I’m kinda surprised no one’s mentioned them yet; but if you wanted a long-winded version of Tom Scott with a focus on technologies, take a look at Technology Connections

Jago Hazard

Technology connections

The B1M

Kurtzgesagt

Colin Furze

• Vsauce
• Veritasum
• Adam Savage
• Stuff made here
• Mark Rober
• Rex Krueger
• Wisecrack

Some suggestions I haven’t seen yet, not all of which perfectly map with Tom Scott but are still good! At least the first five of these are also available on Nebula.

• Answers with Joe (starring Joe Scott. No relation, but a similar name!)

• Wendover / Half as Interesting (two channels with a different vibe, but the same guy)

• Mustard (cool airplane and other vehicle stuff)

• Innuendo Studios

• Legal Eagle

• SciShow

• Shaun (basically a podcast, but the guy is quite smart and he does a fantastic job considering how boring he sounds! 😂)

• Hbomberguy

That’s a persistent itch.

Here are two channels I think Tom’s viewers would appreciate.

Alexis Dahl makes interesting videos on history, science and life in Michigan.

The Tim Traveller makes ridiculous, yet strangely informative videos about locations all over Europe.

Both channels consistently provide answers to questions I hadn’t thought to ask. Both do it with a genuine sense of wonder and a lot of heart.

I never discovered Tom Scott until his announcement that he was taking a break which many other channels made videos on. Looking through them, as well as seeing the suggestions, I can kind of get the gist of the channel. Suggestions I haven’t seen yet:

Climate Town - climate and environment related

Rebecca Watson - science and critical thinking

ContraPoints - philosophy related

Adam Conover - Currently more politically oriented but Adam Ruins Everything was more general

Make sure you subscribe to his newsletter if you haven’t yet. He often shares interesting finds from the internet and videos worth watching about all sorts of topics.

I heard Cary Huang (known on YouTube as carykh) does some cool STEM related stuff, and… I guess some kind of live competition as well? It’s too late for you to join it though.

I was going to edit my other response but I’ll just make a new one so OP sees it.

Calum Raasay , out of Scotland, makes some outstanding historo-scientific videos. He travels around quite a bit too.

Another that I haven’t seen mentioned is Our Own Devices , he actually used to write for Simon Whistler. Most of his videos are shot in-studio, like Technology Connections and Joe Scott, but he also ventures out into the field for special projects. It’s a similar mix to what you’d see on Forgotten Weapons.

Atomic Frontier is in a somewhat similar vein, though his uploads aren’t as frequent, they are of good quality.

The CBC has a really great series called “About That” and the vulgarisation is on a whole other level.

It’s geared around Canadian news and politics half of the time but it covers international events as well.

It scratches that itch, just on much more current topics.

The phrase “Tom Scott itch” makes me think of an itchy butthole. Not sure if that was intended, but that’s how I took it

Mark “Hyce” Huber is a major rail fan, and does a bunch of related stuff. Works at a railroad museum, used to work for a modern freight railroad, has been involved in the rail sim world, and does educational, usually railroad and train-based videos on the Google video scented advertising platform.

Hyce and some of his buddies actually borrow the format of Citation Needed/Two Of These People Are Lying during their “3/4 of an idiot show.” Just watch out for the Mystery Citrus!

engineerguy

Bill Hammack does less travel/outdoors content, but similarly explains Science in a clear manner.

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Who the hell is Tom Scott?