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Lists, 2026

63 lists in 46 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

2026-01-09 · There is Only One Source of Value

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says that is why years ago the brothers began working with Partners In Health and Save the Children during the Project for Awesome: they reject the idea that some lives are worth more. (00:03:53)
    1 Partners In Health · 2 Save the Children

2026-01-16 · 2026 P4A Changes! (Plus...GAMES!)

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says half the money goes to charities advocated for and voted on by the community, the other half split between Save the Children and Partners In Health. (00:00:29)
    1 Save the Children · 2 Partners In Health

2026-02-03 · Does the truth still matter?

  • John, 3 named — From a historical view, John says the rule of law in the US has never been applied fairly or justly: state-sanctioned killing, from witch hunts to lynchings to executions, has long been part of the American story. (00:01:27)
    1 witch hunt · 2 lynching · 3 capital punishment “executions”

2026-02-04 · We Just Sold Our Company for $0

2026-02-06 · One week until P4A!

2026-02-10 · I Was a Teenage Dirtbag

  • John, 3 named — John says the 2026 World Cup, co-hosted by Canada, the US and Mexico, was supposed to celebrate North American cooperation but now appears it will be something else. (00:03:08)
    1 Canada · 2 United States “the US” · 3 Mexico

2026-02-13 · Why Isn't Everybody a Nonprofit?!

2026-02-13 · Project for Awesome 2026 Kickoff!

  • John, 5 named — John offers 460 leftover signed quote posters from P4A 2024, each signed by one of Brennan Lee Mulligan, John, Hank, Alexis Nikole Nelson, Tyler Thrasher, Sabrina Cruz, Travis McElroy or the SciShow Tangents hosts. (02:04:31)
    1 Brennan Lee Mulligan · 2 Alexis Nikole · 3 Tyler Thrasher · 4 Sabrina Cruz · 5 SciShow Tangents

  • John, 3 named — John introduces a featured P4A video on menstrual health and dignity in Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan. (02:47:56)
    1 Kenya · 2 Uganda · 3 South Sudan

  • John, 8 named — A tour of John's background: gifts, the self-talk text, Harvey, Woody Guthrie (03:08:43)
    1 Francis of Assisi · 2 Abraham Lincoln · 3 Andy Warhol · 4 Vulcan (03:09:12) · 5 AFC Wimbledon · 6 Liverpool FC · 7 Plough Lane (03:10:08) · 8 Sierra Leone

2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 3!

  • John, 4 named — 2-2 and hope; This Star Won't Go Out and Esther Earl; where the money goes (00:39:47)
    1 Wigs for Kids · 2 We Are TB “we rt” · 3 Uplift · 4 Union of Concerned Scientists

  • John, 3 named — Committed people pointing attention the same way; toward $30 million; health workers rather than yachts (01:08:02)
    1 Brennan Lee Mulligan · 2 Tessa Violet · 3 Phil Plait

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank reads the schedule: Animal Wonders with Jessi Knudsen Castañeda next, John from seven o'clock, then John and Charlotte McDonnell, Hank and Destin, Taylor and Miriam, and Hank again for the late-night shift from 12 o'clock Eastern. (06:59:50)
    1 Animal Wonders · 2 Jessi Knudsen Castañeda “jesse knutson castaneda” · 3 Charlotte McDonnell

2026-02-14 · Project for Awesome 2026 part 4!

2026-02-20 · What We Actually Did.

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says they started the Awesome Socks Club and then Good Store, which gives all its profit to charity, much of it to the Maternal Center of Excellence. (00:02:26)
    1 Awesome Socks Club · 2 Good Store

2026-02-27 · Can We Do a Science Together??

  • Hank, 6 named — Hank lists names he knows that share a name: Percy Jackson and LaToya Jackson; Isaac Mizrahi, Isaac Asimov, Oscar Isaac and Walter Isaacson. (00:00:29)
    1 Percy Jackson · 2 La Toya Jackson · 3 Isaac Mizrahi · 4 Isaac Asimov · 5 Oscar Isaac · 6 Walter Isaacson

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank thinks that at this moment in history people know a historically high number of names, including of people they don't and can't know, such as Catherine the Great, Catherine O'Hara and Lady Catherine de Bourgh. (00:00:58)
    1 Catherine the Great · 2 Catherine O'Hara · 3 Lady Catherine de Bourgh

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says Wikipedia has a list of notable people and fictional characters plus public pageview data that can stand in for how famous each is. (00:03:09)
    1 Eddie Murphy · 2 Eddie Cochran

2026-03-06 · How Do You Create When You Don't Feel Safe

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says the Awesome Socks and Awesome Undies Club is open, with the first pair of socks or underwear 50% off with code SHAREAPAIR. (00:06:18)
    1 Awesome Socks Club · 2 Awesome Undies Club

2026-03-24 · How Panda Express Is Tuberculosis

  • John, 4 named — John says mountain goats, pigs, sharks, cows and many more animals can get tuberculosis. (00:00:58)
    1 Mountain goat “goats” · 2 Pig · 3 shark · 4 Cattle “cows”

2026-03-31 · I've Been Keeping a Secret…

  • John, 2 named — John asks viewers to pre-order the signed edition at hollywoodendingbook.com soon; signed copies are available in the US and Canada. (00:03:24)
    1 United States “U.S.” · 2 Canada

2026-04-03 · I Had a Hallucination This Week

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank suggests the reason may be that atoms are not an exclusive club: the Grand Canyon and Valles Marineris are just atoms, as are most things (not neutron stars). (00:02:14)
    1 Grand Canyon · 2 Valles Marineris

2026-04-07 · I've Been Pooping All Wrong

  • John, 2 named — Dr. Pasricha calls the gut its own brain: it has 500 million neurons and produces most of the body's serotonin and dopamine. (00:04:56)
    1 Serotonin · 2 dopamine

2026-04-28 · What I Can't Show You

  • John, 2 named — John says hundreds of people receive care every day at KGH's non-communicable disease clinic for hypertension, diabetes and sickle cell disease. (00:00:00)
    1 hypertension · 2 diabetes

2026-05-01 · Despair is Not Wisdom

  • Hank, 5 named — Hank lists what the graph shows: sewage systems, vaccines, antibiotics, maternal care, food security, public health workers, parents, doctors, nurses, scientists, governments, charities and people working hard. (00:02:39)
    1 sewage · 2 vaccine · 3 Antibiotic · 4 Food security · 5 Charity (practice) “charities”

2026-05-05 · Noted Brother Hank Green

  • John, 7 named — John hails Hank as inventor of 2D Glasses, TikTok science guy, Crash Course, VidCon and Project for Awesome man, best-selling novelist, Billboard-charting musician and Emmy winner. (00:00:00)
    1 2D Glasses · 2 TikTok · 3 Crash Course · 4 VidCon · 5 Project for Awesome · 6 Billboard · 7 Emmy Award

  • John, 3 named — Often siblings connect over aging parents; for them it is Vlogbrothers, Crash Course, Dear Hank and John and more, and working with someone you trust all the way down is beyond a gift. (00:00:00)
    1 Vlogbrothers (00:01:56) · 2 Crash Course · 3 Dear Hank and John

2026-05-22 · Why I Made Crash Course a Non-Profit

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank confesses that as Crash Course and SciShow grew into Complexly he was hungry with jealousy of BuzzFeed, Vice and Mashable. (00:00:29)
    1 BuzzFeed · 2 Vice Media · 3 Mashable

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says this was not new: as a blogger he was jealous of Gizmodo, TreeHugger, TechCrunch and another site. (00:00:29)
    1 Gizmodo · 2 TreeHugger · 3 TechCrunch

2026-05-26 · Hank Green Is a Fool

2026-06-02 · The Instagramification of Human Experience

  • John, 2 named — No one could watch McKinley or Lincoln be assassinated frame by frame, but people could witness JFK's, only two-dimensionally on a screen, as now with countless horrors. (00:02:26)
    1 William McKinley · 2 Abraham Lincoln

2026-06-09 · Your 1-Sentence Guide to EVERY TEAM in the 2026 World Cup

  • John, 47 named — Greeting; the World Cup as beautiful, confounding and corrupt; one sentence per team in reverse order of John's odds (00:00:00)
    1 Curaçao “Curacao” · 2 Haiti (00:00:29) · 3 Jordan (00:00:58) · 4 Iraq · 5 New Zealand · 6 Uzbekistan (00:01:27) · 7 Qatar · 8 Cape Verde · 9 Saudi Arabia · 10 South Africa (00:01:56) · 11 Democratic Republic of the Congo · 12 Iran (00:02:26) · 13 Australia · 14 Bosnia and Herzegovina · 15 South Korea (00:02:55) · 16 Tunisia · 17 Algeria · 18 Paraguay (00:03:24) · 19 Ghana · 20 Egypt · 21 Canada · 22 Scotland (00:03:53) · 23 Czech Republic “Czechia” · 24 Austria · 25 Mexico (00:04:22) · 26 Ivory Coast · 27 United States men's national soccer team · 28 Senegal (00:04:52) · 29 Sweden (00:05:21) · 30 Norway · 31 Uruguay · 32 Croatia · 33 Turkey (00:05:50) · 34 Switzerland · 35 Belgium · 36 Germany · 37 Ecuador (00:06:19) · 38 Japan · 39 Netherlands · 40 Portugal (00:06:49) · 41 Morocco · 42 Colombia · 43 Brazil · 44 England (00:07:18) · 45 Argentina · 46 France (00:07:47) · 47 Spain

2026-06-16 · My First Novel in Nine Years Has a Cover

  • John, 2 named — The Vlogbrothers sponsorship program is open: part of the channel's ad money supports educational online video; past grant recipients include This Glorious Clockwork and Kurzgesagt. (00:03:50)
    1 This Glorious Clockwork · 2 Kurzgesagt

2026-07-03 · Why I Didn't Buy TED

  • Hank, 5 named — Speakers who said yes include Mark Rober, Abigail Thorn, Katie Mack, Simone Giertz and Connections writer Wyna Liu, who is doing a secret game; Hank gives a talk six months in the making. (00:06:19)
    1 Mark Rober · 2 Abigail Thorn · 3 Katie Mack · 4 Simone Giertz · 5 Wyna Liu

2026-07-14 · On the Road Again

  • John, 20 named — Hollywood, Ending tour announced: tickets and the full list of stops (00:00:00)
    1 Toronto (00:01:39) · 2 New York City (00:02:09) · 3 Birmingham, Alabama · 4 Washington, DC · 5 Winston-Salem, North Carolina · 6 Portland, Maine (00:02:38) · 7 Pittsburgh · 8 Gainesville, Florida · 9 Nashville · 10 Madison · 11 Indianapolis · 12 Chicago (city) · 13 Saint Paul, Minnesota · 14 Kansas City, Missouri · 15 Tulsa, Oklahoma · 16 Tucson, Arizona (00:03:07) · 17 Boise · 18 Salt Lake City · 19 San Diego · 20 Los Angeles (00:01:39)

2026-07-28 · 'Are You John Green?'

  • John, 2 named — John says he is often desperate to be perceived: he wants everyone in Birmingham, New York City and 17 other cities to see him on the Hollywood, Ending tour. (00:02:58)
    1 Birmingham, Alabama · 2 New York City

2026-08-07 · Just Trying to Figure Out My Job

  • Hank, 4 named — What Hank feels worst about: the reputational hit is his to take and earn back, but Complexly staff who write SciShow, Endlings, Eons and Crash Course and work with experts are now questioned because of him. (00:02:23)
    1 SciShow · 2 Endlings · 3 Eons · 4 Crash Course

2026-08-18 · My Nemeses

  • John, 7 named — John announces special guests on the Hollywood, Ending tour: Lily King in Portland, Maine, Sarah Urist Green in Birmingham, Clint Smith in DC, Suleika Jaouad in New York, Hank in San Diego, Sharon McMahon and Brandon Sanderson. (00:01:56)
    1 Lily King · 2 Sarah Urist Green · 3 Clint Smith · 4 Suleika Jaouad “Suleikha Juwad” · 5 Hank Green · 6 Sharon McMahon · 7 Brandon Sanderson

2026-08-21 · Not (Just) Dunking on Jeff Bezos

  • Hank, 5 named — Hank suggests perhaps today's Mozarts already exist: Stevie Wonder, David Byrne, Jacob Collier, Beyonce and Björk. (00:01:56)
    1 Stevie Wonder · 2 David Byrne · 3 Jacob Collier · 4 Beyoncé · 5 Björk “Bjork”

  • Hank, 5 named — Hank says Machiavelli, Botticelli, Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Raphael all worked at the same time in Florence, a city of barely 60,000 people. (00:03:39)
    1 Niccolò Machiavelli · 2 Sandro Botticelli · 3 Leonardo da Vinci · 4 Michelangelo · 5 Raphael

2026-08-25 · The Great Thing about Infectious Disease

  • John, 3 named — Today HIV can be prevented with a lenacapavir shot, TB with prophylactic antibiotics and cholera with sewage systems, while mumps, whooping cough, measles and diphtheria are vaccine-preventable. (00:00:29)
    1 HIV/AIDS · 2 tuberculosis · 3 cholera

  • John, 4 named — Today HIV can be prevented with a lenacapavir shot, TB with prophylactic antibiotics and cholera with sewage systems, while mumps, whooping cough, measles and diphtheria are vaccine-preventable. (00:00:29)
    1 Mumps · 2 Whooping cough · 3 measles · 4 diphtheria

  • John, 3 named — John lists reasons: survivorship bias, recency bias, misinformation, the politicization of the pandemic, and a fractured media landscape that makes public health campaigns almost impossible. (00:04:23)
    1 Survivorship bias (00:04:52) · 2 recency bias · 3 misinformation (00:04:23)

2026-09-08 · The Life Expectancy Lies That Won't Die

  • John, 4 named — John says that by the end of the 19th century there were vaccines for cholera, smallpox, plague and typhoid. (00:01:27)
    1 cholera · 2 smallpox · 3 Plague (disease) · 4 typhoid fever

  • John, 2 named — As a result, John says, people lived longer and the main causes of death shifted to chronic diseases like cancer and heart disease. (00:01:56)
    1 cancer · 2 Coronary artery disease

  • John, 2 named (2 unnamed items) — John says human health has improved tremendously thanks to clean water, sewers, vaccines and antibiotics, benefiting young children and pregnant women most, but all humans. (00:04:52)
    … · 2 sanitation “sewer systems” · … · 4 Antibiotic

2026-09-11 · Our Last YouTube View…

  • Hank, 2 named — Hank says Craig has stage experience as a front man in bands, Driftless Pony Club and Violet Palms; Craig says he fronts only one of them. (00:01:58)
    1 Driftless Pony Club · 2 Violet Palms

  • Hank, 7 named — The event will feature Mark Rober, Simone Giertz, Katie Mack, Abigail Thorn, Kallie Moore, Shan Boodram and Wyna Liu, who writes the Connections boards. (00:02:59)
    1 Mark Rober · 2 Simone Giertz · 3 Katie Mack · 4 Abigail Thorn · 5 Kallie Moore · 6 Shan Boodram · 7 Wyna Liu “Winna Lu”

2026-09-15 · YouTube Says This Video Has 683,183 Views, It Actually Has 312,584

  • John, 2 named (1 unnamed item) — John says YouTube's interest has always been co-creation between creators and audience: Nerdfighteria would be far less interesting without Sneezing Isn't Normal, Pizzamas and TB Fighters, which came more from the community. (00:03:53)
    … · 2 Pizzamas · 3 TBFighters

2026-09-18 · John was Wrong about YouTube Views

  • Hank, 11 named — Hank says John is off on tour; many dates are sold out, but tickets remain for Brooklyn, Birmingham, Portland (Maine), Gainesville, Nashville, Madison, St. Paul, Tucson, Boise, San Diego and Los Angeles. (00:09:04)
    1 Brooklyn · 2 Birmingham, Alabama · 3 Portland, Maine · 4 Gainesville, Florida · 5 Nashville · 6 Madison · 7 Saint Paul, Minnesota · 8 Tucson, Arizona · 9 Boise · 10 San Diego (00:09:51) · 11 Los Angeles

2026-10-01 · Are We Still YouTubers?

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank asks what Smosh, Angela Collier and Alexis Nikole Nelson each do and who does likewise: there is no word because they are all doing their own things. (00:04:57)
    1 Smosh · 2 Angela Collier · 3 Alexis Nikole

2026-10-02 · the most powerful attention-consuming tools in the history of the world

  • John, 2 named — John does not believe making and distributing art is primarily capitalistic: we made art before capitalism, and shoehorned it into mercantilist and hunter-gatherer economies before. (00:02:26)
    1 mercantilism “mercantilist system” · 2 Hunter-gatherer “hunting and gathering” (00:02:55)

2026-10-05 · Why Are We So Bad at Executing People?

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank says most of those states have banned executions, some have moratoriums and others just rarely execute; they include blue and red states from Alaska to New York to West Virginia. (00:00:29)
    1 Alaska · 2 New York (state) · 3 West Virginia

2026-10-06 · Make Your Art.

  • John, 2 named (3 unnamed items) — John does not care whether your art is sweaters, YouTube videos, home-cooked meals, soccer commentary or Tumblr fanfiction, only that you make it and share it despite the costs. (00:02:42)
    … · 2 YouTube · … · 5 fan fiction + Tumblr

2026-10-07 · The 5 Meanest Things We've Named a Species

  • Hank, 4 named — Hank says the moth called the Uncertain, the exasperating platynota, the confused moth and the confused flour beetle are named for scientists' difficulty telling them from similar species. (00:02:26)
    1 The Uncertain · 2 exasperating platynota (00:03:15) · 3 confused moth · 4 confused flour beetle

  • Hank, 5 named — Top five meanest names: bone-eating snot-flower worm, insignificant harp ground beetle, stinkpot, ugly worm lizard, sloth (00:05:04)
    1 Osedax mucofloris “bone eating snot flower worm” · 2 insignificant harp ground beetle · 3 eastern musk turtle “stinkpot” (00:05:42) · 4 ugly worm lizard · 5 sloth (concept) “Sloths” (00:07:04)

2026-10-09 · The Productivity Lie

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank's first chemistry tutoring went terribly; feeling obligated to Christina, Ethan and Connor, whose grades mattered more to him than his own, he learned chemistry like never before. (00:07:20)
    1 Christina (00:07:24) · 2 Ethan (00:07:20) · 3 Connor

2026-10-13 · My Lungs Are on the Outside of the Body

  • John, 4 named — Having been from Maine to Florida to Idaho to Southern California in the last month, John says the best city in North America by a country mile is Indianapolis, where all his people are. (00:03:19)
    1 Maine · 2 Florida · 3 Idaho · 4 Southern California

2026-10-16 · Is Happiness the Goal?

2026-10-20 · Correcting a Mistake in Everything Is Tuberculosis · 50 x 50 Science

  • John, 2 named — Tuberculosis is treated with combination therapy, several antibiotics acting differently: isoniazid attacks the cell wall as it forms, while rifampin enters the cell and disrupts its RNA synthesis. (00:04:52)
    1 isoniazid · 2 rifampicin “rifampin”

2026-10-30 · The Last Normal Year

  • Hank, 6 named — Hank notes that David Bowie, Prince, Alan Rickman, Muhammad Ali, Carrie Fisher and George Michael all died in 2016. (00:01:30)
    1 David Bowie · 2 Prince · 3 Alan Rickman · 4 Muhammad Ali · 5 Carrie Fisher · 6 George Michael

  • Hank, 3 named — Hank suggests people may be alert to AI partly because they walked into the last revolution thinking it would be all about bottle flips, Harambe and Pokémon Go. (00:05:53)
    1 Bottle flipping · 2 Harambe · 3 Pokémon Go “Pokemon Go”