John Green's Blog, page 24
June 18, 2013
50 Ways to Pretend to Be Smarter
In which Grace teaches you how to fake being smarter than you are in 50 easy steps. Some of them might possibly involve cheese. Maybe.
Today's paternity leave video is brought to you by the delightful: http://www.youtube.com/dailygrace
June 14, 2013
What is the Strongest Force on Earth?
In which Hank answers a question on a geology test that is really a terrible question and that the student who answered incorrectly may have been more right than any of us supposed.
NERDFIGHTER CENSUS!
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/PD6ZRK7
June 11, 2013
How To Be John Green
In case you're wondering who that bearded dude who made this video is:
http://youtube.com/wheezywaiter
In which Craig teaches you everything you need to know about being John Green.
John-from-the-past continues to star in videos on the following channels:
http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse
http://www.youtube.com/mentalflossvideo
http://www.youtube.com/hankgames
June 7, 2013
How To Be a Baby Properly
In which Hank welcomes Alice Green to the world by giving her some tips on how to be a successful baby. And also basically lets her know that the survival of our species is on her shoulders. WELCOME, ALICE!!!
I'm so excited for John. I have talked to him, of course, a bunch since last week. He's really excited and way less freaked out than he was when Henry was born. Of course, he's exhausted, but he's also adorable. He's enjoying the time with his family a lot. It's really weird not to just lose him of YouTube but also largely off Tumblr and Twitter, but let's try not to forget about him while he's gone!
June 4, 2013
A New Nerdfighter Baby
In which past-John presciently reports on the birth of his second child, with an update from very-recent-past-John. John reports that he will be on paternity leave for a time, but his video presence will continue in lots of places.
http://www.youtube.com/crashcourse
http://www.youtube.com/mentalflossvideo
http://www.youtube.com/hankgames
May 31, 2013
Optimism is Not Insane
In which Hank talks about our cognitive bias toward bad news, how that affects us, and why there are, in fact, lots of reasons to be optimistic about the future of humanity on the Earth. All of this was inspired by the people I met in Seattle while helping launch this Kickstarter for a space telescope (http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1...).
Also, one of the guys behind that project wrote a book that heavily inspired this video and it is really really good and very interesting. I suggest you buy and read it: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1451...
Now I want to be clear that I don't think humanity is safe, or that we're not in the middle of a significant mass-extinction event, or that we're royally screwing up the planet, or that future generations won't be astounded by our arrogance...
I do, however, think that there is a very good chance that humanity will still be creating and solving problems thousands of years from now. Because creating and solving problems appears to be the two things we're best at.
Awesome moving graph came from http://www.gapminder.org
May 28, 2013
NERD FACTOR! (…And Why I Fear for Tumblr)
WINNERS! Ruby Day: http://www.youtube.com/user/blobblexxx / NerdyAndQuirky: http://www.youtube.com/user/NerdyAndQ... / MagicTurtle643: http://www.youtube.com/user/MagicTurt... / The Swot Sisters: http://www.youtube.com/user/swotsisters
Please check all of them out; they're all wonderful.
The TFiOS Special Edition Audiobook: dftba.com/tfios
In which John Green discusses advertising, tumblr, the winners of Nerd Factor 2013, the narrated-by-him audiobook version of The Fault in Our Stars, and the future of the Internet.
May 24, 2013
What’s Up with Start Ups
I'm just getting a little sick of the system that values aggregators of content more than creators of content, and presumes some kind of magical future where owning users free time results in lots of money.
Also, if you are an excellent, detail-oriented, graphic designer who wants to work with a company that does cool things quickly http://jobs.nerdfighteria.com/display...
May 21, 2013
Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Thoughts on Ai Weiwei from the Indianapolis Museum of Art
Sarah does not appear in vlogbrothers videos, but you can follow her on tumblr: http://absolumentmoderne.tumblr.com
In which John visits the Indianapolis Museum of Art, where his wife is a curator, and thinks about the work of the artist and dissident Ai Weiwei while walking through "According to What," his first major retrospective in the United States. If you live in or near Indianapolis, you should really see the show. It's very special, and will be here until July 21st.
My tumblr: http://fishingboatproceeds.tumblr.com
My twitter: http://www.twitter.com/realjohngreen
May 17, 2013
GIFs, JIFs, Whip Pans, Trivia, and BATMAN!
http://jobs.nerdfighteria.com
In which Hank answers real questions from real nerdfighters....with the help of some friends, most of whom are him. But also, Henry from Minute Physics makes an extremely brief cameo: http://www.youtube.com/minutephysics
People who helped!
Stefan Chin - http://www.youtube.com/pilocrates
Michael Aranda - http://www.youtube.com/michaelaranda
Henry Reich - http://youtube.com/minutephysics
Emily Graslie - http://www.youtube.com/thebrainscoop
