
Sometimes you want to learn stuff without working too hard. The Youtube channel, Fall of Civilizations is smart and engaging.

Sometimes you want to learn stuff without working too hard. The Youtube channel, Fall of Civilizations is smart and engaging.
Building an audience on Youtube must be harder than it looks. The U.S. Secret Service only has 36k subscribers. Their videos are short, usually a minute or two, but interesting.
An Asian girl eating a bowl of soup can get 4 million subscribers on Youtube.
This video from the Democratic National Committee promises to “Upgrade Your Life with These Daily Habits”.
Am I a bad person for watching this video? My stand-by ticket to life has already been upgraded to first class, so it feels a little greedy to clamor for more perks.

Youtube presented me with this video explaining that physicists have only 5 jokes. Angela Collier’s Youtube page says that she is a physicist and I could see that she is cute, so right up my alley.
If history was taught like this, I would have paid attention.
The Youtube channel, Flappr, covers real history with sarcasm and a 1950’s aesthetic. The archival film is excellent, but the humor occasionally goes too far.
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