caesar novus Posted December 18, 2021 Report Share Posted December 18, 2021 (edited) What youtube channels repeatedly come up with excellence, at least a couple of times? I mean a level above the fray, with insight, gravitas, or serendipity. I will post my candidates either linking to a channel menu or else specific notable vids, and assume anyone interested can further seek by clicking on channel name and then click on videos category. Epic screwball comedy movie with massive classic cast from 60 years ago is avail free in youtube's sample movie channel. A series on engineering integrity, especially in concrete, and more recently the top forensic communicator about pancaked buildings such as in Miami. I post an example of his rundown of unethical steps that led to that huge loss of life, although earlier vids on specific construction faults are gripping too. I think this story is why my similarly built apartment is rising a brutal 4X in insurance fees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk2hmytlDg8 Amazing and generally unknown feats of aviation recalled by retired pilots, generally in secret cold war operations. They are about hour long lectures that seem almost too short. The series has been on a pandemic pause, but has a rich backlog. https://www.youtube.com/user/PeninsulaSrsVideos/videos Ancient Roman and Greek misc channel, whose best value to me is willingness of author to answer questions in the comments. https://www.youtube.com/c/toldinstone/videos Air accident review channel (among other things), with admirable restraint, gravitas, and cautionary lessons. In the example I post he explains a particular illusion problem https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gk7fi7P0i3s but I wish he talked about another one attributed to crashes for which I will post a provocative short paper https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330415156_The_somatogravic_illusion_during_centrifugation_sex_differences. Researchers find women pilots generally aren't subject to this illusion, which you can only find near the end of paper because they only dared put weasel words where it belonged in the top abstract. They are torn by pol-incorrectness of declaring genders different even if the "correct" one looks better. I found evidence it's due to the illusion not being in pilots mind, but the inner ear is tilted slightly different between the sexes - something you may see me bring up in comments there. One of the highest quality sail cruising vlog channels https://www.youtube.com/c/RANSailing/videos Youtube audiobook channel for which I will post an example in two parts because they are almost 2 books. Rolling stone Keith Richards gives a memoir of an earnest struggling band key to the youth culture wave of the 1960s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l03GQCDCBPg followed by bouts of epic self indulgence of a half-billionaire in the drug culture of 1970s+ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q4bIn_wFtY. It keeps finding unexpected ways to amaze me on the bohemian lifestyle, like frequent use of gunfire to shoo folks away which so far in the book led to no visits from police or hotel security. He does seem to have a responsible heart, but may be not be telling the full story behind various times he escaped burndowns of hotel rooms or rented homes due to "electrical problems". Edited December 18, 2021 by caesar novus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted January 8, 2022 Author Report Share Posted January 8, 2022 (edited) 8. Somehow I think the frequent excellence and popularity of Tank Museum videos transcend the army nerd demographic: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheTankMuseum/videos Edited February 23, 2022 by caesar novus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted February 23, 2022 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2022 9. JJ Medicine gives a cogent outline of typical medical issues and how they are understood and treated in conventional medicine https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFPvnkCZbHfBvV8ApBBE0vA/featured . I guess it is done by a resident who learns by articulating things in nearly everyday language and some pretty darn good slides. His more recent videos are particularly polished and seems a reasonable alternative to wall-of-text medical reference sites. I will post one of his earlier videos which wasn't his best but hopefully gets across one of my pet points about criticality of vitamin b12. Enjoy the Canadian accent: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted April 9, 2022 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2022 (edited) 10) eSysman SuperYachts: Here is another seemingly niche channel, but really has universal appeal. Not only do his undercover informants advise on life of the superwealthy and their ingenious toys, but very newsworthy issues come to light: https://www.youtube.com/c/eSysmanSuperYachts/videos Worthwhile to play even older videos for surprising issues, like the fear of letting long time girlfriends linger aboard. One apparently used this practice to have a common-law (default) marriage declared, then divorced and took possession of the umpteen million yacht. So instead owners may hire escorts with very detailed social contracts. For any of you planning to greet an arriving superyacht with pitchforks and torches, he informs us that for interesting legal reasons yachts often arrive empty except for a U.K. crew. A more effective protest may be to block them from refueling. They need to power parties at port with generators since they draw too much power to plug in shoreside. Both kinds of protests have occurred recently. One issue got me involved. Some superYachts are now running stealthy with collision avoidance broadcast turned off. The channel has informants that sometimes locate them, and I have relayed warning to some night sailors in the area. Either they may be sailing alone, asleep ,and cheaped out by using a collision receiver but not transmitter, or they run with unobservant teen children taking night shifts at the wheel while playing games. Edited April 9, 2022 by caesar novus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted December 17, 2022 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2022 On 12/18/2021 at 3:11 AM, caesar novus said: Epic screwball comedy movie with massive classic cast from 60 years ago is avail free in youtube's sample movie channel. Before this thread dies a deserved death, I will point out that during the holiday lull youtube is offering umpteen Pink Panther movies free (no ads at least for me). You may have avoided these when rerun on TV since they are slow paced from an earlier time, but try at 1.5x speed. Wonderful deadpan slapstick, such as the police inspector who was given a replica pistol cigarette lighter and always wrongly picks up that or his real gun for cross purposes. Here is a search link that mostly gets the old 90min classics https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pink+panther+peter+sellers&sp=EgIYAg%3D%3D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted March 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted March 27, 2023 11) Russian Media Monitor. BTW below sample is kind of an IQ test, where you can tell from comments how many fail to grasp it's shrill distracting sound can be dialed down without missing the absolutely riveting content: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caesar novus Posted July 21, 2023 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2023 On 2/22/2022 at 5:14 PM, caesar novus said: 9. JJ Medicine gives a cogent outline of typical medical issues and how they are understood and treated in conventional medicine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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