PBS Idea Channel

Here's an idea: what about we take a break from all the acoustic covers, trailers, tutorials, cat videos, vlogs and home-made animation clips made by and for sociopaths that we find on YouTube, and talk about an Idea Channel instead?
Not many people want or look for them because of distracting videos such as the Annoying Orange ones, but there is a good number of channels on YouTube that are more than just public journals. And one particular channel, from this pool of choices, has caught my attention so heavily that I'm ready to sacrifice all my expensive internet data away for it.
PBS Idea Channel is a web series brought to us via PBS Arts, the online initiative of PBS that aims to foster the general populace's interest and participation in the arts. The Idea Channel posts a video every week on various ideas that are relevant to pop-culture. And in these videos, Mike Rugnetta, with the help of his team and various pop-up references, dissects and examines various everyday phenomena that we might love, hate or simply have generalised notions about -- bringing art and technology in the context.
So we end up with a string of videos in which Mike talks about how we all might be a modern-day hipster more or less, how Google might really be knowledge, how Facebook might be changing our identity, how pop-music might be holding us hostages and so much more. And while some of the ideas might sound like conspiracy theories right away, this channel is a very good tool for us to simply contemplate the things we think we know so much about.
A lot of things Mike talks about might seem very simple and known to all. But he breaks them down and tries to replace visceral notions with reasons. As logically as possible and with a good number of references from the ideas of well- known philosophers, economists and anthropologists, these videos shed light on the things we've culturally been led to believe and also the changes that we're adapting to because of technology's advent into our everyday lives. He talks very, very fast and it almost seems impossible at first to follow the train of words and names that escape his mouth. But by the end of the video, we still end up understanding the gist of the idea, thanks to the pop-up videos and images all around his face and his ridiculous oratory skills. And in an average of 7 minutes, we can learn about terms like 'Culture Capital' and how it's related to why we really dislike hipsters but not nerds and geeks as much. Take the bold step to click on the video 'Is Math a Feature of the Universe or a Feature of Human Creation', and you might end up learning things you never thought you had the intellectual capacity or attention span to learn.
Compact, interactive and ridiculously hosted to keep you interested till the end, these videos are bound to make you wonder if YouTube is making us smarter in subject matters other than make-up and cooking. Which reminds me, there is also a video on this very same idea.
I would recommend this channel to all of us who would like to make some space in our heads for different ideas, whether it to be to support, refute or simply just think about them. And you never know, one of these days, Mike could be dissecting an idea you might have suggested to him or be highlighting your argument on an idea.