a good way in for the younger generation.

        Then come the documentaries and books.

    • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
      162·
      23 days ago

      God I can’t stand Veritasium. Even the name is so fucking pretentious. Dude is in deep love with himself, I can’t watch it. There’s just something about narcissists, I get an allergic reaction listening to them.

      • Hayduke@lemmy.world
        11·
        23 days ago

        I can see that. I, like you, appreciate the content, but I have found myself watching fewer of his videos. I guess that’s also because he seems to be farming out his content production now. I like the self-produced stuff more than larger-scale productions.

      • abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksOP
        3·
        23 days ago

        Good news than, he recently made a video about stepping back a little and letting his colleages do more videos.

      • anothermember@feddit.ukEnglish
        21·
        23 days ago

        God I can’t stand Veritasium. Even the name is so fucking pretentious. Dude is in deep love with himself, I can’t watch it. There’s just something about narcissists, I get an allergic reaction listening to them.

        Just call him Dirk instead, he makes good videos.

        • tomiant@piefed.socialEnglish
          9·
          23 days ago

          Yes yes I know, I like the content. I just can’t stand him as a person. That’s on me. I was brought up by narcissists so I have this spider sense about it and I get a visceral reaction.

  • slazer2au@lemmy.worldEnglish
    361·
    23 days ago

    Technology Connections
    Periodic Videos
    Computerphile
    One Blue Three Brown
    MinutePhysics

      • mcmodknower@programming.dev
        15·
        23 days ago

        in german the z and s sounds are switched. and you missed the actual z. its Kurzgesagt (from the word “Kurz” (short) and the 3. person singular perfect of the verb “sagen” (to say), “gesagt” (said)).

        (sorry but i couldn’t not correct you and explain where the word came from)

        • Lumidaub@feddit.org
          7·
          23 days ago

          If we’re being pedantic (which I’m all for), the sounds aren’t switched 1:1 exactly.

          German z is usually a ts sound, like the tz in hertz.

          German s is indeed commonly the same bu**zzing sound as English z (but it can also be a sharp hiss**ing **s**ound).

          An approximation might be [koorts guh zaakt].

    • VeganBtw@piefed.socialEnglish
      9·
      23 days ago

      Sometimes, I think science educators aren’t political enough.

      Cleo Abram’s interviews with Nvidia’s CEO, Zuck and Sam Altman are her only interviews to date, and they all paint them in a good light without being critical of their work. I get wanting to make it to the top, but simping for the capitalist elite is just not a good look in my book, especially when science communication should try to minimize bias.

      I also remember her video about John Deere last year, giving the impression the company is only doing so much good in the world…

  • Phoenixz@lemmy.ca
    18·
    23 days ago

    Physics girl on YouTube, even though she hasn’t made any content anymore for years due to long term Covid, she’s still recovering, but her videos were always very inspiring, very happy and curiosity inducing

        • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
          3·
          22 days ago

          Some people do
          But he is a general science communicator. Like bill nye or something. He isn’t the expert on any specific thing (as he will tell you himself), but people often don’t want to watch content from a super specific specialist because they get bored of too much content on a specific topic. Hank (and his channels) have a research team who go out and contact specialists and experts, and then distill that into something close enough to the truth and still entertaining.

          • CovfefeKills@lemmy.world
            2·
            22 days ago

            I don’t dislike the guy I watch his stuff sometimes I just don’t understand why people like him THAT much. Like a parasocial unhealthy worshipping type thing I don’t think it has anything to do with the quality of his works but rather his charming character. And these days we know all too well the evil that can accompany charming. It’s just strange we keep putting these men on pedestals.

            • PeriodicallyPedantic@lemmy.ca
              3·
              22 days ago

              I think I kinda get you, but also I think that it’s just kinda the nature of humans to put people on pedestal. I can’t really answer why (and honestly maybe I’m totally wrong, I’m not a social scientist).

              As far as pedestal candidates go, if we had to choose, I’d rank him pretty high. Seems to be a fairly reasonable and ethical guy, pretty smart, willing to listen to experts, loves to learn, self aware, and seems to be pretty ethical. Not as far left as I’d like, but choices are slim lol.
              How much is a facade and how much is truly him? We can never know. If it’s a facade, it’s an excellent one.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    181·
    21 days ago

    Slop for my horses. Used AI to parse the comments and make a cohesive list with it’s best shot at links

    Then hand checked the links, fixed any broken ones I could find.

    The classifications to the right are AI generated, feel free to comment and have me change things.

    Added from posts: Fraser Cain, The Crash Course, Beakman’s World, Cleo Abram

    Added from my own list: nile blue, my green guy, hyperspace pirate, smarter every day, jeremy fielding, stuff made here, laura kamph, jerri ellsworth

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
    14·
    23 days ago

    Lots of good channel suggestions.

    But I would also nominate COSMOS.

    Both the original hosted by Carl Sagan, and the new series with Neil deGrasse Tyson.

    For me, they brought the epicness of reality, scientific history, and the vastness of the universe, into focus in a way nothing else did.

    They made me feel a hopeful and powerful “humanity is fucking AWESOME, and can do INCREDIBLE things”. It’s not just informative. It lights a fire in you for the way humanity fights its way through the dark, using the scientific method as our guide.

    • fireweed@lemmy.world
      8·
      23 days ago

      Seconding this. PBS has a TON of YouTube channels for all kinds of interest areas. Not all are going to be geared to a middle school audience, but much like the TV stations themselves, at least you don’t have to worry as much* about the potential content as a parent (in terms of quality or appropriateness) vs random YouTube channels.

      *I would say all their stuff is high school appropriate, but some of the more local/news-related stuff could be a bad fit for younger audiences depending on the kid, only because we don’t live in a world that’s child-friendly. Also channels like PBS Terra do a lot of videos about how fucked we are re: climate change (not in so many words of course) and although they do try to put an optimistic spin on it, sensitive kids might get freaked out by how bad things are (which would be an accurate response of course, so it depends on how much you’ve been trying to shelter your kid from this kind of thing I guess).

  • konim@sopuli.xyz
    101·
    23 days ago

    I dont really know whats age appropriate for a 12 year old but BobbyBroccoli has some good science controversy videos. He has a good series of videos on a physics scandal and a video on another physics scandal. He uses some cool visualizations and I like how he talks about the science and the people involved. Theres also cold fusion. One of the fusion videos has a title thats worrying but no one dies, its making a point.

    Too dark at her age probably but maybe good as a teenager. I listen to Fascinating Horror who covers various disasters in 15 mins or less. I liked that the videos arent sensationalized. He always says the victims names and backgrounds, the circumstances leading up to it and the fallout. Like theres a video about a woman who was rushed the hospital and made the staff sick. Theres a lot of videos calling her the toxic lady. His video refers to her by name, mentions that moniker doesnt match how positive and loved she was, and her prior medical issues that likely caused her desperation.

  • solrize@lemmy.ml
    9·
    23 days ago

    Vi Hart is great. She hasn’t made videos in a long while but her old ones are still around.

  • Evil_Shrubbery@thelemmy.club
    8·
    23 days ago

    Maybe NOVA?
    pbs.org/nova
    youtube/@novapbs

    They cover a wide range of topics, show professionals at work & explaining their work (glimpsing a life/work of an actual scientists).

    Also good for having a sense of the context the modern irl world exists in, not just the here & now of personal bubble experiences.