here's a list of some of the most consistently awesome and creative science storytellers,

explainers and teachers that I've encountered online - it's by no means exhaustive and there's

a lot more great science content out there, but this is what consistently catches my attention!

xkcd and the spinoff blog, "xkcd what if?" set a gold standard to which I continually

aspire. The comic Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal tears science down in a sometimes-innapropriate-for-children

but always hilariously nerdy way.

Empirical Zeal is an eminently understandable blog about physics - Which Sean Carroll also

writes about. He's sometimes technical, but also deep and insightful. Terry Tao has a

seriously technical - and I mean seriously - but also fascinating blog about pure mathematics.

Tumblr and facebook have their places, too, with It's Ok To Be Smart and I pilcrow hash

at asterisk-ing love science. And since long before tumblr, The NASA Astronomy

picture of the day has been a consistently awe-inspiring window onto the universe.

Radiolab is science radio at its best. You might even go so far as to say it's radio

at its best that just happens to be about science. If you want to get your hands dirty,

Hyper Physics is basically a condensed encyclopedia of high school or early college-level physics.

The Scale of Universe is a modern-day interactive version of the classic "powers of ten" film

and it shows you just how big and how small things in the universe really are. Finally,

Microsoft has finally gotten itself a point in my book for digitally hosting "The Character

of Physical Law", a wonderful series of lectures given by Richard Feynman in 1964.

Of course, what about youtube? Well, for physics there's Veritasium and Sixty Symbols; for

chemistry check out Periodic Videos or Crash Course; for zoology and the lives of dead

animals there's The Brain Scoop; for real and hands on science visit Smarter Every Day;

Vi Hart will wow you with beautiful mathematics and George Hart will build beautiful mathematics

and Numberphile will remind you that there are numbers in math, too. For generally random

cool facts try Vsauce or TED Ed. And in case you need a breather from it all, Fake Science

is a good reminder that sometimes science is a bit too important to be taken seriously.

I've included links to all these great creators in the video description, but beware - they

bring procrastination!