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SciShow

channel · in 140 videos (2011–2026)

Hank's science channel, covering science news and age-old science questions; John announced it in 2011 and Hank launched it in 2012.

Made by: Complexly · Spin-offs: SciShow Space, SciShow Psych, SciShow Kids, SciShow Tangents, SciShow Pee

Videos by year: 2011: 3 · 2012: 28 · 2013: 10 · 2014: 11 · 2015: 11 · 2016: 8 · 2017: 7 · 2018: 7 · 2019: 5 · 2020: 5 · 2021: 7 · 2022: 3 · 2023: 9 · 2024: 14 · 2025: 7 · 2026: 5

Also known as: Sci Show

Threads

Also named in the threads: DFTBA Records: founding of Hank and Alan's label for YouTube musicians (2008) · Hank asks viewers to subscribe to the Truth or Fail channel (2009) · John asks Hank to make a video answering the questions kids ask, like why the sky is blue (2010) · VidCon 2012 edition · Hank asks viewers to vote on his new glasses frames by watching each frame's video (2011) · Hank: buy the glasses frames that win the 2011 viewer vote (2011) · Keep It or Shave It: Hank's facial-hair vote with dollars for the Foundation to Decrease World Suck (2011) · Crash Course: launch of the brothers' educational channel (2011) · Hank: keep his facial hair until the end of November, then shave it (2011) · John asks viewers to watch the YouTuber CGP Grey (2012) · The Lizzie Bennet Diaries web series (2012) · Mental Floss YouTube channel, made with John and Hank (2013) · Sexplanations: Lindsay Doe's sex-education YouTube channel, made with Hank (2013) · Hank asks viewers to fund Crash Course through Subbable (2013) · Subbable: launch of the brothers' pay-what-you-want subscription service, starting with Crash Course (2013) · Hank's 'million dollar idea' phone calls to John (2013) · How to Adult: launch of the channel (2014) · SciShow Space: launch of the space-science channel (2014) · Tour Because Awesome 2014 edition: Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers' western US tour after VidCon · Nerdfighteria Census 2014 edition · Hank in SciShow ads for YouTube's channel promotion (2014) · Hank encourages viewers to check out Crash Course Kids (2015) · SciShow Kids: launch of the science channel for young kids (2015) · Crash Course Kids: launch of the educational channel for kids (2015) · Dear Hank and John: the brothers' advice podcast (2015) · Internet Creators Guild membership launch (2016) · VidCon Europe 2017 edition (Amsterdam, April 8-9): the first VidCon outside the US · VidCon Australia 2017 edition (Melbourne, September 9-10) · NerdCon: Nerdfighteria 2017 edition (Boston, February): celebrating ten years of Vlogbrothers · How to Vote in Every State: launch of the 54-video guide to registering and voting in each US state (2016)

Often together

What comes up in the same parts of the videos; the number is how many parts.

Crash Course (94) · Eons (15) · Complexly (29) · Subbable (9) · VidCon (31) · Sexplanations (5) · Dear Hank and John (16) · Bizarre Beasts (7) · Crash Course Kids (2) · DFTBA Records (25)

What the videos say

The most important statements of each year; all statements.

2011

  • 2011-11-07 · IS THIS HEAVEN? — announcement: John announces Hank is launching SciShow in early January: science news plus answers to age-old science questions like why the sky is blue. — 00:02:05
    • John asks viewers to subscribe to Crash Course and SciShow through links in the doobly-doo and annotations. — 00:02:05
  • 2011-11-09 · 27 Part Video — announcement: Hank says he and John are starting big new YouTube channels; his, SciShow, will cover science news and broader topics so everyone can be smarter. — 00:00:36
  • …and 1 statement more in 2011 — all statements of 2011

2012

  • 2012-01-02 · Changes to Vlogbrothers — announcement: John says Hank is launching SciShow today, a show where he talks about science, and that Hank is very funny. — 00:01:37
    • John says there will be more Vlogbrothers content than ever in 2012 because the brothers will teach biology and world history on their channel Crash Course. — 00:01:37
  • 2012-01-06 · Kill your TV — announcement: Hank says he and John offer at least six YouTube videos a week across vlogbrothers, SciShow and Crash Course (launching January 25), more than doubled with HankGames and Truth or Fail. — 00:03:06
  • 2012-02-03 · An Awful Lot of Touring — Hank says he finally got the glasses viewers voted for long ago; they have anti-reflective coating, which is good for SciShow. — 00:00:54
  • 2012-06-08 · How to be More Productive...With Hank! — Hank says he can be more productive because he has help: teams at VidCon, DFTBA Records, SciShow and Crash Course. — 00:02:35
  • 2012-06-22 · Hank is Maybe Crazy — Hank: Citing a recent SciShow episode on Americans' increasing weight, Hank says that if the whole world were the size of North Americans, it would equal almost a billion new people. — 00:01:14
  • 2012-10-19 · Revolutionizing Education...With Weirdos — ask: Hank asks viewers to subscribe to Smarter Every Day, Vi Hart, Vsauce, Veritasium, MinutePhysics and Brady Haran's channels, and to Crash Course and SciShow. — 00:02:41
  • 2012-11-04 · Policy and Politics: Brotherhood 2.0 Week Begins — announcement: John says the brothers are doing a week of Brotherhood 2.0-style daily vlogs as a punishment. — 00:00:00
  • 2012-11-09 · The Stadium of Representatives: The End of B20 Week :-( — Hank says this concludes the week of Brotherhood 2.0-style videos; it was really fun and he wishes they could keep going. — 00:03:24
  • 2012-12-04 · Time for AWESOME — John says he and Hank were also privileged to have internet access in 2007 and $249 for cheap video cameras at the end of 2006; without that, Vlogbrothers, Crash Course, SciShow, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and VidCon would not exist. — 00:00:58
  • 2012-12-21 · Meet the Team: The Missoula Office (And P4A and TheBrainScoop) — Hank gives a tour of the Crash Course and SciShow offices in Missoula and introduces the people who work there. — 00:00:00
    • Hank says he is grateful to have worked with so many amazing people on projects like the P4A, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, SciShow, Crash Course, DFTBA Records and VidCon, and that he just loves to create and to help people create. — 00:03:01
  • …and 25 statements more in 2012 — all statements of 2012

2013

  • 2013-01-01 · Why Does Congress Suck? — John calls 2012 an amazing year for the brothers: Hank co-created The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, SciShow and Crash Course, VidCon doubled, and The Fault in Our Stars spent 51 consecutive weeks on the NYT list. — 00:02:45
  • 2013-01-15 · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall — Hank says audience support let him launch SciShow and talk and sing about science, then sings 'The Universe is Weird', which he says he has never got through without a mistake. — 01:13:50
  • 2013-01-22 · How to Be More Than Friends: Question Tuesday — ask: John: Answering questions on Romeo ('if he were named Paris he wouldn't be nearly so hot') and Holden Caulfield, John points to Crash Course episodes and tells viewers they should subscribe. (playful) — 00:02:07
  • 2013-03-08 · ONE MILLION NERDFIGHTERS! — Hank lists his day: Twitter, filming SciShow, readying P4A perks, a Hank's channel video, folding mug boxes with Katherine at the warehouse, a DFTBA Records video, editing Hank Games Live, Tumblr, a Kiva loan. (playful) — 00:00:00
  • 2013-05-24 · What's Up with Start Ups — Hank says he and John know their only asset is the viewers; without them there would be no Sanditon, DFTBA Records, Crash Course, SciShow or even 2D Glasses. — 00:02:31
  • 2013-08-30 · Raw Onion, Twerking, and Speech Jam — announcement: Hank reports that SciShow and Crash Course are going well and SciShow just hit a million subscribers. — 00:02:54
  • 2013-09-03 · Bigger Pizzas: A Capitalist Case for Health Care Reform — John: freed from saving every dollar against bankruptcy, Hank could invest in DFTBA Records, VidCon, the Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Crash Course, SciShow, the Foundation to Decrease World Suck and more; none could have happened without publicly subsidized health insurance. — 00:02:55
  • 2013-10-15 · Thoughts for Nerdfighteria — John says Crash Course, SciShow and Mental Floss all have large and growing audiences. — 00:01:20
  • 2013-11-01 · Scarier than Gravity: Real Life Close Calls in Space — Hank says that after the film they discussed how Gravity violated the laws of physics a couple of times (a topic for SciShow), but it is still a very great movie. — 00:00:00
  • 2013-12-27 · The Kidney That Was In 3 People - And Other Amazing Science Things — announcement: Hank says his favourite Tumblr question, whether eating one pound of nachos at 99 pounds makes you 1% nacho, is too complicated to answer here; SciShow may do a whole episode on it. (hedged) — 00:02:51

2014

  • 2014-05-09 · Oh JK Rowling - Kinetic Typography — Hank apologises to people outside the Western US: SciShow, Crash Course and the other Missoula projects and people make it hard to be away more than a couple of weeks; he makes internet things so everyone can have them. — 00:03:18
  • 2014-05-16 · The Myth of Greatness — announcement: Hank announces a new channel launching this week (week of 12 May 2014) with Jessi Knudsen Castañeda and her husband Augusto, SciShow regulars who bring rescued animals to educate the world; it is Jessi's passion. — 00:01:59
  • 2014-05-30 · Nerdfighteria Census 2014 Results! — Hank lists census shares unaware of their shows: 14% Mental Floss, 30% SciShow Space, 33% Sexplanations with Dr. Lindsey Doe, 50% How to Adult, 64% Animal Wonders. — 00:01:00
    • Hank says 40% of respondents don't know Subbable, which has been so successful that SciShow, Crash Course and Sexplanations would not exist without it. — 00:01:48
  • 2014-06-27 · My Day Before VidCon — Hank introduces Dave: their warehouse manager, VidCon merch manager, SciShow writer and a really good friend. — 00:00:43
  • 2014-07-18 · EVERY VLOGBROTHERS PUNISHMENT! — Hank: Nerdfighteria loaned the million dollars, so each brother had two punishments; they cleared one by making six videos in a week, three each, leaving one punishment each. — 00:03:34
  • 2014-10-17 · MY FACE ON A BUS — announcement: Hank reveals he was in LA for YouTube's channel promotion: he, Michael Aranda and Caitlin Hofmeister were shot for SciShow print and TV ads now in Chicago, LA, New York and on TV. — 00:00:58
    • Hank hopes the ad subconsciously persuaded viewers that science is still cool and that they are still curious about the world. (hedged) — 00:01:35
    • Hank hopes the campaign is good for SciShow, because he thinks more SciShow is better for the world: society needs more scientific literacy, and SciShow does that fairly well compared with TV science. (hedged) — 00:02:32
    • Hank says the campaign is not about SciShow but about making YouTube seem legitimate to viewers and advertisers, welcoming more people and more money into the medium than ever before. — 00:02:47
  • 2014-11-07 · New Crash Course and Pizzamas! — Hank: With love for Pemberley Digital, SciShow, VidCon and the Wimbly Womblys, Hank calls Crash Course the best thing the brothers do and says he is very proud of it. — 00:00:13
  • 2014-12-26 · The Best and Worst of 2014 — recommendation: Hank points to SciShow, where Michael Aranda gave 2014's science superlatives: the deepest-diving whale, the most Earth-like planet, the highest CO2 emissions and the warmest months. — 00:00:06
  • …and 6 statements more in 2014 — all statements of 2014

2015

  • 2015-01-02 · Why is The Alphabet In Alphabetical Order? Eight Completely Arbitrary Things — ask: Hank urges viewers to study broadly and deeply and to watch Crash Course World History, all of Crash Course, and SciShow. — 00:03:37
  • 2015-02-20 · Why Are Fewer People Studying Science and Engineering? — Hank says he was in New York doing press tours about science education because SciShow just got a big new sponsor. — 00:00:10
  • 2015-03-13 · Screaming Into Pillows — announcement: Hank says SciShow Kids and Crash Course Kids took months of work they weren't allowed to discuss (funding, defining them, character development, hiring for animation) and are now real. — 00:01:36
    • Hank says that as SciShow, Crash Course, VidCon and DFTBA have grown, more complicated infrastructure leaves him less freedom to talk about them. — 00:02:38
  • 2015-03-17 · What Are Paper Towns? — ask: John asks viewers who support Crash Course or SciShow through Subbable to move their subscription to Patreon, which he calls like Subbable only better. — video description
  • 2015-03-20 · A Sacrifice of Individuality and the Internets — Hank says it isn't the crowd or the culture but individuals: a few people, less than one percent of the shows' viewers, with the ability and enthusiasm to give money they don't have to. — 00:01:59
  • 2015-07-10 · How to Get to Pluto: From a Waterpark — ask: Hank says SciShow will cover New Horizons heavily and encourages viewers to check out Crash Course Kids, the new series for elementary school students. — 00:03:25
  • 2015-09-29 · Writing, Walling, Racing, and Wizard Schooling — John notes there is, apparently, occasionally flowing water on Mars; the SciShow people got so excited they made shirts and posters. (hedged) — 00:01:03
  • 2015-12-08 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semiannual Report — John says Crash Course and SciShow are primarily supported not by advertising but by voluntary Patreon subscriptions from those who can afford it, so others watch free. — 00:00:41
    • John tells Hank that although many said Patreon funding would never work, it is working great: Crash Course and SciShow are now fully sustainable thanks to Patreon. — 00:00:55
    • John says the brothers hope to expand both Crash Course and SciShow in 2016, and thanks supporters. (hedged) — 00:01:00
  • 2015-12-18 · We're All Gonna Die - A Song — announcement: Hank is making SciShow and Crash Course episodes and has just started shooting the new series Crash Course Philosophy, which will not be uploaded for a while. — 00:02:23
  • …and 5 statements more in 2015 — all statements of 2015

2016

  • 2016-02-05 · Honest YouTube Talk Time — Hank says he is now the CEO of a media company without quite knowing how: with VidCon, SciShow, Crash Course, DFTBA Records and other productions they have about 30 employees. — 00:00:17
    • Hank admits it is always easiest to turn attention and money to the brothers' own new things, like NerdCon, Dear Hank and John, SciShow and Crash Course. — 00:01:48
  • 2016-05-03 · No Fumar — John says few people know that their dad basically ran their company until a year ago, doing the payroll, budgeting and spreadsheets that made Crash Course and SciShow possible. (hedged) — 00:00:44
  • 2016-05-06 · I Hate Only Making One Video a Week — Hank wants to make Wizard School an amazing game and VidCon an amazing conference, encourage new video creators, and make SciShow and Crash Course bigger and better. — 00:01:19
    • Hank says SciShow and Crash Course are now bigger than Vlogbrothers in both views and subscribers. — 00:01:30
  • 2016-09-06 · How We're Spending Your Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Quarterly Report — ask: John thanks BGC3 and Patreon supporters and points viewers to Crash Course's Patreon, saying the biggest perk is knowing Crash Course would not exist without them. — 00:03:24
  • 2016-09-09 · Sleep Paralysis, Double-Pregnancy, and The 2016 Census — announcement: Hank lists current projects: VidCons in Europe, Australia and California, a 10th-anniversary NerdCon: Nerdfighteria, How to Vote, Dear Hank and John, Snapchatting, and helping found the Internet Creators Guild. — 00:02:35
    • Hank says they are working on a new SciShow channel whose topic will be chosen by Patreon patrons. — 00:02:38
  • 2016-09-23 · How do YouTubers Make Money? — Hank says SciShow and Crash Course were designed with YouTube's money systems in mind and have found a path to sustainability thanks to advertisers and Patreon patrons. — video description
    • Hank says Crash Course and SciShow were both funded by YouTube grants, because YouTube wanted more high-quality content so advertisers would advertise. — 00:01:32
  • 2016-10-07 · Changing Our Business a Bit — Hank says thousands of chances to figure out who he is before people he respects, and their kind judgement, made him a kinder, more enthusiastic, more compassionate person. — 00:00:58
  • 2016-12-30 · The Most Interesting Thing I've Ever Done — Hank lists the dream-like things of his ten years: friends, touring in a rock band, Carnegie Hall, a first home, creating VidCon, SciShow and Crash Course, a bobblehead, 2D glasses, interviewing the president. — 00:00:09
  • …and 1 statement more in 2016 — all statements of 2016

2017

  • 2017-01-20 · Behind the Scenes of My Life — Hank says Vlogbrothers is still just him, but VidCon, SciShow, Crash Course, DFTBA.com and the rest need many people to happen. — 00:03:25
  • 2017-03-10 · Do I Have ADHD? — announcement: Hank notes that psychological disorders are now discussed on their new channel, SciShow Psych. — 00:01:38
  • 2017-03-31 · No Cut Confessional: Priorities — Hank says one obligation is to a new idea he can uniquely pull off: almost an obligation to the idea or the universe to make it exist, which drives his art, SciShow and Crash Course. — 00:00:50
  • 2017-04-21 · The Adpocalypse: What it Means — Hank says he is not a huge fan of advertising as an institution, yet built an entire business on ad revenue to make SciShow, Crash Course and more. — 00:00:00
    • Hank says if the value proposition breaks, creators will find (and already are finding) new support: subscriptions like Rooster Teeth's First, YouTube Red, Patreon, and creator-brand relationships communities like. — 00:03:12
  • 2017-05-12 · Things That You Just Might Love — Hank says he falls into this trap, tending to push his greater resources toward their own projects such as SciShow, Crash Course and Dear Hank and John. — 00:00:14
  • 2017-11-08 · Follow Hank All Day — Hank really enjoys shooting SciShow and Crash Course, even though it is pretty draining. — 00:02:05
    • Hank shot scripts including one on animals thought extinct that weren't, for SciShow, and one on why gratitude is good for people, for the new psychology channel SciShow Psych. — 00:02:13
  • 2017-12-01 · Let's Talk About Stress! — recommendation: Hank: For more on stress and our physiological responses to it, Hank recommends a SciShow video on how persistent stress harms our bodies and his own Crash Course episode on emotion, stress and health. — video description

2018

  • 2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Hank visits the University of Montana Paleontology Center collections room with Kallie of Eons and Tuna, who makes SciShow most days. — 00:00:12
  • 2018-05-11 · Looking for Alaska Movie (BUT BETTER) and YouTuber Things — announcement: Hank says he has a book, which is very exciting, and Crash Course and SciShow are doing amazingly well. — 00:01:05
  • 2018-11-07 · A New Thing? — announcement: Hank: Complexly, the production company behind SciShow and Crash Course, puts the questions together. — 00:01:27
    • The standard version, like other pub trivia, is hosted by a person at the venue and comes with a slideshow of the questions designed by SciShow's Hiroko Matsushima. — 00:01:27
    • The hosted version is a full five-round trivia hosted on the TVs by Hank and other SciShow hosts; someone just sets it up, presses play and keeps score. — 00:01:56
  • 2018-11-09 · I Don't Know What Work Is — Hank says he turned reading novels into work, just as VidCon made watching YouTube work, SciShow his science obsession, Vlogbrothers his interest in online communities, and Dear Hank and John being dumb with his brother. (hedged) — 00:00:29
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank says that as a science-show host with a master's degree who looks like this, he is credible, and wants to keep and use that credibility wisely. (playful) — 00:06:35
  • 2018-12-14 · Cute Goth Shock Collar Trivia Punishment for Charity — Hank: Asked the subject of the first SciShow episode, Hank answers non-Newtonian fluids. — 00:00:58
  • …and 1 statement more in 2018 — all statements of 2018

2019

  • 2019-02-15 · The Most Bizarre Stock Photos I Could Find Brought to Life by Your Captions — Hank says the SciShow team, constantly looking for thumbnail and graphics images, keeps finding very strange things on stock photography sites. — 00:00:00
    • Hank shares strange stock photos found by the SciShow team and by himself, with captions that people sent him on Twitter. — 00:00:00
  • 2019-03-15 · Why We Stopped Making Explainers: EXPLAINED — The description says they once planned a separate business making only explainers, but explainers proved difficult and expensive without a trusted face, and the project died in favor of Crash Course and SciShow. — video description
  • 2019-04-12 · Escalators: We're Not Doing it Wrong (Mostly) — Hank says he runs a media company where they often say a SciShow topic isn't good unless it surprises people. — 00:02:18
  • 2019-07-19 · In Which Hank Consumes the Juice of Over 400 Gushers — announcement: Hank says SciShow just released its first documentary film, on whether Apollo was actually a good idea, for Apollo's 50th anniversary. — 00:03:01
    • SciShow has an Apollo mission patch and starts a new pin every month for a different space mission, beginning with Apollo, in standard and glow-in-the-dark at the same price. — 00:03:30
  • 2019-12-13 · Is This the Cutest Animal Noise? — Hank says Kemosabe, an Animal Wonders porcupine, inspired the idea: years ago it visited Hank on SciShow and he freaked out, joking it would seem normal for it to step out of a spaceship. (playful) — 00:00:10
    • Hank says Animal Wonders has a YouTube channel, Animal Wonders Montana, which Complexly helps produce; it is wonderful and educational, so subscribe. — 00:01:54

2020

  • 2020-01-03 (said on 2020-01-02, implied) · Re-Thinking our YouTube Channel — Hank lists what that togetherness has produced: Life's Library, the Project for Awesome, the work with Partners in Health, the ideas that helped him understand the world, Dear Hank and John, SciShow and Crash Course. — 00:01:47
    • Hank says SciShow and Crash Course long ago eclipsed Vlogbrothers in subscribers and views, but Vlogbrothers, without which they wouldn't exist, has had more impact despite a smaller audience. — 00:02:00
  • 2020-04-03 · 11 Little Tips for Better Video Chat (For Teachers...and Everybody Else) — Hank recalls launching SciShow and Crash Course in 2011; both are now way bigger than Vlogbrothers, with over a billion views each. — 00:00:00
    • Hank says he didn't foresee that these channels and others like The Art Assignment, Healthcare Triage and SciShow Kids would suddenly become more useful during a pandemic, since he didn't think there would be one. — 00:00:12
  • 2020-08-28 · Break the Mold — Hank says it is also true that following trends is part of his work: it feeds some of the best parts of his novels, and Complexly, SciShow and Crash Course need to understand how people get information. — 00:00:14
  • 2020-10-02 (said on 2020-10-01, implied) · I ain't she was with well and I so and it's and but so and I'll and — Hank says growth is the easiest goal; for Crash Course and SciShow it is the goal: reach more people to educate them and make them passionate about learning. — 00:02:13
  • 2020-12-08 · A Love Letter to My Brother, Basically — John lists ideas Hank has realized: VidCon, NerdCon, Subbable, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Truth or Fail, Crash Course, SciShow, a podcast, card games, T-shirts, Eons, books and coffee mugs. — 00:01:27

2021

  • 2021-06-25 · The Surprising Origin of Crash Course — ask: Hank says that after Friday, June 25 the coins are gone, but viewers can still support Crash Course on Patreon. — 00:03:39
  • 2021-09-03 · What the Heck am I doing? — Hank: Every Monday Hank records Journey to the Microcosmos, every Tuesday he shoots SciShow and sometimes Bizarre Beasts; he no longer writes them and mostly reads aloud. — 00:00:00
    • Hank recommends SciShow Tangents, their 30-minute science trivia game show podcast (he writes science poems for it), which is climbing the science charts: try the new elephant episode. — 00:01:16
  • 2021-11-09 · Hank Green's Million Dollar Ideas — John says Hank has had many wonderful ideas, from VidCon to SciShow to Subbable, and helped make amazing things. — 00:00:29
  • 2021-12-07 · Reading Hank's Decade-Old Tweets — John says the lasting aftereffect of keeping it is that the first episodes of SciShow and Crash Course were both filmed with Hank's goatee. (playful) — 00:01:16
  • …and 2 statements more in 2021 — all statements of 2021

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2022

  • 2022-06-10 · My Embarrassing Dermatology Story — Hank says Crash Course reaches many people on a low budget that still costs a lot, and 37% of that budget comes from Patreon and the Crash Course coin. — 00:02:55
  • 2022-09-02 · How A YouTube Company Actually Makes Money — Hank: Just under 20% of revenue is crowdfunding through Patreons or the Crash Course Coin, given because people know their work isn't sustainable under current internet business models. — 00:01:17
    • At 14% of revenue Complexly sells its own ads through an internal sales team, like Policygenius on Dear Hank and John or CuriosityStream on SciShow: more of a pain, but higher rates and no split. — 00:01:46
    • Complexly is selling five calendars for five shows: Eons and Bizarre Beasts art, James Weiss's Microcosmos microphotography, and SciShow and SciShow Space images, printed in the US with facts, shipping everywhere. — 00:02:16
  • 2022-09-16 · Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles — recommendation: Hank points viewers who want more on long COVID to SciShow's video on it, linked in the description. — 00:00:29

2023

  • 2023-01-17 · John Green Answers the Most Searched Hank Green Questions — John says Hank runs Complexly, an educational media company making Crash Course, SciShow, Eons, Journey to the Microcosmos and more. — 00:00:00
    • John lists Hank's podcasts: Dear Hank and John, Delete This and SciShow Tangents. — 00:02:26
  • 2023-05-19 · So, I've got cancer — announcement: Hank does not know whether he will make Vlogbrothers videos, Dear Hank and John, SciShow or Tangents during treatment; he is playing it by ear. (unsure) — 00:06:14
  • 2023-05-23 · Rough Week — John says the world still needs Crash Course, SciShow and everything else Complexly makes. — 00:03:14
  • 2023-05-30 · How Does He Do It? — John lists Hank's roles: CEO of Complexly and DFTBA.com, founder of the Awesome Socks and Coffee Clubs and Sun Basin Soap, host of Crash Course, SciShow, Journey to the Microcosmos, Vlogbrothers and an advice podcast. — 00:00:08
    • John says the coins are vital: the Patreon and coin campaigns are the single largest slice of Crash Course's annual budget, not a tiny slice of a corporate pie. — 00:03:30
  • 2023-06-20 · Reflections from a Terrible CEO — John jokes that Hank kept working anyway: making ads for the Socks Club and Crash Course Coin, shooting SciShow, pitching business ideas daily and making Vlogbrothers videos while in pain. (playful) — 00:00:29
    • John loves the people they work with and what they make (Eons, Journey to the Microcosmos, Crash Course, SciShow), which he watches daily and now understands a little. — 00:02:29
  • 2023-10-27 · I Keep Thinking About Taylor Swift — Hank says the BBC video began by watching videos it called good and credible, and all of them were SciShow videos. — 00:01:13
    • Hank asks viewers to get a calendar for the new year at complexlycalendars.com (Eons, Bizarre Beasts, Microcosmos, SciShow), supporting Complexly with beautiful art and fact-checked information. — 00:02:45
  • 2023-11-03 · We Need to talk about Sarapocial Relationships — Hank: By capable Hank means the community can act for itself and the world, from TB access to Crash Course, SciShow and the clubs funding maternal health in Sierra Leone; membership should feel valuable. — 00:03:57
  • 2023-12-24 · John and Hank Hanging Out but they Keep Getting Younger and More Pixelated — Hank: From a 2011 tweet, Hank recalls a donation vote to keep or shave his goatee ($993 to $879) that he calls a huge mistake, since the first SciShow and Crash Course episodes were filmed with it. (playful) — 00:16:34
  • …and 2 statements more in 2023 — all statements of 2023

2024

  • 2024-01-23 · Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete — John jokingly brags that Complexly, maker of Crash Course, SciShow, Eons and more, is now the first online media company to sponsor a world-class Tetris player. (playful, hedged) — 00:03:43
    • John says Complexly's brands are strong but far fewer people know Complexly itself, so they want to raise awareness of who they are, not just what they make. — 00:04:22
  • 2024-03-22 · The Internet Needs to Change — Hank loves the good parts of his work (Good Store, Project for Awesome, Crash Course, SciShow, Dear Hank and John) but also loves the slot machine. — 00:01:13
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says upcoming Crash Course videos, from biology to art history to world religions, are possible only because of supporters through the coin and Patreon. — 00:04:02
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — ask: Hank points viewers who want to give a different amount to the Crash Course Patreon linked in the description. — 00:04:22
  • 2024-08-02 · My Letter to the Future — announcement: Hank announces that Complexly, maker of SciShow, Crash Course and Eons, has launched its own store, with products up to 50% off to kick it off; purchases help Complexly keep existing. — 00:03:49
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank reports that 404 Media found a generative AI video company, Runway, trained on thousands of videos without permission, including thousands of SciShow and Crash Course videos. — 00:00:00
    • Hank says his company has more videos in the dataset than almost anyone: Marques Brownlee 9, MrBeast 19, Mark Rober 24, MinutePhysics 85, against Vlogbrothers 188, SciShow over 300, Crash Course 982. (hedged) — 00:02:26
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — announcement: Hank says SciShow recently started a residency for newer science communicators: four or five months paid on the editorial team pitching, writing and editing scripts, then flown to Missoula to host those episodes. — 00:00:00
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank: Complexly (SciShow, Crash Course and more) is the most impactful thing Hank has helped start; it could always use him, from promoting Study Hall and the Crash Course coin to SciShow thumbnails. — 00:07:34
    • Hank believes in all of it: Good Store would do tremendous good even at its current size, Complexly, Study Hall lowering barriers to education, and SciShow's science communication. — 00:10:57
  • 2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — recommendation: Hank says Lindsay was in town filming and recommends her SciShow Deep Dive, a long-form episode on the Chimpanzee War, and her channel. — 00:03:49
  • …and 7 statements more in 2024 — all statements of 2024

Also named in: Dear Hank and John Livestream!, Sipping the Tea with Hank

2025

  • 2025-01-24 · Am I OK? — Hank attributes the higher response partly to the community knowing SciShow exists because they made it and is not inevitable; later viewers don't see that a world without it could exist. — 00:04:57
    • Hank says far more of this community than of the wider SciShow audience answer SciShow fundraising calls to action; still a minority, but the response rate is much higher. — 00:04:57
    • Hank says a world without SciShow would be worse: we desperately need accurate, well-crafted, popular science information that brings people to respect scientific tools and thinking. — 00:05:26
    • Hank says this work is harder than many viewers think, its makers should be able to focus on it, and SciShow definitely needs crowdfunding to be possible. — 00:05:26
    • Hank plugs SciShow postcards signed by him and the other hosts, on sale until the end of next week (week of 27 January 2025): four random designs, each linking to an exclusive video with one of his four favorite frog facts. — 00:06:24
  • 2025-03-11 · Hank Green's Brother — John says Hank's idea SciShow has reached hundreds of millions of people with reliable information about science. — 00:00:56
  • 2025-05-23 · I Can’t Believe How Few People it Takes. — ask: Hank says viewers for whom a coin is not right can support Crash Course on Patreon. — 00:05:00
  • 2025-06-06 · The Secret Inside my MIT Commencement Speech — Hank says he represents more than himself: the people at Crash Course, Study Hall, SciShow and Good Store, the community that is the only reason any of it happened, science communication and John. — 00:00:29
  • 2025-09-30 · WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING — Hank lists such things: VidCon, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries, Crash Course, SciShow, Complexly, DFTBA.com selling merch for many creators, and Good.Store donating its profit to charity. — 00:03:24
  • 2025-11-21 · I Wasn't Always Like This!! — Hank explains Complexly, the educational media company he and John started (SciShow, Crash Course, Eons): people who show up daily to wonder together and lower barriers to knowledge. — 00:03:40
    • On the last day of the Complexly Learnathon, Hank shows hand-drawn logo shirts and asks viewers to support Complexly: $60 gets a Pelican pin, SciShow dice set, Endlings bandana or shirt, gone after today. — 00:04:45
  • 2025-12-09 · Hank Green, from A to Z — John: For Y, YouTube, John says he hasn't mentioned half the shows Hank helped produce, such as PBS Eons, Animal Wonders, Brain Scoop and Mental Floss. — 00:05:21
  • …and 1 statement more in 2025 — all statements of 2025

2026

  • 2026-02-04 · We Just Sold Our Company for $0 — Hank thanks viewers who for years knowingly gave a for-profit company money with no tax deduction, through Patreon, the Crash Course Coin, the Learnathon and SciShow fundraisers. — 00:06:23
  • 2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit — Hank confesses that as Crash Course and SciShow grew into Complexly he was hungry with jealousy of BuzzFeed, Vice and Mashable. — 00:00:39
    • Hank says viewers who prefer monthly giving can use the always-open Patreon, long a huge part of how Crash Course is supported. — 00:06:04
  • 2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool — John says that in 2011 he and Hank founded Complexly, which has made lots of educational content, from Bizarre Beasts to The Art Assignment to SciShow to Crash Course. — 00:00:58
  • 2026-08-07 · Just Trying to Figure Out My Job — Hank: What Hank feels worst about: the reputational hit is his to take and earn back, but Complexly staff who write SciShow, Endlings, Eons and Crash Course and work with experts are now questioned because of him. — 00:02:23
  • 2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie — Hank produces things not because productivity matters to him but because Pizzamas, Nerdfighteria, John, cancer treatment, Crash Course, SciShow, 4x3 and the media environment do. — 00:09:38