 | YouTube is the number one video-sharing platform in the world with more than 95% of the internet population using it. It provides videos ranging from silly pranks, heartwarming stories, news about the latest global issues, people's personal interests, information about cutting edge science, genuine debates between people who disagree but want to understand each other, lies to serve a political agenda, the ramblings of mentally ill people and everything in between.
YouTube has an algorithm that focuses on overall audience satisfaction, over providing people with a neutral, objective or balanced perspective on the world. It suggests videos based on how users with similar viewing patterns to your own reacted. It personalizes its recommendations based on channels to which you’ve already subscribed. This poses a risk of limiting people's access to information, that they didn't know they would have wanted to know.
I created this topic to exchange informative and educational videos with other people, who might have been algorithmically limited to other content than I am myself. I do suggest to limit this topic to informative and educational content, because there are already enough other topics for fun and questionable stuff.
Although politics and climate change can be categorized as informative and educational, there are already enough other topics debating politics and climate change. Science in general isn't political, neither is (or should) philosophy. Religion is associated with politics, but honest debates on this topic are not political, in my opinion. If you think these subjects are all terribly boring, I don't agree, but then this topic is not for you. That's OK. |
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Nikola Tesla was obviously smart, and he discovered some very useful things, like alternating current. He should have been recognized and rewarded for it, but I'm afraid his ambition was stronger than his ability to deliver results. His elaborate experiments didn't help him advance understanding of electricity much. Wireless communication works with electromagnetic waves, but using a Tesla coil to produce them is very inefficient. Others beat him to the theories and the practical applications. His experiments were very expensive, but didn't provide his investors with any return on investment. Instead of inventing marketable applications, like Edison did, he pursued futuristic fantasies, that have never become reality. I think he was foremost a skilled engineer. It's a true genius to created and operate what he did, without electrocuting everyone. If he had collaborated with a theoretical genius, they would have invented everything that others did, based on his wild ideas. Maybe he just lived 50 to 100 too early. He would have done great in our time.
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Helping people is indeed not always about money, even if they are lacking money. Some people just need help. If you have the skills to help, that's more effective. Some people are lacking time, if you have the time, you can help with some time. Maybe they have the skills to do it themselves, but they lack the tools, then you can lend them the tools. Maybe they don't have the skills and you have, then you can teach them the skills. Sometimes they only lack the confidence and a little support allows them to help themselves. Some people are just alone and just need a friend.
In this case, they donated time and saved him a bunch of money for a new car. By making a nice video from it, they generate a lot of views, get advertisement money from YouTube, which helps them help the next family. Meanwhile, they might motivate someone to start learning those skills or to help people with the skills they already have.
who provide regular/daily content on astronomy, astrophysics, astrobiology
and occasionally some other fields of science.
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If you have seen everything from Neil deGrasse Tyson, these are your next stops.
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