Scientific method & science communication Videos Recommended on Hacker News (127)
Scientific method & science communication is one of the 150 topics Hacker News readers organize their video recommendations around. These 127 videos each earned real recommendations in real HN threads between 2009 and 2026 — 399 recommendations in total — and they're ranked by how many separate months the community kept coming back to them, not by view count.
How science works: scientific method, nature of explanation, replication crisis, peer review, science communication, Feynman on explanation, popular science, history of science, scientific thinking.
Why HN keeps sending people here — on The Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know: “This is the video that finally made it click for me[1].” — an HN commenter, 2022.
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15 mo on HNThe Quantum Conspiracy: What Popularizers of QM Don't Want You to Know
11 mo on HNJames Burke Connections, Ep. 1 "The Trigger Effect"
10 mo on HNHamming, "You and Your Research" (June 6, 1995)
9 mo on HNWhy Being Delusional is a Superpower
8 mo on HNIs Most Published Research Wrong?
8 mo on HNRichard Feynman Fire
8 mo on HNPowers of Ten™ (1977)
6 mo on HNFeynman on Scientific Method.
7 mo on HNWhy It Was Almost Impossible to Make the Blue LED
6 mo on HNDEF CON 26 - Svea, Suggy, Till - Inside the Fake Science Factory
7 mo on HNI promise this story about microwaves is interesting.
6 mo on HNThe LED Traffic Light and the Danger of "But Sometimes!"
6 mo on HNHD Feynman: FUN TO IMAGINE complete (with optional Chinese subtitles)
6 mo on HNChicken chicken chicken
6 mo on HNVeritasium: What Everyone Gets Wrong About AI and Learning – Derek Muller Explains
5 mo on HNThe Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Introduction
7 mo on HNThe Epidemic of Fake Disease
5 mo on HNFeynman: Magnets (and Why?) FUN TO IMAGINE 4/ higher quality version!
6 mo on HNThe Biggest Myth In Education
6 mo on HNBret Weinstein on "The Portal" (w/ host Eric Weinstein), Ep. #019 - The Prediction and the DISC.
5 mo on HNExplained: New Navy UFO Videos
5 mo on HNBuilding a Cathedral without Science or Mathematics: The Engineering Method Explained
5 mo on HNstring theory lied to us and now science communication is hard
5 mo on HNWhy Greatness Cannot Be Planned — Kenneth Stanley
5 mo on HNThe man who almost faked his way to a Nobel Prize
5 mo on HNFuture Computers Will Be Radically Different (Analog Computing)
5 mo on HNPenn and Teller on Vaccinations
5 mo on HNRichard Feynman on Pseudoscience
5 mo on HNRichard Feynman. Why.
4 mo on HNA Brief History of Quantum Mechanics - with Sean Carroll
4 mo on HNIntroduction: The Chemical History of a Candle by Michael Faraday (1/6)
4 mo on HN31 Hamming, Learning to Learn: You and Your Research, 6 June 1995
4 mo on HNFeynman: What things really are like FUN TO IMAGINE 1
5 mo on HNThe mathematics of weight loss | Ruben Meerman | TEDxQUT (edited version)
3 mo on HNHamming, Intro to The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (March 28, 1995)
4 mo on HN