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Lists, 2018

71 lists in 41 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

2018-01-09 · Your Attention

  • John, 4 named — John thinks that is true not only of Twitter but of YouTube, Facebook, Reddit and so on. (00:00:18)
    1 Twitter · 2 YouTube (00:00:28) · 3 Facebook · 4 Reddit

  • John, 5 named — John says Twitter is structured not to make us better informed or happier but to keep us on Twitter, and the same is true of Facebook, Netflix, Hulu, YouTube and cable news. (00:02:40)
    1 Facebook · 2 Netflix · 3 Hulu · 4 YouTube · 5 Cable news

2018-01-16 · My Hollywood Star, Brexit Pears, and Hank's Book: It's QUESTION TUESDAY

  • John, 7 named — John ranks the films: Empire best and A New Hope excellent (correctly rated), Jedi slightly overrated, Rogue One and Force Awakens right, Phantom Menace worst, Sith best prequel, so Attack of the Clones is most underrated. (00:01:20)
    1 The Empire Strikes Back · 2 Star Wars (film) “A New Hope” (00:01:23) · 3 Return of the Jedi (00:01:25) · 4 Rogue One (00:01:28) · 5 Star Wars: The Force Awakens · 6 Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace (00:01:31) · 7 Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith (00:01:34)

2018-01-23 · On Emergencies

  • John, 3 named — After the outbreak the world made big health investments in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia; as the New Yorker article says, once Ebola seemed stabilized the money evaporated. (00:00:37)
    1 Guinea · 2 Sierra Leone · 3 Liberia

2018-01-26 · I Wrote a Book. I WROTE A BOOK. How did I do that?

2018-02-23 · Dear Young People, You Terrify Me

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says culture can be understood evolutionarily: what works sticks around, good or bad, from institutions like marriage or fast-food restaurants to ideas like human rights or tribalism. (00:01:38)
    1 Marriage · 2 Fast food · 3 Human rights (00:01:42) · 4 tribalism

2018-03-02 · The Best (Recent) Book Covers Including MINE!

2018-03-13 · Who Should We Root For?

  • John, 3 named — The US lost qualifiers to Costa Rica twice, to Mexico, and to Trinidad and Tobago. (00:01:03)
    1 Costa Rica · 2 Mexico · 3 Trinidad and Tobago

  • John, 6 named — Italy, the Netherlands, Chile, Canada, China, New Zealand and many other countries also failed to qualify. (00:01:21)
    1 Italy · 2 Netherlands · 3 Chile · 4 Canada (00:01:24) · 5 China · 6 New Zealand

  • Hank, 5 named — Hank says many languages, from Mandarin to Hebrew, Flemish, Russian, 'Indian' and Portuguese, have adopted OK as a common affirmative word. (00:00:29)
    1 Mandarin Chinese · 2 Hebrew language · 3 Flemish · 4 Russian language · 5 Portuguese language

2018-03-23 · Trump, Guns, and Net Neutrality...With Governor Steve Bullock?!

  • Hank, 4 named — Bullock says New York, New Jersey, Hawaii and Vermont governors did the same, basically taking Montana's executive order; Montana even offered a fill-in template. (00:01:25)
    1 New York (state) · 2 New Jersey · 3 Hawaii · 4 Vermont (00:01:29)

2018-04-06 · How to Stop Being Late Forever (advice for myself and other chronically late people)

  • Hank, 2 named — Signed editions of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing will exist in limited number (not all pre-orders signed): now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, at local bookstores on release, US and Canada only. (00:00:08)
    1 United States “US” · 2 Canada (00:03:37)

  • Hank, 3 named — Signed editions of An Absolutely Remarkable Thing will exist in limited number (not all pre-orders signed): now at Amazon, Barnes & Noble and Books-A-Million, at local bookstores on release, US and Canada only. (00:03:24)
    1 Amazon (00:03:34) · 2 Barnes & Noble (00:03:24) · 3 Books-A-Million (00:03:34)

2018-04-17 · John Green Answers Your John Green Questions

  • John, 5 named — John lives in Indianapolis, where TFIOS and Turtles All the Way Down are set; earlier he lived in Chicago (part of An Abundance of Katherines), Birmingham, Alabama (Looking for Alaska) and Orlando, Florida (Paper Towns). (00:00:35)
    1 The Fault in Our Stars · 2 Turtles All the Way Down · 3 An Abundance of Katherines (00:00:40) · 4 Looking for Alaska (novel) (00:00:44) · 5 Paper Towns (00:00:48)

  • John, 4 named — John lives in Indianapolis, where TFIOS and Turtles All the Way Down are set; earlier he lived in Chicago (part of An Abundance of Katherines), Birmingham, Alabama (Looking for Alaska) and Orlando, Florida (Paper Towns). (00:00:35)
    1 Indianapolis · 2 Chicago (city) (00:00:40) · 3 Birmingham, Alabama · 4 Orlando, Florida (00:00:44)

  • John, 2 named — Besides those books, John wrote half of Will Grayson, Will Grayson and one third of Let It Snow. (00:00:56)
    1 Will Grayson, Will Grayson · 2 Let It Snow

  • John, 2 named — A different John Green has a Hollywood star: a composer who won five Academy Awards for scoring films such as An American in Paris and West Side Story. (00:02:09)
    1 An American in Paris · 2 West Side Story

  • John, 3 named — John's books have won a Printz Award, an Edgar Award and, 'most prestigiously', an MTV Movie Award. (00:03:22)
    1 Michael L. Printz Award · 2 Edgar Award · 3 MTV Movie & TV Awards (00:03:27)

2018-04-20 · This Video is About Marijuana

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank thinks it ridiculous and unjustifiable that marijuana is criminalized while more addictive and dangerous substances like alcohol and tobacco are sold at every gas station. (00:00:23)
    1 alcoholic beverage · 2 tobacco smoking

  • Hank, 2 named — Third reason: THC, CBD and other marijuana compounds are legitimate medications, helping with autoimmune diseases, chronic pain, seizure disorders and vomiting in cancer patients. (00:01:00)
    1 tetrahydrocannabinol “THC” · 2 cannabidiol “CBD”

  • Hank, 4 named — Third reason: THC, CBD and other marijuana compounds are legitimate medications, helping with autoimmune diseases, chronic pain, seizure disorders and vomiting in cancer patients. (00:01:04)
    1 autoimmune disease · 2 chronic pain · 3 epilepsy “seizure disorders” · 4 cancer

2018-04-24 · This Video is about Red Eyed Tree Frogs?

  • John, 2 named — The red-eyed tree frog is a tree-dwelling, 2-inch-long frog with about a five-year lifespan, native to Central America and southern Mexico. (00:00:51)
    1 Central America · 2 Mexico

2018-04-27 · Finding Respite in 2018

2018-05-15 · Seven Maps to Better Understand the World

  • John, 6 named — A map dividing humanity into tenths shows that Canada, the US, Mexico, most of the Caribbean, Chile, Peru and more make up only one tenth of the world's population. (00:00:29)
    1 Canada (00:00:33) · 2 United States (00:00:29) · 3 Mexico (00:00:33) · 4 Caribbean · 5 Chile · 6 Peru (00:00:29)

  • John, 3 named — Births attended by trained health workers rose from 1991 to 2015: Brazil from under 70% to over 95%, India from 34% to over 80%, Mali from 26% to 60%. (00:02:26)
    1 Brazil · 2 India · 3 Mali

  • John, 4 named — Comparing 1980 with 35 years later, low- and middle-income countries from China to India to Peru to Angola saw life expectancy rise by at least 10 years, in some cases 20. (00:03:02)
    1 China (00:03:07) · 2 India (00:03:02) · 3 Peru · 4 Angola (00:03:07)

2018-05-22 · The Liger Delusion

  • John, 2 named — The same happens on the right, where conspiracy theories from Benghazi to Pizzagate are presumed true by many. (00:02:26)
    1 2012 Benghazi attack (00:02:30) · 2 Pizzagate conspiracy theory (00:02:26)

2018-06-08 · Intentionally Ignorant: Does Free Will Exist?

  • Hank, 3 named — It doesn't seem possible to Hank that his song, the seagulls Yoda song, Emily Dickinson and Shakespeare were all inevitable results of particles seeking lower energy states. (00:00:27)
    1 Seagulls! (Stop It Now) · 2 Emily Dickinson (00:01:01) · 3 William Shakespeare (00:01:06)

2018-06-12 · Your 4-Minute Guide to ALL 32 TEAMS at the 2018 World Cup

2018-07-10 · The General Crisis

  • John, 4 named — From Africa to Asia to Europe to the Americas there was a lot of crisis, oddly, since the human species overall was getting much wealthier and better connected. (00:00:54)
    1 Africa · 2 Asia · 3 Europe · 4 Americas

  • John, 2 named — The Columbian Exchange also brought devastation: perhaps over 90% of Native Americans were killed in the centuries after Europeans arrived, mostly by new diseases like smallpox and diphtheria, a decline lasting through the General Crisis. (00:01:35)
    1 smallpox · 2 diphtheria

  • John, 3 named — Despite the wealth, European populations declined, largely due to the Thirty Years' War, which through combat and famine killed around 20% of people in today's Germany and up to a third in Poland and Lithuania. (00:02:25)
    1 Germany · 2 Poland (00:02:28) · 3 Lithuania

2018-07-13 · Why Do So Few Countries Have Nukes?

  • Hank, 6 named — Other countries have tried: there have been nuclear programs in Brazil, Argentina, Libya, Iran, Taiwan and South Korea. (00:01:04)
    1 Brazil (00:02:20) · 2 Argentina · 3 Libya · 4 Iran (00:01:04) · 5 Taiwan (00:02:20) · 6 South Korea

  • Hank, 5 named — First nuclear tests: the US in 1945, the USSR in 1949, the UK in 1957, France in 1960 and China in 1964, a big spurt that becomes important later. (00:01:12)
    1 United States “The US tested” · 2 Soviet Union “the USSR followed” (00:01:16) · 3 United Kingdom “the UK” · 4 France · 5 China

  • Hank, 3 named — In 1991 Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan briefly had nuclear weapons because they already had them when the USSR collapsed and they came into existence. (00:01:47)
    1 Ukraine · 2 Belarus · 3 Kazakhstan

2018-07-24 · Other John Greens

  • John, 4 named (playful) — Part one: six other John Greens and the John Green near-EGOT (00:02:32)
    1 Twister · 2 Speed 2: Cruise Control · 3 The Net · 4 Rookie of the Year (00:02:38)

  • John, 6 named — John says he will join Hank on tour in New York, Boston, North Canton (Ohio), Kansas City, Chicago and Indianapolis, and is excited for it. (00:03:18)
    1 New York City · 2 Boston · 3 North Canton · 4 Kansas City, Missouri (00:03:25) · 5 Chicago (city) · 6 Indianapolis

2018-07-27 · Why Environmentalists Hate Captain Planet

  • Hank, 5 named — Hank says that pitch sold the show, for its first season at least, to a ridiculously star-studded cast: Whoopi Goldberg, Meg Ryan, LeVar Burton and Sting. (00:00:52)
    1 Whoopi Goldberg · 2 Meg Ryan (00:00:53) · 3 LeVar Burton (00:00:54) · 4 Sting (00:00:55) · 5 Jeff Goldblum (00:00:56)

2018-07-31 · On Prepositions

  • John, 2 named — Not on the phone but in it: phone life as a disembodied space like a city; sign-off (00:02:16)
    1 Instagram · 2 Fortnite

2018-08-14 · Question Tuesday: Secrets & Primes

2018-08-21 · SYSTEMS!!!!

  • John, 3 named — About 11% of Sierra Leone's economy goes to health-care spending, a share similar to the UK, Australia or France. (00:01:56)
    1 United Kingdom “UK” · 2 Australia · 3 France

2018-08-28 · The Book Was Better?

  • John, 2 named — John has just read Elizabeth Berger and Isaac Aptaker's beautiful screenplay adaptation of Turtles All the Way Down; he thinks it might actually become a movie and is excited but nervous. (00:00:13)
    1 Elizabeth Berger · 2 Isaac Aptaker

2018-09-11 · Surprise . . .

  • John, 11 named — The sponsorship call was a trick: AFC Wimbledon, robotics, debate, solar car, ultimate, rugby, lacrosse, baseball, Quidditch, a podcast, rowing and quiz bowl sponsored for An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (00:00:58)
    1 Pennsylvania · 2 Canada · 3 Fort Wayne, Indiana · 4 South Dakota · 5 Oklahoma City · 6 Alaska · 7 Austin, Texas (00:01:27) · 8 Georgia (U.S. state) (00:01:56) · 9 Boston · 10 South Africa (00:02:26) · 11 Ohio

  • John, 3 named — John says Hank's book does not need the sponsorships to excite people: it has glowing starred reviews from Booklist, Library Journal and Kirkus. (00:02:26)
    1 Booklist · 2 Library Journal · 3 Kirkus Reviews (00:02:55)

  • John, 3 named — Patrick Rothfuss, Ashley Ford, Catherynne Valente and several other writers have blurbed the book. (00:02:55)
    1 Patrick Rothfuss · 2 Ashley C. Ford · 3 Catherynne M. Valente “Catherine Valenti”

2018-09-14 · Our Rivalry

  • Hank, 12 named — The book tour starts September 25th in New York, then Boston, Canton, Chicago, Kansas City, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Cruz and Bellingham. (00:02:52)
    1 New York City · 2 Boston (00:03:34) · 3 North Canton · 4 Chicago (city) · 5 Kansas City, Missouri · 6 Indianapolis · 7 Milwaukee · 8 Denver · 9 Los Angeles · 10 San Diego · 11 Santa Cruz, California · 12 Bellingham, Washington

2018-10-05 · We've Got Some Weird Voting Laws…

  • Hank, 3 named — Three states, Colorado, Washington and Oregon, have no polling places: everyone votes by mail, which cuts election costs and increases participation. (00:01:43)
    1 Colorado · 2 Washington · 3 Oregon

2018-10-09 · How Big a Problem is Mental Illness?

  • John, 4 named — John says globally heart disease is by far the most common cause of death, stroke is also very common, and diarrhea causes about as many deaths as lung cancer. (00:00:00)
    1 Coronary artery disease · 2 Stroke · 3 diarrhea · 4 Lung cancer (00:00:29)

  • John, 2 named — John says measured in DALYs, malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia become much more prominent because they disproportionately affect younger people. (00:00:58)
    1 malaria · 2 pneumonia

  • John, 3 named — John says in Brazil mental illness causes more lost DALYs than any other single cause, including heart disease, and the same is true in France and the UK. (00:01:27)
    1 Brazil · 2 France · 3 United Kingdom “UK”

  • John, 2 named — John says in China depression and anxiety rob people of more years than liver cancer or diabetes. (00:01:27)
    1 depression · 2 anxiety disorder

  • John, 2 named — John says in China depression and anxiety rob people of more years than liver cancer or diabetes. (00:01:27)
    1 Liver cancer · 2 diabetes

2018-10-19 · This is the scariest graph I've ever seen

  • video description, 3 named — Hank cites three papers: on country responsibility and risk from global sea-level rise, on committed sea-level rise under the Paris Agreement and delayed mitigation, and on flood damage costs as sea levels rise with warming.
    1 Global sea-level rise: weighing country responsibility and risk · 2 Committed sea-level rise under the Paris Agreement and the legacy of delayed mitigation action · 3 Flood damage costs under the sea level rise with warming of 1.5 °C and 2 °C

2018-10-23 · Why Are Humans Suddenly Getting Better at Tetris?

  • John, 2 named — Tetris, developed by Alexey Pajitnov, arrived in the United States in 1989 for the Game Boy and the Nintendo Entertainment System. (00:00:00)
    1 Game Boy · 2 Nintendo Entertainment System

  • John, 2 named — Live streaming on Twitch and YouTube lets players learn from each other; even decades-long top players are changing their style to reflect new discoveries. (00:01:56)
    1 Twitch · 2 YouTube

2018-10-26 · The Rigged Election

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says Trump lied about undocumented immigrants voting, Pennsylvanians voting multiple times and Massachusetts voters bussed to New Hampshire, and said in the campaign the only way to lose was cheating. (00:02:22)
    1 Pennsylvania · 2 Massachusetts · 3 New Hampshire

2018-10-29 · PIZZAMAS IS HERE!

  • John, 5 named — John unboxes the designer Pizza John shirts: Abstract Pizza John by Sofia Cardone, a Mr. Potato Man Pizza John by Andy J. Pizza, and shirts by Maria Wynn and David Pemberton. (00:00:59)
    1 Sofia Cardone · 2 Andy J. Pizza · 3 Maria Wynn · 4 David Pemberton · 5 DFTBA Records (00:01:28)

2018-11-05 · Reading Mean Comments with John

  • Hank, 5 named (playful) — Commenters say Hank looks like Minkus from Boy Meets World, handsome Squidward, one of the Proclaimers, a YA urban fantasy hero, Alton Brown and Scott Pilgrim. (00:00:29)
    1 Stuart Minkus · 2 Squidward Tentacles (00:00:58) · 3 The Proclaimers (00:01:34) · 4 Alton Brown (00:02:03) · 5 Scott Pilgrim (00:02:32)

  • Hank, 7 named (playful) — Commenters say John looks like Jimmy Neutron, a Lamborghini-touting scammer, a Weeble, middle-aged James Potter, Megamind with hair, a young Santa Claus and Tom Hanks. (00:00:29)
    1 Jimmy Neutron · 2 Weebles “weeble wobble” (00:00:58) · 3 James Potter · 4 Megamind (00:02:03) · 5 Bernard · 6 Santa Claus (00:02:32) · 7 Tom Hanks (00:03:06)

  • Hank, 3 named (playful) — A separate category of comments describes John with his mustache: the guy you glance at at Walmart, an 80s substitute teacher, a Ned Flanders double, the protagonist of Her. (00:03:06)
    1 Walmart · 2 Ned Flanders (00:03:35) · 3 Her

2018-11-06 · Taking a Year Off

  • John, 4 named — John spends something like 20 hours a week on Facebook, Reddit, Instagram and Twitter, mostly scrolling and skimming, and his attention has become extremely fractured. (00:00:00)
    1 Facebook · 2 Reddit · 3 Instagram · 4 Twitter

2018-11-08 · Let's Talk Money: The Bank of Nerdfighteria's Semi-Annual Report

  • John, 2 named — John lists sources of the Foundation's money: AmazonSmile, workplace giving programs, and a lot from Tab for a Cause, which raises charity money while you browse. (00:00:34)
    1 AmazonSmile · 2 Tab for a Cause (00:00:38)

  • John, 2 named — John says P4A's first half raises money for pre-selected Save the Children and Partners In Health, highly effective partners for over a decade; the second half for charities Nerdfighteria chooses. (00:01:12)
    1 Save the Children (00:02:13) · 2 Partners In Health (00:01:12)

2018-11-09 · I Don't Know What Work Is

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says he turned reading novels into work, just as VidCon made watching YouTube work, SciShow his science obsession, Vlogbrothers his interest in online communities, and Dear Hank and John being dumb with his brother. (00:00:29)
    1 VidCon · 2 SciShow · 3 Vlogbrothers · 4 Dear Hank and John (00:02:55)

2018-11-23 · Four Jokes from a Two year Old

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank invites viewers to DFTBA.com for merch from the McElroy brothers, the Gregory Brothers, the Green brothers, Lindsay Ellis, The Valleyfolk and many other creators. (00:02:39)
    1 McElroy brothers · 2 The Gregory Brothers · 3 Lindsay Ellis (00:03:08) · 4 The Valleyfolk

2018-11-27 · On The Melian Dialogue

  • John, 3 named — John says the Melian Dialogue happened about 2,400 years ago in ancient Greece; 5th-century BCE Athens was a democracy where Plato and Socrates philosophized and Sophocles wrote and held office. (00:00:00)
    1 Plato · 2 Socrates · 3 Sophocles

  • John, 2 named — John says the Melian Dialogue happened about 2,400 years ago in ancient Greece; 5th-century BCE Athens was a democracy where Plato and Socrates philosophized and Sophocles wrote and held office. (00:00:00)
    1 Antigone · 2 Oedipus Rex

2018-12-07 · BABIES! The 2018 Project for Awesome is here…

  • John, 2 named — John says most of them will die of easily treatable or preventable illnesses: diarrhea, pneumonia, starvation. (00:01:56)
    1 diarrhea · 2 pneumonia

  • John, 2 named — John says Partners In Health does extraordinary work providing health care to the poor from Sierra Leone to Haiti. (00:02:26)
    1 Sierra Leone · 2 Haiti