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Tom Scott does great stuff, and I found him through Computerphile years ago.
If you like board games, check out No Rolls Barred.
Veritasium and Smarter Every Day are good educational channels about science. Nile Red too.
I can give more if any of these are hitting for you.
Am I right in thinking Tom Scott is quitting / taking a break soon? I'm sure I saw something along those lines.
Yeah, end of the year. Link to a lemmy world post
Does anybody else find Tom Scott annoying?
I love channels that deep-dive into the details of things, etc. But I've always found Tom to be so smug and patronising.
Is it just me?
I don't at all. He's like a little kid when he gets to watch the maglev train in Japan
He's just very British, I think. IIRC, he also plays a bit of a character inspired by BBC reporters of his youth on camera.
If you listen to him in a context other than his main channel (I love his Lateral podcast) he doesn't come off as smug at all really.
He's definitely a bit of a dork but it's not annoying
I couldn't stand his Tesla/SpaceX obsession but for the past few months he seems to have let go of it