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Mental Health Tips from People Who've Been There
In which John discusses his difficult week and the mental health tips for social distancing from Partners in Health.
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I Didn't Clean My Glasses for a Week and then I Put them Under a Microscope
It turns out, from what I can tell, that the reason your glasses get harder to see through, is that globs of sebaceous oil somehow leap from your skin to the inside of your glasses. Those oil globs then prevent light from going directly...
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I am an artist.
In which John unambiguously celebrates Sarah Urist Green and her wonderful book You Are an Artist, and considers what it means to make art and be an artist.
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How to Change What you Want
Sometimes I think understanding how this process works will make my desires feel less real, but it never does. I can understand exactly how my internal calculus is changing and why AND that it's something that I HAVE DONE TO MYSELF, but...
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How Much Does Humanity Weigh?
For a final twist, all mammals are just 7% of animals, and all animals are LESS THAN ONE PERCENT of the Earth's biomass. We have always and will forever to continue to live in the age of plants, which make up more than 80% of all biomass...
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How Many Stars are in the Sky?
The Spitzer mission ended this week after more than a decade of operation. When it first launched, in order to eliminate all sources of infrared radiation, the telescope had a store of liquid helium on board that kept it just two degrees...
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Hit The Ground Running
What do you do when you've started the thing, but then maybe the thing isn't so great anymore? Is it stubborn to keep going? Or is quitting just giving up?
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Here's Why Younger People are Getting Shingles
This has been a wild time for me, but I am feeling much better.
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A Thought is Not an Idea
I've heard people talk a good deal about how ideas are useless without implementation, but I don't hear many people talking about the fact that an idea isn't even an idea if it doesn't have both an objective and a path to achieve that...
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11 Little Tips for Better Video Chat (For Teachers...and Everybody Else)
We have been making educational video for a long time now, but all we have ever wanted to do is make life easier for students and teachers. Hopefully this video does that, and hopefully Study Hall does too!
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Elon Was Right
I'm feeling less and less good about being on Twitter. It seems a little bit like Elon Musk thought that the previous owners of the site very intentionally were exercising power over him, and so now he is entirely justified in exercising...
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Consciously Experiencing Human Dignity
which John in inspired by--get this--a YouTube comment to consider more carefully what he loves and looks for in art (and beyond). Thanks, 33ranjit!
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Are You Stuck in The Sad Gap
I haven't run across a video that was so hard to fit into four minutes in a long time. There is a lot I want to say about this, and also a lot that I'm not 100% clear on. I don't know to what extent this is an artifact of the structure...
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Aliens
Is it aliens? Probably not. Why? Because we don't know almost everything, and finding an explanation that could explain almost anything doesn't recognize that there is a whole lot we don't know. We are so extremely biased toward thinking...
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Ukraine and Russia: What Caused the War?
In which John explores historical and political context to understand what caused the Russian government's invasion of Ukraine, and how we arrived at this awful now. There is a LOT of misinformation in comments, so why not read directly...
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Young People and the COVID Vaccine
Young People and the COVID Vaccine.So you've been putting off getting your vaccine.
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You Cannot Trust Yourself (Hank's End of the Year Worries)
This video had a whole section in it where I complained about how annoyed I get when I see other people who don't consider their impact get really surprised when people get mad at them and how nice it must be to just be blissfully...
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Why is There an Egg Shortage (And More)
We used to do this all the time and it's such a fun format...I usually can't answer them all, but this time I feel like I got lucky.
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We're Thinking About Facebook Wrong
Usually I'm up in the description being like, "here are a bunch of things I wasn't really able to fit in the video" but actually...turns out, if you let me go for 20 minutes, I get most of it out. OK, I guess the one insight I had...
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The Weight of Life
In which John expands on a recent Hank video to consider how explore Earth's total biomass, and how the 550 gigatons of carbon in Earth life is divided among different kinds of creatures. From gingko trees to e. coli, it's important to...
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The Search for Real Feeling
In which the Format returns as John thinks about feeling, why he struggles to feel things purely or directly, and what can be done about it.
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The Organism that Broke Biology
And it wasn't the last time we'd break biology either. We were so certain that there were such very particular buckets to put things into, but you probably haven't even heard of some of the weird things organisms get up to. Like...
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On Disease
Greetings to my brand new -itis. In which John discusses illness, and his experiences with it, and the way we imagine disease.
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My Physicalmental Illness
In which John discusses labyrinthitis, OCD, categories, the body in thought, and the body in pain.