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These are some YouTube videos and channels I consider worth watching.

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Science and Engineering

The United States Chemical Safety Board, including, for example,

  1. Hazards of nitrogen asphyxiation

  2. Explosion and Fire at the Husky Energy Refinery in Superior

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Plainly difficult including, for example,

  1. The Sarov Criticality

  2. The Teton Disaster

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The Engineering Mindset including, for example,

  1. Transistors Explained

  2. How Electricity Works

  3. How Three-Phase Electricity Works

  4. How Batteries Work

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Practical Engineering including, for example,

  1. Why the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapsed (hint: not resonance)

  2. What is Cavitation?

  3. What is a Hydraulic Jump?

  4. The Most Dangerous Dams

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Rimstar.org including, for example,

  1. What is electricity?

  2. LC Circuit: Selecting Coil and Capacitor

  3. Voltage/Volts: What is it?

  4. Make a Razor Blade Diode for Crystal/Foxhole Radio

  5. How to make a High Capacitance Electrolytic Capacitor

  6. How a Crystal Radio Works

  7. How to Make/Build a Crystal Radio

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Lesics, the physics behind engineering, including, for example,

  1. Understanding a planetary gear set

  2. The curious case of the magnetron's surface charges

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engineerguy.com, with some nice examples.

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If you are looking for mathematical brain candy, please see Mind Your Decisions. These are excellent to watch when bored and the alternative is watching videos about people getting hurt, humiliated, or both, or worse.

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Other channels I need to watch more of (thanks, Jeff) include:

  1. Technology Connections

  2. MinutePhysics

  3. Cathy Loves Physics (including electricity and magnetism).

  4. To be continued...

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Other useful videos for first-year engineers:

  1. An actually good explanation of the mole.

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Day-by-day, week-by-week, year-by-year histories

Emperor Tigerstar including, for example,

  1. The History of the Achaemenid Empire

  2. The French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars

  3. The War of Polish Succession

  4. The History of Europe every Year

  5. The History of the Middle East

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Ollie Bye including, for example,

  1. The History of the British Isles

  2. Top Five Tallest Buildings Throughout History

  3. The History of Wessex

  4. The Rise and Fall of the Sikh Empire

  5. The History of Africa

  6. The Holy Roman Empire

  7. The History of the World (every year)

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Militaria

This video on the Western Front in World War I clearly puts to rest the idea that Germany was "stabbed in the back." In the last three months of the war, the Germans were losing ground almost daily, and this is after almost three years of static lines.

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Uniform History including, for example,

  1. The Mitznefet

  2. The U.S.M.C. MARPAT

  3. The U.S. Operational Combat Pattern

  4. The Canadian CADPAT

  5. The German Flecktarn

  6. My favorite, the Lebanese Army's PeaceCamo

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The Operations Room including, for example,

  1. The Battle of Midway

  2. Drøbak Sound, 1940

  3. The Dambusters Raid

  4. The Hardest Day

  5. The Beaufighter Raid

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Mail Call Monday/8541 Tactical including, for example,

  1. The Tikka T1x NRL

  2. Ghillie Suits

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Other militaria channels and I'll pick some good examples later:

  1. Military History Visualized

  2. Military History Not Visualized

  3. The Chieftain

  4. The Tank Museum

  5. The Great War

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Other channels and videos

Some other favorite channels:

  1. The Albino Rhino Beer Review

  2. Bart Ehrman.

  3. The Atheist Experience

  4. Talk Heathen

  5. Genetically Modified Skeptic

  6. Holy Koolaid

  7. Mr. Diety

  8. The Skeptics Guide to the Universe

  9. Philosophy Tube

  10. CGP Grey

  11. Dr. Justin Sledge.

  12. and others to be added.

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One I like is Beau of the Fifth Column including, for example,

  1. Let's talk about Trump's accomplishments....

  2. etc.

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Other good videos. The first is a reasonable explanation of the Jewish Torah, and the balance are discussions on the Bronze Age Collapse. It is not possible to understand the events in the Torah without understanding the context and the events leading up to the establishment of an independent Judean kingdom.

  1. A history of God (the Polytheistic Origins of Christianity and Judaism)

  2. 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed

  3. The Bronze Age Collapse

  4. The Bronze Age Collapse: Mediterranean Apocalypse

  5. What Happened After the Bronze Age Collapse?

  6. Who were the Hittites?

  7. The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic.

  8. To be continued....

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Here are some good videos:

  1. Debunking the Myth of the Lost Cause 

  2. Is Fire a Solid, Liquid or Gas?

  3. How one supernova measured the universe (fun with gravity lenses)

  4. An explanation of Goedel's theorem 

  5. The analysis of a song based on the runes on the Eggja stone

  6. Alex O'Connor's This is Why I Don't Believe in God

  7. To be continued...

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