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Facts taught in 2024

648 sincere fact claims from 2024; 337 come with figures. Each figure is shown as said, with what it measures, who it counts (for) and where it applies (in) when recorded (said, or clear from the context), its as-of date, the source the speaker gives (if any) and the extraction-time check. Where no as-of date was said, the one shown is implied (the date said in the video, else the upload date); relative dates such as "last year" keep their words and are resolved against that same date. "Unchecked" means nobody has checked it yet, not that it is wrong. Back to the overview.

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Science & nature (170)

  • 2024-02-09 · My Favorite Climate Graph — Hank says the graph's abatement axis starts at 5 gigatons, the amount of CO2 the US emits per year. (00:00:29)
    • 5 gigatons — annual CO2 emissions · for United States · as of 2024-02-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-09 · My Favorite Climate Graph — Hank says US CO2 emissions already peaked in 2007 at 6 gigatons a year, a fact that still surprises him. (00:00:43)
    • 6 gigatons — peak annual CO2 emissions · for United States · as of 2007 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-09 · My Favorite Climate Graph — Hank says the curve shows that at a zero climate premium US emissions could fall to 3.75 gigatons a year; only infrastructure-building time and work stand in the way. (00:01:20)
    • 3.75 gigatons — annual US CO2 emissions achievable at zero climate premium · for United States · as of 2024-02-09 (implied: upload date) · source: Marginal Abatement Cost Curve · unchecked
  • 2024-02-09 · My Favorite Climate Graph — Hank says a $50-per-ton premium brings emissions below half of the original peak. (00:01:49)
    • $50 per ton (USD/ton) — climate premium bringing US CO2 emissions below half of peak · for United States · as of 2024-02-09 (implied: upload date) · source: Marginal Abatement Cost Curve · unchecked
  • 2024-02-09 · My Favorite Climate Graph — Hank says around $100 per ton solar, wind and EVs level off, and weirder options such as zero-carbon synthetic fuels and hydrogen start to make sense. (00:01:55)
    • 100 (USD/ton) — climate premium at which solar, wind and EV abatement levels off · for United States · as of 2024-02-09 (implied: upload date) · source: Marginal Abatement Cost Curve · unchecked
  • 2024-02-09 · My Favorite Climate Graph — Hank says capturing CO2 from the air only makes sense beyond about $200 per ton, a lot of money for a ton of CO2. (00:02:10)
    • $200 per ton (USD/ton) — climate premium beyond which direct air capture makes sense · for United States · as of 2024-02-09 (implied: upload date) · source: Marginal Abatement Cost Curve · unchecked
  • 2024-02-09 · My Favorite Climate Graph — Hank says the mechanical tree is one of dozens of air-capture designs, all of them entirely economically infeasible; the technology is at the baby stages. (00:03:26)
    • dozens (designs) — number of direct air capture designs · as of 2024-02-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-09 · My Favorite Climate Graph — Hank says that is why researchers work on it now, and why the US government and private companies are working with universities on the details. (00:04:58)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Answering a viewer's comment on captive breeding, Hank says zoos spend a huge amount of time managing the gene pools of endangered and captive populations. (creator comment)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Hank says elephants can get the same tuberculosis people get, and the disease passes from people to elephants and from elephants to people. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Hank says Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world and has its own elephant, tiger and orangutan found nowhere else. (00:00:29)
    • sixth largest (rank) — rank by area · for islands · in the world · as of 2024-03-29 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — A zoo fish that listed to the side got a CT scan, which showed intestinal gas; now when it lists, keepers feed it peas, which fixes it. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Hank says penguins love to chase flies. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Some rhinos come from low-iron regions, so those living long elsewhere eat enclosure plants and get the opposite of anemia. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — The zoo keeps one big rhino on a low-iron diet; when his iron gets too high, keepers take the iron out of him by removing a bunch of his blood. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — The Denver Zoo has a walk-in freezer full of antivenom and is a local and national supply for people bitten by exotic pet snakes. (00:01:27)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — The zoo gives its antivenom away free, since rules forbid selling it, and then buys more for itself. — hedged: “Like if there's like rules where you can't sell it” (00:01:27)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Hank notes there are freshwater stingrays. (00:01:27)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Adult Lake Titicaca frogs have atrophied, unused lungs and breathe entirely through their skin. (00:02:03)
    • 100% (percent) — share of breathing done through the skin · for adult Lake Titicaca frogs · as of 2024-03-29 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — The frogs are blended and drunk as smoothies to improve health, which Hank says does not work. (00:02:03)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — The Denver Zoo's king cobra got scale cancer; keepers biopsied it, removed the cancerous area surgically and gave adjuvant chemotherapy. (00:02:28)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Wild sheep and goats from mineral-poor areas gather in parking lots for salt carried by cars or left by people peeing. (00:02:28)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Hank says flamingos being pink from eating shrimp is kind of wrong: two species fed the same diet differ in pinkness, and juveniles are barely pink. (00:02:28)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Flamingos could simply excrete the pink compounds; they are pink because being pink is evolutionarily advantageous. (00:03:16)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Hank says Przewalski's horse is not pronounced as spelled, giving a 'Sh' pronunciation. (00:03:16)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Przewalski's horse is the last surviving non-domesticated horse species; nearly extinct, it was saved by captive breeding and again roams Mongolia. (00:03:16)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — A Przewalski's horse embryo was implanted in a domestic horse; the foal, Kurt, was born, is alive and lives in San Diego. (00:03:16)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Hank says this raises hopes of one day bringing back extinct species that have close living relatives, giving black rhinos as an example. — hedged: “might” (00:03:45)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Male elephants have a hormonal cycle causing musth, when they are very irritable partly because head glands swell until oils ooze through the skin. (00:03:45)
  • 2024-03-29 · The 17 Weirdest Things I Learned at the Zoo — Each year a captive-raised male vulture builds a big nest, and the female, rescued with a broken wing, lays her egg in a small pile of sticks nearby. (00:04:14)
  • 2024-04-05 · Two Reasons Why This Eclipse is So Dangerous — In a reply to a viewer comment urging seatbelt use, the channel says life insurers ask about seatbelts because in the US seatbelt wearers live about a year longer on average, an average in which very few people die but those who do die very young. (creator comment)
    • about a year — average added life expectancy of seatbelt wearers versus non-wearers · for people in the US · in United States · as of 2024-04-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-04-05 · Two Reasons Why This Eclipse is So Dangerous — Hank says eclipses are dangerous because they confuse us: pain normally makes us stop looking at the sun, but when it is mostly covered the brain may think it is not too bright to look at. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-04-05 · Two Reasons Why This Eclipse is So Dangerous — Hank says the danger is not the amount of sunlight but its quality, extraordinarily high-energy light: looking at even a tiny sliver for a few seconds can permanently damage the eyes. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-04-05 · Two Reasons Why This Eclipse is So Dangerous — Hank says the retina usually heals but sometimes does not, that this holds through sunglasses, window tint or even a welding mask, and that sunlight is more damaging than a welding arc. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-04-05 · Two Reasons Why This Eclipse is So Dangerous — Hank says over 200 million people live within driving distance of this eclipse, and driving is more dangerous than people think. (00:01:33)
    • over 200 million (people) — people living within driving distance of the eclipse path · for people · in United States · as of 2024-04-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-04-05 · Two Reasons Why This Eclipse is So Dangerous — Hank says that around the 2017 eclipse, US car-crash deaths rose from a background rate of about 7.9 per hour to over 10 per hour. (00:01:33)
    • around 7.9 (deaths per hour) — background rate of car-crash deaths · for road users · in United States · as of 2017 · no source named · unchecked
    • over 10 (deaths per hour) — car-crash deaths in the period around the 2017 eclipse · for road users · in United States · as of 2017 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-04-05 · Two Reasons Why This Eclipse is So Dangerous — Hank says that rise in traffic deaths was not caused by the eclipse itself but by more people on the roads travelling to see it. (00:02:02)
  • 2024-04-05 · Two Reasons Why This Eclipse is So Dangerous — Hank says the eclipse will cover more than half of Indiana and in the northeast passes very close to many large population centers. (00:02:31)
    • more than 50% (percent) — share of the state's area in the eclipse path · in Indiana · as of 2024-04-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie Mack: Katie says the Big Bang theory is just the idea that the universe was hot and dense in the beginning, 13.8 billion years ago, and has been expanding and cooling since. (00:01:06)
    • 13.8 billion years ago — time since the universe's hot, dense beginning · for universe · as of 2024-04-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie Mack: Katie says the theory originates in the observation that the universe is expanding now: all the distant galaxies are seen moving away from us. (00:01:17)
  • 2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie Mack: Katie explains that the expansion stretches the light of distant galaxies from visible to infrared, an effect like a passing siren dropping to a lower pitch. (00:01:27)
  • 2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie Mack: Katie says things moving away get redder (longer wavelengths) and things moving toward us bluer (shorter), at all wavelengths of light from radio to gamma rays. (00:01:49)
  • 2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie Mack: Katie says expansion does not mean objects are expanding: galaxies move apart because the empty space between objects is expanding. (00:02:10)
  • 2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie Mack: Katie says the expansion of the universe has been known for a long time, since about the 1920s. — hedged: “I guess” (00:02:17)
    • 1920s — date since which the expansion of the universe has been known · as of 2024-04-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie Mack: Katie replies that the expansion was seen as soon as we could know there are other galaxies: those far enough away are moving away from us. (00:02:25)
  • 2024-04-27 · Katie Mack Explains The Big Bang To John Green — Katie Mack: Katie says the idea had been floated for a long time, and confirmation came in the 1960s when astronomers began to see the light of that hot, dense soup. (00:03:11)
    • 1960s — date of first observation of the light of the early hot, dense universe · as of 2024-04-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-09 · We’re Here Because... Something Broke — Katie Mack: Katie says the discovery that the different elements are arrangements of the same fundamental particles was mind-blowing: hydrogen and carbon are just different numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons. (00:00:39)
  • 2024-05-09 · We’re Here Because... Something Broke — Katie Mack: Katie says something changed in the early universe that broke a symmetry: everything was nicely symmetric and perfect, then it broke, which is why there are now all these different things. (00:01:27)
  • 2024-05-09 · We’re Here Because... Something Broke — Katie Mack: Katie says there are good theories unifying the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces of particle physics, but physicists have not yet managed it with gravity. (00:01:45)
  • 2024-05-09 · We’re Here Because... Something Broke — Katie Mack: Katie defines the terms: unifying the strong, weak and electromagnetic forces gives a grand unified theory; unifying those with gravity gives a theory of everything. (00:02:01)
  • 2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie Mack: Katie says recombination is the moment the first neutral atoms are able to form, and that era begins what is called the dark ages of the cosmos. (00:00:00)
  • 2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie Mack: Katie says the era is called the Dark Ages because the primordial plasma has cooled but there are no stars yet; the universe is mostly hydrogen gas with a little helium. (00:00:27)
  • 2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie Mack: Katie says that while the gas cools and the universe expands, gravity keeps pulling together clouds of cold gas, which start to condense. (00:00:27)
  • 2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie Mack: Asked by John whether 'a while' means two seconds or ten years, Katie says the Dark Ages last millions and millions of years. (00:01:00)
    • millions and millions of years — duration of the cosmic dark ages · for universe · as of 2024-05-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie Mack: Katie says the physics of the cosmic dark ages is very simple: you can write down equations for gas cooling, and the gas just does that. (00:01:54)
  • 2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie Mack: Katie says that because there were little variations in density, some clouds of gas start to become denser than others over time. (00:01:54)
  • 2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie Mack: When John suggests that a perfectly uniform observable universe would never have had stars and galaxies, Katie says random particle motion would still give fluctuations, so something would eventually happen, but differently and much later. (00:02:23)
  • 2024-05-23 · The Weird Timescales of the Universe — Katie Mack: Katie says those early fluctuations are why there is structure in the universe as we know it. (00:02:48)
  • 2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — In a channel comment Hank says people who approach him in public mostly know him from Crash Course, with TikTok second. (creator comment)
  • 2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — In the inner video Hank says they are going to the Erratic Rock, and Katherine says it comes from where they are from: Glacial Lake Missoula. (00:01:56)
  • 2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — Katherine Green: Katherine explains that glacial ice dams built up in the Rocky Mountains and were breached; everything behind them rushed out cataclysmically, carrying rocks stuck in the ice toward the Pacific and dropping them along the way. (00:02:36)
  • 2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — Katherine Green: Katherine says such rocks are found all over the flood route; Hank calls this one a very large glacial erratic and she agrees. (00:03:03)
  • 2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — Hank says rocks like this do not belong here; finding them puzzled people and led them to build the story of the giant ice dams. (00:03:32)
  • 2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — A voice in the inner video says the floods flowed with 10 times the combined annual volume of all the Earth's rivers. (00:04:02)
    • 10 times — flow of the Lake Missoula floods relative to the combined annual volume of all Earth's rivers · for Lake Missoula floods · as of 2024-05-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — Hank says something rarely discussed about the Lake Missoula floods is that there were people in North America when they happened. (00:04:02)
  • 2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — Hank says that, though there is no proof, there were also people in the places the flood went. — hedged: “we don't have proof of this” (00:04:02)
  • 2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — Hank says the floods would have left no one alive, not even trees or grass. (00:04:35)
  • 2024-05-24 · An Ancient Apocalypse — Hank says the floods at times traveled over 80 miles per hour and delivered more energy than 10,000 atomic bombs. (00:04:35)
    • over 80 (mph) — speed of the Lake Missoula floods at times · for Lake Missoula floods · as of 2024-05-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 10,000 (atomic-bombs) — energy delivered by the Lake Missoula floods, in atomic-bomb equivalents (more than) · for Lake Missoula floods · as of 2024-05-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-07 · Eating an 11,000 Year Old Fruit — Hank explains that fig trees hide their flowers inside a hard pear-shaped structure; a special wasp crawls in through a little hole, fertilizes the flowers and lays eggs. (00:00:00)
  • 2024-06-07 · Eating an 11,000 Year Old Fruit — Hank says a fig tree from sometime before 11,400 years ago had a hole too small for wasps but grew seedless fruit without fertilization, so it could not reproduce: an evolutionary dead end. (00:00:29)
    • 11,400 years ago — time since the seedless fig mutant arose (before) · for a mutant fig tree · as of 2024-06-07 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-07 · Eating an 11,000 Year Old Fruit — Hank says fig trees are exceptionally good at growing from cuttings: a branch stuck in the ground will usually grow roots. (00:01:27)
  • 2024-06-07 · Eating an 11,000 Year Old Fruit — Hank says dried, mostly seedless figs without wasp parts were found at an 11,400-year-old site in the Jordan River Valley, and similar figs at later sites show people spread the tree. (00:01:50)
    • 11,400-year-old — age of the archaeological site with dried seedless figs · for archaeological site · in Jordan River Valley · as of 2024-06-07 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-07 · Eating an 11,000 Year Old Fruit — Hank says there's a chance the Neolithic farmers' cuttings have been propagated thousands or millions of times over 11,400 years, so people still eat figs from that same tree. — hedged: “There's a chance, we're not sure, but there's a chance” (00:02:19)
    • thousands or millions (times) — number of times the fig cuttings have been propagated · for the first domesticated fig tree · as of 2024-06-07 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 11,400 years — span of propagation of the fig cuttings · for the first domesticated fig tree · as of 2024-06-07 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-07 · Eating an 11,000 Year Old Fruit — Hank says that so far we can't be sure which fig variety is the one from that tree. — explicitly uncertain (00:03:12)
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says the average US resident eats around 220 servings of beef per year. (00:00:00)
    • 220 (servings) — beef consumption per person · for US residents · in United States · as of 2024-06-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — In a comment, John says beef probably makes TB less likely, but only for malnourished people, since adequate protein and fat help the immune system keep TB in check. — hedged: “probably” (creator comment)
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John was surprised to learn Americans used to eat more beef: in the 1970s something like 275 servings per year. (00:00:29)
    • 275 (servings) — beef consumption per person · for Americans · in United States · as of 1970s · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says Americans still eat about twice as much beef as people in Germany or the United Kingdom. (00:00:29)
    • twice (ratio) — US beef consumption relative to Germany · for Americans · in Germany · as of 2024-06-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • twice (ratio) — US beef consumption relative to the United Kingdom · for Americans · in United Kingdom · as of 2024-06-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says US beef consumption is declining, albeit slowly. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says that unless humans dramatically reduce beef consumption it will be impossible to limit post-industrial global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius. (00:00:29)
    • 1.5 (degrees) — warming limit unreachable without reduced beef consumption · for humanity · in the world · as of 2024-06-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says beef produces around 10 times more greenhouse emissions per gram of protein than poultry. (00:00:29)
    • 10 (times) — greenhouse emissions per gram of protein, beef relative to poultry · in the world · as of 2024-06-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says beef produces about 20 times more greenhouse emissions per gram of protein than plant proteins like beans: wildly inefficient. (00:00:58)
    • 20 (times) — greenhouse emissions per gram of protein, beef relative to plant-based proteins · in the world · as of 2024-06-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says beef cows use around 60% of the world's agricultural land but produce 2% of its calories and only 5% of its protein. (00:00:58)
    • 60% (percent) — share of agricultural land used by beef cows · in the world · as of 2024-06-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 2% (percent) — share of calories produced by beef cows · in the world · as of 2024-06-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 5% (percent) — share of protein produced by beef cows · in the world · as of 2024-06-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says beef cows are currently the world's leading cause of deforestation. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says Americans agreed most cars should be SUVs or pickups, so the average new car weighs a thousand pounds more than in 1985, and houses are a thousand square feet bigger than in the 1980s. (00:01:27)
    • a thousand pounds — weight increase of the average new American car since 1985 · for American cars · in United States · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • a thousand square feet — size increase of American houses since the 1980s · for American houses · in United States · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says one drug, tobacco, at least partly causes about 13% of all human deaths in the world. (00:01:56)
    • 13 (percent) — share of human deaths at least partly caused by tobacco · for all humans · in the world · as of 2024-06-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says smoking became less cool partly through government regulation making tobacco more expensive and good anti-smoking campaigns, and US smoking and smoking deaths have dropped. (00:02:58)
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says feast days occur throughout the world and history, from Mesoamerica to the Islamic world to Europe: on agreed holidays communities feast, maybe on foods forbidden other days. (00:03:27)
  • 2024-06-11 · BEEF DAYS — John says that if his family sticks with beef days, they will reduce their beef consumption by around 90%. (00:03:57)
    • 90% (percent) — reduction of the family's beef consumption under beef days · for John's family · in United States · as of 2024-06-11 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! — Hank says the widely reported claim that coconuts kill 150 people a year, more than sharks, is incorrect, apparently poorly extrapolated from one study of coconut injuries in one country. (00:00:00)
    • 150 (people/year) — deaths caused by coconuts per year (claimed) · for people · as of 2024-07-26 (implied: upload date) · source: widely reported claim · unchecked
  • 2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! — Hank says reports of coconut fatalities show zero to two people killed a year by falling coconuts, fewer than the roughly ten killed yearly in unprovoked shark attacks. (00:00:37)
    • between zero and two (people/year) — deaths from falling coconuts per year · for people · as of 2024-07-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • roughly ten (people/year) — deaths in unprovoked shark attacks per year · for people · as of 2024-07-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! — Hank says floating coconuts need storms to push them beyond tidal areas: without storms they would not be effective seed dispersal, so storms that destroy coconut trees also sustain them. (00:01:06)
  • 2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! — Hank says the word cocoa (as in chocolate) comes from an indigenous word like cacao, corrupted into cocoa probably under the influence of the Spanish word for coconut. — hedged: “probably” (00:01:35)
  • 2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! — Hank says that by physiological grouping a coconut is a drupe, a fruit containing a single seed. (00:01:35)
  • 2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! — Hank says coconuts, strongly associated with Caribbean life, are not native to the Caribbean, which shocked him. (00:02:05)
  • 2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! — Hank says it is not certain where coconuts evolved, but before people moved them (for fresh water on voyages, and taste) they were probably confined to Southeast Asia and Indonesia, maybe Australia and southern India. — hedged: “probably” (00:02:05)
  • 2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! — Hank says coconuts seem to have first spread beyond that area with Polynesians. — hedged: “it seems like” (00:02:05)
  • 2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! — Hank says coconuts do not stay viable long floating on the ocean, so they needed humans to reach their current circum-equatorial range, including the Caribbean. (00:02:49)
  • 2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! — Hank says drinking too much coconut water could kill you: a very large dose has enough potassium to make the heart beat abnormally, fatal without help. (00:02:49)
  • 2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! — Hank cites a case study of a man who drank 11 coconut waters; his condition was life-threatening but he did not die. (00:02:49)
    • 11 (coconut waters) — coconut waters drunk in a case study of a life-threatening reaction · for one man · as of 2024-07-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-07-26 · Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! — Hank shows a fossilized coconut from an early coconut species that is the size of a strawberry. (00:03:19)
  • 2024-08-02 · My Letter to the Future — Hank says America a hundred years ago seems bizarre: women had only just voted in their first presidential election, children often died of infectious disease, and getting from New York to Los Angeles in less than a week took luck. (00:00:00)
    • less than a week — travel time from New York to Los Angeles · for travellers · in United States · as of 1924 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Sofishtication: Jaida says people are shocked that the largest fish on the planet is a shark, the whale shark; the largest recorded was around 61 feet long. — hedged: “I think” (00:01:27)
    • around 61 (feet) — length of the largest whale shark ever recorded · for whale sharks · as of 2024-08-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Sofishtication: Jaida says the average whale shark is closer to about 35 feet long. (00:01:56)
    • closer to like 35 (feet) — average whale shark length · for whale sharks · as of 2024-08-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Sofishtication: Jaida says bull sharks swim in fresh water, and one has been found so far up the Mississippi that it was in Illinois. (00:02:31)
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Sofishtication: Jaida says the whale shark is a filter feeder whose teeth are no more than a couple of centimeters long and which cannot swallow anything bigger than a grapefruit. (00:02:31)
    • no more than a couple (centimeters) — whale shark tooth length · for whale sharks · as of 2024-08-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Sofishtication: Jaida says whale sharks eat zooplankton (correcting herself from phytoplankton) and also sargassum seaweed, making them the second shark species identified as omnivorous, after the bonnethead. (00:03:00)
    • second (rank) — order of identification as an omnivorous shark species · for whale shark · as of 2024-08-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Sofishtication: Jaida says the bonnethead, the smallest hammerhead species, eats and digests seagrass for nutrients; scientists had thought both sharks ate plants only incidentally. (00:03:00)
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Hank's best shark fact begins: sharks are less related to bass than bass are to humans. (00:03:44)
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Hank says bony fish share traits, including scales, as mammals share traits like hair and (Jaida adds) mammary glands; cartilaginous fish have no fish scales. (00:04:43)
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Hank says sharks instead have dermal denticles ('skin teeth'), which are called that not because they resemble teeth but because they are teeth. (00:04:43)
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Hank says that, as our nails, skin and hair share keratin, sharks used the same biochemical mechanisms to make skin teeth with dentine inside and enamel outside, chemically like our teeth. (00:05:17)
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Hank says sharks replace their skin teeth as they replace mouth teeth, and make more as they grow to fill the gaps. (00:05:46)
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Sofishtication: Jaida says whale sharks have dermal denticles on their eyeballs, discovered around 2020 when someone first looked at a whale shark eye under a microscope. — hedged: “I believe” (00:05:46)
    • 2020 (year) — year whale shark eye denticles were discovered · for whale sharks · as of 2024-08-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-30 · The Two Coolest Things we Know About Sharks — Hank says there used to be a shark that could eat an orca in five bites and a person in half a bite; Jaida, naming the megalodon, wishes it were still alive. (00:07:02)
    • five (bites) — bites needed to eat an orca · for megalodon · as of 2024-08-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — In the description Hank adds, not fully sure, that the UK was so good for coal formation partly because it was very wet: swamps prevent the fires that release trees' carbon. — hedged: “I think” (video description)
    • hundreds of millions of years ago — when the UK's coal formed · for coal deposits · in United Kingdom · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — In a comment Hank says scientists are unsure about that extinction: it is geologically messy, mostly of ocean organisms, and may have been a very slow mass extinction. — hedged: “may” (creator comment)
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank says that 300 million years ago, on the warm swampy land that would become the UK, land plants went within about 50 million years from about 30 cm to about 30 m maximum height. (00:00:29)
    • around 50 million years — time for land plants' maximum height to rise from about 30 cm to about 30 m · for land plants · in Earth · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • around 30 centimeters (cm) — maximum height of land plants before the rise · for land plants · in Earth · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • around 30 meters — maximum height of land plants after the rise · for land plants · in Earth · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank explains that plants reaching higher got more sunlight while shaded ones died, creating strong selective pressure toward height that produced tougher plant tissues and big deep roots. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank says there was a big gap between plants making hard tissues and other organisms learning to break them down, so plants pulled carbon dioxide from the air with few paths back: the opposite of today's problem. (00:01:10)
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank says plummeting atmospheric carbon dioxide, combined with tree roots breaking up rocks and releasing minerals into the oceans, probably kicked off the late Devonian mass extinction. — hedged: “probably” (00:01:27)
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank says the undecomposed vegetation was buried and pressed by geological processes into coal, which happened a lot 300 million years ago in the warm swampy centre of Pangea. (00:01:56)
    • 300 million years ago — when much coal formed in the centre of Pangea · for coal deposits · in Pangea · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank says people on that land began digging up and burning the coal for heat and cooking around 2000 years ago, but it stayed insignificant until about 150 years ago. (00:02:11)
    • around 2000 years ago — when people in what is now the UK began burning coal · for people of the land that became the UK · in United Kingdom · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank says the UK's ancient history, the tectonic luck that kept coal near the surface, and its people's history and culture made it start an ever-rising process of digging up and burning coal. (00:02:26)
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank says the first ever coal-fired power plant was built in London in 1882. (00:02:44)
    • 1882 (year) — year the first coal-fired power plant was built · for coal-fired power plants · in London · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank says coal produced 76% of the UK's power at its peak, around 40 years ago. (00:02:49)
    • 76% — coal's share of the UK's power at its peak · for UK power generation · in United Kingdom · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank shows a video of the UK's power mix from this week (week of 30 September 2024): the UK's last coal-fired power plant has shut down, ending a 300-million-year-old story. (00:03:04)
    • 300 million year old — age of the story of UK coal, from formation to the last plant's shutdown · for UK coal · in United Kingdom · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank says the rise of natural gas as a cleaner, cheaper fuel drove much of coal's decline from the 1990s, as did the UK's Climate Change Act. (00:03:10)
    • the 90s — when UK coal power began to plummet from its peak · for UK power generation · in United Kingdom · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank says that in 2015 the UK said it would phase out coal over the next 10 years, and then it did. (00:03:26)
    • 2015 (year) — year the UK pledged to phase out coal · for United Kingdom · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 10 years — pledged period for phasing out coal · for United Kingdom · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank says a big part of coal's end was the UK's geographic luck of a relatively fantastic position for wind resources. (00:03:33)
  • 2024-10-04 · Trees are Destroying the Earth (Again) — Hank says per capita CO2 emissions in the UK are now lower than they were in 1854. (00:03:50)
    • 1854 (year) — year whose UK per capita CO2 emissions exceed today's · for UK residents · in United Kingdom · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-04 · October 4, 2024 — Hank says he did the math once: one tree absorbing all the carbon dioxide emitted since the Industrial Revolution would need three or four times the mass of every tree on Earth combined. — hedged: “like” (00:00:00)
    • three or four (times) — mass of a tree absorbing all CO2 emitted since the Industrial Revolution, relative to the mass of all trees on Earth · for all trees on Earth · in Earth · as of 2024-10-04 (implied: upload date) · source: Hank · unchecked
  • 2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Lindsay Nikole: Lindsay says 25% of all discovered animal species are beetles, some 350,000 species; Hank had heard it only as a share of insects. (00:00:00)
    • 25% — share of discovered animal species that are beetles · for animal species described · in the world · as of 2024-11-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 350,000 (species) — number of described beetle species · for beetles · in the world · as of 2024-11-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Lindsay Nikole: Lindsay says many species remain unfound: scientists estimate about 10 million insect species alone, and 1.5 million have been found. — hedged: “what, like” (00:00:30)
    • 10 million (species) — estimated number of insect species · for insects · in the world · as of 2024-11-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1.5 million (species) — number of species found (scope unclear: insects or all species) · for species described · in the world · as of 2024-11-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Lindsay Nikole: Lindsay says weevils are beetles and the biggest group of beetles; the weevil, especially the acorn weevil, is her favourite beetle form. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Hank says beetles have good protection but also wings, which they can hide. (00:01:28)
  • 2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Lindsay Nikole: Lindsay says we humans are fish; Hank says only taxonomically, not morphologically, and Lindsay says whales fall under the same category. (00:01:57)
  • 2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Lindsay Nikole: Lindsay objects that whales swim with different undulations and have no gills. (00:01:57)
  • 2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Lindsay Nikole: Lindsay says there are about seven different phyla of worms. — hedged: “like” (00:04:16)
    • seven (phyla) — number of animal phyla called worms · for worms · in the world · as of 2024-11-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-15 · Whales are Fish (and Everything Else is Beetles) with Lindsay Nikole — Hank says most animals on Earth are probably worms, because of nematodes. — hedged: “I think” (00:04:16)
  • 2024-12-06 · One of the Most Important Images On Earth — Hank says the painting was found in a cave in Spain, and new radiometric dating in 2018 showed some of its paint is over 60,000 years old. (00:00:47)
    • over 60,000 years old — age of the oldest paint in the cave painting · in Spain · as of 2018 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-12-06 · One of the Most Important Images On Earth — Hank says modern humans only reached Spain 20,000 years ago, then corrects himself: there were people in Spain 60,000 years ago, just not humans but Neanderthals. (00:01:01)
    • 20,000 years ago — time of arrival of modern humans · for modern humans · in Spain · as of 2024-12-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · doubtful
  • 2024-12-06 · One of the Most Important Images On Earth — Hank says the new dating of this cave and several others revealed several examples of Neanderthal art that we can see and share. (00:01:14)
  • 2024-12-06 · One of the Most Important Images On Earth — Hank says Neanderthals used tools, had rituals, made art and lived alongside anatomically modern humans. (00:01:31)
  • 2024-12-06 · One of the Most Important Images On Earth — Hank says Homo sapiens once shared the planet with three other species of people (Neanderthals, Denisovans, Floresiensis), maybe more, since Floresiensis was found only about 20 years ago. — hedged: “And maybe more” (00:01:44)
    • three — number of other human species that coexisted with Homo sapiens · for human species · as of 2024-12-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • like 20 years ago — time since the discovery of Homo floresiensis · as of 2024-12-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-12-06 · One of the Most Important Images On Earth — Hank says living humans carry pieces of these species' genomes: many people in Asia have Denisovan DNA, and almost everyone not of direct African descent has Neanderthal DNA. (00:02:00)
  • 2024-12-06 · One of the Most Important Images On Earth — Hank says DNA from a bone fragment of a person born around 50,000 years ago was exactly half Neanderthal and half Denisovan: a first-generation hybrid of two non-human species. (00:02:07)
    • around 50,000 years ago — birth date of a Neanderthal-Denisovan first-generation hybrid · for one individual known from a bone fragment · as of 2024-12-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · doubtful
    • exactly half — share of Neanderthal DNA in the hybrid's genome · for one individual known from a bone fragment · as of 2024-12-06 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-12-06 · One of the Most Important Images On Earth — Hank used to think humans killed off the Neanderthals, but says there is no evidence for that; small conflicts, rapid climate change, disease brought out of Africa or a combination could explain it. — hedged: “it could have been” (00:03:58)
  • 2024-12-06 · One of the Most Important Images On Earth — Hank says our ancestors knew they lived alongside these other people, told stories about them and interacted with them, which we can see in our genomes and on cave walls. (00:04:24)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — The description says Hank had not paid much attention, was shocked how different his perception was from the actual story, and found literally zero confirmed sightings of anything weird. (video description)
    • zero — confirmed sightings of anything weird · as of 2024-12-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — In a channel comment Hank says an orb zoomed in on by a news organization was an out-of-focus Venus. (creator comment)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank recounts that over the last month there have been thousands of sightings of drone-like objects. (00:00:29)
    • thousands — sightings of drone-like objects in the sky · as of 2024-12-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank reports that Congressman Jeff Van Drew claimed Iran has a mothership off the New Jersey coast that could be the drones' source. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank reports internet theories that the drones are aliens, a deep state plot against Donald Trump, or a distraction from healthcare frustration and the murder of Brian Thompson. (00:01:27)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says drones usually cannot be spotted by radar because they fly too low and are too small to tell from birds, so radar invisibility is not mysterious. (00:01:56)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says depth perception from two eyes only works to about 18 feet; beyond that the two images are basically the same. (00:02:55)
    • about 18 feet — maximum distance at which binocular depth perception works · for humans · as of 2024-12-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says sizing objects in the sky is hard: an unfamiliar thing more than about 20 feet away with nothing to compare it to is hard to judge, and distant buildings can make it seem large, as with the moon illusion. (00:03:24)
    • 20 feet — distance beyond which the size of an unfamiliar object with no reference is hard to judge · for humans · as of 2024-12-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says that when we are primed to see a certain thing we are more likely to see it, which has been studied in many ways. (00:05:50)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank cites priming studies: people are slow to identify a loaf of bread shown in a barn, and a flash of a threatening face makes neutral faces seem scary. (00:05:50)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says a worrying video a friend sent him was a sped-up video of airplanes coming in to land in New Jersey. (00:06:19)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says another video of something trailed in the sky shows a plane with a strangely oriented condensation trail, not a drone. (00:06:49)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says police and maybe other agencies are sending up big drones to find the other drones, and these are then spotted and posted online. — hedged: “maybe” (00:07:47)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank explains the orbs as out-of-focus points of light, called circles of confusion or blur spots, plus atmospheric wiggles and dirt on the lens. (00:08:16)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says intentional hoaxes follow: a video taken credulously on TikTok came from an account that posted a very similar, clearly fake video. (00:08:45)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says the congressman who claimed an Iranian mothership did walk it back, and hopes it damages his credibility a bit. (00:10:05)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says the objects are most often spotted between dusk and 11pm, when people are awake and it is dark, making it easy to mistake planes or small drones. (00:11:04)
    • between dusk and 11pm — time window when the objects are most likely to be spotted · as of 2024-12-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says the objects all use FAA-regulated lighting, which makes them very visible when turning the lights off would hide them. (00:11:33)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says the third thing he knows is that people have a very long history of seeing things in the sky that freak them out and turn out to be nothing out of the ordinary. (00:11:33)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says Vice then published 'The Colorado Mystery Drones Weren't Real', finding almost all sightings were commercial aircraft, stars, planets or small recreational drones. (00:12:39)
  • 2024-12-20 · Fine, I'll Talk About the Drones… — Hank says 'unidentified flying object' meant something unidentified, but people leapt from 'I don't know' to 'I do know' so UFO became a word for aliens. (00:14:07)

Internet & YouTube (113)

  • 2024-01-02 · Being Old on YouTube — John says their public conversation has lasted over a third of both their lives; each has uploaded over 1,100 videos, viewed over 980 million times in total, less than one-fifth of Gangnam Style's views. (00:00:58)
    • over a third (share) — share of each brother's life spent in the Vlogbrothers conversation · for John and Hank Green · as of 2024-01-02 · no source named · unchecked
    • over 1,100 (videos) — videos uploaded to Vlogbrothers by each brother · for John and Hank Green · as of 2024-01-02 · no source named · unchecked
    • more than 980 million (views) — total views of Vlogbrothers videos · for Vlogbrothers · as of 2024-01-02 · no source named · unchecked
    • less than one-fifth (ratio) — Vlogbrothers total views relative to the views of the Gangnam Style video · for Vlogbrothers · as of 2024-01-02 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-02 · Being Old on YouTube — John says over a hundred thousand people still show up to watch these videos, which amazes him. (00:03:59)
    • over a hundred thousand (people) — viewers who watch each Vlogbrothers video · for Vlogbrothers audience · as of 2024-01-02 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank worries about rising nationalism and nativism, which he says increased global conflicts, with deaths in wars rising for the last three years. (00:00:29)
    • three (years) — consecutive years of rising deaths in wars · for world population · in the world · as of 2023 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank says the people and companies whose words and art trained the AI models are pushing back, partly because they never gave permission for that training. (00:02:31)
  • 2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank's second thought: the expected big recession did not happen; the US had a stronger economy and labor market than nearly any developed country and reined in inflation best. (00:03:00)
  • 2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank says the second shock is a pandemic that has killed millions of people and disabled countless others. (00:03:58)
    • millions (deaths) — deaths from the pandemic · for world population · in the world · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-05 · I'm Scared of 2024...So Here's 3 Optimistic Thoughts — Hank says that in the last year incidents of disruptive passengers on airplanes went down 80%. (00:05:11)
    • 80% (percent) — decrease in incidents of disruptive passengers on airplanes · for airline passengers · as of 2023 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — In a comment Hank says AI-image detectors already exist but, like human BS filters, need constant updating and are not 100% accurate. (creator comment)
    • 100% (percent) — accuracy of AI-image detectors (not reached) · for AI-image detection tools · as of 2024-01-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — Hank says every Magic card since the game began has featured art by a human artist, building a strong relationship between fantasy artists and the company. (00:00:12)
    • 1990s — start of human-artist card art · for Magic: The Gathering cards · as of 2024-01-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — Hank says the company behind Magic has said it will never use AI-generated images as card art. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — The Magic Twitter account posted an image of card reprints whose background looked AI-generated; when people noticed, the account doubled down that a human made it. (00:00:33)
  • 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — Hank says AI is currently terrible at letters and numbers. (00:01:56)
  • 2024-01-12 · How to Detect AI Images (and why it doesn't matter) — The Magic Twitter account later confirmed Hank's suspicion: it had trusted a vendor who said the image was not AI-generated, but it was. (00:03:45)
  • 2024-01-26 · On YouTuber Retirement — Hank notes that comedians who film a special tend never to do that show again after its release, because people have seen the jokes. (00:00:50)
  • 2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End — John says most TV shows last only one or two seasons. (00:00:22)
    • one or two seasons — typical run of a TV show · for most TV shows · as of 2024-01-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End — John says Grey's Anatomy has run 19 years, about a year and a half longer than Vlogbrothers, and Law and Order SVU 25 years, but these are exceptions. (00:00:29)
    • 19 years — time on air · for Grey's Anatomy · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • about a year and a half — age difference between Grey's Anatomy and Vlogbrothers · for Grey's Anatomy vs Vlogbrothers · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • 25 years — time on air · for Law and Order SVU · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End — John says even very successful shows often don't last long: Friends ran 10 seasons, The Office 9, The West Wing 8. (00:00:33)
    • 10 seasons — number of seasons · for Friends · as of 2024-01-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 9 (seasons) — number of seasons · for The Office · as of 2024-01-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 8 (seasons) — number of seasons · for The West Wing · as of 2024-01-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End — John says most successful creators of their moment move on from YouTube: of the featured creators at the first VidCon in 2010, almost none make their living on YouTube today. (00:01:05)
    • almost none — featured creators who still make their living on YouTube · for featured creators at the first VidCon in 2010 · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-30 · How Vlogbrothers Will End — John says most pro athletes play one to four seasons before retiring, a few get 10, and very few, like Tom Brady, play 23. (00:02:03)
    • between one and four seasons — career length before retiring · for most professional athletes · as of 2024-01-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 10 (seasons) — career length · for a few professional athletes · as of 2024-01-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 23 seasons — career length · for Tom Brady · as of 2024-01-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — The description says, depending on start date and data set, rent and income can diverge substantially or stay close, though all data sets show divergence in 2022 and 2023. (video description)
    • diverging — rent versus income across all data sets · for US renters · in United States · as of 2022-2023 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank says the graph's note is wrong: income was adjusted for inflation but rent was not, which is most of the reason the lines diverge. (00:00:20)
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank says rent as a share of income has risen considerably since 2000 and skyrocketed in 2022 and 2023, varying a lot by region. (00:01:17)
    • increased quite a lot — rent as a percentage of income · for US renters · in United States · as of 2000-2023 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank says the places where rent has risen most are the places with the largest homeless populations. (00:01:17)
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank says the tweet claimed Goodall said reducing world population to its level of 500 years ago would solve all the world's problems, but she never said this. (00:02:16)
    • 500 years ago — world population level the tweet attributed to Goodall's goal · for world population · in Earth · as of 2024-03-08 (implied: upload date) · source: Twitter · unchecked
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Jon Stewart (quoted): In a clip, Jon Stewart, discussing whether Americans are the most taxed people, reads 8% as the average tax burden. (00:04:14)
    • 8% (percent) — average tax burden · for Americans · in United States · as of 2024-03-08 (implied: upload date) · source: Jon Stewart · unchecked
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank says he should have known, having read many times that the average US tax burden is 25%. (00:04:14)
    • 25% (percent) — average tax burden · for US taxpayers · in United States · as of 2024-03-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank says Stewart had just talked about sales, property and gas taxes, but the 8% excludes them: it is only federal income tax for a married one-earner couple with two children, not most families. (00:04:59)
    • 8% (percent) — federal income tax as a share of income · for married one-earner couples with two children · in United States · as of 2024-03-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank says the figure was also for that household during the pandemic, when government payments counted as tax coming back, lowering the effective rate. (00:04:59)
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank says the US tax burden as a share of GDP is low globally, so there is no need to make anything up about it. (00:05:28)
    • low (percent) — tax burden as a percentage of GDP, compared globally · for US · in United States · as of 2024-03-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — NOAA provides data on the number of natural disasters causing over a billion dollars in damage per year, which Scientific American graphed. (00:05:58)
    • more than a billion dollars (USD) — damage threshold for counted natural disasters · for natural disasters · in United States · as of 2024-03-08 (implied: upload date) · source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration · unchecked
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Voicing Twitter critics he found convincing, Hank says the US population grew from 230 million to 340 million since 1980, all requiring building. (00:06:27)
    • 230 million (people) — number of people living in the US · for US population · in United States · as of 1980 · no source named · unchecked
    • 340 million (people) — number of people living in the US · for US population · in United States · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank says NOAA's numbers adjust for inflation but not for more than half of US buildings being built after 1980, so the graph better reflects total building value than climate disasters. (00:06:56)
    • more than half (fraction) — share of US buildings built after 1980 · for US buildings · in United States · as of 1980 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank says climate change is part but not all of the reason the graph rises, and disasters are increasing, especially heavy rainfall events and heat waves. (00:07:25)
  • 2024-03-08 · I Believed These Four Lies — Hank says data clearly show misinformation is a bigger problem on the right than on the left. (00:08:24)
  • 2024-03-22 · The Internet Needs to Change — Hank says recommendation machines make more recommendations in a day than humanity did in its first 200,000 years. (00:01:42)
    • 200,000 years — span of early human history whose total recommendations the machines exceed in one day · for humanity · as of 2024-03-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-21 · Getting Personal about Getting Personal — John says Hank's cancer socks could not have succeeded without Hank talking about his cancer, and raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for better cancer care in impoverished communities: a benefit worth the cost. (00:04:15)
    • hundreds of thousands of dollars (USD) — money raised by Hank's Cancer Socks for cancer care in impoverished communities · as of 2024-05-21 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-31 · The People I Hate Most in the World — Hank says Crash Course spends around five cents for every learner it reaches, which is the currency of the coins. (00:03:24)
    • five cents (USD) — Crash Course spending per learner reached · for Crash Course learners · as of 2024-05-31 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — In a channel comment Hank clarifies that Crooks gave to a progressive get-out-the-vote organization through ActBlue, a payment processor. (creator comment)
  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says that on Sunday everybody, including him in a text to John, said Trump would now definitely win, but the attempt does not seem to have changed polling much. — hedged: “does not seem to” (00:01:49)
  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says the most important thing doomscrolling revealed was the shooter's identity: white, American, not a recent immigrant. (00:02:01)
  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says Crooks was a registered Republican who once gave $15 to a progressive get-out-the-vote organization. (00:03:58)
    • $15 (USD) — Crooks's donation to a progressive get-out-the-vote organization · for Thomas Crooks · as of 2024-07-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says Crooks was wearing a shirt from a gun-focused YouTube channel. (00:04:05)
  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says it was later reported that Crooks once told a classmate he was stupid for supporting Trump. (00:04:09)
  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says the progressive donation was not from a 69-year-old Thomas Crooks in Pittsburgh but from the shooter, four years earlier, at 17. (00:04:35)
    • 17 (years) — Crooks's age when he made the donation · for Thomas Crooks · as of 2024-07-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 69 (years) — age of a namesake Thomas Crooks · for Thomas Crooks of Pittsburgh · in Pittsburgh · as of 2024-07-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says a viral tweet tied the donation to the 69-year-old but linked nothing; it only noted that such a namesake exists. (00:04:45)
    • 69 (years) — age of the namesake Thomas Crooks named in a viral tweet · for Thomas Crooks of Pittsburgh · as of 2024-07-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says the donation record listed Crooks's address, blacked out in the social media screenshot, so it was him. (00:05:03)
  • 2024-07-19 · The Assassination Attempt and the Comfort of Certainty — Hank says Crooks googled where Joe Biden and Donald Trump would be, and also Merrick Garland, Christopher Wray and an unnamed member of the British royal family. (00:05:57)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank reports that 404 Media found a generative AI video company, Runway, trained on thousands of videos without permission, including thousands of SciShow and Crash Course videos. (00:00:00)
    • thousands (videos) — videos used without permission to train Runway's model · for YouTube videos · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — In a channel comment, Hank says he still owns his video after uploading it; he has read the license. (creator comment)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — In a channel comment, Hank says he has heard YouTube is working hard to stop scraping. (creator comment)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank reports that a Proof News investigation found transcripts of 173,536 YouTube videos were provided to Apple, Salesforce, Nvidia and Anthropic to train their models. (00:00:29)
    • 173,536 (videos) — YouTube videos whose transcripts were provided for AI training · for YouTube videos · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · source: Proof News · unchecked
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says Proof News's searchable database shows SciShow, Crash Course, Eons and Vlogbrothers are all in the training data, and probably any YouTuber a viewer likes. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says a substantial majority of creators he has talked to, whether artists, photographers, musicians or YouTubers, don't want their work used to train AI, or want an opt-out. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank distinguishes generative AI from artificial general intelligence, which he calls a vastly different thing that doesn't exist. (00:01:56)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says his company has more videos in the dataset than almost anyone: Marques Brownlee 9, MrBeast 19, Mark Rober 24, MinutePhysics 85, against Vlogbrothers 188, SciShow over 300, Crash Course 982. — hedged: “from what I can tell” (00:02:26)
    • 9 (videos) — videos in the Proof News training-data database · for Marques Brownlee's channel · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · source: Proof News · unchecked
    • 19 (videos) — videos in the Proof News training-data database · for MrBeast's channel · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · source: Proof News · unchecked
    • 24 (videos) — videos in the Proof News training-data database · for Mark Rober's channel · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · source: Proof News · unchecked
    • 85 (videos) — videos in the Proof News training-data database · for MinutePhysics · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · source: Proof News · unchecked
    • 188 (videos) — videos in the Proof News training-data database · for Vlogbrothers · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · source: Proof News · unchecked
    • over 300 (videos) — videos in the Proof News training-data database · for SciShow · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · source: Proof News · unchecked
    • 982 (videos) — videos in the Proof News training-data database · for Crash Course · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · source: Proof News · unchecked
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says the only channel he has seen with more videos in the dataset is Khan Academy; TED-Ed has over 400 and MIT hundreds. (00:02:55)
    • over 400 (videos) — videos in the Proof News training-data database · for TED-Ed · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · source: Proof News · unchecked
    • hundreds (videos) — videos in the Proof News training-data database · for MIT · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · source: Proof News · unchecked
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says the taken material is the property of 50,000 independent creators with fairly big audiences, who will go to bat for them when asked. (00:04:22)
    • 50,000 (creators) — independent creators whose videos are in AI training data · for YouTube · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Neal Mohan (quoted): In a Bloomberg interview, YouTube CEO Neal Mohan says that if YouTube were used to train Sora, it would be against YouTube's policy. (00:05:21)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Neal Mohan (quoted): Mohan says YouTube's terms of service allow scraping titles, channel names and creator names, but downloading transcripts or video is a clear violation. (00:05:21)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Neal Mohan (quoted): Asked whether Google uses YouTube to train Gemini, Mohan says Google uses YouTube content in accordance with the terms of service or individual contracts with creators. (00:06:36)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says that unlike record labels or legacy media, YouTubers like him and Marques Brownlee have no special deal: all share the standard terms of service. (00:06:36)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank reads the terms-of-service license: uploaders grant YouTube a worldwide, royalty-free, sub-licensable, transferable license including to prepare derivative works. (00:07:25)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank reads that the New York Times lawsuit seeks billions in damages from OpenAI for unlawful copying and calls for destroying models and training data using Times material. (00:08:24)
    • billions of dollars (USD) — statutory and actual damages sought · for OpenAI · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · source: The New York Times · unchecked
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says that at one point OpenAI's model, asked to finish an article, would show the text of a paywalled article. (00:08:53)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank explains generative AI works only by training on enormous data and needs ever more; OpenAI made ChatGPT, which started the boom, by training on everything. (00:12:56)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank explains the open web is narrower than the internet: emails, paywalled content and pages telling crawlers not to index them are not part of it. (00:13:53)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says OpenAI, part-owned by Microsoft, built ChatGPT on everything including gray-area material: books, YouTube transcripts and paywalled content. (00:15:21)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says training data is finite, more is better, Google and OpenAI have gathered basically all of it, and now they are losing some to legal doubts. (00:16:20)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Touring YouTube's robots.txt, Hank shows all robots are barred from some pages but welcome on video and channel pages, while Google Media Partners' robots may go anywhere. (00:18:16)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank explains robots.txt, a public file on nearly every site, as the original way websites told crawlers which parts they may scrape. (00:18:46)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says what worries Mohan is companies using robots to scrape YouTube data that YouTube forbids, against its terms of service and possibly the law. (00:19:15)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank shows that a month ago Reddit's robots.txt left almost all of Reddit open to search engines, while today it disallows all robots. (00:20:13)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says that after ChatGPT OpenAI was worth about $86 billion, and Anthropic, Google, Apple, Meta and Nvidia rushed to build their own LLMs from internet data. (00:20:13)
    • $86 billion (USD) — company valuation · for OpenAI · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says Reddit, blocking all scrapers, has done deals with OpenAI and Google letting them train on its data for pay, sending it to them directly. (00:21:21)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank reads Reddit's user license: a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, transferable, sub-licensable license including to prepare derivative works, much like YouTube's. (00:22:28)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says X recently let Twitter users opt out of having their data used to train its LLMs, with the box checked by default. (00:25:49)
  • 2024-08-23 · Is Google Training AI on YouTube Videos? — Hank says that in 2026 the EU's AI law will require disclosure of training data. (00:26:37)
    • 2026 (year) — year the EU AI Act requires training-data disclosure · for AI companies · in European Union · as of 2024-08-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John says money investors in early YouTube became phenomenally wealthy: every $100 invested, rolled into Google stock, is now worth more than $5,000. (00:01:56)
    • more than $5,000 (USD) — value today of $100 invested in early YouTube and rolled over into Google stock · for investors in early YouTube · as of 2024-08-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John says about 3% of TikTok's revenue goes to independent creators and about 30% to record labels, because labels have far more collective bargaining power. (00:03:53)
    • something like 3% — share of TikTok's revenue going to independent creators · for independent creators · as of 2024-08-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • around 30% — share of TikTok's revenue going to record labels · for record labels · as of 2024-08-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John says YouTube became a massive business for Google because it decided long ago to share around 55% of revenue with independent creators and treat them much like large corporations. (00:04:22)
    • around 55% — share of YouTube revenue shared with independent creators · for independent creators on YouTube · as of 2024-08-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-27 · How The Internet Is Rigged — John says that decision let hundreds of thousands of creators make a living, made YouTube the most desirable platform, and produced a breadth and depth of content nobody can match. (00:04:37)
    • hundreds of thousands (creators) — creators making a living from YouTube · for YouTube creators · as of 2024-08-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-20 · Do I Regret TikTok? — Hank says almost half of Gen Z wishes TikTok had never been invented. (00:02:26)
    • Almost half (share) — share who wish TikTok had never been invented · for Gen Z · as of 2024-09-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-24 · The Forgotten Viral Video that Could Never be Made Today — The now almost forgotten video featured 90s celebrities: George Clooney, Erik Estrada, Whoopi Goldberg, Rosie O'Donnell, Alex Trebek, Pamela Anderson, Kevin Nealon, David Spade, Jerry Springer, Brad Pitt as Tyler Durden, Jerry O'Connell, Garry Shandling, Charles Nelson Reilly and Calista Flockhart. (00:00:29)
    • 90s — decade of the celebrities' fame · as of 2024-09-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-24 · The Forgotten Viral Video that Could Never be Made Today — Before social media there were instant messaging and bulletin board systems that almost no one used, but they created spaces where people could love things together. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-09-24 · The Forgotten Viral Video that Could Never be Made Today — In 1999, the year Napster launched, Bree Sharp released 'David Duchovny', a well-produced, funny X-Files fan song about being in love with the actor who plays Fox Mulder. (00:02:26)
    • 1999 — release year of Bree Sharp's 'David Duchovny' · as of 2024-09-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1999 — launch year of Napster · as of 2024-09-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-24 · The Forgotten Viral Video that Could Never be Made Today — In the late 90s sharing things online, specifically MP3s, got easier through Napster, an illegal music-sharing service. (00:02:26)
    • late 90s — period when sharing MP3s online became easier · as of 2024-09-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-24 · The Forgotten Viral Video that Could Never be Made Today — The song went viral among X-Files fans before the word existed, spreading through chats, bulletin boards and conversation; people downloaded Napster just to get it. (00:02:55)
  • 2024-09-24 · The Forgotten Viral Video that Could Never be Made Today — The song was also a hit with the X-Files crew, and two people who worked on the show filmed and edited a music video for it purely to play at their Christmas party. (00:03:24)
  • 2024-09-24 · The Forgotten Viral Video that Could Never be Made Today — In 1999 no one watched videos on the internet: for almost everyone it was too slow to download videos, especially five-minute ones; some college students had fast connections. (00:04:23)
    • five minutes — length of video too long to download in 1999 · as of 2024-09-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-24 · The Forgotten Viral Video that Could Never be Made Today — Napster could not handle video files, and more versatile peer-to-peer services like Kazaa arrived a couple of years after this video. (00:05:21)
  • 2024-09-24 · The Forgotten Viral Video that Could Never be Made Today — The video now has under half a million YouTube views, but when people emailed videos to each other in 1999 it was huge. (00:05:50)
    • half a million — YouTube views of the music video (said to be less than) · as of 2024-09-24 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-25 · You have no chance to survive make your time. — The story starts in 1991, when the Japanese video game Zero Wing was imported to the United States with truly terrible translation. (00:00:52)
    • 1991 — year Zero Wing was imported to the United States · in United States · as of 2024-09-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-25 · You have no chance to survive make your time. — In the game's intro the villain, a group called Cats, surprise-attacks the heroes and delivers the mistranslated lines that became the meme. (00:00:52)
  • 2024-09-25 · You have no chance to survive make your time. — The intro was posted on web forums in the 90s and became sort of semi-viral. (00:01:22)
    • 90s — period the Zero Wing intro was posted on web forums · as of 2024-09-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-25 · You have no chance to survive make your time. — As Hank pointed out, meme culture 25 years ago was vastly different: the internet was mostly text, static images and GIFs, while today asking for Pizzamas memes brings a cornucopia. (00:01:22)
    • 25 years ago — time since meme culture was very different · as of 2024-09-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-25 · You have no chance to survive make your time. — In 2000 a band released a song mixing the game music with a propulsive beat and a synthy voice. (00:02:05)
    • 2000 — release year of the band's All Your Base song · as of 2024-09-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-25 · You have no chance to survive make your time. — Back then photographic memes were quite rare because they needed Photoshop or other editing software. (00:02:05)
  • 2024-09-25 · You have no chance to survive make your time. — Chasing internet points, people posted All Your Base memes, especially on the Something Awful forums, putting the phrase on iconic contemporary photos. (00:02:05)
  • 2024-09-25 · You have no chance to survive make your time. — People then made a music video of the song from Zero Wing clips and the Something Awful memes; that was the first video John saw on YouTube. (00:02:34)
  • 2024-11-05 · Why Do I Still Make YouTube Videos? — John says Crash Course has helped educate hundreds of millions of people and Good Store has donated over $8 million to support stronger healthcare systems. (00:04:23)
    • hundreds of millions (people) — people educated by Crash Course · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • over $8 million (USD) — Good Store donations to support stronger healthcare systems · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says radio was invented in the 1890s, many homes had radios only from the 1920s, and by the 1930s they were cheap and easy to get. (00:00:58)
    • 1890s — decade radio was invented · as of 2024-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1920s — decade when many people began to have radios at home · as of 2024-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1930s — decade when radios became cheap and easy to get · as of 2024-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says Germany was hit hard by paying World War I reparations, though how much that contributed is apparently debated by historians. — hedged: “apparently” (00:01:54)
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says Father Coughlin, an early radio preacher attacking elites, banks and Jews, drew millions of listeners and spoke of Hitler with great appreciation. (00:03:51)
    • Millions — listeners of Father Coughlin's broadcasts · in United States · as of 2024-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says Coughlin urged US cooperation with Nazi Germany and attacked FDR and Jews; as tensions rose, the public and government got stations to drop his broadcasts. (00:05:22)
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says Johannes Gutenberg invented Europe's movable-type press to end hand-copying; early demand was mostly from powerful institutions, largely the Catholic Church. (00:08:08)
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says printers profited from Martin Luther's cheap pamphlets while Luther, like everyone on Twitter, made no money from them. (00:09:06)
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says Luther hated Jews, called the Pope the Antichrist, and urged landowners to kill rebelling peasants; 100,000 to 300,000 were killed. (00:10:34)
    • between 100,000 and 300,000 — peasants killed in the rebellion · as of 2024-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says college prices have risen for 50 years, saddling students with lifelong debt, and over half of students with debt never get a degree: bad, and our fault to fix. (00:29:24)
    • the last 50 years — period over which college prices have risen · as of 2024-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • more than 50% — share of students with debt who never get a degree · for students with debt · as of 2024-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank asks whether we can speedrun this: after print came 200 years of religious wars, and for 100 of them the second best-seller after the Bible was a witch-burning manual. (00:29:53)
    • 200 years — duration of religious wars after the print revolution · in Europe · as of 2024-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • a hundred — years in which a book on identifying and burning witches was the best-seller after the Bible · as of 2024-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says witches were long the populist target, with hundreds of thousands murdered, yet now witches are an adorable folksy thing in our culture. (00:30:23)
    • hundreds of thousands — people murdered as witches · as of 2024-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · doubtful
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says Luther's German was translated into other languages while the Church published only in Latin, which most people could neither read nor speak. (00:30:52)
  • 2024-11-22 · Populism, Media Revolutions, and Our Terrible Moment — Hank says the gap between the Reformation and the Enlightenment was more than 150 years. (00:32:19)
    • more than 150 years — time between the Reformation and the Enlightenment · in Europe · as of 2024-11-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-12-02 · John, You're Doing Great — Hank explains that the 'first pass', ridiculously named, is the last time an author can make edits to a book; the passes after it are just copy edits. (00:00:00)

US politics & society (95)

  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — In a comment John clarifies that $74,580 is the median, not the mean: half of US households earn more and half less. (creator comment)
    • $74,580 (USD) — median household income · for US households · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — In a comment John says overall US taxation is very similar to other OECD countries, so it cannot alone explain the health-care spending gap. (creator comment)
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — John says the median US age is 38.1, so the median person was born in 1986; since there are more women than men, she is female, and she is white. (00:00:14)
    • 38.1 years old — median age · for US residents · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — John names the median American Jessica, the most popular name in 1986, the year she was born. (00:00:29)
    • 1986 (year) — year in which Jessica was the most popular girls' name · for US births · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica lives in a household of 2.51 people and is married: slightly more US adults are currently married than divorced, widowed or never married. (00:00:29)
    • 2.51 people — household size · for US households · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica's household income last year (2023) was $74,580; about 15% went to taxes, another 15% to health care, and around a third to housing. (00:00:29)
    • $74,580 (USD) — median household income · for US households · in United States · as of 2023 · no source named · unchecked
    • About 15% (percent) — share of household income paid in taxes · for median US household · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • Another 15% (percent) — share of household income spent on health care · for median US household · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • around a third (fraction) — share of household income spent on housing · for median US household · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica's finances are challenging: her household lives paycheck to paycheck, with about $4,700 in savings and under $10,000 in a retirement account. (00:00:58)
    • about four thousand seven hundred dollars (USD) — household savings · for median US household · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • less than ten thousand dollars (USD) — retirement account balance · for median US household · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica lives in a suburb of a major metro area such as Dallas-Fort Worth or Sacramento, has a 27-minute commute to and from work, does not work from home, and lives within an hour of family in the area where she grew up. (00:00:58)
    • 27 minute — one-way commute time · for median US worker · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica has taken some college courses and may have an associate's degree, but has no bachelor's degree. — hedged: “she may have” (00:01:27)
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica identifies as Christian, goes to church a few times a year rather than weekly, and believes in an afterlife. (00:01:27)
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica is a registered independent who votes in some elections but not all. (00:01:27)
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica most likely works in one of the two largest US employment sectors, public education or health care, and gets her health insurance through work. — hedged: “most likely” (00:01:27)
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica identifies as straight and believes in marriage equality for LGBTQ people. (00:01:56)
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica is pro-choice and favors the death penalty, though she believes it is currently unjustly used. (00:01:56)
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica thinks gun ownership should be more restricted and has a very low opinion of politicians, especially Congress. (00:01:56)
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica drank alcohol in the last year but not the last month, reads one to five books a year, and spends about 2 hours 25 minutes a day on social media. (00:01:56)
    • between one and five (books) — books read per year · for US adults · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 2 hours and 25 minutes (time) — daily time on social media · for US adults · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica spends 30 to 60 minutes a day outside, so she spends more time on Instagram than outdoors. (00:02:26)
    • more than 30 minutes per day — daily time outdoors (lower bound) · for US adults · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • less than one hour — daily time outdoors (upper bound) · for US adults · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica works 36.4 hours a week and spends 101 minutes a day in her car, most likely a pickup truck. — hedged: “most likely” (00:02:26)
    • 36.4 hours — weekly working hours · for US workers · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 101 minutes — daily time spent in a car · for US adults · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica is very happy with family and work but less with health and income; overall, she would call herself pretty happy. (00:02:55)
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica is about five feet four inches tall and weighs about 155 pounds. (00:02:55)
    • five feet, four inches (height) — adult height · for US adults · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 155 pounds — adult weight · for US adults · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — As of late 2023 Jessica had a positive opinion of Taylor Swift. (00:02:55)
    • late 2023 (date) — as-of date of positive opinion of Taylor Swift · for US adults · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica eats out at least weekly and drinks coffee daily, possibly more coffee than tap water. — hedged: “she might” (00:02:55)
  • 2024-02-27 · I Was Wrong about the Average American — Jessica sleeps about six hours 48 minutes a night and wants to get the federally recommended 150 minutes of weekly exercise but doesn't. (00:03:24)
    • 150 minutes per week — federally recommended weekly exercise · for US adults · in United States · as of 2024-02-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — The description says Pete Buttigieg, as Secretary of Transportation, runs the 55,000-person US Department of Transportation. (video description)
    • 55,000 (people) — employees of the US Department of Transportation · for US Department of Transportation staff · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: The DOT's triskelion pin represents the three areas it transports in: water, sky and ground. (00:00:31)
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says who owns an airport depends, but it is usually the city or the county. (00:01:00)
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says airports are funded partly by local government and partly by passenger facility charges, one of the many charges added to an airline ticket. (00:01:00)
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says airlines sometimes invest in airports, and in Missoula he is celebrating the Biden-Harris administration's federal funds for the airport. (00:01:40)
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says airport control is becoming politically salient: states, notably in the South, are pressing to take control of locally run airports, which concerns the DOT. (00:01:40)
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Hank found that the passenger facility charge is not a percentage of the fare but a flat fee of $4.50 at almost every US airport. (00:01:40)
    • $4.50 (USD) — passenger facility charge per passenger · for airline passengers · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says most US airports were built before 9/11, so security checkpoints and layout must change; the DOT is funding replacements, down to taxiway geometry. (00:03:12)
    • pre 9-11 — when most US airports were built · for US airports · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Hank explains that an end-around taxiway makes planes travel farther but speeds things up and is safer, since planes need not cross active paths. (00:03:41)
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says safety is automated vehicles' biggest promise: human drivers kill about 40,000 people a year, as many as gun violence, with much less attention. (00:05:40)
    • about 40,000 (deaths/year) — road traffic deaths per year · for people killed by human drivers · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says chargers are less reliable than gas pumps because they are newer; federal standards for funded chargers include an uptime standard. (00:07:00)
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Hank says the infrastructure bill approved $7.5 billion for tens of thousands of chargers, but basically none are built, partly due to standards like 97% uptime. (00:07:30)
    • $7.5 billion (USD) — federal funding approved for EV fast chargers · for infrastructure bill · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • tens of thousands (chargers) — chargers planned under the funding · for EV fast chargers · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 97% (percent) — required uptime for funded chargers · for federally funded EV chargers · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Hank says state proposals slow the program down; it is expected to pick up in 2024, but basically none of the money has been spent. (00:07:59)
    • 2024 — year the federal charger buildout is expected to pick up · for federally funded EV chargers · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · source: officials · unchecked
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says EVs are where gas cars were around the Model T; Biden set a 500,000-charger goal for the decade, with federal funding where the market won't build. (00:09:33)
    • 500,000 (chargers) — EV charger goal by the end of the decade · for public EV chargers · in United States · as of 2030 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Hank says the DOT's separate $623 million for chargers puts half into locations for people in multifamily housing, where slow overnight charging suffices. (00:10:02)
    • $623 million (USD) — DOT funding for EV chargers · for EV chargers · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • Half — share of the $623 million for chargers serving multifamily housing · for residents of multifamily housing · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Correcting himself, Hank says Biden's cancer moonshot covers this: the Labor Department created resources to help workers with cancer, caregivers and survivors use FMLA rights. (00:13:02)
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says the Federal Highway Administration's Turner-Fairbank facility tests a dozen road strips with embedded sensor chips to optimize the next generation of paving. (00:15:38)
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Hank explains DARPA funds high-risk, high-reward research; its biggest launch was probably the internet, plus GPS, graphical interfaces and the mouse; ARPA-I would pursue far-out infrastructure ideas like self-healing concrete. — hedged: “probably” (00:16:36)
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Hank explains secretary birds are African birds of prey that eat snakes among other meat, though Wikipedia says snakes' importance has been exaggerated. (00:17:33)
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Hank says secretary birds may be named for guarding crops like a 'secretary of the field', or for quill-like head feathers and waistcoat look. — hedged: “possibly” (00:18:21)
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Hank says the infrastructure law funded a 185 mph line from Southern California to Las Vegas along I-15: two hours versus about four driving; Pete says it aims to run by 2028. (00:18:43)
    • 185 mile per hour (mph) — top speed of the planned train · for Southern California to Las Vegas high-speed rail · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • four hours — driving time from LA to Las Vegas · for drivers · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • two (hours) — train travel time from LA to Las Vegas · for high-speed rail passengers · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 2028 — target opening year · for Southern California to Las Vegas high-speed rail · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says Amtrak trains could be faster if the freight railroads owning the tracks yielded; a 50-year-old rule from Amtrak's formation requires host railroads to let passenger trains go first, but they often don't. (00:19:12)
    • 50 years ago — time since the Amtrak deal relieving railroads of common carrier obligations · for US freight railroads · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Hank explains the Surface Transportation Board, established in 1996, is an independent adjudicatory agency regulating rail rates, service, construction and abandonment. (00:19:58)
    • 1996 — year the Surface Transportation Board was established · for Surface Transportation Board · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says the independent Surface Transportation Board is stepping up enforcement, the DOT helps with data, and compliance has already improved. (00:20:27)
  • 2024-05-10 · Three Whole Onions with Secretary Pete Buttigieg — Pete Buttigieg: Pete says transportation and housing costs hit the monthly budget together, and for lower-income families they exceed 40 percent of the budget. (00:22:52)
    • 40 percent — share of family budget spent on transportation and housing · for lower-income families · in United States · as of 2024-05-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-07-05 · Should I Run for President?? — Hank says government is complex: the US president manages nearly 3 million federal employees, deals with foreign leaders, sends Americans to war, leads a party and must work with 535 members of Congress from 50 states. (00:01:27)
    • nearly 3 million (employees) — federal employees managed by the president · for US federal employees · in United States · as of 2024-07-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 535 (people) — members of Congress the president must work with · for US Congress · in United States · as of 2024-07-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 50 (states) — states the members of Congress come from · for US states · in United States · as of 2024-07-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-07-05 · Should I Run for President?? — Hank says one of Trump's best-known accomplishments, appointing more Supreme Court justices in four years than Obama did in eight, was something he could not have avoided. (00:02:59)
    • four years — period in which Trump appointed more Supreme Court justices than Obama · for Trump's term · in United States · as of 2024-07-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • eight (years) — period of Obama's presidency used for comparison · for Obama's terms · in United States · as of 2024-07-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-07-05 · Should I Run for President?? — Hank says the only major non-COVID legislation Trump's administration passed was one forgettable tax cut, though it had both houses of Congress for its first two years. (00:03:28)
    • first two years — period the Trump administration controlled both houses of Congress · for Trump administration · in United States · as of 2024-07-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — The description notes Montana has had a Democratic governor for 16 of the last 19 years, a reminder that politics, Montana and Gianforte are weird. (video description)
    • 16 of the last 19 years — years with a Democratic governor · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says women fear for privacy, abortion and health care: Montana is surrounded by four states that have drastically curtailed abortion rights. (00:02:43)
    • four — neighbouring states that have drastically curtailed abortion rights · for states bordering Montana · in United States · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says the state had a surplus of over $2.5 billion and need not raise property taxes; the previous four governors fixed the same appraisal problem, Gianforte did not. (00:07:11)
    • over a two and a half billion dollar (USD) — state budget surplus · for state of Montana · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • four — previous governors who fixed appraisal-driven property tax increases · for Montana governors · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says Montana is one of only nine states that tax Social Security and just put a tax on tips, showing ambivalence toward working people. (00:07:38)
    • nine — states that tax Social Security benefits · for US states · in United States · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says the fix is easy: the state applies one multiplier to appraisals, and adjusting that one number takes 30 minutes in the legislature. (00:08:43)
    • 30 minutes — time needed in the legislature to adjust the property tax multiplier · for Montana legislature · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says the state did not need the money and will have almost a $3 billion surplus next session. (00:09:08)
    • almost a three billion dollar (USD) — projected state budget surplus for the next session · for state of Montana · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says Gianforte blamed the county commissioners for the tax rise and then sued the counties to make them collect more; the Republican commissioners can't stand him. (00:09:33)
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — In an editing insert Hank explains that Gianforte gave $300,000 to help start a creationist museum in eastern Montana, which shows a stegosaurus being put on the ark. (00:10:12)
    • $300,000 (USD) — Greg Gianforte's gift to help start a creationist museum · in eastern Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says Gianforte kicked one in eight people, 136,000 Montanans, off Medicaid, while the state also refuses Medicaid expansion money. (00:12:37)
    • one in eight — share of people removed from Medicaid · for Montana residents · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 136,000 — people removed from Medicaid · for Montana residents · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says Gianforte, asked about the Medicaid removals, said it was working as intended. (00:13:51)
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse cites a development outside Bozeman where philanthropy partnered with a developer to put 64 homes on eight acres. (00:14:36)
    • 64 homes — homes built in the development · in outside Bozeman · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • eight acres — land area of the development · in outside Bozeman · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says half the homes sell at half market value with preference for teachers, police and firefighters, and 1,200 people applied for 30 homes. (00:15:17)
    • half of market value — sale price of the discounted homes · for half of the development's homes · in outside Bozeman · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1,200 people — applicants · for applicants for 30 discounted homes · in outside Bozeman · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Hank says the US is projected to build about 37 nuclear power plants' worth of solar this year (2024), an exciting transition because it is needed. — hedged: “I think” (00:16:22)
    • about 37 nuclear power plants worth — solar capacity projected to be built this year · in United States · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says gun companies now market to civil-war fantasies, presenting killing your neighbour in an insurrection as cool. (00:23:37)
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says that although Trump may win Montana by 10 to 20 points, Obama lost the state by only about three and a half to four points. (00:25:15)
    • about three and a half, four points — Barack Obama's losing margin in a presidential election · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says Montanans rewrote their constitution in 1972, with enumerated rights to privacy, an equal public education, to know, and to a clean and healthful environment. (00:26:31)
    • 1972 — year Montana's constitution was rewritten · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says Gianforte has taken apart DPHHS, kicked one in eight Montanans off coverage, attacks public access and wants to privatize public schools. (00:28:46)
    • one in eight — share of Montanans removed from health coverage · for Montanans · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says Gianforte is the only governor ever to sue to block public river access, on the East Gallatin. (00:29:49)
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Hank says polling suggests abortion access divides Montana's government from its people: a ballot initiative polls well, while Gianforte wants to end all abortions. — hedged: “It seems to be” (00:32:02)
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says the abortion initiative I-128 polls at 65 to 70 percent, so most Republicans agree; Montanans don't want a governor in their doctor's office. (00:32:31)
    • 65 to 70 percent — poll support for Initiative 128 · for Montana voters · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says Gianforte signed five restrictive abortion bills, promised to sign more, and signed Senate Bill 154, which would strip the constitutional right to privacy. (00:33:02)
    • five — restrictive abortion bills signed by Governor Gianforte · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says the 1972 constitution was written by a hundred ordinary people seated alphabetically, not by party; elected officials could not serve. (00:40:25)
    • a hundred — framers of the 1972 Montana constitution · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says in the famous Held case 16 young people sued Montana for violating the right to a clean and healthful environment. (00:40:47)
    • 16 — young plaintiffs in the Held climate case · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says that unlike US constitutional cases arguing what the framers thought, Montana has nine living framers; its environment article was written by Mae Nan Ellingson, then 24. (00:41:16)
    • nine — living framers of the 1972 Montana constitution · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 24 years old — Mae Nan Ellingson's age when writing the environment article · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says Ellingson, the first witness in the Held trial, was questioned for two hours, remembered everything, and said they wrote the constitution for a time like this. (00:42:01)
    • two hours — length of Ellingson's questioning as a witness · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says organized labor in the United States, certainly in the West, was in many ways born in Montana. (00:42:28)
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says Montana's labor history is not pretty: the Copper Kings, including William Clark, bought elections with $100 bills and owned the newspapers. (00:42:58)
    • $100 (USD) — denomination of bills the Copper Kings handed out to buy elections · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says the campaign is about 70 days out, and about 80 percent of Montanans vote absentee by mail, with ballots arriving in about 50 days. (00:46:00)
    • about 80 — share of Montana voters who vote absentee by mail · for Montana voters · in Montana · as of 2024-09-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-13 · My Governor is Weirder than Yours — Ryan Busse: Busse says Gianforte refused to debate him, calling the campaign not credible and citing unreleased tax returns, though Busse's campaign has outraised his. (00:47:46)
  • 2024-10-18 · My Ballot Made Me Angry — In a comment, Hank says city districts don't overlap state ones, so he guesses fewer than 1000 people got his exact ballot. — hedged: “I'd guess” (creator comment)
    • fewer than 1000 (people) — number of voters who received Hank's exact ballot · for voters with Hank's ballot style · in Montana · as of 2024-10-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-18 · My Ballot Made Me Angry — In a comment, Hank says states operate a state election and report it to the federal government: the people do not elect the president, the states do. (creator comment)
  • 2024-10-18 · My Ballot Made Me Angry — Hank says decades ago, when California switched from listing incumbents first to alphabetical order, an advantage of up to 5% was seen for candidates listed first. (00:00:37)
    • up to 5% (percent) — vote advantage of the candidate listed first on the ballot · for candidates in California elections · in California · as of decades ago · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-18 · My Ballot Made Me Angry — Hank explains that each US state has its own election laws, and counties must comply with them but can be creative within them. (00:01:12)
  • 2024-10-18 · My Ballot Made Me Angry — Hank says the channel's audience surveys show viewers vote more than almost any group in America: over 90% of eligible respondents vote. (00:01:47)
    • Over 90% (percent) — share of eligible survey respondents who vote · for eligible-to-vote respondents to the channel's audience survey · in United States · as of 2024-10-18 (implied: upload date) · source: channel audience survey · unchecked
  • 2024-10-18 · My Ballot Made Me Angry — Hank explains the code at the bottom of his ballot has two parts: the ballot sequence number and his district, which is so small he won't show it to keep his location private. (00:02:30)
  • 2024-10-18 · My Ballot Made Me Angry — Hank explains Montana's ballot order: candidates start alphabetical, then rotate by one per ballot in the sequence, so although his ballot has Democrats last, every candidate is on top equally often. (00:03:24)
  • 2024-10-18 · My Ballot Made Me Angry — Hank notes the rotated order applies not only to mail-in ballots but also to ballots in voting booths. (00:05:35)
  • 2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — In a channel comment Hank clarifies that Trump got way more votes than in 2020 and Harris way fewer than Biden: the swing was decisive and national. (creator comment)
    • way more — change in Donald Trump's vote total from 2020 to 2024 · for US presidential voters · in United States · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • way fewer — Kamala Harris's 2024 vote total compared with Joe Biden's 2020 total · for US presidential voters · in United States · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — In a comment Hank corrects himself: Alaska has county-like units but does not report the vote by them, so it gets one arrow. (creator comment)
  • 2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — Hank says the graph makes Biden look as if he got almost double Kamala Harris's votes, but the zero on its x-axis is 50 million people. (00:00:29)
    • 50 million (people) — starting value of the graph's vote axis · for votes · in United States · as of 2024-11-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — Hank says election maps mainly show who won, because the US president is elected by the states, not the citizens; some variants show each state's electoral power. (00:02:35)
  • 2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — Hank says on a county map lots of red marks small counties rather than huge swings; some states have far more counties, and Alaska has no counties at all. (00:04:03)
  • 2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — Hank says swing arrows are sized by percentage, so Loving County, Texas, with 96 voters, gets the same scale as LA County. (00:04:32)
    • 96 (voters) — number of voters · for voters · in Loving County, Texas · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-08 · These Maps are Lying (if you let them) — Hank says 100% of the profit goes to fight tuberculosis, a fight that looks like it will need all the help it can get, and praises John's work on it. (00:06:27)
    • 100% (percent) — share of profit donated · for Good Store tea sales · as of 2024-11-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked

Global development (88)

  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — Across all their merch projects the brothers donated about $268,000 in 2019 and $598,000 in 2020, then, after a huge jump, almost $3.5 million in 2023 alone. (00:00:57)
    • about $268,000 (USD) — charity donations from merch projects · for the brothers' merch projects · as of 2019 · no source named · unchecked
    • $598,000 (USD) — charity donations from merch projects · for the brothers' merch projects · as of 2020 · no source named · unchecked
    • almost $3.5 million (USD) — charity donations from merch projects · for the brothers' merch projects · as of 2023 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — Beyond the Sierra Leone maternal and child care project, Hank's Cancer Socks raised over $350,000 this year (2024) to support better cancer care in impoverished communities. (00:01:43)
    • over $350,000 (USD) — money raised by Hank's Cancer Socks · for better cancer care in impoverished communities · as of 2023 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — Since 2007 Nerdfighteria has organized the Project for Awesome, an annual charity fest that has raised about $12 million in total for charity. (00:02:15)
    • about $12 million (USD) — total raised for charity by the Project for Awesome since 2007 · for Project for Awesome · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — For P4A 2024 there is already $100,000 in the bank from donations made through the year, and the matching fund being built is now at $227,000. (00:02:37)
    • $100,000 (USD) — donations already received for P4A 2024 · for Project for Awesome 2024 · as of 2024-01 · no source named · unchecked
    • $227,000 (USD) — P4A 2024 matching fund · for Project for Awesome 2024 · as of 2024-01 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-16 · The Bank of Nerdfighteria — The Global Fund recently estimated that Danaher's price reduction alone will save $32 million over the next three years, letting millions more people get accurate, fast tuberculosis tests. (00:04:15)
    • $32 million (USD) — estimated savings from Danaher's TB test price reduction over the next three years · for tuberculosis testing programmes · as of 2024-01 · source: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria · unchecked
    • millions — additional people able to get accurate, fast TB tests · for people needing TB tests · as of 2024-01 · source: Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria · unchecked
  • 2024-01-19 · The Project for Awesome is Changing! — Hank says every year this worked out to within a couple of percent of 50% to Partners In Health and Save the Children and 50% to community-voted charities. (00:01:40)
    • 50% (percent) — share of P4A money going to Partners In Health and Save the Children (within a couple of percent) · for P4A donations in recent years · as of 2024-01-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 50% (percent) — share of P4A money going to community-voted charities (within a couple of percent) · for P4A donations in recent years · as of 2024-01-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-19 · The Project for Awesome is Changing! — Hank says P4A grants tend to be $20,000 to $30,000, a big deal for many organizations, and he is happy they get to do that work. (00:03:36)
    • $20,000 (USD) — typical P4A grant size (low end) · for charities receiving P4A grants · as of 2024-01-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • $30,000 (USD) — typical P4A grant size (high end) · for charities receiving P4A grants · as of 2024-01-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says tuberculosis remains the world's deadliest infectious disease, even though we know how to end it. (00:00:00)
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — In a comment, John says the only current TB vaccine is 102 years old and only prevents severe illness and death in young children; much better vaccines are needed. (creator comment)
    • 102 years — age of the only current TB vaccine · for vaccines · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says TB is generally curable on an individual level with a four-to-six-month regimen of four different antibiotics. (00:00:00)
    • four to six month — length of the standard TB treatment regimen · for people with TB · as of 2024-03-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • four (antibiotics) — number of antibiotics in the standard TB regimen · for people with TB · as of 2024-03-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says that in 1900 the US had almost as many hospital beds for TB patients as for all other health problems combined. (00:00:29)
    • almost as many — hospital beds for TB patients compared with beds for all other health problems combined · for hospital beds · in United States · as of 1900 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says TB is still a problem in the United States, but its death rate there has fallen by over 99%. (00:00:29)
    • over 99% — decline in the TB death rate · for population · in United States · as of 2024-03-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John cites the WHO estimate that of the 10 million people who will get sick with TB this year (2024), about 4 million will never be diagnosed. (00:00:58)
    • 10 million (people) — people who fall sick with tuberculosis per year · for people · in the world · as of 2024 · source: World Health Organization · unchecked
    • about 4 million (people) — people with tuberculosis who are never diagnosed per year · for people who fall sick with TB · in the world · as of 2024 · source: World Health Organization · unchecked
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says experts estimate that for every year a person lives with active untreated TB, the infection spreads to between 5 and 15 more people. (00:01:27)
    • between 5 and 15 (people) — people infected per year by a person with active untreated TB · for people with active untreated TB · as of 2024-03-12 (implied: upload date) · source: experts · unchecked
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says people with TB go undiagnosed because they simply lack access to accurate screening and testing. (00:01:27)
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says that from the 1950s the US built x-ray vans and sent them across the country offering everyone free chest x-rays to identify TB cases, and it worked. (00:01:27)
    • 1950s — start of US mobile chest x-ray screening for TB · for population · in United States · as of 2024-03-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says today there are accurate but still frustratingly expensive tests like GeneXpert that can tell within a couple of hours whether someone has TB. (00:01:56)
    • a couple hours — time for a GeneXpert test to show whether someone has TB · for GeneXpert tests · as of 2024-03-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says most treated people stop being infectious within a week of their first antibiotics, so treatment both saves lives and stops chains of infection. (00:02:26)
    • week — time after first antibiotics until most TB patients stop being infectious · for people treated for TB · as of 2024-03-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says the most common preventive therapy is pills once a week for 12 weeks, after which you never get active tuberculosis. (00:02:52)
    • 12 weeks — length of the most common TB preventive therapy · for close contacts of people with TB · as of 2024-03-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • once a week — dosing frequency of the most common TB preventive therapy · for close contacts of people with TB · as of 2024-03-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says the US has used preventive therapy for over 60 years, a key reason TB rates have plummeted there. (00:02:52)
    • over 60 years — duration of TB preventive therapy use · for population · in United States · as of 2024-03-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says every dollar invested in TB care yields $43 in economic benefit, as more people can work and fewer are sick, dying or tending to the sick. (00:03:21)
    • $43 (USD) — economic benefit per dollar invested in TB care · for TB care investment · as of 2024-03-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-12 · How We End TB — John says that work is hard, as seen in the fight against maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, but results are huge: maternal mortality there has halved since 2019. (00:03:50)
    • by half — decline in the maternal mortality rate since 2019 · for mothers · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says over a million people die every year of tuberculosis, a curable and preventable disease. (00:00:00)
    • over a million (people) — annual deaths from tuberculosis · for people · in the world · as of 2024-03-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says the US and many other countries drove down TB rates by over 99% in the 1950s and 60s by searching for cases, curing everyone with TB and giving close contacts preventive therapy. (00:00:29)
    • over 99% — decline in tuberculosis rates · for population · in United States and many other countries · as of 1950s and 60s · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says that in the Philippines USAID will give $10 million a year, his family $1 million a year, and the Philippine government $11 million a year, matching both. (00:01:27)
    • $10 million a year (USD) — USAID funding for the Philippines comprehensive TB care project · for project funding · in Philippines · as of 2024-03-19 (implied: upload date) · source: United States Agency for International Development · unchecked
    • $1 million a year (USD) — the Green family's funding for the Philippines comprehensive TB care project · for project funding · in Philippines · as of 2024-03-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • $11 million a year (USD) — Philippine government funding for the comprehensive TB care project · for project funding · in Philippines · as of 2024-03-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says over the next four years the project can have over $80 million for comprehensive TB care, starting in one region of the Philippines, which has the world's fourth-highest TB prevalence. (00:01:56)
    • over 80 million dollars (USD) — total funding for the Philippines comprehensive TB care project over four years · for project funding · in Philippines · as of 2024-03-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • fourth highest (rank) — tuberculosis prevalence rank among countries · for population · in Philippines · as of 2024-03-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-19 · Our $80,000,000 Bet — John says public-private partnerships are how we ended smallpox and have almost ended polio. (00:02:26)
  • 2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher — John explains that Cepheid, owned by the conglomerate Danaher, makes GeneXpert tests, the best available TB tests; similar cartridges test for HIV, hepatitis or extensively drug-resistant TB. (00:00:00)
  • 2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher — John says Danaher charges an over 300% markup in the world's poorest countries for, say, an HIV test. (00:01:09)
    • over 300% (percent) — markup on Danaher test cartridges (e.g. HIV test) · in world's poorest countries · as of 2024-03-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher — John says that in the current system Danaher has a responsibility to its shareholders and is legally obligated to act in their best interest because they own the company. (00:02:08)
  • 2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher — John says each Danaher shareholder makes about a dollar per share in profit dividends every year. (00:02:37)
    • about a dollar (USD) — Danaher dividend per share per year · for Danaher shareholders · as of 2024-03-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher — John says his dividends come to only about $10, but Danaher's co-founders Steven and Mitchell Rales each make over $25 million a year just in dividends. (00:03:06)
    • over $25 million (USD) — annual Danaher dividends per co-founder · for Danaher co-founders Steven and Mitchell Rales · as of 2024-03-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-26 · I Own Danaher — John says Danaher makes over $4 billion a year in profit, and less than 1% of it comes from Cepheid overcharging for tests in low- and middle-income countries. (00:03:06)
    • over $4 billion (USD) — Danaher annual profit · as of 2024-03-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • Less than 1% (percent) — share of Danaher profit from overcharging for tests in low- and middle-income countries · in low- and middle-income countries · as of 2024-03-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John says that in 2019 about 1 in 17 women in Sierra Leone could expect to die in pregnancy or childbirth. (00:00:00)
    • 1 in 17 — women expected to die in pregnancy or childbirth · for women · in Sierra Leone · as of 2019 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John says PIH needed to raise over $25 million before breaking ground, and building and running the hospital for a few years costs around $50 million. (00:00:29)
    • over $25 million (USD) — funding needed before groundbreaking · for Maternal Center of Excellence · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • around $50 million (USD) — total cost of building and running the hospital for a few years · for Maternal Center of Excellence · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — Thousands of people became monthly donors at pih.org/hankandjohn, giving $5 to $50 a month; they raised several million dollars over five years, all matched by a Nerdfighteria matching fund. (00:00:58)
    • thousands (people) — monthly donors to the project · for donors at pih.org/hankandjohn · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • between $5 and $50 a month (USD/month) — monthly donation per donor · for donors at pih.org/hankandjohn · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • several million dollars (USD) — raised by monthly donors over the last five years · for donors at pih.org/hankandjohn · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — The Awesome Socks Club became an explosive hit; with its sibling coffee and soap clubs it has raised over $8 million for the Maternal Center of Excellence project. (00:01:27)
    • over eight million dollars (USD) — raised for the Sierra Leone project by the socks, coffee and soap clubs · for Awesome Socks Club and sibling clubs · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — Altogether they helped raise over $40 million for the project, and maternal mortality in Sierra Leone has already fallen by more than 50% since 2019, saving thousands of lives. (00:01:27)
    • over forty million dollars (USD) — total raised for the project · for Sierra Leone maternal health project · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • more than fifty percent — decline in maternal mortality since 2019 · for women · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • thousands (lives) — lives saved by the maternal mortality decline · for women · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John says tuberculosis is the world's deadliest infectious disease and kills over 100,000 people every month. (00:02:55)
    • over 100,000 (deaths/month) — tuberculosis deaths per month · for people · in the world · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — PIH will start in Lesotho, where it has worked for almost 20 years and which has the world's highest TB incidence. (00:03:24)
    • almost 20 years — time PIH has worked in the country · for Partners In Health · in Lesotho · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • the highest (rank) — tuberculosis incidence among countries · for population · in Lesotho · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — John says the share of people who sign up for their coffee and stay signed up is in the high 90s percent. (00:04:52)
    • high 90s (percent) — subscriber retention · for coffee subscribers · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-18 · The Tea — When John Keats died of TB in 1821 nothing could stop it, but in the 200 years since around a billion people have died of TB, and now we have the tools. (00:04:52)
    • 1821 (year) — year of John Keats's death from tuberculosis · for John Keats · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • around a billion (deaths) — tuberculosis deaths in the 200 years since 1821 · for people · in the world · as of 2024-06-18 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John relays a story first heard from Dr. Salmaan Keshavjee: in 1950, the year their dad was born, tuberculosis was the leading cause of death in Alaska. (00:00:00)
    • the leading cause of death — rank of tuberculosis among causes of death · for population · in Alaska · as of 1950 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — Up to 35% of Native Alaskans could expect to die of TB, John says, a rate higher than at the peak of Europe's 18th-century epidemic. (00:00:00)
    • Up to 35% (percent) — share expected to die of tuberculosis · for Native Alaskans · in Alaska · as of 1950 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — Drugs then proved effective against TB and, prescribed together, could cure it, though the antibiotic cocktail took 18 to 24 months. (00:00:58)
    • 18 to 24 months — duration of curative TB treatment · for TB patients · as of 2024-09-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — One of those drugs, isoniazid, could prevent active TB in people who lived or worked near the sick. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — Public health officials set out to search for cases early, treat every patient found, and offer preventive therapy to close contacts: search, treat, prevent. (00:01:27)
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — In Bethel, Alaska, John says, this strategy cut tuberculosis incidence by 69% in one year. (00:01:27)
    • 69% (percent) — reduction in tuberculosis incidence in one year · for population · in Bethel, Alaska · as of 2024-09-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — Statewide, TB among Native Alaskans fell by over 75% between 1952 and 1960, and Alaska's TB rate today is 99% lower than in 1950. (00:01:56)
    • over 75% (percent) — decline in tuberculosis between 1952 and 1960 · for Native Alaskans · in Alaska · as of 1960 · no source named · unchecked
    • 99% lower (percent) — tuberculosis rate compared with 1950 · for population · in Alaska · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — Lesotho, a southern African nation of 2.2 million people, today has the highest rate of tuberculosis in the world. (00:01:56)
    • 2.2 million (people) — population · for people · in Lesotho · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • the highest (rank) — tuberculosis rate among countries · for population · in Lesotho · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — John lists why TB flourishes in impoverished Lesotho: high malnutrition, HIV comorbidity, and lung damage from dust in its important mining industry. (00:02:26)
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — Chest x-rays and molecular tests cheaper than ever, thanks to Nerdfighteria's hard work, let them find cases much sooner, treat effectively and offer preventive therapy. (00:02:55)
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — Since the soft launch to Nerdfighteria a few months ago, Keats & Co. and the Awesome Coffee Club have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for TB care, which they see as just the beginning. (00:03:53)
    • hundreds of thousands of dollars (USD) — raised for tuberculosis care · for Keats & Co. and Awesome Coffee Club · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — The company is named after poet John Keats, who died of TB in 1821 aged just 25 and often referenced TB, famously writing in Ode to a Nightingale that youth grows pale and spectre-thin and dies. (00:04:23)
    • 1821 (year) — year of John Keats's death from tuberculosis · for John Keats · as of 2024-09-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 25 (years) — age of John Keats at death · for John Keats · as of 2024-09-10 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-10 · The world will change. — Most TB cases no longer need 18 to 24 months of treatment but can be cured within four or six months. (00:04:52)
    • four or six months — time to cure most TB cases · for TB patients · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says Partners In Health helped fund the endTB trials, which found shorter, less toxic regimens that cure MDR-TB, and last week (week of 16 September 2024) the WHO adopted them as recommended regimens. (00:00:13)
  • 2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says the End TB Now Act passed the US Senate unanimously; it would require US government-funded TB projects to implement comprehensive search, treat and prevent care. (00:00:38)
  • 2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says AFC Wimbledon's stadium was heavily flooded by unprecedented River Wandle flooding, and the fan-owned club has no secret stash of money for such crises. (00:01:36)
  • 2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says the whole football world came together to raise over £100,000 to support Wimbledon as it rebuilds. (00:01:56)
    • over a hundred thousand pounds (GBP) — money raised to support AFC Wimbledon after the flooding · for football world donors · as of 2024-09-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says Danaher promised, as part of that deal, to pay for and release an independent audit of its TB test costs, but a year on has not, which is frustrating. (00:03:20)
  • 2024-09-27 · Is It 2010? IT'S A PARTS VIDEO — John says tuberculosis causes more deaths than either HIV or malaria but receives only 18.5% of the Global Fund's money. (00:04:24)
    • 18.5 percent — share of Global Fund money going to tuberculosis · for Global Fund · as of 2024-09-27 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank explains that in the 1980s a strep swab was cultured on a blood agar plate made with sheep's blood; strep broke open the red blood cells, turning spots of agar clear. (00:00:20)
    • 80s — period when strep swabs were cultured on blood agar plates · as of 2024-10-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says strep is now mostly diagnosed like COVID, with a rapid antigen test whose binding molecule changes color; it is fast, cheap and pretty accurate. (00:00:47)
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says rapid antigen tests don't work for TB: there are often few bacteria in the body, TB hides well, and its big, oily, waxy cell wall is hard to bind to. (00:01:05)
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says TB is still often diagnosed today by culturing the bacteria, which is slow, labor-intensive, expensive and not very informative. (00:01:27)
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says the GeneXpert test arrived in 2013: instead of binding surface molecules, it explodes the pathogen and tests for specific DNA sequences. (00:01:37)
    • 2013 — year the GeneXpert test arrived · as of 2024-10-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says such tests can detect specific strains, including genes that help a pathogen survive a particular treatment. (00:01:57)
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says that with this technology a new test only needs the right target DNA sequence and a label for it; the sample glows under specific wavelengths of light. (00:02:05)
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says one cartridge can hold several labels glowing at different wavelengths, e.g. four for four genes, showing exactly which drugs a pathogen resists. (00:02:30)
    • four — DNA labels and wavelengths in an example multiplex cartridge · as of 2024-10-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says the technology is used all over the world and its maker Cepheid, a division of Danaher, makes a lot of money from the tests. (00:02:55)
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says that in some places cartridge costs mean the tests go unused even where the machines exist. (00:03:05)
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says he recently learned lymphoma rates are very low in the poorest countries because people assume they have TB; with no test, the cancer goes unrecognized and they die. (00:03:12)
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says Danaher pledged to provide standard TB cartridges (not drug-resistance ones) at cost to the Global Fund, cutting the price from $10 to $7.97 and allowing millions more tests. (00:03:35)
    • $10 (USD) — price of a standard TB test cartridge before the pledge · for Global Fund purchases · as of 2024-10-25 (implied: upload date) · source: Danaher Corporation · unchecked
    • $7.97 (USD) — price of a standard TB test cartridge at cost · for Global Fund purchases · as of 2024-10-25 (implied: upload date) · source: Danaher Corporation · unchecked
    • millions — additional TB tests the price cut allows · as of 2024-10-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-25 · I Don't Want them to Get Away With It… — Hank says the standard TB cartridges got 20% cheaper, but those testing for drug resistance remain $15 though by all accounts they cost basically the same. (00:04:25)
    • 20% (percent) — reduction in the price of standard TB test cartridges · as of 2024-10-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • $15 (USD) — price of drug-resistance TB test cartridges · as of 2024-10-25 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — John says the burden of health problems is measured per 100,000 people: about 2.5 of every 100,000 people are diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma, the cancer Hank had, each year. (00:00:08)
    • 2.5 out of every 100,000 (per 100,000 people per year) — Hodgkin lymphoma diagnosis rate · for people · as of 2024-11-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — Since most people in the US survive Hodgkin lymphoma, its mortality rate is only about 0.28 per 100,000, close to the US tuberculosis death rate of about 0.22 per 100,000, or several hundred deaths a year. (00:00:34)
    • 0.28 per 100,000 (per 100,000 people) — Hodgkin lymphoma mortality rate · for people · in United States · as of 2024-11-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 0.22 per 100,000 (per 100,000 people) — tuberculosis mortality rate · for people · in United States · as of 2024-11-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • Several hundred (deaths per year) — tuberculosis deaths per year · for people · in United States · as of 2024-11-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — In Lesotho the tuberculosis mortality rate is around 213 per 100,000 people, so a person is a thousand times likelier to die of tuberculosis there than in the United States. (00:00:57)
    • 213 per 100,000 (per 100,000 people) — tuberculosis mortality rate · for people · in Lesotho · as of 2024-11-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • a thousand times — relative risk of dying of tuberculosis, Lesotho vs United States · for people · in Lesotho · as of 2024-11-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — Maternal mortality is measured per 100,000 births; in Germany it is about 4 per 100,000 births. (00:01:45)
    • four per 100,000 births — maternal mortality rate · for births · in Germany · as of 2024-11-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — The United States, with a weaker health care system and much more unequal access, has a maternal mortality rate over five times Germany's, at 22 deaths per 100,000 births. (00:01:56)
    • 22 maternal deaths for every 100,000 births (per 100,000 births) — maternal mortality rate · for births · in United States · as of 2024-11-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • over five times higher — maternal mortality rate relative to Germany · for births · in United States · as of 2024-11-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — In 2017 Sierra Leone's maternal mortality rate was over 1,100 per 100,000 births, and with multiple pregnancies in a lifetime, one in 17 women there died in pregnancy or childbirth. (00:02:06)
    • over 1,100 per 100,000 births — maternal mortality rate · for births · in Sierra Leone · as of 2017 · no source named · unchecked
    • one out of every 17 women — lifetime risk of dying in pregnancy or childbirth · for women · in Sierra Leone · as of 2017 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — Sierra Leone's maternal death rate is now 443 per 100,000 births. (00:02:22)
    • 443 per 100,000 births — maternal mortality rate · for births · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — Sierra Leone's maternal death rate is still far too high, about 100 times too high, but down about 60% in seven years. (00:02:26)
    • about 60% — reduction in maternal mortality rate over seven years · for births · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — In Kono, the district where Partners In Health began working in 2019, maternal mortality has fallen further: Koidu Government Hospital has seen a reduction close to 80% since 2019. (00:02:40)
    • closer to 80% — reduction in maternal mortality since 2019 · for births · in Koidu Government Hospital, Kono District · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — Vicky Reed told John that although the Maternal Center of Excellence is still under construction, its fruits already show: more community health workers, more specially trained obstetric nurses, and better-supported, safer clinics. (00:02:52)
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — There are more OB/GYNs in the region, with more being trained all the time, because Koidu Government Hospital serves as a teaching hospital. (00:03:09)
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — About 2,000 more mothers survive childbirth every year in Sierra Leone than in 2019, when the brothers' project with Partners In Health began. (00:03:16)
    • about 2,000 more moms (mothers per year) — additional mothers surviving childbirth each year compared with 2019 · for mothers · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — At the Sierra Leonean government's invitation, Partners In Health's model is being recreated in five districts, with hopes of eventually covering all 16 districts. (00:03:40)
    • five districts — districts recreating the Partners In Health model · for districts · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • all 16 districts — districts in the country · for districts · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024-11-26 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-26 · Good News — When mothers survive childbirth, their children are less likely to be stunted by malnutrition and more likely to go to school, so John calls the fall in maternal deaths a generational change. (00:03:48)

Sports (39)

  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — In a comment, John confirms the fan-owned club is like the Green Bay Packers, but no individual can own more than one voting share however much they put in. (creator comment)
    • one share — maximum voting shares per individual owner · for AFC Wimbledon owners · in England · as of 2024-03-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John says that 22 years ago Wimbledon FC was stolen away from its community and moved to Milton Keynes. (00:00:14)
    • 22 years ago — time since Wimbledon FC was moved to Milton Keynes · for Wimbledon FC · in England · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John says teams sometimes move in American sports, like the St. Louis Rams becoming the Los Angeles Rams, because US teams are franchises; it had never happened in England, where teams are community assets. (00:00:20)
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John says Wimbledon supporters started over with a fan-owned amateur team with no stadium, kit, staff or players, climbed the amateur divisions, turned full-time professional in 2011, and now share Milton Keynes' league. (00:00:33)
    • 2011 (year) — year AFC Wimbledon became a full-time professional team · for AFC Wimbledon · in England · as of 2024-03-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John says that in 2020 Wimbledon opened a new stadium at Plough Lane, paid for and owned by the fans like the club. (00:00:59)
    • 2020 (year) — year AFC Wimbledon opened its new Plough Lane stadium · for AFC Wimbledon · in Plough Lane, London · as of 2024-03-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John says only four of England's 92 professional teams were profitable last year (2023), Wimbledon among them because, with no rich owners, it has to be. (00:01:17)
    • four (teams) — professional football teams that were profitable last year · for English professional football teams · in England · as of 2023 · no source named · unchecked
    • 92 (teams) — number of professional football teams · for English professional football · in England · as of 2023 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-05 · THE BEST DAY — John says some Dons players have been with Wimbledon since age 9 or 10; after an exhausting 90 minutes there were 12 yellow cards but no goals. (00:02:04)
    • 12 yellow cards (yellow cards) — yellow cards shown in the match · for AFC Wimbledon v Milton Keynes Dons · in Plough Lane · as of 2024-03-05 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — The description explains the odd number of swim events: one mixed relay has no separate men's and women's events; Hank thinks there are actually 35, not 37, but the point stands. — hedged: “I think” (video description)
    • 35 (events) — number of Olympic swimming events · for Olympic Games · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank says the US and China tied in gold medals, partly because a French basketball player's toe was on the three-point line for a buzzer-beater. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank cites a tweet mocking Americans for addressing everyone as Europeans: Europe as one country would have 116 gold, 122 silver and 160 bronze medals. (00:00:58)
    • 116 (medals) — gold medals · for European countries combined · in Europe · as of 2024 · source: a · unchecked
    • 122 (medals) — silver medals · for European countries combined · in Europe · as of 2024 · source: a · unchecked
    • 160 (medals) — bronze medals · for European countries combined · in Europe · as of 2024 · source: a · unchecked
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank says Europe has far more people than the US, continental Europe around 750 million. (00:01:27)
    • around 750 million (people) — population · for continental Europe · in Europe · as of 2024-08-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank says each country may send only three athletes per event, and continental Europe is many countries. (00:01:56)
    • three (athletes) — maximum athletes a country may send per event · for Olympic national teams · as of 2024-08-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank says Europe still won more gold medals per capita than the US even without Russia competing: 0.15 per million people against 0.12. (00:01:56)
    • 0.15 (gold-medals-per-million-people) — gold medals per capita · for continental Europe · in Europe · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • 0.12 (gold-medals-per-million-people) — gold medals per capita · for United States · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Contrasting pole vault (only men and women) with swimming (many strokes and lengths for each), Hank says there are 37 Olympic swimming events and that it is weird the number is odd. (00:03:41)
    • 37 (events) — number of Olympic swimming events · for Olympic Games · as of 2024 · no source named · speaker error
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank says the US is good at swimming partly because of its many pools and school swim teams with Olympic-regulation pools; eight of its 40 golds came in swimming. (00:03:41)
    • eight (gold-medals) — US gold medals won in swimming · for United States Olympic team · in United States · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • 40 (gold-medals) — US gold medals · for United States Olympic team · in United States · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank says Michael Phelps won 23 gold medals, twice as many as anyone else ever. (00:04:10)
    • 23 (gold-medals) — career Olympic gold medals · for Michael Phelps · as of 2024-08-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • two times more (ratio) — Phelps's gold medals compared with any other athlete · for Olympic athletes · as of 2024-08-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank notes Europe's 160 bronze medals: 0.21 bronze medals per million people, far more than the US's 0.12. (00:04:39)
    • 0.21 (bronze-medals-per-million-people) — bronze medals per capita · for continental Europe · in Europe · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • 0.12 (bronze-medals-per-million-people) — bronze medals per capita · for United States · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Hank says the US was very consistent at 40, 44 and 42 medals, while China was weighted toward gold: 40 gold, 27 silver, 24 bronze. (00:04:39)
    • 40 (medals) — gold medals · for United States Olympic team · in United States · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • 44 (medals) — silver medals · for United States Olympic team · in United States · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • 42 (medals) — bronze medals · for United States Olympic team · in United States · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • 40 gold medals — gold medals · for Chinese Olympic team · in China · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • 27 (medals) — silver medals · for Chinese Olympic team · in China · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • 24 (medals) — bronze medals · for Chinese Olympic team · in China · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-16 · I Have Uncovered an Olympics Mystery… — Checking earlier Games, Hank finds it no 2024 fluke: continental Europe won 114 gold and 155 bronze in 2021, 113 and 139 in 2016, 108 and 138 in 2012. (00:04:39)
    • 114 (medals) — gold medals · for countries in continental Europe · in Europe · as of 2021 · no source named · unchecked
    • 155 (medals) — bronze medals · for countries in continental Europe · in Europe · as of 2021 · no source named · unchecked
    • 113 (medals) — gold medals · for countries in continental Europe · in Europe · as of 2016 · no source named · unchecked
    • 139 (medals) — bronze medals · for countries in continental Europe · in Europe · as of 2016 · no source named · unchecked
    • 108 (medals) — gold medals · for countries in continental Europe · in Europe · as of 2012 · no source named · unchecked
    • 138 (medals) — bronze medals · for countries in continental Europe · in Europe · as of 2012 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-19 · The Olympics Mystery Explained!!! — After viewers told him he forgot judo, Hank explains that several sports award two bronze medals per event, so every Games awards more bronze than gold or silver. (00:00:29)
    • two (medals) — bronze medals awarded per event · for events in several Olympic sports · as of 2024-08-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-19 · The Olympics Mystery Explained!!! — Hank enters the medals awarded, 329 gold, 330 silver and 385 bronze, saying he doesn't know why there was one more silver than gold. (00:00:58)
    • 329 (medals) — gold medals awarded · for Olympic Games · as of 2024-08-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 330 (medals) — silver medals awarded · for Olympic Games · as of 2024-08-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 385 (medals) — bronze medals awarded · for Olympic Games · as of 2024-08-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-19 · The Olympics Mystery Explained!!! — Hank notes that normalizing does not make China's medal effect go away. (00:02:43)
  • 2024-08-19 · The Olympics Mystery Explained!!! — Preempting the objection that he normalized every year to one year's medal counts, Hank says he looked it up: the proportion has been roughly the same since 2004. (00:03:24)
    • roughly the same — proportion of gold, silver and bronze medals awarded · for Olympic Games since 2004 · as of 2004 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John says Bromley was once home to David Bowie, Charles Darwin and H. G. Wells. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John says this is Bromley's first season in England's professional football league, an old-school experience from the narrow turnstiles to the away fans' lounge. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-08-20 · Thoughts from Places: BROMLEY! — John says Hayes Lane fits 5,000 people but has only 1,300 seats, so the rest of the fans stand. (00:00:58)
    • 5,000 (people) — stadium capacity · for Hayes Lane · in Bromley · as of 2024-08-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 1,300 (seats) — seats · for Hayes Lane · in Bromley · as of 2024-08-20 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — John says Jimmy Glass was a journeyman goalkeeper who played for 16 teams in a 15-year career, mostly as a backup. (00:00:00)
    • 15-year — career length · for Jimmy Glass · as of 2024-11-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 16 (teams) — number of teams played for · for Jimmy Glass · as of 2024-11-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — Near the end of that season, Swindon's backup goalkeeper Glass was loaned to Carlisle United, a proud old club struggling at the very bottom of the English Football League. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — John explains that in European football the best teams are promoted and the worst relegated, so in theory Manchester United is only four seasons from no longer being a professional team. (00:00:58)
    • four (seasons) — seasons of relegation from the top flight to non-professional football · for Manchester United · in England · as of 2024-11-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — Carlisle had been in the Football League for more than 70 years and was on the verge of relegation out of it into the semi-pro ranks. (00:01:27)
    • more than 70 (years) — years in the Football League · for Carlisle United · in England · as of 2024-11-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — John says relegation out of the Football League can be devastating: relegated clubs not uncommonly go bankrupt and cease to exist, and Wikipedia's football history, e.g. Hereford United, is full of past tense. (00:01:27)
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — Glass let in one goal and Carlisle scored one, so the game was tied when Carlisle won a corner in the final seconds. (00:02:26)
    • one (goals) — goals conceded by Carlisle United in the final game · for Carlisle United · as of 2024-11-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • one (goals) — goals scored by Carlisle United before the final corner · for Carlisle United · as of 2024-11-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — Glass played only three games for Carlisle; in the last, only a win would keep them in the Football League. (00:02:26)
    • three (games) — games played for Carlisle United · for Jimmy Glass · as of 2024-11-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — John says there is about a 3% chance of scoring from a corner kick. — hedged: “like” (00:02:55)
    • 3% (percent) — chance of scoring from a corner kick · for football teams · as of 2024-11-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — Glass did what a goalkeeper never should, abandoning his goal and running into the opponent's box as an extra attacker for the corner, and scored. (00:02:55)
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — Carlisle United survived and are still in the Football League this year (2024); they played AFC Wimbledon a couple of weeks ago. (00:03:40)
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — No goalkeeper in Football League history had ever scored from a corner kick until that moment. (00:03:40)
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — Asked after the game whether he had thought he had any chance of scoring, Glass answered that he always did. (00:03:40)
  • 2024-11-12 · BELIEVE: The Jimmy Glass Story — Glass went on to other careers, selling IT equipment, driving a cab and working in football, and is remembered as a legend at a club he played three games for. (00:04:38)

Nerdfighteria (32)

Projects (27)

  • 2024-01-23 · Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete — John explains NES Tetris end screens: over 100,000 points a space shuttle launches beside the Kremlin (nod to its Soviet programmers); over 120,000 the Kremlin itself launches with a UFO on the pad. (00:00:29)
    • over 120,000 (points) — score needed for the best end screen · for NES Tetris players · as of 2024-01-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-23 · Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete — John says 13-year-old Willis Gibson (Blue Scuti) usually starts at level 18 or 19 and can play past the so-called kill screen of level 29. (00:00:58)
    • 18 or 19 (level) — usual starting level · for Willis Gibson · as of 2024-01-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 29 (level) — level of the so-called kill screen · for NES Tetris · as of 2024-01-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-23 · Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete — John says Willis uses a special controller technique called rolling to move the pieces super fast. (00:01:13)
  • 2024-01-23 · Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete — John says Willis's top Tetris score is over 6 million, while John, in 34 years, has topped 300,000 points maybe 30 times. (00:01:27)
    • over 6 million (points) — top Tetris score · for Willis Gibson · as of 2024-01-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-23 · Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete — John says a few weeks ago Willis became the first person ever to play Tetris until the game crashed, at level 157, after about 35 minutes at that speed. (00:02:06)
    • 157 (level) — level at which the game crashed · for Willis Gibson's record game · as of 2024-01-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 35 minutes — time played at that speed before the crash · for Willis Gibson's record game · as of 2024-01-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-01-23 · Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete — John says the clip made national news and Willis became known as the person who beat Tetris, defeating the man who throws the Tetris piece. (00:02:50)
  • 2024-01-23 · Breaking News: Complexly Signs Major Tetris Athlete — John says Complexly is a production company that now employs over 70 people working on a huge variety of educational content. (00:04:36)
    • over 70 (people) — employees · for Complexly · as of 2024-01-23 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-26 · Welcome to the Learn-a-Thon — Hank says that over the last 12 years Complexly has made over 9,000 episodes of its shows, viewed or listened to over 5.5 billion times. (00:00:29)
    • over 9,000 (episodes) — episodes made · for Complexly shows · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • over 5.5 billion (views) — times viewed or listened to · for Complexly shows · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • 12 (years) — years of production · for Complexly · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — Hank says tea bags often contain microplastics. (00:01:44)
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says Lesotho is currently the epicenter of the world's TB crisis. (00:02:27)
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — Hank says the undies' modal fabric is super soft and more sustainable than cotton. (00:34:55)
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John says Good Store has donated over $8 million to support stronger maternal health and tuberculosis care. (00:36:58)
    • over $8 million (USD) — money donated by Good Store to maternal health and TB care · as of 2024-10-30 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — Hank says sugar balances tea's tannins, which tea has just as wine does. (00:44:12)
  • 2024-10-30 · Sipping the Tea with Hank — John notes that CBT is proven effective for anxiety. (00:56:15)
  • 2024-11-03 · Hank's very messy post-cancer year of mistakes, meaning… — Hank says Good Store is now a fairly big company doing well, donated millions of dollars to charity last year (2023) and will this year (2024), but its growth has slowed. (00:09:21)
    • millions of dollars (USD) — Good Store donations to charity · for Good Store · as of 2023 · no source named · unchecked
    • millions of dollars (USD) — Good Store expected donations to charity · for Good Store · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — Hank says the undies are made of modal, from beech-tree fibers: absorbent, with a different feel from cotton, and more sustainable. (00:07:43)
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — John says they started Good Store to raise money for charity, and so far in 2024 it has donated $1.25 million. (00:24:40)
    • $1.25 million (USD) — money donated by Good Store so far in 2024 · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-13 · Some New Things… — Hank explains that oversteeped black tea turns bitter: caffeine and theanine are mostly out within three minutes, aromatics immediately, but bitter tannins keep coming out steadily. (00:35:54)
    • three minutes — steeping time by which almost all caffeine is out of black tea · as of 2024-11-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John says that in 2019 Sierra Leone had the world's highest rate of maternal mortality. (00:00:35)
    • world's highest — maternal mortality rate, world rank · in Sierra Leone · as of 2019 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — This year (2024) alone the socks have raised over $759,000 for the maternal and child health care project, John says, an amazing number though down from last year (2023). (00:01:27)
    • over $759,000 (USD) — money raised by the sock subscription this year · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — Between soap and shampoo bars, Sun Basin Soap has netted $82,000 this year (2024) so far: much less than the socks, but growing. (00:02:16)
    • $82,000 (USD) — net proceeds of Sun Basin Soap (soap and shampoo bars) this year · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — The coffee has over 10,000 subscribers and has raised over $580,000 this year (2024), with steady growth helped by now shipping to Europe. (00:02:42)
    • over 10 000 (subscribers) — coffee subscribers · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • over 580 000 (USD) — money raised by the coffee this year · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — The coffee has done even better since the rebrand to Keats & Co. and the addition of tea, which has raised over $60,000 since launching in August. (00:02:57)
    • over sixty thousand dollars (USD) — money raised by Keats & Co. tea since its August launch · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John says Lesotho is the epicenter of the global TB crisis, with the highest TB incidence in the world. (00:03:22)
    • the highest TB incidence in the world — tuberculosis incidence, world rank · in Lesotho · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — Good Store's total donations for 2024 so far are just over $1.25 million. (00:03:40)
    • just over $1.25 million (USD) — Good Store donations in 2024 to date · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — Since it started, Good Store has raised almost $9 million to support stronger health care systems in impoverished communities. (00:04:34)
    • almost nine million dollars (USD) — Good Store's cumulative charitable giving · as of 2024-11-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-11-19 · Let's Talk about Money — John says global health funding in the world is flat or declining. (00:04:39)
    • flat or declining — global health funding trend · in the world · as of 2024-11-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked

Philosophy & meaning (25)

  • 2024-06-04 · how it all ends — John says we know very little about the distant past: not when people started having names or what they were, when language developed, or what our relationship with Neanderthals and Denisovans was like. (00:00:00)
  • 2024-06-04 · how it all ends — In a channel comment answering 'what if we get to the stars?', John says we'll never leave our part of the galaxy, even near light speed, nor our area of the universe, citing a Kurzgesagt video. (creator comment)
  • 2024-06-04 · how it all ends — In the comment John says that before reaching the stars we face many problems, including our galaxy colliding with a nearby galaxy, which may be a Proper Emergency. — hedged: “may” (creator comment)
  • 2024-06-04 · how it all ends — John says our species has been around for about 300,000 years, and for almost all of that time very little information has been passed down to us. (00:00:29)
    • 300,000 years — age of the human species · for Homo sapiens · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-04 · how it all ends — John says the Sun will later become a red giant so bright and large that it consumes Mercury and Venus and probably, though not definitely, Earth. — hedged: “probably, although not definitely” (00:01:56)
  • 2024-06-04 · how it all ends — From Dr. Mack, John says the Sun is getting brighter and in about a billion years will be so bright that all Earth's oceans boil. (00:01:56)
    • about a billion years — time until the Sun boils Earth's oceans · for Sun · in Earth · as of 2024-06-04 (implied: upload date) · source: Katie Mack · unchecked
  • 2024-06-04 · how it all ends — John says the Sun will eventually shrink into a white dwarf holding what remains of the Sun and inner planets: about Earth-sized but hundreds of thousands of times denser than Earth. (00:02:26)
    • hundreds of thousands of times — density of the Sun's future white dwarf relative to Earth · for Sun · as of 2024-06-04 (implied: upload date) · source: Katie Mack · unchecked
  • 2024-06-04 · how it all ends — John says researchers found unexpected elements in a distant white dwarf and concluded it was probably once a red giant that consumed rocky planets, as Earth probably will be. — hedged: “probably” (00:02:55)
  • 2024-06-14 · Some Reasons why People Suck — Hank says US CO2 emissions started to go down in 2005, the very year he started his EcoGeek blog. (00:00:00)
    • 2005 — year US CO2 emissions started to fall · for US emissions · in United States · as of 2024-06-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-14 · Some Reasons why People Suck — Hank says progress in environmental technologies has been remarkable: the graphs of the falling cost of solar panels, wind turbines and batteries are mind-blowing. (00:00:00)
  • 2024-06-14 · Some Reasons why People Suck — Hank says not using cows for meat needs no new technology, just one different choice, and if everyone did it, future warming would fall by 10%. (00:00:29)
    • 10% — reduction in future warming if everyone stopped eating beef · for everyone · in the world · as of 2024-06-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-14 · Some Reasons why People Suck — Hank implies solar panels are now made for 400 times less money. (00:01:09)
    • 400 times — reduction in the cost of making a solar panel · for solar panels · in the world · as of 2024-06-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-14 · Some Reasons why People Suck — Hank says land devoted to livestock is about 40% of Earth's habitable land, most of it for cows: a real number. (00:04:26)
    • 40% — share of habitable land devoted to livestock · for habitable land · in Earth · as of 2024-06-14 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans — In a reply to a viewer who wondered if they misheard, John confirms that 300 years ago almost all humans cooked their food over a fire. (creator comment)
    • Three hundred years ago — time since almost all humans cooked over a fire · for humans · in the world · as of 2024-10-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans — John says 300 years ago almost all humans were farmers or hunter-gatherers and cooked over open fires, as they had a thousand years earlier. (00:00:05)
    • a thousand years earlier — time over which farming, foraging and open-fire cooking stayed unchanged · for humans · in the world · as of 2024-10-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans — John says carts were pulled by horses or pack animals and going from Beijing to Shanghai took about as long as a thousand years earlier, though roads were slightly better. (00:00:14)
    • a thousand years earlier — time over which Beijing-Shanghai travel time stayed about the same · for travellers · in China · as of 2024-10-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans — John says back then there was no ice on hot days, no recorded music or electricity, and no way to hear a voice beyond earshot. (00:00:24)
  • 2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans — John says information then could travel only as fast as humans, that is about as fast as horses. (00:00:43)
  • 2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans — John compresses the story of the species into a calendar year: humans appear around 300,000 years ago on January 1 and today is December 31 at 11:59 pm. (00:00:58)
    • around 300,000 years ago — age of the human species · for Homo sapiens · as of 2024-10-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans — On that calendar, John says humans become the only hominid when Neanderthals go extinct in November, and Julius Caesar becomes emperor of the Roman Empire on December 28. (00:01:10)
    • November — Neanderthal extinction on the human-history calendar · for Neanderthals · as of 2024-10-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • December 28th — Julius Caesar becoming emperor on the human-history calendar · for Roman Empire · as of 2024-10-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · doubtful
  • 2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans — John says the Industrial Revolution, which made ice in summer, blueberries in winter, modern medicine and faster-than-horse travel possible, began only this afternoon on the human calendar, about 10 hours ago. (00:01:30)
    • ten or so hours — time since the Industrial Revolution on the human-history calendar · for humans · as of 2024-10-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans — John says the human population took around 1,700 years to double between 1 CE and 1700 CE, but just 150 years to double again by 1850. (00:01:41)
    • around 1700 years — time for the human population to double · for humans · in the world · as of 1700 · no source named · unchecked
    • 150 years — time for the human population to double · for humans · in the world · as of 1850 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans — John says the human population has also doubled in his lifetime. (00:01:56)
    • doubled — human population growth · for humans · in the world · as of 2024-10-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans — John lists what humans did in the last eight hours of the human year: flew to the Moon, raised greenhouse gases, deforested most of North America, cut child death 95%, eliminated smallpox, grew food supply, drove large mammals toward extinction. (00:01:59)
    • 95% (percent) — reduction in child death · for children · in the world · as of 2024-10-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-03 · Broadly in Favor of Humans — John says only around 12% of people now work in agriculture or hunting and gathering; most work in fields that did not exist 300 years ago, like paving roads, servers, oil rigs or YouTube videos. (00:02:33)
    • around 12% (percent) — share of people working in agriculture or hunting and gathering · for people · in the world · as of 2024-10-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked

Books & writing (22)

  • 2024-02-06 · The Truth of How Books Become Movies — John says studios increasingly shelve finished, paid-for movies as a tax strategy, taking a write-off when they expect release to lose more money. — hedged: “as I understand it” (00:03:53)
  • 2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — In a channel comment, John says Wheezywaiter invented the term doobly-doo. (creator comment)
  • 2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — John explains there are broadly two kinds of movie deals for authors: paid everything up front, or compensation based on the movie's success. (00:00:00)
    • two — kinds of movie deals for authors · for authors · as of 2024-04-16 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-04-16 · I Already Got Paid — John says a share of the profit from The Fault in Our Stars movie would have made him a lot of money, as it was one of the most profitable movies of all time. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-04-19 · I Closed My Boob in a Door — Hank says that when he wrote the line he had searched Twitter for the phrase and found hundreds of people who had closed their boobs in doors, and he reads several examples. (00:00:59)
    • hundreds (people) — people tweeting that they had closed their boob in a door · for Twitter users · as of 2024-04-19 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ? — John says dashes didn't really exist before printing. (00:00:00)
  • 2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ? — In an example sentence from his tuberculosis book, John says tuberculosis, curable for nearly a century, still kills over 1.3 million people per year. (00:00:29)
    • over 1.3 million (deaths/year) — annual deaths from tuberculosis · for people · in the world · as of 2024-09-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • nearly a century (years) — time tuberculosis has been curable · as of 2024-09-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ? — John says preferences for em dashes or parentheses are one way software identifies the authors of anonymously published texts. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ? — John says Jonathan Swift made fun of em dashes in the 18th century, writing that in modern wit printed trash is set off with numerous breaks and dashes. (00:01:27)
    • 18th century — date of Jonathan Swift's mockery of dashes · as of 2024-09-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ? — John says the rarer en dash is longer than a hyphen but half the length of an em dash, used only in specific cases such as ranges like 2022 to 2024. (00:01:56)
    • half the length (ratio) — length of an en dash relative to an em dash · as of 2024-09-03 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-09-03 · Which is Correct? — or – ? — John says en dashes are technically also used in other from-to phrases, such as a New York to London flight. (00:02:26)
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says TB remains the world's deadliest infectious disease, a distinction it has held for most of human history. (00:00:45)
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says tuberculosis has been curable since the 1950s, yet over a million people die every year of a disease we know how to prevent and cure, which he calls insane. (00:00:58)
    • over a million (people) — annual deaths from tuberculosis · for people worldwide · in the world · as of 2024-10-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says TB shaped our geography, giving us towns like Colorado Springs and Asheville, North Carolina, and profoundly shaped our history. (00:02:05)
  • 2024-10-22 · My New Book: Everything Is Tuberculosis — John says between a quarter and a third of all living humans have been infected with tuberculosis. (00:03:52)
    • between a quarter and a third (share) — share of living humans ever infected with tuberculosis · for all living humans · in the world · as of 2024-10-22 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-12-17 · About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska — John says that according to PEN America, Looking for Alaska, which he wrote, is the second most banned book in the United States. (00:00:00)
    • second — rank among most banned books · for books · in United States · as of 2024-12-17 (implied: upload date) · source: PEN America · unchecked
  • 2024-12-17 · About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska — John says that especially in the last few years the book has been removed from hundreds of classrooms and libraries. (00:00:00)
    • hundreds — classrooms and libraries that removed Looking for Alaska · as of 2024-12-17 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-12-17 · About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska — John says the book is taught in fewer classes because groups like Moms for Liberty have very successfully challenged it out of curricula and often out of libraries. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-12-17 · About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska — John says the book is banned not for smoking or drinking but because of one one-page scene in which two teenagers engage in oral sex. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-12-17 · About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska — John says the scene's language is cold and clinical, with exactly one descriptive adjective: nervous. (00:00:58)
    • exactly one — descriptive adjectives in the oral sex scene · as of 2024-12-17 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-12-17 · About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska — John says a concerned parent typically prints out that page and hands it around, and everyone is horrified that children are allowed to read pornography. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-12-17 · About THAT Scene in Looking for Alaska — John says Looking for Alaska is almost universally challenged in the name of Christianity, which he calls an extra irony. (00:04:22)

Health (13)

  • 2024-03-15 · The Worst Things About Not Having Cancer — Hank says a relapse would probably show up as swollen lymph nodes in the neck, armpit or groin, but could show up in many other ways. — hedged: “probably” (00:01:57)
  • 2024-03-15 · The Worst Things About Not Having Cancer — Hank says the peak time for relapse of his cancer is in about the next year, and a relapse would make him a trickier case than most people. (00:01:57)
    • in the next year or so — peak time for relapse · for patients with Hank's cancer after remission · as of 2024-03-15 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-03-15 · The Worst Things About Not Having Cancer — Hank says it is not unusual for cancer treatment to cause lifelong disability. (00:04:25)
  • 2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — Hank tells John that about 80% of his cells are red blood cells and about 5% more are other kinds of blood cells. (00:00:00)
    • 80% — share of body cells that are red blood cells · for humans · as of 2024-10-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 5 (%) — share of body cells that are other kinds of blood cells · for humans · as of 2024-10-08 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — Hank says blood is made by the bone marrow, part of the bone, which counts as an organ. (00:00:31)
  • 2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — Hank says bone marrow must make blood constantly, dividing very fast, and when that goes wrong the result is a blood cancer, specifically leukemia. (00:00:31)
  • 2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — Hank says his blood cancer, lymphoma, is not leukemia: it can end up colonizing the bone marrow but starts outside it. (00:01:00)
  • 2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — Hank says that medically the chance of remaining cancer is high enough that doctors say he is in remission, not that he is cured. (00:01:59)
  • 2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — Hank tells John the registry sample is not a nose swab like a covid test: it only needs cells, taken by swabbing the inside of the cheeks. (00:02:28)
  • 2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — Hank says donor marrow recipients need a very close match, otherwise the marrow, which makes white blood cells, often attacks the body: graft-versus-host disease. (00:02:57)
  • 2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — Hank says donation used to mean drilling into the hip to extract marrow, which took a long time and was very painful, but that is no longer done. (00:03:56)
  • 2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — Hank says that now, for the most part, a donor gets injections that make bone marrow cells leave the bone and enter the blood. (00:03:56)
  • 2024-10-08 · Hank Steals John's Cells — Hank says the donor's blood is then run through a machine that extracts the stem cells. (00:04:25)

Personal life (12)

  • 2024-02-02 · The Weirdest Thing I Did in LA — Hank says Sara told him much of her art hangs on her walls not by choice: it has been harder to sell since social media algorithms changed and stopped featuring her work. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-02-02 · The Weirdest Thing I Did in LA — Hank says Sara's immigration status complicates some kinds of work, but with murals, commissions and tattoos she is making it work in Los Angeles. (00:00:29)
  • 2024-02-02 · The Weirdest Thing I Did in LA — Hank says Sara's YouTube work when he discovered her was celebrity-driven, partly because that got clicks; during the pandemic she took it in more political directions. (00:00:58)
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John, proud of what the companies do, says Crash Course has reached hundreds of millions of learners. (00:01:27)
    • hundreds of millions (learners) — learners reached · for Crash Course · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says Good Store has raised over $7.5 million to reduce maternal and child mortality in Sierra Leone. (00:01:27)
    • over $7.5 million (USD) — money raised for maternal and child health · for Good Store · in Sierra Leone · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says over 70 people work full-time for Complexly and over 50 for DFTBA.com or Good Store. (00:01:27)
    • over 70 (people) — full-time employees · for Complexly · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
    • over 50 (people) — full-time employees · for DFTBA.com or Good Store · as of 2024 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-05-28 · A Midlife Crisis — John says tuberculosis has unnecessarily killed over a hundred thousand people this month (May 2024). (00:01:56)
    • over a hundred thousand (deaths) — tuberculosis deaths in one month · for worldwide · as of 2024-05 · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-21 · I Was So Sad that I Did Comedy — Hank says stand-up comedy is always less than 15 seconds from a joke and its bits rarely last more than a few minutes. (00:02:45)
    • less than 15 seconds — time between jokes in stand-up comedy · as of 2024-06-21 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-06-21 · I Was So Sad that I Did Comedy — Hank says Dropout is a streaming service costing $6 per month. (00:06:50)
    • $6 per month (USD/month) — Dropout subscription price · as of 2024-06-21 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-07-12 · My Identity Crisis — Hank says over 500 people have reviewed the Awesome Socks Club, with an average of 4.9 out of 5 stars. (00:03:43)
    • over 500 (reviewers) — people who left reviews of the Awesome Socks Club · for Awesome Socks Club customers · as of 2024-07-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • 4.9 out of 5 (stars) — average review rating of the Awesome Socks Club · for Awesome Socks Club reviews · as of 2024-07-12 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-13 · The Time a Spy Visited Me Because of P*tin. — In a comment John says a reporter later told him only around 400 American email addresses were hacked, four of them his and Hank's, including their private ones. (creator comment)
    • around 400 (email-addresses) — American email addresses hacked · for American email users · in United States · as of 2024-08-13 (implied: upload date) · source: reporter · unchecked
    • 4 (email-addresses) — John's and Hank's email addresses among those hacked · for John and Hank Green · in United States · as of 2024-08-13 (implied: upload date) · source: reporter · unchecked
  • 2024-11-01 · Working Through a Crisis with My Brother — Hank says John may be the second most banned author in America. — hedged: “may be” (00:00:58)
    • second most banned — rank among banned authors · for authors · in United States · as of 2024-11-01 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked

History & curiosities (7)

  • 2024-02-13 · Why Doesn't ❤️ Look Like a Heart? — John says people mostly saw animal hearts (cow, sheep, goat), and anatomists in Afro-Eurasia have drawn roughly Valentine-shaped hearts for almost a thousand years. (00:00:58)
    • almost a thousand years — duration of anatomists drawing Valentine-like hearts · for doctors and anatomists · in Afro-Eurasia · as of 2024-02-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-13 · Why Doesn't ❤️ Look Like a Heart? — John says the heart has long been tied to love, as in Sappho's heart quaking with love some 2,700 years ago, since it flutters in love and longing. (00:01:27)
    • some 2700 years ago — age of the heart-love association in literature · for Sappho's poetry · as of 2024-02-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-13 · Why Doesn't ❤️ Look Like a Heart? — John says linking the heart shape itself to love is much newer: evidence goes back maybe 700 years, such as an illustration of a woman giving her heart to a lover. — hedged: “maybe” (00:01:45)
    • 700 years — age of the oldest evidence of the heart shape used for love · for heart-shaped love imagery · as of 2024-02-13 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-02-13 · Why Doesn't ❤️ Look Like a Heart? — Second theory: ancient Afro-Eurasians prized the heart-shaped seeds of silphium, a giant fennel from Libya; Pliny the Elder called them one of nature's most precious gifts. (00:01:56)
  • 2024-02-13 · Why Doesn't ❤️ Look Like a Heart? — John says silphium was associated with sex and romantic love because it was used as contraception, and the people of Libya, then known as Cyrene, valued it so much that they minted it on their coins. (00:02:26)
  • 2024-02-13 · Why Doesn't ❤️ Look Like a Heart? — John says the Indus Valley Civilization used heart shapes of unknown meaning, and ancient Japan used them too, apparently unrelated to romantic love. — hedged: “it appears” (00:03:05)
  • 2024-02-13 · Why Doesn't ❤️ Look Like a Heart? — John says the heart is not the seat of emotion: a fluttering heart over a crush is felt, but the emotion sits in the brain, insofar as it has a seat. (00:03:53)

Economics (5)

  • 2024-08-09 · Why isn't This Illegal? — Hank says California has passed a law making this illegal, so most companies have a special, easier cancellation page for Californians. (00:02:50)
  • 2024-08-09 · Why isn't This Illegal? — Hank says the FTC, the part of the US government that protects consumers, has proposed a rule change that will make this illegal. (00:03:20)
  • 2024-08-09 · Why isn't This Illegal? — Hank explains the FTC has five commissioners nominated by presidents and approved by Congress, serving rolling seven-year terms, with no more than three from one party. (00:03:20)
    • five (commissioners) — number of FTC commissioners · for Federal Trade Commission · in United States · as of 2024-08-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • seven-year — term length of an FTC commissioner · for FTC commissioners · in United States · as of 2024-08-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
    • three (commissioners) — maximum number of FTC commissioners from the same political party · for FTC commissioners · in United States · as of 2024-08-09 (implied: upload date) · no source named · unchecked
  • 2024-08-09 · Why isn't This Illegal? — Hank says the rule became possible when Joe Biden nominated Lina Khan, widely seen as very pro-consumer in a way that has angered big businesses. (00:03:49)
  • 2024-08-09 · Why isn't This Illegal? — Hank says the cancellation rule is not yet in effect, and businesses will argue against it at an upcoming meeting. (00:03:49)