The Best of YouTube (According to Open Culture)

Maybe you have noticed. (Or maybe you haven’t.) Almost every YouTube video fea­tured on Open Cul­ture can be accessed through our YouTube Chan­nel. You’ll find about 225 videos over­all, and they run the gamut. Intel­li­gent lec­tures, artis­tic videos, com­ic bits, sci­en­tif­ic explo­rations, his­tor­i­cal footage – they’re all here. And, if you sub­scribe to our YouTube chan­nel, you’ll get noti­fied when we add new videos down the road. Now, let me give you fif­teen of my per­son­al favorites, and if you have your own YouTube faves, please send them our way. We’d love to share the great ones with our read­ers.

• Richard Dawkins on the Awe of Life & Sci­ence
• Picas­so’s Guer­ni­ca Ani­mat­ed in 3D
• The Only Exist­ing Video of Anne Frank
• Robert Sapol­sky on the Unique­ness of Humans
• Stand by Me Trav­els Around the World
• Randy Pausch’s Last Lec­ture: Achiev­ing Your Child­hood Dreams
• Mal­colm X at Oxford Uni­ver­si­ty
• Steve Jobs Speaks to Stan­ford Grad­u­ates
• Women in Art
• Mark Twain Filmed by Thomas Edi­son in 1909
• The Bayeux Tapes­try Ani­mat­ed
• My Stroke of Insight
• Hub­ble Deep Field: The Most Impor­tant Image Ever Tak­en
• The Mon­ty Python Phi­los­o­phy Foot­ball Match
• Ira Glass on the Art of Sto­ry­telling