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Facts taught in 2018

379 sincere fact claims from 2018; 192 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.

Topics: History & curiosities (76) · Global development (47) · US politics & society (43) · Science & nature (37) · Pop culture (32) · Sports (32) · Internet & YouTube (24) · World affairs (23) · Everyday life (13) · Nerdfighteria (12) · Books & writing (11) · Health (10) · Economics (7) · Projects (7) · Philosophy & meaning (5)

History & curiosities (76)

  • 2018-02-06 · Sawdust Bread — John says in the 1789 Women's March on Versailles, French women, protesting or rioting depending on perspective, besieged the king's palace and forced the royal family back to Paris. (00:00:03)
    • 1789 (year) — date of the Women's March on Versailles · in France · as of 2018-02-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-06 · Sawdust Bread — John says the march, a big moment of the French Revolution, was caused partly by bread: mostly its price, which rose sharply from failed harvests and bad monetary policy, but also its quality. (00:00:17)
  • 2018-02-06 · Sawdust Bread — John says French peasant bread of 1789 often contained chaff, and dough was commonly bulked up with sawdust, hay or even animal dung. (00:00:29)
    • 1789 (year) — contents of French peasant bread · for French peasants · in France · as of 2018-02-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-06 · Sawdust Bread — John says bread was not just a staple but most people's whole diet: the average French adult ate two to three pounds of it every day. (00:00:44)
    • two to three pounds — bread eaten per day · for average French adult · in France · as of 1789 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-06 · Sawdust Bread — John says Halley's Comet is visible from Earth about every 75 years, a good human lifetime: last in 1986, when he was eight, and before that in 1910. (00:01:30)
    • 75-ish years — orbital period of Halley's Comet · as of 2018-02-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1986 (year) — last appearance of Halley's Comet · as of 2018-02-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1910 (year) — previous appearance of Halley's Comet · as of 2018-02-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-06 · Sawdust Bread — John says at the comet appearance before 1910, Louis XVI's cousin Philippe I was king of France, after the so-called Second French Revolution, caused partly by failed harvests and rising bread prices. (00:01:41)
    • Second (ordinal) — French revolution count · in France · as of 2018-02-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-09 · This is Going to Seem Dumb, but Stick with Me — Missoula tripled in population between 1900 and 1910, which is why a lot of its sidewalks were laid down in the 1910s and 1920s. (video description)
    • tripled (ratio) — population growth between 1900 and 1910 · for population · in Missoula · as of 2018-02-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • the 1910s and 1920s (decade) — when many sidewalks were laid · for sidewalks · in Missoula · as of 2018-02-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-09 · This is Going to Seem Dumb, but Stick with Me — Hank says Missoula people protect the maker's stamps: whole sidewalks get replaced but the stamped square is left, and sometimes the stamp is cut out and sunk in the ground beside the new sidewalk. (video description)
  • 2018-02-09 · This is Going to Seem Dumb, but Stick with Me — Hank says Florida sidewalks where they grew up were boring, consistent and laid all at once, while Missoula's range from a hundred years old to new, a weird patchwork, many falling apart. (00:00:43)
    • a hundred years ago — age of the oldest sidewalks · for sidewalks · in Missoula · as of 2018-02-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-09 · This is Going to Seem Dumb, but Stick with Me — Hank says sidewalk maker's marks tell who laid a sidewalk and when; they are part advertisement, part record keeping for the city, and part warranty. (00:00:58)
  • 2018-02-09 · This is Going to Seem Dumb, but Stick with Me — Hank says maker's marks largely disappear after the 1950s, leaving people illicitly carving the year into sidewalks, which he appreciates though it is technically illegal. (00:01:12)
    • the 50s (decade) — when sidewalk maker's marks stop · for sidewalks · in Missoula · as of 2018-02-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-09 · This is Going to Seem Dumb, but Stick with Me — Hank says sidewalks from different eras look different because of weathering and materials. (00:01:27)
  • 2018-02-09 · This is Going to Seem Dumb, but Stick with Me — Hank's research found Frank Miracle and Henry Tripp laid that sidewalk in 1909, with a five-year guarantee to replace it if anything went wrong. (00:02:12)
    • 1909 (year) — year the sidewalk was laid · for sidewalk · in Missoula · as of 2018-02-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • five years — length of the sidewalk guarantee · for sidewalk · in Missoula · as of 2018-02-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank says Van Buren was the first president who was neither British nor of British ancestry, a big deal at the time. (video description)
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank says OK's creation partly depended on society becoming more text-based and literate, helped by telegrams and by newspapers. (video description)
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank says OK is possibly the most spoken word on the planet, not only because Americans say it a lot but because people say it everywhere. — hedged: “possibly” (00:00:13)
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank says many languages, from Mandarin to Hebrew, Flemish, Russian, 'Indian' and Portuguese, have adopted OK as a common affirmative word. (00:00:29)
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank says Wikipedia's only page listing potential etymologies for a word is about OK and is very long, with candidates like Scottish 'och aye' and Greek 'ola kala'. (00:01:05)
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank says etymologists and historians have settled on three prime theories of OK's origin. (00:01:19)
    • three — prime theories of the origin of OK settled on by etymologists and historians · as of 2018-03-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank gives the first theory, a West African origin brought to the US by slaves: a verified 1784 use of 'K' transcribes something a slave said in North Carolina. (00:01:22)
    • 1784 — year of a verified use of 'K' transcribing a slave's speech · in North Carolina · as of 2018-03-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank says that 'K' may come from a common West African phrase, 'o ke' or 'waw-kay' depending on the language, that is an affirmative or backchannel. — hedged: “may” (00:01:36)
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank explains that a backchannel is a noise or word linguists name for signalling you understood, and OK is still used as one. (00:01:45)
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank gives the second theory, the Choctaw word 'okeh', hard to translate but probably meaning 'it is so', and apparently also sometimes a backchannel. — hedged: “probably” (00:02:01)
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank says what is known is that OK entered the popular American lexicon in the late 1830s through a newspaper fad of comic misspellings turned into acronyms. (00:02:17)
    • late 1830s — when a newspaper fad of comic misspelling acronyms brought OK into the popular lexicon · in United States · as of 2018-03-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank says a similar acronym was 'OW' for 'oll wright', and later 'oll korrect' gave 'OK'. (00:02:38)
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank says OK would have been forgotten like the other acronyms if the Democratic Party had not applied it to Martin Van Buren. (00:02:47)
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank says Van Buren was from Kinderhook, New York, and was called Old Kinderhook; his name, Hank guesses, sounded too Dutch. (00:03:05)
  • 2018-03-16 · The Most Popular Word in the World — Hank says OK probably would not have stuck had people not sought to save characters on telegrams, paid by the letter. — hedged: “probably” (00:03:09)
  • 2018-03-20 · The Russian Reversal — John says the Russian reversal was a popular joke construction in his childhood; he first heard one in a 1985 Miller Lite commercial with comedian Yakov Smirnoff. (00:00:01)
    • 1985 — year of the Miller Lite commercial with Yakov Smirnoff's Russian reversal · as of 2018-03-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-20 · The Russian Reversal — John says the joke is much older: it was used in a 1938 Cole Porter musical and in a 1960s Laugh-In episode ('television watches you'). (00:00:16)
    • 1938 — year of a Cole Porter musical using the Russian reversal · as of 2018-03-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1960s — decade of a Laugh-In episode using the Russian reversal · as of 2018-03-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-20 · The Russian Reversal — John cites a joke refuting both ideologies by Moldovan-American educator Emil Robbie: under capitalism man exploits man, under communism the other way around. (00:01:01)
  • 2018-03-20 · The Russian Reversal — John relays Pollan's point that humans changed habitats, diets and travel patterns to make corn plentiful, so corn kind of becomes the farmer and we the crop. — hedged: “kind of” (00:01:31)
  • 2018-03-20 · The Russian Reversal — John says once you look, these jokes are everywhere, starting with Shakespeare: in Richard II the king says he wasted time and now time wastes him. (00:01:50)
  • 2018-03-20 · The Russian Reversal — John cites a Winnie the Pooh story where Piglet says he is so small the kite flies him. (00:01:59)
  • 2018-06-22 · Stumping EDU Creators - Trivia at VidCon — a guest: After many wrong guesses, a creator correctly answers that USB stands for Universal Serial Bus. (00:00:46)
  • 2018-06-22 · Stumping EDU Creators - Trivia at VidCon — a guest: The black bear can thrive, whereas every other bear species has declined. (00:01:03)
  • 2018-06-22 · Stumping EDU Creators - Trivia at VidCon — a guest: The answer to a geography question (not stated on air) is something located in both Nepal and China. (00:01:31)
  • 2018-06-22 · Stumping EDU Creators - Trivia at VidCon — Sean: Sean answers that Le Pétomane was a Frenchman who could fart and was an entertainer. (00:02:57)
  • 2018-06-29 · Why is the Disney "D" So Weird? — In a tidbit cut from the video, Hank writes that in 1922, when Ubbe Iwerks (co-creator of Mickey Mouse) first met Walt Disney, the 19-year-old Walt was literally practicing variations on his signature, and the piece he seemingly couldn't settle on was the D. (video description)
    • 1922 (year) — year Ubbe Iwerks first met Walt Disney · for Walt Disney · as of 2018-06-29 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 19 (years) — Walt Disney's age when Ubbe Iwerks met him · for Walt Disney · as of 2018-06-29 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-06-29 · Why is the Disney "D" So Weird? — The obvious guess is Walt's signature, but Walt Disney had many signatures; some resemble the logo, none has a D like the loopy D. (00:00:31)
  • 2018-06-29 · Why is the Disney "D" So Weird? — For almost 50 years Walt Disney Pictures had no logo: every movie treated its title card differently. (00:00:57)
    • almost 50 (years) — period during which Walt Disney Pictures had no logo · for Walt Disney Pictures films · as of 2018-06-29 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-06-29 · Why is the Disney "D" So Weird? — A Disney signature recurred with slight variations, first as a signature under a thank-you to the staff in 1937's Snow White, last as a title card in The Rescuers (1977), never identical twice. (00:01:04)
    • 1937 (year) — year the Disney signature first appeared, thanking the staff · for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs · as of 2018-06-29 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1977 (year) — year the Disney signature was last used as a title card · for The Rescuers · as of 2018-06-29 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-06-29 · Why is the Disney "D" So Weird? — After The Rescuers, The Fox and the Hound used a nondescript serif font, a palate cleanser before 1985's The Black Cauldron launched the now-familiar loopy D. (00:01:47)
    • 1985 (year) — release year of The Black Cauldron, first film with the loopy D · for The Black Cauldron · as of 2018-06-29 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-06-29 · Why is the Disney "D" So Weird? — The Black Cauldron came one year into Michael Eisner's tenure as CEO, the first person to run Disney who was not a Disney family member. (00:01:58)
    • one year — time between Michael Eisner becoming Disney CEO and The Black Cauldron · for The Walt Disney Company · as of 2018-06-29 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-06-29 · Why is the Disney "D" So Weird? — Earlier designs come close: a 1950s Peter Pan board game matches the logo almost perfectly except for the D, and a real Walt signature has its W, looping T and circled I. (00:02:09)
    • 1950s — date of a Peter Pan board game with a near-identical Disney logotype · for Peter Pan board game · as of 2018-06-29 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-06-29 · Why is the Disney "D" So Weird? — The closest precursor of the loopy D Hank found is the final end card of The Aristocats (1970), the first Walt Disney Pictures film Walt himself did not work on. (00:02:31)
    • 1970 (year) — release year of The Aristocats · for The Aristocats · as of 2018-06-29 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-06-29 · Why is the Disney "D" So Weird? — The logotype with the loopy D appeared on the box art of Disney's new home video division; with the Cinderella castle and shooting star it soon became Walt Disney Pictures' first actual logo. (00:02:44)
  • 2018-06-29 · Why is the Disney "D" So Weird? — Under Eisner the logotype became the logo of the whole studio, then of Disney Channel, Disney World and the Disney Company as a whole. (00:03:18)
  • 2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — John says the last time the global human population decreased year over year was 1648. (00:00:27)
    • 1648 — last year of year-over-year decline in global human population · for humans · in the world · as of 2018-07-10 (implied: upload date) · source: Hannah Ritchie · unchecked
  • 2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — The global human population decreased every year between 1608 and 1648, part of a period sometimes called the General Crisis. (00:00:39)
    • between 1608 and 1648 — years of continuous annual decline in global human population · for humans · in the world · as of 2018-07-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — From Africa to Asia to Europe to the Americas there was a lot of crisis, oddly, since the human species overall was getting much wealthier and better connected. (00:00:54)
  • 2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — There was much more silver because European empires, especially the Spanish Empire, were extracting it from colonies in the Americas. (00:01:05)
  • 2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — A broader range of food was available: rice and wheat had just come to the Americas, and pineapples, cassava and potatoes to Afro-Eurasia. (00:01:12)
  • 2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — The Columbian Exchange also brought devastation: perhaps over 90% of Native Americans were killed in the centuries after Europeans arrived, mostly by new diseases like smallpox and diphtheria, a decline lasting through the General Crisis. — hedged: “perhaps” (00:01:27)
    • more than 90% — share of Native Americans killed in the centuries after European arrival · for Native Americans · in Americas · as of 2018-07-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — The Atlantic slave trade grew throughout the General Crisis: around 15% of Africans died in slave ships on the journey to the Americas, and survivors' life expectancies were severely diminished. (00:01:43)
    • Around 15 percent (%) — share of enslaved Africans who died on slave ships crossing to the Americas · for enslaved Africans · in Atlantic · as of 2018-07-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — Despite the wealth, European populations declined, largely due to the Thirty Years' War, which through combat and famine killed around 20% of people in today's Germany and up to a third in Poland and Lithuania. (00:02:14)
    • around 20% — share of people killed by the Thirty Years' War · for people · in Germany (present-day) · as of 2018-07-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • as many as a third — share of people killed by the Thirty Years' War · for people · in Poland and Lithuania (present-day) · as of 2018-07-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — Spain, phenomenally wealthy from silver, defaulted on its debts repeatedly during the General Crisis because it didn't understand the inflation all that silver caused. (00:02:32)
  • 2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — The single biggest contributor to 17th-century population decline was the Ming Dynasty's collapse: between 1600 and 1644, when the Qing began, China's population fell by 50 million. (00:02:43)
    • 50 million — decrease in population · for people · in China · as of 1600-1644 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — Silver also played a part: the Ming required taxes in silver, so people worked more hours making goods to sell, lowering agricultural yields; like Spain, the Ming failed to understand inflation, leading to famine. (00:02:57)
  • 2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — Earth also experienced significant climate change, sometimes called the Little Ice Age: global temperatures dropped on average around one degree Celsius, contributing to famines. (00:03:16)
    • around one degree Celsius (°C) — drop in average global temperature · in the world · as of 2018-07-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-10 · The General Crisis — Since the General Crisis humanity has had its longest ever run of population growth, increased life expectancy and decreased poverty. (00:03:32)
  • 2018-07-24 · Other John Greens — The first, a Bigfoot expert called one of the Four Horsemen of Sasquatchery, was a small-town newspaper publisher until 45, then became a full-time Bigfoot researcher and wrote books arguing large human-like apes roam North America. (00:00:29)
    • 45 (years) — age at which he left newspaper publishing to research Bigfoot full-time · for John Green the Bigfoot researcher · as of 2018-07-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-24 · Other John Greens — Professor John Green, who has a great beard, recently became interim president of the University of Akron; he is a political scientist researching religion and politics in American life. (00:00:58)
  • 2018-07-24 · Other John Greens — John Green the artist, maybe John's favourite, co-created the graphic novel series Teen Boat, about a teenager who occasionally turns into a yacht, and does art for comics and video games. — hedged: “maybe” (00:01:10)
  • 2018-07-24 · Other John Greens — A sticker and coloring book author John Green, whose sticker books John's college bookstore sold, seems to be into horses, with titles such as Horses Tattoo and Favorite Horses Stickers. — hedged: “I think” (00:01:44)
  • 2018-07-24 · Other John Greens — A British designer John Green makes excellent furniture, such as the Embrace coffee table, which works two ways. (00:02:05)
  • 2018-07-24 · Other John Greens — The cinematographer John Green, who goes by Jack, has often been director of photography on films directed by Clint Eastwood. (00:02:16)
  • 2018-07-24 · Other John Greens — The cinematographer was nominated for an Oscar for Unforgiven but has not won one. (00:02:24)
  • 2018-07-24 · Other John Greens — John Greens as a whole have won Oscars: the composer won four Academy Awards and a Grammy, and a TV producer won three Emmys, leaving them one Tony short of a John Green EGOT. (00:02:49)
    • four (awards) — Academy Awards won · for John Green the composer · as of 2018-07-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • one (awards) — Grammy Awards won · for John Green the composer · as of 2018-07-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • three (awards) — Emmy Awards won · for John Green the TV producer · as of 2018-07-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Hank says Dahala Khagrabari was the only third-order enclave: a piece of India within a piece of Bangladesh within a piece of India within a piece of Bangladesh. (00:00:53)
  • 2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Hank says that when the border between India and Bangladesh was made, there were many places with Indian people living inside. (00:00:53)
  • 2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Hank says the enclave was 7,000 square meters, a little less than two acres. (00:01:22)
    • 7,000 (square meters) — area of Dahala Khagrabari · in India-Bangladesh border · as of 2018-09-03 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
    • a little less than two acres — area of Dahala Khagrabari · in India-Bangladesh border · as of 2018-09-03 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Hank says the enclaves made it hard to provide services to residents, so the countries swapped them until there were none, in 2015. — hedged: “basically” (00:01:22)
    • 2015 (year) — year the enclaves were swapped until none remained · in India and Bangladesh · as of 2018-09-03 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Tessa Violet: Tessa says the climbing leeches knocked into a tube, knocking out a whale bone that rang a bell, and the device was pretty accurate. (00:01:51)
  • 2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Tessa Violet: Tessa says that in 1842 the inventor Dr. Meriwether built the tempest prognosticator to tell whether a storm was coming, using 12 leeches. (00:01:51)
    • 12 (leeches) — number of leeches used in the tempest prognosticator · as of 2018-09-03 (implied: date said in the video) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-09-07 · Frightened Leech Science with Tessa Violet — Tessa Violet: Tessa says leeches crawl upward and out of the water when they sense a storm coming. — hedged: “I guess” (00:01:51)

Global development (47)

  • 2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — John recalls that the 2014 Ebola outbreak killed over 10,000 people and was called a global health crisis, a pandemic and an emergency. (00:00:09)
    • over 10,000 (people) — deaths in the Ebola outbreak · for people · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — After the outbreak the world made big health investments in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia; as the New Yorker article says, once Ebola seemed stabilized the money evaporated. (00:00:32)
  • 2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — When the outbreak began, Sierra Leone, a nation of over 7 million people, had fewer than 200 doctors. (00:00:52)
    • over 7 million (people) — population · for people · in Sierra Leone · as of 2018-01-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • fewer than 200 (doctors) — number of doctors · for doctors · in Sierra Leone · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — Over 5% of Sierra Leone's doctors died of Ebola in 2014. (00:00:58)
    • over 5% (percent) — share of doctors who died of Ebola · for doctors · in Sierra Leone · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — For context, John's home state of Indiana, with a slightly smaller population than Sierra Leone, has over 16,000 practicing physicians. (00:01:01)
    • over 16,000 (physicians) — number of practicing physicians · for practicing physicians · in Indiana · as of 2018-01-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — Short-term aid did not fix that problem: Sierra Leone still has far too few health workers, who are paid far too little. (00:01:09)
  • 2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — Facilities are hugely inadequate: more than half of Sierra Leone's public hospitals lack running water, and drugs and supplies are often out of stock. (00:01:15)
    • More than half (percent) — share of public hospitals lacking running water · for public hospitals · in Sierra Leone · as of 2018-01-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — With catastrophic consequences: 9% of kids born in Sierra Leone die before they are five. (00:01:22)
    • Nine percent — under-five mortality · for children born · in Sierra Leone · as of 2018-01-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — That view ignores complexity and history: slavery and colonialism, and more recently misguided global loan rules that forced Sierra Leone for decades to spend under $5 per person yearly on health care. — hedged: “I just think” (00:01:39)
    • less than $5 (USD) — health-care spending per person per year · for people · in Sierra Leone · as of 2018-01-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — In Sierra Leone in 2014 twice as many people died of tuberculosis as of Ebola, and almost all those TB deaths were preventable. (00:02:22)
    • twice as many — tuberculosis deaths relative to Ebola deaths · for people · in Sierra Leone · as of 2014 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-01-23 · On Emergencies — Change is visible: life expectancy in Sierra Leone is low but rising, and its woefully underfunded health system is better than decades ago. (00:02:44)
  • 2018-02-13 · What Can't a Billion Dollars Buy? — John says over a hundred trillion microorganisms live in or on his body, a fact he processes poorly. (00:00:18)
    • one hundred trillion (microorganisms) — microorganisms living in or on a human body · for John's body · as of 2018-02-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-13 · What Can't a Billion Dollars Buy? — John says the US spends, by the broadest definition, around $50 billion a year on foreign aid, a lot of money but just over 1% of the federal budget. (00:00:33)
    • $50 billion (USD) — annual US foreign aid spending (broadest definition) · in United States · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
    • 1% (percent) — foreign aid share of the US federal budget · in United States · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-13 · What Can't a Billion Dollars Buy? — John says the Gates Foundation donated $4.6 billion in 2016, which split among all Americans would give each about 13 dollars. (00:00:42)
    • $4.6 billion (USD) — annual donations of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation · as of 2016 · no source named · unchecked
    • 13 bucks (USD) — Gates Foundation annual donations per American · for Americans · in United States · as of 2016 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-13 · What Can't a Billion Dollars Buy? — John defines the Green Revolution as a huge rise in crop yields from better irrigation, fertilizers and seeds; by the late 1960s it raised available calories per person by 25%. (00:02:14)
    • 25% (percent) — increase in available calories per person due to the Green Revolution · for world population · in the world · as of late 1960s · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-13 · What Can't a Billion Dollars Buy? — John says this is why the Gates Foundation invests in better toilets and new vaccines, but also in primary health care systems. (00:03:04)
  • 2018-02-13 · What Can't a Billion Dollars Buy? — John says the US AIDS treatment programme begun under George W. Bush cost a few billion dollars a year and, despite flaws like abstinence-only focus, a 2009 study found it saved 1.2 million lives. (00:03:16)
    • a few billion dollars (USD) — annual US spending on AIDS treatment access in the developing world · for developing world · as of 2018-02-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1.2 million (lives) — lives saved by the US AIDS treatment programme · for developing world · as of 2009 · source: a 2009 study · unchecked
  • 2018-02-13 · What Can't a Billion Dollars Buy? — John says the average human born today will live to see 26,097 days, a big number that is also very small, and urges: let's make them count. (00:03:47)
    • 26,097 (days) — life expectancy at birth in days · for humans born today · in the world · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — John says life expectancy has risen by over ten years in most nations in the last 35 years, a consistent worldwide increase never seen before and worth celebrating. (video description)
    • over ten years — rise in life expectancy over the last 35 years · for most nations · as of 2018-05-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — John says terrible crimes happen every day in the US, but the US homicide rate is lower than it was 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago. (00:00:13)
    • 10 (years ago) — US homicide rate now lower than then · in United States · as of 2018-05-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 20 (years ago) — US homicide rate now lower than then · in United States · as of 2018-05-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 30 (years ago) — US homicide rate now lower than then · in United States · as of 2018-05-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 40 (years ago) — US homicide rate now lower than then · in United States · as of 2018-05-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 50 (years ago) — US homicide rate now lower than then · in United States · as of 2018-05-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — A map dividing humanity into tenths shows that Canada, the US, Mexico, most of the Caribbean, Chile, Peru and more make up only one tenth of the world's population. (00:00:29)
    • one tenth (fraction) — share of the world's population · for people of Canada, the US, Mexico, most of the Caribbean, Chile, Peru and more · as of 2018-05-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — Our World in Data maps of average years of schooling over six decades show that, despite huge gaps between rich and poor, kids all around the world are getting more educational opportunities. (00:00:58)
  • 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — Maps of global CO2 emissions show almost all emissions in 1950 came from the wealthiest countries; by 2016 a few countries are starting to get lighter, but only a few. (00:01:30)
    • almost all — share of global CO2 emissions coming from the world's wealthiest countries · in the world · as of 1950 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — A map of average temperature change between 1965 and 2014 shows red where Earth got warmer, white where unchanged and blue where colder, and there is no blue. (00:01:45)
    • between 1965 and 2014 (period) — period over which average temperature change is mapped · in the world · as of 2018-05-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — A map of when borders were created shows how recent many are: we think of nation-states as intractable and borders as fixed, but most national borders are less than 120 years old. (00:02:04)
    • less than 120 (years) — age of most national borders · in the world · as of 2018-05-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — Births attended by trained health workers rose from 1991 to 2015: Brazil from under 70% to over 95%, India from 34% to over 80%, Mali from 26% to 60%. (00:02:18)
    • under 70% (percent) — share of births attended by trained health care workers · in Brazil · as of 1991 · no source named · unchecked
    • 34% (percent) — share of births attended by trained health care workers · in India · as of 1991 · no source named · unchecked
    • 26% (percent) — share of births attended by trained health care workers · in Mali · as of 1991 · no source named · unchecked
    • 60% (percent) — share of births attended by trained health care workers · in Mali · as of 2015 · no source named · unchecked
    • over 80% (percent) — share of births attended by trained health care workers · in India · as of 2015 · no source named · unchecked
    • over 95% (percent) — share of births attended by trained health care workers · in Brazil · as of 2015 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — John calls the benefits staggering: 522,000 mothers died in childbirth in 1991 and 303,000 in 2015; there is a long way to go, but that is real progress. (00:02:41)
    • 522,000 (deaths) — mothers who died in childbirth · for mothers · in the world · as of 1991 · no source named · unchecked
    • 303,000 (deaths) — mothers who died in childbirth · for mothers · in the world · as of 2015 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World — Comparing 1980 with 35 years later, low- and middle-income countries from China to India to Peru to Angola saw life expectancy rise by at least 10 years, in some cases 20. (00:03:02)
    • at least 10 years — rise in life expectancy since 1980 · for low- and middle-income countries · in China, India, Peru, Angola · as of 2018-05-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 20 (years) — rise in life expectancy since 1980, in some cases · for low- and middle-income countries · as of 2018-05-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-08-21 · SYSTEMS!!!! — Between 1994 and 2014, Thailand's child mortality rate fell by more than 55%. (00:01:13)
    • more than 55% (percent) — decrease in child mortality rate · for children · in Thailand · as of 1994-2014 · source: Our World in Data (per description) · unchecked
  • 2018-08-21 · SYSTEMS!!!! — About 11% of Sierra Leone's economy goes to health-care spending, a share similar to the UK, Australia or France. (00:02:00)
    • About 11% (percent) — health-care spending as a share of the total economy · in Sierra Leone · as of 2018-08-21 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • similar — health-care spending as a share of the total economy · in United Kingdom · as of 2018-08-21 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • similar — health-care spending as a share of the total economy · in Australia · as of 2018-08-21 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • similar — health-care spending as a share of the total economy · in France · as of 2018-08-21 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-08-21 · SYSTEMS!!!! — Because Sierra Leone is much poorer, 11% of its GDP equals $54 per person per year for health care. (00:02:12)
    • $54 (USD) — health-care spending per person per year · for population · in Sierra Leone · as of 2018-08-21 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-08 · Let's Talk Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semi-Annual Report — John says the Foundation has about $50,000 in the bank going into this year's (2018) P4A. — hedged: “about” (00:00:30)
    • $50,000 (USD) — Foundation to Decrease World Suck funds in the bank before P4A · for Foundation to Decrease World Suck · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-08 · Let's Talk Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semi-Annual Report — John says half of this YouTube channel's revenue goes to the Foundation, thanking viewers for watching ads or subscribing to whatever YouTube Red is now called. (00:00:42)
    • half (share) — share of Vlogbrothers channel revenue given to the Foundation to Decrease World Suck · for Vlogbrothers YouTube channel · as of 2018-11-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-08 · Let's Talk Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semi-Annual Report — John says that since 2012 the Project for Awesome has raised over seven and a half million dollars for charities, from cancer research to clean water. (00:02:27)
    • over seven and a half million dollars (USD) — money raised for charities by the Project for Awesome since 2012 · for Project for Awesome · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-27 · On The Melian Dialogue — John says the Melian Dialogue happened about 2,400 years ago in ancient Greece; 5th-century BCE Athens was a democracy where Plato and Socrates philosophized and Sophocles wrote and held office. (00:00:00)
    • around 2,400 years ago — time since the Melian Dialogue · in Ancient Greece · as of 2018-11-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-27 · On The Melian Dialogue — John says Thucydides was revolutionizing the writing of history, and that we know about the Melian Dialogue primarily because of him. (00:00:29)
  • 2018-11-27 · On The Melian Dialogue — John says Athens was 15 years into the Peloponnesian War against Sparta when, in 416 BCE, it sent 38 ships and 3,000 soldiers against Melos, a neutral island about 110 km off mainland Greece, to capture it or force tribute. (00:00:29)
    • 15 years — time into the Peloponnesian War when Athens attacked Melos · in Athens · as of 2018-11-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • about 110 kilometers (km) — distance of Melos from mainland Greece · in Melos · as of 2018-11-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 416 BCE — year Athens sent forces against Melos · in Melos · as of 2018-11-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 38 (ships) — ships Athens sent to Melos · in Melos · as of 416 BCE · no source named · unchecked
    • 3,000 (soldiers) — soldiers Athens sent to Melos · in Melos · as of 416 BCE · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-27 · On The Melian Dialogue — John says the Melians argued it was immoral to attack a neutral people posing no threat, and that, per Thucydides, the Athenians replied that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. (00:00:58)
  • 2018-11-27 · On The Melian Dialogue — John says that after a siege the Melians surrendered, and the Athenians murdered all the men of Melos and sold the women and children into slavery. (00:01:13)
  • 2018-11-27 · On The Melian Dialogue — John says 266,000 children under five died of malaria last year (2017), almost all of them poor. (00:01:56)
    • 266,000 (deaths) — deaths from malaria · for children under the age of five · in the world · as of 2017 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-27 · On The Melian Dialogue — John says 75 years ago even the richest could not prevent measles, and 150 years ago the most powerful had no air conditioning or cars; these changes came partly from seeing that more for me need not mean less for you. (00:02:55)
    • 75 years ago — time since the richest people could not prevent measles · for the richest people in the world · in the world · as of 2018-11-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 150 years ago — time since the most powerful people had no air conditioning or cars · for the most powerful people on Earth · in the world · as of 2018-11-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-12-07 · BABIES! The 2018 Project for Awesome is here… — John says about 353,000 babies were born yesterday, like the population of Honolulu, Hawaii. — hedged: “about” (00:00:13)
    • 353,000 (babies) — babies born in one day · for world · as of 2018-12-06 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-12-07 · BABIES! The 2018 Project for Awesome is here… — John says humans have been around for about 250,000 years, and it took 249,500 of them to figure out that the Earth was not the center of the universe. — hedged: “ish” (00:00:47)
    • 250,000-ish (years) — time humans have existed · for humans · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
    • 249,500 (years) — time before humans figured out the Earth is not the center of the universe · for humans · as of 2018-12-07 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-12-07 · BABIES! The 2018 Project for Awesome is here… — John says yesterday's babies were born into the healthiest, best-educated moment in human history, more than twice as likely to survive to adulthood as children born in 1990. (00:01:17)
    • more than twice (ratio) — likelihood of surviving to adulthood, relative to children born in 1990 · for children born in 2018 · in the world · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-12-07 · BABIES! The 2018 Project for Awesome is here… — John says these children are far more likely to go to school and less likely to experience extreme poverty or malnutrition. (00:01:27)
  • 2018-12-07 · BABIES! The 2018 Project for Awesome is here… — John says 266,000 children are expected to die of malaria this year (2018), 728 of them born yesterday, and another 14,000 children born yesterday will die before age five. (00:01:43)
    • 266,000 (children) — children expected to die of malaria in a year · for children · in the world · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
    • 728 (children) — children born on one day expected to die of malaria this year · for children born 2018-12-06 · in the world · as of 2018-12-07 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 14,000 (children) — additional children born on one day who will die before age five · for children born 2018-12-06 · in the world · as of 2018-12-07 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-12-07 · BABIES! The 2018 Project for Awesome is here… — John says most of them will die of easily treatable or preventable illnesses: diarrhea, pneumonia, starvation. (00:01:56)

US politics & society (43)

  • 2018-02-20 · When Your Friend Runs for Governor — John says Daniel narrowly lost his 2008 state rep race, ran again in 2010 and won, and became a state senator in 2012. (00:01:37)
    • 2010 (year) — year Daniel Biss won election as Illinois state representative · in Illinois · as of 2018-02-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-20 · When Your Friend Runs for Governor — John says Daniel has built bipartisan support on issues from improving retirement benefits to ending exploitative student loan practices. (00:02:00)
  • 2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Hank says that in Montana's last big election Donald Trump won 70% of the vote while a Democratic governor was reelected with 54%, which he wants explained. (00:00:07)
    • 70% (percent) — share of the vote won by Donald Trump · for voters · in Montana · as of 2016 · no source named · unchecked
    • 54% (percent) — share of the vote won by the reelected Democratic governor · for voters · in Montana · as of 2016 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Hank says Montana was the first state to push back on the net neutrality rollback, with Bullock signing an executive order for state protections. (00:00:53)
  • 2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Steve Bullock: Bullock explains the order: providers selling internet services to Montana must keep the internet free and open for all Montanans; they may block and throttle, but then cannot sell to the state. (00:01:07)
  • 2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Steve Bullock: Bullock says New York, New Jersey, Hawaii and Vermont governors did the same, basically taking Montana's executive order; Montana even offered a fill-in template. — hedged: “basically” (00:01:25)
  • 2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Hank says 20% of people who voted for Bullock also voted for Donald Trump; Bullock confirms. (00:04:09)
    • 20% (percent) — share of Bullock's voters who also voted for Donald Trump · for Bullock voters · in Montana · as of 2016 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Steve Bullock: Bullock says Montana kids are in publicly funded preschools because of his administration's work, and focusing on that makes the hard parts of office easier. (00:05:57)
  • 2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Steve Bullock: Bullock cites a Pew study from last year (2017): for two-thirds of gun owners, a main reason for owning a gun is keeping themselves, family or community safe. (00:08:00)
    • two-thirds — share of gun owners for whom a main reason to own a gun is safety of self, family or community · for gun owners · in United States · as of 2017 · source: Pew · unchecked
  • 2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?! — Steve Bullock: In the outtakes Bullock says Montana passed one of the most progressive campaign disclosure laws. (00:11:19)
  • 2018-04-10 · Who Do Tax Breaks Benefit? — John's hypothetical families earn $35,000, the US median household income of $59,000, the top-10% household average of $295,000, and the top-1% average of $1.2 million. (00:00:21)
    • $59,000 (USD) — median household income · for US households · in United States · as of 2018-04-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • $295,000 (USD) — average household income · for wealthiest 10% of US households · in United States · as of 2018-04-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • $1.2 million (USD) — average household income · for wealthiest 1% of US households · in United States · as of 2018-04-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-04-10 · Who Do Tax Breaks Benefit? — Every US taxpayer can take the standard deduction, made to simplify the code; in 2018 it is $28,000 for these families ($14,000 single), so other deductions help only above $28,000. (00:00:52)
    • $28,000 (USD) — standard deduction · for two-parent families · in United States · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
    • $14,000 (USD) — standard deduction · for single filers · in United States · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-04-10 · Who Do Tax Breaks Benefit? — The deduction does spur giving by the rich and charities would get much less without it, but 35% of the money behind a donor's name on a museum or research facility would otherwise have gone to the government. — hedged: “i think” (00:01:48)
    • 35 % (percent) — share of a large donation that would otherwise have gone to the government in tax · for wealthy donors · in United States · as of 2018-04-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-04-10 · Who Do Tax Breaks Benefit? — The tax breaks don't make the rich super generous: families earning $45,000-60,000 give 3.5-4% of income to charity on average, those earning $1-5 million 2.8-3.2%. (00:02:07)
    • between 3.5 and 4% (percent) — average share of income given to charity · for families making $45,000-60,000 a year · in United States · as of 2018-04-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • between 2.8 and 3.2% (percent) — average share of income given to charity · for households making $1-5 million a year · in United States · as of 2018-04-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-04-10 · Who Do Tax Breaks Benefit? — With 8% to charity and a home at four times income, the two lower families get no break; the top-10% family saves about $4,300 (just over 1% of income), the 1% family over $40,000 (over 3%). (00:02:35)
    • about $4,300 (USD) — federal tax saving from mortgage interest and charitable deductions · for hypothetical top-10% family · in United States · as of 2018-04-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • just over 1% (percent) — tax saving as share of income · for hypothetical top-10% family · in United States · as of 2018-04-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • over $40,000 (USD) — federal tax saving from mortgage interest and charitable deductions · for hypothetical top-1% family · in United States · as of 2018-04-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • over 3% (percent) — tax saving as share of income · for hypothetical top-1% family · in United States · as of 2018-04-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-04-20 · This Video is About Marijuana — The description adds that marijuana has not been researched as much as it should be: edibles, smoking and vaping differ, and strains vary in THC and CBD, both psychoactive. (video description)
  • 2018-04-20 · This Video is About Marijuana — Third reason: THC, CBD and other marijuana compounds are legitimate medications, helping with autoimmune diseases, chronic pain, seizure disorders and vomiting in cancer patients. (00:01:00)
  • 2018-04-20 · This Video is About Marijuana — US law defines marijuana as having no medical use. (00:01:09)
  • 2018-04-20 · This Video is About Marijuana — White and black people use drugs at similar rates, but far more black people are arrested for it. (00:01:58)
  • 2018-04-20 · This Video is About Marijuana — First complication: driving while stoned is proven dangerous and there is no weed breathalyzer, though this problem already exists. (00:02:36)
  • 2018-04-20 · This Video is About Marijuana — Long-term marijuana use, especially by young people, has been shown to have negative effects: it can increase symptoms of depression and other mental health problems, and is a risk factor for schizophrenia. (00:02:54)
  • 2018-05-22 · The Liger Delusion — John says it is known that Republican donor Elliott Broidy paid a woman over a million dollars not to discuss their alleged affair. (00:01:55)
    • over a million dollars (USD) — payment to a woman not to discuss an alleged affair · for Elliott Broidy · as of 2018-05-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-22 · The Liger Delusion — A conspiracy theory, which may prove true, holds that the affair was really between the woman and Donald Trump, and that Broidy covered it up and made the payment. (00:02:02)
  • 2018-05-22 · The Liger Delusion — Looking for explanations, you find them: Broidy has profited tremendously from the Trump presidency and has a history of covering up affairs for his friends. (00:02:13)
  • 2018-10-05 · We've Got Some Weird Voting Laws… — Hank says the US is 50 different states plus some confusing things, and most government, including election law, happens at the state and local levels. (00:00:00)
    • 50 (states) — number of US states · in United States · as of 2018-10-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-05 · We've Got Some Weird Voting Laws… — In Vermont you must take a voter's oath to register; it once had to be heard by a notary, but now you can administer it to yourself. (00:01:13)
  • 2018-10-05 · We've Got Some Weird Voting Laws… — Three states, Colorado, Washington and Oregon, have no polling places: everyone votes by mail, which cuts election costs and increases participation. (00:01:43)
    • three (states) — states where everyone votes by mail with no polling places · in United States · as of 2018-10-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-05 · We've Got Some Weird Voting Laws… — Nevada has pop-up early voting locations, for example in a mall outside Hot Topic, one reason over 60% of Nevadans vote early. (00:02:12)
    • over 60% (percent) — share of voters who vote early · for Nevadans · in Nevada · as of 2018-10-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-05 · We've Got Some Weird Voting Laws… — In North Dakota you don't have to register to vote: you just vote. (00:02:12)
  • 2018-10-05 · We've Got Some Weird Voting Laws… — Online voter registration has exploded: more than half of states now allow it, usually if you have a driver's license. (00:02:41)
    • more than half (states) — states allowing online voter registration · in United States · as of 2018-10-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-05 · We've Got Some Weird Voting Laws… — In 2015 no state automatically registered people to vote with a driver's license; three years later, 13 states do. (00:02:41)
    • no states — states with automatic voter registration via driver's licenses · in United States · as of 2015 · no source named · unchecked
    • 13 (states) — states with automatic voter registration via driver's licenses · in United States · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-05 · We've Got Some Weird Voting Laws… — Hank says it is not true that people who don't register to vote avoid jury duty. (00:02:41)
  • 2018-10-05 · We've Got Some Weird Voting Laws… — In New Hampshire you cannot register online, by mail or automatically: you must register in person at your town clerk's office. (00:03:10)
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — The 2000 contest between George W. Bush and Al Gore was decided by 537 votes in Florida. (00:00:09)
    • 537 (votes) — margin deciding the 2000 US presidential election · for Florida voters · in Florida · as of 2000 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — The election was so close that the Supreme Court had to decide whether to continue recounting mispunched ballots; 'hanging chad' and 'butterfly ballot' entered the lexicon, and many cried fraud. (00:00:14)
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — A real error in a computerized election system counted a precinct of 600 voters as minus 16,000 votes for Gore; though caught, many saw it as proof machines were hacked for Bush, since the maker's CEO was a major Republican donor. (00:00:29)
    • 600 voters — voters in the miscounted precinct · for one precinct · as of 2000 · no source named · unchecked
    • negative 16,000 votes — votes counted for Gore in that precinct by the glitch · for one precinct · as of 2000 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Even after winning, Trump said he lost the popular vote only because millions of undocumented immigrants voted; Hank calls it lies told because they sounded good. (00:01:31)
    • millions (people) — undocumented immigrants said to have voted in the 2016 election · for undocumented immigrants · in United States · as of 2016 · source: Donald Trump · doubtful
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Hank says Trump lied about undocumented immigrants voting, Pennsylvanians voting multiple times and Massachusetts voters bussed to New Hampshire, and said in the campaign the only way to lose was cheating. (00:02:16)
  • 2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election — Republicans have long argued individual voter fraud is a big problem, which many experts dispute, and for decades used it to pass laws making voting harder, especially for poorer people. (00:02:33)
  • 2018-12-21 · The Psychology of Package Thieves — The description passes on Mark Rober's explanation that two of the thefts in his video were staged: a volunteer was offered money for each recovered package, and in those two cases the 'thieves' were the volunteer's acquaintances. (video description)
  • 2018-12-21 · The Psychology of Package Thieves — Robert Tyminski: Tyminski says most theft is not because people need it; the opportunistic category driven by social and economic deprivation is pretty small. (00:01:47)
  • 2018-12-21 · The Psychology of Package Thieves — Hank describes a Dan Ariely experiment: people were paid per correct math answer, and an actor stood up 30 seconds in, claimed all answers right, took the money and left. (00:02:49)
    • 30 seconds — time into the test when the actor claimed all answers right · for participants in Dan Ariely's cheating experiment · as of 2018-12-21 (implied: upload date) · source: Dan Ariely · unchecked
  • 2018-12-21 · The Psychology of Package Thieves — In Ariely's experiment, cheating rose when the cheater wore a sweater from the students' own university and fell when the cheater wore a rival university's. (00:03:18)

Science & nature (37)

  • 2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Kallie Moore: Kallie says the mammoth toe tips, lighter than Hank expected, are only thousands of years old, so there has been less time for mineralization. (00:01:01)
    • thousands of years — age of the mammoth toe fossils · as of 2018-02-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Kallie Moore: Kallie says today's horses in the region were imported from Europe, while the original horses started here and then left or died out. (00:01:13)
  • 2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Kallie Moore: Kallie says the 10,000-year cutoff for a fossil is completely arbitrary; much charismatic megafauna was extinct by then, but mammoths survived until about 4,000 years ago on High Arctic islands. (00:01:22)
    • ten thousand (years) — approximate extinction date of much charismatic megafauna (years ago) · as of 2018-02-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Hank notes that mammoths were still living in the Arctic when the Great Pyramids of Egypt were being built. (00:01:39)
  • 2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Kallie Moore: Kallie shows a favorite specimen, a fossil with a striking internal pattern that is either a sponge or a hydrozoan. — hedged: “It's either” (00:02:28)
  • 2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Kallie Moore: Kallie says the collection has fossil poop, though probably no Triassic poop, and some amazing soft-body preservation. — hedged: “I don't think” (00:02:38)
  • 2018-02-16 · Thoughts from VERY Dead Animals — Kallie Moore: Kallie says the collection's oldest specimen is a bacterial mat from Australia, about 2.75 billion years old: this is what life was. — hedged: “it's like” (00:03:13)
    • 2.75 billion (years) — age of the collection's oldest specimen (bacterial mat) · in Australia · as of 2018-02-16 (implied: upload date) · source: Kallie · unchecked
  • 2018-04-24 · This Video is about Red Eyed Tree Frogs? — The red-eyed tree frog is a tree-dwelling, 2-inch-long frog with about a five-year lifespan, native to Central America and southern Mexico. (00:00:45)
    • 2 inch (inches) — body length · for red-eyed tree frog · as of 2018-04-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • about a five year — lifespan · for red-eyed tree frog · as of 2018-04-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-04-24 · This Video is about Red Eyed Tree Frogs? — Red-eyed tree frogs eat mostly insects and are eaten by many animals, including snakes, owls, bats and sometimes alligators. (00:00:54)
  • 2018-04-24 · This Video is about Red Eyed Tree Frogs? — The frogs close their eyes when eating, because retracting their eyes helps push food down their throats. (00:01:05)
  • 2018-04-24 · This Video is about Red Eyed Tree Frogs? — The frog's scientific name comes from Greek words meaning beautiful tree nymph. (00:01:36)
  • 2018-04-24 · This Video is about Red Eyed Tree Frogs? — Experts disagree about the point of the frogs' coloration, but by day they mostly sit on leaves with eyes closed and blue-striped legs tucked under them, close to perfect camouflage. (00:01:42)
  • 2018-04-24 · This Video is about Red Eyed Tree Frogs? — Sensing a predator, the frogs flash open their red eyes and stare at it before trying to jump away. (00:02:00)
  • 2018-07-27 · Why Environmentalists Hate Captain Planet — Hank says the show was half fun adventure and half tips for lessening your impact on the environment. (00:00:41)
  • 2018-07-27 · Why Environmentalists Hate Captain Planet — Hank says that pitch sold the show, for its first season at least, to a ridiculously star-studded cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Meg Ryan, LeVar Burton and Sting. (00:00:48)
  • 2018-07-27 · Why Environmentalists Hate Captain Planet — Hank says the whole project was conceived and funded by Ted Turner, who also owned the TV stations it ran on. (00:01:06)
  • 2018-10-19 · This is the scariest graph I've ever seen — An ice cube above 32 degrees Fahrenheit becomes liquid, yet in Hank's roughly 70-degree room the ice cube is still ice. (00:00:13)
    • 32 degrees Fahrenheit (degrees fahrenheit) — temperature above which ice becomes liquid water · for ice · as of 2018-10-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-19 · This is the scariest graph I've ever seen — Usual graphs show how much sea level is expected to rise by a future date, and the news is bad: a full meter by 2100 would cost around 14 trillion dollars a year. (00:00:36)
    • a full meter — global sea level rise · for world · as of 2100 · no source named · unchecked
    • around 14 trillion (USD) — annual cost of a meter of sea level rise · for world · as of 2100 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-19 · This is the scariest graph I've ever seen — For comparison, all student loans outstanding in the US total about 1.5 trillion dollars. (00:00:48)
    • about 1.5 trillion dollars (USD) — total outstanding student loans · for borrowers · in United States · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-19 · This is the scariest graph I've ever seen — RCP 2.6 is the best case, where everyone works hard and fast together to keep Earth's total warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius. (00:01:03)
    • no more than 2 degrees Celsius (degrees celsius) — total global temperature increase in the best-case scenario · for world · in Earth · as of 2018-10-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-19 · This is the scariest graph I've ever seen — On the worst-case path to 2100 the sea rises one meter, but we will have signed up for six meters of sea level rise. (00:02:09)
    • one meter — sea level rise under the worst-case scenario · for world · as of 2100 · no source named · unchecked
    • six meters — committed long-term sea level rise under the worst-case scenario · for world · as of 2100 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-19 · This is the scariest graph I've ever seen — Even with the warming already seen today, we have long-term already signed up for more than a meter of sea level rise. (00:02:17)
    • more than a meter — committed long-term sea level rise from warming so far · for world · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-19 · This is the scariest graph I've ever seen — Admitting this is long-term thinking and no model is perfect, Hank says that if CO2 releases paused now, the full rise would take hundreds of years, but it would come. — hedged: “no model is perfect” (00:02:24)
    • hundreds of years — time until the full committed sea level rise if CO2 releases paused now · for world · as of 2018-10-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-19 · This is the scariest graph I've ever seen — Even if atmospheric CO2 started to decrease, no long-term scenario with current technology avoids more than a meter of sea level rise. (00:02:39)
    • more than a meter — minimum long-term sea level rise under any scenario with current technology · for world · as of 2018-10-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank says a little over a year ago we first observed an object from another star system: pieces of other systems can visit us, and Oumuamua is not what we expected. (00:00:05)
    • a little over a year ago — time since the first observation of an interstellar object · in Solar System · as of 2018-11 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank says Oumuamua entered the solar system at about 25 km per second and varied tenfold in brightness, suggesting a long, skinny, tumbling shape. (00:00:33)
    • around 25 kilometers per second (km/s) — speed of Oumuamua entering the solar system · in Solar System · as of 2018-11-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • ten times brighter — variation in Oumuamua's brightness between days · in Solar System · as of 2018-11-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank says Oumuamua has a length-to-width ratio of 10 to 1, while barely any solar-system objects reach 5 to 1. (00:01:03)
    • 10 to one — length to width ratio of Oumuamua · in Solar System · as of 2018-11-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • five to one — highest length to width ratio of almost all solar-system objects · for objects in our solar system · in Solar System · as of 2018-11-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank says it passed surprisingly close to Earth into the sun's habitable zone, and its velocity changed in ways gravitation alone cannot explain. (00:01:03)
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank says there are only two explanations: a comet that off-gassed 10% of its mass, or a 50-meter square of shiny foil under a millimeter thick, a solar sail. — hedged: “as far as we can tell” (00:01:32)
    • 10% — share of Oumuamua's mass off-gassed under the comet hypothesis · in Solar System · as of 2018-11-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 50-meter — side of the square under the solar-sail hypothesis · in Solar System · as of 2018-11-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • less than a millimeter (mm) — thickness of the foil under the solar-sail hypothesis · in Solar System · as of 2018-11-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank explains that photons have no mass but do have momentum, so a big reflective, lightweight sheet can use them for propulsion, which humans have experimented with. (00:02:01)
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank says it was also thought not to be a comet because it had no tail, though comet-like objects from other systems might out-gas differently and be harder to detect. (00:02:32)
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank says the brightness change might instead come from one side being much darker, like Saturn's moon Iapetus, so the shape may not be so weird. — hedged: “It could be” (00:02:32)
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank says scientists think off-gassing would have changed the object's rotation, which it appears not to have done. (00:03:02)
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank says the Spitzer Space Telescope detected no infrared from it, so it probably reflected most of the sun's heat: it must be shinier than solar-system asteroids or comets. — hedged: “probably” (00:03:31)
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank says the Pan-STARRS whole-sky survey caught it, past peak brightness, in its first 10 years, implying such objects are probably common, though models of solar-system formation say they should not be. — hedged: “probably” (00:03:56)
    • the first 10 years — operating period of Pan-STARRS in which it caught Oumuamua · in Solar System · as of 2018-11-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank says the second argument is speed: 25 km per second is slow for interstellar travel, about 12,000 years to Alpha Centauri. (00:05:26)
    • about 12,000 years — travel time to Alpha Centauri at 25 km/s · in Alpha Centauri · as of 2018-11-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-30 · We just had our first interstellar visitor...and it's weird. — Hank says only one telescope could currently have spotted Oumuamua; another, orders of magnitude better, comes online in a few years. (00:08:31)

Pop culture (32)

  • 2018-01-12 · 5 Songs You've Never Heard That You've Heard 1000 Times — The parting track, Ballin' Jack's 'Found a Child', appears in Deee-Lite's 'Groove Is in the Heart'. (video description)
  • 2018-01-12 · 5 Songs You've Never Heard That You've Heard 1000 Times — Hank says the usual guesses at what makes humanity special (opposable thumbs, tool use, self-awareness) turn out to be things other animals do too. (00:00:06)
  • 2018-01-12 · 5 Songs You've Never Heard That You've Heard 1000 Times — Hank says Ray Charles is iconic and his 'I Got a Woman' is one of the most covered songs of all time. (00:00:53)
  • 2018-01-12 · 5 Songs You've Never Heard That You've Heard 1000 Times — 'I Got a Woman' was sampled recently in Kanye West's super popular 'Gold Digger'. (00:00:59)
  • 2018-01-12 · 5 Songs You've Never Heard That You've Heard 1000 Times — The Southern Tones were a gospel group; Ray Charles heard their song on the radio and immediately wrote 'I Got a Woman' to its melody, the path from 'It Must Be Jesus' to 'Gold Digger'. (00:01:28)
  • 2018-01-12 · 5 Songs You've Never Heard That You've Heard 1000 Times — Hank presents Labi Siffre's richly orchestrated 'I Got The...', which listeners have probably never heard except as the sample in Eminem's 'My Name Is' (named in the description). (00:01:42)
  • 2018-01-12 · 5 Songs You've Never Heard That You've Heard 1000 Times — Timmy Thomas's 'Why Can't We Live Together', a weird mix of organ and percussion, sped up with reverb and the high end taken off, becomes Drake's 'Hotline Bling'. (00:02:04)
  • 2018-01-12 · 5 Songs You've Never Heard That You've Heard 1000 Times — Linda Lyndell was a backup act for Otis Redding and James Brown; her R&B single 'What a Man' went badly because she was white. (00:02:29)
  • 2018-01-12 · 5 Songs You've Never Heard That You've Heard 1000 Times — The KKK told Lyndell to retire or they would make her life miserable for being a white person singing Black music; she retired and the song was largely forgotten. (00:02:41)
  • 2018-01-12 · 5 Songs You've Never Heard That You've Heard 1000 Times — In 2003, after Salt-N-Pepa's song came out, Linda Lyndell performed 'What a Man' in public for the very first time. (00:02:58)
    • 2003 (year) — year Linda Lyndell first performed What a Man in public · for Linda Lyndell · as of 2018-01-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-01-12 · 5 Songs You've Never Heard That You've Heard 1000 Times — The song lives on in another hemisphere after the Korean pop group I.O.I. did a version of it in 2016. (00:03:06)
    • 2016 (year) — year I.O.I. released a version of What a Man · for I.O.I. · in South Korea · as of 2018-01-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-09 · John's Best Gift to Me — They Might Be Giants are in their late 50s yet still release very good albums, learn new instruments, find new ways of working, tour and make people happy. (00:02:57)
    • late 50s — age of the band members · for They Might Be Giants · as of 2018-03-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-04-27 · Finding Respite in 2018 — Hank reports a new study in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, which he expects John to be excited about, that tested young people's bedtime cortisol levels. — hedged: “Basically” (00:00:00)
  • 2018-04-27 · Finding Respite in 2018 — Hank explains that cortisol is a stress hormone whose level in the blood rises with stress, affecting physiology, psychology and behaviour. (00:00:09)
  • 2018-04-27 · Finding Respite in 2018 — Hank says cortisol's effects, as correlations that raise the chance of death, range from acne to heart disease, plus aggression, depression, anxiety and trouble focusing and deciding. (00:00:17)
  • 2018-04-27 · Finding Respite in 2018 — Hank says under stress some people avoid decisions while others decide worse and more impulsively; some avoid the source of stress and others seek more of it. (00:00:33)
  • 2018-04-27 · Finding Respite in 2018 — The study found that bedtime cortisol rose after the election in young people who didn't vote for Donald Trump, more so in women and non-dominant groups such as LGBT people and people of color. (00:00:54)
  • 2018-04-27 · Finding Respite in 2018 — Hank recommends the horns of bovids: there are 143 species of bovids, including cows, sheep, goats and antelopes, and they have great horns. (00:02:16)
    • 143 (species) — number of species of bovids · as of 2018-04-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-23 · Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris? — Tetris, developed by Alexey Pajitnov, arrived in the United States in 1989 for the Game Boy and the Nintendo Entertainment System. (00:00:03)
    • 1989 — year Tetris arrived in the United States · for Game Boy and NES releases · in United States · as of 2018-10-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-23 · Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris? — Tetris became a phenomenon and is still the best-selling video game of all time. (00:00:15)
  • 2018-10-23 · Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris? — NES Tetris has two white whales: a max-out score of 999,999 points, beyond which the game cannot count, and level 30, since from level 29 blocks fall almost too fast to move. (00:00:29)
    • 999,999 points — maximum countable score · for NES Tetris · as of 2018-10-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • level 29 — level from which pieces fall almost too fast to move · for NES Tetris · as of 2018-10-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-23 · Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris? — Back then only Thor Aackerlund claimed a max-out score at level 30; many thought he was lying, but he was not. (00:00:44)
    • only one player — players claiming a level-30 max-out score · for NES Tetris players · as of 2018-10-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-23 · Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris? — Oddly, far fewer people played NES Tetris in 2008 than in 1990, when hundreds of millions were trying to reach level 30, though a larger player base should mean higher top scores. (00:00:58)
    • hundreds of millions (people) — people trying to reach level 30 in NES Tetris · for NES Tetris players · in the world · as of 1990 · no source named · doubtful
  • 2018-10-23 · Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris? — In 2010 the Classic Tetris World Championship began, bringing top players together in person and motivating them to improve through competition. (00:01:56)
    • 2010 — year the Classic Tetris World Championship started · as of 2018-10-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-23 · Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris? — Play at the tournament improves every year: this year (2018) several players maxed out in qualifying, and champion Joseph became the first to reach level 30 before a live audience. (00:02:05)
    • several (players) — players achieving max-out scores in qualifying · for Classic Tetris World Championship players · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-23 · Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris? — As a result dozens of people have now maxed out, and Joseph recently reached level 31, previously visited only by the legendary Thor. (00:02:29)
    • dozens (players) — players who have achieved a max-out score · for NES Tetris players · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-02 · Let Us Now Praise the Panda Person — The description says World of Warcraft's famous pacifist panda, DoubleAgent, reached Level 120 without taking part in battle. (video description)
    • 120 (level) — level reached without battle · for pacifist panda in World of Warcraft · as of 2018-11-02 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-02 · Let Us Now Praise the Panda Person — John says that although there were many human species, ours alone spread across the whole globe, despite inhospitable habitats and the high risk of death in exploring. (00:00:03)
  • 2018-11-02 · Let Us Now Praise the Panda Person — John says humans have been exploring for the last 250,000 years. (00:00:35)
    • 250,000 (years) — duration of human exploration · for humans · as of 2018-11-02 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-02 · Let Us Now Praise the Panda Person — John says such exploration found the counterintuitive fact that injecting a weakened form of a virus protects against that virus. (00:01:27)
  • 2018-11-02 · Let Us Now Praise the Panda Person — John says it also found that in football you score more goals with four or three defenders than with one or two. (00:01:33)
    • four or three (defenders) — number of defenders that yields more goals scored · for football teams · as of 2018-11-02 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • one or two (defenders) — number of defenders that yields fewer goals scored · for football teams · as of 2018-11-02 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-11-02 · Let Us Now Praise the Panda Person — John says the paintings he shows were created by people 25,000 years ago. (00:02:33)
    • 25,000 years ago — age of the paintings shown · for cave paintings · as of 2018-11-02 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked

Sports (32)

  • 2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — The US lost qualifiers to Costa Rica twice, to Mexico, and to Trinidad and Tobago. — hedged: “Basically” (00:01:03)
    • twice — World Cup qualifying losses to Costa Rica · for US men's national team · as of 2018-03-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — Italy, the Netherlands, Chile, Canada, China, New Zealand and many other countries also failed to qualify. (00:01:17)
  • 2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — John counts 179 nations that did not qualify for the World Cup. (00:01:41)
    • 179 — nations that did not qualify for the World Cup · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — Iceland, with a population smaller than that of Wichita, Kansas, made it to the World Cup. (00:02:26)
    • smaller than that of Wichita, Kansas — population · for Iceland · as of 2018-03-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For? — Costa Rica, which also qualified, just passed the US in life expectancy, as well as in soccer ability. (00:02:31)
    • just passed the US — life expectancy · for Costa Rica vs United States · in Costa Rica · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-27 · A Weird and Beautiful Story — John explains that the 1984 European Cup final (today's Champions League) between Roma and Liverpool ended 1-1 and went to a penalty shootout. (00:00:09)
    • 1-1 — final score before penalties · for 1984 European Cup final, Roma v Liverpool · as of 1984 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-27 · A Weird and Beautiful Story — Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar, an eccentric even for a goalie, feigned wobbly-legged nervousness; a Roma taker skied his penalty and Liverpool won 4-2 on penalties. (00:00:26)
    • 4-2 — penalty shootout score · for 1984 European Cup final, Liverpool v Roma · as of 1984 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-27 · A Weird and Beautiful Story — Jerzy Dudek was a 10-year-old in a Polish coal-mining town in 1984, played for a third-tier Polish team, then moved to Holland and England, joining Liverpool in 2001. (00:00:52)
    • 10-year-old — age of Jerzy Dudek · for Jerzy Dudek · in Poland · as of 1984 · no source named · unchecked
    • 2001 — year Jerzy Dudek began playing for Liverpool · for Jerzy Dudek · in England · as of 2018-03-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-27 · A Weird and Beautiful Story — In the 2005 Champions League final Liverpool trailed AC Milan 3-0 at halftime, outplayed, then scored three goals in a six-minute second-half stretch to tie. (00:01:40)
    • 3-0 — halftime score, AC Milan leading Liverpool · for 2005 Champions League final · as of 2005 · no source named · unchecked
    • six-minute — length of the stretch in which Liverpool scored three goals · for 2005 Champions League final · as of 2005 · no source named · unchecked
    • three goals — Liverpool goals scored in the second-half stretch · for 2005 Champions League final · as of 2005 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-27 · A Weird and Beautiful Story — At the end of extra time Dudek made an incredible double save that he says he does not remember making and cannot explain. (00:02:21)
  • 2018-03-27 · A Weird and Beautiful Story — Before the shootout, teammate Jamie Carragher told Dudek that 21 years earlier Grobbelaar's crazy-legs act had worked in the European Cup final and urged him to do it. (00:02:54)
    • 21 years — time between the 1984 and 2005 finals · as of 2005 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-27 · A Weird and Beautiful Story — Dudek danced his own version, not knowing Grobbelaar's; Milan's first taker skied over, Dudek saved two of the next four, and Liverpool became European champions again. (00:03:26)
    • two of the next four (penalties) — penalties saved by Jerzy Dudek in the shootout · for 2005 Champions League final · as of 2005 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — John says Wimbledon has had a difficult season, losing more than winning: with two games left they are 19th of 24, and the bottom four will be relegated to the fourth tier. (00:00:25)
    • 19th (place) — league position of AFC Wimbledon with two games left · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 24 (teams) — teams in the league · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • four (teams) — teams relegated at season end · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — To avoid relegation Wimbledon must win or draw one of their last two games; the first starts about an hour after John records. (00:00:38)
    • two (games) — games left in AFC Wimbledon's season · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — With five games left in the season, AFC Wimbledon were 2-0 down to Walsall at halftime. (00:01:17)
    • five (games) — games left in the season at the Walsall match · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 2-0 (goals) — halftime score, Walsall leading AFC Wimbledon · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — John says the last time Wimbledon came back from 2-0 down was a 2-2 draw against Bury a year and a half earlier. (00:01:27)
    • a year and a half — time since AFC Wimbledon last came back from a two-goal deficit · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 2-2 (goals) — score of that earlier comeback draw · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — Early in the second half Andy Barcham was fouled, the penalty was saved, the rebound fell to Joe Pigott who scored, and Lyle Taylor's 65th-minute goal made it 2-2. (00:01:33)
    • 65th (minute) — minute of Lyle Taylor's equaliser · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 2-2 (goals) — score after the comeback · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — While everyone celebrated, Wimbledon's captain Barry Fuller picked up the ball and ran it back to the center circle to restart the game as quickly as possible. (00:01:50)
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — John says added time is supposed to account for this, but in practice everyone knows running the ball back saves a few seconds. (00:02:02)
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — The time saved was at most 15 seconds, one 360th of the game, but as it happened a vital one. (00:02:12)
    • 15 seconds — maximum time saved by running the ball back · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • one 360th (fraction) — share of the game the saved time represents · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-01 · How to Win — In the final seconds Taylor was fouled in the box, Dean Parrett scored the penalty and Wimbledon won 3-2, earning three points instead of one. (00:02:25)
    • 3-2 (goals) — final score, AFC Wimbledon v Walsall · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • three points — league points from the win · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • one (points) — league points a draw would have earned · as of 2018-05-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — Every four years the 32 best men's national soccer teams gather for the World Cup. (00:00:01)
    • 32 — number of teams at the World Cup · for best men's national soccer teams · as of 2018-06-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • Every four years — frequency of the World Cup · as of 2018-06-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — The World Cup is the most watched sporting event in the world. (00:00:10)
  • 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — The United States will not be at the World Cup. (00:00:12)
  • 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — Costa Rica just passed the US in life expectancy and beat the US twice in World Cup qualifying. (00:00:41)
    • just passed the United States — life expectancy · for Costa Rica vs United States · in Costa Rica · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
    • twice — World Cup qualifying wins over the US · for Costa Rica men's national team · as of 2018-06-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — Croatia have a chessboard on their uniform. (00:00:46)
  • 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — Egypt have qualified for their first World Cup since 1990. (00:00:52)
    • 1990 — year of previous World Cup appearance · for Egypt men's national team · as of 2018-06-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — France's mascot is a rooster. (00:01:23)
  • 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — Iceland qualified for the World Cup despite having a population smaller than Wichita, Kansas. (00:01:35)
    • smaller than Wichita, Kansas — population · for Iceland · as of 2018-06-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — Iran's backup goalkeeper slept on the floor of the pizza restaurant where he worked until signing a professional contract a few years ago. (00:01:50)
  • 2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup — Mexico's Rafa Márquez will be playing in his fifth World Cup. (00:02:06)
    • fifth — World Cups played · for Rafa Márquez · as of 2018-06-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-06-15 · Sports are Dumb — For one month every two years the whole world works together to find out who is best at a 'dumb game'. (00:02:53)
    • every two years — frequency of the World Cup · as of 2018-06-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · speaker error

Internet & YouTube (24)

  • 2018-01-05 · Making a Better YouTube — Hank says YouTube creators benefit from the ad sales team of the second largest corporation in the world. (00:01:02)
    • second largest — size rank of the corporation that owns YouTube · for corporations · in the world · as of 2018-01-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-06 · The Broccoli Tree: A Parable — A photographer who passes a broccoli-shaped tree near Lake Vättern on his commute posts an iPhone picture of it to Instagram in spring 2013; 43 people like it. (00:00:20)
    • 43 — likes on the first Instagram photo of the Broccoli Tree · in Sweden · as of 2013 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-06 · The Broccoli Tree: A Parable — That November he posts the tree with the old quote 'You don't take a picture, you make a picture'; it gets 107 likes. (00:00:42)
    • 107 — likes on the November Broccoli Tree photo · in Sweden · as of 2013 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-06 · The Broccoli Tree: A Parable — By April 2014 he gives the tree its own Instagram; its audience grows into the thousands and in summer 2015 he exhibits his photographs at the tree itself. (00:00:52)
    • thousands — audience of the Broccoli Tree Instagram · in Sweden · as of 2015 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-06 · The Broccoli Tree: A Parable — A Broccoli Tree calendar and prints sell worldwide; by 2016 the tree is famous, a tourist destination findable on Google Maps and Street View. (00:01:21)
    • 2016 — year by which the Broccoli Tree had become famous · in Sweden · as of 2018-03-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-06 · The Broccoli Tree: A Parable — The Broccoli Tree account has over 27,000 Instagram followers, making it the social internet's single most famous tree. (00:01:59)
    • over 27,000 — Instagram followers of the Broccoli Tree account · as of 2017 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-06 · The Broccoli Tree: A Parable — On September 27, 2017 the photographer finds the tree sawed; he posts that you cannot unsaw a tree, and a few days later the tree is gone. (00:02:12)
    • September 27th, 2017 — date the Broccoli Tree was found sawed · in Sweden · as of 2018-03-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-03-06 · The Broccoli Tree: A Parable — The Joshua tree from U2's album cover and the sacred golden spruce in British Columbia are gone; the oldest tree, a 5,000-year-old bristlecone pine in California, is kept secret. (00:02:49)
    • 5,000-year-old — age of the oldest tree in the world, a bristlecone pine · in California · as of 2018-03-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — In 1911, in a very early science fiction novel, Hugo Gernsback became the first to predict personalized news: newspapers wired to sleeping subscribers with only the news each asked for. (00:00:00)
    • 1911 (year) — year of the first prediction of personalized news · as of 2018-04-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — These machines are given desired outcomes, but how they reach them is up to them, and their goals are tightly held industry secrets. (00:01:00)
  • 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — Through a failing in Facebook policy and enforcement, Cambridge Analytica built psychological profiles of tens of millions of Facebook users. (00:01:24)
    • tens of millions (users) — Facebook users psychologically profiled by Cambridge Analytica · for Facebook users · as of 2018-04-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — Hank plays a quoted voice claiming to have somewhere close to four or five thousand data points on every adult in the United States. (00:01:30)
    • four or five thousand — data points held per adult · for every adult · in United States · as of 2018-04-13 (implied: upload date) · source: Cambridge Analytica · unchecked
  • 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — Cambridge Analytica could then create not just ads but news stories and entire news outlets to amplify and exploit voters' fears and anxieties. (00:01:37)
  • 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — Machines can now tell a man's sexual orientation from profile photos with 91% accuracy. (00:02:08)
    • 91% (percent) — accuracy of machine inference of sexual orientation from profile photos · for men · as of 2018-04-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-04-13 · Who is in Control? — Facebook is worth half a trillion dollars because it can capture your attention and because of what it knows about you. (00:02:16)
    • half a trillion dollars (USD) — value of Facebook · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-08 · Old Man Yells at Cloud — John recalls the famous Simpsons headline 'Old Man Yells at Cloud', noting some viewers were born after the episode first aired in 2002 and may know it only from the internet. (00:00:00)
    • 2002 (year) — first airing of the Simpsons episode with the 'Old Man Yells at Cloud' headline · as of 2018-05-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-11 · Looking for Alaska Movie (BUT BETTER) and YouTuber Things — The description says Hank gets really scared hearing that something like 90% of kids want to be YouTubers: a good job, but one not everyone can or should have. — hedged: “like” (video description)
    • 90% (percent) — share of kids who want to be YouTubers when they grow up · as of 2018-05-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-25 · Please Unsubscribe — Hank says that over the last 10 years of YouTube, subscriptions have become less important. (00:00:11)
    • 10 (years) — period over which subscriptions have become less important · for YouTube · as of 2018-05-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-25 · Please Unsubscribe — Even on Vlogbrothers, a repeat-viewer channel with YouTube-savvy viewers, only about 30% of first-day views come from subscriptions, falling to about 15% over the video's life. (00:00:29)
    • about 30% (percent) — share of first-day views coming from subscriptions · for Vlogbrothers videos · as of 2018-05-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • like 15% (percent) — share of views from subscriptions over the life of a video · for Vlogbrothers videos · as of 2018-05-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-25 · Please Unsubscribe — In the analytics he can see, fewer impressions and views come from the subscription feed; it seems people are using it less. — hedged: “It seems like” (00:02:03)
  • 2018-07-31 · On Prepositions — John says the general rule is that in is for big places, on for smaller places and at for extremely specific ones: in a country, on a street, at an address. (00:00:22)
  • 2018-07-31 · On Prepositions — John says the words have other meanings: in can mark a change of state (break something in half) and on can describe a state (a car on fire). (00:01:10)
  • 2018-07-31 · On Prepositions — John says something happening on the body's surface usually takes on (tapped on the shoulder), beneath the skin in (shot in the shoulder), though being slapped in the face breaks the rule. (00:01:33)
  • 2018-12-11 · When the Internet Came Home — John says this year's (2018) Project for Awesome has raised more than $1.5 million for charity, and the fundraiser is still up. (00:02:55)
    • more than $1.5 million (USD) — money raised for charity by the Project for Awesome 2018 · for Project for Awesome 2018 · as of 2018-12-11 · no source named · unchecked

World affairs (23)

  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — There are about 195 countries, and only nine of them have access to nuclear weapons. (00:00:15)
    • 195-ish (countries) — number of countries · for countries · in the world · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • nine (countries) — number of countries with access to nuclear weapons · for countries · in the world · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — North Korea, with a per-capita GDP of $1,300, has proven you don't need a ton of money to have a nuclear arsenal. (00:00:21)
    • $1300 (USD) — GDP per capita · in North Korea · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — The Wikipedia page on Iran's nuclear program alone is more than 20,000 words. (00:01:04)
    • more than 20,000 (words) — length of the Wikipedia article on Iran's nuclear program · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — First nuclear tests: the US in 1945, the USSR in 1949, the UK in 1957, France in 1960 and China in 1964, a big spurt that becomes important later. (00:01:12)
    • 1945 — year of first nuclear test · in United States · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1949 — year of first nuclear test · in USSR · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1957 — year of first nuclear test · in United Kingdom · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1960 — year of first nuclear test · in France · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1964 — year of first nuclear test · in China · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — Israel definitely has secret nukes and may have had them as early as the 1960s, but has never tested one or admitted to having them. — hedged: “may” (00:01:27)
    • as early as the 1960s — date Israel may have first had nuclear weapons · in Israel · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — India developed nuclear weapons in the 70s. (00:01:31)
    • the 70s — when nuclear weapons were developed · in India · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — South Africa built, but probably never tested, fission bombs in the 1980s before dismantling them. — hedged: “probably” (00:01:36)
    • the 1980s — when fission bombs were built · in South Africa · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — In 1991 Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan briefly had nuclear weapons because they already had them when the USSR collapsed and they came into existence. (00:01:41)
    • three (countries) — number of countries that briefly had nuclear weapons when the USSR collapsed · for countries · in former USSR · as of 1991 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — In 1994 they gave all those weapons back to Russia in exchange for assurances that Russia would never challenge their borders. (00:01:52)
    • 1994 — year Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan gave their nuclear weapons to Russia · in Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — Pakistan surprised the world with a nuclear test in 1998, and North Korea's first test was in 2006. (00:02:00)
    • 1998 — year of first nuclear test · in Pakistan · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 2006 — year of first nuclear test · in North Korea · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — By volume the US and Russia hold the vast majority of nuclear weapons; everyone else is roughly tied for last, North Korea 'extra last'. (00:02:05)
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — Other countries have tried: there have been nuclear programs in Brazil, Argentina, Libya, Iran, Taiwan and South Korea. (00:02:20)
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — More states have tried to get nuclear weapons than have them. (00:02:26)
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — Countries explored nuclear programs just because their neighbours were, and the international community realized this would lead to a fully nuclear world. (00:02:52)
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — Many then saw nukes as just another new weapon, but with an arms race on, people realized the bombs dropped in Japan were only a fraction of what could be done; the Cold War brought bomb shelters and school drills. (00:03:02)
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — Some countries got together at the UN to create a treaty under which signatories without nukes would not pursue nuclear weapons programs. (00:03:35)
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — Over the years every country signed except India, Pakistan and Israel, which all subsequently developed nuclear weapons. (00:03:47)
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — North Korea is the only country to have withdrawn from the treaty. (00:04:03)
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — For a signatory, developing nuclear weapons is literally against international law. (00:04:06)
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — Signing is not required, as South Sudan showed when it became a country in 2011 and did not sign the treaty, at least yet. (00:04:10)
    • 2011 — year South Sudan became a country · in South Sudan · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — International relations experts talk about a norm against nuclear weapons: they are seen as taboo, and developing a program as wading into the muck. (00:05:27)
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — Hank was surprised to learn South Africa had a nuclear program; it arose because the country was ostracized for its explicitly racist government. (00:05:44)
  • 2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes? — Nuclear weapons have been used only twice in war, which Hank recognizes was done by his country. (00:08:28)
    • two times — number of uses of nuclear weapons in war · in the world · as of 2018-07-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked

Everyday life (13)

  • 2018-02-23 · Dear Young People, You Terrify Me — Hank explains that mutagenesis is a new change introduced to an organism's genome, and that by far the most common effect of a mutation is nothing. (00:00:06)
  • 2018-02-23 · Dear Young People, You Terrify Me — Occasionally a mutation lets a cell divide uncontrolled, which is cancer. (00:00:21)
  • 2018-02-23 · Dear Young People, You Terrify Me — Even more rarely the change is good: it lets an organism digest a new food, or makes it bigger, smaller, hairier or less hairy as conditions need. (00:00:27)
  • 2018-02-23 · Dear Young People, You Terrify Me — Genetic mutagens include sunlight, other radiation, certain oxidizing compounds and various hydrocarbons. (00:00:56)
  • 2018-02-23 · Dear Young People, You Terrify Me — Hank says evolution seems to select for a certain amount of mutagenesis: there is a balance, with external and apparently internal, intentional mutagenesis. — hedged: “seems” (00:01:07)
  • 2018-04-06 · How to Stop Being Late Forever (advice for myself and other chronically late people) — The description says punctuality is highly valued, with benefits from better relationships to higher income, and shows a self-control some have innately and others must hack toward. (video description)
  • 2018-07-17 · How to Eat 213 Tomatoes — John googled whether eating too many tomatoes can kill you: probably not, but it can turn your skin orange. — hedged: “probably” (00:01:42)
  • 2018-08-17 · My Worst Job Search Fail — Hank reports the most common answer: candidates being rude to office staff or assistants before meeting the interviewers. (00:02:28)
  • 2018-08-17 · My Worst Job Search Fail — One poster kept getting no callbacks until he realized his Gmail profile picture showed him doing a bong rip. (00:02:39)
  • 2018-08-17 · My Worst Job Search Fail — Hank says Bridge to Terabithia has 85% on Rotten Tomatoes. (00:03:12)
    • 85% (percent) — Rotten Tomatoes score of the film Bridge to Terabithia · as of 2018-08-17 (implied: upload date) · source: Rotten Tomatoes · unchecked
  • 2018-09-04 · The Eisenhower Matrix — The Eisenhower Matrix, also called the Eisenhower Square or Box, is named for US general and president Dwight D. Eisenhower and sorts fixable problems by importance and urgency. (00:01:30)
  • 2018-09-18 · On the Participation Trophy — John relays a commenter's point that 'compete' comes from the Latin 'pitere', to seek or strive, and 'com', together. (00:02:55)
  • 2018-11-20 · Cause for Celebration — At a societal level, John says, US median household income is higher than ever and the poverty rate is declining, though not as fast as it should given economic growth. (00:00:29)
    • higher than it's ever been — median household income · for households · in United States · as of 2018-11-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • declining — poverty rate · for people · in United States · as of 2018-11-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked

Nerdfighteria (12)

  • 2018-01-16 · My Hollywood Star, Brexit Pears, and Hank's Book: It's QUESTION TUESDAY — John has no star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame; that star belongs to the John Green who won five Oscars. (00:02:47)
    • 5 (awards) — Academy Awards won by the other John Green · for the John Green with a Hollywood star · as of 2018-01-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-04-17 · John Green Answers Your John Green Questions — A different John Green has a Hollywood star: a composer who won five Academy Awards for scoring films such as An American in Paris and West Side Story. (00:02:01)
    • five (awards) — Academy Awards won by composer John Green · as of 2018-04-17 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-05-18 · Laurel or Yanny and Baby Dance Moves - It's Question Friday — Googling who put the ram in 'Rama Lama Ding Dong', Hank finds songwriter George Jones Jr., who died in 2008; the album cover originally called the song 'Lama Rama Ding Dong'. (00:01:54)
    • 2008 (year) — year of death of George Jones Jr. · for George Jones Jr. · as of 2018-05-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-07-06 · This Ends in Death — Hank is so happy to work with Kristen Sieh; besides the TV shows he mentioned, most of her work is in theater. (video description)
  • 2018-07-06 · This Ends in Death — John Green (quoted): John texts back that the word is eschatology, which covers the whole human apocalypse, not just individual death; eschatological anxiety is fear of apocalyptic events. (00:01:20)
  • 2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes — John reveals an inside joke with himself: each of his books has a prime-minus-one number of chapters; TFIOS and Turtles All the Way Down have 24, Will Grayson, Will Grayson and An Abundance of Katherines 20. (00:01:12)
    • 24 (chapters) — number of chapters · for The Fault in Our Stars · as of 2018-08-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 24 (chapters) — number of chapters · for Turtles All the Way Down · as of 2018-08-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 20 (chapters) — number of chapters · for Will Grayson, Will Grayson · as of 2018-08-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 20 (chapters) — number of chapters · for An Abundance of Katherines · as of 2018-08-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes — John adds that Paper Towns has 32 chapters counting the prologue, and Looking for Alaska 60 counting the author's note; saying it out loud, it's a little weird. (00:01:27)
    • 32 (chapters) — number of chapters, counting the prologue · for Paper Towns · as of 2018-08-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 60 (chapters) — number of chapters, counting the author's note · for Looking for Alaska · as of 2018-08-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes — John says pineapple on pizza was invented in 1962 by a Greek immigrant in Canada, inspired by Chinese cuisine to put a South American food on an Italian dish. (00:02:15)
    • 1962 — year pineapple on pizza was invented · in Canada · as of 2018-08-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-10-30 · Watch My Dumb Dancing — Moles on the bottom of the foot are often really dangerous, because people rarely look at their soles and assume such a mole can't be bad; it is one of the more dangerous kinds of cancer. — hedged: “oftentimes” (00:02:30)
  • 2018-10-30 · Watch My Dumb Dancing — It is spring in Mars's southern hemisphere, so carbon dioxide deposits under the surface are ripping through the ice above into geysers of gas and dust. (00:03:14)
  • 2018-12-14 · Cute Goth Shock Collar Trivia Punishment for Charity — Asked how many courses of Crash Course there have been, Hank answers 18. (00:00:58)
    • 18 (courses) — number of Crash Course courses made · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-12-14 · Cute Goth Shock Collar Trivia Punishment for Charity — Asked how many nautical miles a league equals at sea, Hank answers twelve. (00:03:26)
    • Twelve (nautical miles) — length of a league at sea · as of 2018-12-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · doubtful

Books & writing (11)

  • 2018-02-02 · What is That Plane Rainbow? (It's Question Tuesday) — Hank says Dawn is being made into a TV series by Ava DuVernay, shockingly the first time an Octavia Butler work has been adapted for TV or film. (00:00:38)
  • 2018-02-02 · What is That Plane Rainbow? (It's Question Tuesday) — Hank says the rainbow seen under a plane wing is a glory: like a rainbow, an effect of light diffracting on water droplets, but with smaller droplets. (00:01:57)
  • 2018-02-02 · What is That Plane Rainbow? (It's Question Tuesday) — Hank says a glory is seen only from between the sun and the cloud, so rarely from the ground; before planes, glories were seen mostly from mountaintops. (00:02:07)
  • 2018-02-02 · What is That Plane Rainbow? (It's Question Tuesday) — Hank says mountaintop observers were often inside the cloud's fog, so besides the glory they saw a Brocken spectre, very cool and super creepy. (00:02:20)
  • 2018-08-28 · The Book Was Better? — John says book authors almost always make exactly one decision in the movie process, whether to sell the rights; buyers can usually make whatever movie they want. (00:00:24)
    • one (decision) — decisions a book author makes in the movie creation process · for book authors · as of 2018-08-28 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-08-28 · The Book Was Better? — Authors only very occasionally get approval over casting, script or director; some, John among them, get one seat at a big table. (00:00:45)
  • 2018-08-28 · The Book Was Better? — Bad decisions are rarely one person's fault, yet authors are criticized for ones they don't control: shooting location (in the US mostly tax incentives) and release timing (marketing executives). (00:01:21)
  • 2018-08-28 · The Book Was Better? — Paper Towns, a New York Times bestseller, sold about 50,000 copies in its first year; a movie selling 50,000 opening-weekend tickets loses a lot of money, and even 500,000 is usually a failure. (00:02:02)
    • about 50,000 (copies) — copies sold in its first year · for Paper Towns · as of 2018-08-28 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 50,000 (tickets) — opening-weekend ticket sales at which a movie almost definitely loses a lot of money · for movies · as of 2018-08-28 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 500,000 (tickets) — opening-weekend ticket sales usually considered a failure · for movies · as of 2018-08-28 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-08-28 · The Book Was Better? — Studios must balance fans with a much larger audience; even cheap movies cost plural millions to make while books are viable on a much smaller scale, so books can do things movies can't. (00:02:24)
    • plural millions of dollars (USD) — cost to make · for cheap movies · as of 2018-08-28 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-09-21 · The Parable of the Perfect Pot — Hank explains that in information security, brute force hacking hits a system with so many password iterations that one eventually works: not elegant or planned. (00:01:40)
  • 2018-09-25 · You Did It! — The Associated Press called the book a thrilling journey that takes a hard look at the power of fame, which John agrees it is. (00:00:00)

Health (10)

  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? — John says globally heart disease is by far the most common cause of death, stroke is also very common, and diarrhea causes about as many deaths as lung cancer. (00:00:00)
  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? — John explains that death counts miss the age at death and non-fatal disabling disease; the DALY measures the expected years of health lost to a disease. (00:00:29)
  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? — John says measured in DALYs, malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia become much more prominent because they disproportionately affect younger people. (00:00:58)
  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? — John says one of the biggest shifts under DALYs is mental health: mental illness and substance use disorders become the single biggest category of disease burden in the United States. (00:00:58)
  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? — John says in Brazil mental illness causes more lost DALYs than any other single cause, including heart disease, and the same is true in France and the UK. (00:01:27)
  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? — John says in China depression and anxiety rob people of more years than liver cancer or diabetes. (00:01:27)
  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? — John says good mental health care is extremely difficult to get in poor countries, where many mentally ill people are chained to their beds in hospitals or group homes. (00:01:56)
  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? — John says shackling in Sierra Leone just ended thanks to a huge Ministry of Health effort and slightly improved funding, news to be celebrated. (00:01:56)
  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? — John says in Sierra Leone communicable diseases are overwhelmingly the leading cause of lost life years, but mental illness causes more burden than almost any other non-communicable disease. (00:01:56)
  • 2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness? — John says Sierra Leone still faces huge mental health challenges, with only two psychiatrists for seven million people, and elsewhere many are still chained without treatment. (00:02:26)
    • two (psychiatrists) — number of psychiatrists · for Sierra Leone · as of 2018-10-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • seven million (people) — population · for Sierra Leone · as of 2018-10-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked

Economics (7)

Projects (7)

  • 2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — In the excerpt, Woodrow Wilson 'Foots' Clements, nicknamed for his oddly shaped toes, took Dr Pepper from a regional brand to a global juggernaut by understanding what made it significant. (00:01:24)
  • 2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — The excerpt says that, unlike cola or Sprite, Dr Pepper has no real-world flavour analogue. (00:02:01)
  • 2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — US trademark courts categorize Dr Pepper and its knockoffs as pepper sodas, although they contain no pepper. (00:02:04)
  • 2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — The 'pepper' in Dr Pepper refers not to the spice but either to someone's name or to pep, making it the only soda category named for how it makes you feel. (00:02:12)
  • 2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — Tom Grogan is about an Irish-American woman who takes the name Tom Grogan from her maybe-dead husband and becomes a successful dock worker. (00:02:49)
  • 2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — Tom Grogan was the best-selling novel in the US in 1896 and its author was wildly famous, but it has been out of print for decades and is almost forgotten. (00:02:56)
    • 1896 (year) — year Tom Grogan was the best-selling novel · for novels · in United States · as of 2018-01-02 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2018-01-02 · BRING IT IN 2018 — Francis Hopkinson Smith also designed and built the base of the Statue of Liberty. (00:03:07)

Philosophy & meaning (5)

  • 2018-05-04 · When to Attack a Moose — Hank says it is a well-known phenomenon that negative events affect us more than positive ones, which kind of sucks. (00:00:00)
  • 2018-05-04 · When to Attack a Moose — Hank says that for a prehistoric human, ostracism from the tribe could be a death sentence: survival without a tribe would probably be short and brutal. — hedged: “probably” (00:00:51)
  • 2018-05-04 · When to Attack a Moose — Hank says bullying and ostracism won't leave you starving in a field, but can lead to significant and serious negative health outcomes. (00:01:24)
  • 2018-06-26 · How's the Water? — John tells a joke David Foster Wallace made famous in a commencement address: an older fish asks two young fish how the water is; one later asks what water is. (00:00:01)
  • 2018-11-01 · Should I Feel Guilty? — Hank says psychologists think a small amount of guilt is good, encouraging pro-social behaviour: thinking of your community, helping, volunteering, donating. (00:02:46)