Haua (Projects Ningmaster)'s Blog Posts Tagged 'learning' (13)

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And SciShow: http://www.youtube.com/scishow

In which John Green gives advice to students returning to school for summer break, discusses the reasons public education exists, and celebrates the landing of…

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In which John discusses Part 1 of Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451, "The Hearth and the Salamander," including discussions of Guy Montag, Clarisse, the complicated relationship between technology and nature, and more. Huzzah for the Nerdfighter Book Club!

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In which John discusses his Vidcon experience, thanks his brother, and announces that you (yes, you!) need to read Part I of Ray Bradbury's FAHRENHEIT 451 by next Tuesday to prepare for our discussion in the Nerdfighter Book Club. (if you've read the book before, I encourage you to try reading it again with us!)

Vidcon was amazing. Thanks to everyone who was there,…

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In which John explains why he is always taken aside and searched when attempting to enter the great nation of Canada due to The Insufficient Funds Incident of 1995.

I'm at the Perimeter Institute in Canada learning how to get smarter by watching YouTube. Here are some channels you should subscribe to:

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***Fahrenheit 451: http://dft.ba/-montag - read along or else quite a few of our videos won't make any sense this summer!***

In which Hank talks about Flinch (http://dft.ba/-flinch) and Foo Camp and takes a very VERY cold shower.

This video, I admit, isn't terribly well held together, I go…

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It's Hanko de Mayo! We all know Hank loves the James Webb Space Telescope, so hopefully he'll like our gift. In addition to his gift, nerdfighteria is celebrating Hank's birthday by letting our elected officials know that Increasing Awesome through scientific exploration is important to us. You'll find the email I wrote my congressperson and senators below. You can copy it,…

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The Fault in Our Stars: http://dft.ba/-tfios

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In which John, having discovered an (inevitable) mistake in The Fault in Our Stars, discusses his list of the five worst typographical errors and grammatical mistakes in the history of the English language, from the Bible to Shakespeare.

You can preorder The Fault in Our Stars at your local bookstore http://dft.ba/-tfiosindie,…

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And 23 other questions answered. The ones I missed were:

H: Why are hydrocarbons insoluble in water: Because hydrocarbons are non-polar and water is polar and, y'know, like dissolves like.

I: Why are insects attracted to light: This is hard to answer because there are lots of theories but no one is 100% sure.

X: Why are X-Rays dangerous? Because they can…

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In which John happy dances through town before landing in...heaven? And then announced two new exciting vlogbrothers projects, Crash Course and SciShow. At long last, nerdfighteria, we have the time and resources to make our eductational ambitions a reality.… Continue

In which John discusses the U.S. public debt, our dangerously high debt to GDP ratio, the S&P's downgrade of America's credit rating, and why our debt may not be as unmanageable as it seems. There's also some general discussion of economics, currency, the gold standard, and the worldwide financial system's dependence of the American dollar.



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ELLEN HARDCASTLE: http://dft.ba/hardcastle

DFTBA's servers may be slow for a while, you can also get Ellen Hardcastle on iTunes: http://bit.ly/rqbDUE



If you order the (physical) album in the next week, Hank will record a video for you featuring up to ten words of your choosing. (Really!)



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Pittsburgh tickets: http://dft.ba/-bvm Alex Carpenter made the shirt I'm wearing: http://dft.ba/-bvk



In which John discusses, exactly five years after winning the Michael L. Printz Award for Looking for Alaska, the complex series of collaborations involved in creating a book.



By the way, I don't know if anyone actually reads the dooblydoo, but more than five years after "Looking for… Continue