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2021
2021x1
In 1990 I Made a Bunch of Predictions About 2020...Here they Are
Episode overview
I kept finding this and being like, "I need to safe this for 2020." And I swear, I almost forgot about it but I was cleaning my office this week and found it and was like, "OH THANK GOD YES YES YES I DIDN'T MISS IT!"
2021x2
SUPERIOR FISH BEINGS
Episode overview
In which John discusses 10-year-old Hank's prediction that the year 2012 would feature the emergence of Superior Fish Beings, and what exactly those Superior Fish Beings might be up to.
2021x3
In Which Hank Worries for a Little Bit and then Looks at Microbes
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Did I record an entire video about voting rights and coups and leaders of this country thinking they could ride tigers without getting bitten by them? Yes! Yes I did. But as I was .. show full overview
2021x4
My 2021 Vision Board
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In which John announces a new project despite not really knowing what a vision board even is. p.s. Lemmigs????
2021x5
Influencers and Insurrectionists
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I keep hearing people talk about whether it was Facebook or Fox News or Donald Trump who led us down this deep mess of radicalization. But it's feeling more and more to me like those are .. show full overview
2021x6
let's go on a parts adventure
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This episode has no summary.
2021x7
I Didn't Clean My Glasses for a Week and then I Put them Under a Microscope
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It turns out, from what I can tell, that the reason your glasses get harder to see through, is that globs of sebaceous oil somehow leap from your skin to the inside of your glasses. .. show full overview
2021x8
The Sycamore Tree
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In which John plays the why game before discovering that he is in the vast shade of a sycamore tree.
2021x9
The Gamestop Short Squeeze in 4 Minutes
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Am I qualified to make this video? No I am not. But are the people who manipulate our markets so that they can harm the economy for their own gain qualified to do that? ALSO NO!!!
2021x10
I Predicted the Pandemic (over and over and over again)
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This episode has no summary.
2021x11
The Project for Awesome will be Different This Year!
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This episode has no summary.
2021x12
Lesser Known YouTube Channels I Love
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PLEASE CHECK OUT THE AMAZING CHANNELS IN THIS VIDEO
2021x13
Doing Better
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When I say that things "are just this way" what I don't mean is that they had to be. We had plenty of chances to make this better along the way, and the US government did an extreme .. show full overview
2021x14
A Lovely Winter Walk
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In which John, sporting a p4a-mandated mustache, takes a snowy walk in the woods while feeling exhausted and light-drenched in the wake of the 2021 Project for Awesome, which has now raised (can it be?) over $2,300,000 for charity.
2021x15
Bean Meme Review
Episode overview
Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the Project for Awesome last weekend. This wasn't even all of the memes! There were tons of great ones I couldn't fit in! It was a .. show full overview
2021x16
A Little Joy and Color in an Otherwise Unbearably Bland Life
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In which John discusses his all-time favorite five-star review, endurance as art, the peculiarly modernist hell of repetition, and purple Sharpies.
2021x17
Arbitrary but Useful
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I guess one other thing that I would say is that the frustration people like me sometimes have about how we don't all use the same systems of measurements or whatever is, like, I get it, .. show full overview
2021x18
What's Not in the Frame
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In which John discusses the frame, and what's not in it. This isn't really a video; it's just a question.
2021x19
How Much Hope is OK?
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In the video I describe a worry that it is selfish to feel nice in a world that remains full of bad things. I'm not sure if selfishness is the right word, but I don't know what the right word is?
2021x20
Hank Rebranded Without Any of Us Noticing
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In which John discusses corndogs, his brother, the past which is never past, the death of Mr. Peanut, and necessity of change.
2021x21
A Crisis of Branding
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When I say, "I don't have an authentic self" I don't mean, "I don't have innate tendencies or attributes." I definitely do. But it is definitely the case that "the real me" is a thing .. show full overview
2021x22
How a Book Cover Gets Designed
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In which John discusses the process of designing the cover for The Anthropocene Reviewed.
2021x23
How Will Post Pandemic Behavior Change?
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If you'd like to participate, it was a fun exercise and I think gives me a chance to make maybe /slightly/ better decisions in the short-term!
2021x24
Why I'm Worried about 2021
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I might be worried to be worried about this...but I think there are scales of severity to all of these things and I think we're getting really good at not looking at things on scales and .. show full overview
2021x25
I did it!
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In which John signs (and Lectrojogs) an actual ton.
2021x26
John's World Record
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I dunno, maybe someone out there has written their name more times, it's certainly possible, but at this point it seems unlikely. It's also possible that I have drawn more fish than anyone else in the world, but I didn't want to brag.
2021x27
How Do You Do, Fellow Kids?
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In which John discusses his all-time favorite meme, anxiety, shame, vaccine hesitancy, and how we're gonna get out of this.
2021x28
A Thought is Not an Idea
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I've heard people talk a good deal about how ideas are useless without implementation, but I don't hear many people talking about the fact that an idea isn't even an idea if it doesn't have both an objective and a path to achieve that objective.
2021x29
My Truly Mortifying Self-Talk
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In which John's watch goes rogue, and his friend Craig is kind, and a second shot is manifested.
2021x30
Gene Editing and Intelligence: A Bad
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There was so much more I wanted to talk about here...it's a hard subject for 4 minutes. Obviously the bad thing being glossed over in the beginning is "Well, so we're going to create a .. show full overview
2021x31
Breaking Ground!!!
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This episode has no summary.
2021x32
Young People and the COVID Vaccine
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This episode has no summary.
2021x33
What is my new book about?
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In which John does not know how to talk about his new book The Anthropocene Reviewed, but needs to figure it out soon.
2021x34
Are We the Baddies?? A Quick Look at a Discourse
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When I started this video I thought it was just going to be about a tweet...the fact that it became about how a tweet about villains outlines that the thing we're angry about is kinda .. show full overview
2021x35
What the Most-Viewed Vlogbrothers Videos Say about YouTube (and about us)
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In which John looks at fourteen years of vlogbrothers history while considering what exactly constitutes a successful YouTube video.
2021x36
Are We The Same Person?
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I mean, at this point, it's worth asking. I feel like the more my identity is tied to small groups of people I know well, the happier I am. Having my identity tied to large groups I .. show full overview
2021x37
I am a small boat. It's Question Tuesday.
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In which John answers questions about The Anthropocene Reviewed book, being Vince Vaughn's best friend, his favorite vlogbrothers inside joke, and more.
2021x38
This Vlogbrothers Stat Blew My Mind
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This episode has no summary.
2021x39
Saying What I've Needed to Say to Hank for a While
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In which The Anthropocene Reviewed book comes out and John says what he's been needing to say to Hank for a while.
2021x40
The 19 Best Facts
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The thread has now received a further 900 replies, and includes many facts that I would have put in this list, including that astronauts on spacewalks often LOSE THEIR FINGERNAILS AND NO .. show full overview
2021x41
The Anthropocene Animated
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In which John reads the first chapter of his new book, The Anthropocene Reviewed.
2021x42
Aliens
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Is it aliens? Probably not. Why? Because we don't know almost everything, and finding an explanation that could explain almost anything doesn't recognize that there is a whole lot we .. show full overview
2021x43
My Two Favorite Books of the Year
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In which John discusses his two favorite reads of this year so far, both of which are out today.
2021x44
Is Twitter Redeemable?
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Just know, going into this, that I do not have a good answer for this question. I know everyone's experience of Twitter is very different, and I also know that there are reasons to be .. show full overview
2021x45
Feelings, Little Tunnels, and Oprah: It's Question Tuesday with Ashley C. Ford
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In which John and Ashley C. Ford, two gratefully vaccinated writer friends, gather to discuss trauma, hope, yacht rock, feelings, Oprah's blanket, writing, and more. Oh, p.s. I had to .. show full overview
2021x46
My Greatest Tool Against Vaccine Misinformation
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I think there is a place for taking the time to fight against individual claims...but the thing you don't want to do is engage with the people who are not going to be convinced by .. show full overview
2021x47
VLOGBROTHERS REUNITED!!!!
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In which Hank and John are in the same place at the same time for the first time in a very, very long while.
2021x48
QUADRAGOCON 2021!! LET THE GAMES CONTINUE!!!!
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In 2015 John and I competed in a 14 event competition called the Quadragocon with the intent of repeating it every four years. But then we didn't do that and then there was a pandemic .. show full overview
2021x49
Mindblowers with Hank and John
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In which Hank and John, in their final reunion video for now, discuss the facts that blow their minds--from the lack of time before the Big Bang to the astonishing newness of recorded music.
2021x50
The Surprising Origin of Crash Course
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Of course I know that the vast majority of people who are watching this won't be able to get a coin, but the small percent who can are making it so that this resource is available to all .. show full overview
2021x51
Sneezing is not normal.
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In which John discusses the saga of Dr. NeverSneezer Scrooge, and how the ridiculous information we encounter shapes us and the world we share. Speaking of sharing ridiculous .. show full overview
2021x52
So...Orange Juice isn't What it Seems...
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My favorite thing about the fact that all orange juices are flavored is how much the orange juice industry freaks about when people talk about it, so we'll see if I get a letter from .. show full overview
2021x53
Wrong on the Internet
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I think we need to interface with the climate crisis like it is an emergency and taking personal action is a great way to both have a small impact on the world, but also to incorporate .. show full overview
2021x54
The Vlogbrothers Videos I Didn't Make
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In which John discusses some vlogbrothers videos he didn't make, why he abandoned them, and what he learned along the way.
2021x55
Should You Abandon Social Media?
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Did I make a video called "is twitter redeemable" last month? Yes I did. Do I think about Twitter a lot? Yes. Too much? Probably. Ultimately, the moments when I feel like I can't .. show full overview
2021x56
Reviewing Reviews of My Reviews
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In which John goes Full Inception and reviews reviews of The Anthropocene Reviewed. Signed copies of TAR are still available in many places.
2021x57
The Last 25 Questions I Asked Google
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It is very weird that Google remembers everything, but it is also kinda nice? I don't know what this will do to our lives and our brains, but when I type "When" into the search box and .. show full overview
2021x58
Savoring: The Sunset Series Returns
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In which John watches the sun set over Lake Michigan and tries to slow and thicken time.
2021x59
Can You Trust Science Too Much?
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Science is a human-created process that is undergoing constant revision and it is the best tool we have for uncovering truth. It's not a bunch of facts, it's not an ideology. It's .. show full overview
2021x60
I L*** Hank
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In which John celebrates Esther Day 2021.
2021x61
Remembering What's Special
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I mean, can you believe this? Like the idea that this is a "YouTube channel" is so preposterous. There isn't a name for what this is, and I'm OK with that. I recognize that the focus on .. show full overview
2021x62
My Physicalmental Illness
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In which John discusses labyrinthitis, OCD, categories, the body in thought, and the body in pain.
2021x63
How We Fix the Climate
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We should act as if this is an emergency, because it is. But part of that is understanding the tools and strategies countries are using to decarbonize and stabilize the climate. This is .. show full overview
2021x64
Who Owns Nerdfighteria?
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In which John reads Jennifer Burek Pierce's book Narratives, Nerdfighters, and New Media and thinks about who captures the value of work done by sprawling collectives in virtual places--including online communities like nerdfighteria.
2021x65
Question Tuesday Except I'm an AI
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In which Fake Hank and John answers Real Questions from Real Nerdfighters.
2021x66
It's My Birthday. I Gave Myself This Video.
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In which John delivers himself an old-fashioned parts video for his birthday. Topics discussed include writing, getting older, living for a million years, moderate dystopias, The .. show full overview
2021x67
Is it Better Not to Know?
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I think one of the difficult thing with how the world exists right now is that we're asked to care about, like, everything. I cannot care about everything and I SHOULD NOT care about .. show full overview
2021x68
The Woman Who Invented Stuffed Animals
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In which John discusses the extraordinary life of Margarete Steiff and the invention of stuffed animals.
2021x69
What the Heck am I doing?
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The Arizona State University collaboration is so exciting because it's really made clear to me a lot of failings of higher education. There are SO MANY PEOPLE whose higher ed experience .. show full overview
2021x70
My Two Favorite Jokes
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In which John tells his two favorite jokes, both of which instruct as well as delight, and encourages you to leave your favorite joke in the comments. Long week. I could use a laugh.
2021x71
The Most Important 10 Words a Stranger Ever Said to Me
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I am getting old...it is making me introspective...
2021x72
I do this every. single. tuesday.
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In which John discusses doing things routinely, and where ideas come from.
2021x73
The Top 10 Micro-Photos of 2021
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This was really an honor to be a part of. We started with thousands of images and we worked for a full two days to come up with the winners. There was also a video portion of the competition, so maybe I'll talk about that at sometime!!
2021x74
how we spend our days
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is, of course, how we spend our lives. In which John talks about Annie Dillard, productivity, and the relative value of haircuts.
2021x75
11 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read
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In which John recommends eleven excellent books that aren't bestsellers.
2021x76
A Lie I Heard this Week
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One of the things it made me think and that I barely talk about in this video is that we are really good at saying "Boy, things sure are bad, but I know there is one thing that isn't .. show full overview
2021x77
PIZZAMAS IS HERE!
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In which John unboxes a huge variety of Pizza John-related goods.
2021x78
Why the Heck am I on TikTok???
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I could obviously talk about TikTok all day long, and I'm not out here pretending I have a healthy relationship with any of this stuff. But here's what I know for sure...our world .. show full overview
2021x79
Searching for Betsy in Brazil
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In which John goes to Brazil to deliver a pizzamas zine and some stickers. Along the way, I contemplate the meaning of life and recall the time I (sorta) met Kurt Vonnegut.
2021x80
What if Facebook Disappeared?
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Usually I'm up in the description being like, "here are a bunch of things I wasn't really able to fit in the video" but actually...turns out, if you let me go for 20 minutes, I get most .. show full overview
2021x81
On February 3rd, 2020, I Wrote a Video I Didn't Make. Here It Is.
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In which John returns to a script he wrote but did not film in early February of 2020 about uncertainty and "a feeling of impending doom."
2021x82
The Fastest Things in the Universe (Entirely According to Me)
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Boy, the way, at the end of the video, I'm like, "actually speed doesn't exist" is wild. The fastest thing in the universe might actually be you...just depends on your frame of reference...
2021x83
Fine, I'll take the bait.
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This episode has no summary.
2021x84
The Web of Care
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Only Two Pizzamas Videos Left?! 0_o I think I mostly got to the point I wanted to get to here. Of course, there are a lot of other important thoughts that stem from .. show full overview
2021x85
Pizza Sized Johns or John Sized Pizza? It's Question Thursday
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In which John answers real questions from real nerdfighters. Topics discussed include breathing, writing, memory, and living with 100 tiny neurotic people.
2021x86
What is Pizzamas? ...and a New Friend
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The unpredictability and lack of precedent for the path we are on can feel unnerving at times, but having these recurring times to help us understand where we're headed is really .. show full overview
2021x87
Cat Names: The Authoritative Guide
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As you can probably tell, I had a lot of fun making this. In which John combs through literary and scientific history in search of absolute, top-drawer cat names to help Hank and his family name their adorable new kitten.
2021x88
A Tool with No Blood on It
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The weirdest swerve when it comes to vavilovian mimics is that some weeds got so good at imitating crops that they made their seeds really big an nutritious and BECAME CROPS. Both rye .. show full overview
2021x89
Why Avocados Still Exist
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In which John discusses the strangely hopeful history (and future?) of avocado trees and their extraordinary fruit. It's a tale of coevolving with mammals that no longer exist, and yet finding a way to go on.
2021x90
The Earth is an Alien Planet
Episode overview
I just think this is really really cool... Also, it's a great way to teach about how evaporation and condensation work in a way that is terrifying and very memorable.
2021x91
enough
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In which John wonders whether enough is actually enough.
2021x92
We Have Invented Something Marvelous
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This episode has no summary.
2021x93
Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas
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In which John discusses some of Hank Green's epically bad million dollar ideas, and also an actual million dollar idea, the awesome socks club: http://awesomesocks.club/vb (100% of profits go to charity.)
2021x94
Everything a Normal Person Needs to Know About Helium
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Helium is so great...and we are running out of it, but also we are not running out of it.
2021x95
Orbital Sunrise: The First Art Made in Space
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Original Title: See What You'll Never See: The Orbital Sunrise In which John Green considers the orbital sunrise, why humans make art, and why the cosmonaut Alexei Leonov drew home. .. show full overview
2021x96
How do We Get Anything Done At All?
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We can't decide on the pronunciation of GIF but we can make water come out of holes in our homes on demand and build pocket computers and create vaccines and build a global communications infrastructure.
2021x97
I have been playing a small trick on you.
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In which John reveals the ruse, and the reasons for it. Greetings from October. Hope you're doing well.
2021x98
Vlogbrothers REUNITED AT LAST
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In which John and Hank are absolutely delighted to find themselves in the same place at the same time.
2021x99
Loving the Loves of Your Loves
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This episode has no summary.
2021x100
John and Hank at the Cemetery
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I gotta say, I very much like making videos with my brother...good news is...while we were together....WE RECORDED TWO MORE! Get ready for more reunions next week!!!
2021x101
Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets
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In which John digs very deep into the past to uncover the piping hot, frozen cold takes of 2011 Hank Green.
2021x102
What Was Early YouTube Like? (with Hank and John)
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It's two old YouTubers talking about old YouTube, what else could you want!?
2021x103
MAKE. BELIEVE.
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In which John discusses what he has (re)learned about writing--including how all writing is rewriting, and why many of the most enjoyable parts of writing a story do not involve writing the story.
2021x104
What State of Matter is Fire
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This question has been bugging me for about 20 years. And, ultimately, it still bugs me...
2021x105
NOW I AM THE SCIENCE ONE...
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...and other thoughts from a short day in a long year. In which John discusses why personality is not destiny (or even necessarily permanent), the naming of The Anthropocene .. show full overview
2021x106
29 Days of Astronomical Terror
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The James Webb Space Telescope wants to examine the universe in ways that are simply impossible without tremendous feats of engineering. The bad news is...that means a terrifyingly .. show full overview

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