When I was growing up, we had discovery channel. That sparked my intrinsic curiousity. My daughter has that intrinsic motivation as well, but only for k-pop now. She likes youtube videos and she likes when I tell her about science stuff. Maybe I can combine that by recommending her some good youtube channels.
Lots of great recommendations already, but I haven’t seen mention of Nebula, and I was looking for something like it last year.
I’m not affiliated with Nebula, I’m just a fan.
I look for ways to support creators more while supporting Google less, and Nebula is my favorite for science video creators, at the moment.
Some of the creators recommended here also post to Nebula with ad-free versions of the same videos and with a little bit of extra content (think DVD bonus features) - slightly longer videos, sometimes extra or extended interviews with interesting people.
And pretty much any creator who is on Nebula will say so at some point in their YouTube videos.