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2013
2013x1
Why Does Congress Suck?
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In which John Green seeks to explain why the United States congress has become so astonishingly inefficient that it can't even reach a compromise to avert disaster, and why--thanks to .. show full overview
2013x2
53 Terrible Jokes!
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They're not actually terrible, most of them are actually pretty dang funny. Thanks to all the people who suggested jokes via Twitter (THERE WERE A LOT OF YOU!) these pretty much exclusively came from that search.
2013x3
Addicted to the Internet
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In which John visits you from the distant past of Saturday in order to discuss his (possible) Internet addiction, why you won't find him in comments today, and Carnegie Hall.
2013x4
On the Ownership of Ideas
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In which Hank discusses how our conception of ownership of ideas has changed throughout history, how it's a little bit broken right now, and how it might be fixing itself on its own.
2013x5
North Korean Chicken, Stagecoach Travel, and other Thoughts from before Carnegie Hall
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In which John makes an old-school vlogbrothers video about the preparations for An Evening of Awesome from Carnegie Hall. Also his dreams of North Korean fried chicken and Hank's long-suffering guitar.
2013x6
Thoughts from Carnegie Hall
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2013x7
How to Be More Than Friends: Question Tuesday
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In which John answers real questions from real nerdfighters, discussing his son's fascination with imitation food, his own fascination with Wholock watercolors, the oddness of the phrase "more than friends," the Evening of Awesome, and much else.
2013x8
How to Make Friends
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In which Hank talks about friends, why they're important, and how we make them. TL;DR, don't take advantage of good friends, they are extremely important and very rare. Acquiring new .. show full overview
2013x9
Across Three Continents: A Tale of Tumblr, Copyright, and Excellent Posters
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In which John discusses intellectual property, the complexity of protecting it, and the total insufficiency of current copyright law. The failure of copyright law has led to a kind of .. show full overview
2013x10
Football For Nerds
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In which Hank talks about American Football (also known as Hand Egg) from the perspective of a nerd...particularly tackling the question of why this sport is so popular. I have just .. show full overview
2013x11
Headless Statues and Elton John's Piano: Seeing Sights in London (Thoughts from Places)
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In which John discusses his first 24 hours in London including: interviews with the BBC, playing Elton John's piano, jetlag, improbable weather, Steven Gerrard's signature, the British .. show full overview
2013x12
The Space Time Continuum: Thoughts from Dublin
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In which Hank and John and Katherine walk around Dublin and Hank thinks about how we are all but a part of a magnificent continuum that stretches back around four billion years...depending on how you think about it.
2013x13
Talking to the President
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In which John discusses his forthcoming google+ discussion with Barack Obama, who is the President of the United States of America. John also discusses how social interactions like this .. show full overview
2013x14
Baby, Harlem, Obama, Dance Crazes, Big Week
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Congratulations to John on the "little development"! And also congratulations to him on an excellent fireside hangout with Obama. And congratulations to the Lizzie Bennet Team, and The .. show full overview
2013x15
Doing Things, On the Importance of
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In which John discusses the making of many things, which involve him to varying degrees, in an attempt to pull himself out of a post-Presidential morass and get to work. Projects .. show full overview
2013x16
Translating Dance Songs
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In which Hank (with the help of Irina, Amy, Florencia, Daniel, David, James, and Kensaku) translates songs that have spawned dance crazes in America, but I primarily not in English.
2013x17
Cooking with a 3-Year-Old: The Mac & Cheese and Communist Celery Edition
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In which my 3-year-old son Henry and I cook macaroni and cheese, boiled asparagus, communist celery, blueberries, and sweet potato fries for dinner while Sarah is out of town. Hilarity ensues.
2013x18
Top 25 Life Hacks of Reddit
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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!
2013x19
The Gray Speckled Walls Encroach: The Perks and Liabilities of Frequent Flying
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In which John makes an old school vlogbrothers video from an airport. OBVIOUSLY I MADE THIS BEFORE WE HIT 1,000,000 SUBSCRIBERS.Thanks to all of you for creating this amazing community .. show full overview
2013x20
ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS!
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In which Hank shows off his day a bit, announces the charities that will be receiving the funds raised during the Project for Awesome and then feels really inspired and amazed by nerdfighteria. Thank you all for being a part of this.
2013x21
Understand the Sequester (Spoiler: It's Bananas.)
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In which John explains how the United States arrived at Sequestration, while also describing what exactly the Sequester is. Along the way, he explores deficits and debts and other matters of governmental budgets. It's bananas.
2013x22
Ch-Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
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In which Hank gets a little self-indulgent and talks about YouTube and content and business and culture and etc.
2013x23
Ads Work...but for Whom?
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In which John takes an unexpected visit to the gray speckled walls of America's airports to mull the role that advertising plays in shaping (and funding) online video content, at times .. show full overview
2013x24
How Much is a Human Life Worth?
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Once when I like 10 years old, I was sitting in a school auditorium...I looked at all the people, and the (required) fire exits in the room. And I thought to myself that there weren't .. show full overview
2013x25
A Poem for Spring
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In which John welcomes the (calendrical) arrival of Spring by reciting some poetry, and also tells a story about moving to Indianapolis.
2013x26
Caviar Brownies - The Second Annual Hungry Games
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In which Michael and Hank and Emily eat some gross stuff, some delicious stuff, and are silly.
2013x27
TFiOS Movie Casting, New Books, and Groundhog Wars: An Old School Vlogbrothers Video
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In which John discusses the great news that Esther Earl's journals and other writings will be published, as well as discussing casting developments of the film version of The Fault in .. show full overview
2013x28
North Korea: Explained
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Is North Korea going to bomb us? Is North Korea a Threat? Is North Korea Communist? Why does North Korea Hate us? These (according to my extremely imprecise research) are the most .. show full overview
2013x29
Inside North Korea
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In which John discusses life inside a North Korean concentration camp as reported by Shin Dong-hyuk, the only person ever known to have gotten out of North Korea after being born in the .. show full overview
2013x30
Felicia Day, Hannah Hart, and The Fine Brothers
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In which Hank drives and vlogs (which you shouldn't do) and is grateful that he gets to hang out with cool people that think interesting things about online video...and also that are quite funny.
2013x31
Flags and Helpers
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In which John talks about the bombing at the Boston Marathon while he drives to the dentist.
2013x32
On Sexual Orientation, with Hannah, Ze, Tyler, and Meg
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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 .. show full overview
2013x33
DOCTOR GREEN
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In which John makes a video about his forthcoming entrance into the ranks of doctors. And visits the dentist. This is probably the most times in the history of nerdfighteria that the .. show full overview
2013x34
Cat GIF Critique
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In which Hank tries his hand at being a critic of the CAT GIF genre, a job that would require looking at cute things and being slightly witty. And while that might, at first, seem like a .. show full overview
2013x35
Animals Interrupt Sporting Events: A Critical Analysis
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In which John discusses adorable animals interrupting sporting events, including such hits as Dog Pooping on Baseball Field, Goalkeeper Dog Catcher Fail, Pine Marten Invades Swiss Soccer .. show full overview
2013x36
17 Rants in 4 Minutes
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In which Hank rants about seventeen different things that bug him. To be clear, this is not healthy and I kinda wish I hadn't done it because I was stressed out for the whole day after I filmed it. But, yeah, this stuff seriously annoys me.
2013x37
The Clif Bars Go in the Jar Because Mice: An Office Tour
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In which John takes you on a Cribs-style visit to the Indianapolis headquarters of Crash Course, mental_floss, and the Swindon Town Swoodilypoopers.
2013x38
Some Mind-Bending Earth GIFs
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Google's new Earth Engine, powered by NASA's landsat satellites, gives a time lapse view of (pretty much) every land surface on earth over the last 25 years. The view is amazing, and .. show full overview
2013x39
Puppies, Pegasi, and TFiOS Casting: It's Question Tuesday
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In which John answers real questions from real nerdfighters about puppies, ferrets, dancing, the casting of the movie adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars, the ducks in the pond, and many other things.
2013x40
GIFs, JIFs, Whip Pans, Trivia, and BATMAN!
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In which Hank answers real questions from real nerdfighters....with the help of some friends, most of whom are him. But also, Henry from Minute Physics makes an extremely brief cameo: http://www.youtube.com/minutephysics
2013x41
Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art
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In which John visits the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where his wife is a curator, and thinks about the work of the artist and dissident Ai Weiwei while walking through "According to .. show full overview
2013x42
What's Up with Start Ups
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I'm just getting a little sick of the system that values aggregators of content more than creators of content, and presumes some kind of magical future where owning users free time results in lots of money.
2013x43
NERD FACTOR! (...And Why I Fear for Tumblr)
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In which John Green discusses advertising, tumblr, the winners of Nerd Factor 2013, the narrated-by-him audiobook version of The Fault in Our Stars, and the future of the Internet.
2013x44
Optimism is Not Insane
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In which Hank talks about our cognitive bias toward bad news, how that affects us, and why there are, in fact, lots of reasons to be optimistic about the future of humanity on the Earth.
2013x45
A New Nerdfighter Baby
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In which past-John presciently reports on the birth of his second child, with an update from very-recent-past-John. John reports that he will be on paternity leave for a time, but his video presence will continue in lots of places.
2013x46
How To Be a Baby Properly
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In which Hank welcomes Alice Green to the world by giving her some tips on how to be a successful baby. And also basically lets her know that the survival of our species is on her .. show full overview
2013x47
How To Be John Green
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In which Craig teaches you everything you need to know about being John Green.
2013x48
What is the Strongest Force on Earth?
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In which Hank answers a question on a geology test that is really a terrible question and that the student who answered incorrectly may have been more right than any of us supposed.
2013x49
50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter
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In which Grace teaches you how to fake being smarter than you are in 50 easy steps. Some of them might possibly involve cheese. Maybe.
2013x50
New Channels, New Songs, and Just Plain News
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There is a great deal going on in this video, and there are lots of links below. So what did we cover?
2013x51
Thoughts from Places: Dog Days of Summer
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In which Hannah questions if she is ready for some form of commitment... Or maybe it's just puppy love.
2013x52
Plane Butts, Fish Farts, LeakyCon, and Marriage Equality
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In which Hank gets a little silly due to lack of sleep, but then has a really great time at LeakyCon. And, yes, I did talk to Devon Murray from the freaking Harry Potter movies. He was freaking great, and I was only a tiny bit terrified.
2013x53
The Perks of Being John's Assistant
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In which secret sister Rosianna (http://youtube.com/rosianna) breaks down her role as John Green's assistant and gives a tour of the London office. She obvs forgot to mention tweeting in parentheses on John's twitter.
2013x54
Egypt....Explained!
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***EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS ARE EXEMPT FROM TIME LIMITS :-p*** The situation in Egypt is extremely complicated and changing constantly. The arguments between the military and the Muslim .. show full overview
2013x55
The World Needs More Magic
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In which Nerd Factor winner Ben (https://www.youtube.com/user/MagicTurtle643) thinks the world needs more magic.
2013x56
Oh, JK Rowling - A Harry Potter Song
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Every year around the time when Accio Deathly Hallows came out, I release another Harry Potter song. This song is that song! If you want to know more about the Harry Potter Alliance (HPA) go here: http://thehpalliance.org/ they are frikkin great.
2013x57
The Ghost of Teenaged Future
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In which Sabrina (http://www.youtube.com/nerdyandquirky) fills in for John this week and shows what the future has in store for Hank and his niece.
2013x58
TFiOS Movie, Bees, Babies, and More!
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I don't know if you've missed John as much as I have, but I assume you do. So, when I was in Michigan visiting the family, John and I decided to do a Question Tuesday. It was fun!
2013x59
Watermelon Internet Trolls
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In which secret sister Maureen Johnson shares her Internet wisdom and talks about how best to have a discussion with trolls online.
2013x60
Introducing Subbable
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Advertising doesn't care how you feel about content, and we are afraid that, if the current system stands, content that people love and connect to (which is necessarily difficult to .. show full overview
2013x61
Paternity Leave Ends! And I Find Myself...
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...in an airport. In which John discusses his paternity leave, travel, the digging of holes, cursing during Liverpool matches, the strange memories of children, and Germans.
2013x62
17 Air Travel Tips
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In which Hank imparts some wisdom that he has gained through the last four years of getting on planes once every four months. An act that, to be clear, makes my carbon footprint so .. show full overview
2013x63
Esther Day 2013
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Happy Esther Day, nerdfighteria. Tell someone you love them today. Even if it's hard. Especially if it's hard, really. You can support This Star Won't Go Out, the charity created by .. show full overview
2013x64
Million Dollar Ideas
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In which John shares his first-ever million dollar idea, and talks about how Hank has a new one each day. Also discussed is John's crippling fatigue, parenthood, and having a baby, .. show full overview
2013x65
What I Learned at VidCon
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In which Hank sits on a fire escape in London and talks a bit about what he learned from VidCon.
2013x66
Shailene's Hair, Unfair Monopoly, and the Just World Fallacy
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In which John discusses the just world fallacy, Lupe Fiasco, Shailene Woodley's impending hair cut on her road to becoming Hazel Grace Lancaster for The Fault in Our Stars movie, the way .. show full overview
2013x67
Harry Potter vs. Science!
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In which Hank makes a video deciding what to make a video about...for real, while sitting on a bench in Tower Hill in London at night and screaming at his camera while people walk by. It has been an interesting trip to the UK :-)
2013x68
Why Are American Health Care Costs So High?
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In which John discusses the complicated reasons why the United States spends so much more on health care than any other country in the world, and along the way reveals some surprising .. show full overview
2013x69
Thoughts from Bath: The Legacy of Wealth
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In which Hank hangs out with Charlie in Charlie's home town. Charlie pretty much said "I won't take you to Bath if you don't make a Thoughts from Places video about it." So, yeah, this was a required assignment. :-)
2013x70
On the TFIOS Movie Set
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In which John checks in from the set of the TFIOS movie. Look behind the scenes at all the hardworking people who are making this movie a real thing in the world.
2013x71
Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam
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In which Hank does what you told him to do. INCLUDING! Dancing to Brazilian Music, discussing stress, Parkour (not actually), eating raw onion, interviewing the sidewalk, singing about .. show full overview
2013x72
Bigger Pizzas: A Capitalist Case for Health Care Reform
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In which John discusses some of the many ways that our current massively inefficient health care system leads to the irrational allocation of capital. He discusses the fascinating cases .. show full overview
2013x73
Undigested Lump (A Song)
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In which Hank sings a song that is mostly Shakespearean insults, and talks about his own broken reasons for not writing much music for the last year or so. Also, announces that he's working on an album!
2013x74
Secrets of the Movies: Thoughts from The Fault in Our Stars Set
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In which John returns to the set of The Fault in Our Stars movie, hanging out with Shailene Woodley (Hazel), Ansel Elgort (Gus), Nat Wolff (Isaac), Deb Who Does The Slate Thing, and many .. show full overview
2013x75
Syria in Five Minutes
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In which Hank discusses the situation in Syria as deeply and completely as he can in five minutes. Negotiations are ongoing as to whether and how chemical weapons will be removed .. show full overview
2013x76
Question Tuesday with Nat Wolff (aka Isaac in The Fault in Our Stars movie)
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In which John Green and Nat Wolff sneak off The Fault in Our Stars film set to answer some of your questions in the woods. Nothing creepy about it.
2013x77
42 Amazing Maps
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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 .. show full overview
2013x78
Started from the Bottom: Benjamin Franklin and Drake Compared
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In which John compares the Drake song "Started from the Bottom (Now We Here)" with Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, two American dream narratives that turn out to be significantly more complex and problematic than they initially seem.
2013x79
Invalid Arguments: Climate Change
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There are only a few topics that seem less obvious but more hotly debated than climate change. It's here, it's happening, it's caused by humanity, and it is one of the largest problems .. show full overview
2013x80
The Lowdown on the Shutdown
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John had a special video planned for today, but then the government shut down so we decided to switch so I could stay up until 3 am figuring out wtf is up with the shutdown and make a video about it.
2013x81
Q&A with Ansel Elgort and Mike Birbiglia from The Fault in Our Stars Movie Set
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In which John asks Ansel Elgort (who plays Augustus Waters) and Mike Birbiglia (who plays Patrick) some real questions from real nerdfighters while on the set of The Fault in Our Stars .. show full overview
2013x82
Applying for Health Insurance: Then and Now
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In which John Green attempts to apply for new health insurance coverage using the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchanges and then through a private insurer that existed before the ACA .. show full overview
2013x83
TFiOS Movie, Emma Approved, Subbable Update, etc
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There's a lot goin' on. The Fault in Our Stars movie is finishing up filming and will be in theaters in America on June 6th!
2013x84
Thoughts for Nerdfighteria
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In which John talks about nerdfighteria and the risks and opportunities of growth and change in online communities.
2013x85
Curiosity is the Greatest Human Quality
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In which Hank talks about his trip to San Francisco to talk about education with YouTube, video makers, and teachers. It was a really fantastic trip, and if you can, I suggest you get .. show full overview
2013x86
Question Tuesday: The Fault in Our Stars Movie Edition
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In which John answers real questions from real nerdfighters about the movie adaptation of his book The Fault in Our Stars while also disagreeing with Hank about what the greatest human quality is.
2013x87
When Was it a Million Seconds Ago?
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In which Hank is fascinated by the fact that, as much as he tries, it is impossible to actually understand the reality of a number even as simple as one million.
2013x88
Perspective
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In which John talks about his life 12 years ago. (If I can pass along just one piece of advice: Watch Harvey.)
2013x89
Scarier than Gravity: Real Life Close Calls in Space
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In which Hank talks about a smattering of the most terrifying real-life close-calls in space travel. The Russians seem to have a particular knack for getting into terrible situations but, somehow, not dying.
2013x90
Our Strangest Project Yet?
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In which John announces his retirement from semi-professional FIFA playing, discusses the astonishing story of AFC Wimbledon, and reveals that through Hankgames, nerdfighteria will be .. show full overview
2013x91
VidCon, Punishments, Comments, and Pumpkins
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Every year, one of my favorite things to do is take the music of a YouTuber and edit it together with clips from VidCon. It's always epic and fun and surprising and awesome and there's .. show full overview
2013x92
But Is Worm Pizza Poisonous?
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In which John discusses Dr. Aaron Carroll's new project, Health Care Triage, as well as some astonishing facts about human health that he learned from Dr. Carroll's books, Don't Swallow .. show full overview
2013x93
I Have a Band?
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In which Hank introduces you to the people he is making an album with...with a towel over his camera...for sound reasons.
2013x94
On Middle School Misery
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In which John rides the train and thinks about misery and bullying in middle school.
2013x95
How to Apologize like a Fartbag
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In which Hank talks about apologies. I've been thinking about it a lot because some of my good friends did dumb things, realized how dumb they were, and made very good apologies, not .. show full overview
2013x96
The Bank of Nerdfighteria
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In which John discusses the forthcoming 2013 Project for Awesome, the health of the Bank of Nerdfighteria, the strength of Toby Turner's arms, the nerdfighter kiva group, and the .. show full overview
2013x97
REUNION! Arm Wrestling, Drawing, and Questions with Hank and John!
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In which Hank and John are in the same place and everything was beautiful and nothing hurt. We're in North Carolina visiting our parents for Thanksgiving and decided to spend some time answering your questions.
2013x98
Who Owns DFTBA? An Introduction to Trademarks
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In which John discusses the increasingly widespread use by large corporations of the phrases "DFTBA" and "Don't forget to be awesome," and discusses why even though we COULD stop those uses by trademarking nerdfighter slogans, we aren't going to.
2013x99
I Am President Snow
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In which Hank discusses The Hunger Games, the extreme inequality of our society, and what it means to be a citizen of The Capitol. Inequality is so difficult to fight in our world .. show full overview
2013x100
Cooking with a 3-Year-Old: Slobber Carrots and Gross Barbecue
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In which John eats slobber carrots with drool, gross barbecue with drool, and hat. I'm glad to have this punishment behind me. Thanks to Henry and nerdfighteria for the horror.
2013x101
Mom and Dad Green! Extra Special Question Tuesday
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In which Hank asks real questions from real nerdfighters to his real mom and dad. Find out what Hank's real name is, what John's GIRL name is, and some nice embarrassing tidbits about us as kids.
2013x102
Project for Awesome Time!! What does it Mean?!
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http://dft.ba/p4a The IndieGoGo is live now, and some of the perks are already sold out!
2013x103
THE PROJECT FOR AWESOME 2013 IS UPON US!
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In which John Green launched the SEVENTH ANNUAL Project for Awesome. John's chosen charity, Save the Children, works around the world wherever crises strike to help children and families in need. They're pretty awesome.
2013x104
Best Moments of the Project for Awesome
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The P4A was AMAAAZIIIING but there's no way you can catch everything unless you are an android and do not sleep or require food or bathrooms...in which case...I welcome our robot .. show full overview
2013x105
The Kidney That Was In 3 People - And Other Amazing Science Things
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In which Hank discusses some of the coolest things he's learned while answering people's questions about the world. Often times, I have to say, these questions start out with "This is .. show full overview
2013x106
GOOD NEWS: 14 Reasons 2014 May Be the Best Year Ever
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In which John Green shares some encouraging trends and statistics about the current state of humans in the world. Poverty and infant mortality are decreasing. Fewer people are dying of .. show full overview

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