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I Love Science (Clean Version) (Uncensored link in the Description)

2014-04-25 (said on 2014-04-26 — implied: date said in the video; uploaded -1 days later) · song · Hank · 3:44 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Science & nature (also: Projects) · mode: Comedy & performance · tags: song or performance, self promotion

Hank performs 'I Love Science', the first track of Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers' album Incongruent, praising science as a process rather than an ideology, then announces the album's May 7 release and the band's tour after VidCon.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Music video of the punk song 'I Love Science': stories without proof, Darwin, the best century to live in, Carl Sagan, a list of science's gifts, Rosalind Franklin

  • ★★ Hank sings that stories like storms caused by petty gods fighting on a mountain eventually bore him unless they have truth: incontrovertible, testable, repeatable proof. — 00:00:22

  • ★★ Hank sings that he loves Charles Darwin, that it is not bold to question being told the world is a thousand years old, and that science is a process, not an ideology. (hedged) — 00:00:40

    “It's a process, not an ideology”

  • ★★ Hank sings that asked which century he'd pick to live in, the answer is easy, right now: if you like hot running water, memory foam beds, TV, cell phones and not being dead, you love science. (playful) — 00:00:52 · progress

  • ★★ Hank sings that he loves Carl Sagan because it is great to look up at the sky and never stop wondering why. (hedged) — 00:01:09
  • ★★ Hank lists what science gives us, from woolly mammoth embryos and vaccines for smallpox and polio to the internet, the PS4, exoplanets, DNA, germ theory and relativity: life would be sad without it. — 00:01:23
  • ★★ Hank sings that he loves Rosalind Franklin because he wants to die remembering that the truth is more important than winning a prize. — 00:01:51

00:02:23 — Incongruent release date May 7, signed pre-orders with MP3 links; tour after VidCon, cities, lineup, ticket prices; sign-off

  • ★★★ Hank says the song is the first track of Incongruent, his album with Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers, officially out May 7 on iTunes and shipping from the DFTBA warehouse a little before. — 00:02:23 · Incongruent, DFTBA Records
  • ★★ Hank says pre-ordered albums will ship signed, with an email of MP3 download links since not everybody has a CD drive anymore. — 00:02:37 · Incongruent
  • ★★★ Hank announces the band's tour after VidCon: Los Angeles, San Francisco, Portland, Seattle, Boise, Denver, Salt Lake City and possibly Eugene, with a ticket link in the description. (hedged) — 00:02:47 · VidCon, Los Angeles
  • ★★ Hank says selling tickets quickly in Seattle, Salt Lake and Denver matters most, because bookers doubt the band, which has never toured, can sell tickets. — 00:02:59
  • ★★ Hank says the tour also features Rob Scallon, Andrew Huang, Wheezy Waiter's band Driftless Pony Club and Harry and the Potters; all shows are all ages and tickets are under $20. — 00:03:11 · Craig Benzine

In the description and comments

  • ★ The description offers Hank's other two albums for the price of one. — video description · DFTBA Records
  • ★ The description thanks Nick Jenkins, alongside Michael Aranda, for shooting and directing the music video. — video description

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Central: I Love Science · Incongruent · scientific method · Tour Because Awesome

Also: People: Andrew Huang · Carl Sagan · Charles Darwin · Craig Benzine · Rob Scallon · Rosalind Franklin

Projects: DFTBA Records · VidCon

Groups: Driftless Pony Club · Harry and the Potters

Concepts: DNA · exoplanet · germ theory of disease · Internet · polio · smallpox · theory of relativity · young Earth creationism

Places: Boise · Denver · Eugene · Los Angeles · Portland, Oregon · Salt Lake City · San Francisco · Seattle

Products: iTunes · PlayStation 4

Only in the description or credits: Hank Green and the Perfect Strangers · Michael Aranda · Nick Jenkins

Also centred on scientific method: Can You Trust Science Too Much?

Also centred on Tour Because Awesome: Touring with a Rock Band in 1,8X&,00B Simple Steps · T-Shirt and Jeans and TOUR ANNOUNCEMENT

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