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392 sincere fact claims from 2014; 213 come with figures. Each figure is shown as said, with what it measures, who it counts (for) and where it applies (in) when recorded (said, or clear from the context), its as-of date, the source the speaker gives (if any) and the extraction-time check. Where no as-of date was said, the one shown is implied (the date said in the video, else the upload date); relative dates such as "last year" keep their words and are resolved against that same date. "Unchecked" means nobody has checked it yet, not that it is wrong. Back to the overview.

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Global development (101)

  • 2014-01-03 · The Golden Gate Bridge Didn't Collapse!! — Reason one, psychology: Hank says studies show we weigh bad things happening to us about twice as heavily as good things, so we need twice as much good to think the world good. (00:01:12)
    • two times (ratio) — weight people give to bad events relative to good events · as of 2014-01-03 (implied: upload date) · source: studies (unnamed) · unchecked
  • 2014-01-03 · The Golden Gate Bridge Didn't Collapse!! — Reason two, probability: Hank says news of only you and the 1,000 people nearest you would hold about one murder per lifetime, but across seven billion people terrible things happen every moment. (00:01:25)
    • about one murder per lifetime — murders among a person and the 1,000 people nearest them over a lifetime · for you and the 1,000 nearest people · as of 2014-01-03 (implied: upload date) · source: Hank · unchecked
    • seven billion (people) — world population · in Earth · as of 2014 · source: Hank · unchecked
  • 2014-01-03 · The Golden Gate Bridge Didn't Collapse!! — Hank says the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world. (00:03:25)
    • the highest (rank) — incarceration rate rank among countries · in United States · as of 2014 · source: Hank · unchecked
  • 2014-01-14 · Giving Away Over $700,000 — John describes This Star Won't Go Out as set up in memory of Esther Earl to give direct support to families of kids with cancer. (00:01:15)
  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — John says more than 6 million children died worldwide in 2013 — horrible and unjust — yet the lowest in quite a while, even as world population steadily increased. (00:00:01)
    • more than 6 million (children) — child deaths per year · for children · in the world · as of 2013 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — Quizzing Hank, John says the world did not see fewer than 6.3 million child deaths in 1975 (population 4 billion) or 1900 (1.6 billion), when probably more than 8 million died. — hedged: “probably” (00:00:11)
    • 6.3 million (children) — child deaths per year · for children · in the world · as of 2013 · no source named · unchecked
    • 4 billion (people) — world population · in the world · as of 1975 · no source named · unchecked
    • 1.6 billion (people) — world population · in the world · as of 1900 · no source named · unchecked
    • more than 8 million (children) — child deaths per year · for children · in the world · as of 1900 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — John says Earth has not seen a year with so few child deaths in hundreds of years, maybe a thousand. — hedged: “maybe” (00:00:25)
    • hundreds of years — time since a year with so few child deaths · for children · in the world · as of 2013 · no source named · unchecked
    • a thousand (years) — time since a year with so few child deaths · for children · in the world · as of 2013 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — John says seven of the ten fastest-growing economies of the last five years are in Africa. (00:01:09)
    • seven of the ten (economies) — fastest-growing economies located in Africa · in the world · as of last five years (resolved: 2009–2014, from the upload date 2014-01-21) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — Adjusted for inflation, Botswana's income per person was $383 in 1960 and is now $12,000 — $48,000 for a family of four; John calls it an extreme example. (00:01:29)
    • $383 (US dollars (inflation-adjusted)) — income per person · in Botswana · as of 1960 · no source named · unchecked
    • $12,000 (US dollars) — income per person · in Botswana · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • $48,000 (US dollars) — income for a family of four · for family of four · in Botswana · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — John says that in the last fifty years income per person has quadrupled in India and nearly quintupled in Brazil. (00:01:38)
    • quadrupled (multiple) — change in income per person · in India · as of last fifty years (resolved: 1964–2014, from the upload date 2014-01-21) · no source named · unchecked
    • nearly quintupled (multiple) — change in income per person · in Brazil · as of last fifty years (resolved: 1964–2014, from the upload date 2014-01-21) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — Quizzing viewers, John says foreign aid is 3% of the budget if you're Norwegian and less than 1% in the United States. (00:01:48)
    • three percent (percent of government budget) — share of national budget spent on foreign aid · in Norway · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • less than one percent (percent of government budget) — share of national budget spent on foreign aid · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — John says 25 years ago there were 350,000 new polio cases a year; today, thanks to the aid-funded polio eradication initiative, there are fewer than 400. (00:01:58)
    • 350,000 (cases per year) — new polio cases per year · in the world · as of twenty five years ago (resolved: c. 1989, from the upload date 2014-01-21) · no source named · unchecked
    • fewer than 400 (cases per year) — new polio cases per year · in the world · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — John says malaria, measles and TB have all declined dramatically, and healthier kids go to school more and later work more than if chronically ill or disabled. (00:02:09)
  • 2014-01-21 · Are Poor Countries Doomed? — John repeats that fewer children died in 2013 than in any year on record. (00:02:48)
    • fewer children died in 2013 than in any year on record (rank) — child deaths per year (rank among recorded years) · for children · in the world · as of 2013 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-06-10 · Our Old Friend Complexity: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — John says the TFiOS film looks set to be the number one movie in America this week (week of 9 June 2014), beating films that cost hundreds of millions of dollars. — hedged: “it looks like” (00:00:10)
    • number one (rank) — weekly US box-office rank of The Fault in Our Stars film · in United States · as of week of 2014-06-06 · no source named · unchecked
    • hundreds of millions of dollars (US dollars) — production cost of competing films · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-06-10 · Our Old Friend Complexity: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — John says reviews of the TFiOS film have been amazing and, per Rotten Tomatoes, 93% of viewers liked it. (00:00:19)
    • 93% (percent) — share of viewers who liked The Fault in Our Stars film · for people who have seen the film · as of 2014-06 · source: Rotten Tomatoes · unchecked
  • 2014-06-10 · Our Old Friend Complexity: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — John tells Nerdfighters who lend through Kiva that this is why Kiva did not work in India until very recently and now operates there only with many restrictions. (00:01:34)
  • 2014-06-10 · Our Old Friend Complexity: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — John, citing Boo, says almost no one in Annawadi is officially poor: garbage collector Sunil smokes discarded cigarettes against hunger yet lives on more than $1.25 a day. (00:02:32)
    • more than $1.25 a day (US dollars per day) — daily income of a garbage collector in Annawadi relative to the official poverty definition · for Sunil, a garbage collector · in Annawadi, Mumbai · as of 2014-06-07 (implied: date said in the video) · source: Katherine Boo · unchecked
  • 2014-06-10 · Our Old Friend Complexity: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — John says the hundred million people said to have left poverty in India in recent decades include, in part, residents of Annawadi. (00:02:45)
    • a hundred million (people) — people who emerged from poverty · in India · as of last few decades (as of 2014) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-07-22 · Ambiguous Victories and Real Progress: Behind the Beautiful Forevers — John says much data shows that over the last twenty years people with the right resources have transformed their communities: rising income, food security, literacy, lower infant mortality. (00:02:36)
    • twenty years — period of documented gains in health and economic opportunity · for communities with access to the right resources and tools · as of 2014 · source: data linked in the description · unchecked
  • 2014-07-29 · Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — John says Ethiopia is one of the world's poorest countries: most people lack electricity or running water and most fields are tilled by animal-drawn wooden plows. (00:00:14)
    • Most — share of people living without electricity or running water · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • most — share of fields tilled by animal-drawn wooden plows · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-07-29 · Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — John says the smallest hospital in his hometown of Indianapolis has eight neonatologists, while Ethiopia, a nation of ninety million, has seven. (00:00:24)
    • eight (neonatologists) — number of neonatologists at the smallest hospital · in Indianapolis · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • ninety million (people) — population · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • seven (neonatologists) — number of neonatologists · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-07-29 · Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — John says Dr. Mulualem Gessesse was one of Ethiopia's first neonatologists. (00:00:32)
  • 2014-07-29 · Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — John says Dr. Gessesse's team improvises a kind of CPAP from oxygen tanks, tubing and water to keep premature babies' lungs inflated; lacking respirators and real CPAPs is among her critical needs. (00:00:43)
  • 2014-07-29 · Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — John says that in the past few years Dr. Gessesse's ward has grown from treating a couple hundred babies a year to more than two thousand. (00:01:00)
    • a couple hundred (babies per year) — babies treated per year in the Yekatit 12 neonatal ward · in Addis Ababa · as of a few years before 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • more than two thousand (babies per year) — babies treated per year in the Yekatit 12 neonatal ward · in Addis Ababa · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-07-29 · Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — John says twenty years ago more than fifteen percent of children born in Ethiopia died before age five; today it is less than seven percent. (00:01:22)
    • more than fifteen percent (% of children born) — under-five mortality rate · for children born in Ethiopia · in Ethiopia · as of twenty years ago (c. 1994) · no source named · unchecked
    • less than seven percent (% of children born) — under-five mortality rate · for children born in Ethiopia · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-07-29 · Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — John says child mortality is falling faster in Ethiopia than in the world overall and is much lower than in far richer countries. (00:01:30)
    • faster — rate of decline of child mortality, Ethiopia vs world · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • much lower — child mortality, Ethiopia vs far richer countries · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-07-29 · Listen: Thoughts from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — John explains kangaroo mother care: preterm babies stay in hospital with their mothers in constant skin-to-skin contact, which studies link to better brain development, fewer infections and better weight gain. (00:01:50)
    • 24/7 (hours per day / days per week) — time mothers and preterm babies spend together in hospital under kangaroo mother care · in Yekatit 12 Hospital · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — John says Ethiopia is as far from the outbreak as England is from Afghanistan, mocking the 'same continent, ergo Ebola' inference. (00:00:40)
    • as far from this outbreak as England is from Afghanistan (distance) — distance from Ethiopia to the West African Ebola outbreak · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — Ebola is a very serious crisis in West Africa, but John says more people will die of malaria today than have died of Ebola in the last ten years combined. (00:00:53)
    • more people are going to die of malaria today (deaths) — malaria deaths in one day · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • the last ten years combined (deaths) — Ebola deaths over the preceding ten years · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — He could not have infected the LeakyCon attendees anyway: people are not contagious with Ebola unless symptomatic, and he shared no bodily fluids with them. (00:01:42)
  • 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — More than half a million people will die of malaria this year (2014), yet malaria is not imagined as a disease 'coming for us', whatever 'us' means. (00:02:36)
    • more than half a million (people) — annual malaria deaths · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-12 · EBOLA! (...meningitis) — In Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone, health workers must choose between abandoning their work and risking Ebola for themselves and their kids, because of inadequate infrastructure and supplies. (00:03:02)
  • 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — A story John heard often: Ethiopian women traditionally waited months to name babies because so many died, but with mortality falling thanks to smart aid and government investment they now name them at birth. (00:00:13)
  • 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — Ethiopia's health system is organised in tiers; with more than 80% of people living in rural areas, the healthcare-center level is vital. (00:00:39)
    • more than 80% (percent) — share of people living in rural areas · for people of Ethiopia · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — Health centers have medicines, vaccines and lab technicians, and some perform C-sections, yet almost none have running water; asked what he needed most, a center manager said 'water'. (00:00:48)
    • almost none (health centers) — share of rural health centers with running water · for Ethiopian healthcare centers · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — At the outpost tier, health extension workers with a tenth-grade education and a year of training provide basic care in rural areas. (00:01:35)
    • tenth grade (school grade) — education of health extension workers · for Ethiopian health extension workers · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • a year — training of health extension workers · for Ethiopian health extension workers · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — Diarrhea remains one of the leading causes of child death in Ethiopia though almost always survivable with hydration; a sick boy went home with rehydration solution that might have saved his life. (00:02:03)
  • 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — The last tier is the Women's Health Army: volunteers bringing maternal and infant care, family planning and folic-acid advice into communities; one member keeps a map of who is sick, pregnant or has a small child. (00:02:17)
  • 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — John credits the Gates Foundation's work and technologies such as the easy-to-read malaria test and a thermos that keeps vaccines cold for 50 days without electricity. (00:02:44)
    • 50 days — time the thermos keeps vaccines cold without electricity · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-19 · Baby Names: Thoughts from Rural Ethiopia — Asked about naming, the women agreed babies are now named at birth; some said lower child mortality might be why, but most said it is because birth certificates must now be filled out. (00:03:20)
  • 2014-08-26 · Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World — John's Indiana corn produces 6000 kg per hectare; Ethiopia gets around 2000 kg per cultivated hectare even after dramatic improvement over the last 20 years. (00:01:14)
    • 6000 (kg per hectare) — maize yield · for corn fields · in Indiana · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 2000 (kg per cultivated hectare) — maize yield · for cultivated land · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 20 (years) — period of dramatic yield improvement · for cultivated land · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-26 · Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World — John, saying he doesn't know much about agriculture, reports that experts and the farmers he met tie the yield gap to good seed and fertilizer, which cost money; saved seed without fertilizer grows waist-high corn. — hedged: “I don't know much about agriculture” (00:01:29)
  • 2014-08-26 · Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World — When such cycles break, good things happen: China's rice yields quadrupled between 1960 and 1990, and Brazil's agricultural yield tripled between 1970 and 2005. (00:03:44)
    • quadrupled (ratio) — rice yield change · for rice farming · in China · as of 1960-1990 · no source named · unchecked
    • tripled (ratio) — agricultural yield change · for agriculture · in Brazil · as of 1970-2005 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-26 · Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World — A World Food Program project in Ethiopia guarantees farmers a fair price for however much corn they produce, with the surplus going to food aid. (00:04:07)
  • 2014-08-26 · Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World — Most of Ethiopia's food aid traditionally came from the US; now almost half comes from within Ethiopia, which is cheaper, more efficient and raises yields. (00:04:17)
    • almost half (share) — share of Ethiopia's food aid produced within Ethiopia · for food aid · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-26 · Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World — The WFP contract lets farmers get loans for good seed and fertilizer, since the UN is good for its debts; yields rise, there's more food and less malnutrition. (00:04:29)
  • 2014-08-26 · Food Is Weird: Understanding Agriculture in the Developing World — Agricultural yields in Ethiopia have risen over the last ten years, yet 44% of Ethiopian children are stunted by malnutrition, which John calls unacceptable and unnecessary. (00:06:40)
    • 44% (percent) — share of children stunted due to malnutrition · for children of Ethiopia · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • ten years — period of rising agricultural yields · for agriculture · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Bill Gates: Gates says primary health care facilities are how childhood death was brought down from about 25% of all children to about 5%. (00:00:29)
    • about 25% (percent of all children) — childhood death · for all children · in Ethiopia · as of earlier (unspecified) · source: Bill Gates · unchecked
    • about 5% (percent of all children) — childhood death · for all children · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · source: Bill Gates · unchecked
  • 2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Bill Gates: Gates says getting every vaccine to every child is really hard: vaccines must be kept cold, and most poor children live in rural areas with poor roads and few trained workers. (00:00:37)
  • 2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Bill Gates: Gates says Ethiopia created a tiered system with a health post at the lowest level and health centers like the one where they are filming. (00:00:48)
  • 2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Bill Gates: Gates says vaccination rates are still under 30% in pastoral regions where people move around, about 75% in the rest of Ethiopia, with a plan to reach 90%. (00:00:53)
    • less than 30% (percent) — vaccination rate · for pastoral regions · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · source: Bill Gates · unchecked
    • about 75% (percent) — vaccination rate · for rest of the country · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · source: Bill Gates · unchecked
    • 90% (percent) — planned vaccination rate target · for whole country · in Ethiopia · as of target (no date given) · source: Bill Gates · unchecked
  • 2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Bill Gates: Asked how we know care drove the drop, Gates says poor countries' statistics are poor except child deaths; deaths were very high, and vaccines against a few infectious diseases cut them a lot. (00:01:18)
  • 2014-09-09 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Global Health — Bill Gates: Gates says many surviving children don't fully develop physically or mentally; that requires lowering the disease burden and getting good sanitation and good food. (00:01:39)
  • 2014-09-09 · Going to College (in Ethiopia) — John says most Canadians live closer to Venezuela than Liberians live to Botswana. (00:00:20)
  • 2014-09-09 · Going to College (in Ethiopia) — John says he did meet people living in thatched-roof huts and children without good schools, and corruption remains significant, but Ethiopia's poverty rate is falling and its middle class rising. (00:00:26)
  • 2014-09-09 · Going to College (in Ethiopia) — John says more Ethiopian children attend primary school, and the main university in Addis Ababa grew from 32 students in 1950 to more than 42,000 today. (00:00:39)
    • thirty-two (students) — enrolment · for students at the main university in Addis Ababa · in Addis Ababa · as of 1950 · no source named · unchecked
    • more than 42,000 (students) — enrolment · for students at the main university in Addis Ababa · in Addis Ababa · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-09-09 · Going to College (in Ethiopia) — John says Ethiopia's internet is very slow, making it hard to watch creators, comment, load Tumblr or join online communities; students' social media is mostly with people they know offline. (00:01:48)
  • 2014-09-09 · Going to College (in Ethiopia) — John says these young people have seen the greatest drops in poverty and infant mortality in Ethiopia's history, yet tens of thousands of Ethiopian children still die yearly of easily preventable diseases. (00:03:39)
    • tens of thousands (children per year) — child deaths from easily preventable diseases · for children · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Bill Gates: Gates says most of these farmers lack very good seeds, can't afford fertilizer, and get little advice about what to grow and how. (00:00:06)
  • 2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Bill Gates: Gates says the upside for African agriculture is that productivity could triple. (00:00:14)
    • triple (multiple of current level) — potential increase in agricultural productivity · for farmers · in Africa · as of 2014 · source: Bill Gates · unchecked
  • 2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Bill Gates: Gates says the foundation funds crop research for better seeds, but reaching the poorest farmers is hard: carelessly, wealthy farmers near cities become the main beneficiaries. (00:00:27)
  • 2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Bill Gates: Gates agrees: because people need enough food and farmers are politically influential, prices are very distorted even in rich countries where farming employs only 2% of people. (00:01:12)
    • 2% (percent of people) — share of employment in agriculture · for workforce · in rich countries · as of 2014 · source: Bill Gates · unchecked
  • 2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Bill Gates: Gates says distortion is greater in poor countries because of true market failures, such as who will build storage or provide credit. (00:01:25)
  • 2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Bill Gates: Gates calls it a huge market failure that banks won't take the credit risk they should, since a drought year could literally bankrupt a bank. (00:01:45)
  • 2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Bill Gates: Gates says farm lending is correlated, not uncorrelated, risk: all borrowers' credit is what they grow, so bad weather could leave every one unable to repay. (00:01:58)
  • 2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Bill Gates: Gates says buying hybrid seed instead of using leftover seed pays off hugely, but takes getting used to: doing it in a year without rain can leave a debt never repaid. (00:02:10)
  • 2014-09-22 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Agriculture — Bill Gates: Asked whether foundations can insulate farmers against that risk, Gates says Mexico's government gives cash support adjusted to the weather; done well, government can play a crop-insurance-type role. (00:02:38)
  • 2014-09-23 · Looking Away — John says child death in Ethiopia has dropped by more than two-thirds in 20 years, alongside huge growth in school attendance and in college graduates. (00:01:27)
    • more than two thirds (fraction decrease) — decline in child death rate · for children · in Ethiopia · as of 20 years to 2014 · source: John Green · unchecked
  • 2014-09-23 · Looking Away — John says Ethiopia is still one of the world's poorest countries: malnutrition is common and almost half of Ethiopians don't have access to clean water. (00:01:38)
    • almost half (share of population) — share of people without access to clean water · for Ethiopians · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · source: John Green · unchecked
  • 2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Bill Gates: Gates says the disease they are now focused on is polio; the world officially finished smallpox in 1980, when the certificate was signed. (00:00:00)
    • 1980 (year) — year smallpox eradication was officially certified · in the world · as of 1980 · source: Bill Gates · unchecked
  • 2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Bill Gates: Gates says inventions often go unrecognized as useful for poor countries: slow-leaking thermoses were invented about 15 years ago, yet nobody applied them to the cold-chain problem. (00:00:27)
    • 15 years ago — time since slow-heat-leak thermos technology was invented · as of 2014 · source: Bill Gates · unchecked
  • 2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Bill Gates: Gates says poor countries lack electricity and kerosene and propane are expensive and unreliable; they built the first device about a year ago and units are now in the field. (00:00:46)
    • about a year ago (time before 2014) — time since the first P6 cold-storage device was built · as of 2014 · source: Bill Gates · unchecked
  • 2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Bill Gates: Gates says in the last ten years Ethiopia cut its childhood death rate from over 15% to about 8%; the US is below 1%. (00:02:03)
    • over 15% (percent) — childhood death rate · for children · in Ethiopia · as of about 2004 (ten years before) · source: Bill Gates · unchecked
    • about 8% (percent) — childhood death rate · for children · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · source: Bill Gates · unchecked
    • below 1% (percent) — childhood death rate · for children · in United States · as of 2014 · source: Bill Gates · unchecked
  • 2014-09-29 · Bill Gates and John Green Discuss Progress — Bill Gates: Gates says malnourishment, seen through stunting, is still pretty high in Ethiopia. (00:02:17)
  • 2014-10-14 · A Minor Crisis — John reports that Nerdfighters have now loaned more than $4.5 million through Kiva.org to developing-world entrepreneurs, one of the biggest groups in Kiva's history, though growth has slowed lately. (00:00:57)
    • more than 4.5 million dollars (USD) — total loaned by the Nerdfighter Kiva group · for Nerdfighters on Kiva · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-14 · A Minor Crisis — John says the foundation was unusually active outside P4A this year (2014): over $300,000 for Water.org's work in Ethiopia and over $90,000 for sarcoma research during his World Cup fundraiser. (00:01:32)
    • over 300,000 dollars (USD) — money raised by the Foundation to Decrease World Suck for Water.org's work · in Ethiopia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • over 90,000 dollars (USD) — money raised for sarcoma research during John's World Cup fundraiser · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-14 · A Minor Crisis — John says the foundation now has about $45,000, partly from Nerdfighter projects like Nerdcrafteria (he says 'Minecrafteria') and more Vlogbrothers income - its best shape ever going into P4A. (00:01:44)
    • about 45,000 dollars (USD) — money held by the Foundation to Decrease World Suck · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — John notes that his point about the collapse of health care and non-Ebola deaths paraphrases an interview with Bill Gates. (video description)
  • 2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — John points to Oxfam's concern that Ebola could be "the definitive humanitarian disaster of our generation". (video description)
  • 2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — John says that in the 20th century about as many people died from smallpox as currently live in the United States. (00:00:01)
    • about as many people died from smallpox as currently live in the United States of America (deaths) — smallpox deaths in the 20th century · for world · as of 20th century · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — Smallpox was eradicated, so no one will die of it again; Wikipedia's smallpox page begins 'Smallpox was an infectious disease.' (00:00:11)
  • 2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — John reports that currently three people have contracted Ebola in the US. (00:00:30)
    • three people — people who have contracted Ebola · in United States · as of 2014-10 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — Nigeria, which had 20 Ebola infections, was just declared Ebola-free by the World Health Organization; John congratulates Nigeria. (00:00:30)
    • 20 infections — Ebola infections · in Nigeria · as of 2014-10 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — There have been about 10,000 reported Ebola cases in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, an undercount, and the infection rate is not levelling off, which is terrifying. (00:00:39)
    • about 10,000 (cases) — total reported Ebola cases · in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone · as of 2014-10 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — The Ebola survival rate so far in the US is over 80% thanks to excellent supportive care, versus closer to 30% in West Africa. (00:01:00)
    • over 80% (percent) — Ebola survival rate · for Ebola patients · in United States · as of 2014-10 · no source named · unchecked
    • closer to 30% (percent) — Ebola survival rate · for Ebola patients · in West Africa · as of 2014-10 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — Citing Bill Gates, John says the collapse of public health care in Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea has probably caused more non-Ebola deaths than Ebola has. — hedged: “probably” (00:02:00)
  • 2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — Harvests and every segment of the affected countries' economies are being hit, and John thinks the outbreak is probably only beginning. — hedged: “probably” (00:02:11)
  • 2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — The WHO estimates there could be 5,000 to 10,000 new Ebola cases per week by December. — hedged: “could” (00:02:17)
    • between 5 and 10,000 (new cases per week) — projected weekly new Ebola cases · in West Africa · as of 2014-12 · source: World Health Organization · unchecked
  • 2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — The WHO's '70-70-60' plan: within 60 days, 70% of Ebola patients isolated and 70% of burials safe (John jokes it is grammatically 60-70-70). (00:02:38)
    • 70% (percent) — share of Ebola patients isolated (target) · for Ebola patients · in West Africa · as of within 60 days · source: World Health Organization · unchecked
    • 70% (percent) — share of burials made safe (target) · for Ebola burials · in West Africa · as of within 60 days · source: World Health Organization · unchecked
    • 60 days — deadline of the WHO plan · in West Africa · as of 2014-10 · source: World Health Organization · unchecked
  • 2014-10-21 · Ebola: What IS Terrifying — The plan needs huge community outreach, many more hospital beds and staff, costing up to a billion dollars a month. (00:02:50)
    • up to a billion dollars a month (USD per month) — cost of the WHO 70-70-60 Ebola plan · in West Africa · as of 2014-10 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-11-19 · The Future of the Project for Awesome: Pizzamas Day 8 — John: the P4A started in 2007 with YouTubers making charity videos, when videos were found via the Most Discussed and Top Rated pages, and Nerdfighteria came together to hijack YouTube's algorithm. (00:01:47)
    • 2007 (year) — start year of the Project for Awesome · as of 2014-11-19 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-11-19 · The Future of the Project for Awesome: Pizzamas Day 8 — John: YouTube made comments progressively less important to discovery, so comment spamming basically no longer works. (00:02:06)
  • 2014-11-19 · The Future of the Project for Awesome: Pizzamas Day 8 — John: traditionally 100% of the Project for Awesome's money goes to charities chosen by Nerdfighteria at projectforawesome.com. (00:02:16)
    • 100% (percent) — share of Project for Awesome money going to charities chosen by Nerdfighteria · as of traditionally · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-02 · What You Eat Of Those You Love — John says norovirus is almost always caught by eating the poop of someone who has it, and that only about .00001 grams is needed. (00:00:40)
    • .00001 grams — amount of infected feces needed to catch norovirus · for people · as of 2014-12-02 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-02 · What You Eat Of Those You Love — John says norovirus rarely kills US children but causes over 200,000 child deaths a year worldwide, mostly for want of clean water and rehydration solution costing about 50 cents. (00:01:38)
    • more than 200,000 (deaths per year) — child deaths caused by norovirus · for children · in the world · as of 2014-12-02 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 50 cents (USD) — cost of oral rehydration solution · in the world · as of 2014-12-02 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-02 · What You Eat Of Those You Love — John says that despite difficulties and failures, organizations from Save the Children to Water.org to many local charities are helping to decrease child mortality. (00:02:21)
  • 2014-12-08 · I'm Home! Time to Get Ready for the 2014 Project for Awesome — John says the day-one split will decrease world suck and unlock at least about $250,000 in matching donations. (00:01:59)
    • two hundred and fifty thousand dollars (USD) — matching donations available for P4A day-one giving · as of 2014-12 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-12 · NONSENSE: P4A 2014 - Partners in Health — Hank says Partners in Health empowers and equips local health workers and was working on the front lines against Ebola before anyone in the US knew of the outbreak. (00:00:39)
  • 2014-12-16 · Jelly Face, Sharpie Face, Peanut Butter Face, and Mummy Dancers: The 2014 Project for Awesome — John says P4A 2014 has raised over $1.2 million for charity, by far the most successful P4A ever; at the end he cheers "$1 million… actually like 200,000 more". (00:00:36)
    • over $1.2 million (USD) — money raised for charity by the Project for Awesome · for P4A 2014 · as of 2014-12-16 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-19 · BUTFARTMAN Is Coming To Town! — Hank thanks everyone for P4A 2014: six trending hashtags, dozens of guests donating tens of thousands of perks, hundreds of thousands of votes on 900+ videos, and $1,282,750 raised. (00:03:33)
    • six (hashtags) — trending hashtags during P4A 2014 · as of 2014-12 · source: Hank · unchecked
    • dozens (guests) — livestream guests who donated perks · as of 2014-12 · no source named · unchecked
    • tens of thousands (perks) — perks donated by guests · as of 2014-12 · no source named · unchecked
    • hundreds of thousands (votes) — votes cast on P4A 2014 videos · as of 2014-12 · no source named · unchecked
    • over 900 (videos) — P4A 2014 videos submitted · as of 2014-12 · no source named · unchecked
    • $1,282,750 (USD) — money raised by P4A 2014 · as of 2014-12 · no source named · unchecked

History & curiosities (52)

  • 2014-04-18 · What is The Oldest Song? — The description says that, unlike most songs of the period, written down as lyrics only, the Seikilos Epitaph, buried at a funeral, contains a chord chart, so Hank can sing it 2000 years later. (video description)
    • 2000 years later — age of the Seikilos epitaph · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-18 · What is The Oldest Song? — Hank says singing is innate and uniquely human: there are no cultures on Earth that do not sing. — hedged: “I don’t think” (00:00:18)
  • 2014-04-18 · What is The Oldest Song? — Hank says the first human songs are lost: they were probably improvised, so the first melody was probably lost right after it was made. — hedged: “probably” (00:00:38)
  • 2014-04-18 · What is The Oldest Song? — Hank says the oldest song that can still be played is Hurrian Hymn No. 6, incomplete, pressed into cuneiform tablets 3,500 years ago; clips are on YouTube. (00:00:44)
    • 3500 years ago — age of the cuneiform tablets carrying Hurrian Hymn No. 6 · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-18 · What is The Oldest Song? — Hank says the oldest complete song is a brief composition preserving both music and lyrics, unusually, on a burial cylinder probably placed in a man's wife's grave by the man. — hedged: “probably” (00:01:21)
  • 2014-05-23 · My Freakish Talent — Some words mean the opposite of themselves, Hank says: inflammable means both very easy and very hard to catch on fire; sanguine means both cheerful and bloodthirsty. (00:01:16)
    • both very easy to catch on fire and very hard to catch on fire (meaning) — meaning of the word inflammable · as of 2014-05-23 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · doubtful
  • 2014-05-23 · My Freakish Talent — Words that describe themselves ('noun', 'magniloquent', 'polysyllabic', 'unhyphenated', 'coined') are called autological, and 'autological' is itself autological. (00:01:55)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank explains baking soda is sodium bicarbonate, which releases carbon dioxide with an acid; baking powder is baking soda with the acid already mixed in. (00:00:29)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank says that in the US a college teaches only the years after secondary education, a university has graduate components, and both can contain colleges. (00:00:39)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank says 'dinner' versus 'supper' is an interesting linguistic case: supper apparently means something different to everyone. (00:00:50)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank explains English means from England, a country inside the United Kingdom, while British covers the whole UK, including Northern Irish, Welsh and Scottish people, who may not like the label. (00:00:55)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank says hair and fur are scientifically the same thing. (00:01:09)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank says Hulu Plus costs more, can be watched on a TV or a mobile device, and has very slightly more content. (00:01:11)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank says jelly is jellied juice and jam is jellied fruit pulp, so jam is a bit softer. (00:01:23)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank explains kun and san are Japanese honorific suffixes showing respect: san between equals, kun for someone junior, generally male. (00:01:28)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank explains LCD is a display technology and LED a backlighting; most TVs today are LCD displays backlit by LED. (00:01:41)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank says subjective statements are based in opinion and objective statements in fact. (00:02:03)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank explains prisons hold people convicted and sentenced; jails hold the detained or arrested awaiting trial, and some with short sentences. (00:02:08)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank says both full and quick formats wipe a drive, but only a full format rebuilds the file structures and scans for bad sectors. (00:02:19)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank says Rangers and Green Berets are both Army special operations forces; any recruit can apply to the Rangers, but Green Berets need three years of service and two languages. (00:02:27)
    • three years — minimum Army service before applying to be a Green Beret · for US Army soldiers · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • two languages — minimum number of languages a Green Beret must speak · for Green Berets · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank says Scotch is a type of whiskey, made in Scotland. (00:02:38)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank says green cards give the right to permanently live and work in the US, visas only temporarily. (00:02:56)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank explains white asparagus is the same plant as green, grown under piled dirt without light, so it lacks chlorophyll and is milder and softer. (00:03:01)
  • 2014-08-29 · What's the Difference Between A and Z — Hank says x64 is the 64-bit CPU architecture for Windows 7 on newer machines and x86 the older 32-bit design. (00:03:14)
    • 64-bit — word size of the x64 CPU architecture · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 32-bit — word size of the x86 CPU architecture · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-24 · #Octothorpe - A Symbolistic Journey — The # has different names in different countries: in America shifted-three is the 'pound sign', in the UK shifted-three is also the 'pound sign' but a different character. (00:00:10)
  • 2014-10-24 · #Octothorpe - A Symbolistic Journey — Both 'pound signs' come from the Latin phrase for weight, libra pondo, which is also why pound is abbreviated lb (which Hank calls super dumb). (00:00:23)
  • 2014-10-24 · #Octothorpe - A Symbolistic Journey — In the middle of the last millennium bookkeepers scribbled 'lb' so fast it looked like '16', so they crossed its top; the frantic scribble came to look like #. (00:00:32)
    • in the middle of the last millennium (date) — when bookkeepers began crossing 'lb' (origin of #) · as of 2014-10-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-24 · #Octothorpe - A Symbolistic Journey — The symbol was nearly out of use until the end of the 19th century, when the Teletype Corporation was inventing binary codes; the US gave the UK pound-sign code 10111 to the obsolete # instead of £. (00:00:50)
    • 10111 (binary code) — Teletype symbol code for the pound sign · in United Kingdom · as of 2014-10-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • the end of the 19th century (date) — when the Teletype Corporation was inventing binary codes for letters · as of 2014-10-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-24 · #Octothorpe - A Symbolistic Journey — Because it meant little, # became a catch-all non-confusing symbol, which is probably how it became known as the 'number sign'. — hedged: “probably” (00:01:16)
  • 2014-10-24 · #Octothorpe - A Symbolistic Journey — Developing touch-tone phones in the 1960s, Bell Labs wanted two extra non-number buttons to control machines; a star and a diamond were rejected because they were not in ASCII. (00:01:33)
    • two extra buttons — non-number buttons added to touch-tone phones · in United States · as of 1960s · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-24 · #Octothorpe - A Symbolistic Journey — Bell Labs chose the asterisk and the little-used # because they were not confusing; via the phones # became a standard symbol and went onto the American keyboard in place of £. (00:01:54)
  • 2014-10-24 · #Octothorpe - A Symbolistic Journey — Bell Labs manuals sometimes footnoted the sign as 'also sometimes known as an octothorpe'; the joke caught on among engineers for a couple of decades. (00:02:21)
  • 2014-10-24 · #Octothorpe - A Symbolistic Journey — The social-media hashtag is another use enabled by the symbol's prevalence; most of the world says 'hash sign', while America still says the confusing 'pound sign'. (00:02:51)
  • 2014-11-13 · The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 — John: for almost all of human history pizza was impossible, because tomatoes existed only in the Americas and cow's milk and bread only in the rest of the world. (00:00:47)
  • 2014-11-13 · The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 — John: the exchange between the Americas and the rest of the world that began with Columbus in the late 15th century was disastrous for life on Earth in many ways, but made pizza and about 90% of today's foods possible. (00:01:10)
    • late fifteenth century — start of the exchange between the Americas and the rest of the world · in Americas / Old World · as of 2014-11-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 90% (percent) — share of the foods eaten today made possible by the Columbian exchange · for foods that we now eat · as of 2014 · no source named · doubtful
  • 2014-11-13 · The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 — John: there were no cows in the New World and no potatoes in the Old World, so hamburgers and french fries both depended on the exchange. (00:01:23)
  • 2014-11-13 · The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 — John: tomatoes were among the New World foods that came to the Old World, and were initially believed to be poisonous. (00:01:36)
  • 2014-11-13 · The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 — John: by the middle of the 16th century in Naples, Italy, there was pizza as we know it, with cheese, tomato sauce and bread. (00:01:44)
    • middle of the sixteenth century — date of pizza with cheese, tomato sauce and bread · in Naples, Italy · as of 2014-11-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · doubtful
  • 2014-11-13 · The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 — John: 16th-century Naples pizza tasted very little like today's; it was sweet, and 'pizza' literally means pie. (00:01:56)
    • sixteenth century — period of sweet early pizza · in Naples, Italy · as of 2014-11-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-11-13 · The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 — John: about 96 billion people have lived on Earth. (00:02:15)
    • ninety six billion (people) — number of people who have ever lived · for all humans ever · in Earth · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-11-13 · The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 — John: there are a few minor Johns in the Hebrew Bible, but Johns took off in the New Testament, e.g. John the Baptist and Jesus's apostle John. (00:02:32)
  • 2014-11-13 · The History of Pizza and the History of John: Pizzamas Day 4 — John: the name John is not the same as Jonathan, which comes from a different Hebrew word meaning 'gift from God' and is a longer form of Nathan, not of John. (00:02:52)
  • 2014-11-14 · A Surprise Relationship Between John and Hank! — Hank corrects John: the star John saw in his last video was Jupiter, recognisable as a planet because it is so bright and does not twinkle like stars. (00:00:01)
  • 2014-11-14 · A Surprise Relationship Between John and Hank! — Hank: planets are closer, so we see a tiny disk of many points of light; the atmosphere jiggles each point, but they average out, so planets look steadier than stars. (00:00:08)
  • 2014-11-14 · A Surprise Relationship Between John and Hank! — Hank: a hare's top speed is about 45 miles per hour. (00:00:44)
    • 45 miles per hour (mph) — top running speed of a hare · for hares · as of 2014-11-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-11-14 · A Surprise Relationship Between John and Hank! — Hank: the world's oldest tortoise, Jonathan, is 182 years old with a top speed of 0.17 mph; moving every one of his 1.5 million-plus hours he would have covered about 271,000 miles. (00:01:07)
    • 182 years old — age of Jonathan, the oldest tortoise in the world · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 0.17 miles per hour (mph) — top speed of Jonathan the tortoise · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 1.5 million (hours) — hours in Jonathan's life (more than) · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 271 thousand miles — distance Jonathan would have travelled moving every hour at top speed (hypothetical) · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-11-14 · A Surprise Relationship Between John and Hank! — Hank: there may be more forms of John than of any other name, e.g. Jane, Gianni, Juan, Ivan, Janice, Joan, Ian and Yanni. — hedged: “might” (00:01:53)
  • 2014-11-14 · A Surprise Relationship Between John and Hank! — Hank: a J noise said without obstructing the air is a Y noise (John, Yahn); Y noises are never consonants but two vowel sounds shoved together, as in 'your', and W works the same way. (00:02:08)
  • 2014-11-14 · A Surprise Relationship Between John and Hank! — Hank: two vowel sounds slapped together make a diphthong, found even in words like 'Mike' and 'oil'; a diphthong in a consonant's place breaking two syllables apart is called a semivowel. (00:02:29)
  • 2014-11-14 · A Surprise Relationship Between John and Hank! — Hank: the source name Iohannes shows all the vowels and the origin of the silent H, since John used to be Johan. (00:02:57)
  • 2014-11-14 · A Surprise Relationship Between John and Hank! — Hank: Middle English added '-kin' to mark something small: Tom became Tomkin, and a small piece of cloth (nap) became a napkin. (00:03:06)
  • 2014-11-14 · A Surprise Relationship Between John and Hank! — Hank: Middle English shortened Johan to Han, and a little Han was called Hankin, which is how the name Hank first appeared; so John and Hank have the same name. (00:03:22)

World affairs (50)

  • 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)
    • second largest (rank) — country area rank in Europe · in Ukraine · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 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: “sort of” (00:00:11)
    • 1853 to 1856 (years) — dates of the Crimean War · in Crimea · as of 2014-03-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 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)
    • five hundred thousand (people) — deaths in the Crimean War · as of 1856 · no source named · unchecked
    • sixty years later — interval from the Crimean War to World War I · in Europe · as of 2014-03-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says that toward the end of WWI Russia had its communist revolution and Ukraine had a brief independence, but from 1917 to 1921 it was mired in wars among factions (Poland, the USSR, Ukrainian nationalists, anarchists); over 1.5 million died. (00:00:37)
    • 1917 to 1921 (years) — period of wars in Ukraine · in Ukraine · as of 2014-03-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
    • More than 1.5 million (people) — deaths in Ukraine's 1917-1921 wars · in Ukraine · as of 2014-03-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says that after Ukraine joined the USSR, as many as 10 million Ukrainians starved in 1932-33 because of Stalin's 'stupid' and 'actively evil' agricultural policies, in what is now the world's third-largest grain exporter. (00:01:10)
    • As many as 10 million (people) — deaths in the 1932-1933 famine · for Ukrainians · in Ukraine · as of 1933 · no source named · doubtful
    • third largest (rank) — grain exporter rank · in Ukraine · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says that after World War II Stalin forcibly deported Crimea's entire indigenous population of ethnic Tatars to Central Asia. (00:01:24)
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says Stalin also moved many ethnic Russians into Ukraine, especially Crimea and the part of the country he calls western, the industrial center. (00:01:37)
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says Stalin's successor Khrushchev transferred the Crimean Peninsula from Russia to Ukraine in 1954. (00:01:44)
    • 1954 (year) — year Crimea was transferred from Russia to Ukraine · in Crimea · as of 2014-03-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John explains the transfer: Khrushchev had ties to Ukraine, and Crimea is physically attached to Ukraine, not Russia, getting all its electricity and water from Ukraine. (00:01:52)
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says about 67% of Ukraine's people speak Ukrainian as their first language and about 30% speak Russian, though only about 17% identify as ethnically Russian. (00:02:11)
    • about 67% (percent) — share speaking Ukrainian as first language · for people living in Ukraine · in Ukraine · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • About 30% (percent) — share speaking Russian as first language · for people living in Ukraine · in Ukraine · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • about 17% (percent) — share identifying as ethnically Russian · for population of Ukraine · in Ukraine · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — Pointing at a map, John says Russian is mostly spoken in the West and in the Crimean Peninsula (the captioner notes he meant East). (00:02:24)
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says many Tatars have returned to Crimea since the breakup of the Soviet Union, but they make up only about 12% of its population today. (00:02:27)
    • about 12% (percent) — Crimean Tatar share of population · for population of Crimea · in Crimea · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says that in a December 1991 referendum after the Soviet breakup, 90% of Ukrainians, including a majority in Crimea, voted for independence from Russia. (00:02:33)
    • 90% (percent) — vote for independence · for voters in Ukraine · in Ukraine · as of December of 1991 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says Ukraine stayed much more closely aligned with Russia than many former Soviet republics, such as Estonia, now in the European Union. (00:02:46)
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says the 2004 election, amid widespread reports of vote-rigging, was won by the Russian-friendly Viktor Yanukovych. (00:02:54)
    • 2004 (year) — year of the disputed Ukrainian election · in Ukraine · as of 2014-03-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko led massive street protests in Kiev, the Orange Revolution, and was disfigured and almost died from a mysterious poisoning. (00:03:01)
  • 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)
    • 2006 (year) — year Russia cut gas supplies to Ukraine · in Ukraine · as of 2014-03-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 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)
    • 2010 (year) — year of the Ukrainian presidential election · in Ukraine · as of 2014-03-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says that in November 2013 Yanukovych abandoned an agreement to strengthen EU ties in favor of Russia, and protests began in Kiev's Independence Square. (00:04:13)
    • November 2013 (date) — date Yanukovych abandoned the EU agreement · in Ukraine · as of 2014-03-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says the protests grew until February 20th, when dozens of protesters were killed by military and police; Yanukovych left Kiev the next day and protesters installed a temporary government ahead of new elections. (00:04:27)
    • February 20th (date) — date protesters were killed in Kiev · in Kiev · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • dozens (people) — protesters killed on February 20th · for protesters · in Kiev · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says the Putin regime then marched into the Crimean Peninsula, ostensibly to protect ethnic Russians and Russian military installations there. (00:04:38)
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says the word 'Ukraine' means 'borderland', and the country has for centuries functioned as the border between West and East. (00:06:16)
  • 2014-03-04 · Understanding Ukraine: The Problems Today and Some Historical Context — John says that dream seems far away, but 60 years ago Japan was in ruins, 25 years ago Germany was divided, and 12 years ago Sierra Leone was in civil war; now it is the second-fastest-growing economy. (00:06:35)
    • 60 years ago — time since Japan was in ruins · in Japan · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 25 years ago — time since Germany was divided · in Germany · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 12 years ago — time since Sierra Leone's civil war · in Sierra Leone · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • second fastest growing economy (rank) — economic growth rank · in Sierra Leone · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says seven of the world's ten fastest-growing economies are in Africa. (00:00:13)
    • seven of the world's ten (economies) — number of the world's ten fastest-growing economies that are in Africa · in Africa · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says life expectancy in the Central African Republic is 51 and it is one of the poorest countries in the world. (00:01:21)
    • 51 (years) — life expectancy · in Central African Republic · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says the CAR declared independence from France in 1960, had decades of military rule, then multi-party elections in 1993 that elected Ange-Félix Patassé. (00:01:27)
    • 1960 (year) — year of independence from France · in Central African Republic · as of 2014-04-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1993 (year) — year of the first multi-party elections · in Central African Republic · as of 2014-04-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says the economy first grew under Patassé, but he failed to pay the military and civil servants; amid corruption and coup attempts he stayed president until a 2003 coup succeeded. (00:01:35)
    • 2003 (year) — year of the military coup ending Patassé’s presidency · in Central African Republic · as of 2014-04-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says the Lord's Resistance Army, led by Joseph Kony, has murdered and tortured people for decades in the CAR's east, and many believe Kony hides in the CAR. (00:01:59)
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says both the Patassé and Bozizé regimes relied on foreign armies from Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo and elsewhere to shore up their governments. (00:02:18)
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says security worsened after 2003: the UFDR and other rebel groups fought Bozizé in the Central African Bush War, failed, and a 2007 peace treaty never fully stopped the fighting. (00:02:27)
    • 2007 (year) — year of the peace treaty ending the Central African Bush War · in Central African Republic · as of 2014-04-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says in 2012 rebel groups united as Séléka, meaning 'union'; most members belong to the CAR's Muslim minority, about 15% of the population. (00:02:56)
    • 2012 (year) — year Séléka was formed · in Central African Republic · as of 2014-04-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
    • about 15% (percent) — Muslim share of the population · for population of the Central African Republic · in Central African Republic · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says Séléka took northern and central towns; despite troops from Chad and others, Bangui fell in March 2013, Bozizé fled and Séléka leader Michel Djotodia, a Muslim, became president. (00:03:10)
    • March 2013 (date) — date Bangui fell to Séléka · in Bangui · as of 2014-04-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says Séléka militias committed atrocities, per Human Rights Watch burning dozens of towns and shooting fleeing civilians; a huge share of people are displaced, tens of thousands of Christians at Bangui airport. (00:03:42)
    • dozens of towns and villages — towns and villages burned by Séléka militias · in Central African Republic · as of 2014 · source: Human Rights Watch · unchecked
    • a huge percentage — share of the population displaced · in Central African Republic · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • tens of thousands (people) — Christians sheltering at the Bangui airport · in Bangui · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says Christian anti-balaka ('anti-sword') militias answered Séléka's violence with much more violence; their mass murder of Muslims is called by many a genocide or its beginning. (00:04:01)
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says Djotodia resigned in January 2014 and was replaced by Catherine Samba-Panza, but there is not currently much of a government to lead. (00:04:18)
    • January 2014 (date) — date of Djotodia’s resignation · in Central African Republic · as of 2014-04-22 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-22 · Understanding the Central African Republic — John says the UN last week (week of 14 April 2014) approved an 11,000-member security force that will hopefully end the violence, which for now continues. — hedged: “hopefully” (00:04:28)
    • 11,000 (members) — size of the UN-approved security force for the Central African Republic · in Central African Republic · as of April 2014 · source: United Nations · unchecked
  • 2014-10-03 · Hong Kong Protests Explained — Hank says that last Sunday (28 September 2014) tens of thousands of people protested in Hong Kong, and the surprisingly intense police reaction drew far more people into the protests. (00:00:01)
    • tens of thousands (people) — number of protesters in the streets of Hong Kong · for protesters · in Hong Kong · as of 2014-09-28 · source: Hank Green · unchecked
  • 2014-10-03 · Hong Kong Protests Explained — Hank says that in 1847 Hong Kong, a sparsely populated island off southern China, was ceded to the United Kingdom after the Opium War. (00:00:21)
    • 1847 (year) — year Hong Kong was ceded to the United Kingdom · in Hong Kong · as of 2014-10-03 (implied: upload date) · source: Hank Green · doubtful
  • 2014-10-03 · Hong Kong Protests Explained — Hank says that in 1898 China and Hong Kong agreed to a 99-year lease of Hong Kong to the British Empire as a colony. (00:00:28)
    • 1898 (year) — year of the lease of Hong Kong to the British Empire · in Hong Kong · as of 2014-10-03 (implied: upload date) · source: Hank Green · unchecked
    • 99 year — length of the lease of Hong Kong to the British Empire · in Hong Kong · as of 1898 · source: Hank Green · unchecked
  • 2014-10-03 · Hong Kong Protests Explained — Hank says that in 1997, after 150 years of British rule, Hong Kong became part of China, 'kind of', keeping its own dialect, judiciary, taxes, postal service, money and culture. (00:00:58)
    • 1997 (year) — year Hong Kong became part of China · in Hong Kong · as of 2014-10-03 (implied: upload date) · source: Hank Green · unchecked
    • 150 years — duration of British rule over Hong Kong · in Hong Kong · as of 1997 · source: Hank Green · unchecked
  • 2014-10-03 · Hong Kong Protests Explained — Hank says Hong Kong people are ethnically Chinese and feel connected to Chinese people but don't consider themselves Chinese; crossing into Hong Kong from China requires a passport stamp. (00:01:10)
  • 2014-10-03 · Hong Kong Protests Explained — Hank says China and Hong Kong had separate teams at the 2008 Beijing Olympics, though they are the same country. (00:01:23)
    • 2008 (year) — Olympics at which China and Hong Kong had separate teams · in Beijing · as of 2008 · source: Hank Green · unchecked
  • 2014-10-03 · Hong Kong Protests Explained — Hank calls Hong Kong a capitalist powerhouse created as a bridge to the capitalist world, with the world's third largest stock exchange and the eighth most traded currency. (00:01:47)
    • third largest (rank) — rank of the Hong Kong stock exchange among world stock exchanges · for stock exchanges · in Hong Kong · as of 2014 · source: Hank Green · unchecked
    • eighth most traded (rank) — rank of the Hong Kong dollar among most traded currencies · for currencies · in Hong Kong · as of 2014 · source: Hank Green · unchecked
  • 2014-10-03 · Hong Kong Protests Explained — Hank says that with a weakening economy and a growing number of protests, Chinese politicians worry about losing stability, which they really like. (00:02:58)
  • 2014-10-03 · Hong Kong Protests Explained — Hank says China's president Xi Jinping just did a massive crackdown on corruption, making enemies of officials who benefited from it. (00:03:07)
  • 2014-10-03 · Hong Kong Protests Explained — Hank says that since the handoff Hong Kong has been run by a Chief Executive elected by a weird electoral college made up mostly of business tycoons for mostly corporate constituencies. (00:03:50)
  • 2014-10-03 · Hong Kong Protests Explained — Hank says Hong Kong's constitution, not really a constitution, eventually calls for the people, not a group of 1,200 sharing Beijing's interests, to elect the Chief Executive. (00:04:07)
    • twelve hundred (people) — size of the group that elects Hong Kong's Chief Executive · for electors · in Hong Kong · as of 2014 · source: Hank Green · unchecked
  • 2014-10-03 · Hong Kong Protests Explained — Hank says China's state media report on the Hong Kong protests as they did on the Arab Spring, focusing on the chaos and inconvenience the protests bring. (00:05:16)

US politics & society (45)

  • 2014-02-04 · Should We Raise the Minimum Wage? — John says Hank's companies employ dozens of people, none of whom are paid the federally mandated minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. (00:00:07)
    • dozens (people) — employees of Hank's companies · for Hank's companies · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 7 dollars 25 cents (US dollars per hour) — federal minimum wage · for US workers · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-02-04 · Should We Raise the Minimum Wage? — John reports Card and Krueger's study: New Jersey raised its minimum wage in 1992 while neighbouring Pennsylvania did not, and restaurant employment in New Jersey actually increased. (00:01:19)
    • 18.8 percent — minimum wage increase · in New Jersey · as of 1992 · source: Card and Krueger study · unchecked
  • 2014-02-04 · Should We Raise the Minimum Wage? — John says many later studies confirmed Card and Krueger's findings, while some found negative employment effects that are surprisingly and consistently mild. (00:01:43)
  • 2014-02-04 · Should We Raise the Minimum Wage? — John says the downside is that higher wages go with higher prices for goods relying on low-wage labour, so Hank's corndogs would probably cost a bit more. — hedged: “probably” (00:02:09)
  • 2014-02-04 · Should We Raise the Minimum Wage? — John says there is growing consensus that raising the minimum wage reduces poverty in the medium run: big recent studies find a 10% rise cuts the number in poverty by about 2.5%. (00:02:18)
    • 10 percent — minimum wage increase (scenario in the studies) · as of 2014 · source: a number of big recent studies · unchecked
    • about 2.5 percent — reduction in the number of people in poverty per 10% minimum wage rise · for people in poverty · as of 2014 · source: a number of big recent studies · unchecked
  • 2014-02-04 · Should We Raise the Minimum Wage? — John says the strategy of paying a living wage has worked well for them so far and is also working at much larger companies like Costco. (00:03:24)
  • 2014-04-04 · Mass Incarceration in the US — Hank says millions of prisoners are released each year, so prisoners are not external to society. (00:00:47)
    • millions (prisoners per year) — prisoners released each year · in United States · as of 2014-04-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-04 · Mass Incarceration in the US — Hank says the US, 'really good at punishment', has about 4% of the world's people and about 25% of its incarcerated people. (00:01:01)
    • about 4% (percent) — US share of world population · in United States · as of 2014-04-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
    • about 25% (percent) — US share of world's incarcerated people · in United States · as of 2014-04-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-04 · Mass Incarceration in the US — Hank says the US has the highest incarceration rate in the world, up over 400% over the last 30 years. (00:01:10)
    • over 400% (percent) — growth of US incarceration · in United States · as of over the last 30 years (resolved: 1984–2014, from the date said in the video 2014-04-04) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-04 · Mass Incarceration in the US — Hank says 41% of American juveniles and young adults have been arrested by age 23. (00:01:17)
    • 41% (percent) — share arrested by age 23 · for American juveniles and young adults · in United States · as of 2014-04-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-04 · Mass Incarceration in the US — Hank says children as young as 13 have been sentenced to die in prison, and US prisons violate international standards. (00:01:22)
    • 13 (years old) — youngest age of children sentenced to die in prison · in United States · as of 2014-04-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-04 · Mass Incarceration in the US — Hank says solitary confinement increases instability and violence, is torture under international law, yet in the US is regulated only by prison officials, with no appeals. (00:01:30)
  • 2014-04-04 · Mass Incarceration in the US — Hank says the US deliberately makes it harder to get a job with a conviction; convicts are ineligible for welfare, student loans, public housing and food stamps. (00:01:49)
  • 2014-04-04 · Mass Incarceration in the US — Hank says former convicts, often cut off from community and family support, have high recidivism and very high rates of homelessness and suicide. (00:02:01)
  • 2014-04-04 · Mass Incarceration in the US — Hank says punishment is one expensive piece of crime reduction, with some institutions paying more than $100,000 per prisoner per year. (00:02:18)
    • more than $100,000 (USD per year per prisoner) — annual cost per prisoner at some institutions · in United States · as of 2014-04-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-04 · Mass Incarceration in the US — Hank says long sentences helped decrease crime, but no more than 25% of the decrease can be attributed to incarceration. (00:02:29)
    • no more than 25% (percent) — share of the crime decrease attributable to incarceration · in United States · as of 2014-04-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-04 · Mass Incarceration in the US — Hank calls US incarceration a massive $75-billion-a-year failed experiment. (00:03:10)
    • $75 billion (USD per year) — annual US spending on incarceration · in United States · as of 2014-04-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-04 · Mass Incarceration in the US — Hank says 2010 was the first year in nearly 40 years that the US incarcerated population did not increase; policymakers are starting to see the failure, but there is a long way to go. (00:03:16)
    • 2010 (year) — first year the US incarcerated population did not increase · in United States · as of 2014-04-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
    • nearly 40 years — length of continuous growth in US incarcerated population before 2010 · in United States · as of 2014-04-04 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-31 · Ten Terrible Reason to not Vote (and two good ones) — Hank rebuts the excuse that registering to vote brings jury duty: there is no correlation, you get jury duty whether or not you are registered. (00:00:14)
  • 2014-10-31 · Ten Terrible Reason to not Vote (and two good ones) — Hank says eleven states, including California, have same-day voter registration. (00:01:11)
    • Eleven (states) — number of US states with same-day voter registration · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-31 · Ten Terrible Reason to not Vote (and two good ones) — Against the claim that corporations and millionaires decide elections, Hank says corporations get fewer votes than you and millionaires the same number, but millionaires matter more because 99% of them vote. (00:01:24)
    • 99% (percent) — share of millionaires who vote · for millionaires · in United States · as of 2014-10-31 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-31 · Ten Terrible Reason to not Vote (and two good ones) — Answering 'it's not even a democracy', Hank says there were zero democracies in the world in 1900, with no universal suffrage anywhere. (00:02:18)
    • ZERO (democracies) — number of democracies in the world · in the world · as of 1900 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-10-31 · Ten Terrible Reason to not Vote (and two good ones) — Hank says people born after 1980 make up about 30% of the electorate, but only 21% of people under 24 are expected to vote in this election. — hedged: “like” (00:03:12)
    • 30% (percent) — share of the US electorate born after 1980 · for people born after 1980 · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 21% (percent) — expected turnout of people under 24 · for people under 24 · in United States · as of 2014 election · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-26 · The Best and Worst of 2014 — Hank says 2014 will very likely have been the warmest year ever recorded. — hedged: “very likely possibility” (00:00:28)
    • the warmest year ever recorded (rank) — rank of the year among recorded global temperatures · in the world · as of 2014 · source: Hank · unchecked
  • 2014-12-26 · The Best and Worst of 2014 — Hank says 2014 saw the youngest-ever Nobel Peace Prize recipient, Malala Yousafzai, who is 17. (00:00:47)
    • youngest ever (rank) — age rank of Nobel Peace Prize recipients · as of 2014 · source: Hank · unchecked
    • 17 (years) — age of Malala Yousafzai · as of 2014 · source: Hank · unchecked
  • 2014-12-26 · The Best and Worst of 2014 — Hank says Michael Brown, Eric Garner, John Crawford and 12-year-old Tamir Rice were all unarmed and all killed by police officers. (00:01:37)
    • 12-year-old — age of Tamir Rice when killed by police · in United States · as of 2014 · source: Hank · unchecked
  • 2014-12-26 · The Best and Worst of 2014 — Hank says such killings are not unusual: unarmed black men are shot and killed by police every year, and this is not a new explosion of police shootings. (00:01:43)
  • 2014-12-26 · The Best and Worst of 2014 — Hank says discussion of systemic sexism advanced with Emma Watson's HeForShe speech at the UN and a video of a woman harassed walking around New York that got about 30 million views. — hedged: “like 30 million” (00:02:15)
    • like 30 million (views) — YouTube views of the New York street-harassment video · in New York · as of 2014 · source: Hank · unchecked
  • 2014-12-26 · The Best and Worst of 2014 — Hank says Missoula, Montana, had its first same-sex marriage at the courthouse this year (2014); he can't believe it took so long. (00:02:25)
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — In the description John notes that his stop-and-search figures come from California, and that New York's data, though not as good, appears comparable. (video description)
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — In the description John adds that hiring studies like the name-swapped resume study have found similar results in the UK and in Australia. (video description)
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — In the description John adds that African American students are more than twice as likely as white students to be suspended, even in preschool. (video description)
    • more than twice as likely (ratio) — likelihood of suspension, African American students relative to white students · for US students, including preschoolers · in United States · as of 2014-12-30 (implied: upload date) · source: John · unchecked
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — John updates his survey figures: the most recent polls show fewer white people thinking racism is not a problem than the polls he used, though still a huge divide. (video description)
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — John says recent surveys show about 75% of white Americans see no racial bias in criminal justice, and a slight majority don't see racism as a significant problem. (00:00:12)
    • about 75% (percent) — share of white Americans who do not think there is racial bias in the criminal justice system · for white Americans · in United States · as of recent surveys · source: recent surveys · unchecked
    • a slight majority (share) — share of white Americans who don't think racism is a significant problem in America · for white Americans · in United States · as of recent surveys · source: recent surveys · unchecked
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — John cites a US Sentencing Commission report from last year (2013): African American men's prison sentences averaged 20% longer than white men's for similar crimes, and the gap has widened over the past decade. (00:00:37)
    • 20% longer (percent) — average prison sentence of African American men relative to white men convicted of similar crimes · for men convicted of similar crimes · in United States · as of last year (report) (resolved: 2013, from the upload date 2014-12-30) · source: US Sentencing Commission · unchecked
    • has been widening (trend) — racial gap in prison sentencing · for people convicted of similar crimes · in United States · as of the past decade (resolved: 2004–2014, from the upload date 2014-12-30) · source: John · unchecked
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — John says black and white people use illegal drugs at almost identical rates, but black people are three times more likely to be arrested for drug possession. (00:00:52)
    • almost identical rates (rate comparison) — illegal drug use rate, black people relative to white people · for black and white people in the US · in United States · as of 2014-12-30 (implied: upload date) · source: John · unchecked
    • three times more likely (ratio) — likelihood of arrest for drug possession, black people relative to white people · for black and white people in the US · in United States · as of 2014-12-30 (implied: upload date) · source: John · unchecked
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — John says African Americans are far more likely to be stopped and searched by police where good records exist, though the contraband hit rate is often higher among white people. (00:00:59)
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — John says DNA exonerees are disproportionately black, black kids are likelier to be tried as adults and get life sentences, and black former inmates get fewer callbacks from employers. (00:01:13)
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — John describes a large 2004 University of Chicago study: thousands of identical resumes differing only by name; 'Lakisha' and 'Jamal' got 50% fewer callbacks than 'Emily' and 'Brendan'. (00:01:42)
    • 50% fewer (percent) — callbacks for identical resumes with stereotypically black names relative to stereotypically white names · for job applicants (resume study) · in United States · as of 2004 · source: University of Chicago study · unchecked
    • thousands (resumes) — number of resumes submitted in the study · in United States · as of 2004 · source: University of Chicago study · unchecked
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — John says he is pretty sure the callback gap is about race, and that studies consistently show racial bias in US hiring and around the world. — hedged: “I'm pretty sure” (00:02:06)
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — John says among US high schools with mostly black and Latino students only 74% offer Algebra II and 66% chemistry; mostly white schools are much higher. (00:02:15)
    • 74% (percent) — share of high schools offering Algebra II · for American high schools with mostly black and Latino students · in United States · as of 2014-12-30 (implied: upload date) · source: John · unchecked
    • 66% (percent) — share of high schools offering chemistry · for American high schools with mostly black and Latino students · in United States · as of 2014-12-30 (implied: upload date) · source: John · unchecked
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — John quotes an American College of Physicians report: overwhelming evidence shows racial and ethnic minorities get poorer-quality health care, even controlling for insurance status. (00:02:31)
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — John says that by some measures, including life expectancy, the racial health disparity has been increasing for decades. (00:02:46)
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — John says the US's tremendous economic inequality is a factor in racial disparities, but race also factors into class and economic status. (00:02:58)
  • 2014-12-30 · Racism in the United States: By the Numbers — John says much of the US racial wealth gap is inheritance: white people far more often inherit, largely because African Americans basically couldn't accrue wealth for most of US history. (00:03:06)

Science & nature (31)

  • 2014-01-10 · Global Warming and the Polar Vortex — Hank explains polar vortices are cyclones of air around both poles, caused by the temperature difference between equator and pole; they have always existed and every planet with an atmosphere has them. (00:00:28)
  • 2014-01-10 · Global Warming and the Polar Vortex — Hank says that, unusually, an offshoot of the polar vortex dipped down into America and stayed; it was colder in Georgia than in Alaska. (00:00:46)
  • 2014-01-10 · Global Warming and the Polar Vortex — Hank says a 4 degree Celsius rise for the planet would be a disaster, while the same rise in a town would go unnoticed. (00:01:30)
    • four degrees Celsius — global average temperature increase that would be disastrous · in the world · as of 2014-01-10 (implied: upload date) · source: Hank · unchecked
    • four degrees Celsius — local temperature increase that would go unnoticed · in a town · as of 2014-01-10 (implied: upload date) · source: Hank · unchecked
  • 2014-01-10 · Global Warming and the Polar Vortex — Hank says the scientific community prefers "global climate change" because it is not just warming: some places get warmer, some colder, some lose rain. (00:01:43)
  • 2014-01-10 · Global Warming and the Polar Vortex — Testing himself, Hank guesses the US covers 5% of the world's area; he looks it up and finds 1.9%, including Alaska. (00:02:09)
    • 1.9% (percent) — share of the world's area taken up by the United States · in United States · as of 2014-01-10 (implied: upload date) · source: Hank (looked up) · unchecked
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says the velociraptor wasn't famous until Michael Crichton's 1990 novel Jurassic Park and Spielberg's film, which show smart, people-sized, scaly pack hunters dug up in Montana. (00:00:11)
    • 1990 (year) — publication year of Jurassic Park (novel) · as of 2014-04-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says the velociraptor never lived in Montana; it lived in Mongolia and China. (00:00:45)
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says velociraptors were feathered, not scaly. (00:00:49)
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says velociraptors probably did not hunt in packs. — hedged: “probably” (00:00:49)
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says velociraptors lived 75 million years ago in the Late Cretaceous. (00:00:54)
    • 75 million years ago — age of Velociraptor · as of Late Cretaceous · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says velociraptors were not human-sized killers but like long-tailed turkeys; adults weighed less than an average three-year-old human. (00:01:04)
    • less than the average three-year-old human — adult Velociraptor body weight · as of 2014-04-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says the name means 'swift thief', but velociraptors were probably quite slow on short legs. — hedged: “probably” (00:01:15)
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says Jurassic Park's velociraptors are based on a larger American cousin, Deinonychus, renamed because 'velociraptor' sounds cooler. (00:01:38)
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says the brontosaurus ('thunder lizard'), the coolest dinosaur of their childhood, isn't a thing; it's just an apatosaurus ('deceptive lizard'). (00:01:48)
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says, as his son would point out, that the apatosaurus isn't even that big compared to the diplodocus. (00:02:05)
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says velociraptors belonged to the feathered, bird-like dromaeosaurid family; they could not fly, and their feathers were maybe for attracting mates but probably an evolutionary leftover. — hedged: “probably” (00:02:09)
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says velociraptors could jump about ten feet high and had retractable sickle-shaped claws on their hind legs to stab prey. (00:02:31)
    • ten feet — Velociraptor vertical jump height · as of 2014-04-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · doubtful
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says a fossil shows a velociraptor and a protoceratops locked in combat, buried by a sandstorm, showing they could kill protoceratops. (00:02:40)
  • 2014-04-01 · VELOCIRAPTORS — John says Crichton's velociraptors were featherless because feathering wasn't known for sure until 2007, when scientists found quill knobs on a forearm. (00:03:02)
    • 2007 (year) — year Velociraptor feathering confirmed (quill knobs) · as of 2014-04-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-01 · PUNISHMENT OF PAIN AND SCIENCE! — Hank says nociceptive pain is detected by systems designed to detect pain; it is the pain we need, signalling that something bad is happening; there are three kinds. (00:00:08)
    • three (kinds) — number of kinds of nociceptive pain · as of 2014-08-01 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-08-01 · PUNISHMENT OF PAIN AND SCIENCE! — Hank says superficial somatic pain is skin-based: skin has many pain receptors because it is the first line of defence, so whip lashes register as separate pains. (00:00:18)
  • 2014-08-01 · PUNISHMENT OF PAIN AND SCIENCE! — Hank says deep somatic pain comes from burning muscles, strains, sprains or broken bones; it is less specific but can be extremely intense. (00:00:36)
  • 2014-08-01 · PUNISHMENT OF PAIN AND SCIENCE! — Hank says that in his muscle test anaerobic glycolysis raises his muscles' acidity, which neurons detect and relay to the brain as pain. (00:00:44)
  • 2014-08-01 · PUNISHMENT OF PAIN AND SCIENCE! — Hank says visceral pain, the last type of nociceptive pain, is usually vague and distant but can be very intense (cramps; testicular injuries), and declines to demonstrate it. (00:00:57)
  • 2014-08-01 · PUNISHMENT OF PAIN AND SCIENCE! — Hank says neuropathic pain occurs when nerves are damaged or malfunction and send pain signals when they shouldn't. (00:01:09)
  • 2014-08-01 · PUNISHMENT OF PAIN AND SCIENCE! — Hank says the ulnar nerve is one of the only big nerves running close to the skin's surface; whacking it (the funny bone) gives neuropathic pain, which he demonstrates. (00:01:16)
  • 2014-08-01 · PUNISHMENT OF PAIN AND SCIENCE! — Hank says referred pain is when the nervous system mixes up the source of the pain: there is a stimulus, but it is not received in the right place. (00:01:30)
  • 2014-08-01 · PUNISHMENT OF PAIN AND SCIENCE! — Hank says all sensory cells work alike: they maintain an ion gradient across the membrane, and surface proteins open channels that equalize it when a specific stimulus occurs. (00:01:49)
  • 2014-08-01 · PUNISHMENT OF PAIN AND SCIENCE! — Hank says a protein (named with a transposed acronym, see uncertain) opens a channel in response to heat, acidity or abrasion, but by chance also opens in the presence of capsaicin. (00:02:22)
  • 2014-08-01 · PUNISHMENT OF PAIN AND SCIENCE! — Hank says capsaicin, the chemical that makes chili peppers hot, is entirely harmless but opens that channel, so the brain detects it as pain; his burning mouth is a biological accident. (00:02:33)
  • 2014-08-01 · PUNISHMENT OF PAIN AND SCIENCE! — Hank says people born without the ability to sense pain often die before adulthood. (00:03:02)

Internet & YouTube (25)

  • 2014-05-02 · Hank vs. Hank: The Net Neutrality Debate in 3 Minutes — The internet-user Hank says this already happened: Comcast slowed down Netflix's connection and forced it to pay for faster access to Comcast's customers. (00:01:01)
  • 2014-06-20 · Pre-History of Online Video — Hank says the very first viral internet video, the dancing baby, came the year before 1998. (00:00:25)
    • The year before that — year of the first viral internet video (one year before 1998) · as of 2014-06-20 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-06-20 · Pre-History of Online Video — Hank says the animutation was probably the first internet-native genre of video, pioneered by Neil Cicierega, later known for The Mysterious Ticking Noise. — hedged: “probably” (00:02:31)
  • 2014-08-08 · Who Owns a Monkey's Selfie? And a Song About Meningitis! — The description says a photographer is suing the Wikimedia Foundation for treating his photograph as public domain, and only a judge can decide who is correct. (video description)
    • is suing (legal action) — status of the photographer's legal action against the Wikimedia Foundation over the photo · as of 2014-08 · no source named · doubtful
  • 2014-08-08 · Who Owns a Monkey's Selfie? And a Song About Meningitis! — Hank says the monkey selfie was taken when photographer David Slater's camera was stolen by a rare crested black macaque, which took many pictures of itself, other macaques and leaves. (00:00:19)
  • 2014-08-08 · Who Owns a Monkey's Selfie? And a Song About Meningitis! — Hank says the picture became David Slater's most famous and most successful photograph ever, at least by some measures. — hedged: “At least, by some measures” (00:00:51)
  • 2014-08-08 · Who Owns a Monkey's Selfie? And a Song About Meningitis! — Hank says Slater makes his living selling photographs, but the Wikimedia Foundation has declared this picture public domain, free for everyone to use. (00:01:00)
  • 2014-08-08 · Who Owns a Monkey's Selfie? And a Song About Meningitis! — Hank explains the reasoning: Slater didn't take the photo, a monkey did, and monkeys, at least so far, cannot legally own anything, including intellectual property. (00:01:15)
  • 2014-08-15 · The Bizarre State of Copyright — Anything you create, like this video, is protected by copyright because you made it; ideas cannot be copyrighted but can sometimes be patented. (00:00:30)
  • 2014-08-15 · The Bizarre State of Copyright — Controlling an idea is weirder and scarier, so the US government regulates patents, which must be applied for and granted. (00:00:37)
  • 2014-08-15 · The Bizarre State of Copyright — Trademarks assign symbols or words to a company or product — McDonald's logo, name and 'I'm lovin' it' — so no one else can run a look-alike McDonald's. (00:00:50)
  • 2014-08-15 · The Bizarre State of Copyright — Even when any judge would obviously call something fair use, only a judge can actually decide whether it is. (00:01:53)
  • 2014-08-15 · The Bizarre State of Copyright — YouTube's Content ID, a 'robotic lawyer', compares every uploaded video with a massive library of songs, films and TV shows; Hank calls it a little bit of a miracle. (00:02:18)
  • 2014-09-19 · The Oculus Rift is Freakin Me Out — Hank says Kelly Kend's documentary raised $10,000 on Kickstarter, all of which she has already spent working on the film. (00:03:38)
    • $10,000 (US dollars) — Kickstarter funds raised for Kelly Kend's documentary · for Kelly Kend's documentary · as of 2014 · source: Hank Green · unchecked
  • 2014-10-17 · MY FACE ON A BUS — Hank says the ads ran during The Walking Dead premiere, The Big Bang Theory and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon; the premiere had seventeen million viewers, and those who didn't TiVo past saw him. (00:01:18)
    • seventeen million (people) — viewers of The Walking Dead season premiere · for television viewers · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Ryder Burgin: Ryder says in Atlanta in 1996, University of Georgia students Mike Chapman and Craig Zobel, finding children's books bad, wrote a quasi-parody starring Homestar Runner, Strong Bad and The Cheat. (00:00:13)
    • 1996 (year) — year the original Homestar Runner book was written · in Atlanta, Georgia · as of 2014-12-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Hank says Mike and his brother Matt worked in graphic design while teaching themselves Flash, then launched homestarrunner.com in late 1999, Mike doing most design and Matt most voices. (00:00:31)
    • 1999 (year) — launch of homestarrunner.com · as of late 1999 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Ryder Burgin: Ryder says the early site's simple children's-book-style cartoons introduced regulars: Marzipan (voiced by Missy Palmer), Strong Mad, Strong Sad, Bubs, Coach Z, the King of Town and the Poopsmith. (00:00:48)
  • 2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Ryder Burgin: Ryder says that after a couple of years and a redesign the site took off with its first recurring series, Strong Bad Email. (00:01:07)
  • 2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Ryder Burgin: Ryder says Strong Bad emails massively boosted traffic, but with no analytics viewership is unknown; thousands of emails arrived daily and merch sales let the Chaps go full-time. (00:01:34)
    • Thousands (emails per day) — fan emails sent to Strong Bad's account · for Homestar Runner fans · as of 2014-12-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Hank says the Homestar universe grew with shows, games, DVDs, toys and a 20-track CD, and references appeared in Seventeen Magazine, Guitar Hero and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. (00:01:52)
    • 20-track — length of the Strong Bad Sings and Other Type Hits CD · as of 2014-12-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Ryder Burgin: Ryder says Telltale Games approached the Chaps about a point-and-click adventure game, and Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People was announced on April 10, 2008 for WiiWare and PC. (00:02:07)
    • April 10th, 2008 (date) — announcement of Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People · as of 2014-12-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Hank says by 2009 the Chaps had released over 200 sbemails, but from late 2009 Homestar went virtually silent, unexplained because, they said, they didn't know how to explain it. (00:02:17)
    • over two hundred (episodes) — Strong Bad emails released · as of 2009 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Ryder Burgin: Ryder says after ten years the two took a break; Matt moved to LA, writing and directing for Yo Gabba Gabba and Gravity Falls; it unexpectedly lasted four years. (00:02:37)
    • ten years — time the Chaps worked on Homestar Runner before the break · as of 2014-12-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • four years — length of the Homestar Runner break · as of 2014-12-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-06 · A Brief History of Homestar Runner — Hank says on April 1, 2014 the Chaps released their first full-length Homestar cartoon in four years and have confirmed plans to bring Homestar Runner back; Matt has moved home. (00:02:56)
    • April 1st, 2014 (date) — release of the first full-length Homestar cartoon after the hiatus · as of 2014-12-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • four years — time since the previous full-length Homestar cartoon · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked

Nerdfighteria (21)

  • 2014-01-28 · Question Tuesday! TFIOS Movie Trailer, Penguin Knees, and Backflips — Asked whether penguins have knees, John answers yes. (00:03:09)
  • 2014-03-25 · I Gotta Go: Signing Off and Thinking about Inspiration — John says Ian Shoales is a character created by Merle Kessler, who still does theatre and radio work in northern California and is still very funny. (00:02:12)
  • 2014-05-27 · ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) — Sarcoma is the cancer Augustus Waters has in The Fault in Our Stars, and lots of real people have it; John hates it. (00:00:45)
  • 2014-05-27 · ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) — Nerdfighteria uses ad proceeds from a FIFA video series to sponsor AFC Wimbledon, a fan-owned club that fights homophobia and racism; it finished 20th, avoiding relegation from English football's fourth tier. (00:01:18)
    • 20TH (league position) — final league position · for AFC Wimbledon · in England · as of 2013-14 season · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-05-27 · ALL THE SHIRTS (and some paths to community) — The Nerdfighter Kiva group is very close to $4 million in total loans to entrepreneurs in the developing world. (00:02:25)
    • 4 million dollars (US dollars) — total loans made by the Nerdfighter Kiva group · for Nerdfighter Kiva group · as of 2014-05 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-05-30 · Nerdfighteria Census 2014 Results! — Hank reports the 2014 Nerdfighteria Census got over 100,000 responses, although over half of last year's (2013) 140,000 respondents did not respond this year (2014). (00:00:15)
    • over 100,000 (responses) — responses to the Nerdfighteria Census · for Nerdfighteria Census respondents · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 140,000 (responses) — responses to the Nerdfighteria Census · for Nerdfighteria Census respondents · as of 2013 · no source named · unchecked
    • over half (share) — share of last year's census respondents who did not respond this year · for 2013 Nerdfighteria Census respondents · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-05-30 · Nerdfighteria Census 2014 Results! — Hank says 75% of census respondents have been watching since before 2013, so the drop is not because people weren't around last year (2013). (00:00:35)
    • 75% (percent) — share of census respondents watching since before 2013 · for 2014 Nerdfighteria Census respondents · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 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)
    • 14% (percent) — share of census respondents unaware of the Mental Floss channel · for 2014 Nerdfighteria Census respondents · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 30% (percent) — share of census respondents unaware of SciShow Space · for 2014 Nerdfighteria Census respondents · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 33% (percent) — share of census respondents unaware of Sexplanations · for 2014 Nerdfighteria Census respondents · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 50% (percent) — share of census respondents unaware of How to Adult · for 2014 Nerdfighteria Census respondents · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 64% (percent) — share of census respondents unaware of Animal Wonders · for 2014 Nerdfighteria Census respondents · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-05-30 · Nerdfighteria Census 2014 Results! — 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)
    • 40% (percent) — share of census respondents unaware of Subbable · for 2014 Nerdfighteria Census respondents · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-05-30 · Nerdfighteria Census 2014 Results! — Hank reports that slightly more respondents have read J. K. Rowling's books than John Green's, and something like 92% have read The Fault in Our Stars. — hedged: “something like” (00:02:46)
    • something like 92% (percent) — share of census respondents who have read The Fault in Our Stars · for 2014 Nerdfighteria Census respondents · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — John says Crash Course is used in thousands of schools. (00:01:12)
    • thousands (schools) — number of schools using Crash Course · as of 2014-07 · source: John Green · unchecked
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — John says the Project for Awesome raised more than $800,000 for charity last December. (00:01:30)
    • more than 800,000 dollars (US dollars) — money raised for charity by the Project for Awesome · for P4A 2013 · as of December 2013 · source: John Green · unchecked
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — John wears a Brazil jersey because Brazil fans, with matching, gave over $16,000 to sarcoma research to win his World Cup affection; the project has raised over $80,000 for the Sarcoma Foundation. (00:01:37)
    • more than 16,000 dollars (US dollars) — donations by Brazil fans to sarcoma research in John's World Cup fundraiser, with matching · for Brazil fans · as of 2014-07 · source: John Green · unchecked
    • more than 80,000 dollars (US dollars) — total raised by John's World Cup fundraiser for the Sarcoma Foundation · as of 2014-07 · source: John Green · unchecked
  • 2014-07-08 · The Future of Nerdfighteria — John says pre-roll ads are about 99% of YouTube's revenue, and that with them vlogbrothers could earn five or six times what it does now (he can't give actual numbers). — hedged: “like” (00:02:08)
    • 99% (percent) — share of YouTube revenue that comes from pre-roll ads · as of 2014-07 · source: John Green · unchecked
    • five or six times (multiple) — potential vlogbrothers ad revenue with pre-rolls relative to current revenue · as of 2014-07 · source: John Green · unchecked
  • 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — John says he did not name TFiOS's Isaac as a pun on 'eyes sick' but after the man in the Hebrew Bible who also went blind. (00:00:21)
  • 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — John says the fruit was named orange at least two hundred years before the colour was. (00:01:28)
    • at least two hundred years — time by which the name of the fruit orange preceded the name of the colour · as of 2014-09-16 (implied: upload date) · source: John Green · unchecked
  • 2014-09-16 · It's Question Tuesday! Cheesy Jokes, Paper Towns Movie, and Dinosaur Butt Brains — John's favourite dinosaur is Stegosaurus because, when he was a kid, paleontologists thought it had two brains, a head brain and a butt brain. (00:03:40)
    • two brains — number of brains paleontologists attributed to Stegosaurus · for Stegosaurus · as of John's childhood · source: paleontologists (as recalled by John) · unchecked
  • 2014-09-26 · Gettin' Real with Hank — Hank says Crash Course is now used as a tool in literally thousands of schools. (00:00:32)
    • thousands (schools) — number of schools using Crash Course as a teaching tool · for schools · as of 2014 · source: Hank Green · unchecked
  • 2014-09-26 · Gettin' Real with Hank — Hank says John got to hang out with Bill Gates, who would be the world's richest person had he not given so much money away, and discuss market forces in Ethiopian rural agriculture. (00:00:36)
  • 2014-09-30 · Keeping it EVEN REALER — John says the community just raised $300,000 for Water.org in Ethiopia, more than the first six Projects for Awesome raised combined. (00:02:02)
    • $300,000 (USD) — money raised by Nerdfighteria for Water.org in Ethiopia · for Nerdfighteria donors · in Ethiopia · as of 2014-09 · source: John Green · unchecked
    • more money than was raised by the first six Projects for Awesomes combined (comparison) — Water.org Ethiopia campaign total vs combined totals of the first six Projects for Awesome · for Nerdfighteria donors · as of 2014-09 · source: John Green · unchecked
  • 2014-09-30 · Keeping it EVEN REALER — John thanks Nerdfighteria for raising more than $300,000 for Water.org, which he says will permanently transform the lives of more than 10,000 people in Ethiopia. (00:03:44)
    • $300,000 (USD) — money raised by Nerdfighteria for Water.org in Ethiopia · for Nerdfighteria donors · in Ethiopia · as of 2014-09 · source: John Green · unchecked
    • 10,000 (people) — people whose lives the Water.org Ethiopia money will transform · for people in Ethiopia · in Ethiopia · as of 2014-09 · source: John Green · unchecked

Books & writing (16)

  • 2014-01-07 · Warm Things for Cold Times — John says Esther inspired much of The Fault in Our Stars, but the novel is not about her. (00:00:43)
  • 2014-02-18 · 18 Great Books You Probably Haven't Read — John says the real political prisoners behind the book lived for decades in complete darkness in six-by-three-foot rooms. (00:02:40)
    • 6' x 3' (feet) — cell size of the political prisoners · for the real political prisoners the novel fictionalizes · as of 2014-02-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • decades (years) — time the political prisoners spent in complete darkness · for the real political prisoners the novel fictionalizes · as of 2014-02-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-11 · Question Tuesday: TFIOS Movie, Existential Crises, and Symbolism — John says studies show a correlation between empathy and reading, at least for literary fiction. (00:00:36)
  • 2014-03-11 · Question Tuesday: TFIOS Movie, Existential Crises, and Symbolism — John thinks there are more stars in the universe than grains of sand on Earth, calling it a beautiful question that makes him grateful to apprehend the universe; more info in the description. — hedged: “I think” (00:01:19)
  • 2014-04-08 · I Don't Even Know — John reports a 2013 US Sentencing Commission study finding African Americans on average receive sentences 20% longer than white people for similar crimes. (00:00:55)
    • 20% (percent) — average sentence length of African Americans relative to white people who committed similar crimes · for African-American offenders · in United States · as of 2013 · source: United States Sentencing Commission · unchecked
  • 2014-04-08 · I Don't Even Know — John says the study found that this racial disparity in sentencing is increasing. (00:01:05)
  • 2014-04-08 · I Don't Even Know — John says socio-economic class is also a big factor in sentencing. (00:01:09)
  • 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)
  • 2014-04-08 · I Don't Even Know — John says the US problem is not sentencing so many people to prison but sentencing them for so long, driven largely by long sentences for drug offences. (00:01:24)
  • 2014-04-29 · Influence, Airports, and the Nerdfighter Book Club — John says global poverty usually refers to people living on the equivalent of less than $1.25 a day, which is the case for more than a billion people. (00:02:51)
    • $1.25 (US dollars per day) — international poverty line · for people in global poverty · in the world · as of 2014-04-29 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
    • more than a billion (people) — number of people living below $1.25 a day · in the world · as of 2014-04-29 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-04-29 · Influence, Airports, and the Nerdfighter Book Club — John says the people of Annawadi whom Katherine Boo writes about live above the global poverty line and participate in, some would say benefit from, global capitalism, with complicated results. (00:02:59)
  • 2014-06-06 · Thoughts from the TFiOS Premiere! — Hank explains that white asparagus, served at the most expensive restaurant he has been to, is asparagus that never saw light, so it is milder and not green. (00:00:04)
  • 2014-11-11 · Lacey and Angela Question Tuesday: Pizzamas Day 2 — John notes that Tuesday, November 11 is Armistice Day, Veterans Day in the US, and Kurt Vonnegut's birthday. (00:00:00)
    • November 11th (date) — date of Armistice Day, Veterans Day and Kurt Vonnegut's birthday · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-12-23 · Agloe, New York — John says the map, famous to cartography nerds and Paper Towns readers, shows Agloe, New York, north of Rockland: a town made up by its creators Ernest G Alpers and Otto Lindberg from their initials. (00:00:32)
  • 2014-12-23 · Agloe, New York — John says the mapmakers put their fake town at a dirt-road intersection in the Catskills to protect their copyright; mapmakers have always made such paper towns or streets to catch copiers. (00:00:46)
  • 2014-12-23 · Agloe, New York — John says about forty years later Rand McNally put Agloe on its map; threatened with a lawsuit, it said Agloe was real, because people looking for it had built a place called Agloe. — hedged: “like forty years” (00:01:00)
    • like forty years — time from the first General Drafting map showing Agloe to a Rand McNally map showing it · in Agloe, New York · as of 2014-12-23 (implied: upload date) · source: John · unchecked

Economics (12)

  • 2014-02-28 · The Cost of Fun — Hank says people pay upwards of $2,000 for a Super Bowl ticket for under four hours of entertainment, more than $500 per hour: about as bad as it gets. (00:00:27)
    • upwards of two thousand dollars (USD) — Super Bowl ticket price · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • less than four hours — duration of entertainment at the Super Bowl · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • more than five hundred dollars per hour (USD per hour) — cost per hour of entertainment, Super Bowl · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-02-28 · The Cost of Fun — Hank says VidCon runs two days from about 10 a.m. to 2 a.m.; at the current $150 ticket price that is $5 per hour of entertainment, which is pretty good. (00:00:38)
    • two days — VidCon duration · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 10 a.m. to 2 a.m. (time of day) — VidCon daily hours · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 150 dollar (USD) — VidCon ticket price · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • five dollars per hour (USD per hour) — cost per hour of entertainment, VidCon · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-02-28 · The Cost of Fun — Hank says a $10 two-hour movie is the same $5 per hour, as long as you skip the overpriced snacks, 3D, special theaters or pricier places. (00:00:54)
    • ten dollars (USD) — movie ticket price · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • two-hour — movie length · as of 2014-02-28 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-02-28 · The Cost of Fun — Hank says video games, among the most popular entertainments, usually debut at about $60 and take about 40 hours to beat: not bad at all. (00:01:07)
    • $60 (USD) — new video game price · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 40 hours — time to beat a video game · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-02-28 · The Cost of Fun — Hank, who loves comics as beautiful little pieces of art, calls them a bad investment: about 20 minutes to read for 3 dollars. (00:01:15)
    • 20 minutes — time to read a comic · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 3 bucks (USD) — comic book price · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-02-28 · The Cost of Fun — Hank says The Fault in Our Stars is currently on sale at Amazon for $7. (00:01:33)
    • seven dollars (USD) — sale price of The Fault in Our Stars · in Amazon · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-02-28 · The Cost of Fun — Hank says the average cable TV package costs $128 a month, but since the average American watches 34 hours of TV a week (which he can't believe), it is a really good deal. (00:02:20)
    • a hundred and twenty eight dollars per month (USD per month) — average cable television package cost · for US households · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 34 hours per week — average time spent watching television · for average American · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? — In the description John notes that, according to a study he links, female programmers in the US are in fact paid the same as male programmers, despite his programmer example. (video description)
  • 2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? — John says 42% of American men raised in the bottom 20% of incomes stay there, against 30% in the UK and 25% in Denmark. (00:01:10)
    • 42% (percent) — share of men raised in the bottom 20% of incomes who stay there · for men raised in the bottom income quintile · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 30% (percent) — share of men raised in the bottom 20% of incomes who stay there · for men raised in the bottom income quintile · in United Kingdom · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 25% (percent) — share of men raised in the bottom 20% of incomes who stay there · for men raised in the bottom income quintile · in Denmark · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 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)
  • 2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? — John says women in the United States make 77 cents for every dollar men make in the workforce. (00:01:42)
    • 77 cents (US cents per dollar earned by men) — women's earnings per dollar of men's earnings · for workers · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-18 · Is the American Dream Real? — John says Canada's pay gap is worse than the US's, while women make 83 cents per men's dollar in Australia, 84 in the UK, 85 in Sweden and 97.5 in Slovenia. (00:02:00)
    • 83 cents (cents per dollar earned by men) — women's earnings per dollar of men's earnings · for workers · in Australia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 84 (cents per dollar earned by men) — women's earnings per dollar of men's earnings · for workers · in United Kingdom · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 85 (cents per dollar earned by men) — women's earnings per dollar of men's earnings · for workers · in Sweden · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 97.5 cents (cents per dollar earned by men) — women's earnings per dollar of men's earnings · for workers · in Slovenia · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked

Everyday life (7)

  • 2014-04-11 · What Boys Look For in Girls — Hank lists beauty practices: Karo women in Ethiopia scar their bellies, Kayan women in Thailand wear brass neck rings, Mursi women wear lip plates, Japanese women unstraighten teeth, an Indonesian tribe files teeth. (00:00:34)
  • 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)
    • ten thousand (calories per day) — daily food intake of girls sent to fattening camps · for girls in Mauritania · in Mauritania · as of 2014-04-11 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-06-13 · How to Make Cinnamon Toast (two ways) — Hank explains that a light bulb with a hole goes out fast because oxygen gets in; the chamber needs a vacuum so the filament doesn't burn. (00:03:08)
  • 2014-11-18 · How to Never Feel Embarrassed Again — Hank: Leon Battista Alberti was a Renaissance mathematician, architect and artist who designed many of the building fronts in Florence. (00:00:34)
  • 2014-11-28 · Global Health and Human Hair: What the Vlogbrothers are Thankful For — John is thankful that childhood death around the world is decreasing at an astonishing pace. (00:00:40)
  • 2014-11-28 · Global Health and Human Hair: What the Vlogbrothers are Thankful For — John: we are maybe only 30 or 40 years from the vast majority of poor countries being middle-income countries. — hedged: “maybe” (00:00:43)
    • 30 or 40 (years) — time until the vast majority of poor countries are middle-income countries · for poor countries · in the world · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-11-28 · Global Health and Human Hair: What the Vlogbrothers are Thankful For — Hank is thankful that Earth's core is partly liquid: currents in conductive materials produce Earth's (electro)magnetic field, which lets us go outside in the daytime without dying. (00:02:15)

Personal life (7)

  • 2014-02-25 · John and Chris Meet in the Middle — John marvels that he is right in the middle of Indianapolis, a city of one million people, and yet it is just forest. (00:01:33)
    • one million (people) — population · for residents · in Indianapolis · as of 2014 · no source named · doubtful
  • 2014-03-07 · Thoughts from a Cruise — Hank says the ship was a 150,000-ton, 240-foot-tall, 1,111-foot-long, 183-foot-wide floating luxury hotel with a climbing wall, pools, hot tubs, a casino, a mall and ice rinks. (00:00:14)
    • 150,000-ton — cruise ship tonnage · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 240-foot tall (feet) — cruise ship height · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 1,111-foot long (feet) — cruise ship length · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 183-foot wide (feet) — cruise ship width · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-07 · Thoughts from a Cruise — Hank says the ship burns 8,000 gallons of fuel per hour, powering not just the engines but seawater distillation, over a dozen elevators, the ice and the hot tubs. (00:00:39)
    • 8,000 gallons of fuel per hour (gallons per hour) — cruise ship fuel consumption · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • over a dozen elevators — number of elevators on the cruise ship · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-07 · Thoughts from a Cruise — Hank describes the cruise ship as a boat that consumes a gallon of gas every twelve feet. (00:02:52)
    • a gallon of gas every twelve feet (gallons per distance) — cruise ship fuel consumption per distance · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-21 · The Great Goose Migration — Hank says every year hundreds of thousands of snow geese, swans and other waterfowl stop at Freezeout Lake as it thaws, to fatten up on harvested barley fields. (00:00:55)
    • hundreds of thousands (birds) — snow geese, swans and other waterfowl stopping at Freezeout Lake each spring · for snow geese, swans and other waterfowl · in Freezeout Lake, Montana · as of every year · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-03-21 · The Great Goose Migration — Hank says daylight saving time was created for farmers. (00:02:13)
    • for farmers — intended beneficiaries of daylight saving time · as of 2014-03-21 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · doubtful
  • 2014-06-17 · Old. — John says AFC Wimbledon is owned by its fans and was the first football club in England to come out against homophobia. (00:00:42)

Philosophy & meaning (7)

  • 2014-05-16 · The Myth of Greatness — Hank says Missoula, Montana, often called a small town, has 70,000 people when the students are there, and the population drops significantly when they leave for the summer. (00:00:01)
    • 70,000 (people) — population · for residents including university students · in Missoula, Montana · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-05-16 · The Myth of Greatness — For perspective, Hank says Missoula packs its 70,000 people into 2,600 square miles, while Manhattan has 22 times more people in 78 times less area. (00:00:19)
    • 2600 (square miles) — land area · in Missoula, Montana · as of 2014 · no source named · doubtful
    • 22 times more (ratio) — population of Manhattan relative to Missoula · in Manhattan; Missoula, Montana · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • 78 times less (ratio) — area of Manhattan relative to Missoula · in Manhattan; Missoula, Montana · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-05-16 · The Myth of Greatness — Hank says Manhattan's 1.3 million people are among the richest, most powerful and most influential on the planet, with economic and cultural creation on the scale of Renaissance Italy. (00:00:32)
    • 1.3 million (people) — population · for residents · in Manhattan · as of 2014 · no source named · doubtful
  • 2014-05-16 · The Myth of Greatness — Hank says Renaissance Florence held some of the most powerful economic and cultural forces the world has known: the Medici bankers, Botticelli, Machiavelli, Michelangelo, da Vinci and Brunelleschi. (00:00:44)
  • 2014-05-16 · The Myth of Greatness — Florence's population then, Hank stresses, was not millions or hundreds of thousands but 70,000, the same as Missoula. (00:01:03)
    • 70,000 (people) — population · for residents · in Florence, Italy · as of 1500 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-05-20 · Deserving — Big History teaches, John says, that 99.9% of the matter in the solar system was sucked up by the Sun as it formed; everything else is the 0.1%. (00:02:20)
    • 99.9% (percent) — share of the solar system's matter taken up by the Sun as it formed · in Solar System · as of 2014-05-20 (implied: date said in the video) · source: Big History (Crash Course) · unchecked
    • .1% (percent) — share of the solar system's matter outside the Sun · in Solar System · as of 2014-05-20 (implied: date said in the video) · source: Big History (Crash Course) · unchecked
  • 2014-09-02 · MORTIFICATION — John corrects himself: he meant hectare, which is 100 ares, an are being a unit of 100 square meters. (00:00:20)
    • one hundred ares — area of one hectare · as of 2014-09-02 (implied: upload date) · no source named · verified
    • one hundred square meters — area of one are · as of 2014-09-02 (implied: upload date) · no source named · verified

Projects (7)

  • 2014-01-31 · In Depth Viewing of the TFiOS Trailer — Hank says every $10 donated to Worldbuilders enters a draw for one of hundreds of signed books, and at milestones, like $350,000 in his case, people do weird things. (00:02:07)
    • $10 (US dollars) — donation per prize-draw entry · for Worldbuilders donors · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • hundreds (signed books) — prizes in the Worldbuilders draw · for Worldbuilders campaign · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • dozens (authors) — authors signing the prize books · for Worldbuilders campaign · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
    • $350,000 (US dollars) — fundraising milestone tied to Hank's stunt · for Worldbuilders campaign · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 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)
    • 40 (crime scenes) — crime scenes where the same woman's DNA was found · for Phantom of Heilbronn case · in Europe · as of 1993-2009 · no source named · unchecked
    • three (countries) — countries with crime scenes carrying the DNA · for Phantom of Heilbronn case · in Europe · as of 1993-2009 · no source named · unchecked
    • Between 1993 and 2009 (years) — period over which the DNA was found · for Phantom of Heilbronn case · in Europe · as of 2014-11-10 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-11-10 · The Woman Without a Face - Pizzamas Day 1 — Hank says by 2008 police were hunting her as a rare female serial killer, knew her clothes and drugs, and found her DNA in the car of a man accused of three murders who denied knowing her. (00:02:08)
    • 2008 (year) — year police stepped up the hunt · for Phantom of Heilbronn case · in Europe · as of 2008 · no source named · unchecked
    • three (people) — people the man whose car held the DNA was accused of murdering · for Phantom of Heilbronn case · in Europe · as of 2014-11-10 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-11-10 · The Woman Without a Face - Pizzamas Day 1 — Hank says she became known as the Woman Without a Face, a female Keyser Söze. (00:02:31)
  • 2014-11-10 · The Woman Without a Face - Pizzamas Day 1 — Hank says in 2009 the DNA was traced to a woman who worked at a cotton-swab factory: it was already on the Q-tips used for the tests, not at the crime scenes. (00:02:35)
    • 2009 (year) — year the DNA was traced to a cotton-swab factory worker · for Phantom of Heilbronn case · in Europe · as of 2009 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-11-20 · Announcing VidCon 2015! — Hank: they started VidCon in 2010 because online video was amazing and deserved a real-world time and place for a weekend; heading into its sixth year, it has become quite big. (00:01:38)
    • 2010 (year) — founding year of VidCon · as of 2014-11-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • sixth (year (ordinal)) — edition count of VidCon · as of 2015 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-11-20 · Announcing VidCon 2015! — Hank: last year (2013) VidCon had 20,000 people; 2015 will be the first year it doesn't grow, with tickets cut off at about the same size. (00:01:54)
    • 20,000 (people) — VidCon attendance · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked

Pop culture (4)

  • 2014-02-11 · A Middle Aged Man — John says that, despite his ignorance of Bieber, he knows Bieber was recently arrested for DUI driving a rented Lamborghini, and that it was yellow. (00:02:01)
  • 2014-07-04 · 13 Things to Know about Concerts — Tip 8: shows have no fixed schedule; generally doors open about an hour before the show and the main act plays two-plus hours after doors; expect to leave at least three hours after doors. — hedged: “Generally” (00:01:55)
    • about an hour — time from doors opening to the show starting · for concerts · as of 2014 · source: Hank Green, from touring · unchecked
    • at least two hours — time from doors opening to the main act going on · for concerts · as of 2014 · source: Hank Green, from touring · unchecked
    • thirty minutes — gap some venues leave between acts · for concert venues (some) · as of 2014 · source: Hank Green, from touring · unchecked
    • at least three hours — time from doors opening to going home · for concertgoers · as of 2014 · source: Hank Green, from touring · unchecked
    • more than four (hours) — time from doors opening to going home (upper case) · for concertgoers · as of 2014 · source: Hank Green, from touring · unchecked
  • 2014-07-04 · 13 Things to Know about Concerts — Hank says mosh pits are surprisingly safe and stage diving surprisingly dangerous; leave the mosh pit area if you don't want in, and secure shoes, glasses and loose items if you do. (00:02:38)
  • 2014-10-07 · I Kind of Hate Batman — John adds that Bruce Wayne's funding of hospitals, schools and the police appears only in some comics, not in the Batman movies. (video description)

Sports (4)

  • 2014-02-14 · Happy Third Chocolate Day! — Hank says Valentine's Day ranks third for chocolate consumption in the United States, after Halloween and Easter. (00:00:09)
    • third (rank) — holiday rank for chocolate consumption (Valentine's Day) · for US holidays · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-02-14 · Happy Third Chocolate Day! — Hank says more than fifty million tons of chocolate are consumed on Valentine's Day. (00:00:14)
    • more than fifty million (tons) — chocolate consumed on Valentine's Day · in United States · as of 2014 · no source named · doubtful
  • 2014-02-14 · Happy Third Chocolate Day! — Hank reports the event ended in a tie for first between Tina Maze and a Swiss skier who had needed nine knee surgeries after a terrible crash. (00:01:55)
    • nine (surgeries) — knee surgeries of the Swiss skier · for the Swiss skier who tied for first · in Switzerland · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2014-02-14 · Happy Third Chocolate Day! — Hank says a timed event cannot truly tie: the timing has more significant figures than are shown, so someone knows who won, but they sign a contract not to tell. (00:02:07)

Health (3)

  • 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — John relays the CDC pages: malaria mosquitoes bite mostly at night, yellow fever mosquitoes mainly by day, West Nile mosquitoes at dawn and dusk. (00:01:19)
  • 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — John says East Africa has dramatically improved health care and reduced infant mortality over the last twenty years; he is going to see this and how much work remains and where to help. (00:02:21)
    • the last twenty years — period over which infant mortality fell and health care improved · in East Africa · as of 2014-07 · source: John Green · unchecked
  • 2014-07-15 · Exciting Announcements and Mosquito-Borne Illnesses — John says Behind the Beautiful Forevers won the Pulitzer Prize. (00:02:45)
    • the Pulitzer Prize (award) — award won by Behind the Beautiful Forevers · as of 2014-07 · source: John Green · doubtful