Best Explainer Video You’ve Ever Seen?

Compiling Patrick OShaughnessy's tweet replies

I’m trying to be helpful and listing some explainer videos recommended by others, sort them by category and link to them.

Inspired by Patrick Oshaughnessy’s tweet. What is the best explainer video that you’ve ever seen?

Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag

What is the best explainer video that you’ve ever seen?

All links are to YouTube unless mentioned otherwise.

Here’s a YouTube playlist with all the videos mentioned.

Science & Tech

• The Science of Fire

• The Fermi Paradox

• But what is a Neural Network?

• How the Apollo Spacecraft works

• The Coronavirus Explained & What You Should Do

• 4th Dimension – Tesseract, 4th Dimension Made Easy – Carl Sagan

• The Higgs Boson Explained

• Richard Feynman Computer Heuristics Lecture

• Joscha: Computational Meta-Psychology

• Quantum Entanglement & Spooky Action at a Distance

• Why SpaceX is Making Starlink

• A visual and intuitive understanding of deep learning

• TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time

• how-to-imagine-the-tenth-dimension

• Who Is Responsible For Climate Change? – Who Needs To Fix It?

• What Would Happen If Humans Tried To Land On Jupiter

• Neutron Stars – The Most Extreme Things that are not Black Holes

Economics, Investing & Markets

• How The Economic Machine Works

• Quantitative Easing Explained

• The Stock Market Explained by Vox

• A Brief History of International Trade

• William Ackman: Everything You Need to Know About Finance and Investing in Under an Hour

• Social Security Cards Explained

• How does the stock market work? – Oliver Elfenbaum

Sports & Games

• Jaeger Sports Baseball Throwing Program

• Miyamoto on World 1-1: How Nintendo made Mario’s most iconic level

• Sequelitis – Mega Man Classic vs. Mega Man X

• MIT Professor Debunks Deflategate

Behavioural

• A Selfish Argument for Making the World a Better Place – Egoistic Altruism

• Charlie Munger: The Psychology of Human Misjudgement (Vimeo)

• The best explanation to resilience

• Magic: the Gathering: Twenty Years, Twenty Lessons Learned (Trust me on this!)

• The riddle of experience vs. memory | Daniel Kahneman

• RSA ANIMATE: Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us

• Mr. Rogers and the Power of Persuasion

• The Rules for Rulers

Misc

• history of japan

• Ancient Greece in 18 minutes

• Agile Product Ownership in a Nutshell

• Don’t Talk to the Police

• The Fallen of World War II

• I’m Just a Bill (Schoolhouse Rock!)

• Jackie Chan – How to Do Action Comedy

• Noam Chomsky – The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine

• Around The Corner – How Differential Steering Works (1937)

• How to Tie Your Shoes

• Why In-N-Out Isn’t Coming to a City Near You

• Combinations of 52 cards (52 factorial)

• The Ingenious Design of the Aluminum Beverage Can

• P vs. NP and the Computational Complexity Zoo

• Feynman: How the train stays on the track

• What is a p-value?

• Richard Feynman. Why.

• 23 and 1/2 hours: What is the single best thing we can do for our health?

• The Bayesian Trap

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