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Hank Green Article

William Henry "Hank" Green II was born on May 5th, 1980 to Mike and Sydney Green. He married Katherine Green in 2006. Hank and Katherine live in Missoula, Montana with their cat, Cameo. Hank and Katherine had their first child, Orin, in October 2016.

Hank uploaded the first video to the vlogbrothers channel on New Year's Day 2007, and has also helped start Scishow, Crash Course (where he teaches science topics), the now-defunct Truth or Fail, hankschannel, and hankgames. Hank was also responsible for starting up Vidcon, Subbable, DFTBA Records, and the Project For Awesome. He is the executive director for The Lizzie Bennet Diaries and other Pemberley Digital projects, and has also helped start up YouTube programs The Brain Scoop and Sexplanations, featuring knowledgeable Missoula residents.

Hank has a bachelor's degree in biochemistry from Eckerd College and a master's degree in environmental studies from the University of Montana. Before making videos for a living, he wrote in many publications, including mental_floss and his own technology blog, ecogeek.

Hank is also known for his songs that he writes with his guitar (called "This machine pwns N00bs" in an homage to Woody Guthrie), concerning science and other "nerdy" things. His albums include So Jokes, I’m So Bad at This (live), This Machine PWNS N00bs, and Ellen Hardcastle.

Significant Quotations:

  • "We aren't born with a self, we create ourselves."
  • "The most natural thing in the world is complexity."
  • "Dude - no edge." (regarding the infinite universe)
  • "Good morning John it's ______"
  • "Fart fart fart."


External Links:
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2026-02-27 Can We Do a Science Together?? 04:25 106,588
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2025-09-30 WHO ARE WE AND WHAT ARE WE DOING 08:58 246,787
2025-09-30 Happy Pizzamas Everybody 😌 00:41 108,121
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2025-03-19 I did it!! 01:43 78,808
2025-02-21 No Video Today!! 03:05 132,985
2025-02-14 Let's Do a Good 02:22 72,134
2025-02-14 TOMORROW!! 00:10 74,059
2025-01-29 Ask Hank Anything (with Rhett and Link) is OUT NOW!! 00:14 88,947
2025-01-28 IT LAUNCHES TOMORROW 01:42 48,195
2025-01-25 Am I OK? 08:34 673,406
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2024-12-02 John, You're Doing Great 02:56 131,958
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2024-08-09 Why isn't This Illegal? 06:23 513,610
2024-07-26 Hank Green's Top 7 Best Coconut Tree Facts!! 03:48 196,858
2024-07-12 My Identity Crisis 04:19 238,460
2024-07-05 Should I Run for President?? 04:12 476,943
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2024-04-19 I Closed My Boob in a Door 05:28 232,246
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2023-11-17 WHAT AM I DOING 06:15 178,547
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2023-09-20 You Don't Have to be "Type A" to Achieve 12:06 155,311
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2022-11-17 A Quick Update for the Sock Fiends 01:48 87,278
2022-11-11 Elon Was Right 03:56 854,425
2022-11-04 My Secret Obsession 03:59 210,592
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2022-03-06 Surprising Uses for Fungi You May Not Know 19:25 320,554
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2022-02-11 Knowing is not Understanding - Pluto and the P4A 03:41 138,744
2022-01-20 So...TikTok Sucks 24:47 1,072,713
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2022-01-14 Thank God We Got This Right... 03:59 241,074
2022-01-11 About That Snap… 04:00 316,537
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2022-01-07 For Our 2000th Video: Just a Normal Snowy Day 03:37 156,237
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2021-11-30 Vlogbrothers REUNITED AT LAST 04:00 296,457
2021-11-29 When a cow has to go, does it ask other cows to "moove?" #shorts #science #ecology #cows 00:49 2,269,478
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2021-09-03 The Frog That Swallowed Its Young 06:22 145,001
2021-08-06 Remembering What's Special 03:33 123,107
2021-07-30 Can You Trust Science Too Much? 03:48 156,716
2021-07-23 The Last 25 Questions I Asked Google 03:58 210,267
2021-07-18 The Solar System Explained | SciShow Goes to Space 35:38 1,283,972
2021-07-16 Should You Abandon Social Media? 03:59 216,536
2021-07-09 Wrong on the Internet 04:00 205,965
2021-07-02 So...Orange Juice isn't What it Seems... 03:58 796,244
2021-06-25 The Surprising Origin of Crash Course 03:56 211,814
2021-06-22 Mindblowers with Hank and John 04:01 430,843
2021-06-18 QUADRAGOCON 2021!! LET THE GAMES CONTINUE!!!! 03:59 215,219
2021-06-12 The Stono Rebellion: Crash Course Black American History #6 12:01 516,375
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2021-05-28 Aliens 04:00 234,662
2021-05-21 The 19 Best Facts 03:57 402,109
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2021-05-07 Are We The Same Person? 03:55 189,358
2021-05-07 AUDIO BROKEN!!! Are We Different People?? 03:55 15,378
2021-04-30 Are We the Baddies?? A Quick Look at a Discourse 03:59 201,238
2021-04-23 Young People and the COVID Vaccine 03:59 219,241
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2021-04-16 Gene Editing and Intelligence: A Bad 04:00 186,948
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2021-03-22 Your Screen Is Covered In Human Blood 10:06 237,333
2021-03-05 How The Solenodon Became Venomous 06:21 258,111
2021-02-19 Bean Meme Review 13:21 193,601
2020-12-30 5 Brilliant Minds Who Shaped Modern Science | Compilation 26:35 191,709
2020-11-25 Rare Colors: How Nature Creates Blue Hues 12:20 439,685
2020-11-04 Earth's Most Amazing Flying Animals | Compilation 32:11 919,634
2020-10-30 Four Years Ago 03:53 180,888
2020-10-23 10 Reasons to Vote RIGHT NOW 03:44 105,907
2020-10-16 Still Riding a Big Wave that I Do not and Cannot Know 03:57 132,699
2020-10-12 What Matters 03:59 157,545
2020-10-08 The Commercial that Killed a Fast Food Chain 03:58 8,005,155
2020-10-06 Something Important I've Never Talked About 03:59 193,182
2020-09-23 The Weird & Wiggly World of Worms 22:50 344,000
2020-08-04 The Planets with Inside-Out Weather 05:17 118,620
2020-05-17 We Can't Live Without You | Synanthropic Animals 10:28 232,789
2020-03-13 The Anxious Scroll 03:11 177,773
2019-10-04 In Defense of Bad Flags 03:27 163,841
2019-09-27 Crisis 04:00 216,028
2019-09-20 Why Does Australia... (this video is bad, I'm sorry) 03:47 174,884
2019-09-13 You Need to Know About This Caterpillar 03:59 536,674
2019-09-06 Trump is Abnormal, It's His Superpower 03:57 351,365
2019-08-30 The Earth Shouldn't Have Oxygen 04:00 373,208
2019-08-23 The Amazon isn't "Burning" - It's Being Burned 07:32 1,395,609
2019-08-16 ...Not My Proudest Moment 03:57 268,260
2019-08-09 Decluttering the Somewhat Embarrassing Nightstand of a 39 Year-Old Best-Selling Author 03:41 193,581
2019-08-02 The Cutest Octopus 04:00 268,903
2019-07-26 The Best $10,000 I Ever Spent 03:49 222,361
2019-07-18 In Which Hank Consumes the Juice of Over 400 Gushers 03:59 184,199
2019-07-15 Apollo 11 50th Anniversary Playlist 01:29 63,239
2019-07-12 Why Are We Still Doing This? - Reunion Video! 04:00 352,046
2019-07-05 You Need to Know About This Ridiculous Fish 03:58 340,946
2019-06-27 My New Obsession 03:45 209,624
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2019-06-14 What /Actually/ Happened at Chernobyl 13:30 3,054,586
2019-06-07 8 Things I Wish I Knew When I was Writing my First Novel 04:00 770,910
2019-05-31 Uncomfortable Nuance: Natural Gas Edition 03:54 161,903
2019-05-24 The Monterey Bay Aquarium Has a Secret 08:03 351,923
2019-05-10 The Worst Product Ever 04:00 284,001
2019-05-03 What Game of Thrones is Really About 10:37 354,398
2019-04-26 It's Time to Care About "Business" 03:34 148,168
2019-04-19 Making your Nothings into Somethings 03:59 170,531
2019-04-12 Escalators: We're Not Doing it Wrong (Mostly) 03:59 250,727
2019-04-05 TOO MANY MILKS 03:58 211,872
2019-03-29 The Largest Theft of All Time 03:50 555,688
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2019-03-15 Why We Stopped Making Explainers: EXPLAINED 03:56 272,092
2019-03-08 Does "The Press" Hate YouTube? 03:59 144,724
2019-03-01 I Get a Robocall While Making a Video About Robocalls 03:59 197,842
2019-02-22 I Don't Want The Same Things Anymore 04:00 255,729
2019-02-15 The Most Bizarre Stock Photos I Could Find Brought to Life by Your Captions 03:08 136,616
2019-02-08 Record Cold Winter Could Be Thanks To Global Warming 07:08 256,171
2019-02-08 Screwing Up: Two Stories From When I Worked at a TV Station 04:00 182,580
2019-02-05 You, a Dog, and an Elephant All Pee for 21 Seconds 03:55 226,435
2019-02-04 Does Depression Make You More Realistic? 05:39 151,123
2019-02-04 Why Can't We Make Spider Silk? 04:59 517,247
2019-02-03 7 of the Strangest Sharks on Earth 10:11 1,428,052
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2019-02-01 We Have Destroyed Copyright Law 12:18 663,950
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2019-01-26 Does Lactic Acid Really Cause Muscle Pain? 04:06 421,714
2019-01-25 Researchers Reverse Alzheimer’s Memory Loss (in Mice) | SciShow News 06:27 138,351
2019-01-25 Giant Stars Don't Follow the Rules | SciShow News 06:43 276,620
2019-01-22 Why Can't I Poop When I Travel? 03:46 201,416
2019-01-21 Changing DNA in a Cell With No DNA: Gene Therapy for Blood Disorders 07:08 118,713
2019-01-21 Do These Eyes Freak You Out? 04:54 102,180
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2019-01-19 How an Army of Crayfish Clones Took Over Europe 03:27 185,562
2019-01-18 The First Extinction of 2019 Has Already Happened | SciShow News 05:51 448,875
2019-01-18 Should You Burn Dirty Fuel? 03:58 123,912
2019-01-16 Neurology, Pharmacology, & Poultry | SciShow Talk Show 22:49 47,931
2019-01-14 Your Favorite Food May Have Been Decided Before Birth 05:24 75,001
2019-01-13 7 Scientific Discoveries Made by... Licking Stuff? 12:19 1,234,754
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2019-01-10 How Aspirin Changed Medicine Forever 11:52 505,915
2019-01-08 Why Do Kids Puke So Much? 03:19 253,676
2019-01-07 How the Right Tunes Can Improve Your Workout 05:27 49,000
2019-01-07 Behold—Poisonous Snakes! (Yes, You Read That Right) 05:33 567,315
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2018-12-21 Predators vs Prey | The Secrets of The Animal Kingdom 37:07 239,470
2018-12-18 Bdelloids: The Most Hardcore Animals in the World? 06:43 214,937
2018-12-17 Why Being Introverted Doesn't Make You Antisocial | Antisocial Personality Disorder 05:46 138,428
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2018-12-14 5 More Strange Flying Machines 11:26 370,763
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2018-12-02 The Most Brilliant Scientists (Who No One Believed) 12:48 2,007,473
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