If you are not watching Technology Connections, you are missing out.
It is so well produced and interesting, it reminds me of being a kid and watching discovery channel / national geographic obsessively, but better because it's more in-depth has a very high signal to noise ratio. It's James Burke for the youtube era.
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@conatus
I like many of his topics but he doesnt seem to understand the topics he describes. Anytime he hits on anything i have a good enough understanding on i realize half of what he says is just plain wrong. It has led me to stop watching his channel entierly.
@freemo huh, surprising, man it is so hard to judge if people know what they are talking about.
It might just be near impossible to be create 30 mins educational YouTube videos at such a deep level and still be accessible to a general audience without simplifying things a lot?
@conatus I cant remember all the specific examples right now. But I recall that my impression was that he didnt have a good understanding of the topics he talks on and it felt like he read up on them by reading a wikipedia article before hand and just reciting what he read.
Its usually only when he tried to explain those facts or infer something from it that it showed he didnt understand them. The facts he cited from the wikipedia page were accurate enough, so he clearly did some research.
@conatus Yea, I mean, if you take it with a grain of salt then its not bad. The problem is a lot of times when people hear a "fact" for the first time it tends to stick. So some of the missteps he makes can cause people to retain those ideas and perpetuate them (they are often common mistakes so they are easily reinforced).
I am not against his channel, but I dont hold it in as high a regard as some of the more educated and well informed tech channels that dont tend to make those kind of missteps.
@freemo Yeah it has a vibe of hey look what cool facts I found while researching this subject this week. In the intro he mentions something which he doesn't understand and the top comment is someone explaining it so I feel like if you take the video with the comments you get a pretty good overview on a subject.