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Lists, 2017

61 lists in 42 videos, by upload date. Each list: who says it, how many named members, what it is about (the statement or segment it belongs to) and its start; then the members in the order said, each linked to its entity page where there is one. A skipped number (…) is an item that names no entity; “quoted” words are how a member was actually said when that differs from its name. All years

2017-01-06 · Too Excited about Pears! (Question Tuesday with Hank)

2017-01-10 · What Is the Real Unemployment Rate?

  • John, 3 named — John says U3 matches international standards, allowing comparison: a similar measure puts Brazil at 12%, Germany at 4.1% and Spain at 19%. (00:03:26)
    1 Brazil · 2 Germany (00:03:29) · 3 Spain

2017-01-13 · Top 10 Best Dogs Ever

  • Hank, 7 named (3 unnamed items) — The top 10 best dogs: real hero and famous dogs mixed with a cat, chipmunks and a canary (00:00:23)
    1 Sergeant Stubby · 2 Lily (00:00:50) · … · 5 Laika (00:01:50) · 6 Alvin and the Chipmunks (00:02:06) · 7 Bummer and Lazarus (00:02:16) · … · 9 Tweety (00:02:49) · 10 Lemon (00:03:05)

2017-01-17 · How Young Is History?

  • John, 5 named — John says much of what we think inevitable or natural about humanness isn't: not wealth inequality, climate change or polarization, but not literacy, free speech or a three-hour Rome-Florence trip either. (00:03:13)
    1 economic inequality · 2 climate change · 3 political polarization · 4 literacy (00:03:17) · 5 freedom of speech

2017-01-31 · Understanding Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

  • John, 6 named — John says the order bans for 90 days all immigrant and non-immigrant entry by citizens of seven nations, naming Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. (00:00:25)
    1 Iran · 2 Iraq · 3 Libya · 4 Somalia · 5 Sudan · 6 Yemen

  • John, 3 named — John finds the blanket refugee ban very poorly targeted: it lumps together all refugees, whether from Syria, South Sudan or Burma. (00:03:30)
    1 Syria · 2 South Sudan (00:04:41) · 3 Myanmar “Burma”

2017-02-07 · Good News, YA Books, and Bears: It's Question Tuesday

  • John, 3 named — The first was probably Tiffany's I Think We're Alone Now, but also New Partner by the Palace Brothers and Love Love Love by the Mountain Goats. (00:02:58)
    1 I Think We're Alone Now · 2 New Partner (00:03:02) · 3 Love Love Love

2017-02-24 · Doing Bad Things To Make Good Things Happen

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says he saw himself as the protagonist of books he liked: Ender Wiggin, Frank Chalmers, Paul Atreides. (00:01:03)
    1 Ender Wiggin · 2 Frank Chalmers · 3 Paul Atreides

2017-03-17 · Trump's Budget Explained

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says Trump's proposed budget leaves untouched programs like Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment and Social Security; these and other mandatory spending take up 73% of the US budget. (00:00:06)
    1 Medicare · 2 Medicaid · 3 Unemployment benefits · 4 Social Security

  • Hank, 16 named — Hank lists today's discretionary budget in billion-dollar blocks: military about 590 (more than half), HHS 84, Veterans Affairs 75, Education 68, HUD 47, Homeland Security 41, State and aid 38, Energy 30, Agriculture 23, NASA 20, Transportation 18, Labor 12. (00:00:36)
    1 United States Armed Forces “the military” · 2 United States Department of Health and Human Services (00:00:40) · 3 United States Department of Veterans Affairs (00:00:42) · 4 United States Department of Education (00:02:31) · 5 United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (00:00:44) · 6 United States Department of Homeland Security (00:00:47) · 7 United States Department of State · 8 United States Department of Energy (00:03:19) · 9 United States Department of Agriculture (00:00:51) · 10 NASA (00:00:54) · 11 United States Department of Transportation (00:01:23) · 12 United States Department of Labor (00:03:12) · 13 United States Department of the Treasury (00:00:57) · 14 United States Department of Commerce (00:01:00) · 15 United States Environmental Protection Agency “the EPA” · 16 Corporation for Public Broadcasting (00:01:03)

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says the military money would enlarge the Army and Marines, add jet fighters and warships, and, in the budget's words, accelerate the war against ISIS. (00:01:26)
    1 United States Army · 2 United States Marine Corps “the Marines”

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says one small block holds the entire NEA, NEH, Institute of Museum and Library Services and Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and under Trump's budget they would no longer exist. (00:03:56)
    1 National Endowment for the Arts · 2 National Endowment for the Humanities (00:03:58) · 3 Institute of Museum and Library Services

2017-03-21 · My Information Diet

  • John, 4 named — John admits the phone still has a browser plus Delta, Yelp, Google Maps, Chipotle and a soccer-on-TV app, so it isn't really that dumb, but he has no way of twittering. (00:01:22)
    1 Delta Air Lines · 2 Yelp (00:01:24) · 3 Google Maps · 4 Chipotle Mexican Grill (00:01:25)

  • John, 4 named — John is not convinced twittering makes him better informed: he knows a lot about Trump's handshakes with foreign leaders but little about South Korea's ousted president, Brazil's corruption scandals or the Fed's monetary policy. (00:01:57)
    1 Park Geun-hye “South Korea's ousted president” · 2 Operation Car Wash “corruption scandals in Brazil” (00:02:00) · 3 Federal Reserve (00:02:02) · 4 Monetary policy

  • John, 4 named — John says in the last couple of weeks he has scaled way back on the social internet for an information diet: an hour or two each morning reading mostly The Economist, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and The Indianapolis Star. (00:02:39)
    1 The Economist · 2 The New York Times (00:02:41) · 3 The Wall Street Journal · 4 The Indianapolis Star (00:02:43)

2017-03-24 · I Disagree with Me (Thoughts from Lake Powell)

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says Hoover Dam created Lake Mead in the 1930s; later three large storage sites were proposed: Echo Park (flooding parts of Dinosaur National Monument), Bridge Canyon (parts of the Grand Canyon) and Glen Canyon. (00:00:08)
    1 Echo Park (00:01:50) · 2 Bridge Canyon (00:01:54) · 3 Glen Canyon (00:00:08)

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank is thrilled that, especially over the last decade, technology has come to be seen more as a tool for protecting the environment, dismantling the old dichotomy through electric cars, solar panels and LED bulbs. (00:05:13)
    1 Electric car · 2 solar power (00:05:17) · 3 LED lamp

2017-03-28 · Why Can't America Have a Grown-Up Healthcare Conversation?

  • John, 2 named — John says US health outcomes are poor: it trails Chile and Slovenia in life expectancy, though both spend under 10% of GDP on health care and have higher tobacco use. (00:01:49)
    1 Chile · 2 Slovenia

2017-03-31 · No Cut Confessional: Priorities

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says one obligation is to a new idea he can uniquely pull off: almost an obligation to the idea or the universe to make it exist, which drives his art, SciShow and Crash Course. (00:00:50)
    1 SciShow · 2 Crash Course · 3 How to Adult · 4 HFS (00:01:19)

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says the second obligation, to existing things people rely on and love, is less exciting but more compelling: to VidCon attendees and creators, Nerdfighteria and John; he doesn't resent it. (00:01:43)
    1 VidCon · 2 Nerdfighteria · 3 John Green

2017-04-11 · Making the World's Largest Ball of Paint

  • John, 4 named — John jokes it can't be a coincidence that so many world's largest balls are in the US: popcorn in Iowa, stamps in Nebraska, competing twine balls from Kansas to Minnesota. (00:00:12)
    1 Iowa · 2 Nebraska (00:00:14) · 3 Kansas (00:00:19) · 4 Minnesota

  • John, 2 named — John says we usually imagine art as a story of individual geniuses, like Shakespeare or Leonardo da Vinci, using innate brilliance to expand the human landscape. (00:01:01)
    1 William Shakespeare · 2 Leonardo da Vinci

  • John, 3 named — John believes in genius: some artists, from Mark Twain to Jane Austen to Toni Morrison, are uncommonly great. (00:01:11)
    1 Mark Twain · 2 Jane Austen (00:01:28) · 3 Toni Morrison

2017-04-21 · The Adpocalypse: What it Means

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says if the value proposition breaks, creators will find (and already are finding) new support: subscriptions like Rooster Teeth's First, YouTube Red, Patreon, and creator-brand relationships communities like. (00:03:22)
    1 Rooster Teeth First · 2 YouTube Red (00:03:25) · 3 Patreon · 4 sponsorship “one-on-one relationships between creators and brands that communities like” (00:03:29)

2017-04-25 · Pokemon, Reviewed by a Dad Who Knows Nothing about Pokemon

  • John, 2 named — Most Pokémon are based on legends (Charizard, a dragon) or animals (Rhyhorn, a rhinoceros), but Pikachu seems just our collective idea of adorable, which we throw balls at and cage. (00:02:39)
    1 Charizard · 2 Rhyhorn (00:02:43)

2017-05-09 · Your Neighborhood, Your Life Expectancy

  • John, 2 named — John says low life expectancy communities have less healthy food, more uninsured people and more diabetes and hypertension, while the healthiest tend to be rich with excellent health care. (00:02:06)
    1 diabetes · 2 hypertension

2017-05-12 · Things That You Just Might Love

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says he falls into this trap, tending to push his greater resources toward their own projects such as SciShow, Crash Course and Dear Hank and John. (00:00:00)
    1 SciShow (00:00:17) · 2 Crash Course · 3 Dear Hank and John

  • Hank, 14 named — Fourteen underappreciated channels, podcasts and creators Hank loves (00:00:34)
    1 The Brain Scoop · 2 Applied Science (00:00:39) · 3 Super Sam Stuff (00:00:52) · 4 Tanis (podcast) (00:01:00) · 5 Criminal (podcast) (00:01:07) · 6 You Must Remember This (podcast) (00:01:11) · 7 Humanize Me (00:00:58) · 8 Steven Suptic (00:01:27) · 9 Evelyn from the Internets · 10 Xidnaf “Zidnaff” · 11 Lindsay Ellis · 12 How Does Do Science (video, title unclear) (00:02:03) · 13 Miles Chronicles (00:02:09) · 14 Gunnarolla (00:02:22)

2017-05-16 · The Introducer, My Childhood Dream Job

  • John, 4 named — John names favourite documentaries missing from Netflix: the 7 Up series, Herb & Dorothy, Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter and Slavery by Another Name, each briefly described. (00:01:27)
    1 Up series · 2 Herb & Dorothy · 3 Complaints of a Dutiful Daughter (00:01:46) · 4 Slavery by Another Name (00:01:52)

2017-06-23 · Reviewing Musicals from their Wikipedia Pages

  • Hank, 6 named (playful) — Reviewing Broadway musicals from their Wikipedia pages: American Dance Machine, Banjo Eyes, the Superman musical, The Cocoanuts, Marriage a la Carte, Teddy & Alice (00:00:49)
    1 American Dance Machine · 2 Banjo Eyes (00:01:11) · 3 It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman (00:01:38) · 4 The Cocoanuts (00:02:09) · 5 Marriage a la Carte (00:02:29) · 6 Teddy & Alice (00:03:18)

2017-06-27 · UNBOXING

  • John, 3 named — Each publisher has its own ISBN prefix: 0-06 is HarperCollins, 0-316 Little, Brown, and 1-224 the University of Chicago Press. (00:01:48)
    1 HarperCollins · 2 Little, Brown and Company · 3 University of Chicago Press

  • John, 2 named — Turtles All the Way Down has two ISBNs, one for signed books; bookstores, Target and Amazon will all have signed copies, and ordering that ISBN gives the best chance of a signature at no extra cost. (00:02:16)
    1 Target Corporation · 2 Amazon (00:02:20)

2017-06-30 · Eyes Made of Crystal? - Trilobites are Bizarre

  • Hank, 2 named — In the 1600s Huygens and Descartes devised lens shapes fixing this; the trilobites Crozonaspis and Dalmanitina had matching eye-lens shapes, keeping near and far objects in focus with less distortion. (00:02:59)
    1 Christiaan Huygens · 2 René Descartes (00:03:01)

  • Hank, 2 named — In the 1600s Huygens and Descartes devised lens shapes fixing this; the trilobites Crozonaspis and Dalmanitina had matching eye-lens shapes, keeping near and far objects in focus with less distortion. (00:03:05)
    1 Crozonaspis “Crozonapsis” · 2 Dalmanitina

2017-07-07 · My Earthquake Story - (And Thoughts About Numbers)

  • Hank, 2 named (1 unnamed item) — We judge our worth and draw confidence from quantified things (AP scores, net worth, BMI, bench press) because they are easy to measure, not because they are good surrogates for our value. (00:01:56)
    1 Advanced Placement exams “AP test scores” · … · 3 Body mass index “BMI” (00:02:02)

2017-07-21 · On Condom Failure

  • Hank, 2 named — Implants and IUDs, where they suit the person, have had a really substantial impact on unwanted pregnancies worldwide and in America. (00:03:07)
    1 contraceptive implant “implants” · 2 intrauterine device “IUDs”

2017-08-08 · What You Make of It: Thoughts from Venice, Italy

  • John, 6 named — After the Grand Canal view, they visit the Peggy Guggenheim Collection: works by Anish Kapoor, Modigliani, Warhol, Frank Stella, Picasso and Pollock, though John mostly saw the backs of heads. (00:01:45)
    1 Anish Kapoor · 2 Amedeo Modigliani · 3 Andy Warhol (00:01:48) · 4 Frank Stella · 5 Pablo Picasso (00:01:51) · 6 Jackson Pollock

2017-08-22 · The Causes of Cholera

  • John, 2 named — John says that when he thinks of advances in medicine he thinks of medicines and medical devices, but he should be thinking of something else too. (00:00:00)
    1 Antibiotic · 2 vaccine (00:00:08)

  • John, 2 named — John admits he pays more attention to crises in distant Europe or Australia than elsewhere because people there feel close to him: he watches them on YouTube and reads their Reddit posts. (00:03:24)
    1 Europe · 2 Australia

2017-08-25 · Trust and Fire - Thoughts from the Smoke

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank tells everyone on the Gulf Coast of Texas and Louisiana he hopes it won't be as bad as it looks, asks them to be safe and make good decisions, and says he is thinking of them. (00:03:39)
    1 Texas · 2 Louisiana

2017-08-29 · 40

  • John, 5 named — John tells friends and viewers affected by flooding in Texas, Louisiana, India, Nepal and Bangladesh that they are thinking of them, and asks Nerdfighters who are able to join him in donating to relief organizations via links below. (00:02:59)
    1 Texas · 2 Louisiana · 3 India (00:03:03) · 4 Nepal · 5 Bangladesh

2017-09-07 · I Love and Apologize to (Insert Location Here): Surprise Thursday Bonus Video!

2017-09-12 · How Will the World End? Why Even Get Out of Bed? It's Question Tuesday.

  • John, 3 named — John says the Turtles tour shows in Bellingham, Chicago and Atlanta are sold out, sorry it happened so fast. (00:01:47)
    1 Bellingham, Washington · 2 Chicago (city) · 3 Atlanta

2017-09-15 · My Butt Has Some Complaints About Australia

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says many people have butt problems, such as hemorrhoids, anal fissures and IBD, and they should not be ashamed of them. (00:01:34)
    1 Hemorrhoids · 2 Anal fissure (00:01:35) · 3 Inflammatory bowel disease “IBD” (00:01:40)

2017-09-19 · Why Cities?

  • John, 4 named — While much has been lost, John is grateful to live in a world with telescopes, vaccines, YouTube and books. (00:03:39)
    1 Telescope · 2 vaccine · 3 YouTube · 4 Book

2017-09-29 · What's This Video About?

  • video description, 4 named —
    1 The Drumhead · 2 Measure of a Man · 3 The Inner Light · 4 Clues

  • Hank, 3 named — It's easy to write good-versus-evil stories with exploding spaceships, hard to write about disability, racism, what it means to be human, or honesty. (00:02:21)
    1 disability in the media · 2 racism · 3 human nature

2017-10-03 · Let's Talk about Books

  • John, 3 named — Instead of summarising, John recommends three poetry books by quoting a line from each: Nicole Sealey's Ordinary Beasts, Kaveh Akbar's Calling a Wolf a Wolf and Clint Smith's Counting Descent. (00:01:36)
    1 Ordinary Beasts · 2 Calling a Wolf a Wolf · 3 Counting Descent (00:01:57)

  • John, 3 named — John looks forward to unread books out this month (October 2017), Okorafor's Akata Warrior, Lockhart's Genuine Fraud and Stiefvater's All the Crooked Saints, so his tour reading is sorted. (00:02:56)
    1 Akata Warrior · 2 Genuine Fraud · 3 All the Crooked Saints

2017-10-10 · Turtles All the Way Down!!! A Reunion Video

  • John, 5 named — On Tuesday, October 10, 2017, from a New York City hotel floor, John announces Turtles All the Way Down is out in the US, UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and several other countries. (00:00:08)
    1 United States “the US” · 2 United Kingdom “the UK” · 3 Ireland · 4 Australia · 5 New Zealand

2017-11-03 · Because We're Here

  • John, 3 named — John recalls other nights of Hank's music: Edinburgh, the first VidCon, and 8/8/08 in Chicago, when Harry Potter fans sang his songs louder than his voice. (00:00:18)
    1 Edinburgh · 2 VidCon · 3 Chicago (city)

2017-11-07 · Definitely Not A Pecan Orchard: A Pizzamas Question Tuesday

  • John, 2 named — Abandoning one opinion every day: hot dogs, Phil Collins, M&M flavors (00:01:12)
    1 Phil Collins (00:02:19) · 2 M&M's (00:01:12)

2017-11-10 · The Weirdest Living Animals - (With Dr. Lawrence Turtleman)

  • Dr. Lawrence Turtleman, 5 named — Taxonomic islands: aardvark, hoatzin, coelacanths, tuatara, ginkgo (00:01:33)
    1 Aardvark · 2 Hoatzin (00:01:45) · 3 Coelacanth (00:01:56) · 4 tuatara (00:02:10) · 5 Ginkgo biloba (00:02:51)

2017-11-24 · The Bizarro History of Black Friday: (AND 2017 CENSUS!)

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank announces 20% off almost everything at DFTBA.com, including merch from the brothers, CGP Grey, Kurzgesagt, MinutePhysics and non-educational channels. (00:01:56)
    1 CGP Grey (00:02:07) · 2 Kurzgesagt (00:01:56) · 3 Henry Reich “MinutePhysics”

2017-11-28 · Let's Talk about Money

  • video description, 9 named — Recent recipients of the educational grants funded by Vlogbrothers ad revenue include the YouTube channels Draw Curiosity, Step Back History, Mr Beat, Neuro Transmissions, Cogito, Up and Atom and Soliloquy, as well as Odd Quartet and the Anthropological Life Podcast.
    1 Draw Curiosity · 2 Step Back History · 3 Mr Beat · 4 Neuro Transmissions · 5 Cogito · 6 Up and Atom · 7 Soliloquy · 8 Odd Quartet · 9 This Anthro Life

  • John, 2 named — In P4A's first half money goes to pre-selected charities: this year (2017) Save the Children, a partner for a decade, and Last Mile Health, which trains and pays community health workers in Liberia. (00:01:30)
    1 Save the Children · 2 Last Mile Health (00:01:34)

  • John, 2 named — John says past P4A grants have gone to organizations from the Trevor Project to the Against Malaria Foundation. (00:02:28)
    1 The Trevor Project · 2 Against Malaria Foundation

2017-12-01 · Let's Talk About Stress!

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says flight is reading about linguistics or going on Twitter or Facebook, and asks what fighting is, since he can't punch his email inbox. (00:02:10)
    1 Twitter · 2 Facebook

2017-12-19 · History Is Happening

  • John, 2 named — John says viewers can still donate until midnight at projectforawesome.com/donate, with perks such as New Zealand nickels, P4A socks and signed copies of Turtles All the Way Down. (00:01:34)
    1 New Zealand five-cent coin · 2 Turtles All the Way Down

  • John, 2 named — In the first half of this year's (2017) Project for Awesome they raised money for Save the Children and Last Mile Health. (00:02:31)
    1 Save the Children · 2 Last Mile Health

2017-12-22 · Christmas Questions Answered (With Katherine and Hank)

  • Hank, 12 named — Turtles All the Way Down was named a best book of the year by twelve outlets including The New York Times, Time, NPR and Booklist, and is in bookstores. (00:01:49)
    1 The New York Times (00:02:19) · 2 The Wall Street Journal · 3 Entertainment Weekly · 4 Time · 5 NPR (00:02:22) · 6 BuzzFeed · 7 Amazon · 8 Barnes & Noble (00:01:49) · 9 The Onion (00:02:22) · 10 The A.V. Club · 11 Publishers Weekly · 12 Booklist