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Épisode 68 - May 23rd: Miniature Soccer Team

24 mai 2007

In which Hank sings a song to the Yeti and then shows off his new Nerd Fighters shirt. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (') HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 92 - July 18: Accio Deathly Hallows (no spoilers)

18 juillet 2007

Buy this song on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=303875716&id=303875663&s=143441 Song lyrics: I'm gettin kinda tired of this prepublication media blitz they've got all of muggle kind under their spell don't they know the whole world's already gone and reserved a copy from amazon how many more books could you sell? Just give me that book or go to hell. {chorus} Cause I need ... Harry Potter Like a grindylow needs water as Saturday approaches my need grows Accio Deathly Hallows Incendio Book Sales Embargoes It'll feel like phoenix tears on a broken nose Accio deathly hallows Accio deathly hallows I'm getting kinda petrified What would Ron do if Hermione died Or if Voldemort killed Hedwig just for yucks I have no confidence in theories about the half blood prince And what if Harry's brain is a horcrux Holy crap that would frikkin suck. {chorus} {bridge} Whatever's up the sleve of JK Rowling I bet it has to do with snape unbreakably vowing to protect that pureblood pus face Malfoy But in the end I don't think it's gonna matter if Snape's good, or if he's bad because the weight of the world rests on our boy. Yeah the weight of the world rests on our boy {chorus} But mostly I'm just feelin' sad I know this could end real bad but I wish it didn't have to end at all Yeah I wish it didn't have to end at all Cause I couldn't care more about Harry Potter If Hogwarts was my Alma Mater.... It's fantastically easy to play...Chord Progression: Verse: CFCFCFC - CFFGCFC - CF Chorus: C-CFCFG - CFCFCFG - CFC - CFF Bridge: FGCFFGC - FGCFFGC - FF HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 99 - August 1: It's Too Hot

2 août 2007

Buy this song on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=303875722&id=303875663&s=143441 In which Hank Sings a Song, Pours Ice down his Pants, and Sweats a lot. Winekone video (used with permission) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-rcjaBWvx0 LYRICS (approximate) My eyes snap open it's two o' clock I rip off my shirt my pants my socks, something's wrong but I don't know what Then I start to realize There's sweat trickling down my thighs and a fire between the matress and my butt It's too HOOOOT it's to hot in here I'm gonna fall out of my chair If I have another ice cold beer I fogooooot how much it sucks to sweat in bed And I don't want to drink your Iced Tea I think I'll take a bath in it instead It's too hot. Layin' on the floor with my clothes off Silk boxer shorts and a wash cloth Are the only things I'll let touch my skin today Sprayin myself with an upside down air can makin love with the window fan Hopin' the mail man doesn't look in today It's too HOOOOOT It's too hot in this town My will to live is melting and that's what's got me down It's too Hoooot This whole state is on fire I'm an endothermic organism and that's why I perspire It's too Hot The United Nations Says eleven thousand People die of hotness each year The burning sun wants eleven thousand and one It seems to be drawing near Sweating in my basement all alone watching hotness prevails by the wine cone Sympathizing with my favorite youtube star How could anyone be so deranged To not believe in climate change. It's 102 in Montana in the Dark It's too HOOOOOT I'm Doing a funny dance Cause I bought a bag of ice cubes andI put them in my pants It's to HOOOT It's too hot in here Before I pass out please pass me my beer It's too hot. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 105 - August 13: The Fair!!!!

14 août 2007

In which Hank gives you a crash course through the Western Montana Fair. And then discusses Stephen Colbert and Waxings. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (') HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 107 - August 15: Getting Featured on YouTube

16 août 2007

In which Hank sings a song about a song about a book about a wizard. LYRICS C-Am-F-G One tuesday the phone rang while I was in bed but I wasn't really interested in what my brother said he said front page front page front PAGE HOLY CRAP and I was like DOOOOD I'm takin' a frikkin nap C-Am-C-F But then I realized and I ran to my laptop and I stared at in in shock F-G-C Holycrap I got featured on youtube I stared at my face, staring back at me my eyes were wide my mouth agape I clicked on it to see and I felt so elated my vid was highly rated Though my pronunciation debated I was happy I created Something so many people would see And laugh at me And that's what it's like to get featured on youtube. BRIDGE F-C-G You know I always hoped this would happen And I thought that song might be our chance Next [F]thing I [G]knew [C]30,000 [F]people had [F]watched me do my [G]happy [C]dance. I want to hug every girl and guy that clicked on subscribe It was watched over seven hundred thousand times your comments got me to the most discussed page even if 20% of you said I was lame or gay But now I know, I'll never be that famous Ever again I just want to say thank you and I want to say thank you to youtube HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 117 - September 5th: I'm Gonna Kill You

6 septembre 2007

Buy this song on iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?i=303875719&id=303875663&s=143441 Visit http://www.brotherhood2.com In which Hank sings a song about being annoyed...and homicidal. Lyrics: Hello Evil Lady at the grocery store it seems that you don't know what the express lane's for It says twelve items or less But you're exempt from that I guess And your Don't make me kill you over twenty five cents I'll give you a freakin quarter if it makes that much difference And you just remembered something you forgot to get OK... that's it, I'm gonna kill you That's right I'm gonna kill you and possibly your whole family too All I want is some courtesy some kindness and maybe an apology If you don't get out of my grocery line I'll do scorpion's fatality and rip out your spine I'm usually a very peaceful person but I'm gonna kill you I just wrote a note to a guy down the street who recently invested in a giant SUV it said "I hope you know that we're fightin' a war so you can get your fat ass home from the grocery store If you don't trade it in, I'm gonna kill you" Yeah I'm gonna kill you with a car bomb in your H2 I don't think it'd be too much to ask for you to be a bit less of an ass I suggest you reinvest in a Honda Fit If you don't, you're gonna regret it I'm usually a very peaceful person, but I'm gonna kill you It's 3:00 AM and my neighbor upstairs is actually worse than my worst nightmares He had some friends over for some late-night Red Rover And now...yeah...they're practicing tap dance Yeah I'm gonna kill you and all your loud-ass friends too I don't think it'd be too much to ask for you to be a bit less of an ass If I don't get some peace and quiet I'll put you on a strychnine diet I'm usually a very peaceful person but I'm gonna kill you. Chords Verse Am-G-F Am-G-F C-F-G-Am Am-G-F Chorus Am-G-F-Am Am-G-F-Am Am-F-G=Am Am-G-F HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 131 - Oct 3rd: Baby I Sold Your Dog On EBay

4 octobre 2007

Lyrics: (sorry the sound isn't superb) Baby close your eyes and hear the words I say Oh I realize That you're in a lot of pain and I apologize I never wanted it this way, Please...don't cry Baby I sold your dog on EBay We both knew that we had bills to pay It was either him or my playstation 2 which doesn't even eat food and will never ever pee on the duvet One day I came home and that dog had escaped he forsook his bone and instead he ate everything I own from the couch to the drapes I called you on the phone And said "I'm selling him on EBay We both know that we've got bills to pay He peed on season 2 of Deep Space 9 That's crossing the line I'm listing the auction today" I put him in a box with some styrofoam peanuts a bag of kibble and a couple of milk bones the guy online paid for overnight shipping so the very next day he was in buffalo Please don't cry... ... He is frikkin ugly like a walking ball of fuzz and he poops constantly more than any other dog does but we won't have to worry about it anymore because please listen tome Yeah I sold you dog on ebay we both knew that we had bills to pay I got a hundred fifty dollars for that mutt that peed all over my floor and I know they'll be hell topay we had bills to pay so I sold her dog on ebay I told her "you have got to understand it yeah, he could sit but he absolutely couldn't stay." HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 151 - November 8th: SUGAR HIGH!

9 novembre 2007

In which Hank surprises John with the awesomeness of homemade peeps from Nerdfighter Jen. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (') HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 164 - December 5th: The Adorable Cannibal (PG-13)

5 décembre 2007

In which Hank sings a fairly creepy song...and notes that other folks are now doing required songs on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/vloglovers http://www.youtube.com/songsfromahat Lyrics: You see I've got these problems and no one can solve them I'm embarrassed just to say it outloud either I'm lovin' you the way I should love food or lovin' food the way I should love you It's just who I am I'm not proud CHORUS but baby you look so good I want to sprinkle you on my food and If I could I would eat you Like a five year old eats glue it used to be that my favorite things in the world were food well they still are but now my favorite food is you. We all love Chinese Lo Mein and Snow Peas Sezuan or Moo shoo but I used to want to procreate with every plate that I ate and that's the difference between me and you I couldn't reject sex even with bad tex mex I once kissed a girlled kangaroo Imagine jon belushi makin' out with sushi well that was me before I met you CHORUS BRIDGE Well I must conclude that when you're nude and recently shampooed that my mood is more suited for you than food my potatoes and carrots they need to be stewed but I want to stew you too CHORUS Baby I promise not to eat you though I can't stop wanting to and I'll try to stop makin' out with food You've helped me lose a lot of weight and that's pretty great just another reason I love you CHORUS CHORDS: Just CGD the whole time...and then sliding the D up the neck for the segways. You can figure it out. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 165 - Dec. 6th: Peer Pressure and the Green Green Manifesto

7 décembre 2007

In which John talks about peer pressure and reducing consumption. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (') HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 172 - December 19: The Day that the Nerds Took Over YouTube

20 décembre 2007

In which Hank and Katherine sing a song about the secret project for awesome! I swear I didn't mean to put buck as the thumbnail!!!! Lyrics: December 17th was the day The Project for Awesome got Underway With a goal to decrease world suck with the help of sXePhil, Nalts and Whatthebuck It was the day that the Nerds took over YouTube They got together too prove That believe it or not Their center screenshot was actually more powerful than two boobs People promoted 300 charities like levees.org, toys for tots and autism speaks Nerdfighters of every race creed and age Commented that shit to the most discussed page It was the day that the nerds took over youtube They got together to proove that believe it or not their center screenshot was actually more powerful than two boobs It was the day that the nerds took over YouTube!!!! HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 203 - ITCHY MUSIC!

17 avril 2008

In which hank talks about his rash...and his music. Why not, right? In order of appearance we have: Shinohara Tomoe: Ultra Relax Kodomo Evangellion: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nsFsgG0ejc Long version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZOzUrkIbE Songs from a Hat, My Scientist: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSBqLheg0Rc Julia Nunes, GDC: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weqtzHp3gmo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OKH4JUtJfPs Seeso, The Song We Never Wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekcSDOYoeQc Gustav, We Shall Overcome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8QGomUXPNQ Kristina from the Parselmouths: http://www.youtube.com/italktosnakes Lauren from The Moaning Myrtles: http://www.youtube.com/devilishlypure Of Montreal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PoJv4N1Too Cotton Fields, Teresa Brewer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVKRfW7OlWE Also, I didn't get to mention: ReinaDelCid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLAwpINKtfA SweetAfton23: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrUwqc0sF7U LaurenOC12: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3379DBKNffs HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 217 - Tetris Day!

2 juin 2008

Donwload the Song! http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/2/947980/Dr.%20Noise%20-%20The%20Tetris%20Piece.mp3 HOW TO FIND YOUR VERSE! Add all the numbers in your birthday. (for me 5+5+80=90) Multiply that number by the first three digits of your area code. And you have your number...mine is 36540. Now take the first number of that number (for me...3) and match it with the key below to find out which verse you need to sing along to. 1 There've been a lot of bad guys in a lot of good video games Bowser and your opponent in pong the pacman ghosts and donkey kong 2 one bad guy stands alone he will never tire he sits there on his blocky throne he'll be there till you die 3 Your fingers may move with blinding speed there may be no game you can't beat but cant you see that no one can defeat the man who throws the Tetris piece 4 Higher Higher No Straight Piece I need a @#&$&%*$&@# Straight piece! 5 Out from the sands he became a man with only one thought and one desire take over all and terrify the weak and believe he's the one we all admire 6 He'll give you everything that you need he'll pretend that he's your friend you see he'll give you everything but what you need the jerk who throws the tetris piece! 7 falling, building, no straight piece waiting, praying, This time please! 8 Buried in ruins, many will fall and wonder what is the point of it all how could one be strong yet so weak as we all wait for him to speak (NO ONE) Levels will come and levels will go I'm unlimited with the shit I throw Now you will bow to me as I speak I'm the man who throws the tetris piece! 9 Never has there been a villain like the man who throws the Tetris piece! HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 218 - Tetris Day!

2 juin 2008

ATTENTION! Bil Martin's email address was listed incorrectly in the last video. It's drnoise, at gmail. Oooops! Download the Song! http://www.fileden.com/files/2007/4/2/947980/Dr.%20Noise%20-%20The%20Tetris%20Piece.mp3 HOW TO FIND YOUR VERSE! Add all the numbers in your birthday. (for me 5+5+80=90) Multiply that number by the first three digits of your area code. And you have your number...mine is 36540. Now take the first number of that number (for me...3) and match it with the key below to find out which verse you need to sing along to. 1 There've been a lot of bad guys in a lot of good video games Bowser and your opponent in pong the pacman ghosts and donkey kong 2 one bad guy stands alone he will never tire he sits there on his blocky throne he'll be there till you die 3 Your fingers may move with blinding speed there may be no game you can't beat but cant you see that no one can defeat the man who throws the Tetris piece 4 Higher Higher No Straight Piece I need a @#&$&%*$&@# Straight piece! 5 Out from the sands he became a man with only one thought and one desire take over all and terrify the weak and believe he's the one we all admire 6 He'll give you everything that you need he'll pretend that he's your friend you see he'll give you everything but what you need the jerk who throws the tetris piece! 7 falling, building, no straight piece waiting, praying, This time please! 8 Buried in ruins, many will fall and wonder what is the point of it all how could one be strong yet so weak as we all wait for him to speak (NO ONE) Levels will come and levels will go I'm unlimited with the shit I throw Now you will bow to me as I speak I'm the man who throws the tetris piece! 9 Never has there been a villain like the man who throws the Tetris piece! HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 248 - The Man Who Throws the Tetris Piece

1 octobre 2008

WATCH IN HIGH QUALITY!!! Thanks so much to Bill Martin for this cover of The Tetris Piece and for putting together this AMAZINGGGNGNGNN VIDEO http://www.myspace.com/hanghigh http://www.youtube.com/doctornoise Dr. Noise Myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/doctornoise Song is available for free download on the Dr. Noise page just as soon as the player decides to update (myspace's new player... oh dear) List of Participants who left their names for me: Rob (Cryptproject) Brittany Toman ChompChomp & YamiChippy Johnny Emily Grogg T. Lurian Ronda Caroline Casey Foraysinflats gr8playrs Ian Maggie Scout X Carly Walker Cat Laura & Samah Joao Faria Daniel Hertz Sophie Emily Jared Sikes Brittany Riley & Kaitlin Borsecnik Christian Hazel Sara & Michelle (from Norway) Natt1017 Nosidam Scarlett Zante Lyrics: There've been a lot of bad guys in a lot of good video games Bowser and your opponent in pong the pacman ghosts and donkey kong one bad guy stands alone he will never tire he sits there on his blocky throne he'll be there till you die Your fingers may move with blinding speed there may be no game you can't beat but cant you see that no one can defeat the man who throws the Tetris piece Higher Higher No Straight Piece I need a @#&$&%*$&@# Straight piece! Out from the sands he became a man with only one thought and one desire take over all and terrify the weak and believe he's the one we all admire He'll give you everything that you need he'll pretend that he's your friend you see he'll give you everything but what you need the jerk who throws the tetris piece! falling, building, no straight piece waiting, praying, This time please! Buried in ruins, many will fall and wonder what is the point of it all how could one be strong yet so weak as we all wait for him to speak Levels will come and levels will go I'm unlimited with the shit I throw Now you will bow to me as I speak I'm the man who throws the tetris piece! Never has there been a villain like the man who throws the Tetris piece! HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 276 - A Christmas Song!

22 décembre 2008

Hank sings a song...about christmas Lyrics + Chords: Oh [C]boys and [G]girls it's [F]that time of [G]year again it's [C]time to show off [F]all our gene[C]rosity to our [G]friends We've been [C]waiting [G]for [F]three hundred [G]sixty four [C]Days in which we've [F]been real good and [C]done all of our [G]chores But I [C]think that it's important that we [F]think of those out there to whom [F]we do not give presents even [G]though we really care 'cause there's [F]just one [G]man who gets [C]nothing each year and it's [F]certainly [G]not because he's been [C]bad how he [F]longs to [G]hear [C]santas [Am]reindeer but he [F]never has and [G]yeah that makes him [C]sad[Am] he [F]never has and [G]yeah that makes him [C]sad You know, [F]everyone [G]thinks of [C]Je[F]sus [F]On the [G]eve of [C]Christ[F]mas But [F]no one ever [G]thinks to put [C]him on their [Am]list so [F]jesus gets [G]nothing for [C]christmas yeah [F]jesus gets [G]nothing for [C]christmas When he was a boy back in galillee he never got presents christmas didn't exist you see and now that he's grown no body guessed that he wants that 24 piece metric drill bit set Jesus is a carpenter you know that that is true and he's tired of using 2000 year old tools Just because he's the man who gets nothing each year Even though he hasn't been bad How he longs to hear santa's reindeer But he never has and yeah that makes him sad he never has and yeah that makes him sad You know, everyone thinks of Jesus On the eve of Christmas But no one ever thnks to put him on their list so Jesus gets nothing for christmas Yeah jesus gets nothing for christmas All he wants is World peace but he also kinda likes the look of that new old navy fleece And yeah he wants to end violence and war but he also kinda wants to try out grand theft auto 4 He gets no milk and cookies like that fat santa clause does He's the reason for the season but he's always sad because he is the man who gets nothing each year even though he hasn't been bad how he longs to hear santas reindeer but he never has and yeah that makes him sad he never has and yeah that makes him sad. You know, everyone thinks of Jesus On the eve of christmas but no one ever thinks to put him on their list so Jesus gets nothing for christmas Yeah Jesus gets nothing for christmas Jesus just doesn't know what to do he doesn't want to seem like an ungrateful youth and the worst part is it's his birthday too And jesus gets nothing for christmas. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 282 - TIny Cars SUCK!

15 janvier 2009

Song Wednesdays Return!!! LYRICS!!! The North American International Auto Show Promises the biggest and the best that's why I always go But this time something's different Something has changed I walk through these aisles of cars and feel like somethings strange This one doesn't tower over me and this one couldn't even fit a family of 16 What is the point of a car if it can't tow a boat up a 90 degree slope in the middle of a tornado OH All I want's a V8 Hemi Weighing 8000 lbs if it weighs any getting 2 or 3 gallons to the mile But I look around it's such a pity All these cars are itty bitty And they just aren't worth my time. If I wanted to drive a tiny car I'd live in France I'd be a commie and my wife would be hairy and I'd wear ridiculous pants. The mini cooper makes me feel physically unwell And the Smart Car belongs in the 7th Circle of Hell I want a car I could use to win a war in Southeast Asia and need stairs to get up in When it comes to my next car I won't buy if it doesn't satisfy like a soopersized burger and fry OH All I want's a V8 Hemi weighin 8000 lbs if it weighs any Gettin' 2 or 3 gallons to the mile. But I look around it's such a pity All these cars are itty bitty Fiftysix miles per gallon in the City and yeah this one is kind of pretty But I'm sure they're all totally kitty And they just aren't worth my time. Chords: D A and G, in varying orders. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 288 - Stock Adviser (Via Britney)

29 janvier 2009

My first album (without this song, but with lots of other good ones) is available at http://www.DFTBA.com. We're running low on stock though, you should should go get it while you can. In which Hank lip syncs to a song Katherine sings but he wrote the words to even though the music was written by someone else and originally sung by Britney Spears. Lyrics: I met you in an office down on main street you said you could make my future much more easy all I had to do was give you access to my money and you'd double it double it baby I never really understood the things that you would say If we amortized deposits into my IRA We could optimize my no-load fund with proceeds from my tax refund we'd just begun Just begun baby Stock advisor Stock Ad Stock adviser your my stock adviser OH stock adviser OH you're my stock adviser baby You you you are you you you are stock adviser you are my investment analyzer I will tell you what I I Just reali-i-ized I will not reti-i-ire until I'm eight fi-i-ive (You) You lost my money (You) This isn't funny (You) That's right I trusted (You) My stock advisor I will tell you what I I Just reali-i-ized I will not reti-i-ire until I'm eight fi-i-ive (You) You said my future (You) Would be secure (You) That's right I trusted (You) My stock advisor You said stocks were always gonna go up Now I look at you and it makes me want to throw up You said there were risks out there but I could be a millionaire just like you just like you baby Market Crash! Ever since then I've been drinkin' And I can't determine what exactly I was thinkin' Half of all my savings gone, bank accounts overdrawn all for you all for you baby Stock advisor Stock Ad Stock adviser your my stock adviser OH stock adviser OH you're my stock adviser baby You you you are you you you are stock adviser you are my investment analyzer I will tell you what I I Just reali-i-ized I will not reti-i-ire until I'm eight fi-i-ive (You) You lost my money (You) This isn't funny (You) That's right I trusted (You) My stock advisor I will tell you what I I Just reali-i-ized I will not reti-i-ire until I'm eight fi-i-ive (You) You said my future (You) Would be secure (You) That's right I trusted (You) My stock advisor Stock advisor Stock Ad Stock adviser your my stock adviser OH stock adviser OH you're my stock adviser baby HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 300 - John Loves Amsterdam

23 mars 2009

Best Wishes from NL is made of awesome: http://www.youtube.com/user/BestWishesFromNL Tom's photo posts at the Ning are brilliant: http://nerdfighters.ning.com/profiles/blogs/featuring-pictures-from My Dutch publisher: http://www.lemniscaat.nl/ AND http://www.lemniscaat2.nl/madeintheusa/index.html Jordan Sonnenblick: http://www.jordansonnenblick.com/ Steve Kluger: http://www.stevekluger.com/ More footage from the Amsterdam nerdfighter gathering: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUta3xDPa1E http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2gh6reCm4M http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avgmHHiuZk4 In which John celebrates an awesome week in the Netherlands while extolling the virtues of bitterballs, Dutch schools, and Amsterdam's public transport. He also butchers some Dutch words, because that's one of his things. Thanks to all the nerdfighters who made the Amsterdam gathering so amazing! HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 302 - Squirrel Attack!

26 mars 2009

In which hank sings a song about Scuzzy Kizoozle Curl, the Homicidal Squirrel. Sorry for my crappy irish accent There's a lot of ways to die under ireland's sky But the worst way by far might be a bit of a surprise I'd rather be knifed in bar or hit by a car than to meet my end lookin' in to her eyes and hear the cries of my demise my last goodbyes C F F C well she's a six ounce ball of blood muscle and fur C G C and she's the evilest thing, in all of the world C F F C and you better start running if you ever see her C F G C she's scuzzykizoozle curl, the homicidal squirrel C F Her teeth sank into my arm and C G everything but pain was gone and I C F looked down at C G her blood-stained fangs C F she looked into my eyes and C G the fear was paralyzin I C F felt the blood C G running from my veins C and oh the pain and oh the pain and on the pain I was at the county fair and scuzzy kizoozle was there she was slicing through the crowd like a mower mowing lawns I watched the people fall to her razor sharp claws and then she was in my face before I knew what was goin' on! I raised my arm and tried to run but I was stunned! I'm only alive today by god's grace I'm the only man who's met with her and lived to tell the tale But I keep my eyes wide she will never be denied Until the day I die she'll be there on my trail o'er hill and dale through rain and hail she will prevail HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 305 - It All Makes Sense at the End

9 avril 2009

A Song from Hank...though, not your usual fare, so be wary. I'm glad folks like the song! Sorry it's so bouncy... I slowed the song down 250% and then lip sync'd to that (my headphones are really loud), and then sped it back up, along with the video. Playing with time...y'know...going from a playground to a graveyard...life stuff... LYRICS: I'd like to do some calculations in the hopes that I'll come to some realizations My mind is not what it used to be that certainly isn't news to me But I want to know how my life was spent now that I know that I'm near the end So I add subtract multiply and divide to try and figure out what I did with my life CHORUS I spent twenty-seven years in my bed And there's not much that I would've preferred to do instead I spent two years chewing and six months wooing And, I'm sure you're curious, almost three years pooing I spent twenty five years working for a guy that I wanted to kill when I didn't want to die But I spent fifty seven years loving you my friend So I guess it all makes sense at the end. I spent nearly a full year masturbating Second only to the year we spent copulating I know you're not a fan of this vulgarity But completeness is important for full clarity I spent more than seven years watching television and how could I not regret that decision But I don't think that I'll ever know how much time I did or didn't spend lookin' into your eyes. CHORUS I've never known any way but numbers and sums to understand what we are and what we have become but like numbers are perfect, that's how this has been for me and I hope that I still give you everything you need 80 years alive and four eating food five reading books and 57 with you two eyes one nose one smile one life it somehow isn't ever quite enough time. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 310 - DFTBA

23 avril 2009

In which Hank raps. Michael Aranda: http://www.youtube.com/michaelaranda Stefan Chin on Drums: http://www.youtube.com/pilocrates - - - - - "DFTBA" Written and Performed By Michael Aranda and Hank Green Don't forget that brains attract Darling fetch the battle axe Decepticons fear this brilliant autobot Do fish take baths a lot? Dogs frequently take back apologies Dreadful feudal treachery breeds atrocities Darkened forests take bravery away DFTB DFTB DFTBA Doctor Freud's Topic Became Afflicting Damn Facebook, too bloody addicting I came Down for the baby's arrival But the Dead father's thoughts became archival Drunk fish try breathing air Debutante's fame tarnished by affairs Delano fears to be afraid DFTB DFTB DFTBA I don't know what you mean when you say Please explain What is DFTB? I don't know what you mean when you say Please explainWhat is DFTBA? DFTB DFTB DFTBADFTB DFTB DFTBA DFTB DFTB DFTBADFTB DFTB DFTBA It's so Damn fine to be alive Until your dorky farting turdface brother arrives Difficult financial times bring apocalypse Danes fear the burning acropolis Donate for the blood association Don't for the beaux's admiration Delilah's fruitcake triggers belly-ache DFTB DFTB DFTBA Dead frogs teach bored anatomists Delightful fans that blithely assist Duel for the best acronym Dark force to barely apprehend Dastardly farmers took Bessie away But she was Destined for the burger anyway Distro falling through bleak Autumn Don't forget to be awesome I don't know what you mean when you say Please explain What is DFTB? I don't know what you mean when you say Please explain What is DFTBA? DFTB DFTB DFTBADFTB DFTB DFTBA DFTB DFTB DFTBADFTB DFTB DFTBA "Oh, and Hank... Like it says on my friend Katie's arm... don't forget to be awesome." I don't know what you mean when you say Please explain What is DFTB? I don't know what you mean when you say Please explain What is DFTBA? DFTB DFTB DFTBADFTB DFTB DFTBA DFTB DFTB DFTBADFTB DFTB DFTBA Dandelions fly through blue airDandelions fly through blue air

Épisode 316 - Dead Boy's Girlfriend

7 mai 2009

A Harry Potter Song In honor of Goblet of Fire and LeakyCon Lyrics: People always say that it hurts to be in love And there's nothing we can do but pray to god above I've heard a lot of stories that all end sad But nothing I've heard sounds quite this bad It's hard enough when love is unrequited But what do you do when her boyfriend's dead she was the first girl who ever made me fall if only I had asked her to the freaking yule ball hair like silk and eyes a glow and she looks so pretty in her school girl robes and skin like porcelain but she's a dead boys girlfriend On that fateful night cedtric and I Finished that maze at the very same time We grasped the cup together to share the glory I thought maybe he could share something else with me But a minute later he was dead Now you could never want to be with me instead I gulped down my gilly weed and jumped into the lake not knowing who the masters of the tournament would take I dodged the mer-people and the grindylow And found fleur's sister hermione and cho But it was freaking ron weasley who was waiting for me She was the prize for cedric diggory she was the first girl who ever made me fall if only I had asked her to the freaking yule ball hair like silk and eyes a glow and she looks so pretty in her school girl robes and skin like porcelain but she's a dead boys girlfriend On that fateful night cedtric and I Finished that maze at the very same time We grasped the cup together to share the glory I thought maybe he could share something else with me But a minute later he was dead Now you could never want to be with me instead she was the first girl who ever made me fall if only I had asked her to the freaking yule ball hair like silk and eyes a glow and she looks so pretty in her school girl robes and skin like porcelain but she's a dead boys girlfriend Now it seems all I make you do is cry I can never snog you and it's no secret why He's still there between us even though he's gone Cheating on a dead guy is so so very wrong I'm sure that you will have a very nice life But chances are you'll have to be a boring muggle's wife HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 325 - Iran Election Fraud: 5 Reasons to Doubt the Results

15 juin 2009

UPDATE: In the weeks since I have made this video, the evidence of electoral fraud has gone from anecdotal to irrefutable. The Iranian government itself has acknowledged that in 50 areas, more votes were counted than there are eligible voters. The government has acknowledged that 3 million ballots were stuffed, and lots of evidence indicates that it was in fact much more. The commenters saying otherwise in this video either don't have a handle on the situation or believe in broad conspiracies encompassing the entire western world. UPDATE: Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, has declared the vote legitimate. In which John discusses the Iranian presidential election. Incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reelected by a landslide over (quasi-) reformist Mir Hussein Moussavi, but I argue that there are at least five reasons to doubt the results. UPDATE: The twitter link has been shut down. Gchat and yahoo chat have also been shut down in Iran. I'm still getting good updates from http://www.twitter.com/persiankiwi and http://www.twitter.com/tehranbureau Also worth following: http://www.twitter.com/y_shar and http://www.twitter.com/iran09 UPDATE: Dozens of moderate clerics and reformist political leaders in Tehran and around Iran have been arrested. Mousavi himself is apparently not under house arrest, although he is "being closely monitored by police," which sure SEEMS like house arrest. Ayatollah Khameni has restated his position that the election results were fair. UPDATE: There seems to be significant violence going on at universities around the country, as well as hundreds of arrests and reports of tear gas in the dorms. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 343 - Mules are so Half-Ass

30 juillet 2009

In which Hank makes a video with his still camera because his video camera borked! And sings a song...and writes on the bottom of hotel-room furniture (don't tell anyone!) Lyrics The mink lost her furry scarf, she said it was stole The shoe salesman wanted to help, 'cause he had so much sole But then his whole left side fell off, but he's all right now The pregnant heifer saw it happen, yeah, she had a cow The CO2 delivery guy always gives me gas And I really hate mules because they're so half-ass The bike can't sand up by itself, it says it's two-tired The human cannonball was late for work and he got fired If your pants are too big you'll get exposed in the end and if you crash your fancy car you'll see how a mercedez bends. The CO2 delivery guy always gives me gas And I really hate mules because they're so half-ass I forgot how to throw a boomerang, but then it came back to me It's just like riding a bike, or playing with your wii If you don't pay your excorcist, you'll get reposessed The pirate shot himself so he could have a dead man's chest The CO2 delivery guy always gives me gas And I really hate mules because they're so half-ass HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 378 - Balloon Boy: A Short Song

22 octobre 2009

In which Hank is embarassed to sing a song about Balloon Boy Falcon Heene. Lyrics hello my name is falcon and my dad believes that hillary clinton's an alien but just because he thinks there's aliens in our midst doesn't mean he's not a semi-good weatherologists so when he told me he was building a balloon I told him "day, you know I'm proud of you." You thought I was in a balloon but I was in a box People always told me to listen when daddy talks Yeah he named me falcon yeah he needs a shrink but no one else's dad can make everyone think they're in a baloon And now I'm famous too I was napping in the box when he cut the baloon loose then immediately called the colorado local news Then everyone who watched tv feared that I might die But my attic was as close as I got to the sky And the next day I was on the national news They asked me why I hid and so I puked And now everyone wants to take my dad away from me because he contributed to my delinquency But dady tell me please all I really want to know Do you think we'll get another tv show cause kids at school keep telling me this tale about how wife swap has a different meaning in jail HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 403 - Awesome Project Is Awesome

21 décembre 2009

In which John discusses the 2009 Project for Awesome and the future of nerdfighteria. Decreasing Worldsuck: Bobblehead Auction to benefit Malaria No More: http://bit.ly/7jO7Qb Bobblehead Auction to benefit mycharitywater: http://bit.ly/7n0lia So Jokes Cover Art to benefit the Nature Conservancy: http://bit.ly/6Xj8dw The Original Disc Art to benefit the Nature Conservancy: http://bit.ly/7TFeSB FallofAutumnDistro will match your donations to Save the Music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qASiwSw7gV0 Meekakitty will give to Heifer.org if she wins the Lashes to Riches contest. Vote for her by commenting and rating: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xm2u7qRA2w Search "Project for Awesome" to find lots of great nonprofit organizations and donate your time and money in this holiday season. And of course, as always, the "dooblydoo," like so much else in this world that is good and beautiful, was invented by the wheezywaiter: http://www.youtube.com/wheezywaiter HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 407 - Adorable Puppy Explains Health Care Bill

30 décembre 2009

In which John offers a summary of the health care reform bill that just passed the U.S. senate, discussing the insurance exchange market, pre-existing condition clauses, medicare taxes, and other fine points of the still-under-debate bill. Here's a good explanation of how the insurance exchanges will look like: http://bit.ly/eIwNE Thanks to Alan Lastufka ( http://youtube.com/fallofautumndistro ) for the Ben Nelson asshat photo. About abortion: The senate plan works like this: Policies covering abortion would be available in the exchange market (at least in some states), but those plans would have to collect two separate premiums--one covering everything other than abortion, and one for abortion coverage. The subsidy (available to all families making less than about $88,000 a year depending on number of kids) would only apply to the non-abortion policy. If this seems like a hilariously stupid distinction, that's because it is. Ultimately, it of course doesn't matter which policy the subsidy goes toward. But then again, every federal program "supports" abortion in some way. For instance, without federally funded highways, it would be impossible for most women to get abortions. All government spending indirectly goes to support all activity in America, but it's ridiculous to say that, for instance, food stamps encourage meth use, even though sometimes people trade meth for food they bought with food stamps. It's equally disingenuous to say that this bill will allow federal funding of abortions, unless you're willing to argue that all government spending funds abortion. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 408 - The STUPIDEST NEWS STORIES of 2009 (a song)

31 décembre 2009

Subscribe to Rhett and Link and I will give you a bunny http://www.youtube.com/rhettandlink Check out their new CD here: http://dftba.com/shop/products/Up-To-This-Point-[CD-%252b-Poster].html In which Hank, Rhett and Link sing a song about the stupidest news stories of 2009. Including, but not limited to, drug scandals, sex scandals, balloon boys, pig epidemics, and more. And my New CD is on sale as well! http://www.dftba.com/hank-green Our Lyric Sheet (not exact...but it'll give you an idea) RHETT&Link C Hank do you remember when all of georgia fled F that flood that left thousands homeless and seven dead G But while those people drowned and their houses went adrift G C The news was about kanye west....and taylor swift HANK Indeed rhett&link, I see the news media failin every time anyone mentions...sarah palin They dispatch a dozen camera crews every time she poos While I can't escape the feeling she's just not news RHETT&Link And swine flu, while a killer, got more love than it needed Killing 4,000 people while the normal flu, unheeded Kills 60,000 people year in and year out People like to have something to freak out about HANK But then there was that michael phelps marijuana scandal Just one picture and the media flew off their handle I mean, he did the exact same thing as our last three presidents something about our priorities here does not make sense ALL F C So Many important things happened this year friend G C Iran's Election and Mass Recession and Obama sworn in F C But to us the things on cable news seem so freaking dumb G C R&L: And we can only hope that we're not the only ones Hank: yes, we can only hope that we're not the only ones. HANK I'm not sure if crappy news gets any better than The scandals of Tiger Woods and David Letterman I mean, it turns out rich guys cheat on their wives That wasn't news in the year twenty five LINK&Rhett And one of the biggest stories of the whole entire year Is that Susan Boyle could sing and bring an audience to tears With all the pretty people auto-tuned, I think we forgot You don't have to be hot to The talent Brittain's got HANK And I still laugh any time I see some poor braggart Proudly holding up a sign proclaiming he's a tea bagger Besides any confusion about the american revolution I think no matter what they mean the news was an illusion ALL So Many important things happened this year friend Iran's Election and Mass Recession and Obama sworn in But to us the things on cable news seem so freaking dumb Hank: And we can only hope that we're not the only ones R&L: yes, we can only hope that we're not the only ones. HANK - But I think we three can all agree, the biggest load of po R&L - Was that balloon boy falcon who was not in the balloon HANK - Just another year where we kept the world alive R&L - We didnt pay attention but we somehow didn't die ALL So Many important things happened this year friend Iran's Election and Mass Recession and Obama sworn in But to us the things on cable news seem so freaking dumb All - And we can only hope that we're not the only ones All - yes, we can only hope that we're not the only ones. All - But since they're still reporting it....we just might be the only ones. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 423 - HOW TO GET AN AGENT

11 février 2010

Today, in mj's final video as a vlogsister, she finishes up her series about writing and publishing. The topic: how to get an agent. Some useful links to go with this . . . Here is a post I wrote in which I distilled this list of don'ts: http://tinyurl.com/cehx2w SOME AGENTS: http://ktliterary.com/daphne/ (This is my agent's blog) http://literaticat.livejournal.com/ http://www.bgliterary.com/ SOME GOOD SITES: http://www.scbwi.org/ http://absolutewrite.com/ http://www.agentquery.com/ http://www.aaronline.org http://editorialanonymous.blogspot.com/ Scarlett Fever is still FRESH off the presses and is available at: Your local independent bookseller: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780439899284 Barnes and Noble: http://tinyurl.com/ybuxc2p Or, if necessary, Amazon: http://tinyurl.com/ygxzoj3 As ever, Maureen is best reached here. She waits for you at this very moment: https://twitter.com/maureenjohnson HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 455 - Hank Raps about w00tstock...for real

13 mai 2010

Hank's w00tstock performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_iTWhKc0XU In which Hank Raps about w00tstock. If you can't understand all of the lyrics, they're below. This may have been the second oddest weekend of my life I perused portland real-estate with a mythbuster's wife on an iPad owned by adam savage yes you could say that my perception of reality was ravaged But imagine, that wasn't even the weirdest bit and you're gonna shirt a brick when you hear the rest of it So sit down and listen to me rhythmically talk about the weekend that I participated in w00tstock Now I'm on the plane home I want to remember it Hearing Adam Savage saying that he likes my music And I've been listinin' to Frontalot, 200 tracks back to back Which is probably why I wrote this song as a rap but I hope whoever has 9D next doesn't gag because I'm writing down these lyrics on the back of the barf bag For me it began when I landed in Seattle at two o'clock and then by three was talking with the king of nerd hip hop MC Frontalot, as he's professionally known could probably cure cancer with his headlamp and a microphone Then Molly walked in with her adorable grin and her boyfriend Chirs...and her assistant Kristen two girls one uke, don't fear, it won't make you puke unless you're easily nauseated by things abnormally cute And I felt like I was losing control of my brain because the drummer of the Presidents of the USA Was hanging with me making jokes telling me to be strong Like he'd jumped straight out of my radio and into my song And then my friend stephen toulouse walked by He decides who lives and dies on xbox live He's the guy with the ban hammer on the largest gaming platform And we were all brought here by messers paul and storm Who were in good form and bought pizza I was eatin' when I learned just how nerdy was the nerd Wil Wheaton He was adorably excited, jumping up and down His smile was the inverse function of a frown taken to the one thousand twenty forth power I did my best not to fangirl for the whole next hour And then I was on the stage, ostensibly earning my wage Picard had thrown me into over drive and said "engage" And my cheeks hurt, from the laughing, it was so much freaking fun Savage, Fraction, Frontalot and Loading Ready Run And then done. We were up there taking our bow Like wow, the crowd so loud I could not understand how this had happened to me, I mean I'm Just another geek But this last week had had a freaking unique streak. Just a couple days ago the world was planting me trees and now I'm in front of a thousand geeks living my dreams. I'm prepared to accept this as the pinnacle of my career I don't mind if it's all downhill from here because here is a pretty good place to be downhill from there's an awful lot of hill there before you hit the bottom And in the morning, my goodness, I saw that Wil Wheaton Had pulled out his blackberry and done some tweetin He told tweeted I killed it and from what he could hear my set, of all of those at w00tstock, got the biggest cheer I'm not really concerned about whether this is true or not It just makes me pretty grateful there is a w00tstock Yeah.... HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 460 - Farmville!!!!! A Song

1 juin 2010

Buy the Single for $0.99 - http://bit.ly/farmvillehank In which Hank sings a song about Farmville. Because there aren't enough songs about Farmville. Thanks to Abbey for the cover art farm, thanks to Shmed for the drumming and bass guitar and production, as always. Thanks the Zynga for creating such a horribly addictive game. And thanks to everyone who used the Photomatron to help make this video awesome. LYRICS AND CHORDS: I [G]just made a discovery that [D]may change my [C]life While I was [G]clicking through this new-fangled [D]facebook [C]site It's a place where I can live the life I've always dreamed without really ever doing any[G]thing which is [C]good because I don't like doing [G]things Now my [D]life isn't so important to [G]me since there's an[D]other place I'd much rather [D]be [G]down on the [C]farm where the [C]sky is always [G]blue and we [G]never kill the [D]pigs and the [G]cows never poo and [G]everything's a[C]dorable and I know every[G]one and we can [G]plant any[C]thing under this [G]never-setting sun oh it [C]hasn't gotten old and I hope it never [G]will let me intro[C]duce you to my new home. [D]Farm[G]ville I drag my ragged ass to work, yeah I can barely lift my feet I'm operating on about four hours' sleep I was up all night growing food to feed the world just me and an army of girls friendless twelve year-old girls The boss throws me a pile of work without so much as a hello and suddenly I know exactly where I wanna go [G]down on the [C]farm where the [C]sky is always [G]blue and we [G]never kill the [D]pigs and the [G]cows never poo and [G]everything's a[C]dorable and I know every[G]one and we can [G]plant any[C]thing under this [G]never-setting sun oh it [C]hasn't gotten old and I hope it never [G]will let me intro[C]duce you to my new home. [D]Farm[G]ville In the last few months I've become a millionaire This is so much more exciting than playing solitaire I've got an oddly-shaped house, that I couldn't fit inside And animals that will never die no matter how much I neglect them they're alive It might not be real life, but I don't really mind There's no other place where I'd prefer to spend my time than [G]down on the [C]farm where the [C]sky is always [G]blue and we [G]never kill the [D]pigs and the [G]cows never poo and [G]everything's a[C]dorable and I know every[G]one and we can [G]plant any[C]thing under this [G]never-setting sun oh it [C]hasn't gotten old and I hope it never [G]will let me intro[C]duce you to my new home. [D]Farm[G]ville HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 463 - Viacom PWNED on Piracy

8 juin 2010

IMPORTANT UPDATE: Coulton gave spike's predessor permission to upload the video. (See extensive annotations.) However, viacom OWES ME sixty cents, because, hilariously, they pirated THIS VIDEO. Ask Viacom where my sixty cents is: http://www.viacom.com/contact/Pages/default.aspx Jonathan Coulton's Flickr video: http://www.jonathancoulton.com/primer/flickr/ Where Is Jonathan Coulton's 37 dollars? In which John Green examines the complicated relationship between Viacom and piracy: Viacom has filed a lawsuit against YouTube seeking more than a billion dollars in damages for the copyright infringement that was rife in the early days of YouTube. But John proves that spike.com, which is owned by Viacom, has been placing ads against content that doesn't belong to them for years, including Jonathan Coulton's brilliant music video "Flickr." This video includes a snippet of "Flickr," which is--like this video--released under a Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike Creative Commons license. All of which is to say: Viacom, if you steal my video like you stole Coulton's, I will sue you. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 474 - Top 10 VIDCON MOMENTS

15 juillet 2010

In which John describes his Top 10 favorite moments from the epic weekend that was Vidcon. Thanks to everyone who came to Los Angeles for Vidcon; we had an awesome time, and we hope you did, too. This video contains music from All Caps http://www.dftba.com/allcaps and hiimrawn http://youtube.com/hiimrawn and The Gregory Brothers http://www.youtube.com/user/schmoyoho Thanks for footage from: JulieVlogs http://www.youtube.com/julievlogs Footynutguy: http://www.youtube.com/footynutguy The Margo Alaska Project: http://www.youtube.com/user/margoalaska Haulholic: http://www.youtube.com/user/HAULholic People mentioned: ALL CAPS: http://www.youtube.com/allcapsband Meekakitty: http://www.youtube.com/meekakitty Dan Brown: http://www.youtube.com/pogobat Rawn: http://www.youtube.com/hiimrawn Ze Frank: http://www.zefrank.com The Gregory Brothers: http://www.youtube.com/user/schmoyoho HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 496 - I HATE PENNIES!!!! (Also Nickels.)

6 septembre 2010

Vlogbrothers shirts: http://dftba.com/vlogbros In which John Green discusses his virulent hatred for pennies and nickels, two utterly irrelevant coins that inexplicably remain money in the United States of America. It costs more than 1.7 cents to make a 1 cent penny coin in the US; nickels are even more ridiculous, costing more than nine cents to produce. UPDATE: Those statistics are out of date. In 2009, it cost 1.6 cents to make a penny and 6.1 cents to make a nickel; the US Mint lost 22 million on penny and nickel production, not the 70 million they lost in 2008. (This is because the recession has made zinc and nickel cheaper.) Thank to youtuber http://www.youtube.com/sivartis for the correction. My inflation calculations came from the CPI inflation calculator: http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl Information about the opportunity cost implications of pennies and the calculations of lost productivity can be found here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/24/AR2006092400946.html and here: http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/07/penny_sense.html HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 499 - Positive Pranking: The TP Edition

16 septembre 2010

Amy KR's Positive Pranking: http://bit.ly/9NwPJ6 John builds upon an idea by the brilliant Amy Krouse Rosenthal to turn pranks into vehicles for worldsuck reduction. In this video, he TPs houses around his hometown of Indianapolis. (TP, in this instance, stands for Tootsie Pop.) Enjoy your tootsie pops, Indy. My note: Hello! Your home has been TP'ed, which--for today, at least--means that it has been Tootsie Popped. These Tootsie Pops are your for the licking (and/or biting) not as a part of some marketing campaign but because of an initiative called Positive Pranking started by the author Amy Krouse Ronsethal with the help of the nerdfighters, an Internet-based community of people who seek to decrease the overall worldwide level of suck. Please enjoy, and if you're so inclined, start your own positive pranking adventure. You can find out more at http://blogs.vocalo.org/blog/amykr Best wishes, John Green HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 500 - Positive Prank Calls!!

18 septembre 2010

In which Hank calls random strangers in his town and tells them encouranging and true facts about our world. I couldn't fit all of them in, and I had to cut a few of them down (and maybe re-film a couple because they took so embarrassingly long for me to say) but I've included the script I used which has all of the positive facts I used in my positive prank calls. ----- In the last 100 years, the human lifespan has increased by over 35 years. 100 years ago the average lifespan was only 45 years. Now it's almost 80. And that number is increasing every year. If it keeps increasing at that same rate, the average lifespan of a child born in 2008 will be 98 years old. Teen pregnancy, smoke and drug use have all decreased significantly since the 1990s Rates of cancer have decreased steadily in the U.S. for 20 years and it's not just because people aren't smoking as much, though that's certainly part of it. It's also because new screening techniques that can detect pre-cancerous lesions in the colon and also because of the HPV vaccine which prevents the virus that causes cervical cancer. Small Pox once killed millions of people per year, now it has been completely eradicated. It literally does not exist anymore. Since 1990, global poverty rates have decreased by more than 30%. And they're on-track to have decreased 40% by 2015. Divorce rates are much lower than people assume, and have consistently dropped since the 1970's in America. Only 20% of people who got married in the 1980s got divorced. Violent crime rates dropped 5% between 2007 and 2008. And violent crime rates have been dropping consistently every year since 1993 The Red Cross collects 15 million blood donations per year. No one is compensated for those donations, except with cookies and juice. People just like helping other people. In 1970 there were only 400 breeding pairs of Bald Eagles left in America, but the Endangered Species Act effecively saved the species. There are now more than 10,000 breeding pairs. During the same time Whooping Cranes returned from a much more serious 50 birds total in the entire world. There are now over 500. What's red and smells like blue paint. Red paint. YOU LAUGHED! When you're laughingyou burn 20% more calories than you do at a resting state. So make sure you laugh as often as possible. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 510 - Rocky Horror + Glee = ?

25 octobre 2010

In which Hank discusses why he had a viscerally negative reaction to the news that Rocky Horror was doing Glee. Yes, there's part of me that doesn't want to see Rocky Horror get auto-tuned. And let me be clear when I say...NEARLY EVERY SONG ON GLEE IS AUTOTUNED. I don't know why they do it...the kids can sing...but they do it anyway, which I find extremely annoying. But it's cool for a few reasons too. But I think the big reason that I have an issue is that Rocky is about an experience. People often take it out of the theater and wonder "what's the big deal?" Because, without the theater experience, it isn't a big deal. The "big deal" of it is that the people who watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show made movie-watching a two-way experience. They became part of the movie...and they will forever be a part of the movie...if only in my head. I can't hear the lines of the actual songs anymore...I hear the callbacks. I don't know how glee will handle it, but I anticipate that they will strip out all of the interesting things about RHPS and just sing a few songs. Who knows though! But if you're over 18...you should go try and find a Rocky Horror showing in your area...because it will be an experience...it might be awkward...it might be conusing...but it will be an experience. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 521 - HARRY POTTER SONG!

18 novembre 2010

In which Hank sings "This is Not Harry Potter. Lyrics below. Also, join Hank as he plays games at http://www.youtube.com/hankgames Subconsciously inspired by Horrible Fiction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GG_qoto8-lM Something just occured to me as I was reading another book I'd heard was the next big thing I thought what would I give, if it could be true If I could ever feel again the way I felt when I read you I'd pay a million galeons Or Dress up like I go to beauxbatons I'd tattoo my head with a lighting bolt I'd pawn my wand and firebolt But no matter how many good things I'm told Everything I ever read turns out to be leprechaun gold It's been so many years no matter how I try to read more young adult fiction I keep coming up dry it's like water water everywhere and not a drop to drink my frustration and my agony have pushed me to the brink I keep tilting back the glass but I never taste the water it seems no matter what I read I think "this is not harry potter." I was pretty impressed with frankie landau banks but compare saving the world with a few epic pranks There is no monoploy on non-human people there's faerie's buggers talking cats and nac mac feegle And thirteen little blue envelopes Was fantastic but my sneakoscope would be flashing and spinning if I said That it was the best book I've read And you gotta know that this is no joke That I also read books that my own brother wrote It's been so many years no matter how I try to read more young adult fiction I keep coming up dry it's like water water everywhere and not a drop to drink my frustration and my agony have pushed me to the brink I keep tilting back the glass but I never taste the water it seems no matter what I read I think "this is not harry potter." And in the darkest hours, of my darkest nights I found myself curled up with twilight And I couldn't help but wonder as I ravenously read can you avada kedavra the undead 'cause edward cullen totally has it comin' and if he saw voldemort he'd better start runnin' cause there's not much that the dark lord and i could agree on but I think that we would both hate that guy Sir nicholas de mimsy porpington Is a character name that, all by itself, is better than breaking dawn It's been so many years no matter how I try to read more young adult fiction I keep coming up dry President Snow is no voldemort Diagon Alley is cooler than Ankh Mor Pork And Lyra Silvertoungue is Mrs. Coulter's Daughter That's a good plot twist but it is not harry potter. CHORDS lyrics [A] - - - [G] - - - [A] - - - [G] - - - D A G D G D A D F#m - G - A - - - D - - - G - - - A - - - CHORUS D - G D A - G D F#m - G - A - - - D - G - A - - - G - - - D - - - HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 524 - p4a, Space Pasta, and Giant Squids of Anger

27 novembre 2010

Shirts: http://dftba.com/sale In which John and Hank Green reunite to discuss the 2010 Project for Awesome and then proceed to challenge nerdfighteria to solve a dinnertable dispute in re. the energy output needed to create moon pasta and then discuss the new t-shirts at DFTBA Records. The idea of the project for awesome is simple. You make a video in support of a charity you wish to support, and hopefully lots of people will watch and favorite and comment upon the video. P4A videos are particularly awesome and effective when they're well-edited videos that show us how the organization you support changes lives for the better. There are lots of ways to do this, but here are a few examples: Shawn's video for the uncultured project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJubQzKYMGg Tyler Oakley's video for the trevor project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsMkM2sEXNE Kristina Horner's video about First Book: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb35Qkb8weQ Such videos are often useful to the charities in question, too, so don't be surprised if someone from the organization contacts you! Thanks for participating in the project for awesome, nerdfighters. We love you, particularly those of you who read this far into the video description. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 529 - Tongue Twisters

7 décembre 2010

In which Hank proves that he can think too much about ANYTHING by thinking too much about Tongue Twisters. It's all about the sibilant fricatives baby. Tongue twisters are actually a universal game that all people play regardless of language. The best ones have a few qualities: 1. They will trip you up 2. They're fun to say when you get it right 3. Opportunities for Embarassment 4. Excellent Rhythm and cadence and possibly rhyme as well. Psycho-linguists (yes, that's a thing) still don't know exactly why tongue twisters trip people up, but they do know that it has more to do with the mind than the tongue. But the point is that speech is far more complicated and wonderful than we generally give it credit for, and tongue twisters are one of the few opportunities we really get to enjoy how amazing it really is. Non-English Tongue Twisters: Denmark: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_FaH5CGA1k Norwegian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2N7AOGw4nxE Croatian and French: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=liODkBry0xM Cantonese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akTySXGx27g Norwegian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bFj9dUr93JE Spanish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2i48XoJclw Dutch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnLShj6_wpo Swedish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnPIMg9-1TM Rosie: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh7tUAWIbAQ Icelandic: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5LXT74N_mk Dutch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hsv_qvZdWk French: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnZMM9pS8wE Dutch: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNMuZgSl8no&feature=youtu.be Portuguese: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=znMBHapPR6g Amahric: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nUp1EZ-KaGw Norwegian: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8YkAwPL5xg Japanese Nutshot: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBfYW_CnYSw Spanish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUUduNKe7aw&feature=youtu.be Danish http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOdbDBdxt-k HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 530 - My Zombie Apocalypse Novella

9 décembre 2010

The shirt I'm wearing: http://www.dftba.com/tee The Project for Awesome: Every year, thousands of members of the youtube community come together to make videos in support of their favorite nonprofit organizations. You can participate in many ways but the most important thing TODAY is to make a project for awesome video: Show us a charity you support and how they (and you!) are working to decrease the overall worldwide level of suck. (You can google "project for awesome" to watch some past p4a videos.) Soon there will be an official thumbnail to use for your video--we'll explain how to do that--and then on December 17th at noon pacific time, we'll all simultaneously upload our p4a videos to youtube. The project will continue with all of us watching and commenting upon p4a vids and then on Saturday, there will be a huge live show hosted by Youtube from Los Angeles. Leave questions in comments; we or someone from nerdfighteria will try to answer! In which John reads from his zombie apocalypse novella, which will be one of many raffle prizes benefitting made-of-awesome nonprofit organizations during the youtube project for awesome 2010. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 533 - Adult Female: A Song

16 décembre 2010

SUBSCRIBE NAO! http://www.youtube.com/p4a Lyrics: This song is for a girl no wait I changed my mind this song, is for a human adult female Is it just me or is it creepy how when we refer to a person romantically We often use words relating to children And it's not just girl and it's not just baby it's also boy and I think it's where we get shawty So this song is for the adult female I love And if there's anything she's been dreaming of All she has to do is ask. And if she wants me to I'll do whatever she asks me to do as long as it isn't really evil or otherwise makes me uncomfortable. cause that's what love is, and I have it, for her. This song is about love But it's not about what you're thinking of especially if you are justin bieber Love is hard and love is messy And it can hurt worse than fire And sometimes it makes you want to tear down a building with your bare hands But it also happens to be the best thing that's ever happened to me And I'm obviously not a big fan of hyperbole. So this song is for the adult female I love And if there's anything she's been dreaming of And if I can acquire it with the amount of money I have without making myself destitute all she has to do is ask And I'll be with her until the end of time as long as time ends before one of us dies. cause that's what love is, and I have it, for her. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 543 - Cheating Cheaters of Cheatery: The Amazing Story of Brazil's Cotton War with the U.S.

17 janvier 2011

Pizza Shirt: http://dftba.com/pizza Planet Money: http://dft.ba/-b6g In which John Green discusses the insane story of how the United States of America ended up subsidizing the cotton industry in Brazil so that America could continue its own illegal subsidies of its cotton farmers. This year and every year until we end our illegal cotton subsidies, the U.S. federal government will pay $147 million of American tax dollars to Brazilian cotton farmers to make up for our illegal subsidies, which amount to more than $3 billion most years. There's no question that American cotton subsidies create jobs, but there's ample evidence that the same $3 billion could be used to create MORE jobs, either through more efficient direct government stimulus or through just not spending that $3 billion and allowing private industry to create jobs with that 3 billion in capital. This is (one of the reasons) why economists generally hate industry-specific subsidies. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 557 - WE ARE 812 YEARS OLD

23 février 2011

The mystery of Gussie Manlove: http://dft.ba/-eGT NASA on climate change: http://climate.nasa.gov/evidence/ Scientific American: http://dft.ba/-eGR The exhaustive and excellent wikipedia article Scientific Opinion on Climate Change: http://dft.ba/-eGS Follow al-jazeera's liveblogged Libya coverage: Follow al-Jazeera's live blog for info on Libya: http://blogs.aljazeera.net/africa/2011/02/22/live-blog-libya-feb-22 News from Bahrain: http://dft.ba/-eHa Help victims of the earthquake in New Zealand: http://www.redcross.org.nz/ Help victims of the violence in Libya through the Red Crescent: http://donate.ifrc.org/ In which John attempts to carbon neutralize brotherhood 2.0 for the first time in three and a half years, leading to a discussion of the complexity of carbon neutrality in a world where almost every action grows your carbon footprint and creates air pollution. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 564 - Why Did Fukushima Explode?

16 mars 2011

Donate: http://american.redcross.org/site/PageServer?pagename=ntld_main&s_src=RSG000000000&s_subsrc=RCO_FrontPagePanel In which Hank explains nuclear power and the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant in Japan. In short, fission products continually decaying in both active and spent fuel rods create enough heat to melt themselves. The coolant systems that would prevent this from happening were disabled by the tsunami. Cracks in the fuel rods created an environment allowing hydrogen to form, which concentrated and then exploded several times destroying both the primary and secondary containment structures at at least one reactor. The result is that the reactor needs to remain cooled or else radiation from the meltdown will be released to the environment in significant quantities. The people working to keep the reactor from overheating are risking their lives to do so, and we all hope they will be able to stabilize the reactor without harm. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 569 - The Ice Cream Changes

31 mars 2011

Slipknot to Ritchie Valenz, for some reason the I vi IV V chord progression just sounds amazing. I don't know why certain combinations of tones sound nice to us, nor why progressing through those tone combinations in certain ways are universally pleasant, but I am glad of it. This video has no cuts, which was a moonpasta challenge that I silently accepted. But you should feel free to continue challenging me to do things, I like that. I discovered this and all of the songs in it on my own through what I already knew or searches on the internet except for the Slipknot use of the Ice Cream Changes, which I discovered via an awesome mashup (linked below) that, yes, I found on Reddit. But I was already working on the video when I found that...it just added another layer of awesome. Thanks to everyone who came out to see the Nerds and Music show...it was amazing. Endscreen Videos: Hank's Full Show: Uploading Now to Hankschannel Summon the Giant Underwear: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30vDDpw5TxU Hank and Storm Discuss Poop Dreams http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQBFEpaQJss The Internet is RLT http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0JT3mV0V8Q Beiber Slipknot Mashup http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kspPE9E1yGM HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 572 - 31 Jokes for NERDS!

14 avril 2011

In which Hank tells some seriously nerdy jokes. Harry Potter, theoretical physics, Star Trek, Star Wars, Chemistry, Engineering, Philosophy, Math, Computer Science...it's all fair game. I chose 31 because I knew I wasn't going to hit 50 and I wanted to do a prime number. Nerd Jokes in Your Pants: http://yourpants.org/showthread.php?2190-Nerdy-jokes/page3&highlight=nerdy+jokes I made this video before Humpy Hank became a thing...but something tells me that humpy hang is going to become more of a thing soon. Other Jokes: 50 More Jokes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQ4kL4pI-rY 50 Jokes in 4 Minutes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzHBszZn6uo 50 Jokes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7GvstxiH-M Thanks to everyone who submitted (and continues to submit) jokes. It's been a long time since I've done one of these so I hope you enjoy it. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 576 - NASA: Increasing Awesome

28 avril 2011

In which Hank talks about the 0.45% of the federal budget devoted to space education, and what NASA is doing with that money. Just an aside, my friends often say that we shouldn't be spending money on space when we have so many problems here on Earth. And I understand that argument. But I think that mentality is flawed. We can't wait until all of our problems are solved (which they will never be) before doing amazing, inspiring, ambitious things. If we have nothing great to aspire to, nothing great to fight for, then what do we have? Will we spend the time and energy necessary to make the world a better place if we don't have great things to aspire to? I know it's a complicated issue, it's almost like talking about the psychology of an entire planet. But I know what drives me to make the world better, and it isn't knowing how horrible it is. The greatness of the world is what makes me want to make it better, and NASA has done more to uncover and create awesome than any other government agency. That's just how I feel. Thanks to NASA for their help with this video, it was really amazing to work with them. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 580 - 1990's Sim Games. SO GOOD!

11 mai 2011

In which Hank talks about the lessons he learned growing up playing simulation games (and does a very good job of not complaining about how mindless gaming has become.) Sim Games taught me a huge amount about my world and also about who I am. From SImCity I learned that as much as a third of a city is taken up by its roads. From SimEarth I learned what that crustaceans existed before fish. From SimTower I learned that things are never as simple as they seem. From Civilizaiton I learned that peace is orders of magnitude more difficult and less glamorous than war. From Tycoon games I learned the value of opportunity and also how to be careful not to squander the value you have. It seems a little silly, but there it is. You can get a lot of these games for free (all you need is DOS BOX and a good google search if you'd like to try them out. http://www.abandonia.com/ HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 584 - Thoughts from a Battlefield

25 mai 2011

In which Hank talks about the Nez Perce war and the Battle of the Big Hole. Katherine and I stopped by the Big Hole Battlefield on the way home from a mini-vacation. "I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people." Chief Joseph "With women's hearts breaking, children weeping and men silent, we moved over the divide and closed our eyes upon our once happy homes. We were wanderers on the prairie. For what? For white man's greed. The white man wanted the wealth our people possessed; he got it by the destruction of our people. We who yesterday were rich are beggars today, made so by the order of a Christian white chief. We have no country, no people, no home. We do not desire longer life, and we pray day and night that the Great Spirit will remove us" Chief White Bird, October 22nd, 1877 HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 590 - Google Is Alive!

14 juin 2011

In which Hank attempts to define what life is, argues that Google is in fact alive (albeit poorly) and then proves that individual lives have no (or extremely little) value for their own sake...with mouthwash. To be clear: 1. I am not arguing that Google should be treated like a sentient life form. If Google is alive, it's alive the same way a virus is. The fact that it's alive does not change its ethical status. It is very interesting though. 2. While I don't value the individual lives of the bacteria in my mouth, I value "life" tremendously and believe that one bacteria in a world otherwise devoid of life would be the most precious thing on that world. But seeing as how there are trillions of bacteria within four feet of me right now, I'm not particularly concerned with their welfare. So "life" is not a good qualification for "value." 3. I have done some further research and it appears that the Mrs. Gren thing is not so much criteria for life (though they are often referenced as criteria for life) it's more like "properties" of life...as we know it. I'm less interested in describing life than I am in determining what makes one thing alive and another thing not alive. Describing what we've got is easy, deciding the status of something that may (or may soon) exist is an entirely different matter. 4. I'm very interested in people's thoughts about about the "want" theory, though, obviously, this is a loose definition of "want." Does a plant really "want" to turn toward the sun...no. What I'm saying is more "reacts to it's surroundings in order to fulfill its needs." But "Life Wants" just sounds so much better. The question of whether Google (or fire, for that matter) is reacting to its needs in order to fulfill its needs is an interesting one, but I don't really think that computer programs "want." They don't have needs, they have instructions....but how different is that from the instructions that bacteria have from their genes? Finally, Google does satisfy Schrodinger's criteria of increasing order using available energy. I think Schrodinger's criteria is, in fact, better than mine since you can't argue that fire meets it (as fire increases entropy) and it makes me feel as if Google is, in fact, alive. However, using this criteria, one could also argue that an automated factor that turns plastic into toys is also alive, as it would be using energy to decrease entropy. If it is truly autonomous though, that almost seems as alive as a virus to me. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 594 - Do You Believe in God?

23 juin 2011

In which Hank discusses that all too common question and why he doesn't like it and so rarely answers it. What does the answer tell you? Really? Is it like a blind man asking my skin color? Is it someone trying to legitimize their own beliefs? Is it built into our genes? Don't get me wrong, we're built to categorize. Being truly exceptional pattern recognizers is one of the reasons why we are the dominant species on the planet. We seek patterns my nature, but it's something that we should work against. When we are going out of our way to pull data points so that we can more easily shove people into little boxes, that's even worse than your normal sort of prejudice. Frankly, upon meeting someone, I'd rather not know their politics, their religion, their upbringing. We build our vision of other people from scratch, and when we pull these flawed first impressions from pattern bias, prejudice, and in-group / out-group bias, we do ourselves and those people significant disservice. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 595 - My Hairy Ball of Anxious Anxiety

28 juin 2011

In which Hank talks about his anxiety surrounding: 1. Ellen Hardcastle, his new Album 2. Officiating a Wedding 3. VidCon: http://vidcon2011.com 4. Making a Video for NASA 5. Play a Show with Harry and the Potters! In Missoula! Click Below http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=126468657430010 Also, that powerful people are often psychopaths, which you can read about here: http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/96/open_boss.html Generally people make the case that psychopaths rise high in business because they are smooth, ruthless and deceitful. And that's probably true, but here I am making a rather shoddy case that they are also helped out by the fact that they are not so afraid of letting down their friends, family, co-workers and others, which means that they are willing to take insane risks and take on immense responsibilities. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 597 - Humping the Town

1 juillet 2011

The Fault in our Stars: http://dft.ba/-tfios In which Hank congratulates John and then...yeah, wow. You can read the Wall Street Journal article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304450604576418161912396814.html But only if you follow that by reading John's excellent analysis of it here: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com/post/7123668714/what-they-call-a-victory-dance-we-call-a-happy-dance And what can I say about all that humping. I guess...well, it was really scary. Scary enough that I kinda had to shut my brain off. There were a couple of shots that I couldn't use because they were way too similar to actual sex-having. But for the most part, it went really well. Thanks to Luke for the music (http://www.youtube.com/lukeconard) and Geoff for helping me out so that Katherine didn't have to do this... (http://www.youtube.com/zutown) And, yes, at the end, that's just some random dude who was watching us screaming "Kiss the fish!!" Also, I saw two nerdfighters while walking around. Always nice to see people IRL! I kinda want to intellectualize the whole experience...it would be fairly easy to do, but I'd rather eat lunch...I am very hungry. I'm looking forward to the tumblr gifs. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 598 - How to Turn Your Dumb Summer Job Into $162,000

4 juillet 2011

In which John celebrates financial independence by explaining how minimum-wage summer jobs can become incredibly lucrative if only you save some of your money in a retirement account. In the US, the most common retirement accounts are called IRAs (IRAs have tax advantages), but any investment account will do. Just sock the money away in a low-fee diverse mutual fund, wait 50 years, and enjoy the magic of compound interest. Caveat: Obviously, I am not a financial advisor or investment professional. I am a novelist. Also, while it's a good idea to start an IRA in high school for most people, it may be a BAD idea if you're planning to seek financial aid from a private college in the US, because they might count your retirement savings against your financial aid application. (If you attend or will attend a public university, this is unlikely to happen according to my research, although again, I am a novelist, not a banker.) There are a LOT of nerdfighters in the voting round for YouTube NextUp Europe. You can vote here: http://www.youtube.com/nextup Nerdfighters to vote for include: missxrojas (who gave The Fault in Our Stars its title) DeEelcoShow BarryAldridge dutchforn00bs Beckie0 booksandquills OMFGItsJackAndDean tristopiatv willsodyssey thegearskeepturning musicfromblueskies tyrannosauruslexxx EDIT: Islamic banking does not use interest, so this particular piece of financial planning advice does not hold water in the Islamic world. (But I still advocate for beginning to save early!) HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 601 - Hank Talks to NASA About the Space Shuttle

11 juillet 2011

So the Space Shuttle program is ending after more than 30 years. I grew up in Orlando, regularly watching the shuttle take off. It had a huge effect on me. Now, with the program ending, we will need to find new ways to reach low-earth orbit, and also new ways to expand manned exploration beyond low-earth orbit and into the rest of the solar system. Well, I got to talk with Mike Massimino, the Astronaut who's always going on Conan, Bobby Braun, NASA's Chief Technologist, Lori Garver, the Deputy Administrator at NASA and...yes Charlie freaking Bolden - NASA's Administrator. Charlie Bolden's boss is...yes...Barack Obama. NASA has clearly embraced the spirit of Nerdfighteria and I can't tell you how much that means to me. Thanks to NASA for understanding how amazing this community is. And, also, thanks to Nerdfighteria, for being awesome in the first place. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 603 - Harry Freaking Potter

15 juillet 2011

Ellen Hardcastle http://dft.ba/hardcastle Climate Change Competition http://www.imaginebetter.org Dear Mr. Potter http://www.dearmrpotter.org/ So I watched Deathly Hallows part 2, of course, yesterday, and I want t talk about it, but I have a hard time doing it without crying at least a bit. It was really amazing to see it with some of the most die-hard Harry Potter fans in the world. There was a lot of crying going on...I think I actually hyperventilated near the end, I was shaking and tingly. It was a very important moment, I'm looking forward to seeing it in a less emotionally-charged room to see if I can be a little more analytical about it. Right now, my overall feelings are "BGHAAHRGLUH" LeakyCon has been amazing, I'm about to go to a hugemongous Nerdfighter Gathering and I'm very excited. Glad I got my video up in time!! Hope you like the song. The chords are Dm C G throughout the whole thing. LYRICS Dear Mr. Potter. I got a lot to say to you I don't expect you to listen after all that you've been through But I'm saying it for me, I'm not saying it for you And yes I'm sayin' it for a few other people too It's true that overall you get a positive review I but I hope you don't mind I've got just one question for you But is this it? Is this the last piece of the pie the pie that all of us have been eating most of our adult lives is this it? Is this what we've been waiting for To watch as Daniel Radcliffe valiantly pretends to fight your war Is this it? Dear Mr. Potter You did a lot for me. You helped me pick up this guitar learn more than GC and D You launched my whole career, in actuality If it weren't for you then basically none of this would be so I am hugely in your debt. there's no doubt about that But I'm sorry if it seems like I won't get off your back But is this it? Is this the last piece of the pie the pie that all of us have been eating most of our adult lives is this it? Is this what we've been waiting for To watch ask Alan Rickman tells us all why Snape killed Dumbledore. Is this it? Dear Mr. Potter I hope that you don't mind But it turns out it's been years since we left you behind We're here because we love you, but we're not hear for you We're here to learn and sing and make videos for YouTube But more than any of that, we're here to be with our friends And that is clearly not the sort of thing that will ever end So this ain't it. This place was built to last. We have more fun in our future than we have in our past Yeah this ain't it. We're to watch and sing and play We're gonna love these books and each other until our dying day Cause this ain't it HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 606 - Your Yard Is EVIL

22 juillet 2011

In which John discusses the absolute insanity of front yards. Turf grass is the biggest irrigated crop in the US; we irrigate grass almost exclusively with drinkable water; also, you will be surprised to learn that grass is INEDIBLE. Plus, I dislike mowing the lawn when it is 115 outside. Lots of people (particularly people who work in the lawn business) will note that turf grass is a carbon sink (particularly if you mow the lawn frequently). This is true, but there are far more efficient carbon sinks that don't require so much water. My tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com The nerdfighter forum Your Pants: http://www.yourpants.org SOURCES: Turf grass is the biggest irrigated crop in the US by a factor of three: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawn#Environmental_concerns The EPA estimates a third of residential water is used to water lawns, equaling four billion gallons of potable water per day: http://www.usgrassandgreens.com/artificial-grass-blog/ 70 million pounds of pesticides are used each year on lawns according to the EPA: http://www.treesolutions.com/services/organic-lawn-care/ HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 607 - I Am Not a P#$$Y - this video contains mild swear words.

25 juillet 2011

In which Hank rants about being taunted while riding his bike (which is, btw, very unsettling) and then talks a bit about bullying and he he dealt with it (he didn't) and how you should deal with it (survive.) The thing about bullies is that they are weak people. The bike taunting story is true, but it's also a metaphor. Bullies bully because they are weak, not because they people they're bullying are weak. Their weakness makes them so frightened that they have to find some way to feel stronger. And, of course, the person getting bullied also feels tremendously weak and inferior, but it's important to realize that bullying does not come from a place of strength, it comes from weakness and fear. The more they bully, the weaker they become. This is why I am unsurprised to discover that many of my physically weakest friends are in fact the most brave. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 611 - Hackers, Cyber crime, and a New Kind of War.

9 août 2011

In which Hank talks briefly about the fundamental shift in espionage, warfare, crime, and activism that may re-define our age. More about Stuxnet here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g0pi4J8auQ with a pretty in depth article here: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9185919/Is_Stuxnet_the_best_malware_ever_ Hackers have been mounting increasingly sophisticated attacks. Billions of dollars have been stolen, and even more has been lost in the form of stolen intellectual property and infrastructure damage. Stuxnet proved that a computer hack can do real-world damage, and if it can be done once, I doubt we will be able to stop it from being done again. Unlike traditional warfare, we frequently don't know where cyber attacks come from. And with the right team of people, an attack could be pulled off that could destabilize the entire world. It's pretty scary stuff. On a lighter note...I've started up my gaming channel again: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames TOBUSCUS POSTER: http://www.forhumanpeoples.com/ DEFINITIONS: Hacker - a person who can manipulate computers and technology, but more usually a person who breaks into computers that they should not be inside of. Vulnerability - a problem in software that can grant access to data and processes that should be kept secret, like passwords or credit cards or the controls to a nuclear power plant. Exploit - Software or procedures that allow people to take advantage of vulnerabilities. This will often come in the form of a simple script that anyone with even basic computer knowledge can run. 0-Day Exploit - An exploit that has not been released into the wild. Only the hacker, and possibly his or her close associates, know about the security hole at this point. A 0-Day exploit for an operating system can be sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. White Hat - A hacker who uses his skills for good, informing organizations of security holes in their software, often these people are just referred to as security experts. as ooposed to: Black Hat - The sort of hackers that we generally call to mind when we hear the word Hacker. Patch - Software update that fixes the vulnerability. Often patches are not applied and exploits remain in-use for years. Script Kiddies - Armies of unskilled, usually young people who just run scripts that hack targets for hackers above them in an organization. Occasionally they also operate on their own. Cyber - A prefix that I hate, but am unwillingly using because it has become the standard because old people who read newspapers and watch cable news feel comfortable with it. I love William Gibson though! Own: To take control of. An owned computer or server (or zombie) is controlled by hackers. This is where pwn comes from, by the way. Anonymous: A loosely organized group of individuals identifying with a certain weird bunch of values like anarchy and "don't mess with us." They hack things that piss them off. Stuxnet: The most advanced piece of malware ever created which caused the shut-down of Iran's nuclear refinement program. 42: HHG2G reference, which are common in hacker culture. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 626 - NERD FACTOR

21 septembre 2011

Shower the winners in nerdfighter love: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyGnEDM_Ik&list=PLDC4E9AF855953739&index=1 (Also subscribe to them! They're all so great.) The winners are: Permafrost music video by Laurena: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSyGnEDM_Ik&list=PLDC4E9AF855953739&index=1 Thoughts from Places: Bloemfontein by ssondiyazi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76D9BBrizPM&feature=BFa&list=PLDC4E9AF855953739 Fictional Characters: Emotional Pain? by lindseythenerdiest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3b-9BvJIps&feature=BFa&list=PLDC4E9AF855953739&lf=BFa Chicago Adventure and the Dark Night by MitenSoni: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZA3hVD_6QGM&feature=BFa&list=PLDC4E9AF855953739&lf=BFa Bizarre Fruits song by Kaysysconundrum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRw0P92jia0&feature=BFa&list=PLDC4E9AF855953739&lf=BFa Thomas Jefferson: The Musical by theonlinemusical: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYP7zhbHIyg&feature=BFa&list=PLDC4E9AF855953739&lf=BFa In which John announces six winners of Nerd Factor, an idea blatantly stolen from the great Michael Buckley: http://www.youtube.com/whatthebuckshow There were hundreds of great videos we wanted to include, and thanks to everyone who participated in nerd factor. I'm leaving video responses open on this video, so you can discover great stuff made by nerdfighters in the video responses. Thanks! Thanks to Danica and Stan for helping with Nerd Factor. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 637 - Signing Psychosis Takes Over

25 octobre 2011

In which John goes well and truly mad from signing and then discusses the ruins of Indianapolis. Indianapolis: I'll be reading from The Fault in Our Stars on November 1st at 7:30 PM at Clowes Memorial Hall at Butler University. The event is free and open to the public. On 11/11/11, at 11:11 AM, I'll be at the Bean in Chicago along with other people celebrating the Beckoning of Lovely. More info here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HobBQnMUDMw (Note: There will be no signing or reading or anything at the BOL; it's not about me; I'll just be one of many people trying to beckon lovely into the world.) If you would like to order your signed copy of The Fault in Our Stars, you can do so at your local independent bookstore http://dft.ba/-tfiosindie, at Barnes and Noble http://dft.ba/-tfiosbn, at Amazon http://dft.ba/-tfios, or wherever else people preorder books. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 648 - Top 5 Reasons ████ ██ ██████

18 novembre 2011

By attempting to control the internet, Congress can't help but do anything but screw it up. They want to create a system whereby any website in America could be turned off at a moment's notice. And if they can do it, don't worry, they will. Websites will be so afraid of this new power that they will not wait to be censored, they will censor themselves, stifling the culture of creation that has become so powerful on the internet. Congress will never be able to keep up with the people who want to infringe on copyright, but they will be able to track down and stomp out casual users who want to cover songs, create mashups, GIFs, videos, let's plays, and commentaries. They'll do a great job of scaring legitimate users while missing the real violators, who have enough expertise and free time to get around whatever blocks the government puts in place. It's idiotic...technology has created a new paradigm for content creators. They cannot legislate this technology away, and even if they could they shouldn't. Please contact your senators and representatives, and tell them to vote against the Protect IP and SOPA bills. Tell them that you think copyright law is important, but constricting the freedom of the internet is not the way to do it. And sign the petition here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/ HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 650 - Why are Barns Red and Kardashians Famous

24 novembre 2011

And 23 other questions answered. The ones I missed were: H: Why are hydrocarbons insoluble in water: Because hydrocarbons are non-polar and water is polar and, y'know, like dissolves like. I: Why are insects attracted to light: This is hard to answer because there are lots of theories but no one is 100% sure. X: Why are X-Rays dangerous? Because they can penetrate deeply into our bodies, and yet still interact with them. So they can potentially knock atoms out of place in your DNA, causing mutations which could cause cancer and other disease. THE QUESTIONS! Why are Asians so smart? Why are barns red? Why are Cuban Cigars Illegal? Why are Dina and Caroline Fighting? Why are Enzymes important? Why are Flamingos Pink? Why are Grapes bad for dogs? Why are hydrocarbons insoluble in water? Why are insects attracted to light? Why are Jews Liberal? Why are Kardashian's famous? Why are leaves green? Why are manhole covers round? Why are noble gasses unreactive? Why are oceans salty? Why are plants green? Why are q-tips called q-tips? Why are republicans so stupid? Why are significant figures important? Why are they called carpetbaggers? Why are unions bad? Why are veins blue? Why are we here? Why are X-Rays dangerous? Why are Yawns contagious? Why are Zombies so popular? HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 652 - Stuffed with STUFF!

29 novembre 2011

In which Hank gives an update on all of the things going on: DFTBA $3 Shipping Sale http://www.dftba.com URLatron - Now $15! http://www.urlatron.com VidCon http://www.vidcon.com VidCon Suggestions and Questions http://www.facebook.com/VidCon?sk=app_126957410683278 Truth or Fail http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail HankGames http://www.youtube.com/hankgames Read it First http://www.readit1st.com Project for Awesome http://projectforawesome.com/ (updated soon!) The situation with Your Pants: So, the load of 10,000 nerdfighters in ANYONE's pants is a lot to handle. We're in negotiations with some folks who should will hopefully make it so that we can host the forum without it crashing all the time and without us having to pay, like, $500 a month. Your Pants remains a very high priority for us, so keep your fingers crossed, it should be up by January at the latest. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 656 - Puppies and The Tour de Nerdfighting 2012

9 décembre 2011

Info and tickets for the 2012 Great American (and Canadian) Tour de Nerdfighting: http://dft.ba/-tourdenerdfighting2012 In which John reveals that he, Hank, the Katherine, and occasionally the Yeti will again be piling into a vehicle and making nerdfighteria IRL in January of 2012 to celebrate the release of The Fault in Our Stars. The tour will visit Boston, New York City, Washington D.C., Raleigh, Atlanta, Birmingham, New Orleans, Houston, Austin, Albuquerque, Phoenix, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, B.C. These gatherings will feature music and readings and the reduction of worldsuck and punishments and hilarity and will generally attempt to make everything nerdfightastic for a while. If you have questions, ask them here or on tumblr and I'll try to reply. Thanks for being awesome, and I hope to see you in January! HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 660 - Sharpie Face and Little Hank: The Project for Awesome's Aftermath

19 décembre 2011

Tour de Nerdfighting Updates and Tickets: http://dft.ba/-tourdenerdfighting2012 In which John discusses the 2011 Project for Awesome and shows off some excellent pictures of Hank. Thanks to effyeahnerdfighters, http://www.effyeahnerdfighters.com, for their relentless dedication to making the p4a successful, and thanks also to the brilliant Karen Kavett http://www.youtube.com/xperpetualmotion who designed the p4a site, and Sam Rudge, who made it work. And thanks to everyone who made videos, comment spammed, and donated! * This story, "The War for Banks Island," is unfinished and when it is finished, it will be bad. But unlike Zombicorns, it will not be released under a creative commons license, so only people who buy it will ever get to read it. I'm hoping to finish it around January 20th. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 664 - Goats Mating

28 décembre 2011

In which John witnesses his parents' goats having sex, including all of the weird foreplay that precedes goat sex, like the part where the male goat urinates on his own beard and then rubs it all over the female goat, and then the part where the goat humps in all the wrong places. Basically, it's a Thoughts from Places video about walking around the woods in North Carolina, only I stumbled into...yeah...goats loving goats. Our mom has a little soap left after the holiday sales... and it's DFTBA Soap! it will probably sell out soon. If you'd like some, check out http://farmerjanesoap.bigcartel.com/ There are some new tickets to the Boston Tour de Nerdfighting event and the venue has changed. More info here: http://www.wellesley.indiebound.com/event/john-green You can find out about tickets for other Tour de Nerdfighting stops at http://dft.ba/-tourdenerdfighting2012 HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 673 - Things I Can Do

14 février 2012

Dude...No Edge (SHIRT!) http://dftba.com/product/zh/No-Edge-Shirt-PRE-ORDER In which John describes some of the things he can do, which do not include sorcery, curling, or dancing. He does talk about the internet, youtube, and (the real) Swindon Town. Thought Bubble's Kickstarter: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sapiencefilm/sapience-the-search-for-wisdom?ref=live CGP Grey: http://www.youtube.com/cgpgrey Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames Gumroad: http://www.gumroad.com An example of what Gumroad can do/be: For just $3, you can have nerdfighter Rosianna Halse's beautiful meditations on grief and longing, "Abstract and Brief Chronicles of the Time," at https://gumroad.com/l/HAz TFIOS Tumblr: http://onlyifyoufinishedtfios.tumblr.com (Password is the last word of the acknowledgements. Case sensitive.) BOOKS I TALKED ABOUT: The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach: http://amzn.to/wlG9Iy The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith: http://amzn.to/zwUlgM (Both excellent) Also if you want to follow me on tumblr, you can do so at http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com and if you are interested in my new book: http://dft.ba/-tfios HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 674 - World's Smallest Animals

18 février 2012

http://dftba.com/product/zh/No-Edge-Shirt-PRE-ORDER In which Hank talks about the smallest animals in the world in a variety of categorizes, moving from vertebrates to reptiles to amphibians to fish to birds to mammals to primates to dogs to horses to cats. Featured Animals! Tiny Tardigrades: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H0E77TdYnY Tiny Chameleon: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brookesia_micra Dwarf Gecko: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Islands_dwarf_sphaero Tiny Frog (the smallest vertebrate): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paedophryne_amauensis The Anglerfish: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t7E4amWDqI Bee Hummingbird: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bee_Hummingbird Kitti's Hog-Nosed Bat: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitti%27s_hog-nosed_bat Etruscan Shrew: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etruscan_shrew Madame Berthe's Mouse Lemur: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madame_Berthe%27s_Mouse_Lemur Ducky the Dog: http://www.worldrecordsacademy.org/smallest/smallest_living_dog_world_record_set_by_ducky_70228.htm Thumbelina the Horse: http://www.worldssmallesthorse.com/ Mr Peebles: http://www.cvm.missouri.edu/news/mrpeebles.htm Thanks to this guy for the karaoke track: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIEPCeL2qHw HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 681 - Actually Free Money! (Really.) The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report

13 mars 2012

Not yet a kiva member? Click here to make your first loan ENTIRELY FOR FREE http://www.kiva.org/invitedto/nerdfighters/by/johngreen (Thanks to linkedin cofounder Reid Hoffman for funding these free trials!) No Edge shirts: http://dftba.com/product/zh/No-Edge-Shirt Or, if you'd rather wear my face on your torso, Pizza John: http://dftba.com/product/w3/Pizza-John-T-Shirt In which John delivers the Bank of Nerdfighteria's quarterly report, discussing our charitable efforts through the Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck, which this year distributed more than $88,000 to charities chosen by the nerdfighter community, and the astonishing growth of the nerdfighter kiva group, which you can now make a loan with ENTIRELY FOR FREE by clicking the link above. Nerdfighteria, your commitment to increasing awesome and decreasing suck through volunteerism, philanthropy, microlending, and so much else continues to inspire us, so thanks! Oh, also I tell a story about my son and a stuffed honey badger. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 686 - Idiotic Governance: How Our Political Discourse Hurts Our Economy

3 avril 2012

In which John discusses Canada's heroic elimination of the penny and how divisive political discourse--on both sides of the aisle--hurts both the American people and the American economy. Examples of poor policy making include congress's failure to secure long-term funding for the FAA (which should be easy, since it's paid for entirely by a tax that most travelers are more than content to pay), Congressional Republicans' refusal to pass a long-term highways bill (which makes road work more expensive than it needs to be), and by congressional Democrats refusal to consider sensible medicare reform that might bring better health care outcomes to more older Americans while bringing cost savings to Medicare. (To be fair: Some congressional democrats want to reform medicare; a few congressional republicans thought the whole FAA debacle was an embarrassment; and one noted Democrat, President Barack Obama, has consistently expressed support for smart reform of Medicare, despite huge blowback from his party.) All this while biking a 30-mile loop around the great city of Indianapolis. Holden Caulfield Thinks You're a Phony: http://www.dft.ba/holden HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 687 - Can I be Space President?

7 avril 2012

Subscribe to SciShow here: http://www.youtube.com/scishow New "No Edge" poster: http://dftba.com/product/10i/No-Edge-Poster In which Hank discusses his trip to Northrop Grumman and how odd it is that the same people responsible for the most important space-based mission of the next 20 years are also the people who make bombs for the united states government. At 2:26 the talented Amber Straughn is misrepresented as a Northrop Grumman employee when in fact she actually works for NASA as Deputy Project Scientist for Education and Public Outreach http://www.jwst.nasa.gov/meet-straughn.html Also, he got to hang out with Ze Frank...you should subscribe to him http://www.youtube.com/zefrank. The moral of the story is, we are very lucky that someone is working on a project with this scale, and the people who are working on it are smart, funny, cool, stressed out, and thoughtful, which is nice to know. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 696 - It's HANKO DE MAYO!!!!!

5 mai 2012

It's Hanko de Mayo! We all know Hank loves the James Webb Space Telescope, so hopefully he'll like our gift. In addition to his gift, nerdfighteria is celebrating Hank's birthday by letting our elected officials know that Increasing Awesome through scientific exploration is important to us. You'll find the email I wrote my congressperson and senators below. You can copy it, amend it, or write your own. Here's how: AMERICANS: Find your congressional representative here: http://www.house.gov/representatives/find/ And your senators here: http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm Click through to their contact pages to email them. NON-AMERICANS: I do not know how to email your representatives, but I do know that it is possible in every democratic country, and since the James Webb Space Telescope is a collaboration among many nations, it's likely that your government is involved. So let them know how much space exploration and science funding matter to you! Here's my letter: Dear Congressman Carson, My name is John Green. I'm a voter in your district, and I'm contacting you to ask that you work to increase federal government support for NASA and other scientific initiatives. NASA projects like the James Webb Space Telescope offer us the opportunity to understand the very beginning of our universe. For centuries, government-backed scientific programs have improved the lives of every person on the planet, and they are a gift to every person who will live after us. It's vital that the United States lead the world in increasing awesome through scientific exploration and discovery. So please support NASA and projects like the James Webb Space Telescope. It's a big universe. And it is our privilege and responsibility as human beings to work to understand and appreciate it. Best wishes, John Green HUGE thanks to everyone at NASA and Northrop Grumman who made Hank's present possible, especially Ron Birk, Charlie Atkinson, and Rolf Danner. And thanks to Michael Gardner at ecogeek for facilitating the whole process. Happy Hanko de Mayo! HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 704 - Solving Your Problems!

19 juin 2012

In which John solves the problems of nerdfighters. Easy ways to be nerdfightastic: FREE Kiva loans: Kiva: http://www.kiva.org/invitedto/nerdfighters/by/johngreen Fahrenheit 451: AT YOUR LOCAL BOOKSTORE or http://www.amazon.com/mn/search/?_encoding=UTF8&tag=vlogbrothers-20&linkCode=shr&camp=213733&creative=393193&field-keywords=fahrenheit%20451&sprefix=fah%2Cstripbooks%2C205&url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks Laptop cooling pad: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002MU1ZRS?ie=UTF8&tag=vlogbrothers-20&linkCode=shr&camp=213733&creative=393185&creativeASIN=B002MU1ZRS&keywords=laptop%20cooling%20pad&qid=1340136954&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1 Charlotte's Web: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061124958?ie=UTF8&tag=vlogbrothers-20&linkCode=shr&camp=213733&creative=393177&creativeASIN=0061124958&keywords=charlotte%27s%20web&qid=1340137068&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1 Key Tweak: http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/OS-Enhancements/KeyTweak.shtml Figment: http://www.figment.com Grown-up Nerdfighters group: http://www.facebook.com/groups/197523853706484/ HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 705 - Hank is Maybe Crazy

22 juin 2012

Put your feet up and watch the Lizzie Bennet Diaries: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6690D980D8A65D08&feature=plcp In which Hank talks about dreams, super hearing heroes, blu-tac, ticky tacky, artificial sweetners, obseity, scishow, lizzie bennet, science, vidcon, quarks, shirts, tripods, dan, french moustaches, business cards, and crazyness. It's been a long time since I just sat down in front of the camera and talked...but that's what I did here. Things are pretty crazy with VidCon and Lizzie Bennet right now, so I didn't have time to prepare anything, but sometimes that's when the best videos happen. Of course, they're much harder to edit because it's like "OK, I have a bunch of weird ranting...now to make this into an intelligible, structured piece of communication!" I don't think I did very well with that here, except to convey that I'm stressed out and weird. My New Tripod - It's awesome, but yeah, pretty expensive. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B004RCHX0W?ie=UTF8&tag=vlogbrothers-20&linkCode=shr&camp=213733&creative=393177&creativeASIN=B004RCHX0W&keywords=ravelli&qid=1340345182&ref_=sr_1_4&s=electronics&sr=1-4 HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 709 - An Army of Mindless Drones

13 juillet 2012

In which Hank discusses his feelings after the first parts of Fahrenheit 451, argues with John, and takes a bite out of a banana. http://dftba.com/product/11h/Nerdfighteria-Shirt http://dftba.com/product/11e/Pizza-John-Poster I worry that, since Ray Bradbury appears to think that all humanity can be stripped of people, that some people will assume that all humanity /has/ been stripped from people. In my discussions with people of all sorts, I have not found that to be even a little bit possible, no matter how much mindless entertainment they consume, or how averse they are to the idea of deep thinking. I worry about the implications of dehumanizing an entire society. I also think that, as a SciFi novel, the culture itself isn't very well sketched out, but it is quite a short book, and maybe I should save that discussion for next time. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 711 - The Universe is Weird: A Song

20 juillet 2012

Download the Song iTunes: http://dftba.com/universe Gumroad: http://gum.co/theuniverse Get Looking for Alaska http://dft.ba/-38kc Nerdfighteria Sopio Booster! http://sopiocards.com/store/vlogbrothers Harry and the Potters Tour Dates and Tickets! http://harryandthepotters.com/shows/ My New Microphone http://dft.ba/-38kd Send Nerdfighter License Plates to hankandjohn@gmail.com Nerdfighter License Plate Ideas DFTBA DF2BA BAWESOM NRDFTR NOEDGE PUFFLVL MYPANTS YRPANTS KEEPCLM EVLBABY Please leave other suggestions in comments LYRICS A quark can never exist by itself in isolation Something very odd happens when you try to sepparate them The energy it takes, to break up those two best friends is just enough to create two more to join back up with them A photon has no mass...and thus travels at light speed If you're able imagine going that fast, and if you try I think you might be You'd be emitted and absorbed in the exact same instant even if you travelled from a star 13 billion light years distant. [CGF - in various orders - standard tuning] THE UNIVERSE IS WEIRD I'm kinda freaking out What is this all about Infinite unbounded sets and hadronizing gluon jets We'll never understand All of what we have at hand At least that's what I fear An electron has a strong charge, as strong as a proton And a tiny mass but not nonexistant like the photon You might want to take a seat now, cause this might hurt your mind It has mass and charge, yes, but not, apparently, a size There's a lot of stuff all around you right now Your chair your friend your planet and your sister's neighbor's cow Mundane mass and energy is all we know and undestand but it's only 4% of what the universe has at hand I was driving in a van with my brother and I said John, hey, guess what, like, dude, NO EDGE! Because the universe does not exist in any way we can conceive it No center, no edge, no none of that, whether or not you can believe it Once upon a time, in a gassy liquid stew A molecule was like "hey, I turned me into you" This may be the biggest mystery of all the ones in which we dwell How the universe created a tool with which to know itself HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 712 - Tumblr: The Musical

27 juillet 2012

Available on iTunes! http://dftba.com/tumblr In which Hank Siiiiiiings...about Tumblr, with the team from AVbyte: http://www.youtube.com/avbyte My Tumblr is at http://www.edwardspoonhands.com The Holden Caulfield shirt I'm wearing: http://dftba.com/product/10j/Holden-Caulfield-Thinks-Youre-A-Phony-T-Shirt John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Eff Yeah Nerdfighters: http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Here's me talking about the pronunciation of GIF http://edwardspoonhands.com/post/28137156918/a-note-on-the-pronunciation-of-gif -- OREGON AND WASHINGTON PEOPLE -- http://harryandthepotters.com/shows -- CREDITS -- Molly Gallagher as Hipster Ariel Elizabeth Oldak as Fangirl Hank Green Antonius Nazareth Vijay Nazareth "Ariel Costume" and "Random Puppet" made by Elizabeth Oldak Lyrics by Antonius Nazareth and Hank Green Music by Antonius Nazareth Shooting/Editing by Vijay Nazareth and Michael Aranda PAs: Cameron Sun, Kevin Sun, Sage Suppa HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 715 - An Open Letter to Students Returning to School

7 août 2012

Learn with Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse And SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow In which John Green gives advice to students returning to school for summer break, discusses the reasons public education exists, and celebrates the landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, among many great things that have happened to humans since we began to invest in public education. The Evil Baby Orphanage kickstarter:http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1334239018/evil-baby-orphanage-0 We did not make this game or anything, but when we saw it, we contacted the people who were making it and they showed it to us, and we just think it looks like a really cool card game. (And if they raise enough money, they're releasing a nerdfighter-specific expansion pack, which would be--while we're on the topic of 2007 vlogbrothers terminology--pretty jokes.) HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 722 - In Which the Candle Dies

28 août 2012

The Nerdfighter Kiva Group (all the help I'm giving you): http://www.kiva.org/team/nerdfighters (CLEARLY I HAVE UNDERESTIMATED NERDFIGHTERIA AGAIN.) Preorder the box set: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0525426132?ie=UTF8&camp=213733&creative=393185&creativeASIN=0525426132&linkCode=shr&tag=vlogbrothers-20&keywords=john%20green%20box%20set&qid=1346187134&ref_=sr_1_1&sr=8-1 The Crash Course poster: http://dftba.com/product/11p/CrashCourse-World-History-Poster-1-of-3 In which John discusses the end of the Looking for Alaska candle and the coming of the box set designed by nerdfighter Karen Kavett (http://www.youtube.com/xperpetualmotion). Also, John takes you on a whirlwind international tour of TFIOS translation covers. In a shocking twist, none of them feature feet OR whispering girls. In addition to all this, John offers a compromise in regard to the outstanding punishments. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 737 - Understanding the National Debt and Budget Deficit

23 octobre 2012

In which John discusses the US national debt, the federal budget deficit, plans for shrinking or eliminating the deficit, and tries to provide some context to the political rhetoric and statistics that are constantly thrown around in an election season. Along the way, I hope you'll understand why the United States' sovereign debt hasn't led us to an economic crisis, but also why budget deficits need to shrink in order to ensure that credit remains inexpensive and the US continues to enjoy the trust of the world economy. (Friendly reminder: Educational videos, by extensive precedent, are allowed to be longer than 4:00.) Here's why I think the gold standard is a bad idea: 1. By restricting money supply to the supply of gold, you risk shrinking the money supply just because of a shock leading to a disruption in supply from mining. This creates a lot of volatility in the money supply for no reason. 2. The gold standard limits a government's ability to respond to changes in the market, which can (and has) led to unescapable deflationary spirals. 3. Far from inspiring investor confidence, its implementation would crush it: http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/gold-369936-standard-money.html Posters and stuff: http://dftba.com My tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com My twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 738 - Apples! CGP Grey Style

26 octobre 2012

In which Hank tells you some things you probabably didn't really need to know about apples...but that's OK right? Evil Baby Orphanage Card Game! http://dftba.com/product/132/Evil-Baby-Orphanage-Card-Game Last week I was talking to CGP Grey (http://www.youtube.com/cgpgrey) about how he needs to make videos more often. And he was like "Dude, it's really hard." And I was like "naaahhh." So he told me to try it, so I did, and I haven't stood up in like two days...it was extremely hard and the end product is a good deal less excellent than the average CGP Grey video. So, I am willing to concede that he probably can't make one video per week without killing himself. BUT! I still think he should try, because I love his stuff. Oh, also, he attributes all his images...which was insanely difficult to do, but here they are! Music: Whiskey on the Mississippi by Incompetech: http://www.incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?genre=Blues Jan Tik http://www.flickr.com/photos/jantik/308709862/ leoncillo sabino http://www.flickr.com/photos/italintheheart/3792771452/ Robert S. Donovan http://www.flickr.com/photos/booleansplit/3036470963/ Hair-Flick http://www.flickr.com/photos/hairflick/3093461616/ Watershed Post http://www.flickr.com/photos/watershedpost/6230543582/ Thomas Hawk http://www.flickr.com/photos/thomashawk/36595362/ JD Hancock http://www.flickr.com/photos/jdhancock/4509591701/' Micky** http://www.flickr.com/photos/emzee/273289101/ architecturegeek http://www.flickr.com/photos/architecturegeek/4074659164/ Gage Skidmore http://www.flickr.com/photos/gageskidmore/7492546294/ VistaICO.com http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1328101861_Thumbs_Up.png Powi http://www.flickr.com/photos/powi/2110314189/ jrsnchzhrs http://www.flickr.com/photos/jrsnchzhrs/3989597565/ racheocity http://www.flickr.com/photos/rachel-johnson/4326312141/ Selma90 http://www.flickr.com/photos/selma90/3675162262/ Foxtongue http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxtongue/102676994/ talliskeeton http://www.flickr.com/photos/talliskeeton/4499978489/ amiefedora http://www.flickr.com/photos/amiefedora/3924082331/ orchidgalore http://www.flickr.com/photos/25609635@N03/6278463351/ Muffet http://www.flickr.com/photos/calliope/4913425862/ D H Wright http://www.flickr.com/photos/dhwright/5874234034/ mccun934 http://www.flickr.com/photos/mccun934/2645397068/in/photostream/ Steve Parker http://www.flickr.com/photos/sparker/1203156393/ Violentz http://www.flickr.com/photos/violentz/5066022857/ Abhijit Tembhekar http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Red_Apple.jpg Måns Sandström http://www.flickr.com/photos/manssandstrom/4044103672/ scottfeldstein http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Liquor_bottles.jpg Tara Alton: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camisole.png dddaag http://www.flickr.com/photos/daaggg/5006160966/in/photostream/ HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 739 - Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA!

3 novembre 2012

http://www.DFTVA.com - submit a picture of you doing the Nerdfighter sign at your polling place or with your ballot and get a free sticker! Share the Sticker! http://edwardspoonhands.com/image/34878077058 Sticker Design by Karen Kavett: http://youtube.com/karen Site Development by Sam Rudge: https://twitter.com/samrudge In which Hank talks about all of the crazy things going on including Disney's acquisition of LucasFilm, Hurricane Sandy, Darcy Day, Assassin's Creed 3, and the U.S. Elections. He also coughs a lot. LINKS!!! Big Day Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqfgrb2ToF3_OgMbaluAJai2H5w7BOzqF&feature=edit_ok Darcy Day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZqL4ux1Yq0&list=PLqfgrb2ToF3_OgMbaluAJai2H5w7BOzqF&index=2&feature=plpp_video Nerdfighter Anthem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyB-_U-E5hI&list=PLqfgrb2ToF3_OgMbaluAJai2H5w7BOzqF&index=7&feature=plpp_video Hank Plays Assassin's Creed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NThc8Q_V5ns&list=PLqfgrb2ToF3_OgMbaluAJai2H5w7BOzqF&index=9&feature=plpp_video International Nerdfighter Video: http://youtu.be/q_a7YO9pAns The HPA's Equality FTW Campaign! http://thehpalliance.org/action/campaigns/equality-ftw-vote-2012/ HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 743 - The 51st State

8 novembre 2012

In which Hank discusses the historical nature of yesterday's election, and how a bunch of Americans who don't live in America may end up having the most significant impact of all. But then again, maybe not. Not only would Puerto Rico's statehood be a very uphill battle to a supermajority in Congress, it also remains an extremely divisive issue with the commonwealth. But it is fascinating that Puerto Rico remains, in effect, a colony of the United States and has been an autonomous country for all of four weeks (after the Spanish gave it up and before the US took possession) in it's 500 year history. It's important to note that the question on the ballot was an odd one (I didn't have time to talk about this in the video). It was a two-part question, first asking if people wanted to see Puerto Rico's status change (a majority did) and then asking, if it did, how they would like it to change (even if they had just said that they /didn't/ want it to change.) A large number of people did not answer the second question, indicating that the majority that favored statehood may have been overwhelmed by the people who didn't want any chance mixed with the people who wanted full independence or a different commonwealth status. Nonetheless, the portion of Puerto Rico favoring statehood continues to increase, and this is an issue that we will have to face some day. HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 746 - I Was a Child Poet. And a Bad One.

13 novembre 2012

In which John shares some of his early writing, including a poem called "Bio Poem" that is well and truly humiliating in its lack of quality. I also discover and share many items from my past, including my old report cards and some Brotherhood 2.0 memorabilia. Also, I celebrate some good news: The Fault in Our Stars has been named one of the ten best books of 2012 by the editors at Amazon: http://t.co/TaDb008x Check out the de Grummond Collection on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/de-Grummond-Childrens-Literature-Collection/103104874119 (And yes, this means that any interested researchers will be able to go to the collection and look through dozens of different drafts of each of my novels, read the editorial correspondence between Julie and me, etc. The de Grummond Collection is an amazing resource, and I feel very lucky that my work will be part of it.) HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 747 - We're all Scared

16 novembre 2012

In which Hank discusses why life is so terrifying, and why that's OK. Oh, and also, we're playing Carnegie Hall: http://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2013/1/15/0700/PM/John-and-Hank-Green-An-Evening-of-Awesome/ So Charlie made this video Which prompted these people to make these videos: Michael Aranda http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPsVQHu5lA4 Myles http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0VYcJGcz3Y Mickeleh http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6FyaoUAD0U Wheezy http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wi04oCcCICQ Which prompted me to make this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ph1Oe5_LkU And then the comments on that video made me want to make the video above. This is especially weird because this is very similar to a video I made on HanksChannel, though spruced up for Vlogbrothers. But the real point I want to make is that making things is terrifying, and making our selves is the most terrifying creation of all, and we have to do it every single time we meet new people, which is why that's scary. But it's OK for it to be scary, because that's how you know something's worthwhile. Also, the other point is...we're all scared. I proved it... HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 750 - Nerdfighter Book Recommendations: A Gift Giving Guide for Nerdfightastic Readers

27 novembre 2012

In which John Green recommends some of his favorite books to some of his favorite people (Crash Course fans, Whovians, Sherlockians, Harry Potter fans, Swoodilypooper supporters, and nerdy readers of all kinds). Recommended books include: The Ballad of the Whiskey Robber by Julian Rubinstein Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo Sula by Toni Morrison Mansfield Park and Persuasion by Jane Austen The Blood of the Lamb by Peter de Vries Uglies by Scott Westerfeld Matched by Ally Condie Divergent by Veronica Roth Telegraph Avenue by Michael Chabon Bossypants by Tina Fey The Magicians by Lev Grossman Harry, a History by Melissa Anelli The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation by M. T. Anderson The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks by E. Lockhart Everybody Sees the Ants by A. S. King If I Stay by Gayle Foreman To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 754 - Economics and Dentistry: YOUTUBE'S FAVORITE TOPICS

11 décembre 2012

Join the Kiva nerdfighters: http://www.kiva.org/invitedto/nerdfighters/by/paul24871641 In which John delivers the semi-annual-ish report on the Bank of Nerdfighteria's health and various projects, including both of its Charlie McDonnell-like arms, the lending arm and the giving arm. Also, John takes you on a trip in his new Chevy Volt (yay!) to the dentist (boo!). Places to be a nerdfighter mentioned in this video include: Our Pants: http://nerdfighteria.vanillaforums.com/ The Ning: http://www.nerdfighters.com The Minecraft Server: http://mc.nerdfighteria.com The Nerdfighter Subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/nerdfighters Effyeahnerdfighters: http://www.effyeahnerdfighters.com Adult Nerdfighters facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/197523853706484/?fref=ts Vyou http://vyou.com/group/p/87 Location Specific Nerdfighter Facebook Groups: http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/localnfgroups HERE ARE A LOT OF LINKS TO NERDFIGHTASTIC THINGS: Shirts and Stuff: http://dftba.com/artist/30/Vlogbrothers Hank's Music: http://dftba.com/artist/15/Hank-Green John's Books: http://amzn.to/j3LYqo ====================== Hank's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/hankimon Hank's tumblr: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com John's Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen John's Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/johngreenfans John's tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com ====================== Other Channels Crash Course: http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow Gaming: http://www.youtube.com/hankgames VidCon: http://www.youtube.com/vidcon Hank's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/hankschannel Truth or Fail: http://www.youtube.com/truthorfail ====================== Nerdfighteria http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/ http://effyeahnerdfighters.com/nftumblrs http://reddit.com/r/nerdfighters http://nerdfighteria.info/ A Bunny (\(\ ( - -) ((') (')

Épisode 773 - Top 25 Life Hacks of Reddit

1 mars 2013

Individuals shared them, the collective intelligence of Reddit sorted and vetted them, all I did was make a video putting them all in one place. The 25 Top Life Pro Tips! Life Pro Tips http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/top/ Nerdfighter Reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/nerdfighters/ The Infographics: Ramen: http://imgur.com/Ck8f5 Google: http://i.imgur.com/hkmIT.gif Here they all are (yes, I appear to have missed a couple...my bad): Jar of Happiness - thatswhatmesaid - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/13r2af/start_2013_off_with_an_empty_jar_and_fill_it_with/ Headlamp Jug Light - nickskater09 - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/savv7/lpt_when_camping_strap_a_head_lamp_to_a_gallon/ Whte Text With Black Background - Madiau - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/uu6er/its_really_quite_simple_guys/ Two Fingers to Upvote - jigglingpudding - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/11c6pu/lpt_alien_blue_users_tap_a_link_with_two_fingers/ Blue Ink In A Red Pen - MiloMuggins - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/vfo0q/lpt_tired_of_coworkers_stealing_your_pen_try_this/ Cheap Plane Tickets - tiradium - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/13mdr5/lpt_if_you_want_to_buy_the_cheapest_airline/ How to Untie Any Knot - jumaklavita - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/oikye/how_to_open_nearly_any_knot/ Paper CD Case - normalize - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/v9up7/make_a_cd_case_from_a_single_piece_of_paper/ Fill A Bucket From The Sink - mrfitzy http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/pi38j/lpt_use_a_clean_dustpan_to_fill_a_container_that/ How To Fix Audio Levels In a Movie - army_of_dicks - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/vdrlq/lpt_watching_a_movie_and_the_dialogue_is_too/ Fresh Eggs - nthensome - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/10c0ev/how_to_tell_if_an_egg_is_fresh/ Fast Essay Writing - dan81989 - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/136zs4/lpt_another_way_to_write_fast_wellconstructed/ Downloading Whole Imgur Albums - Alt_f4_ - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/11yb1g/lpt_add_zip_after_an_imgur_album_to_download_a/ Staple Remover For Key Rings - RuncibleSpoon18 - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/top/?sort=top&t=all Pasting Unformatted Text - rbmichael - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/z0lm6/lpt_ctrl_shift_v_pastes_as_plain_unformatted_text/ Ice In Water Bottles - Testicle_Festival - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/zeotu/fill_plastic_water_bottles_a_quarter_of_the_way/ Straight Charger Cords - omglikewtf - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/zoy76/use_a_spring_from_an_old_pen_to_keep_your_charger/ How To Not Buy Stuff From Co-workers - CaptnSpalding - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/179eoy/lpt_how_to_avoid_buying_stuff_from_coworkers/ Frozen Grapes - Tericakes - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/rt6qq/freeze_grapes_to_chill_white_wine_without/ Fixing Dinged Wooden Furniture - icametodropbombs - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/rjdbs/rub_a_walnut_on_damaged_wooden_furniture_to_cover/ Awesome Ramen - johnny_topside - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/x88bz/how_to_make_awesome_ramen/ How to Not Wipe Paint On Side Of Can - [deleted] - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/q9b2p/lpt_place_a_rubber_band_around_an_open_paint_can/ Google Tips - Xenoo - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/t0bv5/lpt_how_to_get_more_out_of_google/ Stop Spam Texts - ikonoclasm - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/187ieh/lpt_if_you_receive_a_spam_text_message_forward_it/ Expediting 911 Calls - roastedbagel - http://www.reddit.com/r/LifeProTips/comments/xbkz8/lpt_if_ever_in_a_large_crowd_and_faced_with/

Épisode 784 - On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg

19 avril 2013

When I was growing up, the stigma surrounding homosexuality was so severe (not in my household, but in the broader culture) that I feared I was gay because of tiny little signs that actually had very little (or nothing) to do with sexuality (like enjoying the music of the Village People). That confusion was terrifying to me because this stuff just wasn't talked about culturally (even though my parents were super-supportive.) Because that was hard for me, I assume that it's hard for lots of other people, so I wanted to make a video about sexual orientation in a frank and adult way, talking about identity, love, sex, and attraction. But since my own experience is pretty limited (being pretty much totally straight) I asked some friends if they'd like to share their experiences and thoughts. Thanks VERY much to: Hannah Hart http://www.youtube.com/myharto Tyler Oakley http://www.youtube.com/user/tyleroakley Ze Frank http://www.youtube.com/user/zefrank1 Meg Turney http://www.youtube.com/user/megturney / SourceFed For thinking great thoughts and sticking their neck out there for me. Also, Hannah has a whole series on coming out and sexual orientation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ_8O929WOA&list=PLaUGyW1LBjMuP1Dma5o9W_eAGsshQ5nrR Music: Inner Light from Incomptech http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1300021 Crisis hotlines by country: U.K. 08457-90-90-90 Australia 13-11-14 Canada 1-800-448-1833 Belgium 02-649-95-55 New Zealand 5222-999 or 0800-111-777 France 01-45-39-40-00 Germany 0800-111-0-333 Argentina: 54-0223-493-0430 Austria: 01-713-3374 Barbados: 429-9999 Botswana: 3911270 Brazil: 21-233-9191 Canada: 519-416-486-2242 (Ontario) 1-888-787-2880 (Alberta) 1-866-872-0113 (British Colombia) China: (852) 2382-0000 (Hong Kong) Costa Rica: 506-253-5439 Croatia: 01-4833-888 Cyprus: 357-77-77-72-67 Denmark: 70-201-201 Egypt: 7621602 Finland :040-503-2199 France: 01-45-39-4000 Germany: 0800-181-0721 Holland: 0900-0767 India: 92-22-307-3451 Ireland: 44-0-8457-90-90-90 Italy: 06-705-4444 Japan: 3-5286-9090 Mexico: 525-510-2550 Netherlands: 0900-0767 New Zealand: 4-473-9739 Norway: 47-815-33-300 New Guinea: 675-326-0011 Philippines: 02-896-9191 Poland: 52-70-000 Russia: 8-20-222-82-10 Spain: 91-459-00-50 South Africa: 0861-322-322 Sweden: 031-711-2400 Switzerland:143 Thailand: 02-249-9977 United Kingdom: 08457-90-90-90 Ukraine: 0487-32715

Épisode 823 - 42 Amazing Maps

20 septembre 2013

The map, as an innovation, is extremely important. Simply constructing a useful representation of our world onto a piece of paper (or clay or vellum or whatever) vastly increased the capabilities of humankind. But we continue to add and alter this medium, in ways that allow for greater understanding of our world and even of ourselves. So in this video I talk about 42 maps that are really amazing. Resources that were very helpful included: http://www.reddit.com/r/mapporn http://www.worldmapper.org/index.html http://www.twitter.com/amazing_maps http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/maplab/ And this story is just AMAZING http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2013/09/jerry-gretzinger-map-ukrania/ Thanks to Katherine for being my research assistant on this one 🙂 ALL THE MAPS! United States on the Moon http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/18gyym/to_give_some_sense_of_scale_the_united_states/ Carta Marina: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carta_marina The Town of Chicago http://www.oldimprints.com/pages/books/46792/illinois-chicago/map-of-chicago-incorporated-as-a-town-august-5-1833 Pomponius Mela http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomponius_Mela Seven Billions http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/104wwo/seven_billions_the_world_divided_into_seven/ Australia is Empty http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1ibsap/2_of_australias_population_lives_here_oc1501x1402/ More in than Out http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1dqh7d/after_seeing_a_recent_post_about_the_population/ ...Actual Circle http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1dsssf/there_are_more_people_living_inside_this_circle/ Longest Straight Line http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/15mwai/the_longest_straight_line_you_can_sail_almost/ On a Globe http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpQwuGueeoA&feature=youtu.be Earth Sandwich Locations http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1iy7xm/land_on_earth_where_there_is_also_land_the_other/ Alcoholic Drink Preference http://www.who.int/substance_abuse/publications/global_alcohol_report/en/ Side of the Road http://chartsbin.com/view/edr Joshua Katz Linguistic Maps of America http://www.businessinsider.com/22-maps-that-show-the-deepest-linguistic-conflicts-in-america-2013-6?op=1 Metric Use http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Metric_system.png Maternity Leave http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2013/02/17/opinion/17coontz2-map/17coontz2-map-popup.png Juvenile Death Penalty http://www.prisonpolicy.org/atlas/juvenile_dp_in_modern_world.html World Mapper http://www.worldmapper.org Carna Botnet Project http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carna_Botnet A Day in the Life of Air Traffic http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1L4GUA8arY Population by Latitude http://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/1dddhq/worlds_population_by_latitude_longitude_xpost/ The True Size of Africa http://www.economist.com/blogs/dailychart/2010/11/cartography Ptolemy's Map http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy's_world_map The Sawley Map http://blog.metmuseum.org/penandparchment/exhibition-images/cat300r2_49e/

Épisode 855 - 54 JOKES! In Four Minutes!

17 janvier 2014

Hank Green Returns to tell FIFTY FOUR MORE JOKES in less than four minutes because that is WHAT I DO! Thanks to all the Nerdfighters on Twitter who helped me out. And, of course, to the original creators of the jokes...where ever you are. If you want to watch my previous jokes videos (I've now told a total of 289) there's a full playlist here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTR2tVr2a6A&list=PLMs_JcuNozJYOfHXHGTtHse4XYvnygc8A FULL VIDEO TEXT!!! ALL FIFTY FOUR JOKES! Transcribed by http://nerdfightergifs.tumblr.com 54 Jokes 1. Whats the difference between a cat and a compound sentence? One has claws at the end of its paws and one has a pause at the end of its clause? 2. What's the difference between a Tuna and a piano? You can tune a piano, but you cannot piano a Tuna. 3 Whats the difference between the moon and Julis Caesar? The moon is rocky and full of craters and Julius Caesar is dead! 4. Why do you think Civil Disobedience was such a fantastic essay? Thoreau editing... Thorough. 5. What cell phones do travelling nuns use? Virgin mobile. 6. And how come her cell phone bill was so high? She was a Roman (roamin') Catholic 7. Why did they kick cinderella off the baseball team? She kept running away from the ball. 8. And the mermaid, that was weird. What was she wearing in math class? Oh yeah.. an Algae-bra 9. Why was the sand wet? Because the seaweed... The sea... it wee'd 10. What happened when the butcher backed up into his meat grinder? Uh, he got a little behind in his work. 11. My pastor, he ate too many beans. He had in his own pews. 12. The defendant is accused of putting dynamite into a steer. Abominable! [A Bomb In a Bull] 13. I'm sorry we can't let the elephants back into the public pool. They keep dropping their trunks. 14. What did the policeman say when his tummy was rumbling? Stop! You're under a vest. 15. Kleptomaniacs just don't get puns... they always take things literally. 16. When the attendant asked the photon if it had any bags to check... It said.. Nah, I'm traveling light. 17. Ah, I had a great boomerang joke... It'll come back to me. 18. So the Pillsbury Doughboy's pants fell off and I.. feel really weird about donuts right now. 19. What did the sub-atmoic ducks say? Quark! 20. The stormtrooper was enjoying the Wookie steak, but it was a little Chewie. 21. That girl said she knew me from the vegitarian club, but I'd never seen herbivore [her before] 22. Why are the middle ages sometimes called the Dark Ages? Because they had so many knights. 23. Where do you get whales weighed? At the Whale-weigh station. 24. Name four men that are in a rock group together but none of them sing nor play music... Mt Rushmore. They're a rock group.. it's a rock...group 25. [sings] I stayed up all night because I wanted to see where the sun went, and then it dawned on me. 26. The oddly pleasant feeling of looking down on a physist as they drink the last of their beer. The strange charm of a top down bottoms up. 27. How much does a hipster weigh? An instagram. 28. A man goes to a zoo and discovers there is only one animal and it's a dog. It was a Shih Tzu 29. What do you call a snarky criminal going down the stairs? [A Condesending con descending] 30. What are the 10 letters of the pirate alphabet? Aye, Aye, Arr and the Seven C's 31. PMS jokes are not funny... [Period] 32. So I was on a train with Einstein and he turns to me and asks... Does Boston stop at this train? 33. A Bhuddist monk goes to a hotdog stand and says make me one with everything. 34. Sherlock, what are you doing with that 200lbs shrub? It's not a shrub, it's a lemon tree my dear Watson. 35. How do you make Holy water? Take regular water and just boil the hell out of it. 36. Interesting story, the guy who helped me learn algebra never farted around anyone. I mean he did say he was a private tutor. 37. My first girlfriend was a tennis player but she broke my heart. It was like love meant nothing to her. 38. Ever since I got punched in the nose by that clown I've smelled funny. I HAD TO CUT SOME BECAUSE OF A CHARACTER LIMIT! 44. They stopped a vulture from bringing his rotting carcasses on the plane but he said "You said I could have two carry on items!" 45. A Roman walks into a bar, holds up two fingers and says... Five beers please. 46. What do you call a cow that's just given birth? [De-Calf-Inated] 47. What do you call a cow with no legs? Ground beef. 48. What do you call a cow with three legs? Lean beef. 49. Two legs? Yo mamma! 50. Some people believe that becoming a vegitarian is just a mistake... A Missed-steak. 51. Puns, thats a rare medium well done. 52. How do you fix a broken Tuba. With a tuba glue. 53. Where does Dorien Gray shop? Forever 21 54. Dorien Gray Jokes, they never get old!

Épisode 864 - 18 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read

18 février 2014

In which John shares 18 of his favorite books that aren't wildly popular bestsellers. CLICK SHOW MORE TO GET THE BOOKS: 1. This Bloody Mary is the Last Thing I Own by Jonathan Rendall: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/088001685X/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=088001685X&link_code=as3&tag=vlogbrothers-20 2. One of Us by Alice Dreger: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0674018257/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0674018257&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 3. Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312274920/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=211189&creative=373489&creativeASIN=0312274920&link_code=as3&tag=vlogbrothers-20 4. The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green by Joshua Braff: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B003U898X4/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B003U898X4&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 5. Thirsty by MT Anderson: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0763638951/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0763638951&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 6. Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0763627968/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0763627968&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 7. Fly on the Wall by E Lockhart: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0385732821/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0385732821&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 8. The Untelling by Tayari Jones: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0446694568/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0446694568&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 9. The Golden Rule by Ilene Cooper: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/081090960X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=081090960X&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 10. Show Way by Jacqueline Woodson: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0399237496/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0399237496&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 11. The Enormous Room by e. e. cummings: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0486421201/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0486421201&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 12. Regarding the Pain of Others by Susan Sontag: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0312422199/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0312422199&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 13. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0679728899/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0679728899&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 14. This Blinding Absence of Light by Tahar Ben Jelloun: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005Q75K6Q/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B005Q75K6Q&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 15. Kendra by Coe Booth: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0439925371/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0439925371&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 16. The Optimist's Daughter by Eudora Welty: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067972883X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=067972883X&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 17. Will You Miss Me When I'm Gone: The Carter Family and their Legacy in American Music: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/074324382X/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=074324382X&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 18. The Last Summer of Reason by Tahar Djaout:http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0803215916/ref=as_li_tf_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0803215916&linkCode=as2&tag=vlogbrothers-20 WILL YOU MISS ME WHEN I'M GONE FROM YOUR PANTS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbvbEMSLKpI

Épisode 882 - I Love Science (Clean Version) (Uncensored link in the Description)

26 avril 2014

Uncensored: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RECuQaaGGfA&feature=youtu.be Censored: http://youtu.be/IC0m31P_qyk?t=7s Pre-order Incongruent: http://dftba.com/product/1e3/Incongruent---Explicit-CD TOUR BECAUSE AWESOME! http://edwardspoonhands.com/post/83834365294/im-going-on-tour-along-with-rob-scallon You can also get my other two albums for the price of one right now: http://dftba.com/product/1608 Thank you to Michael Aranda for editing and shooting and directing this: https://www.youtube.com/michaelaranda And to Nick Jenkins for shooting and directing as well: https://www.youtube.com/user/thelonelydirector They are both awesome. Lyrics: I Love Science Can you even imagine (Way back in the past when) We thought that storms were caused by petty gods Fightin' on top of a mountain. And yeah I like a good story But eventually it's gonna bore me If it doesn't have that truth; That incontrovertible, testable, repeatable proof I love Science I Love Charles Darwin Cause I don't think it's bold to question what you're told If you're told that the world's a thousand years old. There's nothing here to argue against, It's a process not an ideology, And I! Love! Science! Sometimes people ask me, Of all of the centuries, Which I'd pick to live life in. We'll, that's pretty easy... Right now. If you think objectively. If you like hot running water, And memory foam beds, And TV shows and cell phones, And not being dead You love science, And I love Carl Sagan 'Cause I think it's fly to look up at the sky And never ever ever stop wondering why There's nothing here to argue against It's a process not an ideology, And I! Love! Science! Wooly mammoth embryos Vaccines for smallpox and polio Your TV set, the internet Your PS4, supersonic jets. Exoplanets galaxies, DNA, germ theory, relativity, Just take a sec to think about it How screwed we would be without it. I love Science And I love Rosalind Franklin, 'Cause I want to die remembering why The truth is more important than winning a prize. There's nothing here to argue against. It's a process not an ideology, And I! Love! Science!

Épisode 905 - Towering Mountains of Ignorance

25 juillet 2014

This was a somewhat challenging topic to take on in four minutes, so here's a little more explanation. I'm not saying that we don't know things...we know lots of things. But particularly when it comes to social and cultural and economic stuff, we really don't. It's so hard to run experiments on the real world, that we tend to do the studies and then no one changes their mind and everyone explains the data in a different way. But you can run the "Harry Potter" experiment again with different inputs because "Harry Potter" can only happen once. Of course, there are people who are much better at guessing than other people because they know much more about the situations. People who understand, at least, what is and is not possible (which is an excellent place to start if you're trying to, say, create an independent Palestinian state.) Same goes for running a business...you will never take the most successful course, because there are infinite courses and only one maximum one. But some people are very good at finding good courses because they understand their customers and their markets and their employees and have fairly accurate constructions of reality as it relates to their business. But the idea that it is the responsibility of every person to have an opinion on everything that matters...and then cling to that opinion as an important part of their identity, sucks. I don't like it. I would rather we discuss these things in terms of values, which is really where our opinions tend to arise from anyhow. So when asked "how do we create more jobs in America" we don't really try to answer that question. We try to answer the question "How do we create more jobs in America while promoting our own personal values?" For things like "How do you end a war" or "How do you feed hungry people" or "How do you eliminate poverty?" I'm going to admit straight up that I don't know...and defer to the experts because they know a heck of a lot more than me. I don't think there's anything wrong with that. So, yay, I DON'T KNOW!!!

Épisode 954 - Racism in the United States: By the Numbers

30 décembre 2014

In which John talks about racism in the United States. The playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMs_JcuNozJb-5TJ3uuvqPzQVjO_XarED If you have suggestions for additions, let me know! SOURCES On average, black men's prison sentences are 20% longer than white men's for comparable crimes: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324432004578304463789858002 Black people and white people use illegal drugs at similar rates, but black people are far more likely to be arrested for drug use: http://www.vox.com/2014/7/1/5850830/war-on-drugs-racist-minorities African Americans are far more likely to be stopped and searched (although the contraband hit rate is higher among white people) in California: http://articles.latimes.com/2008/oct/23/opinion/oe-ayres23 And in New York (where the data isn't quite as good but appears to be comparable to CA): http://www.nyclu.org/content/nypd-quarterly-reports Those wrongfully convicted and later exonerated by DNA are disproportionately African American: http://www.innocenceproject.org/Content/DNA_Exonerations_Nationwide.php Black kids are far more likely to be tried as adults and more likely to receive life sentences: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/06/05/when-to-punish-a-young-offender-and-when-to-rehabilitate/the-race-factor-in-trying-juveniles-as-adults Black former convicts get fewer employer callbacks than white former convicts: http://www.irp.wisc.edu/publications/focus/pdfs/foc232i.pdf Emily and Brendan are more hirable than Lakisha and Jamal: http://www.chicagobooth.edu/capideas/spring03/racialbias.html On that front, this study is also interesting: http://psycnet.apa.org/journals/apl/90/3/553/ and similar results have been found in the UK: http://www.theguardian.com/money/2009/oct/18/racism-discrimination-employment-undercover and also in Australia: http://ftp.iza.org/dp4947.pdf Also, this news story has some great analysis: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/business/for-recent-black-college-graduates-a-tougher-road-to-employment.html?smid=pl-share High schools with mostly African American and Latino students are less likely to offer courses in Algebra II or Chemistry than high schools with mostly white students: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1382484-ocr-letter-disparities.html This article explores many of the other ways that increasingly segregated schools have negatively affected African American students: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/sunday-review/why-are-our-schools-still-segregated.html?smid=pl-share And this story discusses the fact that African American students are more than twice as likely to be suspended as white students--even in preschool. http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/03/21/292456211/black-preschoolers-far-more-likely-to-be-suspended The ACP report on racial disparities in U.S. health care: http://www.acponline.org/advocacy/current_policy_papers/assets/racial_disparities.pdf This (dated) study is also damning: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3695664 and there's lot of good info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_health More info on increasing disparities in life expectancy between black and white people in the US: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1497364/ The most recent polls show fewer white people thinking racism is not a problem than the ones I used in this video (although still a huge divide): http://www.cnn.com/2014/12/22/politics/cnn-poll-racial-divide-justice/ and http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/on-racial-issues-america-is-divided-both-black-and-white-and-red-and-blue/2014/12/26/3d2964c8-8d12-11e4-a085-34e9b9f09a58_story.html and http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2014/12/28/New-Poll-Shows-Racial-Divide-Crosses-Party-Lines Racial wealth disparity and the role that inheritance plays: http://iasp.brandeis.edu/pdfs/Author/shapiro-thomas-m/racialwealthgapbrief.pdf Related wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_inequality_in_the_United_States The widening of the wealth gap: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/12/12/racial-wealth-gaps-great-recession/ Nonvideo recommendations: I really like Roxane Gay's work in Slate and The Butter; this story in the NYT http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/25/business/for-recent-black-college-graduates-a-tougher-road-to-employment.html?smid=pl-share; Chris Rock's recent interview at http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/top-five-filmmaker-chris-rock-753223, and Ashley Ford's commentary and analysis: https://twitter.com/ismashfizzle. Also Kiese Laymon's wriitng is great, including http://gawker.com/my-vassar-college-faculty-id-makes-everything-ok-1664133077 ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 977 - Is Obamacare Working? The Affordable Care Act Five Years Later

25 mars 2015

In which John Green pauses, five years after the Affordable Care Act was signed into law, to consider what we know so far about the law's effectiveness and repercussions. I also look at health care in the United States more generally, and the limited scope of the Affordable Care Act relative to the size of the overall health care system in the U.S. I got a ton of help from Aaron Carroll, who hosts the great Health Care Triage https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage, but any errors are my fault and mine alone. SOURCES: More than 17% of US GDP goes to health care expenses: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States The U.S. spends way more on health care than any other country: http://www-tc.pbs.org/prod-media/newshour/photos/2012/10/02/US_spends_much_more_on_health_than_what_might_be_expected_1_slideshow.jpg And yet our healthcare outcomes are not generally better (and are in many cases worse): http://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2014/jun/mirror-mirror 44 (or maybe 46) million Americans were uninsured in 2009: http://www.pbs.org/healthcarecrisis/uninsured.html This NYT article assessing the ACA is excellent: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/27/us/is-the-affordable-care-act-working.html#/ Understanding pre-existing condition exclusions: http://kff.org/health-reform/fact-sheet/health-insurance-market-reforms-pre-existing-condition/ Medical debt is the biggest cause of U.S. bankruptcy: http://www.cnbc.com/id/100840148 Employer-based insurance distorts the labor market in the United States: https://www.bostonfed.org/economic/conf/conf50/conf50e.pdf Both the access and the cost savings parts of the Affordable Care Act are discussed really well at this wikipedia page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act We are nowhere close to a path to health care spending stability: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/45471 But the uninsurance rate has dropped dramatically: http://www.gallup.com/poll/180425/uninsured-rate-sinks.aspx And more than 12 million people have gotten insurance through the health care exchanges set up by Obamacare: http://acasignups.net/ The rollout of healthcare.gov was a disaster: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HealthCare.gov Insurance premiums rising more slowly than before exchanges: http://kff.org/health-reform/issue-brief/analysis-of-2015-premium-changes-in-the-affordable-care-acts-health-insurance-marketplaces/ More insurance companies are participating in the exchanges this year than last year: http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-states-to-get-more-insurers-under-affordable-care-act-1411495473 The law is costing less than expected: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/10/us/politics/budget-office-again-reduces-its-estimate-on-cost-of-the-affordable-care-act.html Is the law actually improving health? It seems so at least for young adults and also for colonscopy screening rates, but much is still unknown: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/10/27/us/is-the-affordable-care-act-working.html#/ Many are still uninsured and underinsurance is a huge problem: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/02/upshot/underinsurance-remains-big-problem-under-obama-health-law.html (Don't get mad at me for linking a lot to the New York Times; they do way more data analysis and reporting on this stuff than anyone else I've come across) Britons live longer and healthier lives than Americans despite being pretty similar lifestyle-wise: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62373/ Our health care spending will sink us in the long-run, but if anything the situation was worse before the ACA: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/45471 ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 996 - Monday Bonus Video!

9 juin 2015

A special Monday bonus video in which John talks about the new podcast, the decoupling of productivity and wages, and THE PAPER TOWNS MOVIE TOUR! Let's continue the discussion about productivity and wages in comments. PODCAST: Dear Hank and John: Episode 1 Do You Pee On Your Head? iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=1002937870&mt=2&ls=1 Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/dearhankandjohn/ INTERNATIONAL PAPER TOWNS TOUR INFORMATION FRANCE: @GallimardJeun https://twitter.com/GallimardJeun https://www.facebook.com/GallimardJeunesse.Onlitplusfort Meet and Greet: le 17 juin à 18h30 à la Librairie de Paris GERMANY: @FoxDeutschland https://twitter.com/foxdeutschland https://www.facebook.com/MargosSpuren.Film Berlin event FULLY BOOKED. Stay tuned to @foxdeutschland to see if Fox announces any more tickets. UK: @UKPaperTowns https://twitter.com/ukpapertowns http://www.facebook.com/papertownsuk Follow @UKPaperTowns for more information on a special Paper Towns event coming to London very soon! USA PAPER TOWNS TOUR INFORMATION: USA: Cast your vote at http://papertownsmovie.com/tour by liking and reblogging your state. One tumblr note is one vote and your votes decide where Cara, Nat, and I go on the #GetLostGetFound tour! Voting is open until June 15th and FAQs can be found here: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com/post/121041557733/papertownsmovie-youve-got-questions-weve-got New Paper Towns trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnjuh5dXk-g ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 998 - Why is College So Expensive?

12 juin 2015

College is a good deal, but it could be a much better deal. A combination of factors have driven the costs of higher education in America to increase extremely quickly, pricing some people out of an education and building over a trillion dollars in student loan debt. So why? Why did those costs increase and what are schools spending all that fat cash on. Turns out, it's pretty complicated. Can you lower your student loans? http://www.vox.com/2014/10/1/6050243/student-loan-repayment-options SOURCES Trends in College Spending: 1998 to 2008 http://www.deltacostproject.org/sites/default/files/products/Trends-in-College-Spending-98-08.pdf Trends in College Spending 2001 to 2011: http://www.deltacostproject.org/sites/default/files/products/Delta%20Cost_Trends%20College%20Spending%202001-2011_071414_rev.pdf Vox.com - Everything you need to know about Student Debt: http://www.vox.com/cards/student-debt/what-is-a-student-loan Vox.com - Everything you need to know about college costs: http://www.vox.com/cards/college-costs/what-is-college Is Starting College and Not Finishing That Bad? http://www.hamiltonproject.org/papers/what_happens_to_students_who_fail_to_complete_a_college_degree_is_some/ Public Colleges Revenue Shift: https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2015/04/13/report-shows-public-higher-educations-reliance-tuition\ Tuition Fees and Room and Board over time: http://trends.collegeboard.org/college-pricing/figures-tables/tuition-fees-room-board-time Hiring Spree Fattens College Bureaucracy: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323316804578161490716042814 Problematic Boom in Higher Education Administrators: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/02/06/higher-ed-administrators-growth_n_4738584.html ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1021 - Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World

9 septembre 2015

In which John Green discusses the Syrian refugee crisis and the growing number of refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, and Eritrea crossing the sea with the help of smugglers to seek refuge in European Union nations. Also discussed: The difference between migrants and refugees, the rights of refugees as established by international law, the globalization of all regional crises, and how the death of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi galvanized the world. PLACES TO GIVE: The UNHCR: http://donate.unhcr.org/international/general/#_ga=1.29610806.829388110.1441552177 Save the Children fundraiser created by author Patrick Ness: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/fundraiser-web/fundraiser/showFundraiserProfilePage.action?userUrl=PatrickNess SOURCES: Most of the stats and graphs in this video came from the United Nations' High Commission on Refugees: http://www.unhcr.org.uk/about-us/key-facts-and-figures.html Overview of the EU's struggle with migrants and refugees from the BBC: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-24583286 Another overview from the Independent: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/refugee-crisis-six-charts-that-show-where-refugees-are-coming-from-where-they-are-going-and-how-they-are-getting-to-europe-10482415.html An incredibly complicated guide to whose supporting whom in the Syrian Civil War: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_armed_groups_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War Immigrants to the U.S. are less likely to commit crimes than other Americans: http://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mythical-connection-between-immigrants-and-crime-1436916798 Understanding the difference between migrants and refugees, and the legal obligations we have to refugees: http://www.unhcr.org/55df0e556.html The UNHCR maps a plan forward from Europe that I quote from extensively: http://www.unhcr.org/55e9459f6.html The 1951 Refugee Convention that I mistakenly called a Commission in the video: http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49da0e466.html Information about the horrifying human rights abuses by Eritrea's government: https://www.hrw.org/africa/eritrea and http://www.ohchr.org/en/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=16054&LangID=E Yes, Bashar al Assad's government in Syria has tortured children and used chemical weapons: http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/05/201153185927813389.html and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghouta_chemical_attack (Link contains explicit images of death) Joseph Stalin probably never said that thing about one death being a tragedy and a thousand (or million) deaths being a statistic, but I quoted it the way a Soviet historian did: https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joseph_Stalin Thanks as always to Rosianna Halse Rojas (http://www.youtube.com/rosianna), whose data-gathering and fact-checking made this video possible. If you read the entire dooblydoo, you get a gold star. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1032 - Post-NerdCon Haze

16 octobre 2015

So the thing I /meant/ to talk about in this video was: If the distribution systems available to stories affect what kind of stories get told, then think of all of the wonderful stories that simply aren't being told. Information that simply never had a way to get out in its most effective way. We all know that some stories are better movies than books, or better books than movies, but for so long publishing companies and book sellers (and book buyers) shunned short-format fiction because it didn't make sense financially. It was hard to ship around, not a great value for the reader, and hard to make money on for the publisher. So most short-form media we ingested was video or non-fiction (magazine articles.) But now that there's a simple system for digital content, suddenly serialized novels and novellas are in high demand. The kind of content that wasn't produced for a generation now has an audience again. But what about all of those amazing short stories and novellas that we didn't get in the intervening time?! Maybe all of those creators were writing novels and we got great work out of them but, then again, maybe we didn't. And now we have all of this infrastructure built up around novels. not just in book stores, but in our own minds! The idea of novels, their importance. Not to mention the fact that most classes you can and will take will focus on that format because that's the format that has, for the most part, existed. And teachers might even discourage students from publishing in other formats because they're "not legitimate" or because the teachers grew up in a world where there was no market for that. But instead, in this video, I mostly just yell at you without saying anything because my brain is totally fried. HOPE YOU DON'T MIND! ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1044 - Is Success a Bad Idea? (Pizzamas Day 9 of 10)

19 novembre 2015

FINAL DAYS http://store.dftba.com/collections/pizzamas I'm not sure if I really got to the point I was trying to get to in this video...I had to cut a good bit out to fit it into four minutes. But I guess I feel like when people compliment me on my success they are putting me inside of a certain worldview that I don't believe in, but that is seen as universal by them. What I think is important is financial and social security. But being perceived by society as important is a really weird thing to base "success" on because it is necessarily something that only a small percentage of the population can have. Not because people don't have the important skills and talents, and not because they aren't dedicated and amazing and helpful, but because it comes down to the distribution of finite resources. Whether those resources are money or the control of others or the attention of others, basing a person's value on the unequal distribution of those resources is a bad idea and I don't want to be a part of that system, or a part of the way that people justify it to themselves or to society. If I am successful, it is because I have accomplished many of the things I have set out to accomplish and those things have had positive impacts on people's lives. I am certainly not unique or special in having done that...in fact, I would say, the vast majority of people are successes when that definition is used, which is a thing that I truly believe. I think most people die successful, and I think imagining a world in which success is some kind of rare commodity is wrong. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1046 - Crime and Outrage

24 novembre 2015

The data visualization tool used in this video can help you learn all kinds of things about how you will probably die: http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/ In which John discusses the changes in crime rates in the United States over the last 25 years, the minor outrages of the American penny, what will and won't kill you, the cycles of Internet outrage, rising pharmaceutical prices, and whether human life is getting better even as we feel like it is getting worse. Thanks to Rosianna for the asshattery and everything else! http://youtube.com/rosianna SOURCES: Violent crime has dropped by 50% in the US since 1990: http://www.statista.com/statistics/191219/reported-violent-crime-rate-in-the-usa-since-1990/ Property crime is also falling: http://deviance.socprobs.net/Unit_9/Page_4.htm A large majority of Americans think crime is going up: http://www.gallup.com/poll/186308/americans-say-crime-rising.aspx?g_source=perceptions%20of%20crime&g_medium=search&g_campaign=tiles Lots of data on homicide rates in American history: http://ourworldindata.org/data/violence-rights/homicides/#note-11 Understand what is causing death and disability in the U.S. (and around the world) as well as which causes are growing and which are shrinking: http://vizhub.healthdata.org/gbd-compare/ On the Internet we like to share what makes us outraged: http://arxiv.org/pdf/1309.2402v1.pdf Pennies are stupid and ridiculous: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77C47XYm_3c Asshat Martin Shkreli raises a drug's price 5,000%: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/turing-pharmaceuticals-ceo-martin-shkreli-defends-5000-percent-price-hike-on-daraprim-drug/ Warner Chilcott raised the price of a drug Hank needs to survive by 1,200% overnight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPf8vwnoEtU Unemployment is down in the U.S. http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LNS14000000 The economy has grown consistently since 2010: http://econsnapshot.com/2014/01/31/q4-gdp/ Americans' happiness score is higher in the 2015 report than in the 2010 report: http://worldhappiness.report/ And yet we think the country is going in the wrong direction: http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/mood_of_america/right_direction_or_wrong_track ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1048 - John's Book Giving Guide for the Holidays!

1 décembre 2015

In which John recommends many, many books that will make great gifts this holiday season. Books really do make the best Christmas presents, and I am not at all biased in saying that. Books discussed in this video: BETWEEN THE WORLD AND ME by Ta-Nehisi Coates: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780812993547 THE WHITE BOY SHUFFLE by Paul Beatty http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780312280192 THE COLOR PURPLE by Alice Walker http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780156031820 DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP by Willa Cather http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780679728894 ARE YOU MY MOTHER by Alison Bechdel http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780618982509 CITY OF CLOWNS by Sheila Alvarado and Daniel Alarcón http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594633331/ BEAUTY FROM ASHES by Eugenia Porter - You'll have to cut out your own flask-shaped hole, I'm afraid. THE PEOPLE IN THE TREES by Hanya Yanagihara http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780345803313/ A LITTLE LIFE by Hanya Yanagihara http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385539258/ GILEAD by Marilynne Robinson http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/gilead-marilynne-robinson/1100167496?ean=9780312424404 A BRIEF HISTORY OF SEVEN KILLINGS by Marlon James http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-brief-history-of-seven-killings-marlon-james/1118739004?ean=9781594633942 MIDNIGHT ROBBER by Nalo Hopkinson http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/midnight-robber-nalo-hopkinson/1100307502?ean=9780446675604 FALLING IN LOVE WITH HOMINIDS by Nalo Hopkinson http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/falling-in-love-with-hominids-nalo-hopkinson/1120934054?ean=9781616961985 THE FLAMETHROWERS by Rachel Kushner http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781439142011 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-flamethrowers-rachel-kushner/1112033302?ean=9781439142011 JUST KIDS by Patti Smith http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780060936228 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/just-kids-patti-smith/1100096808?ean=9780060936228 NO GOD BUT GOD by Reza Aslan http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780812982442 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/no-god-but-god-reza-aslan/1100169107?ean=9780812982442 SPQR by Mary Beard http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780871404237 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/spqr-mary-beard/1121186183?ean=9780871404237 A THOUSAND MORNINGS by Mary Oliver http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780143124054 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-thousand-mornings-mary-oliver/1109475229?ean=9780143124054 FAITHFUL AND VIRTUOUS NIGHT by Louise Gluck http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780374152017 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/faithful-and-virtuous-night-louise-gl-ck/1120358585?ean=9780374535773 FIRST AND THEN by Emma Mills http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781250090683 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/first-then-emma-mills/1120684114?ean=9781627792356 THE BOY IN THE BLACK SUIT by Jason Reynolds http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781442459519 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-boy-in-the-black-suit-jason-reynolds/1119701489?ean=9781442459502 THE TRUTH ABOUT FOREVER by Sarah Dessen http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780142406250 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/truth-about-forever-sarah-dessen/1100362488?ean=9780142406250 VALIANT: A MODERN TALE OF FAERIE by Holly Black http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780689868238 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/valiant-holly-black/1100333666?ean=9780689868238 BALL DON'T LIE by Matt de la Peña http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385734257 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/ball-dont-lie-matt-de-la-pe-a/1117541537?ean=9780385734257 SPEAK by Laurie Halse Anderson http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780312674397 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/speak-laurie-halse-anderson/1100163764?ean=9780312674397 MIRACLE'S BOYS by Jacqueline Woodson http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780142415535 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/miracles-boys-jacqueline-woodson/1100311355?ean=9780142415535 LAST STOP ON MARKET STREET by Matt de la Peña http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780399257742 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/last-stop-on-market-street-matt-de-la-pe-a/1120198919?ean=9780399257742 BOOT AND SHOE by Marla Frazee http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781442422476 / http://www.barnesandnoble.com/s/boot+and+shoe?_requestid=136838 ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1061 - Why Are Vegetarians Annoying? (An Exploration of a Cultural Rift)

22 janvier 2016

In which Hank delves into the meme of the annoying vegetarian, where it comes from, why it annoys us, and what's really at the root of it all. In researching this video, I found that a lot of the numbers we throw around when talking about how bad meat eating is for the environment are really confusing and occasionally just wrong. The most damning report (which I have quoted before) from WorldWatch turns out to have a bunch of obvious problems. Like, it counts the exhalations of livestock as a carbon emission. This isn't accurate as all carbon exhaled by livestock was recently extracted from the environment by the plants that the animals eat. I was pretty frustrated to find that WorldWatch had made this mistake (or worse, stuck by it intentionally.) It's all further complicated by the fact that making a cow in America is actually far more efficient than making it other places. Often times we'll talk about how the food being eaten by animals could be eaten by people, but that's not always the case. Raising corn for animal consumption is much easier and cheaper and requires less resources and can be done on less-fertile land than raising it for human consumption. So, I came out of this video with a more nuanced view, but nonetheless knowing more than ever that less meat eating means more food for more people with less impact, which is what we need most of all in this world right now. I hope this video isn't too controversial. The number one thing I wanted to say is that I wish I were better, and I will keep working toward that, but that it is also OK to be an imperfect person in an imperfect world. And so it is possible to agree with all arguments in favor of vegetarianism and remain an omnivore. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1063 - Why the Word "Millennial" Makes me Cringe

29 janvier 2016

In which Hank responds to and adds to an article John wrote about Millennials (http://www.weforum.org/agenda/2016/01/stop-patronising-young-people-and-start-listening) and discusses how uninteresting it has become to discuss generations as homogenous, and also why we seem to talk about what's wrong with one group without discussing the problems they face. I think we're really good at picking out negative attributes...those are the things we notice, and they're the things we write about. Sure, I'm concerned that young people won't vote, but I also understand that it is difficult to be civically engaged in a world that is divorced from your reality. I also feel like people raised in the world of deep partisanship and access to infinite information (all of it sensationalized) find not just politics but life itself overwhelming, as if every decision they make is an opportunity to either save or destroy the world. I myself was born in 1980, the cutoff between Generation X and Millennial, and while I'm fairly old I also spend a lot of time interacting with and thinking about young people, so I guess it's unsurprising that I'm sympathetic. But talking about the behavior of young people without talking about the challenges they face is dumb. And talking about one or two tendencies to behave slightly differently than other generations and then blaming that on one or two new-fangled parenting techniques (helicopter parenting) is just /awful/ sociology. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1064 - Is the Gender Pay Gap Real?

2 février 2016

In which John examines the complex and tangled question of the gender wage gap, and looks at some of the reasons why women who work full time are paid less than men who work full time. Sources: The pay gap increases as workers age, and there is a pay gap across all education and experience levels and in almost all professions. Also, the pay gap is larger for women of color, across all education and experience levels: http://www.aauw.org/files/2015/02/The-Simple-Truth_Spring-2015.pdf The size of the gender pay gap depends on how you calculate it, but discrimination is a big factor in the pay gap: http://blog.dol.gov/2012/06/07/myth-busting-the-pay-gap/ and http://www.jec.senate.gov/public/_cache/files/9118a9ef-0771-4777-9c1f-8232fe70a45c/compendium---sans-appendix.pdf The gender wage gap for MBA graduates increases over time: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-10-20/the-real-cost-of-an-mba-is-different-for-men-and-women Women's pay goes down on average relative to men once there are kids in a family; men's pay goes up. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-the-gender-pay-gap/2014/07/25/9e5cff34-fcd5-11e3-8176-f2c941cf35f1_story.html A really interesting, nuanced interview with an economist who studies the gender pay gap: http://freakonomics.com/2016/01/07/the-true-story-of-the-gender-pay-gap-a-new-freakonomics-radio-podcast/ The wage gap won't close at this rate until 2056: http://www.iwpr.org/publications/pubs/the-gender-wage-gap-2012/ An analysis of the role race plays in the gender wage gap: http://www.aauw.org/research/the-simple-truth-about-the-gender-pay-gap/ The gender wage gap is 10 cents in New Zealand, and 37 cents in South Korea: http://www.oecd.org/gender/data/genderwagegap.htm The exhaustive and at times exhausting wikipedia article about the gender wage gap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_pay_gap_in_the_United_States In the U.S. (and most countries), most unpaid work is done by women: http://www.oecd.org/gender/data/balancingpaidworkunpaidworkandleisure.htm There's a pay gap among librarians, and male librarians are disproportionately likely to become directors: http://lj.libraryjournal.com/2014/07/careers/payday-lj-salary-survey-2014/#_ and http://www.ala.org/research/librarystaffstats/diversity/libdirectors Great overall information (if a limited data set) from payscale: http://www.payscale.com/data-packages/gender-pay-gap/job-type ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1066 - Doing the Hard(er) Thing (and some very bad news)

12 février 2016

Basically the thing that I didn't say in this video was...if I can't make myself get up an hour earlier in the morning even if that would make my life much better, how am I supposed to do all of the things that everyone says we need to do to live more morally. Especially when the number and intensity of those things we should be doing seems to constantly increase (along with the price of many of those things.) Do we have an infinite amount of energy to intentionally make our lives a little less enjoyable for the common good, or is there a limitation there? Is that limitation only in my head? Probably, since I have a very easy life and yet still find it difficult to do relatively easy things. Yes, indeed, despite what I said in the video, there's definitely no "ice cream cake breaking point," but it is still hard to do the hard(er) thing. Maybe there is no limit to the number of difficult things we each can do but, instead, a limit to the number of difficult things we can choose to do. Which is why taking choice out of the matter helps me do hard things much more efficiently. THE BAD NEWS I've talked about this a tiny bit elsewhere, but Lemon (my beautiful and ridiculous dog) is very sick. She has bone cancer and it has gotten worse fast. She's pretty uncomfortable now and every day is harder for her. She's beautiful and loving as ever, but she is in a lot of pain and it's very hard for her and us. Thanks for all of your kind thoughts. Greyhounds make wonderful companions and they are always in need of homes. If you would be interested in adopting a greyhound, I would highly recommend it. And if you'd like to donate to your local greyhound adoption center in Lemon's memory, we would love that. You can find local adoption centers here: http://www.adopt-a-greyhound.org/directory/list.cfm ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1076 - Brazil's Government is Falling Apart...and it's Good News?

19 mars 2016

During the presidency of Lula Da Silva, billions of dollars in bribes were taken to allow construction companies to overcharge the government-owned oil company, Petrobras. Now, Brazil has corruption, but it's actually pretty good for a developing country. But the people of Brazil have come to expect more, and they have been left down. Current president, Dilma Rousseff, was chairwoman of Petrobras during the period of corruption, but no one knows whether Lula or Dilma were involved or aware. But Lula was under investigation before Rousseff appointed him to be her chief of staff, a move that means he can no longer be prosecuted by a normal court. I think this whole thing speaks very highly of Brazil. A reckoning had to come, and I'm pleased the citizens are holding the government accountable. However, I can't stop seeing parallels between the awful partisan situation here in the U.S. and the lack of skepticism people in this story have when it comes to believing awful things about their political opponents. Using this scandal to clean up Brazil must be done, but using it to score political points or gain power is going to rip the country apart. This is an epic story, and no one knows where it ends. Whether Rousseff retains power and who gets elected once the house is fully cleaned out will say a lot about how this very young democracy handles its economic and cultural growth when people's perceptions are controlled largely by social media. I think there are many good things in Brazil's future, but leaders will have to do more than fight for power. They will have to actually lead. Thanks to Alex Cuadros: https://twitter.com/alexcuadros Rafael Prince: https://twitter.com/rafaelprince And all of the Nerdfighters at Nerdfighters Brasil on Facebook. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1077 - Understanding the Primaries: Delegates, Democracy, and America's Nonstop Political Party

22 mars 2016

In which John seeks to understand the strange and labyrinthine process used by the Republican and Democratic parties to select a nominee for President, focusing on the great state of Missouri, where the races were close but the delegate counts weren't. Along the way, there's a bit of discussion about political parties in U.S. politics, congressional redistricting and gerrymandering, superdelegates, Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, John Kasich, Hillary Clinton, and Bernie Sanders. A little more historical background on the emergence of primaries and caucuses in American politics: http://blog.constitutioncenter.org/2015/07/kennedys-nomination-was-a-big-moment-for-the-primary-system/ All the delegate math you can handle: http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/delegate-targets/ and all the primary polls/forecasts you can handle: http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/election-2016/primary-forecast Know your superdelegates and who (if anyone) they've pledged to support at the Democratic convention in Philadelphia: http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/D-Unpledged.phtml Lots of information on redistricting in Missouri after the 2010 census: https://ballotpedia.org/Redistricting_in_Missouri More information on how the Missouri Republican party allocates its delegates for the 2016 Republican convention in Cleveland: http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P16/MO-R Thanks to Rosianna for illustrations (http://youtube.com/rosianna) and Stan Muller for the video title and help understanding political parties in the U.S. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1078 - Snapchat Question Time!

25 mars 2016

Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers AND Driftless Pony Club AND Harry and the Potters FEATURING Rob Scallon and Andrew Huang WILL BE ON TOUR IN MAY! DATES AND TICKETS!!! Monday 5/16 Lawrence, KS Liberty Hall 644 Massachusetts St, Lawrence, KS 7pm http://www.ticketmaster.com/event/060050774E8DCAAF Tuesday 5/17 Dallas The Door 2513 Main Street Dallas, TX 7pm https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1136407 Wednesday 5/18 Houston, TX Super Happy Fun Land 3801 Polk St, Houston, TX 5pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hank-green-the-perfect-strangers-driftless-pony-club-harry-the-potters-tickets-24027708523 Thursday 5/19 Austin TBD Friday 5/20 El Paso TBD Saturday 5/21 Tucson. AZ The Rialto Theater 318 E Congress St, Tucson, AZ 7pm http://www.rialtotheatre.com/event/1128197-hank-green-special-guests-tucson/ Sunday 5/22 Anaheim, CA Chain Reaction 1652 W Lincoln Ave, Anaheim, CA Monday 5/23 San Francisco Slim’s 333 11th St, San Francisco, CA 7pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hank-green-slims-mon-w-driftless-pony-club-harry-and-the-potters-rob-scallon-andrew-huang-tickets-24117176123 Tuesday 5/24 San Francisco. CA Slim’s 333 11th St, San Francisco, CA 7pm https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hank-green-slims-tues-w-driftless-pony-club-harry-and-the-potters-rob-scallon-andrew-huang-tickets-24117348639 Wednesday 5/25 Los Angeles, CA The Regent Theater 448 S. Main St. Los Angeles, CA 8pm https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1127969?utm_medium=bks Thursday 5/26 San Diego The Irenic 3090 Polk Ave San Diego 6pm http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1138181 W/O HANK GREEN: Friday 5/27 TBD Saturday 5/28 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Court S., 741 W Kilby Ct, Salt Lake City, UT 5pm https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1138879?utm_medium=bks Sunday 5/29 Denver, CO TBD Monday 5/30 Omaha, NE TBD ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1081 - 47 YouTubers Laugh Without Smiling

8 avril 2016

Videos I Was In: What is Sustainability: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEis6O9m0Ow Bridge Stories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFlNcnMM6iI Good Mythical Morning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTY-bdIxA1w German with a German: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOFna120ofA&spfreload=5 SourceFed Table Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7tG2kacEaU Just Between Us: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlW6J_S-DQc And Just Added Color Swatch Challenge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBnIJjzOE30 MORE TO COME Thanks to all the people in this video: Flula - http://youtube.com/flula Hannah Hart - http://www.youtube.com/myharto Lee Newton - http://youtube.com/flula Meghan Camarena - http://youtube.com/strawburry17 Steve Zaragoza - http://youtube.com/sourcefed Phillip DeFranco - http://youtube.com/sxephil Allison Raskin - http://youtube.com/justbetweenusshow Gaby Dunn - http://youtube.com/justbetweenusshow John Green - http://youtube.com/hankgames William Haynes - http://youtube.com/WilliamHaynesTV Reina Scully - http://youtube.com/ReinaScully Matt Lieberman - http://youtube.com/matthewdlieberman Trisha Hershberger - http://youtube.com/Nerdychick5 Bree Essrig - http://youtube.com/BREEessrig Markiplier - http://youtube.com/markiplier Taylor Peters - http://youtube.com/itsradishtime MatPat - http://youtube.com/MatthewPatrick13 Jon Cozart - http://youtube.com/Paint Grace Helbig - http://youtube.com/itsgrace Connor Franta - http://youtube.com/connorfranta Tyler Oakley - http://youtube.com/tyleroakley Hartbeat - http://youtube.com/hartbeat F0xy - http://youtube.com/foxyhotmess Starline Hodge - http://www.candicomics.com/ Travis McElroy: http://www.travismcelroy.com/ Jenna Marbles - http://youtube.com/jennamarbles Mamrie Hart - http://youtube.com/YouDeserveaDrink Jimmy Wong - http://youtube.com/jimmy Arielle Scarcella - http://youtube.com/ArielleIsHamming Miriam Nielsen - http://www.youtube.com/zentouro Ruba Wilson - http://www.youtube.com/RubasWorld Rhett McLaughlin - http://www.youtube.com/rhettandlink2 Link Neal - http://www.youtube.com/rhettandlink2 Derek Muller - http://www.youtube.com/1veritasium Meghan Tonjes - http://www.youtube.com/tonjes Nicola Foti - http://www.youtube.com/soundlyawake Ava Gordy - http://www.youtube.com/ava Lee Newton - http://www.youtube.com/MsLeeNewton Matt Watson - http://www.youtube.com/KidsWithProblems Darren Vongirdner - http://www.youtube.com/darenvongirdner Mitchell Davis - http://www.youtube.com/livelavalive Jake Roper - http://www.youtube.com/OFFICIALjakeroper Michael Stefens - http://www.youtube.com/vsauce Karen Kavett - http://www.youtube.com/xperpetualmotion Kevin T Porter (podcast, Gilmore Guys) Demi Adejuyigbe (podcast, Gilmore Guys) Music: Wallpaper from Incompetech.com ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1086 - Understanding the Tax Plans of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz

26 avril 2016

In which John compares the tax proposals of Republican presidential candidates Ted Cruz and Donald Trump, and also discusses the current U.S. federal income tax system and the size and scope of federal budget. Sources and much more background available below: Why not John Kasich? Because his tax proposal has too few details to analyze meaningfully. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/taxvox/governor-kasich-tell-us-your-tax-ideas The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center's analysis of Ted Cruz's tax plan: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/analysis-ted-cruzs-tax-plan/full The (right-leaning) Center for Federal Tax Policy's analysis of Ted Cruz's taxation proposals: http://taxfoundation.org/article/details-and-analysis-senator-ted-cruz-s-tax-plan The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center's analysis of Donald Trump's tax proposals. http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/analysis-donald-trumps-tax-plan/full The (right-leaning) Center for Federal Tax Policy's analysis of Trump's tax plan: http://taxfoundation.org/article/details-and-analysis-donald-trump-s-tax-plan More information on Ted Cruz's proposed VAT, or "business flat tax." http://taxfoundation.org/blog/ted-cruz-s-business-flat-tax-primer Understanding the current federal budget of the United States government: https://www.nationalpriorities.org/budget-basics/federal-budget-101/spending/ And the current state of federal income tax in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_tax_in_the_United_States ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1087 - The Time a Taxi Driver Stole My Money

30 avril 2016

It's funny, for such a little thing, I've thought a lot about this. I often feel bad for feeling bad about it. Like, driving a taxi is not a great job, and I'm sure drivers deserve to be paid more. But I also really dislike attitudes that enable people to break trust and take advantage of other people. And I really dislike being taken advantage of. It's a really unpleasant sensation and it makes me suddenly wary that it's happening all the time. And, often, that wariness results in me thinking I'm being ripped off when I'm really not, which then just makes it look like I have a massive chip on my shoulder. Finding the right balance between being open to the world and protecting yourself from being exploited isn't easy. But I'm lucky to be able to be fairly open and take risks that other people might not be able to afford. Anyway, just a story I wanted to share. INFO ABOUT TOUR AND STREET TEAM Wanna be on our street team? Perks include: Getting a bunch of posters and stickers to give away and put up around town / campus. Free merch at the show (either a t-shirt or CD). Fill out this form: http://goo.gl/forms/rb2mqzxkGf ALL SHOWS ARE ALL AGES! Tickets Available Here: http://tourbecauseawesome.tumblr.com/ May 16 - Lawrence May 17 - Dallas May 18 - Houston May 19 - Austin May 20 - El Paso May 21 - Tucson May 22 - Anaheim May 23 - San Francisco May 24 - San Francisco May 25 - Los Angeles May 26 - San Diego May 28 - Salt Lake City (no Hank at this one) May 29 - Denver (no Hank at this one) May 30 - Omaha (no Hank at this one) ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1091 - The Time I Fell Asleep with an M&M in My Mouth (and a song)

13 mai 2016

TOUR PLAYLIST: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9t7E4amWDqI&list=PLqfgrb2ToF3_AggaCCJ6UGFt-RuS_S8kl Most of you cannot come to see me on tour, which means that there are many people who are disappointed. But I have created a thing that is only available to people who want to see me on tour but cannot. If you are going to see me on tour, DO NOT CLICK THIS LINK! THIS IS NOT FOR YOU! For everyone else...just a treat: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf8gHRqr7Wc HERE ARE THE PLACES WHERE I WILL BE ON TOUR May 16 - Lawrence - http://www1.ticketmaster.com/event/060050774E8DCAAF May 17 - Dallas - https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1136407 May 18 - Houston - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hank-green-the-perfect-strangers-driftless-pony-club-harry-the-potters-tickets-24027708523 May 19 - Austin - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hank-green-and-the-perfect-strangers-w-awesome-guests-tickets-24657388914 May 20 - El Paso - http://neonticket.com/event/hank-green-driftless-pony-club-harry-potters/ May 21 - Tucson - http://www.rialtotheatre.com/event/1128197-hank-green-special-guests-tucson/ May 22 - Anaheim - https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/mobile/index/1143029?utm_medium=bk May 23 - San Francisco - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hank-green-slims-mon-w-driftless-pony-club-harry-and-the-potters-rob-scallon-andrew-huang-tickets-24117176123 May 24 - San Francisco - https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hank-green-slims-tues-w-driftless-pony-club-harry-and-the-potters-rob-scallon-andrew-huang-tickets-24117348639 May 25 - Los Angeles - https://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1127969?utm_medium=bks&q=e4d0f68f-5863-4aa9-8159-b99c3c77c3f2&p=81b90df9-9b9c-4d7b-99e4-ee90c1939373&ts=1463155896&c=ticketfly&e=00827&rt=Safetynet&h=6f4c644ad5c8d95e3ca3f8ecae350ca4 May 26 - San Diego - http://www.ticketfly.com/purchase/event/1138181 LYRICS Annie's been Annie for long enough now She knows what she will and she won't Sometimes she's gonna be up when you're down she's gonna know things that you don't All of the world isn't here just for you Annie being Annie doesn't make you less you She's got her own baggage, she doesn't need your's too Annie doesn't need your luck Annie doesn't need your worry Annie doesn't hate your guts But she does need you to get up and get out of her way Do you ever think you're holding her down Do you ever even think to ask why If you yourself are stuck on the ground Are you terrified that she could fly? Maybe it's time you take a look at yourself Annie's not a trophy you can put on your shelf She's pulling you through life you're putting her through hell Annie doesn't need your luck Annie doesn't need your worry Annie doesn't hate your guts But she does need you to get up and get out of her way I have to ask, as a friend, a friend to both of you so when you hold her close and keep her near is it love....or is it fear. I have to say it because you have to know You only get to keep her if you let her go ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1101 - Hey, Let's Change Some Things

17 juin 2016

Hannah's video (which I mention): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maIqBhtTxrQ In this episode of Vlogbrothers, whether you're 5 or 95, HANK GIVES YOU HOMEWORK! Because I know that's what you're here for. Boom. In America, every person has two senators that represent them in the Senate, they are the senators for your state. You also have a representative, you can find out who your congress people are here: http://whoismyrepresentative.com/ Then you can google those people and find their addresses. You can also google them along with any issue and find a fair amount about how they vote on stuff. You also have people who represent you at the state level...you should feel free to write one of them a letter as well. If you live somewhere else, use your fingers and push on the letters on your physical or software based keyboard until Google / wikipedia tells you how your country works. I do not know. You wanna look at my letters? Oh, how intimate! I basically sent the same letter to both Steve Daines (Senate) and Ryan Zinke (House) who have very similar positions. It's this one: To the Honorable Steve Daines, My name is Hank Green, I own a business in Missoula creating education media. I’m proud to employ over 20 Montanans. We just moved into a nice new office downtown if you would ever like to come visit. I am writing this in the wake of the attacks in Orlando. Not only were 49 people killed in that night club but, the night before, a colleague of mine, Christina Grimmie, was killed by a man with a violent history who had purchased two guns the week before. I know that we are Montanans and that guns are a part of our history and our culture. I have no interest in ending my neighbors access to firearms. However, we have a problem, and we need to take steps to address it. I believe it is time for you to consider a change in your position. I would like that you consider working to: 1. Ban the sale or transfer of assault rifles such as the ones used in the Orlando, Aurora, and San Bernardino murders. 2. Allow the CDC to study gun violence as a public health issue. I know this is a lot to ask, and that it is unlikely that you will change your heart on any of these issues. But after losing my friend, and knowing so many others did this weekend as well, I could not, in good conscience, move forward without asking this of you. Thank you for your public service, Hank Green Montanan, business owner, and educator. --- This one is to Jon Tester...we agree more often: To the Honorable Jon Tester My name is Hank Green, I own a business in Missoula creating education media. I’m proud to employ over 20 Montanans. We just moved into a nice new office downtown if you would ever like to come visit. I am writing this in the wake of the attacks in Orlando. Not only were 49 people killed in that night club but, the night before, a colleague of mine, Christina Grimmie, was killed by a man with a violent history who had purchased two guns the week before. I would like to thank you for your support of common sense gun regulations. You provide the exact kind of leadership on this issue that I would ask of you. I know this is not an easy position to have in Montana, and that your moderate views hurt you. Don't think that goes unnoticed. After the recent shootings, I'd like to ask you to work in Congress for the following: 1. A ban on high-capacity magazines for rifles 2. Re-instating funding for the CDC to study and fund the study of gun violence as a public health issue. I am very pleased to be able to support you and look forward to doing so in 2018. Thank you for your public service, Hank Green Montanan, business owner, and educator. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1108 - On Lives and Mattering

15 juillet 2016

Race and Racism Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMs_JcuNozJb-5TJ3uuvqPzQVjO_XarED It is very easy to discount the experiences of other people, especially when our experiences are very different and our relationships with them may already be strained by prejudice. And yes, people on all sides are casting out in anger because we want someone or something to blame for recent tragedies. But this is not a simple issue, it will never be simple. But there are very clear data showing that the criminal justice system values Black Americans differently than the average American. And that is a problem that must be confronted. Thank you to Ashley Ford, Ahsante Bean, and Nathan Zed for looking over this script for me. SOURCES Black people are 2.5xmore likely to be killed by police. And unarmed black people 6x times more likely to be killed by police than unarmed white people: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2016/07/11/arent-more-white-people-than-black-people-killed-by-police-yes-but-no/?utm_term=.b86ba5236595 (in the incessant debate, claims that if you look into the data you see a very different story invariably cherry pick data.) Black people more likely to get plea deals with prison sentences: http://www.crf-usa.org/brown-v-board-50th-anniversary/the-color-of-justice.html A more granular study shows that Black people and Hispanics are more likely to have officers use force on them even when they are complying with law enforcement: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/13/why-a-massive-new-study-on-police-shootings-of-whites-and-blacks-is-so-controversial/ This study also found no difference in the use of lethal force, in the communities studied. Black people face longer sentences for the same crimes in the same situations even when accounting for multiple violations, whether they had a public defender, their economic status, and whether they're on parole: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324432004578304463789858002 Police have difficult jobs and that some of the communities they are tasked with protecting are very dangerous. Many officers do not want to work in those communities, so it is difficult to find police officers to do that work. It is stressful work. The fact that there is racial bias in the criminal justice system is not a condemnation of police. Police need to be obeyed and supported because laws are want make our society function. But there is racial bias and it should be admitted, confronted, and we should do our best to deal with it. Because our society has a belief that black lives matter less...which is why we stand and say Black Lives Matter. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1114 - Why I Didn't Vote (And Six Reasons You Might Not)

9 août 2016

Find out how to register to vote, get sample ballots, and be prepared to vote this November by finding your state here: https://www.youtube.com/c/howtovoteineverystate Ballotpedia has LOTS of information about elected officials and candidates for office to help you get informed: https://ballotpedia.org/ In which John discusses the great shame of my life, the six explanations eligible voters most commonly cited for not voting, and the importance of doing the work (and it is work!) to participate in U.S. political life by voting on November 8, 2016. Look below to find your state: STATES Alabama - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ragLSjBiGIc Alaska - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZd7Rp4m8gs Arizona - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1fKol8tBV8 Arkansas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfCrwRUQJ3Q California - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTF5o-Ma1Yg Colorado - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YbN3aXcz98 Connecticut - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj3UgguB9Nc Delaware - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8wwn3LA9uk Florida - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlNCOrYkQBI Georgia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ap0e_O2RiLw Hawaii - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n6xAo2T-6o Idaho - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9RguBn58Iw Illinois - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8msQE61eREE Indiana - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2E2Whkw6wJw Iowa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEN3Wuo2RmI Kansas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwsELW1L0nM Kentucky - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLarfndxNAg Louisiana - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtPU67RznWQ Maine - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1gdYGvoXEA Maryland - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClBtYKEt5FU Massachusetts - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uZywLgUWr0 Michigan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_pk22R6O7w Minnesota - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtXybSbIOMc Mississippi - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qOUNGL5mdDI Missouri - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YU-IlCoBi-8 Montana - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLAUFj-4zXY Nebraska - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8Y562yAbyo Nevada - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2_lHK93f8s New Hampshire - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8nJ95oCPU0 New Jersey - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDEaYHbGieo New Mexico - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RKCG5_Uq_Q New York - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2K5a_NmSoYE North Carolina - https://youtu.be/14AJJjXjknQ North Dakota - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFJ5qeT-Jzk Ohio - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCvdjNnT0Qc Oklahoma - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPY6d-BUClc Oregon - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mI8D_eWAWPo Pennsylvania - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMJQ5pqiRNA Rhode Island - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NN5NLNqyWD0 South Carolina - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83XBcxZQaiM South Dakota - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pduL3Yyx410 Tennessee - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6fYHqrS5FA Texas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWas4N2d-0E Utah - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpFw9EvEjWY Vermont - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdVjzsLbrpU Virginia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogth3fmIaME Washington - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju1maRPLz8Y West Virginia - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GidAHJ8O8Gw Wisconsin - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T8Uek3S1BUs Wyoming - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZropUXblV8I OTHER Washington DC - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caPj8bMmC1Y Unincoporated Territories: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwMyflTCFLc Military and Overseas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg5Qh4anBZE ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1116 - Some Good News: 16 Ways 2016 Is Not a Total Dumpster Fire

16 août 2016

In which John discusses good news and encouraging trends he has noticed in 2016, including improvements in health, technology, literacy, and the number of Beyonce albums. You can watch me play No Man's Sky here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzDa5AshX8Y SOURCES: Much of the info in this video comes from the amazing Our World in Data, which is also just a great site to have bookmarked: https://ourworldindata.org/ 1. Child mortality is declining all around the world: https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality/ and is continuing to trend down in every region of the world: http://data.unicef.org/child-mortality/under-five.html 2. The West Africa ebola virus outbreak that began in 2014 has ended: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_African_Ebola_virus_epidemic 3. Humans are close to eradicating guinea worm disease; in the first half of 2016, there were only seven confirmed cases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dracunculiasis 4. Tremendous progress has been made in the fight against malaria: https://ourworldindata.org/malaria/ 5. Survival rates for early stage pancreatic cancer are now nearly 30%: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jun/03/pancreas-cancer-survival-extend-drugs-combination-liverpool-university And overall cancer survival is increasing: http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/ld/all.html (this information is helpfully graphed here: http://seer.cancer.gov/statfacts/html/all.html) 6. The data here is taken from the ongoing updates from this wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts and the data on the massive decrease of war as a cause of death comes from Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace-after-1945/ 7. ISIS is weakening, losing territory, and struggling with recruitment: http://www.economist.com/news/middle-east-and-africa/21701721-jihadists-are-losing-their-caliphate-they-remain-deadl-islamic-stateless 8. There are fewer bankruptcies in the United States (which is just one among several indicators that American economic life is, on average, improving): http://www.creditslips.org/creditslips/2016/01/2016-bankruptcy-forecast-lets-say-780000.html 9. The global economy is growing (although not as much as we'd like): https://www.conference-board.org/data/globaloutlook/ and absolute poverty is declining; 200 million fewer people live in poverty today than did in 2012. http://www.worldbank.org/en/publication/global-monitoring-report 10. Literacy rates are increasing, and the gender literacy gap is decreasing: https://ourworldindata.org/literacy/ More info here, although God this web site is slow: http://www.uis.unesco.org/literacy/Pages/literacy-data-release-2016.aspx 11. Book sales are up at bookstores: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/bookselling/article/71190-bookstore-sales-up-6-1-in-first-half-of-2016.html (This is also true in Canada, interestingly.) 12. No Man's Sky is a significantly better video game than Pong and you can watch me play it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzDa5AshX8Y 13. There is a new Harry Potter play. Here is a source attesting to the fact: http://www.harrypottertheplay.com/ 14. Evidence that AFC Wimbledon is in League One: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGSxCIGkT8E 15. Pokemon Go is amazing. Here's a source: https://i.redd.it/i6g4d69ildfx.jpg 16. Lemonade is the greatest non-Mountain Goats album of the decade. As evidence, I present Lemonade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrCHz1gwzTo&index=2&list=PL9NY5axt700Exl2gAl8NEjbmOpsvLJPUz ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1117 - 16 Sports that Should Be in the Olympics

19 août 2016

I have definitely enjoyed this year's Olympic Games...when I've been able to watch them. But if we can have dressage and race walking, I think there are a number of games that would be inexpensive and simple to include that would increase interest and appeal both in younger Americans, and also among people all across the world. This video is like 10% tongue in cheek, but for the most part, I actually stand by these suggestions. Maybe not in 2020, maybe not in 2024, but someday. My a capella Hobbit Drinking Songs video with Peter Hollens is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUKjJn0rOec Pronunciation of GIF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRe8HtJ7q6o Video Sources and information: Sepak Takraw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfmedg6woKE Wushu: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wcpk0QHACIQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgckPXFFBGQ Mounted Archery: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N74qqTWuwtk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gumuNn2PAQo Ultra-Running: Ethan Newberry’s documentary “Wonderland”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH4Zq6j0hZQ Parkour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsE1WsObpSk Darts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMmili62Y-U Headis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skxagVPbVro https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxgnCjgEQTs Kabaddi Highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNCNXXqv3aI Kabaddi Rules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfvcAMFpuEg Kite Fighting Chirag Pandya, Montreal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpFwvmEllos Cheer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7X7WyLDzjM ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1118 - The Ocho! Sports I Want on TV

23 août 2016

The Ocho: http://reddit.com/r/theocho In which John discusses headdis, log rolling, competitive jump rope, log rolling, far leaping, foot billiards, cup stacking, quidditch, backflip racing, dodgeball, and other unusual sports that desperately need a television (or online streaming) home. HUGE THANKS to Rosianna for the Air Bud 6: Ultimate Bud poster and all the help with footage-gathering. http://youtube.com/rosianna Some of the sports in this video: 1. Headis from HeadisSports: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-I1yhN8zn-Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skxagVPbVro 2. Quidditch from CBS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UfPij5ABdo and BillyQuach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taDda9lLaEw 3. Catan from Oomba TV: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG_ez8jFxRA 4. Backflip racing from ThatGuy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YTO5vZn_Ho 5. Log rolling from Jenny Atkinson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjUQTdtzRdc and Randal Armstrong: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97-TFl9Qu5g 6. Foot Billiards (the one I sent originally) from Kepo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0I0fT-23wyE 7. Far leaping from punjabi vines: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8c4Si_GIDw4 Omrop Fryslan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eZDtSHISZs and Omrop again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CDmz9g2Aac 8. Ultimate Frisbee from brodie smith https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HhUays2ehyI and All Star Ultimate Tour: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb4d-t_LY_8 9. Here is Brodie Smith's Ultimate Frisbee dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EusxDAbXv7o and the Ultimate Frisbee dog compilation from Ellie Stivers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYOoSHu_Zv8 10. RC truck racing from red RC live: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TpC6dD51Dc&feature=youtu.be ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1121 - One Scientifically Proven Thing Actually Makes People Happier

3 septembre 2016

Awesome Sox Club: https://store.dftba.com/collections/awesome-sox-club There are actually a couple of other happiness-increasing technique that is somewhat non-intuitive, is shown to increase happiness in repeated studies, and is fairly easy to implement and difficult to reverse: Having a dog or cat. It appears that being needed by the animal makes the human feel as if they have intrinsic value which...I mean it would be nice if we had that without pets but, there it is. If you want the best bang for your buck, I would suggest a small dog or cat from the pound as it will eat significantly less food than a bigger animal. Another life change that actually effectively increases long-term happiness on average is marriage. This seemed a little too hairy for this video though. Also, DEFINITELY NOT DOSE-DEPENDENT. One spouse...better for happiness. Two spouses USUALLY NOT. So there you go...get a pet, get hitched, and shorten your commute. You need to get home anyway, so you can feed your dog! SOURCES: Homeownership doesn't increase happiness: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/14/realestate/homeownership-the-key-to-happiness.html?_r=0 Short Commute = $40,000 raise http://www.npr.org/2011/10/19/141514467/small-changes-can-help-you-thrive-happily Commuting Linked to Lower Life Satisfaction https://uwaterloo.ca/recreation-and-leisure-studies/crunched-time-commuting-linked-lower-life-satisfaction Commuting and Metabolic / Cardiovascular Health http://www.ajpmonline.org/article/S0749-3797(12)00167-5/abstract Commuting related to lower social activity and lower general trust http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4509867/ 10 Things Commuting Does to your Body http://time.com/9912/10-things-your-commute-does-to-your-body/ ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1122 - How We're Spending Your Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report

6 septembre 2016

Crash Course's complete and totally free AP World History curriculum: http://thecrashcourse.com/curriculum.html Subscribe to Crash Course on Patreon to help us grow in 2017: https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Form to volunteer to help out with Crash Course translations: https://goo.gl/forms/Yeb4g8V4poSIWYpt2 In which John discusses the financial situation of various nerdfighter community project, including the disbursement of funds raised during the 2015 Project for Awesome, the current status of the Foundation to Decrease Worldsuck, the nearly $7.5 million loaned so far by the nerdfighter kiva group, the growth of our educational channel Crash Course, and our new curriculum project. I forgot to mention this, but every Crash Course video is now available for download for teachers and students who can't access YouTube online at http://thecrashcourse.com/ On the topic of kiva working to get better outcomes with their microfinance partners: One of the big problems facing microfinance is that while access to banking services and inexpensive credit does help individuals to grow business, it hasn't been successful at reducing poverty across a social order. Absolute poverty is EXTREMELY complicated, and it's very difficult to sort out which levers need to be pulled to reduce it in a community, but kiva is now focusing much more on experimenting with more levers, from zero interest loans to working with organizations that approach poverty holistically instead of just functioning as banking institutions. You can find out more here: https://www.kiva.org/about/impact/socialperformance and here: http://blog.kiva.org/faqs/kivas-impact-qa#measureimpact ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1132 - Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Tax Plans

12 octobre 2016

In which John Green compares the tax proposals of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, and looks at what the tax system and budget would look like for different families. There's also a brief introduction to federal income tax here in the United States, and some discussion of the candidates' budget proposals. SOURCES: The Tax Policy Center's excellent and detailed analysis of Democrat Hillary Clinton's tax plan: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/updated-analysis-hillary-clintons-tax-proposals The Tax Policy Center's analysis of Republican Donald Trump's tax plan: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/publications/analysis-donald-trumps-revised-tax-plan Much of the information in this video came from the Tax Foundation's analysis of Clinton's tax proposals: http://taxfoundation.org/sites/default/files/docs/TaxFoundation-FF496.pdf And of Trump's: http://taxfoundation.org/article/details-and-analysis-donald-trump-tax-reform-plan-september-2016 Lily Batchelder's paper explaining why Trump's tax plan would result in tax increases for 7.8 million households: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2842802 and a politifact story on the same topic: http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/sep/27/hillary-clinton/hillary-clinton-correctly-cites-outside-analyses-t/ Donald Trump's tax plan would boost the debt much more than Clinton's, and would put U.S. debt held by the public over 100% of GDP in the next decade according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: http://crfb.org/papers/promises-and-price-tags-preliminary-update The CRFB explains Trump's budget cut proposals here: http://crfb.org/blogs/explaining-donald-trumps-penny-plan-non-defense-spending And his plan for increased defense spending here: http://crfb.org/blogs/how-much-would-trumps-new-defense-plan-cost Chart of our publicly held debt to GDP ratio came from here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_debt_of_the_United_States The Tax Policy Center has an excellent chart explaining effective tax rates by income size that you'll enjoy if you're into this kind of stuff: http://www.taxpolicycenter.org/statistics/effective-tax-rate-size-income HUGE THANKS to Mark Olsen for graphics, Rosianna Halse Rojas for graphics and fact-checking, and Amanda McCloughlin and Adriene Hill for fact-checking. Any errors are entirely my own. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1133 - Compassion, Weakness, and the 2016 Election

14 octobre 2016

This year has hit me right in the faith in humanity. It's hard to even pick which thing about it has upset me the most. And when I was writing this video, I just kept putting down more and more and more words...it was very hard to stay on one track. Anyway, I'm bummed out, but I just do my best to remember that the people I know in the real world are more than 90% super great, which means that's probably also roughly true of the general population. So that's something! This article that Joe Hanson sent me was helpful though (if a little thick): https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/03/16/rebecca-solnit-hope-in-the-dark-2/ Also, if you're wondering why I'm voting for Hillary Clinton, it's not just because I think Donald Trump believes the whole world is a game for him to win at any costs, and that his presidency would significantly increase the odds of apocalypse (though they would still be quite low). It's also because she's accomplished a great deal of good in her career, which I talked about a bit here: https://www.facebook.com/hankgreen/posts/10157157580065487 And, unlike a lot of people, I actually relate to her a lot, which i talk about here: http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com/post/151433613535/i-totally-get-wanting-to-support-hillary-in-this Do I have problems with Hillary? Sure...but they're mostly with things that I don't know /anything/ about, like how to conduct the foreign and military affairs of the most powerful country in the world. I feel like we do that wrong in the U.S.. But I also freely admit that I have no idea what I'm talking about when it comes to that stuff, and I think it's pretty weird that so many people think they do. Anyway. Humans are great. We've got our issues, but I'm quite proud of us...even in this pretty unpleasant year. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1134 - Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals

18 octobre 2016

In which John Green compares the healthcare plans of U.S. Presidential candidates Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. For more information about health and health care policy, check out Health Care Triage: https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage SOURCES & FURTHER READING: Rand's analysis of the reform proposals of Clinton and Trump are nicely summarized here: http://www.rand.org/blog/2016/09/estimating-the-impacts-of-the-trump-and-clinton-health.html Full analysis of Hillary Clinton's plan (who is the Democratic party's nominee) can be found here: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2016/Sep/Clinton-Presidential-Health-Care-Proposal And full analysis of Donald Trump's plan (who is the Republican party's nominee) can be found here: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Issue-Briefs/2016/Sep/Trump-Presidential-Health-Care-Proposal Understanding the Healthcare System of the United States: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN-MkRcOJjY Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSjGouBmo0M The Kaiser Family Foundation explains the high cost of health care in the United States compared to other rich nations: http://kff.org/health-costs/issue-brief/snapshots-health-care-spending-in-the-united-states-selected-oecd-countries/ And this series explores health care outcomes in the U.S. vs. other rich nations: http://www.healthsystemtracker.org/chart-collection/how-does-the-quality-of-the-u-s-healthcare-system-compare-to-other-countries/?slide=1 The Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) has resulted in a significant drop in the uninsured population in the U.S. http://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/17/obamacare-brings-record-low-for-us-health-uninsured-rate.html Fuller data and complete report here: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhis/earlyrelease/insur201605.pdf A single-payer health care system would not, in and of itself, magically bring costs in the U.S. down to 10% of GPD, as explained by Aaron Carroll here: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/single-payer-is-not-sufficient/ Trump's plan to allow insurance companies to sell policies across state lines is extremely controversial among health policy experts: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/01/upshot/the-problem-with-gop-plans-to-sell-health-insurance-across-state-lines.html The Wikipedia article on Health care in the United States is also excellent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States And lastly, this comparison tool from the Commonwealth Fund is pretty cool. It allows you to see side-by-side what Clinton and Trump have proposed to deal with various problems with the health care system: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/interactives/2016/sep/comparing-candidates-health-proposals/ FIND OUT HOW TO VOTE IN YOUR STATE: http://youtube.com/howtovoteineverystate Huge thanks to Rosianna (http://youtube.com/rosianna) for graphics and to Aaron Carroll (https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage) for fact-checking. Any errors are my own. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1136 - Will the U.S. Presidential Election Be Rigged?

25 octobre 2016

In which John discusses the rigging of U.S. Presidential elections, a bit of recent electoral history, the electoral college, and considers the fundamental soundness of the political institutions of the United States. SOURCES: CGP Grey's video on the electoral college: https://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_572578&feature=iv&index=13&list=PLC1C0D3F2BA472F62&src_vid=7wC42HgLA4k&v=OUS9mM8Xbbw The 2004 U.S. Presidential election between George W. Bush and John Kerry was not stolen by Bush in Ohio. Here is Farhad Manjoo's complete analysis of the vote rigging claims: http://www.salon.com/2006/06/03/kennedy_39/ More about how the U.S. House of Representatives has occasionally selected the President: http://history.house.gov/Institution/Origins-Development/Electoral-College/ George Soros does not have (and has never had) any investment in the voting machine company Smartmatic, and also Smartmatic machines will not be used in the 2016 election: http://www.smartmatic.com/case-studies/article/facts-about-smartmatic/ The study purporting to show that a high percentage of non-citizen U.S. residents vote has been thoroughly debunked by peer-reviewed research: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/10/19/trump-thinks-non-citizens-are-deciding-elections-we-debunked-the-research-hes-citing/?tid=a_inl Election law expert Chris Ashby explains the many reasons why the U.S. Presidential vote will not be rigged, why voting machines cannot be secretly adjusted, and why the highly decentralized U.S. election system makes widespread fraud extremely unlikely: https://extranewsfeed.com/the-election-is-not-rigged-23917d9b0534#.e08aw2hr2 Five Reasons Not to Worry about a Rigged Election: http://www.npr.org/2016/10/18/498297287/5-reasons-and-then-some-not-to-worry-about-a-rigged-election Republican and Democrat elected officials agree that our system of elections is "more secure than it’s ever been in our nation’s history." http://time.com/4535364/donald-trump-rigged-election-fact-check/ A comprehensive investigation of voter impersonation in American elections found 31 incidents out of a billion votes cast: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2014/08/06/a-comprehensive-investigation-of-voter-impersonation-finds-31-credible-incidents-out-of-one-billion-ballots-cast/ Absentee voter fraud is somewhat more common than in-person voter fraud, but still very rare: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2014/10/13/the-disconnect-between-voter-id-laws-and-voter-fraud/ Voting law experts agree that official election fraud is becoming " increasingly rare" in the United States, NOT more common. http://www.bbc.com/news/election-us-2016-37682947 Factcheck.org heroically tackles each of Donald Trump's assertions about voter fraud in turn: http://www.factcheck.org/2016/10/trumps-bogus-voter-fraud-claims/ ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1140 - It's Pizzamas!!! (Thoughts From the Place Where they Print Our Shirts)

7 novembre 2016

PIZZAMAS THINGS: https://store.dftba.com/collections/pizzamas For the last few years, John and I have done our best to get back in touch with our Nerdfighter roots by spending two weeks making a video every weekday. Unfortunately, this year this somehow fell into my paternity leave, so I'm not going to be doing that. But I did want to pre-make one video, and this is that video. Other guests will be filling in on my other Pizzamas days so there /will/ be 10 total Pizzamas videos. This video was filmed at Zoo City Apparel, the place here in Missoula where they print our shirts (also Rhett and Link's shirts, and VidCon's shirts, and a bunch of others.) I always like spending time there, seeing the hard work and attention to detail that they put into printing for us. They're very cool people. This Pizzamas we've also got a cool thing I didn't talk about this in this video because I wasn't sure it was going to be a thing. One of our shirts, Duncan's "Hot and Fresh" is only available in a $39 "Pizzamas Pizza Box." It will be delievered to your doorstep in the pizza box and has a pizza cutter, a notepad, and an apron in it as well. There's a bunch of other stuff at DFTBA.com/pizzamas as well like pajama bottoms, pet leashes, and stickers. YAY PIZZAMAS!! Thank you so much to all of the designers who helped out with Pizzamas this year. They are: Tekst - (Big John's Pizza) tekstartist.com Ming Doyle - (Pastoral Pizza John) mingdoyle.tumblr.com Judy Kaufmann - (Pizza John Deliverers) http://judykaufmann.com Rude - (Pizza John Gets Rude) http://thisisrude.com Julia Pott - (Pizza Pizza Pizza John) http://www.juliapott.com Sara Cervantes - (Simply Pizza John) http://www.youtube.com/SimplySaraArt Duncan Gasiewicz - (Hot & Fresh) http://cargocollective.com/duncangasiewicz Rachel Calderon Navarro - (La Pizza) http://cargocollective.com/rachelcn And the music in this video is Tessa Violet's "Sorry, I'm not Sorry" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0eH-YFgU7s ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1152 - See you in Amsterdam, Melbourne, or Anaheim!! (also Boston)

2 décembre 2016

***We're having THREE VIDCONS this year*** VidCon EU | April 7-9, 2017 | RAI Convention Center http://www.vidconeurope.com Guests include Hannah Hart, Rhett and Link, Nathan Zed, Mamrie Hart, Charlie McDonnell, Dodie Clark, and so many more! VidCon US | June 21-24, 2017 | Anaheim Convention Center http://www.vidcon.com VidCon AUS | September 9-10 | Melbourne Convention Centre http://www.vidconaustralia.com You can also catch me and John in February (VERY SOON) in Boston at NerdCon Nerdfighteria http://www.nerdconnerdfighteria.com Guests include Hank and John, Nathan Zed, Craig Benzine, George Watsky. Hannah Hart, Emily Graslie, with music by Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers. Thanks to Tessa Violet for letting us use her song Not Over You! The music video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg4setI1nMk -------- Hello people who went below the fold. I'm uploading this on a quiet Thursday evening and I want to say two things: 1. My leave has been a really reflective time and one of the main takeaways from that reflection is how grateful I am for the support of this community and that we get to do cool and good things together. 2. The conference business is weird and difficult. I'm still dealing with some of the financial fallout from NerdCon: Stories. But it's so so worth it when I hear from people who say that VidCon or NerdCon is one of the best or the best times they have all year. I think it's so fantastically important that we gather together in the real world when we can and love things together. I'm so proud to help facilitate that for so many people. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1154 - Exactly Like the Human Sternum

6 décembre 2016

DONATE NOW AND GET SWEET PERKS: http://projectforawesome.com/donate The Project for Awesome! http://projectforawesome.com Thumbnails and other resources for your p4a vid: http://projectforawesome.com/graphics More info on the p4a: http://projectforawesome.com/about In which John Green announces huge matching donations for the 2016 Project for Awesome, the forthcoming launch of the indiegogo (which will include a perk of him reading a 15-page section of a Thing he is writing), and shares some of his favorite books from a lovely year of reading. Plus, you can learn the three parts of the sternum. Books from my Holiday Book Gift Giving Guide! The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780385542364 or https://www.amazon.com/Underground-Railroad-National-Winner-Oprahs/dp/0385542364 Moonglow by Michael Chabon: https://www.amazon.com/Moonglow-Novel-Michael-Chabon/dp/0062225553/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481054063&sr=1-1&keywords=moonglow or http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062225559 What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours by Helen Oyeyemi: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781594634635 or https://www.amazon.com/What-Not-Yours/dp/1594634637/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481054123&sr=1-1&keywords=what+is+not+yours+is+not+yours Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781101972120 or https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/1101972122/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481054170&sr=1-1&keywords=stories+of+your+life+and+others Binti by Nnedi Okorafor: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780765385253 or https://www.amazon.com/Binti-Nnedi-Okorafor/dp/0765385252/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481054211&sr=1-1&keywords=binti An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir: https://www.amazon.com/Ember-Ashes-Sabaa-Tahir/dp/1595148043/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481054231&sr=1-1&keywords=an+ember+in+the+ashes or http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781595148049 The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater (The amazing last book, The Raven King, just came out: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780545424981 or https://www.amazon.com/Raven-King-Cycle-Book/dp/0545424984/ref=pd_sim_14_3?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=0Y8MAKTS2GFFZ7RCW19H The Sun Is Also a Star: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780553496680 or https://www.amazon.com/Sun-Also-Star-Nicola-Yoon/dp/0553496689/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481054391&sr=1-1&keywords=sun+is+also+a+star Buffering by Hannah Hart: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062457516 or https://www.amazon.com/Buffering-Unshared-Tales-Fully-Loaded/dp/0062457519/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481054420&sr=1-1&keywords=buffering Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari: https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481054438&sr=1-1&keywords=sapiens or http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062316097 I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9780062368591 or https://www.amazon.com/Contain-Multitudes-Microbes-Within-Grander/dp/0062368591/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481054493&sr=1-1&keywords=i+contain+multitudes Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal: http://www.indiebound.org/book/9781101984543 or https://www.amazon.com/Textbook-Amy-Krouse-Rosenthal/dp/1101984546/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1481054532&sr=1-1&keywords=textbook+amy+krouse+rosenthal ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1159 - 41 Dad Jokes in 4 Minutes! (with special guest star...)

23 décembre 2016

Thank you to all of the dads who have made so many wonderful dad jokes over the years, many of which I stole for this video. There is a partial list of sources below! Thanks everyone for your kind wishes during paternity leave. It's been intense and wonderful. I am glad I had a joyful way to return to this channel even though there's a lot to be concerned about in the world and my country right now. I really love making these videos, and I am very lucky to have this thing in my life. If you're able and interested, John and I will be having many fun times at NerdCon: Nerdfighteria in Boston, February 25th and 26th. http://www.nerdconnerdfighteria.com I just found out I was dating a communist. https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/5in41v/i_just_found_out_i_was_dating_a_communist/ Father Figure https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/5j1n2j/why_call_it_a_dad_bod/ I can saw wood just by looking at it https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/5gtbx0/good_one_from_my_dad_i_can_cut_wood_by_just/ I wear my leather shoes when I’m sneaking around because they’re MADE of hide. https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/3ogaz9/leather_armor_is_perfect_for_sneaking_because_its/ Why do scuba divers fall backwards out of boats? https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/4oj01b/why_do_scuba_divers_always_fall_backwards_out_of/ I love how the earth rotates, it really makes my day. https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/5jiqxs/i_love_how_the_earth_rotates/ Tupperware? Tupperhere! https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/2p183h/even_when_hes_alone/ You know where you get chicken broth in bulk? The stock market. https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1s05hz/dad_joke_on_thanksgiving/ “How long is dinner going to be?” https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/257hs0/today_my_dad_was_making_the_dinner/ Oh boiling water...you will be mist! https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/395oop/rip_boiling_water_you_shall_be_mist/ Good Morning, how’d you sleep? https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/1ssjxi/how_did_you_sleep/ What book are you reading? https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/4up4pu/i_asked_my_girlfriend_what_book_she_was_reading/ Why won’t you untangle! https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/3p854k/wife_yelling_at_earbuds_why_wont_you_just_untangle/ Orion’s belt is a huge waste of space https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/3yfvty/orions_belt_is_a_huge_waist_of_space/ What do you get when you divide a poop into three pieces https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/32kqdg/what_do_you_get_when_you_divide_poop_by_three/ How many sides does a circle have? https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/4mzgzw/how_many_sides_does_a_circle_have/ Huh...there’s a hole in my shoe… ME TOO! It’s how I get my foot inside! Jean Jacket https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/3rd0ql/my_wife_wanted_to_take_our_other_two_dogs_on_a/?ref=search_posts HILL AREAS!! https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/56vevx/mountains_arent_just_funny/ Will Smith https://www.reddit.com/r/dadjokes/comments/56bw6r/how_do_you_find_will_smith_in_the_snow/ ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1161 - The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done

30 décembre 2016

Join us in celebrating 10 years of Nerdfighteria in Boston: http://www.nerdconnerdfighteria.com I went over-time on this video, but I still don't know that I was able to do this topic any sort of justice. First, I have to say that I said "I" a lot in the first paragraph because I was focusing on my own life but, of course, I had a lot of help doing those things I did (most of all from John.) Second...we've had ups and downs in the strength of this community, and it's also a certain amount of scary for me when it seems like the focus of it is not as much values and goals, but me or John as people. There's a weird line between being the doorway into something bigger and more interesting and getting...stuck in the doorway. I want you to like me, but I don't want you to be here for me. I want you to be here for whatever message I'm sharing that day, whether it's one of joy and silliness, or of compassion, or of knowledge. But I also think I can sometimes be distracted from the importance of what we're doing here on Vlogbrothers by all of the new things that this community has allowed us to do. And since Vlogbrothers is still just me and John, while our other things have whole teams, it's easy to get dragged into those things by the great ideas those teams are having. Which is a bummer, because I don't want to be distracted from our work trying to figure out how cohesive and constructive community can find new ways to exist as the old ways are working for fewer and fewer people. Thank you for an amazing 10 years...good god, how lucky am I... ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1164 - What Is the Real Unemployment Rate?

10 janvier 2017

In which John Green discusses the "real" unemployment rate in the United States, and how different ways of calculating jobless rates have led to vastly different conclusions about the health of the U.S. economy. SOURCES BELOW! Other questions addressed include: What is the difference between the U1 unemployment rate and the U6 unemployment rate? Which one is the better measure of unemployment? What percentage of Americans are employed? And what percentage of those unemployed are looking for work? And what does it all say about the present and future of the U.S. economy, and our divisive political discourse? Thank you to Rosianna for all the charts and graphs! http://youtube.com/rosianna The information in this video came from: 1. Trading Economics has great and visually intuitive explanations of the U-3 unemployment rate over time in the United States: http://www.tradingeconomics.com/united-states/unemployment-rate 2. BLS stats about labor force participation rates and how many people out of the labor force say they "do not want a job now" https://www.bls.gov/web/empsit/cpseea38.htm 3. Information about the civilian labor force participation rate can be found here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CIVPART and the labor force participation rate for those between 25 and 54 can be found here: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNU01300060 4. This is a highly detailed article that I found helpful looking at causes of the decline in labor force participation: https://econsnapshot.com/2016/02/11/understanding-the-decline-in-us-labor-force-participation/ An easier to read overview at the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/06/the-incredible-shrinking-labor-force-again/?utm_term=.0a056f64b354 5. Real median household income in the United States is, after adjusting for inflation, rising but not yet to pre-recession levels: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEHOINUSA672N 6. This article explores how we try to have internationally comparable unemployment rates: https://stats.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2000/06/art1full.pdf 7. This web site has an easy-to-use interface that allows you to look at the U-3, U-5, and U-6 unemployment figures over time: http://www.macrotrends.net/1377/u6-unemployment-rate 8. This has up-to-date figures all unemployment measures (including U-1 and U-2, which aren't discussed in this video): http://www.cnbc.com/2016/08/05/charts-whats-the-real-unemployment-rate.html I think that's it. If you have any specific questions, let me know and I'll try to add sources here. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1170 - Understanding Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

31 janvier 2017

In which John talks about Trump's Executive Order on Immigration in detail, what it means short term for refugees and permanent residents, and what we are still unsure about. Stories from Refugees: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLMs_JcuNozJbjWtEDY68YiVfVTBwc420w SOURCES Full Executive Order text: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/27/us/politics/refugee-muslim-executive-order-trump.html The Cato Institute: Terrorism and Immigration: A Risk Analysis: https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/pubs/pdf/pa798_1_1.pdf The Cato Institute: "Little National Security Benefit to Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration" https://www.cato.org/blog/little-national-security-benefit-trumps-executive-order-immigration HR 158 - Visa Waiver Program Improvement and Terrorist Travel Prevention Act of 2015: https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/158/text Announcement from DHS re: three further countries added in 2016 to the 2015 Visa Waiver Improvement act: http://archive.is/6MHuf Reince Priebus, Trump's chief of staff, on Meet the Press 1/29 [Transcript]: http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-01-29-17-n713751 Odds of being struck and killed by lightning: http://www.lightningsafety.noaa.gov/odds.shtml The statement from McCain and Graham: http://www.mccain.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=587F2A2D-8A47-48F7-9045-CF30F0A77889 Obama slowed but did not stop processing refugee apps from Iraq in 2011: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/01/29/trumps-facile-claim-that-his-refugee-policy-is-similar-to-obama-in-2011/?utm_term=.fa2dc411bb25 "On average, officials say it's 18 to 24 months before a refugee is approved for admission to the U.S." http://www.npr.org/2015/11/17/456395388/paris-attacks-ignite-debate-over-u-s-refugee-policy Refugee resettlement process under Obama: https://www.state.gov/j/prm/ra/admissions/ Origins of refugees resettled in fiscal 2016: http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/01/30/key-facts-about-refugees-to-the-u-s/ ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com 2 lives x g forces 18? almost zip up it's cold and Night falls fast blown Cover Like snowflakes.

Épisode 1174 - Human Life Is Getting Better. Faster Than Ever Before.

14 février 2017

Read and be inspired by the 2017 Gates Letter: https://www.gatesnotes.com/2017-Annual-Letter In which John discusses the annual letter from Melinda and Bill Gates, and how it shows that the world is getting dramatically better. Since I was your (average) age, global poverty has dropped from 30% to under 10%. Child mortality has been cut nearly in half. And by the time the average vlogbrothers viewer is my age, absolute poverty and child mortality should both be extremely rare everywhere on Earth. There is a lot of bad news. It is real. It is important. But it's also important to take a step back and look at the human story over time, and each year the Gates letter offers us that opportunity. SOURCES: Our World in Data is an amazing resource for understanding changes over time in the human condition, from literacy rates to life expectancy. Their overview of the child mortality situation is excellent: https://ourworldindata.org/child-mortality/ as is their introduction to absolute poverty rates: https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty/ The In a Nutshell video I reference (which was made with Our World in Data, incidentally) can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsBT5EQt348 The 2014 Gates letter pretty well destroyed the argument that foreign aid doesn't work: http://www.gatesfoundation.org/Who-We-Are/Resources-and-Media/Annual-Letters-List/Annual-Letter-2014 (It's true that much of the foreign aid during the Cold War was often minimally effective at reducing poverty and improving health, but it wasn't really DESIGNED to do either; it was designed to sway governments toward capitalism or communism. Foreign aid since 1990 has been been better targeted, especially when it comes to health care. There is a longer and more academic overview of the research here: https://www.oecd.org/dev/34353462.pdf Less than 1% of the U.S. federal government's budget goes to foreign aid: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/26/the-u-s-foreign-aid-budget-visualized/?utm_term=.48e0f09380d8 (...unless you count defense aid, then it is like 1.2%) Any other questions, feel free to ask in comments! ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1179 - Hoping for an Airport Reunion: One Refugee Family's Story

7 mars 2017

In which John goes to the airport--not, for once, to fly somewhere, but in hopes of seeing a family of Burmese refugees reunited. Thanks to Saw Kyar Aye and Thet Thet for sharing their story with me and for inviting me to the airport on that fateful day. SOURCES BELOW! Sponsor our 10k run here: https://www.gofundme.com/100Days10K All proceeds go to Exodus Refugee International, a local nonprofit working with refugees resettled in Indianapolis: https://exodusrefugee.org/ Sources: Forced labor remains a huge problem in Burma, also known as Myanmar, and those conscripted by the army into labor are often beaten and sometimes executed for desertion (or just for being injured): http://content.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2082814,00.html Refugee resettlement does not increase crime rates in the United States. This study explored the relationship between crime in communities and refugee populations, finding an association (but not causation!!!!) between refugee resettlement and lower crime rates: http://www.renewoureconomy.org/research/is-there-a-link-between-refugees-and-u-s-crime-rates/ In general, immigrant populations commit crimes at a lower rate than native born populations in the United States: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_and_crime#United_States and also https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-mythical-connection-between-immigrants-and-crime-1436916798 Then there is the question of whether immigration reduces wages. This is VERY HOTLY CONTESTED, so I'm going to try to be careful here. The best/most readable overview I've found is here: http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21688938-europes-new-arrivals-will-probably-dent-public-finances-not-wages-good-or but it focuses on the effect of refugee populations on European economies. Because refugees entering the United States are more thoroughly vetted and also more likely to be highly educated, in the U.S. refugees are less likely to decrease wages--i.e., they almost certainly don't. More info here: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/us/immigrants-arent-taking-americans-jobs-new-study-finds.html Then there's the question of whether a large influx of immigrants affect wages or unemployment. That's not super relevant to the U.S. right now, because we have relatively few refugee resettlements here, but it's an interesting side note. The WSJ has a good overview of the cloudiness here: http://blogs.wsj.com/economics/2015/06/01/does-immigration-suppress-wages-its-not-so-simple/ The Brookings Institute claims that "on average, immigrant workers increase the opportunities and incomes of Americans." https://www.brookings.edu/blog/jobs/2012/05/04/what-immigration-means-for-u-s-employment-and-wages/ Other studies have found that large influxes of immigrants do depress wages for some low-skilled workers: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/fs/gborjas/publications/popular/NR2016.pdf And then of course there are studies that show the problem with the studies that show the problem with the other studies. It's complicated. Some day I'd like to make a video about the incredibly complex relationship between immigration and wages/unemployment/economic growth, but not today. For those looking to learn more about the current political situation in Myanmar, here's a more recent, deeply disturbing story about forced labor of the persecuted Rohingya minority in Myanmar: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-myanmar-rohingya-forcedlabour-idUSKCN0PC2L720150702 To be clear, the family I discuss in this video is not Rohingya; most Rohingya are Muslims. Saw Kyar Aye and his family are Christians of Chin ethnicity. But Chin people have frequently been targets of forced labor initiatives. Huge thank you to Sara Hindi and everyone at Exodus Refugee International for making this video possible. Thanks also to Mark Olsen for his videography and editing genius. Any mistakes are mine alone. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1184 - I Disagree with Me (Thoughts from Lake Powell)

24 mars 2017

In which Hank kayaks around a lake that was bought with the destruction of fragile and irreplaceable ecosystems and also men's lives. Also, like, a lot of money. And he likes it. Lake Powell is the reservoir created by Glen Canyon Dam. A reservoir is a lake formed by a dam and right there in the name you can see it's main purpose...to reserve. It was part of the Colorado River Storage Project, the goal of which was to store water from the flood times to be used during the dry times. And it's worked, it has allowed a lot of people to live and far in arid parts of the South West US. It's also a very pretty and very cool lake that a lot of people enjoy recreationally. But the fights against dams on the Colorado river were a huge part of the early environmental movement in the 1960s, and the reaction against technology that that movement created set up a dichotomy that I don't love. I am a big fan of the environment, but I often think that a bias toward "naturalness" (whatever that means) can cause a lot of pretty big problems, like a fear of vaccines or genetically modified foods. There are lessons to learn from these projects, of course. Glen Canyon Dam's construction left it vulnerable to floods, which almost caused a massive disaster in the 1980s. And so there is much to be said for caution. Basically, it's complicated...and I like having a chance to look at a complicated issue and admit that I'm a little bit on both sides. Here's a documentary about people who want to remove the dam: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eCytLfHaPw&t=3759s ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1185 - Why Can't America Have a Grown-Up Healthcare Conversation?

28 mars 2017

In which John discusses the tradeoffs involved in health care reform, and why the 70% of Americans who are happy with their personal health care make it difficult to achieve more than incremental changes in the very expensive, very inefficient health care system in the United States. SOURCES: First off, subscribe to Healthcare Triage, where this stuff is discussed with far more detail and nuance: https://www.youtube.com/user/thehealthcaretriage Only 32% of Americans think our healthcare system is good or excellent, but 69% are happy with their personal health care: http://www.gallup.com/poll/165998/americans-views-healthcare-quality-cost-coverage.aspx Over at the incidental economist, Aaron Carroll and Austin Frakt have written a LOT about the quality of U.S. healthcare outcomes compared to other countries. Intros here: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/the-state-of-us-health-aint-so-good/ and here: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/how-do-we-rate-the-quality-of-the-us-health-care-system-introduction/ The Kaiser Foundation has up-to-date stats on where people get their health insurance--the ACA exchanges get coverage to about 6% of people, 49% of people get coverage through their employers (or their family's employer), 20% through Medicaid, 14% through Medicare, and 9% are uninfured: http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/total-population/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D Healthcare costs in the U.S. are very, very high compared to every other wealthy country, and have been for decades: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_in_the_United_States#Overall_costs A Medicare-for-All program would lead to lower overall healthcare costs in the U.S., but also a lot of job loss (possibly as many as two million): http://money.cnn.com/2016/01/25/news/economy/sanders-health-care-plan/ Even modest reductions in health insurance subsidies--like those proposed in the GOP repeal and replace of the Affordable Care Act--would lead to tens of millions of people losing insurance coverage: https://www.cbo.gov/publication/52371 Other topics discussed include the Republican plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, the relative modesty of Obamacare as a health care reform, and the benefits and tradeoffs of Bernie Sanders' proposed single payer healthcare system, Medicare for All. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1188 - Squeezing Strangers' Bikes in Amsterdam!

7 avril 2017

Thanks to Théo for this: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheLetterFifteen/ Also, thanks to everyone who submitted videos! It was fascinating to see what people were more likely to keep or discard vs. what I would have kept. More on how I chose this particular video below, but first: SOME RUNNERS UP! Most Trippy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=155&v=k8hLgFh1X_Y Squishiest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEP9p6T7tbg Not Starring Hank: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXqoQL5CR4U Most Wonderful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQivRKMhPi4 Best Analog Graphics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUp-LvAojxA Best Pigeon Dialogue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvFhJ9HmWcc Closest to Exactly What I Would Have Done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=96&v=4XYLUPADtEI Casey Neistatiest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zl5ngsXpG5Y --- So, in the voting, there were several videos that got more votes than this. But I picked this video for two reasons: 1. It was the one that still felt like something I might have made (even though it was better than what I would have done.) I felt like it captured the spirit of the video I intended to make. 2. Of anyone, I think this video had the highest votes to views ratio, at over 50%. So half of the people who saw the video voted for it, which is pretty dang impressive. 3. I really liked it a whole lot! There were, of course, lots of other moments in lots of other videos that were fantastic and hilarious, but I felt like this one had the highest concentration, as well as a really good story structure with multiple little arcs that all worked really well. ---- Music: "Perfect Strangers" by Hank Green. "Dark Hallway" and "Bummin on Tremelo" by Kevin MacLeod (http://incompetech.com). --- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1195 - Your Neighborhood, Your Life Expectancy

9 mai 2017

In which John discusses the astonishing degree to which an American's zip code affects their life expectancy, and why life expectancy varies so much within the United States. Also discussed: Regional variation in life expectancy in Canada and other rich nations, how much smoking reduces your life expectancy, the relationship between exercise and longevity, and more. SOURCES/INFO: Inequalities in Life Expectancy among U.S. Counties, the study that was just published showing that life expectancy varies by 20 years within the U.S. depending on your location. (It's fascinating! Really!) http://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2626194 An NPR summary: https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/05/08/npr-life-expectancy-can-vary-by-20-years-depending-on-where-you-live Life expectancy in my hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana varies by more than 14 years depending on your ZIP code: http://www.savi.org/savi/documents/Worlds_Apart_Gaps_in_Life_Expectancy.pdf The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's cool app that tells you, based on your ZIP code, your life expectancy: http://www.rwjf.org/en/library/interactives/whereyouliveaffectshowlongyoulive.html Life expectancy for smokers is 10 years shorter than for nonsmokers: https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/data_statistics/fact_sheets/health_effects/tobacco_related_mortality/ Physical activity can expand average U.S. lifespans by 4.5 years: https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/press-releases/2012/PhysicalActivityLifeExpectancy Life expectancy in Canada varies by income quintile, but by less than it does in the U.S. http://www.healthycanadians.gc.ca/publications/department-ministere/state-public-health-status-2016-etat-sante-publique-statut/page-4-eng.php This study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK62591/ explores life expectancy variation within countries over time, finding that in most rich nations (Canada, Germany, Australia, etc.) life expectancy variation has declined since 1980, while it has steadily increased in the U.S. This is also where you can see that life expectancy among people with the highest incomes in the U.S. is (very slightly) higher than life expectancy among high income Canadians. Lastly, LET'S TALK ABOUT LIFE EXPECTANCY. Dr. Aaron Carroll of Healthcare Triage explains it here better than I can: http://theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/how-flawed-is-life-expectancy/ But basically, there are a number of factors that go into life expectancy that can cause variations--especially when it comes to miscarriages/newborn deaths--but most of those variations are between countries, not within them. (i.e., it is not the reason for the huge geographic discrepancy in the U.S.) In the field of healthcare outcome analysis, there are other complains about life expectancy--it can be affected by things that have little to do with healthcare (like violence and accident rates)--but that's not of concern here. In summary, the longevity disparity between rich and poor in the U.S. is real, and it is very high by international standards. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1204 - The Paris Accord: What is it? And What Does it All Mean?

2 juin 2017

At the heart of the desire to get America out of the Paris Agreement seems to be three things: 1. Nostalgia. The focus on coal, an energy source that is becoming uneconomical even in developing countries, and that employs very few people in America can't have anything to do with anything except an imagined fondness for a world that probably never existed. These people are right that fossil fuels have been great for Americans and also for the world. I think the people who worked and fought to use fossil fuels to make people's lives better did good things. I also think we need new paths and to retire old ones. 2. A push to have countries care only about their own interests. Climate change is the best example that this doesn't work. And that's very scary for people who are skeptical of globalism. It may seem to them awfully convenient that the people who want a more global society happened to find this disaster that can only be solved by a more global society. Of course there are some that are purely economically motivated, but while those people are powerful, there aren't many of them. But these are the things that really resonate with large numbers of people. And when you're trying to defend your worldview, you'll make some magnificent mental leaps to do it...like that every scientist ever is lying about how CO2 absorption works. There are a couple Twitter threads that I really enjoyed on these topics. here they are. Vi Hart: https://twitter.com/vihartvihart/status/870413832732250112 Adam Conover: https://twitter.com/adamconover/status/870025080041910272 ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1208 - When Will You Die?

16 juin 2017

Patreon Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOCTt-O9TR8 DHJ Animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPxXZu_N0g4 VidCon: http://www.vidcon.com So, to be clear, I've done a thing here that you shouldn't do, which is apply population statistics to individuals. But i did it for a good reason...uh...fun? Of course there are many things that are likely to affect your age of death as much as or more than your current age (income, location, race, medical history, etc.) But also you gotta understand (and statisticians will hate this video for this reason and probably others) that the an average of life expectancy doesn't tell you much at all about when an individual will die. For example, an change in child mortality changes life expectancy far more than a change in elderly mortality because the addition or removal of small numbers to an average will affect it dramatically. This is why you'll often hear that the life expectancy in some period of time was 35 years old. That makes it sound like people were all dying around 35, but in fact ages were distributed all over, but there were far more deaths of children and babies, which pulled the average way down. 80 year olds in the middle ages weren't, like, some kind of mythical creature. "Life expectancy" just isn't a super useful statistic for telling you what length of life to expect. Also, it's not even /that/ good at telling you things about public health. People are supposed to die, so a better measure (which Australia actually uses) is "Years of Potential Life Lost" or YPLL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Years_of_potential_life_lost The US has a surprisingly bad YPLL because of suicides, drug overdoses, homicide, and car accidents. That allows you to study whether diseases kill lots of people who are at the end of their lives or people who might otherwise live a quite a long time. Like, dementia kills mostly very old people while suicide and accidents kill lots of young people. We shouldn't give those deaths the same weight. And then lastly, if you want to go all the way down this rabbit hole, you should google "Global Burden of Disease" which endeavors to measure beyond years of life lost and into the quality of those years. Like, disease can cause life-long chronic pain or disability, and those things should be considered as well as death. OK, I am surprised by how much I just typed about this! ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1218 - On Condom Failure

21 juillet 2017

I have always thought that sex ed and statistics should be the same course. There's no better way to show how vital stats is to your every day life than to look at statistics. Probabilities are so easy to misunderstand, and there are a lot that go into understanding the outcomes of sexual activity. There's a ton I didn't get into here...like that a common trap is that, in a pinch, one might have unprotected sex with no negative outcome, and that makes it /feel/ much safer for future times. Which, I think, is a common trap people fall into. There's also the fact that a 2% chance sounds pretty tiny, but it really does mean that, on average, if you have 50 couples using condoms perfectly, one of them is going to get pregnant in any given year. That's gonna seem weird and surprising and improbable and unfair to that couple, but statistically, it's exactly what we expected. Probabilities eventually collapse into reality, and then that couple no longer has a 2% chance of probability, they have a 100% chance, because they're pregnant, and everyone else has a 0% chance. Being one of the two percent isn't that weird. Here's the video I made on probability in 2010 that I'm actually pretty proud of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpvE0Co66nU Most of the information used in this video came from the AMAZING AND WONDERFUL Guttmacher institute: https://www.guttmacher.org/ Contraceptive Use in the US: https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/contraceptive-use-united-states Unintended Pregnancy Rates: https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/unintended-pregnancy-united-states IUDs Cause Decrease in Unintended Pregnancies: https://www.vox.com/2016/3/2/11148108/unplanned-pregnancy-larc-iud ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Preorder John's new book, Turtles All the Way Down, out October 10th 2017! You can find links to both the signed and unsigned editions here: http://bit.ly/turtlespreorder and information on how to (probably) get a signed copy here: http://howtoprobablygetasignedcopyofturtlesallthewaydown.com

Épisode 1220 - Why You Haven't Started a Business

28 juillet 2017

Watching this video, I can see someone getting the impression that I think you /should/ start a business. That's not true, I think you should be able to if you want to, but there are lots of good reasons to not want to, and very much support people who are more interested in working for other people, especially if you work for me! PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME! But small business is extremely important, it helps even out inequality, ties communities together, and employs over half of working Americans. Small businesses hire faster than large ones, and employ more people per dollar they make. Alas, there are lots of structural efficiencies to being big, and lots of ways big companies build their "moats." And just by virtue of the way capitalism works, it is sometimes easier to go from 400 to 800 employees than from 1 to 2. Here's a selection of the articles I read and resources I used while making this video: The Global Entrepreneurship Monitor is a great primary source for this stuff http://www.gemconsortium.org/ What is driving the dramatic slowdown in IPOs https://www.ft.com/content/1c57c7de-6e20-11e7-bfeb-33fe0c5b7eaa The Myth of the Millennial Entrepreneur https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/07/the-myth-of-the-millennial-entrepreneur/490058/ Millennials are obsessed with side hustles because they’re all we’ve got https://qz.com/711773/millennials-are-obsessed-with-side-hustles-because-theyre-all-weve-got/ American Entrepreneurship Is Actually Vanishing. Here's Why https://www.inc.com/magazine/201505/leigh-buchanan/the-vanishing-startups-in-decline.html The Psychological Price of Entrepreneurship https://www.inc.com/magazine/201309/jessica-bruder/psychological-price-of-entrepreneurship.html American Entrepreneurship: Dead or Alive? http://www.gallup.com/businessjournal/180431/american-entrepreneurship-dead-alive.aspx ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Preorder John's new book, Turtles All the Way Down, out October 10th 2017! You can find links to both the signed and unsigned editions here: http://bit.ly/turtlespreorder and information on how to (probably) get a signed copy here: http://howtoprobablygetasignedcopyofturtlesallthewaydown.com

Épisode 1221 - Death and How to Avoid It (...for a while)

1 août 2017

In which John talks about preventable death and what's driving the increase in death from unintentional injuries in the United States. RESOURCES, SOURCES, AND LINKS: Health Care Triage's excellent coverage of the opioid crisis: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pROfg1vOp4w Info about preventable deaths and the roll that distracted driving is playing: http://www.ehstoday.com/health/distracted-driving-falls-opioids-cause-spike-unintentional-death-rate Wealth inequality is growing, although still lower than historical averages: https://ourworldindata.org/income-inequality/ Drug overdoses are now the leading cause of death for Americans under 50: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/overdoses-are-leading-cause-of-death-americans-under-50/ Info on homicide rates: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-1 And the newest stats on overdose deaths: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/6/15743986/opioid-epidemic-overdose-deaths-2016 Something I didn't talk about in the video that is interesting: part of the reason the death by falling rate has risen is because we are doing a better job of keeping track of it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3314071/ IF YOU OR SOMEONE YOU LOVE NEEDS HELP WITH SUBSTANCE ABUSE: The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration's behavioral health treatment services locator https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/ and helpline: 1-800-662-4357 (both English and Spanish, 24/7) A list of self help groups for addiction: https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/locator/link-focSelfGP Opioid treatment specifically: http://dpt2.samhsa.gov/treatment/directory.aspx The Addiction Recovery Guide has a directory of state by state resources and other treatment info: https://www.addictionrecoveryguide.org/resources/state/ The suicide prevention lifeline: 1-800-273-8255 Lastly, Amazon has sold through its allocation of signed copies of my new book Turtles All the Way Down. Unsigned copies are still available for preorder at Amazon at http://amzn.to/2ulFJgz. Find other places to order a (probably) signed copy of the book at http://ProbablySignedTurtles.com ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Preorder John's new book, Turtles All the Way Down, out October 10th 2017! You can find links to both the signed and unsigned editions here: http://bit.ly/turtlespreorder and information on how to (probably) get a signed copy here: http://howtoprobablygetasignedcopyofturtlesallthewaydown.com

Épisode 1226 - What I've Been Thinking About

18 août 2017

Race is uncomfortable for me to talk about, and I often have the impulse to, like, stay in my lane, to just amplify voices that are more credible than mine as a white man who knows nothing about racism except for the times when I discover my own bias. But I have been encouraged by Black friends and Black Nerdfighters to talk more about this stuff because, like, I'm an American too. Watching the situation in Charlottesville unfold was a horror, and it's been terribly present in my mind ever since. America has a shameful history, but we also have a history of progress, and that continues now as we fight against a new wave of hate that has found new life. I also want to be clear that having racist thoughts does not make you a Nazi. We all have bias, we all have fear, and sometimes we even have hate. It's what we do with those things that matters. Do we give in to irrational bias...or do we work hard to keep the hate from creeping in. Here are some other great and important things I've read this week: Rhett McLaughlin - Thoughts on Confederate Statues from a Southern White Male: https://medium.com/@rhettmc/thoughts-on-confederate-statues-from-a-southern-white-male-b81a2693113d What white parents can do for black parents right now - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2017/08/17/what-white-parents-can-do-for-black-parents-right-now/ This thing about "white pride" https://twitter.com/AdrianXpression/status/897978833151852544 White Americans Have to Make a Choice http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/08/white_americans_can_end_the_fight_over_confederate_monuments.html Secret Project - email already went out, you can read it here: http://mailchi.mp/b89eabef63d4/build-a-turtle-cake-happy-birthday-john ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Preorder John's new book, Turtles All the Way Down, out October 10th 2017! You can find links to both the signed and unsigned editions here: http://bit.ly/turtlespreorder and information on how to (probably) get a signed copy here: http://probablysignedturtles.com

Épisode 1227 - The Causes of Cholera

22 août 2017

In which John discusses cholera, its many causes, and why we aren't hearing much about the cholera epidemic in Yemen, the worst outbreak of the disease since at least 1949. LEARN MORE: The WHO's overview of the crisis in Yemen, including coverage of malnutrition and cholera: http://www.who.int/emergencies/yemen/en/ Save the Children's coverage of the crisis in Yemen and their interventions: http://www.savethechildren.org/site/apps/nlnet/content2.aspx?c=8rKLIXMGIpI4E&b=9506655&ct=15002483¬oc=1 UNICEF statement about the nearly two million children in Yemen experiencing acute malnourishment, which puts them at higher risk for cholera and other life threatening illnesses: https://www.unicef.org/yemen/media_12124.html New York Times coverage of the outbreak and the healthcare workers who are going unpaid: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/health/cholera-outbreak-in-yemen.html?mcubz=0 Some background on the war in Yemen (with a decidedly American slant) from the Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2017/04/yemen-trump-aqap/522957/ Background on the Yemeni Civil War from al-jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/06/key-facts-war-yemen-160607112342462.html Graphs in this video taken from the amazing our world in data: http://ourworldindata.org The Burden of Disease section is particularly helpful for looking at long term trends in health and disease: https://ourworldindata.org/burden-of-disease/ Thanks to Rosianna Halse Rojas for help gathering research on this topic, and to Emma Luthi Price for suggesting the video. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Preorder John's new book, Turtles All the Way Down, out October 10th 2017! You can find links to both the signed and unsigned editions here: http://bit.ly/turtlespreorder and information on how to (probably) get a signed copy here: http://probablysignedturtles.com

Épisode 1230 - What Everyone Gets Wrong About Global Warming

1 septembre 2017

Throughout this video I say "probability curve" when a statistician would say "probability distribution." I just want to say that I'm aware of this, and that it's a choice I intentionally made because I felt like it made it easier to understand. While I would very much like to get deep into probability functions, what they mean, and how they work, I don't know if that's necessary to understand the world with curves. And this isn't just about climate and weather, pretty much everything is better understood if it's understood in terms of probability functions. And I generally like to see the world not for the collapsed reality dot, but for the function underneath. It's why winning at gambling always feels empty to me, I know that the underlying function has my losing even if happened to get lucky. So, in a way, gambling is always losing, even if you win. I know I'm an armchair statistician, and that lots of people will be annoyed by the language in this video, but I hope you can forgive me! Giraffe Love Shirt: https://store.dftba.com/products/giraffe-love-3-0-shirt Crash Course Film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TARsoxST0tQ Healthcare Triage on Guns: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZzmgqpwG-s (four parts) ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Preorder John's new book, Turtles All the Way Down, out October 10th 2017! You can find links to both the signed and unsigned editions here: http://bit.ly/turtlespreorder and information on how to (probably) get a signed copy here: http://probablysignedturtles.com

Épisode 1235 - Why Cities?

19 septembre 2017

In which John discusses the agricultural revolution, the development of permanent settlements, and whether cities were good news. SOURCES BELOW. Hank is publishing a novel next year! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/books/youtube-star-hank-green-first-novel.html But before then, we are going on tour to celebrate my new novel, Turtles All the Way Down: http://www.turtlesallthewaydownbook.com/#tour SOURCES: Hunter-gatherers have less famine than agriculturalists: http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/10/1/20130853 This gets into some of the archeology and analysis of human remains that indicates that hunter-gatherers lived on average longer and healthier lives than agriculturalists. The Case against Civilization inspired this video and includes the statistics about how much hunter-gatherers work in food acquisition and domestic labor: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/09/18/the-case-against-civilization This article also explores some of the complexities of agriculture's development: http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/15/485722228/where-did-agriculture-begin-oh-boy-its-complicated The book discussed in "The Case against Civilization" is called AGAINST THE GRAIN, and while I disagree with a lot that's in it, I also think it's an interesting read and outlines both its case for why cities developed and other people's cases. I also leaned on the book SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari for some of the theories about why cities developed. Our World in Data is an amazing resource for understanding long-term trends in human history. That's where I got the graph about the dramatic reduction in absolute poverty the world is experiencing: https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty/ And also the graph about the declining number of hours worked: https://ourworldindata.org/working-hours/ And lastly, the median U.S. household income really is higher (even after adjusting for inflation) than it ever has been before: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Preorder John's new book, Turtles All the Way Down, out October 10th 2017! You can find links to both the signed and unsigned editions here: http://bit.ly/turtlespreorder and information on how to (probably) get a signed copy here: http://probablysignedturtles.com

Épisode 1237 - Trump and Russia: An Introduction to What We Know (and What We Don't)

26 septembre 2017

In which John discusses the Russian government's interference in the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, allegations of collusion against members of Donald Trump's campaign, what is known about various Trump campaign officials' relationship to Vladimir Putin's regime, and also what we don't know. SOURCES BELOW: CORRECTION: Nixon resigned before he was impeached. Vladimir Putin personally oversaw efforts by the Russian government to affect the U.S. Presidential election outcome in favor of Donald Trump, according to both the Department of Homeland Security and the Officer of the Director of National Intelligence: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2016/10/07/joint-statement-department-homeland-security-and-office-director-national Trump campaign removed language from the Republican Party platform supporting Ukraine in their ongoing conflict with Russia: http://www.npr.org/2016/08/06/488876597/how-the-trump-campaign-weakened-the-republican-platform-on-aid-to-ukraine The Putin regime engaged in a disinformation campaign, attempted to access several states' election data, and oversaw the hacking of the DNC and sent the DNC and John Podesta emails to wikileaks: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/06/us/politics/russia-hack-report.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-06-13/russian-breach-of-39-states-threatens-future-u-s-elections http://time.com/4625301/cia-russia-wikileaks-dnc-hacking/ and https://www.cnet.com/news/how-experts-decided-russia-hacked-dnc-election/ Congressional Republicans agree with the conclusion that Putin's regime was behind the DNC hack and other meddling: http://www.weeklystandard.com/congressional-republicans-break-with-trump-on-russia-hacking-julian-assange/article/2006181 and https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/07/12/paul-ryan-russian-meddling-election-absolutely-unacceptable/471428001/ The U.S. election law saying that no American can accept or receive a contribution or "thing of value" from any foreign national in connection with a political campaign: https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/11/110.20 One-time Trump campaign manager Paul Manfort was paid $10,000,000 a year for 3 years by Oleg Deripaska: http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-manafort-putin-oleg-deripaska-trump-russia-2017-9 Michael Caputo worked on a campaign to improve Putin's image among Americans: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials#Michael_R._Caputo Michael Flynn accepted money from the Russian government without disclosing it: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/25/michael-flynn-russia-payment-house-panel-investigation and discussed sanctions on a call with Kislyak in December 2016, which he initially denied: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/14/michael-flynn-talks-russia-illegal-did-donald-trump-know-everything/ Trump asked FBI Director James Comey for 'loyalty" and to drop the Flynn investigation: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/16/us/politics/james-comey-trump-flynn-russia-investigation.html?mcubz=1 Special counsel Robert Mueller has convened (at least) two grand juries as part of his investigation: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/mueller-using-grand-juries-va-d-c-trump-russia-probe-n789646 Trump acknowledged firing Comey in large part because of the collusion investigation: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/james-comey-donald-trump-russia-investigation-timeline-events-n769496 Info about Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer, which was also attended by Manafort and Jared Kushner: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/07/11/us/politics/donald-trump-jr-email-text.html?mcubz=1 and https://www.newyorker.com/news/ryan-lizza/donald-trump-jr-attempts-to-explain-that-russia-meeting As President, Donald Trump had a private meeting with Vladimir Putin at which no U.S. translator was present, which is extremely unusual: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/world/europe/trump-putin-undisclosed-meeting.html If you have any other source questions, feel free to ask in comments. OVERALL HELPFUL THINGS: A very helpful overall timeline of events related to the Russian collusion investigation: http://billmoyers.com/story/trump-russia-timeline/ The wikipedia article on the topic is very good: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections Huge thanks to Rosianna Halse Rojas for fact-checking and research assistance: http://youtube.com/rosianna

Épisode 1238 - What's This Video About?

29 septembre 2017

This video is two different videos, sorry about that! Some great Star Trek TNG Episodes If you watch Star Trek TNG from the beginning, which I heartily suggest you do, you will notice that it...kinda sucks. The first and second season have very few episodes that knock it out of the park. The good news is that Star Trek happened before TV dramas started being serialized, so with the exception of (very important and rewarding) character development and universe backstory, you can pretty much watch any episode of Star Trek TNG you want to in any order. This is NOT the case for later series..DS9 in particular was part of the push for serialized "you must watch every episode or you will fall behind" style TV. So, without further ado, here are some of the most "What's it About" episodes of TNG, that also have great story and (most importantly) great Picard monologues. Season 4 Episode 21 - The Drumhead. Especially important given current political conversations. Season 2 Episode 9 - Measure of a Man. I am a big fan of episodes that focus on Data so...this one. Season 5 Episode 25 - The Inner Light. I think about this episode all the dang time. Season 4, Episode 14 - Clues. Just a really inventive and exciting tale of successful diplomacy, which isn't easy. I mean, I could keep doing this all day...but that's a good start. Thanks the Ryan Ruark and MZ Chase for help with the title! ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Preorder John's new book, Turtles All the Way Down, out October 10th 2017! You can find links to both the signed and unsigned editions here: http://bit.ly/turtlespreorder and information on how to (probably) get a signed copy here: http://probablysignedturtles.com

Épisode 1283 - Dear Young People, You Terrify Me

23 février 2018

Once I started writing this video I realized that there was a great deal that I wasn't going to be able to fit into a 4 minute video. There are times, like when I'm watching a Logan Paul video or reading about Tide Pod challenges that the natural response for an older adult is to just overwhelming anxiety for next generation. And, indeed, I've watched as bad ideas (much worse than tide pods) have taken over young people in a way I did not expect and am extremely stressed out by. I worry a lot about people who figure out how to capture this energy for their own gain and do not consider the responsibility that their power brings, or think that they are righteous when they are in fact leaning into culturally destructive ideas. But also, I have found the level of responsibility pretty paralyzing. John and I have both been shying away from cultural criticism on this channel because, like, I feel more and more drawn to stability and that means compassion for people who are intolerant, but don't necessarily know they are. And I feel like people often (maybe rightfully, I don't know) get roasted for that kind of behavior. So this video was a surface-level discussion of a deeper and more intense thing that I've been experiencing, and that is pushing me a little bit away from four-minute explorations of culture because: 1. I don't know if I have the guts to put myself on the line for things that I completely recognize I might be wrong about. 2. I don't know if internet-based, echo-chamber-riddled discussion about any of these things is actually helping. Also, a thing I cut from this is how, just like genetic mutations usually do nothing, I believe we can freak out about cultural changes that actually have no real effect on people. And sometimes the changes are absolutely negative. The way brains are set up after new dopamine channels open around puberty to when the frontal cortex finishes developing in the mid-20s is a recipe for indulging in bad ideas, and individuals certainly suffer when that carries them to the wrong place. Culture at large can suffer as well. But it can also mean great things...great change...great action. And that's how I'm feeling right now. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1285 - The Best (Recent) Book Covers Including MINE!

2 mars 2018

Pre-Order now 🙂 http://www.hankgreen.com OK, this is exciting and scary. So, while I wait for the time at which we are all coordinated for this thing to go live let me tell you how this worked. First, the designer got the manuscript, then they read it, then they sent me three sample covers that I did not like. They were obviously rough mockups, but I didn't like the direction. There was good energy, but all of the fonts were hand-written and, honestly, I wanted it to look visibly distinct from a John Green book. So then I sent them a few things: 1. Three images that I really liked that were not book covers. They all had bold colors, repeating patterns, and felt illustrated but now hand-drawn. 2. A few of my favorite recent book covers. 3. A few lines, less than 400 words about what I really hoped for that included this sentence: "Getting the mix between high energy and fun and deadly serious is something I thought a lot about when writing, and it's hard, but it may be an impossible thing to hope for in a cover design." Then a few weeks went by during which time I was assured that a lot of time and thought were going into sending a long a more finished product that took my thoughts into account. I feel very lucky that I got to have this much feedback. What I then got in my email was five designs...three of which were color variations on the final product. And I was like, "YES! THIS!" but then of course I had some thoughts. I asked for some other color treatments, and I also suggested adding the eyes to one of the Carls, which I think is a very cool touch. In the end, I went with one of the original color schemes but was glad I had seen the others anyway. And with a couple of very very minor finishing thoughts we had it. I have a lot more thoughts on covers and I could critique great design all day, but I only had four minutes. I feel bad that there are so many great covers out there (and on my bookshelf right now) that I didn't get to talk about, but there are only so many minutes in a vlogbrothers video and only so many hours in a day! Thanks everybody, I hope you like it! ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1289 - The Most Popular Word in the World

16 mars 2018

There is literally an entire book about these two letters: http://amzn.to/2GyJyla Is OK the most popular word in the world? That depends on how you look at it. It's been argued that it's the most /spoken/ word in the world, but I have to call BS on that. The most spoken word has got to be "the" or "I" or the equivalent in Mandarin. But Popular is a more subjective measure...and one that I'm choosing because I think that "OK"s adoption as a loanword is so extremely common. Now, there may be words that have been adopted into more languages...I'm thinking of "taxi." But "OK" is adopted for everyday conversational use, whereas "taxi" is only for specific situations. So that's the completely subjective argument I'm using to say that "OK" is the most popular world in the world. So, something that didn't fit into the video...we think of memes as these new-fangled things, and definitely the way they spread now (and the speed at which they spread) is different, but acronyms from comical mis-spellings indicate that memes have been around for a long time, we just didn't call them memes. And the fact that the Democratic Party latched onto one to try and promote a candidate that had a less-than-american-sounding feels much more 2018 than 1838 to me. Van Buren was actually the first president who wasn't of British ancestry (or British himself) which was a big deal at the time. Another thing I didn't get into the video...the creation of OK a little bit depended on our society becoming more text-based and literate. Telegrams helped this, but newspapers did as well. The extent to which these technologies revolutionized our society and our ability to communicate fast and wide is really hard to understand now, but is maybe the kind of thing we should be thinking about as our own world is being revolutionized by new communication technologies. We don't know, ultimately, what the affect will be. But they will be long-ranging and maybe invisible, just as OK has been for the last 175 years. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1306 - Seven Maps to Better Understand the World

15 mai 2018

In which John discusses some of the maps he uses to try to understand the big stories of contemporary human life on Earth. The maps used in this video and other sources. First, our world in data is an AMAZING resource: http://ourworldindata.org 1. The world population divided into tenths: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/8j2rso/each_section_has_10_of_the_worlds_population/ 2. Peru and Somalia are bigger than you might expect: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/8jif61/the_true_sizes_of_peru_and_the_usa_with/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/8f5vua/the_true_size_of_somalia/ 3. Mean years of schooling have risen worldwide: https://ourworldindata.org/global-rise-of-education 4. CO2 emissions over time have risen. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-other-greenhouse-gas-emissions 5. So has the temperature almost everywhere on Earth: https://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2015/11/graphics-climate-change 6. This fascinating map of global borders shows how new most nation states are, and how recent their borders were established: https://www.reddit.com/r/MapPorn/comments/7ndxz9/i_tried_to_find_the_date_of_origin_for_every/ 7. A dramatic increase in the percentage of births attended by trained healthcare workers has contributed to a dramatic decline in maternal mortality worldwide: https://ourworldindata.org/maternal-mortality 8. I'm not one of those people who think we're on the verge of conquering death, but we are delaying death significantly, although much work remains to be done, especially among impoverished communities. But in the last 35 years, life expectancy has increased by over ten years in most nations. Nothing like this has ever happened before--we've never seen a consistent, worldwide increase in life expectancy. Like, never. So that is worth celebrating. https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy If you want to email me about sponsorship: sparksflyup -at- gmail. Thanks! ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1319 - Why is the Disney "D" So Weird?

29 juin 2018

I am so bummed that this video isn't 15 minutes long. There is so much more to discuss. The Disney brand is fascinating, including the ways in which that brand reaches so far beyond any set of words or bands and into a deep cultural idea. It is, in some ways, outside of what we usually consider a brand, and in other ways maybe the most powerful brand outside of, like, nation states. Thanks to these people for their knowning or un-knowing help: Kevin from http://www.youtube.com/defunctland Lindsay from https://www.youtube.com/user/chezapoctube Pencil Bandit: https://pencilbandit.com/shop Kade Fisher: https://www.deviantart.com/jarvisrama99/art/Disney-Signature-Logo-Evolution-680691589 Here's a good tidbit I had to cut from this video...in 1922, which Ubbe Iwerks (co-creator of Mickey Mouse) first met Walt Disney, Walt was 19 years old and was literally practicing variations on his signature! Disney's constant variation of his signature apparently started at an early age, and the piece of his signature that he seemingly couldn't settle on was the D. In the end, it was likely not Disney who created this iconic D, but someone working at the company after his death. Walt Disney was obsessed with the "Disney" image...with his own image and that of his creations. That was certainly unhealthy. It also probably had some seriously negative consequences on him and the people around him. But it also played a part in creating something wonderful. I REALLY HOPE I DIDN'T GET ANYTHING TOO WRONG IN THIS VIDEO! ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen John's tumblr - http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com

Épisode 1373 - The Psychology of Package Thieves

21 décembre 2018

It's no surprise that de-humanizing thieves is easy, they de-humanized us first. But when Mark Rober let us get inside of some package thieves houses and cars...I felt a little like they weren't what I expected...even if I didn't know exactly what I expected. That left me at a loss...so I decided to talk to a few people...some who had engaged in package theft and one psychologist, Dr. Robert Tyminski, who wrote "The Psychology of Theft and Loss." I've come away from that feeling like I understand this phenomenon a lot better, though I still feel like it's way more complicated than I really get. And as I say in the video, understanding this behavior does not excuse it, and this behavior still makes me really frustrated and mad. Mark Rober's Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoxhDk-hwuo Dr. Tyminsky's book: https://www.amazon.com/Psychology-Theft-Loss-Stolen-Fleeced/dp/0415830893 Andrew Huang's new album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jN0nvEn4Mpg The full conversation between me and Dr. Tyminski: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOIQefDSvtk And here's what was up with two of the situations being staged (From Mark Rober) "I put a feeler out for people willing to put a package on their porch and this person (who is a friend of a friend) volunteered to help. To compensate them for their time and willingness to risk putting a package on their porch I offered financial compensation for any successful recoveries of the package. It appears (and I've since confirmed) in these two cases, the 'thieves' were actually acquaintances of the person helping me." ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Listen to The Anthropocene Reviewed at http://www.theanthropocenereviewed.org Listen to Dear Hank and John at http://www.dearhankandjohn.org

Épisode 1378 - What is Burnout?

11 janvier 2019

If you take anything away from it, it should only be that burnout isn't one thing, and that you can learn more about what you're experiencing by asking yourself if it's a fuel problem or an opportunity problem. Fuels can be addressed by finding a new story to tell yourself. Opportunity is harder to address, it takes longer, and sometimes, because of the deep inequality in our societies, cannot be addressed. This is the article everyone is talking about: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work And here's a good one from Slate in response: https://slate.com/human-interest/2019/01/burnout-millennials-capitalism-buzzfeed-essay.html And here's a video from my friend Rosianna: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPztftCyKDU A lot of discussion around burnout is pretty specific to people who have opportunity, but have been sold the wrong kind of fuel for too long. Being grateful for and recognizing the opportunities we've been given is, I think, very important. I also think it's important to find good fuel and do good work and work hard. I don't love the idea that burnout is a problem of being over-worked. I think it's more a problem of being overly convinced that work is the most valuable (or even only valuable) thing we do in our lives. It's especially important in our twenties, and the American reliance on all-capitalism-all-the-time is, I think, a really big part of how people have used that situation to exploit workers and put them in situations that are unsustainable. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Listen to The Anthropocene Reviewed at http://www.theanthropocenereviewed.org Listen to Dear Hank and John at http://www.dearhankandjohn.org

Épisode 1391 - I Get a Robocall While Making a Video About Robocalls

1 mars 2019

We didn't build good security into the telecom system because we didn't anticipate that, someday, scammers would be able to call thousands of people per minute, because before computers, that idea was completely ludicrous. An important thing to remember is that anyone who calls you when your name is on the Do Not Call list is breaking the law. But there is no good way to find them as they can disappear as fast as they appear. We have had to change a lot of how telecommunications law works to start combatting this, and absolutely it could have happened faster if telecom companies and the government weren't resistant to change. But it's also a hard problem to solve. We've built this system, and it works really well all day long every day...we just made it work too well...so well that it really isn't that hard to set up a robocalling scam...which is why a thousand or so people have done it...thus making all our lives miserable. But as I say in the video, if you only need 1000 people out of 300,000,000 to ruin something for money...they're gonna do it. Here are some articles I read: This one's real long but gives a lot of good background https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/how-robo-call-moguls-outwitted-the-government-and-completely-wrecked-the-do-not-call-list/2018/01/09/52c769b6-df7a-11e7-bbd0-9dfb2e37492a_story.html Short and older article/NPR story, but still relevant. https://www.npr.org/2015/11/18/456355120/why-it-s-hard-to-put-an-end-to-unwanted-robocalls What Phone companies can do but aren't https://www.consumerreports.org/consumerist/phone-companies-can-filter-out-robocalls-they-just-arent-doing-it/ This one also has tips on how to stop them if you care enough https://www.marketwatch.com/story/heres-why-youre-getting-so-many-spam-phone-calls-2018-10-12 ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Listen to The Anthropocene Reviewed at http://www.theanthropocenereviewed.org Listen to Dear Hank and John at http://www.dearhankandjohn.org

Épisode 1393 - Does "The Press" Hate YouTube?

8 mars 2019

Ultimately, news is mostly news when it's bad. When it's more nuanced, it tends to be for smaller audiences that are aware of a topic. This is a thing. I remember when YouTube culture was first growing, there were a fair number of positive articles about YouTubers. It was so new that it's very existence was interesting. We're in a different time now, largely because of how influential and popular the platform has become. Ultimately, people who care about YouTube don't read a lot of legacy publications, which those publications automatically have: 1. Some amount of antagonism toward YouTube because they might be frustrated by their loss of market share to people who don't have the same level of rigor, accountability, or professional training they do. 2. An audience that has a very simple understanding of the platform, and so is not interested in nuanced takes. So if the articles are negative it's because: 1. Maybe antagonism, though I think that's the smallest part. 2. They're creating content that their audience will be interested in (which is what we're all doing.) 3. Negative news is actually the more interesting, uncommon, and important stuff and there are reams of research and discussion about this and it's nothing new. But it's also vital to remember that "The Press" is extremely broad. That many of these articles were actually vitally important. That one bad OpEd doesn't destroy the reputation of an entire publication. That a few bad articles doesn't destroy the reputation of the ENTIRE INSTITUTION OF THE PRESS WHICH WE WOULD BE COMPLETELY DEVASTATED WITHOUT. It's also important to note that, guess what, I am also "The Press" and I have no points of accountability outside myself before I push publish, and neither do most of the big, culturally influential YouTube channels. Giving over 100% of our media consumption to single-perspective, unaccountable, untrained YouTubers is...it's bad. We shouldn't do it. Even as much as I really really love many of them. ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Listen to The Anthropocene Reviewed at http://www.theanthropocenereviewed.org Listen to Dear Hank and John at http://www.dearhankandjohn.org

Épisode 1398 - The Largest Theft of All Time

29 mars 2019

I thought this video was going to be a fun top ten list, then I realized that most of the theft in America is the rich robbing the poor. Literally! Not even in a roudabout way...literally not paying them for more than twenty billion dollars of work every year. This literally theft. No one goes to jail. Ever. It's cool. Don't worry...we have a minimum wage...ish. The folks who defend wage theft say that: 1. Minimum wages prevent certain work from getting done...like work done by undocumented immigrants and the very very poor. These people wouldn't have jobs at all otherwise! The laws are too strict! 2. Most wage theft is just poor management. The companies don't know it's happening! It's just the floor managers who are causing these problems! It's not a CEO's responsibility to know what their employees are up to! (that is exactly what their job is.) 3. It's not as big of a deal as big fancy non-profits think! It is, of course, extremely difficult to measure...but surveys of workers regularly show a huge variety of different kinds of wage theft. Worried you might be being stolen from? Here's a FAQ to learn more: http://www.wagetheft.org/faq And some more reading: https://www.epi.org/publication/employers-steal-billions-from-workers-paychecks-each-year-survey-data-show-millions-of-workers-are-paid-less-than-the-minimum-wage-at-significant-cost-to-taxpayers-and-state-economies/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_theft https://www.epi.org/press/employers-stole-at-least-2-billion-from-workers-in-2015-and-2016/ ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Listen to The Anthropocene Reviewed at http://www.theanthropocenereviewed.org Listen to Dear Hank and John at http://www.dearhankandjohn.org

Épisode 1425 - You Need to Know About This Ridiculous Fish

5 juillet 2019

I got to see an Ocean Sunfish (Mola mola) up close and personal at the Monterey Bay Aquarium recently and I fell in love. These things are the superlative of superlatives. They are the biggest bony fish, they lay the most eggs of any vertebrate, and grow the most from egg to full size of any vertebrate. Yes, they're silly looking, but the whole thing about evolution is, whether we can figure out why or not, things don't survive if they aren't good at /something/. Sea turtles and mola mola, despite having deeply different lineages, actually share a lot of characteristics. They have the same shaped flippers, they both have beaks, they both rely on their size to protect them, and they both create lots of babies in the hopes that only a few will survive (though, Mola mola take this to a different level.) They're also both basically the same shape, which is super weird. And here's a wild thing, even though sea turtles evolved from land-dwelling reptiles, mola mola-like fish have actually been around for 100 million years while sea turtles have been around for over 200 million years. Now, I'm just guessing here, but this is possibly because they share a food source. That food source is low quality but abundant. It also doesn't move fast. So the mola mola evolved not for speed, but for efficiency. These flippers (like the ones that turtles and mola have) don't move you fast, but they also don't use much energy. The fecundity of sunfish might also have something to do with the variability of their prey. Jellies are notorious for being extremely abundant year and then disappearing the next. In a situation like that, you want to have the ability to rapidly increase your population and rapidly reach the age of maturity so that you can take advantage of prey population explosions. Research Assistance from Deboki Chakravarti ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Listen to The Anthropocene Reviewed at http://www.theanthropocenereviewed.org Listen to Dear Hank and John at http://www.dearhankandjohn.org

Épisode 1435 - Uncertain and Afraid

6 août 2019

In which John doesn't know what to do in 2019, so he thinks about the W. H. Auden poem, "September 1, 1939." Sources: The Auden poem in question: https://poets.org/poem/september-1-1939 I also quote from Auden's "In Memory of W. B. Yeats," which why read when you can listen to Auden himself reading it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNlS_Vbip_Q People in the U.S. are less happy and more lonely on average than they were ten years ago: https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-americans-less-happy-20190323-story.html BUT happiness (and trends in happiness) vary a lot depending on where you live. You can read the full report here: https://s3.amazonaws.com/happiness-report/2019/WHR19.pdf Why is U.S. life expectancy declining? https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/us-life-expectancy-declines-again-a-dismal-trend-not-seen-since-world-war-i/2018/11/28/ae58bc8c-f28c-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html Violent crime is falling in the U.S. (and has been falling for decades except for a couple years in the 2010s). https://www.brennancenter.org/press-release/final-brennan-center-analysis-shows-crime-and-murder-rates-declined-2018 Median household income in the U.S. was higher in 2018 (and 2016 and 2017) than any year in American history (even after adjusting for inflation): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States (NOTE: This does not mean the economy is working well for everyone, and income does not equal wealth, and also as mentioned in the video none of this invalidates the abundant and truly terrifying horrors around us.) ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! http://nerdfighteria.com/newsletter/ And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Listen to The Anthropocene Reviewed at http://www.theanthropocenereviewed.org Listen to Dear Hank and John at http://www.dearhankandjohn.org

Épisode 1440 - The Amazon isn't "Burning" - It's Being Burned

23 août 2019

This is a thing that is happening right now, and (taking a page from the global warming playbook) a think I've been hearing from Bolsonaro's supporters is, "Who even knows how bad it is...deforestation is actually down." It's so sad to watch us play with words and numbers when the reality is obvious to anyone with eyes. "Deforestation" is down because when you don't count burning, and we don't know how much land has been burned because it's still burning and determining the extent of a forest fire is extremely labor intensive. It takes time to do these surveys. But what we do know for sure is that the number of fires is up all over the Amazon. And we also know that Bolsonaro's government had decreased inspections dramatically, put military officials in charge of environmental organizations, and fired every scientist who publicly disagrees with him. There has never been a greater reminder that nationalism is a disaster of an ideology, and that how we imagine the world and who we end up voting for matters. A lot. MORE INFO https://theintercept.com/2019/07/06/brazil-amazon-rainforest-indigenous-conservation-agribusiness-ranching/ https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/08/01/deathwatch-for-the-amazon https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2010JD015174 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3OWgb0Bv-A https://www.wwf.org.uk/updates/5-ways-help-amazon-rainforest?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_content=2208amazonfire&utm_term=organic-social&pc=GLJ002001 https://twitter.com/DrJoeHanson/status/1164243637250732032 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/jul/25/amazonian-rainforest-near-unrecoverable-tipping-point https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-49212115 ---- Subscribe to our newsletter! https://nerdfighteria.com/nerdfighteria-newsletter And join the community at http://nerdfighteria.com http://effyeahnerdfighters.com Help transcribe videos - http://nerdfighteria.info John's twitter - http://twitter.com/johngreen Hank's twitter - http://twitter.com/hankgreen Hank's tumblr - http://edwardspoonhands.tumblr.com Listen to The Anthropocene Reviewed at http://www.theanthropocenereviewed.org Listen to Dear Hank and John at http://www.dearhankandjohn.org

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