The following short video from best-selling novelist and popular vlogger John Green was posted last December 12 and points out that while 2017 had been marred by a continuing opioid crisis in the United States a famine in South Sudan … Continue reading
Novelist and vlogger John Green very succinctly raises the point that humans are often pretty good at dealing with emergencies but often a lot less good at dealing with long-term problems. (But see below.) Link: https://youtu.be/bpyhMMqwX8U Of course, John Green … Continue reading
To put it mildly, not everything about 2016 has gone well. But as novelist and polymath John Green points out here (in a video originally posted August 16), there have been some items of pretty good news as well, many … Continue reading
Novelist and polymath John Green manages to cram a lot of information about the recent history, current state, and possible future of health insurance in the United States in less than ten minutes: Link: https://youtu.be/p3mYrOnq2Z4 For sources and background information … Continue reading
Novelist and incredibly prolific YouTuber John Green puts a number of supposed “life hacks” to the test, with results that are often amusing and sometimes useful: Link: https://youtu.be/AeqXaWMFUm8 Highlights include Freezing onions stops them from causing tears Freezing clothing with … Continue reading
In this short (under four-minute) video essay John Green talks about YouTube Red — which basically gives you ad-free YouTube and some exclusive content for $10 a month — and what that might mean for the future of YouTube. John … Continue reading
Writer John Green does an excellent job of summarizing the current refugee crisis in Europe, covering a remarkable amount of information in under ten minutes. This is well worth your time and will leave you better informed than watching hours … Continue reading
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, popularly known as “Obamacare,” was signed into law five years and one week ago. Here’s a compact seven-and-a-half-minute video clip assessing how well it’s working from prolific writer and commentator John Green, who incidentally buys his own … Continue reading
John Green has a gift for presenting a subject succinctly, as in the video below that runs under four minutes. Ostensibly talking to his brother Hank, a very successful entrepreneur, he talks very informatively about arguments for and against raising … Continue reading
He’s surprised that some of the unlikely ones actually seem to work. So am I. Link: http://youtu.be/3fQlYYZQBM4 Some YouTube comments suggest the failed hacks actually work but Green didn’t do them right. I take that with a pillar of salt. … Continue reading