In which the European leg of the Paper Towns press tour begins in MADRID and John and Nat Wolff just keep swimming through crushing, world-ending jet lag. The Paper Towns movie is 38 days away from its US release on July 24th and I'll be sharing a John Darnielle/Mountain Goats song I love every day from now until July 24th to celebrate the movie and the band (Q's favorite band and my favorite band): http://fishingboatproceeds....
In which the European leg of the Paper Towns press tour begins in MADRID and John and Nat Wolff just keep swimming through crushing, world-ending jet lag. The Paper Towns movie is 38 days away from...
College is a good deal, but it could be a much better deal. A combination of factors have driven the costs of higher education in America to increase extremely quickly, pricing some people out of a...
In which John contemplates what it means to be human, and how we define personhood, while also talking a bit about the stuff he's been trying to write the last few years.
A special Monday bonus video in which John talks about the new podcast, the decoupling of productivity and wages, and THE PAPER TOWNS MOVIE TOUR! Let's continue the discussion about productivity an...
It wasn't just hard to communicate this, it was surprisingly hard to come up with them. When we're confronted with negative experiences, we want to analyze them and think about them and remember th...
In which John follows Hank's lead but does him one better by making a 16-part video. Topics discussed include our forthcoming podcast Dear Hank and John, Hannah Hart's trapeze talents, my forthcomi...
In which Hank is Angry About Stuff, because sometimes you just gotta let it out (and also because, when he asked, Twitter said that they'd prefer him angrily raving than just being funny.)
In which John talks about suffering's destruction of language and Elaine Scarry's wonderful book The Body In Pain, as well as the amazing work Save the Children is doing for refugees. Nerdfighters ...
In which Hank delivers a message for the class of 2015, and also for everyone else. This is a magically weird time in the history of our species and it's time to be a part of it.
One of our favorite things to do is take a complicated issue and tease out the knot a little bit. By avoiding politics and taking a larger, top-down view, we try to tell a complete story much faster than cable news can even talk about an isolated event.