All statements about Europe

120 statements about Europe in 70 videos, by upload date.

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2007

2007-11-15 · Nov 15: Jay-Z, the Inkys, Nerdfighteria, and Venn Diagrams! — John says the news only makes him want to move to Europe, or possibly Australia. (playful) — 00:00:39

2008

2008-04-28 · Ranting and Giving Stuff Away — John says the drug Hank was given is almost never prescribed in any European country with socialized medicine. (doubtful: almost never prescribed) — 00:03:14
2008-06-19 · Memo to the Fourteenth Century (and to the Tobians) — John: On the future course of history, John warns 14th-century people outside Europe that they are about to be in big trouble, and jokes they should kill any dude who looks like him. (playful) — 00:03:17
2008-08-18 · This Video Comes in Threven Parts — Hank says John won't see this for a while because he is on a boat in the ocean in Europe without internet; Hank never really knows what John is doing anymore. (hedged) — 00:00:00
2008-08-18 · This Video Comes in Threven Parts — announcement: Hank says John started a new, European scavenger hunt; the first clue, in Sweden, has been found and deciphered, giving the letter B, whose meaning is unknown. — 00:03:32

2009

2009-03-15 · Lighting a candle for Rwanda — John says that 15 years ago the US, the UN and Europe got almost all of 'our people' out of Rwanda unharmed, leaving the hundreds of thousands killed to conclude they were 'a them'. — 00:00:54

2010

2010-11-11 · REIGN OF TERROR: The French Revolution, Part III — John says the former First and Second Estates became enemies of the new secular state, which led to a lasting decline in the relevance of religion and class to European governments and economies. — 00:01:38
2010-11-15 · Hey! You! Fix the Budget! — John: After joking that Europe has it all figured out, John says the deficit projections for most developed economies look much like America's. (playful) — 00:02:56
2010-11-15 · Hey! You! Fix the Budget! — announcement: John says he leaves tomorrow (16 November 2010) for a week in Europe, doing events in Amsterdam and Vienna, with details in the description. — 00:02:56

2011

2011-03-18 · TERRIBLE — John says that on taking the throne at 16 Ivan tried to make the world better: he modernized the legal code, opened trade with Europe, annexed land, and married Anastasia. — 00:01:21
2011-06-15 (said on 2011-06-14, implied) · Question Tuesday! Paula Deen Riding Me (and critical reading) — John: Asked about US–Europe differences, John says the biggest is that 60% of US bankruptcies are caused by medical costs, against 0% in the Netherlands. — 00:01:05
2011-07-04 · How to Turn Your Dumb Summer Job Into $162,000 — ask: John names the Nerdfighters to vote for in YouTube NextUp Europe: missxrojas, DeEelcoShow, BarryAldridge, dutchforn00bs, Beckie0, booksandquills, OMFGItsJackAndDean, tristopiatv, willsodyssey, thegearskeepturning, musicfromblueskies and tyrannosauruslexxx. — video description
2011-07-04 · How to Turn Your Dumb Summer Job Into $162,000 — John tells young viewers to go to a bank and set up an IRA, an individual retirement account; non-US countries from Brazil to Europe have equivalents. — 00:01:26
2011-07-04 · How to Turn Your Dumb Summer Job Into $162,000 — ask: John: Many Nerdfighters reached the voting round of YouTube NextUp Europe; John links their entries and asks viewers to watch all the videos and vote, since they can shape YouTube's future. — 00:03:26
2011-07-04 · How to Turn Your Dumb Summer Job Into $162,000 — John: One NextUp Europe finalist is Rosianna, who John says is responsible for the title of The Fault in Our Stars. — 00:03:29
2011-07-08 · Kill the Dollar Bill! — John: No new coins need minting, since a billion $1 coins already exist; just remove the bills. People might be slightly inconvenienced for a while, but Canada and Europe got used to it. — 00:01:56
2011-11-11 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — John says Silvio Berlusconi's resignation has not calmed the markets, and there is still great fear of bank runs and credit crunches in Europe, a nightmare for the whole world. — 00:00:28
2011-12-30 · How to Tip Properly — Hank says in Europe service charges on the check, higher wages and inexpensive or free medical care mean waitstaff don't need tips to stay above the poverty line. — 00:03:02

2013

2013-08-20 · Why Are American Health Care Costs So High? — John says overutilization is not the problem: Americans go to the doctor less than Europeans and spend much less time in hospitals, though seven nights in a Dutch hospital cost what one American night does. — 00:02:13
2013-10-25 · When Was it a Million Seconds Ago? — Hank: A trillion seconds ago was 31,000 years ago, when, Hank says, humans were first arriving in Europe. (doubtful: 31 thousand years ago) — 00:01:18

2014

2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — John says once-'incurably poor' Brazil now has, by some measures, a healthier book publishing landscape than many European countries, benefiting YA novelists in Indianapolis too. (hedged) — 00:03:27
2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says Ukraine is the second-largest country in Europe by area. — 00:00:09
2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says the Crimean Peninsula saw much of the fighting of the 1853-1856 Crimean War, 'sort of' Catholic versus Orthodox but mainly Europe fearing Russian expansion as the Ottoman Empire declined. (hedged) — 00:00:11
2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says Britain, France and the Ottoman Empire defeated Russia; 500,000 people died, and it resolved very little, since Europe had World War I sixty years later. — 00:00:25
2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says the number of 'mysterious poisonings' in Russia and Eastern Europe has skyrocketed since Putin came to power. — 00:03:14
2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says the Orange Revolution protests led to a second election, which the poisoned Yushchenko won, though it did not bring lasting friendliness toward Europe. — 00:03:22
2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says Yushchenko's friendliness toward Europe infuriated Russia, which briefly but disastrously cut off gas supplies to Ukraine in 2006. — 00:03:49
2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says that by 2010 Ukraine was led by the Europe-friendly, somewhat corrupt Yulia Tymoshenko, and the presidential election, declared free and fair by observers, was won by Yanukovych. — 00:03:57
2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says he gave more historical context than the news because it shows that the pull between Western Europe and Russia in Ukraine is not new. — 00:06:08
2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says Ukraine needs decades of stability to grow its own identity and have relationships with both Europe and Russia without being controlled by either. — 00:06:25
2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? — John says that by almost any measure, being born rich or poor predicts ending up rich or poor more in the US than in Canada, Europe or any developed country. — 00:01:19
2014-04-08 · I Don't Even Know — John says several European countries admit more people to prison per capita each year than the US but give much shorter sentences, a big reason the US has the world's highest incarceration rate. — 00:01:14
2014-04-11 · What Boys Look For in Girls — Hank says 19th-century European women squeezed their waists, Mauritanian girls are sent to fat camps to eat 10,000 calories a day because stretch marks are sexy there, and American women paint faces and shave. — 00:01:00
2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — John: Ebola is not coming for this vague 'us' either: John says it is not going to spread widely in the US or Europe. — 00:02:46
2014-11-10 · The Woman Without a Face - Pizzamas Day 1 — Hank says that between 1993 and 2009 one woman's DNA was found at 40 crime scenes, from burglaries to execution-style murders, in three European countries. — 00:01:56

2015

2015-06-08 · Monday Bonus Video! — announcement: John: Next week (week of 15 June 2015) John tours Europe with his wife and friends: a sold-out Berlin event on Tuesday June 16, meeting people outside a Paris bookstore Wednesday, London on Thursday (place and time to be determined). — 00:00:06
2015-06-16 (said on 2015-06-13, implied) · Paper Towns Madrid with Nat Wolff! THE TOUR BEGINS — John says it is actually Saturday and they are on their way to Europe, and asks Henry where they are going first; Henry answers North Carolina. — 00:00:01
2015-06-16 (said on 2015-06-13, implied) · Paper Towns Madrid with Nat Wolff! THE TOUR BEGINS — John: In Asheville, John's parents, 'noted American heroes Mom and Dad', will look after John's kids for the week while he is in Europe. — 00:00:16
2015-07-07 · Understanding the Financial Crisis in Greece — John: For Europe things are better than in 2010: private European banks hold much less Greek debt and Ireland and Portugal are healthier, so a Greek collapse or exit would be less catastrophic. — 00:05:00
2015-07-07 · Understanding the Financial Crisis in Greece — John concludes there is much blame to share, but without listening to others' narratives and imagining all members as an 'us', Europe cannot share a continent, let alone a currency. — 00:07:23
2015-09-08 · Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World — John notes that most of the video's statistics and graphs come from the UN High Commission on Refugees, and that he quotes extensively from the UNHCR's plan forward from Europe. — video description
2015-09-08 · Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World — John: After thousands of refugees died this year (2015) trying to reach Europe, three-year-old Aylan Kurdi's body washed ashore in Turkey; he drowned with his five-year-old brother and mother heading for Greece. — 00:00:25
2015-09-08 · Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World — John: In Turkey most refugees live in legal limbo outside camps, not expelled but barred from work, so many educated, skilled Syrians can't earn a living; thousands have turned to Europe. — 00:02:11
2015-09-08 · Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World — John says the smugglers are essentially the only ones benefiting from Europe's inconsistent, inhumane and disorganized response to the refugee crisis. — 00:02:34
2015-09-08 · Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World — John quotes the UN High Commissioner for Refugees: better cooperation against smugglers is needed, but nothing will work without more legal ways to reach Europe and find safety. — 00:02:41
2015-09-08 · Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World — John: European countries owe refugees nothing until they arrive, then have legal duties; so governments want the trip hard and benefit when it is dangerous, which is why boat smuggling continues. — 00:04:01
2015-09-08 · Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World — John calls some European governments' xenophobic responses shameful; Hungary's prime minister, saying Muslims must be kept out to 'keep Europe Christian', denies Europe's multi-religious history and international refugee law. — 00:06:28
2015-09-08 · Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World — John finds Europeans at train stations and football games promising refugees are welcome moving and hopes governments follow, but keeping the promise is the hard, long-term, expensive, complex part. (hedged) — 00:08:13
2015-09-08 · Understanding the Refugee Crisis in Europe, Syria, and around the World — 13-year-old Syrian refugee (clip) (quoted): In a clip, the 13-year-old Syrian refugee pleads for help for Syrians now: just stop the war, and they won't want to go to Europe. — 00:08:44
2015-09-24 · Continents are Dumb — Hank: In America, at least, people are taught there are seven continents: North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and Antarctica. (hedged) — 00:00:38
2015-09-24 · Continents are Dumb — Hank: Europe and Asia are by any geographical definition the same continent; Europe is separate only because Hank was taught by culturally European people who wanted it to be. — 00:01:29
2015-09-24 · Continents are Dumb — Hank: Indonesia seemed small to Hank, but moved onto Europe it stretches from Northern Ireland to Kazakhstan; it has the land area of the UK, Germany, France, Spain and Italy combined. — 00:02:11
2015-11-13 · Feeling About Paris — Hank says it is hard not to think about the global effects and those on Europe, but right now he wants to think about those who risked their lives to help, those who lost people, and those lost. — 00:02:07

2016

2016-03-01 · Question Tuesday: The Potato Edition — John says potatoes were responsible for at least 25% of Europe's population growth between 1700 and 1900. — 00:01:00
2016-03-15 · The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee — John explains: a brother on a university scholarship in Turkey, two married sisters in Syria, his engineer father and older brother crossed to Europe by boat over a year ago; the rest hope to reunite in Germany. — 00:02:11
2016-06-07 · Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp — Musa Mohammed's message to people in the US and Europe: refugees are people, and being a refugee does not set him apart from any other human being. — 00:02:30
2016-10-18 · Understanding Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton's Health Care Reform Proposals — John says costs still rise faster than inflation and median weekly earnings, outcomes still lag, and US care remains far costlier than anywhere, though the gap with Europe has narrowed; the ACA was not designed to fix this. — 00:02:54

2017

2017-06-02 · The Paris Accord: What is it? And What Does it All Mean? — Hank says for the next 100 years fossil fuels brought tremendous growth and quality of life, mainly in Europe and America, where most were burned; then the benefits spread. — 00:00:49
2017-08-04 · Why Bullets are Good for the Environment — Hank explains the idea: America had much open space, unlike Europe, but was growing fast, so existing revenue from a tax on guns and bullets would go to managing wildlife and conserving land. — 00:00:53
2017-08-22 · The Causes of Cholera — John admits he pays more attention to crises in distant Europe or Australia than elsewhere because people there feel close to him: he watches them on YouTube and reads their Reddit posts. — 00:03:24
2017-09-15 · My Butt Has Some Complaints About Australia — Hank notes that America has no bidets while Europe has plenty. (playful) — 00:01:48

2018

2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Kallie Moore: Kallie says today's horses in the region were imported from Europe, while the original horses started here and then left or died out. — 00:01:13
2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — John: From Africa to Asia to Europe to the Americas there was a lot of crisis, oddly, since the human species overall was getting much wealthier and better connected. — 00:00:54

2019

2019-01-01 · How to Make Goals, Not Resolutions — announcement: John wants to edit and host 46 episodes of a new Crash Course History series about Europe. — 00:03:15
2019-03-29 · The Largest Theft of All Time — Hank says the largest bank robbery was in 2015: hackers in China, Russia and Europe took $300-900 million from many banks with common malware; no one was caught and nothing was recovered. — 00:00:43
2019-06-21 · How to Lie While Telling the Truth — Hank cites the headline that Carnival cruises released ten times more pollution than all cars in Europe combined: technically correct, but it plants a lie. — 00:02:13
2019-06-21 · How to Lie While Telling the Truth — Hank explains the pollution meant is sulfur dioxide, which cars basically no longer produce, especially in Europe, which removed sulfur from fuels. — 00:02:13
2019-06-25 · Seemed Like a Good Idea: Eugene Schieffelin and the European Starlings — John: The American starling population has grown from 60 birds to around 200 million; there are now more European starlings in the Americas than in Europe. — 00:00:58
2019-09-20 · Why Does Australia... (this video is bad, I'm sorry) — Hank: A tweet asks why Australia is performing, which Hank believes is about Eurovision; he wonders when Australia joined Europe and quips that Europe is just an idea. (playful, hedged) — 00:00:55
2019-10-08 · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) — announcement: The description lists further outlets: HBO in Central Europe, the Nordics and Spain, BBC3 in the UK and Stan in Australia (October 19th). — video description
2019-10-08 · Looking for Alaska (...with Alaska) — announcement: John: The series also comes out on BBC3 in the UK and in Canada, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and many other places; more info in the doobly-doo. — 00:00:29
2019-10-30 · this is a video about pineapples. — John says pineapples fill old still lifes because rich people bragged about them; a single pineapple in the US or Europe could cost the equivalent of $10,000 today. — 00:00:58
2019-10-30 · this is a video about pineapples. — John says pineapples were costly because they need tropical climates; their story is the Columbian Exchange: almost all eaten in Europe in the 16th-18th centuries were grown by colonized or enslaved people. — 00:01:27
2019-10-30 · this is a video about pineapples. — John says pineapples were eventually grown in Europe, never in quantity; his favorite pineapple painting shows English gardener John Rose giving King Charles II the first pineapple grown in England. — 00:01:56
2019-10-30 · this is a video about pineapples. — John suggests rich visitors from 18th-century Europe or North America would ask not why we put pineapple on pizza, but why we don't put it on everything. (hypothetical) — 00:02:55

2020

2020-12-31 · Auld Lang Syne: The Anthropocene Reviewed — John: Within decades the song became part of Scotland's New Year's Eve, Hogmanay, rooted in winter solstice rituals; by 1818 Beethoven had arranged it and it was spreading through Europe and the English-speaking world. — 00:08:02

2021

2021-06-22 · Mindblowers with Hank and John — Hank says science communicators made bananas a scale for radiation: eating one exposes you to a little radiation, so a jet flight to Europe can be measured in bananas. — 00:00:53
2021-08-13 · How We Fix the Climate — Hank: The approaches can be combined, and exist widely: China, Canada and the EU have cap and trade; Japan, Turkey, Thailand, Indonesia and much of Europe have carbon taxes; nearly everywhere has some regulation. — 00:14:19
2021-08-31 · The Woman Who Invented Stuffed Animals — John: The zither was becoming very popular in Europe, around the time Johann Strauss II wrote solos for it. — 00:01:27
2021-08-31 · The Woman Who Invented Stuffed Animals — John: In her mid-twenties she started a tailoring business with her sisters, then sold ready-made clothing, especially felt underskirts; felt had reached Europe via Central Asia. — 00:01:56
2021-08-31 · The Woman Who Invented Stuffed Animals — John: Part of what makes stuffed-animal history important is that it was one of the few places a disabled woman in 19th-century Europe could succeed in business. — 00:04:52

2022

2022-03-15 · Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War? — John says Ukraine is the second-largest country in Europe by area and, as of three weeks ago, home to over 40 million people. — 00:00:00
2022-03-15 · Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War? — John says Putin has repeatedly attacked the humanitarian corridors set up for civilians to flee besieged cities to western Ukraine or Europe. — 00:02:55
2022-03-15 · Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War? — John says Ukraine shouldn't need to be Russia-friendly or Europe-friendly but its own country, making its own choices with its borders and sovereignty protected. — 00:08:07
2022-11-11 · Elon Was Right — announcement: Hank announces the club now ships from the EU, so members in Europe need not worry about customs. — 00:03:24

2023

2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — John recalls the usual causes of World War I, as taught by Crash Course: Europe's complicated alliance system and the growing militarization and expansion of empires. — 00:00:00
2023-05-16 · Did TB Cause World War I? — John says TB had earlier been romanticized in Europe as a beautiful way to die, a disease of civilization and refinement affecting beautiful, intelligent and sensitive people. — 00:01:57
2023-06-13 · touched by a king — John: Not long ago, at least in Europe, the most reliable cure for scrofula was widely believed to be the king's touch: being touched by the king. — 00:02:19
2023-07-18 · Tuberculosis Fighters Have a Posse — John says new HIV treatments still did not reach impoverished communities until activists in the US, Europe and the Global South worked together to build that constituency. — 00:01:56
2023-09-28 · What the Heck is the UN? — Hank thought the UN was in Europe and was surprised that John's trip was to New York City, which made him realize he knows little about the UN. — 00:00:00

2024

2024-02-23 · The Juiciest Hank in the World — Hank: Asked what to take to 15th-century Europe, Hank would choose understandable, hand-made-looking mechanical technology, such as a microscope, an older telescope or a watch, not something too far ahead. (hypothetical) — 00:02:41
2024-04-04 · The New Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie looks WEIRD!!! — announcement: Hank makes an extra Thursday video to announce that the Turtles All the Way Down trailer is out and the release date is May 2 on Max, formerly (and still in Europe) HBO Max. — 00:00:00
2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says feast days occur throughout the world and history, from Mesoamerica to the Islamic world to Europe: on agreed holidays communities feast, maybe on foods forbidden other days. — 00:03:27
2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank cites a tweet mocking Americans for addressing everyone as Europeans: Europe as one country would have 116 gold, 122 silver and 160 bronze medals. — 00:00:58
2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank: Rejecting tweets about how different US states are, Hank says until Connecticut speaks Connecticutian he won't believe states differ as much as European countries. (playful) — 00:01:27
2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank says Europe has far more people than the US, continental Europe around 750 million. — 00:01:27
2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank says Europe still won more gold medals per capita than the US even without Russia competing: 0.15 per million people against 0.12. — 00:01:56
2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank says each country may send only three athletes per event, and continental Europe is many countries. — 00:01:56
2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank notes Europe's 160 bronze medals: 0.21 bronze medals per million people, far more than the US's 0.12. — 00:04:39
2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank: Checking earlier Games, Hank finds it no 2024 fluke: continental Europe won 114 gold and 155 bronze in 2021, 113 and 139 in 2016, 108 and 138 in 2012. — 00:04:39
2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank argues the pattern controls for events, population and affluence: the same countries and events every Games, yet every Olympics for the last 20 years, possibly longer, shows continental Europe with significantly more bronze than gold. — 00:05:29
2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank's second guess: bronze placings may be more random, gold winners being truer outliers, so Europe's larger number of athletes yields more bronze medals. (hedged) — 00:06:28
2024-08-19 · The Olympics Mystery Explained!!! — Hank proposes that Europe's excess of bronze medals may simply be due to more bronze medals being awarded. (hedged) — 00:00:29
2024-08-19 · The Olympics Mystery Explained!!! — Hank: In an added pop-in, Hank explains his method: for each medal type, Europe's medals won per medal of that type available, normalizing to the total medals available. — 00:01:50
2024-08-19 · The Olympics Mystery Explained!!! — Hank: Charting the normalized data, Hank finds the Europe effect simply goes away, with no statistical significance in the graph. — 00:02:43
2024-08-19 · The Olympics Mystery Explained!!! — Hank says he never claimed to know why the effect existed, only that it existed; it is explained by a mathematical thing, not a cultural human thing. — 00:03:24
2024-08-19 · The Olympics Mystery Explained!!! — Hank concludes it is nice to get a solid answer: continental Europe probably gets more bronze medals almost entirely because more bronze medals are available. (hedged) — 00:03:24
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John: Up to 35% of Native Alaskans could expect to die of TB, John says, a rate higher than at the peak of Europe's 18th-century epidemic. — 00:00:00
2024-09-10 · The world will change. — announcement: John: To support the project they officially launch Keats & Co. today: the Awesome Coffee Club rebrands as Keats & Co. Coffee, adds tea, and ships to Europe. — 00:03:24
2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — announcement: Hank says Good Store's tea and coffee only ship to the US, Canada and Europe; they might start shipping tea overseas, since tea keeps its quality far longer than coffee. (hedged) — 00:14:21
2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John: The coffee has over 10,000 subscribers and has raised over $580,000 this year (2024), with steady growth helped by now shipping to Europe. — 00:02:42
2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says Johannes Gutenberg invented Europe's movable-type press to end hand-copying; early demand was mostly from powerful institutions, largely the Catholic Church. — 00:08:08
2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank lists institutions suddenly almost equally under reputational attack, from the CDC, FDA, EPA, schools and the press to Ukraine, NATO, voting machines, chemotherapy and fluoridation. — 00:26:23
2024-12-10 · On Writing — John says the book has little romance, except the romanticization of tuberculosis in 19th-century northern Europe. (playful) — 00:02:28

2025

2025-09-09 · Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better — John says an early use of coffee in Europe was likewise religious: priests, monks and nuns drank it to wake early for predawn prayers. — 00:00:58
2025-09-09 · Sorry, Hank, but Coffee Is Just Better — John says coffee was seen as good for health, especially the gut, with people from Africa to the Americas to Europe praising it for the stomach. — 00:00:58

2026

2026-06-13 (said on 2026-06-12, implied) · Wait...How Do You Pronounce Turkey??? — Hank: Turkeys were named after guinea fowl, which were traded to Europe through Ottoman trade routes and so called turkey fowl. — 00:01:27
2026-08-28 · Why the Deadliest Virus Was the Easiest to Kill — Hank says malaria has been eliminated from the US, Europe and parts of Central Asia. — 00:00:29
2026-09-08 · The Life Expectancy Lies That Won't Die — John describes the backlash: the 'life expectancy myth' correction held people were not dying of old age in their mid-30s, and life expectancy was low because child mortality was so high. — 00:01:56
2026-10-02 · the most powerful attention-consuming tools in the history of the world — John says serfdom and inherited aristocracy felt natural and inevitable in medieval Europe but were neither and still ended, just as the current system for art and resources feels natural now. — 00:02:55