John and Hank Green launched this channel with a World History and Biology course respectively. It has grown to over 45 courses on a wide variety of subjects. This is YouTube at it's best: guilt-free because it's educational but genuinely entertaining.

Crash Course

The official channel of the IFSC posts full length climbing competition footage (plus interviews, highlights, etc). I had fallen down this particular YouTube rabbit hole many times before I even tried climbing!

International Federation of Sport Climbing

Part YouTube channel, part film studio, part friend group of VFX nerds, the gang at Corridor Crew are an infectious bunch. Bonus: they didn't invent the "reacts" genre, but they've taken it to new heights.

Corridor Crew

Hannah's channel features a variety of bouldering focused content from coaching videos to climbing films to collabs with other climbing youtubers.

Hannah Morris Bouldering

Magnus Midtbø puts his world class climbing abilities to the test in his wide variety of climbing and strength related videos. I especially enjoy when he collaborates with other athletic personalities from across the internet. 

Magnus Midtbø

Northernlion is the perfect Twitch streamer for those of us old enough to remember VHS tapes. Picture a bald, middle-aged, Canadian with an uncanny ability to run his mouth in a comedic and never-ending stream of consciousness.

Northernlion

I don't actually play go, but that doesn't mean I haven't watched tens of hours of tutorials from Go Magic. Its the first channel that has actually given me, a complete beginner, insight into the strategy and tactics of the game. 

Go Magic

Jungle has been creating stunning dance-centric music videos long before their hit single, "Back on 74", made waves on social media. The British duo works with a reoccurring cast of dancers to breath visual life into their smooth electronic sound.

Jungle

Anna's charisma, energy, and eccentric love of slab take her vlog-style climbing channel to new heights. Come watch her alongside a rotating cast of characters and other climbing YouTubers as they attempt a variety of indoor and outdoor challenges.

Anna Hazelnutt

Todd from Project Farm methodically and scientifically reviews tools & equipment of all types. Even if you're not in the market for a new chainsaw, there's a mesmerizing quality to his thorough videos. Simply put, this is what YouTube is all about.

Project Farm

Veritasium is one of the foremost science communicators on YouTube for a reason. His videos explore a broad range of fascinating science and engineering topics with attention-grabbing style and eye-popping visuals.

Veritasium

From vintage VHS players to portable air conditions this creator investigates and then educates us about the everyday technology that makes our lives more comfortable.

Technology Connections

IM Levy Rozman is the most popular chess YouTube personality for good reason. His high-energy, no-nonsense demeanor brings excitement and clarity to the game and reveals his NYC roots. Most importantly, his ability to explain complex concepts to complete beginners is unparalleled.

GothamChess

How far on the tech-tree could you get with nothing but your bare hands? That's the question Primitive Technology seeks to answer with his legendary channel. Pro-tip: turn on the captions!

Primitive Technology

Adam Savage of Mythbuster's legend leads a team of journalists and makers as they build lightsabers, review VR headsets, explore legendary pieces of film and television prop lore, and so much more with an enormous content library.

Adam Savage's Tested

This channel delivers on its namesake better than most, providing curiosity-peaking lego-centric experiments like how fast you can spin a lego wheel before it explodes, or what it takes to get a lego car over an ever increasing gap. Come for the scientific method, stay for the snappy no-talk editing. 

Brick Experiment Channel

If washing away grime delights that part of your brain that seeks order, than this channel is for you. Watch as this creator brings unreasonably dirty rugs back to life with a variety of satisfying cleaning techniques. 

Mountain Rug Cleaning

Restoring bonsai trees is 20% gardening, 80% artistic endeavor, and 100% patience I do not have. Thankfully Bonsais Releaf's ode-to-a-tree videos condense a multi-year process into a gorgeous 15 minute montage complete with explanatory on-screen text and gentle music. 

Bonsai Releaf

Watch a guy suffer through integration hell to build ridiculously complicated robotic machines in his workshop while his wife makes fun of him. On a technical level, Stuff Made Here's creations are far and away the most impressive I've seen from a solo maker. 

Stuff Made Here

Jun's serene videos offer as much japanese rural and feline scenery as cooking advice; in Jun's own words "I am not professional chef. I just like cooking." Well I'm here for the cats. 

JunsKitchen

America’s Test Kitchen lives in a bizarro world where presentational television is alive and well. Tune in for buying guides, easy to follow recipes, and to see if the expert panel agreed with the live studio audience on their favorite brands of supermarket whipped creme.

America's Test Kitchen

Always laughing Simone Giertz first went viral building "shitty" robots that failed at their tasks. Now she builds, and breaks, even bigger stuff like her giant pair of scissors or the tesla she converted into a pickup truck. Plus she's a badass brain surgery survivor.

Simone Giertz

Part soothing day-in-the-life vlog, part authentic Yunnan cuisine cooking how-to, and part communist party propaganda, Dianxi along with her behind-the-camera sister have crafted a reverie of rural China.

Dianxi Xiaoge

Jeremy Fielding will methodically teach you the mechanical engineering and electronics skills you need to become an expert maker. Oh and check out his ridiculously cool robotic arm.

Jeremy Fielding

Colin Furze is simply put, a madlad. He constantly puts himself on the line testing the impressive, powerful, and ridiculously dangerous inventions he builds on his channel including a jet powered bicycle, a belt of spinning knives, and my favorite: a secret tunnel under his house.

Colin Furze

Babish Culinary Universe is a cooking YouTube powerhouse. Originally known as "Binging with Babish" the channel grew out of a simple idea - taking famous dishes from film and TV and making recipe videos about them - and it has since expanded to include many forms of cooking content.

Babish Culinary Universe

Pai's the everyperson's "Thai Aunty" and she accomplishes this and more with authentic recipes, taste tests between supermarket brands, and advice filled excurions to the grocery store.

Pailin's Kitchen

During his time working for NASA on the Curiosity rover, Mark Rober's science communication videos went viral skyrocketing his career. He now runs a business empire, hosts alongside Jimmy Kimmel, and is one of the faces of YouTube.

Mark Rober

Adam Ragusea's background as a journalism professor elevates his video essays exploring every nook and cranny of food. They tackle modern questions, like how to make the perfect NY-style pizza at home, and historical ones, like how humans first brewed beer.

Adam Ragusea

Watch a New York Times best-selling food author and restaurant owner struggle to figure out which plug is connected to his blender and sift through his fridge for ingredients to a delightfully naughty late night pizza-but-its-a-tortilla all filmed pov-style from a GoPro strapped to his head. 

J. Kenji López-Alt

Xyla combines her abilities as an engineer with her love of fashion and art in her upbeat vlog-style channel where she makes everything from (huge) model rockets to canoes.

Xyla Foxlin

Ethan gets straight to the point with his snappy recipe and technique videos, but I like watching his library of impressively designed scientific experiments that debunk myths and highlight what really makes a difference in the finished dish.

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