The index
Selections we have already made
Grouped by subject, in English and in French. Each one is a short ordered list with a reason beside every video. They are free to watch, always, and no Pass is needed. Open one and it ends when it ends.
68 Selections showing, in 15 subjects
Video games
13 Selections
Esports and playing at the top
10 videos, 10 h 50
10 videos on how competitive gaming is organised, where the scenes came from, and what the best play actually looks…
Game design, explained by people who do it
10 videos, 3 h 22
10 videos on why some games feel good in the hand and others do not. Mechanics, level design, feedback, and the choices…
Games worth thinking about
10 videos, 4 h 03
10 essays that treat games as things worth arguing over. Space, difficulty, violence, and what a game is for.
Glitches, and how games break
10 videos, 4 h 32
10 videos that go into the code and show exactly why a famous bug happens. No hand-waving, just the routine that…
How game graphics actually work
10 videos, 6 h 37
10 videos on how a game turns maths into a picture 60 times a second, and how to judge whether it did it well.
How video games are actually made
10 videos, 7 h 55
10 videos on how a game gets built, from the production pipeline to studios talking about their own work. Start with…
Learn to make a game from nothing
10 videos, 7 h 37
10 videos for someone who has never opened an engine. Pick one engine, follow it to a finished thing, then come back…
Les jeux vidéo, expliqués
10 vidéos, 6 h 14
En français
10 vidéos qui prennent un jeu au sérieux : ce qu'il tente, ce qu'il réussit, ce qu'il rate. Des analyses argumentées…
Nintendo, taken apart
10 videos, 8 h 15
10 videos on how Nintendo thinks. Mario's levels, Zelda's dungeons and open world, and the odd corners of Super Mario…
Retro consoles and how they worked
10 videos, 2 h 11
10 videos on the machines themselves. What was inside an NES, a Game Boy or a PlayStation, and what those chips could…
Speedrunning, explained properly
10 videos, 10 h 44
10 videos on how records get broken, why the glitches work, and what the people chasing them are actually doing.
The stories behind famous games
10 videos, 5 h 12
10 videos on what went wrong, what got cut and what nearly sank the game before release. Told mostly by the people who…
The history of video games, arcade to now
10 videos, 12 h 20
10 videos tracing games from coin-operated cabinets to the industry we have now, including the crash that nearly ended…
Money and work
8 Selections
Comprendre l'inflation en 20 minutes
8 vidéos, 1 h 45
En français
De la définition à la zone euro, sans vous demander de croire un chiffre.
Comprendre son argent
10 vidéos, 4 h 54
En français
10 vidéos sur la monnaie, l'épargne et les fonds indiciels. On part du fonctionnement de l'économie, on arrive au choix…
How inflation actually works
8 videos, 59 min
8 videos from what inflation is, to how it is measured, to how it is fought.
Why prices move and what a central bank does
8 videos, 59 min
8 videos on the part of economics that reaches your bank account: inflation, interest rates, how it is measured, and…
Why prices rise, in about an hour
7 videos, 1 h 03
7 short videos, from the news version to how banks create money. Two central banks, one newspaper and Khan Academy, in…
Investing explained without a sales pitch
10 videos, 7 h 16
10 videos on what stocks and bonds actually are, why index funds won the argument, and how professionals value a…
How the first customers actually arrive
10 videos, 4 h 41
10 videos on picking an idea, talking to the people who might pay, and selling before you have a brand. Mostly Y…
The money basics nobody sat you down for
6 videos, 59 min
6 videos on the savings buffer, your credit score and the cost of waiting. Plain arithmetic, no products being sold to…
Cooking
7 Selections
Bread from a jar of flour and water
9 videos, 1 h 38
9 videos taking you from a starter on the counter to a shaped, baked loaf. Bakers who show the dough at every stage…
Good cooking with cheap ingredients
8 videos, 2 h 23
8 videos about technique over recipes, so cheap ingredients stop tasting cheap.
Cook the dishes properly, wherever they came from
10 videos, 1 h 23
10 videos on Chinese stir fries, Korean kimchi, Japanese home kitchens and the smoothest hummus anyone has managed…
Cook without reading a recipe
10 videos, 2 h 41
10 videos on the technique underneath recipes: how vegetables behave, what washing rice does, how to build a soup, how…
Hold the knife properly and the rest gets easier
10 videos, 1 h 38
10 videos on cutting, sharpening and the small habits that make home cooking faster. Start with the onion and end with…
Mieux cuisiner chez soi
8 vidéos, 33 min
En français
8 recettes filmées par des cuisiniers français et québécois, du plat rapide de semaine à la pâtisserie de dimanche.
Sourdough bread, start to finish
7 videos, 1 h 13
Grow a starter, learn 1 loaf properly, then fix the step that quietly ruins it.
Cars and machines
5 Selections
Change a bike chain, without guessing
8 videos, 52 min
8 videos in the order the job actually happens: check, route, measure, cut, install, tension.
What is happening under the car
10 videos, 2 h 09
10 videos on the mechanisms a car hides: clutch, gearbox, differential, hydraulics, carburettor. Animations, cutaways…
Why the machine is shaped like that
10 videos, 2 h 14
10 videos on engines, aircraft and dams, taking each apart to show why every choice was made. Animation and failure…
Keep the car going without a garage
10 videos, 3 h 05
10 videos on the maintenance you can do on a driveway: brakes, fluids, torque, and the diagnosis when it will not…
Réparer son vélo, les bases
8 vidéos, 1 h 03
En français
Crevaison, transmission, dérailleur, freins : les 4 pannes qui vous immobilisent vraiment.
Home and repair
5 Selections
The pipes and the taps, explained by plumbers
10 videos, 1 h 34
10 videos on the plumbing in your own walls: the whole system first, then the running toilet, the dripping tap and the…
Bricoler et réparer soi-même
5 vidéos, 30 min
En français
5 vidéos de bricoleurs français sur des gestes précis : percer, réparer une fuite, remplacer une pièce. Chaque geste…
Fix a dripping tap yourself
8 videos, 44 min
Find out which kind of tap you own, then stop the drip with hand tools.
Fix it yourself before you call anyone
10 videos, 2 h 01
10 videos on the repairs a house asks for most: holes in walls, cracked ceilings, perished sealant, the heating. Trade…
Start woodworking with the tools you can afford
10 videos, 4 h 37
10 videos that take you from an empty corner of the garage to a box with cut dovetails. Cheap tools, real projects, no…
History
5 Selections
The fall of Constantinople, in about 20 minutes
8 videos, 1 h 46
8 videos that set up the walls, walk the siege, then tell you what changed afterwards.
Why Rome fell, in one evening
6 videos, 2 h 07
6 videos that start with the short answer, spend the middle on the century that did the damage, and end with a…
How the pyramids were actually built
5 videos, 2 h 22
5 videos on the ramps, the labour and the logistics, from a five-minute primer to two full archaeology episodes. No…
How the Second World War started
4 videos, 7 h 22
4 videos on the twenty years before 1939 and the twelve months after it. The last one runs three and a half hours on…
L'histoire racontée simplement
10 vidéos, 5 h 31
En français
10 vidéos d'historiens et de vulgarisateurs français, qui racontent une période et disent d'où vient ce qu'ils savent.
Science
5 Selections
What animals are actually doing
10 videos, 2 h 19
10 videos on how animals fight, eat and cheat each other, filmed at macro scale or argued from real biology. Funny…
Apprendre avec les sciences
6 vidéos, 2 h 10
En français
6 vidéos de vulgarisateurs français qui expliquent une idée et montrent comment ils la vérifient. On commence par les…
Chemistry with the lid off
10 videos, 2 h 42
10 videos where the reaction happens on camera, filmed close and slow. An explainer first, then the real thing in a…
Maths, shown rather than stated
10 videos, 2 h 54
10 videos that build calculus and linear algebra from pictures instead of rules. If school maths felt like memorising…
Physics that changes what you see
10 videos, 2 h 25
10 videos on gravity, electricity, light and relativity, from people who build the experiments. Every video fixes a…
Computers and AI
4 Selections
How these models actually work
10 videos, 5 h 13
10 videos on what a neural network is, how it learns, and how a language model turns text into more text. Maths shown…
Comment marche un ordinateur
7 vidéos, 3 h 18
En français
7 vidéos sur ce qui se passe sous l'écran : les langages, les serveurs, la sécurité, et les métiers qui vont avec.
Inside the machine on your desk
10 videos, 3 h 59
10 videos that open a computer down to the transistor and put it back together. Animated teardowns, not block diagrams.
Your first working program
10 videos, 11 h 54
10 videos for someone who has never written code. A full course, several quick tours, and honest advice about what…
Space
4 Selections
Black holes, explained without maths
8 videos, 1 h 41
8 videos that explain black holes with pictures, light paths and time, not equations.
Getting to the Moon, and back
5 videos, 5 h 36
5 videos on eleven years of engineering: the overview, the near-disasters, the rivalry that paid for it, and Apollo 11…
L'espace, expliqué sans équations
10 vidéos, 2 h 44
En français
10 vidéos sur la forme de l'univers et sur les trous noirs, dans l'ordre où les questions se posent. On part de…
What is actually out there
10 videos, 3 h 19
10 videos on the solar system, the things that could hit it, and the questions astronomers still argue about. Start at…
Health and the body
3 Selections
What the medicine is doing
10 videos, 59 min
10 videos on vaccines, painkillers and antibiotics, from clinicians and science publishers. What each does in the body…
The body you are sitting in
10 videos, 1 h 44
10 videos on the heart, the lungs, the gut and the brain, using real anatomy and clear animation. No jargon left…
Sleep, stress and what they do to you
10 videos, 4 h 22
10 videos on why sleep is not optional, what long stress does to a brain, and what reliably helps. Researchers first…
Climate and energy
3 Selections
Climate, without the shouting
10 videos, 2 h 29
10 videos on where the warming comes from, who is responsible, and which fixes are real. Numbers on screen, no despair…
How a heat pump actually works, in under 20 minutes
8 videos, 1 h 34
8 videos that build up from the box on the wall to the cycle moving heat inside it.
Le climat et l'énergie, chiffres en main
4 vidéos, 5 h 31
En français
4 vidéos qui posent les ordres de grandeur avant les opinions : d'où vient l'électricité, ce que coûte chaque source…
Music
2 Selections
Philosophy and ideas
2 Selections
La philosophie sans jargon
8 vidéos, 3 h 28
En français
8 vidéos qui posent une thèse philosophique, la mettent à l'épreuve, puis disent ce qu'elle demande de vous.
Philosophy in plain words
10 videos, 1 h 40
10 videos on the thinkers people quote and rarely read. Each states the argument, then what it asks of you.
Chess and strategy games
1 Selection
Documentaries
1 Selection
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