Here are some of the best educational videos on the internet. Please add your recommendations in comments- could we make a wikipedia-style forum of links?
First,the wired series where an expert talks to 5 people about a topic at 5 different levels.
Astrophysicist Explains Gravity in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
Big Think https://www.youtube.com/c/bigthink
Great Lives bbc https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000d71c
poptech https://www.youtube.com/user/poptech
https://www.youtube.com/c/CloserToTruthTV
David Chalmers
zero knowledge proofs computer science
quantum sensing
nanotechnology
dimensions physics
black holes astrophysics
connectome neuroscience
crispr biology
wired tennis McEnroe
5 Levels
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An expert explains a complex subject in five levels of complexity.
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Neuroscientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Biologist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty - CRISPR | WIRED
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Virtual Reality Engineer Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Blockchain Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Musician Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty ft. Jacob Collier & Herbie Hancock | WIRED
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Quantum Computing Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Physicist Explains Dimensions in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Physicist Explains Lasers in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Scientist Explains Sleep in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Hacker Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Nanotechnology Expert Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Physicist Teaches Origami in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Computer Scientist Explains Machine Learning in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Neuroscientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Computer Scientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Astrophysicist Explains Black Holes in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Geometer Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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College Professor Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
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Computer Scientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED
Everything you ever wanted to know about history.
https://play.acast.com/s/the-rest-is-history-podcast
Lifeskills, personal deveopment.
Tim ferris https://tim.blog/podcast/
He seems to have interviewed almost everyone.
Past guests include Hugh Jackman, Dr. Jane Goodall, Neil Gaiman, Jerry Seinfeld, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Madeleine Albright, LeBron James, Margaret Atwood, Elizabeth Gilbert, Mark Zuckerberg, Ray Dalio, Michael Lewis, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Jocko Willink, Bill Burr, Kevin Hart, Edward Norton, Tony Robbins, Maria Sharapova, Jamie Foxx, Maria Popova, Peter Thiel, Marc Andreessen, Dr. Peter Attia, Malcolm Gladwell, Vince Vaughn, Terry Crews, Rick Rubin, Reid Hoffman, Brené Brown, Dr. Gabor Maté, Naval Ravikant, Anne Lamott, Matthew McConaughey, Sarah Silverman, Dr. Andrew Huberman, and 600+ more.
New Insights from Sam Harris, Dr. Peter Attia, Ramit Sethi, and Elizabeth Gilbert (#599)
Peter Attia, Brene Brown, Tony Robbins, Ray dalio
https://primalstreammedia.com/still-feel-21/the-tim-ferriss-show-podcast-top-ten-guests/
Jordan Peterson with Pennebaker https://www.jordanbpeterson.com/podcast/episode-11/
Peterson with Zizek (Marxism)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsWndfzuOc4
Peterson on Piaget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4VSRg4e8w
Peterson with Andrew Huberman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-mJEZbHFLs
Peterson with Douglas Murray
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Modzh94MVw
Murray and Varoufakis and Sayers
https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/youtube-videos-science-education-google.html
Veritasium from physics PhD Derek Muller
Science-focused channel Smarter Every Day engineer Destin Sandlin
Twitter user @satorimind suggested the Huberman Lab Podcast channel from Stanford neuroscience professor Andrew Huberman. neuroscience and "science-based tools for everyday life."
Australian math teacher Eddie Woo for easy-to-understand explainers.
Engineer @investing_lion's pick was "Talks at Google," particularly their series with great investors.
Ali Abdaal "I'm a Cambridge University medicine graduate, and on this channel we create content that helps people lead happier, healthier, and more productive lives with the overall aim of helping people do more of what matters to them."
General interest channels, the most mentioned by far was Vox, which offers everything from easy-to-digest explainers to help you make sense of the news, to deep dives into forgotten nuggets of history.
Pain
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_autodidacts
A 2016 Stack Overflow poll[26] reported that due to the rise of autodidacticism, 69.1% of software developers appear to be self-taught.It definitely seems to be a growing trend.
https://www.self-directed.org/about/
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