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They Hacked Me
Thank you to Sherri Davidoff from LMG Security for helping me both with this video and also with recovering from my hack. If you're thinking "I won't get hacked, I'm not a public person like Hank," that does NOT protect you. Most hacks...
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The World's Largest Fruits
In a lot of ways, it's pretty wonderful that we live at a time where we can benefit from the work and intelligence of literally thousands of generations of people. We rarely think of the people alive today who work to bring us are food,...
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Should I Feel Guilty?
Thank you to too much candy for helping me finally make this video. It's obviously something I've been thinking about for a long time. As someone who has a LOT of advantages, it is very clear to me that I have them. But I also think that...
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Sexual Abuse, Consent, and Culture
If you haven't heard, there have been some really troubling stories about manipulative and abusive relationships between online creators and their fans. While that situation certainly spurred me to make this video, I also think a video...
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March 12th: How to Make a Podcast
In which Hank teaches John how to make a podcast...and then finishes off with some juicy bits.
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Deepfake: A Brief History of Unreliable Images
In which John and Hank get Deepfake mustaches, which makes John think about the history of forged, shopped, cropped, and airbrushed images. Can humans learn not to trust their senses? Or are we doomed to be duped by images even when we...
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Vital Status Report from NYC
In which Hank mostly goofs off with friends in New York. But, of course, there's a good bit of Paper Towns talk as well.
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This is the scariest graph I've ever seen
Graphs shouldn't be scary! They're just data! And even though I have a masters degree in environmental studies, this graph, once it was explained to me, changed how I felt about the impacts we were having on the planet completely. Of...
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The Golden Gate Bridge Didn't Collapse!!
In which Hank talks about why we think the world is super screwed up and getting worse every day when, in fact, the world is pretty OK and getting better every day. There's so much good news every single day that cataloguing it would...
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The Anxious Scroll
This video was recorded after our tour got cut short (for obvious and completely understandable reasons.) We're all searching for clear and simple information right now, but while there are lots of things that we know (we need more...
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Should You Abandon Social Media?
Did I make a video called "is twitter redeemable" last month? Yes I did. Do I think about Twitter a lot? Yes. Too much? Probably. Ultimately, the moments when I feel like I can't control myself on social media are the ones when I most...
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Please Google, Take Me to Mars
In which Hank talks an awful lot about Mars..and then goes kinda crazy...
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North Korea: Explained
Is North Korea going to bomb us? Is North Korea a Threat? Is North Korea Communist? Why does North Korea Hate us? These (according to my extremely imprecise research) are the most common questions people in the world have about North...
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Let's Talk about Failure
First, I have to say thank you to all of the people who help make NerdCon: Stories so amazing. Particularly Monica Gasper, Patrick Rothfuss, and Mary Robinette Kowal. But also, all of our remarkable guests and attendees. Second, if I...
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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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How to Stop Being Late Forever (advice for myself and other chronically late people)
For me, lateness is often a kind of weird procrastination. I decide to leave for a thing at the last possible moment, which is often significantly later than that. But punctuality is extremely valuable and valued in our society. There...
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How to Never Feel Embarrassed Again
In which Hank wonders at some stories of his own humiliation, and why he feels it sometimes, but not other times. The trick is finding people and places that support you in being you so that you are comfortable feeling right even after...
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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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Doing Bad Things To Make Good Things Happen
I am very lucky to have found myself (and gotten myself) in a situation that is well suited to the quirks of my personality. But I still find myself sometimes unintentionally hurting people, annoying people, or letting people down even...
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What Elon Musk Got Wrong About Twitter
It's hard to overstate how different "We will moderate based on what is illegal" is from "...illegal or destructive to the world, or wrong, or bad." That second sentence is just saying "moderation will remain centralized and...
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The Psychology of Package Thieves
It's no surprise that de-humanizing thieves is easy, they de-humanized us first. But when Mark Rober let us get inside of some package thieves houses and cars...I felt a little like they weren't what I expected...even if I didn't know...
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My Greatest Tool Against Vaccine Misinformation
I think there is a place for taking the time to fight against individual claims...but the thing you don't want to do is engage with the people who are not going to be convinced by anything...the people who have tied their identity and...