Learning & Mastery
Lectures, courses and experts who make difficult things inviting.
Programs in this channel
92NY
92NY's second YouTube channel. For more, visit our main channel: youtube.com/92ndStreetY
Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute is a global nonprofit organization committed to realizing a free, just, and equitable society. Founded in 1949, the Institute drives change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the most important challenges facing the United States and the world.
We ignite human potential to build understanding and create new possibilities for a better world.
http://www.aspeninstitute.org
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Big Think
Big Think exists to make you smarter, faster. Through conversations with the world’s brightest thinkers, we bring you the ideas shaping the future of science, philosophy, culture, and the human mind. Our library of thousands of videos distills complex insight into clear, actionable wisdom for how to think, work, and live in a changing world.
Meet legendary teachers like philosopher Daniel Dennett, physicist Brian Cox, classicist Mary Beard, psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, political scientist Ian Bremmer, anthropologist Helen Fisher, and hundreds more — all sharing the ideas that define our time and the questions that will shape our future.
Gresham College
Gresham College was founded in 1597 and has been providing free lectures in the City of London for over 400 years.
This four-century-old tradition continues today with three or more lectures a week available to watch on YouTube and our website.
Gresham College is able to continue to offer free public lectures thanks to the generosity of our supporters. We believe that everyone should have the opportunity to learn from some of the greatest minds. To support Gresham's mission, please consider making a donation: https://www.gresham.ac.uk/support/
Harvard University
Welcome to Harvard University! We share videos about life and learning that takes place here on campus and around the world. At Harvard we are devoted to excellence in teaching, learning, and research, and to developing leaders who make a difference globally. Our three main campuses—in Cambridge, Allston, and Boston, Massachusetts—are a home to students and faculty, a hub of research and innovation, and a destination for visitors from all over the world.
Established in 1636, Harvard is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States and today consists of the undergraduate Harvard College, 12 graduate and professional Schools, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study.
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Institute for New Economic Thinking
The world’s library for anyone interested in economics.
Economics has long been the domain of the ivory tower, where specialized language and opaque theorems make it inaccessible to most people. Enough is enough.
Featuring series, animations, interviews, courses, and conferences, we have created this public good for the global community. INET Video is tearing down barriers and empowering everyone to hold their world accountable.
Where will your journey start?
LSE
We're a world-leading university, unique in our dedication to the social sciences.
Mel Robbins
Mel Robbins is the creator and host of The Mel Robbins Podcast, one of the most successful podcasts in the world, and a #1 New York Times bestselling author. She has 40M followers and is known globally for practical tools on mindset and behavior change. The Wall Street Journal calls her a “billion-view podcaster,” and TIME says she gives millions “a reason to believe in themselves.”
Her books are published in 63 languages. The Let Them Theory is a #1 bestseller across every major list and a top-selling book of 2025 with more than 10M copies sold. She also wrote The 5 Second Rule and The High 5 Habit, and has seven #1 Audible releases.
Her company, 143 Studios, produces award-winning podcasts, books, courses, and events for partners like Starbucks, Ulta Beauty, JP Morgan Chase, LinkedIn, and Audible. She has been honored by TIME 100 Digital Voices, Forbes 50 Over 50, USA Today, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and The Hollywood Reporter.
MIT OpenCourseWare
A free and open online publication of educational material from thousands of MIT courses, covering the entire MIT curriculum, ranging from introductory to the most advanced graduate courses. On the OCW website, each course includes a syllabus, instructional material like notes and reading lists, and learning activities like assignments and solutions. Some courses also have videos, online textbooks, and faculty insights on teaching.
Knowledge is your reward. There's no signup or enrollment, and no start or end dates. OCW is self-paced learning at its best.
Whether you’re a student, a teacher, or simply a curious person that wants to learn, MIT OpenCourseWare (OCW) offers a wealth of insight, inspiration, videos, and a whole lot more!
Get the full picture on the OCW website at https://ocw.mit.edu.
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National Gallery
Journey through the story of art in the Western European tradition. Watch the National Gallery in London's official YouTube channel to discover the stories behind the world’s greatest paintings and artists from the 13th to early 20th centuries. Enjoy behind-the-scenes videos from conservation to art handling, interviews with leading art experts, live recordings of talks and events, and insights into our latest exhibitions.
New York Public Library
The New York Public Library's mission is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities.
NPTEL
Hey there👋🏻! My name is Armagaan. I'm a PhD student at the IIT Delhi researching explainable graph machine learning. This is my channel for NPTEL live sessions.
Portfolio: https://armagaan.github.io GitHub: https://github.com/armagaan LinkedIn: https://in.linkedin.com/in/burouj-armgaan
Perimeter Institute
Perimeter Institute is a world-leading center for theoretical physics, dedicated to unraveling the deepest mysteries of the universe. Through groundbreaking research, innovative training programs, and inspiring outreach initiatives, we bring together brilliant minds from around the globe to explore space, time, matter, and beyond.
Founded with the vision of fostering collaboration and pushing the boundaries of human knowledge, Perimeter is a place where curiosity thrives, and transformative ideas take shape. Learn more here: https://perimeterinstitute.ca/about-perimeter-institute
Princeton University
Princeton University is a vibrant community of learning that endeavors to fulfill its informal motto, "in the nation's service and the service of humanity." Founded in 1746, Princeton now has a population of more than 5,500 undergraduates and more than 3,250 graduate students.
Santa Fe Institute
Our researchers endeavor to understand and unify the underlying, shared patterns in complex physical, biological, social, cultural, technological, and even possible astrobiological worlds. Our global research network of scholars spans borders, departments, and disciplines, unifying curious minds steeped in rigorous logical, mathematical, and computational reasoning. As we reveal the unseen mechanisms and processes that shape these evolving worlds, we seek to use this understanding to promote the well-being of humankind and of life on earth.
Learn more at https://santafe.edu
Simons Foundation
The Simons Foundation’s mission is to advance the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences.
Co-founded in New York City by Jim and Marilyn Simons, the foundation exists to support basic — or discovery-driven — scientific research undertaken in the pursuit of understanding the phenomena of our world.
The Simons Foundation’s support of science takes two forms: We support research by making grants to individual investigators and their projects through academic institutions, and, with the launch of the Flatiron Institute in 2016, we now conduct scientific research in-house, supporting teams of top computational scientists.
Stanford
From its founding in California in the late 19th century until today, Stanford has been infused with the American West’s spirit of openness and possibility. We believe strongly in the mission of higher education – to create and share knowledge and to prepare students to be curious, to think critically, and to contribute to the world. With world-class scholars and seven schools located together on a single campus, Stanford offers academic excellence across the broadest array of disciplines. It also is an engine of innovation, blending theory and practice to move ideas and discoveries from labs and classrooms out into the world. We strive to foster a culture of expansive inquiry, fresh thinking, searching discussion, and freedom of thought – preparing students for leadership and engaged citizenship in the world.
Talks at Google
Talks at Google is a leader in the corporate interview series space, providing a platform for influential thinkers, creators, makers and doers to tell us about their work, their lives and what drives them to shape our world. We host talks virtually and physically across 30+ Google offices worldwide, and often record and release these talks publicly.
Subscribe to our audio-only "Talks at Google" podcast everywhere podcasts are found via https://linktr.ee/talksatgoogle.
DISCLAIMER: The views or opinions expressed by the guest speakers are solely their own and do not necessarily represent the views or opinions of Google, Inc. The comments on this channel belong only to the person who posted them. We do, however, reserve the right to remove off-topic or inappropriate comments.
The Great Courses
Welcome to The Great Courses on YouTube.
The Great Courses is the streaming home of over 20,000 lectures from the world’s greatest professors and experts on history, science, religion, literature, health, travel, and more. Always ad-free, The Great Courses is the place to experience the pure joy of learning—anytime, anywhere.
Enjoyed one of our free lectures? Want to learn even more about what you love? Visit thegreatcourses.com and never stop learning with our complete catalog of engaging, enriching courses and lectures.
The Long Now Foundation
Launched by Stewart Brand in 02003, Long Now Talks has invited more than 400 leading thinkers to share their civilization-scale ideas with a live audience and millions around the globe tuning in to our podcast and videos. Long Now Talks are brought to you by The Long Now Foundation, which has spent the last 25 years igniting cultural imagination around long-term thinking.
By inspiring thought and conversation about how we've been shaped by the last 10,000 years and what might be in store for us over the next 10,000 years, Long Now Talks seek to expand our collective sense of the present moment. Long Now Talks cover futurism and speculative fiction; time, nature, and contemplative practices; the intersection of the humanities and sciences; the evolution of counterculture to cyberculture; cultural imagination, land art and public monuments; and, of course, long-term thinking and being a good ancestor.
The Royal Institution
Explosive short films, full length talks from the world’s leading scientists and writers, and videos to challenge the way you look at the world.
The Royal Institution is a 200 year old independent charity creating opportunities for the public and scientists to explore science together, through events, education, and the CHRISTMAS LECTURES.
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The Royal Institution of Great Britain is a registered charity, number: 227938.
The Royal Society
The Royal Society is a Fellowship of the world's most eminent scientists and is the oldest scientific academy in continuous existence.
We aim to recognise, promote, and support excellence in science and to encourage the development and use of science for the benefit of humanity.
University of Cambridge
Films by the University Of Cambridge Museums and Botanic Garden - eight internationally important university museums - from art to zoology. www.museums.cam.ac.uk
University of Chicago
The University of Chicago is one of the world’s leading academic and research institutions, which has driven new ways of thinking since its founding in 1890. As an intellectual destination for students and scholars, UChicago provides a distinctive educational experience, while empowering scholars to challenge conventional thinking and pursue field-defining research that helps solve some of the world’s most complex problems.
University of Oxford
Watch lectures, learn how to apply, and hear stories about the research, students and staff of this incredible university.
Oxford was the first University in the English-speaking world. Our aim is to remain at the forefront of centres of learning, teaching and research. Students from more than a hundred and forty countries and territories make up a student population of over twenty thousand.
World Science Festival
Watch long and short-form videos on nearly every science-related topic including physics, biology, the brain, robotics, medicine, space, engineering, and the Earth. We gather great minds in science and the arts to produce live and digital content that allows a broad general audience to engage with scientific discoveries. Through discussions, debates, original films, lectures, and intimate salons, the World Science Festival takes science out of the laboratory and out into world.
The World Science Festival is a production of the World Science Foundation, a 501c3 non-profit headquartered in New York City. Our mission is to cultivate a general public informed by science, inspired by its wonder, convinced of its value, and prepared to engage with its implications for the future.
YaleCourses
Yale's philosophy of teaching and learning begins with the aim of training a broadly based, highly disciplined intellect without specifying in advance how that intellect will be used. The Yale Courses channel provides entry into the core of the University--its classrooms and academic programs--including complete sets of lectures from the Open Yale Courses initiative. Complementary syllabi, transcripts, and other resources may also be accessed from the Open Yale Courses website listed below.
Lewis Howes
Lewis Howes is a 3x New York Times best-selling author, 2x All-American athlete, keynote speaker, and entrepreneur. The School of Greatness shares inspiring interviews from the most successful people on the planet—world-renowned leaders in business, entertainment, sports, science, health, and literature—to inspire YOU to unlock your inner greatness and live your best life.
Visit him on: https://lewishowes.com/ Listen to the podcast: https://link.chtbl.com/main-yt Text Lewis: https://greatness.lnk.to/chatYT
Musora
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Drumeo
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Extra Medium Stuff
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Rick Beato
Everything Music
Tom Scott
Hi, I'm Tom Scott. These are some of the things I've made and done. They'll probably come back to haunt me in a few years' time.
Contact me: https://www.tomscott.com/contact/
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Map Men
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TED
The TED Talks channel features the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes (or less) — plus originals, podcasts and exclusive content. Look for videos on Technology, Entertainment and Design as well as science, business, global issues, the arts and more.
Visit https://TED.com for our entire library, transcripts, translations and personalized recommendations.
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David Bennett Music Theory
I'm a pianist, songwriter and music lover creating music and educational videos about music theory.
Adam Neely
Video essays, lessons and vlogs on new horizons in music and music theory. NYC-based bass player and composer Adam Neely brings you a new video every Monday exploring what music means, and what it means to be a musician.
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