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you and me both, buddy.

born to hank green forced to john green

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I can't tell you the looks i got when I told people that instead of continuing to write YA novels that sold a lot of copies, I was going to write a series of small essays reviewing facets of human experience on a five-star scale.

And so I have to confess it is extremely meaningful to me that The Anthropocene Reviewed has not just hung around but found a growing audience, so much so that it will re-enter the New York Times bestseller list next week, four years after its initial publication.

Thanks to everyone who has kept that little book alive even as it becomes progressively less timely. What a joy.

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The problem with Hank Green's new bean app.

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Genuinely surreal that my brother @edwardspoonhands, despite having eighteen jobs and making six videos a week et cetera, also co-created the sixth most popular app in the world.

(Good app, too. I use it daily.)

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As I scroll through your blog I keep getting more and more convinced you might really be The Actual John Green, but the idea is so inconceivable to me I think it's spraining something in my brain. The idea that your return to the hellsite flew completely under my radar could not sound faker, how can that possibly be true? And yet here you are. The Actual John Green (Probably). How do I process this

It's weird for me too, lil fucking bird prince.

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Mr Green I had a very bizzare dream you were working at a Panda Express in an abandoned mall that was half torn down. And I told you I was a lunch lady. And then later we put on a spoken word poetry show in the back of my elementary school.

thoughts on Panda Express?

As I'm sure you're aware, Panda Express was cofounded by the computer scientist Peggy Cherng, who got her phd in computer science exploring ways that algorithms could be used to identify heart failure in digital x-rays.

Very similar technology is now used to diagnose tuberculosis. The algorithm can identify areas of concern in the lung and then follow-up sputum testing can confirm or exclude tuberculosis.

And so Peggy Cherng's work indirectly shaped work on algorithm-assisted X-Rays to identify tuberculosis.

Those are my thoughts on Panda Express.

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Did the fishing boat ever come to fruition? Were the proceeds great enough?

How do you think I'm funding my sweet life as an unpaid intern?

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banger.

But I wonder if we also ignore illness because of our bias toward agency and control. We would like to imagine that we captain the ships of our lives, that human history is largely the story of human choice. Perhaps this is why rumors have swirled for millennia that Alexander the Great died of poisoning even though he almost certainly died of typhoid or malaria. We simply don’t want a world where even the most powerful emperor can be felled by mere infection.

John Green, Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection

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In like 2006, I accepted anyone who asked to be my friend as a friend on facebook, because that was how you promoted your books at the time. Eventually by 2008 or so, I maxed out at 500 friends.

Now, on the rare occasions I log into facebook, I just see updates from the (few) people who still post on facebook. So my feed is just a collection of marriages, deaths in the family, birthday wishes, and so on from 500 random people who liked my work 20 years ago.

It's sort of beautiful, actually.

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Query: when I buy discounted Good Store items, does that reduced cost come out of the “profit” (the charitable donation) or the company’s maintenance-costs cut?

I’ve been avoiding using the discount codes, since I don’t want to short either.

It comes out of the profit, but it's still worth it to us and to the charities we support.

The cool thing about good store is that our coffee and tea are so delicious that once people sign up, they generally stay signed up for years. So we can afford to discount initial purchases because once we acquire customers, we almost always keep them. (This is also true of our soap and cleaning supplies. People love that stuff.)

The hard part of our business is convincing someone to buy a coffee/tea they've never tasted. So if I can get you to find out how good our coffee and tea are by offering you 11% off with the code TUMBLRINA, that is good news for both of us.

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I am completely fascinated by fandoms that hate the thing they're fans of.

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Your current underwear: Fine, mostly benefits billionaires.

Your new underwear: Awesome, designed by independent artists, mostly benefits impoverished communities.

Use offer code FeelsGood for 33% off your first order!

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I HAVE BEEN PROMOTED

Hello, it's me, John Green, the longtime unpaid social media intern for Keats and Co., a coffee and tea company that donates all its profit to charity.

We also make eco-friendly household cleaning supplies and the best soap on earth and great socks.

But as of today, I AM ALSO AN UNDERWEAR INTERN with Me Undies x Good Store. We're now working with Me Undies to make incredibly comfortable underwear designed by independent artists and sent each month to your home. It's like Awesome Socks, except for your butt.

Right now, we have about 3,000 subscriptions available and after that we're sold out. I'll give you 37% OFF YOUR FIRST ORDER IF YOU USE OFFER CODE FEELSGOOD at checkout.

They're great underwear. GREAT. I have been wearing them exclusively for a while now and I'm so impressed by them. Plus, it's a bit of joy to your sartorial life. And 100% of the profits go to improve maternal and infant health in impoverished communities. A win/win/win. GET OUR UNDIES.

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If you’re still doing this, could you connect radium with tuberculosis please :3

You know Marie Curie, who discovered radium and in doing so helped uncover the fact that atoms were not inert?

Her mom died of tuberculosis when Marie was 10.

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mf i DO numbers on here.

he or perhaps his brother would do numbers on here

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Looking for Alaska is 20 years old. It reads like historical fiction now. I mean, the plot turns on a PAY PHONE. Kids don't even know what pay phones are.

Hundreds of school districts have banned the book from libraries and classrooms, so much so that it's rarely taught in English classes the way that it used to be.

And yet somehow, improbably enough, it continues to find readers. Over a thousand every week. Incredible. I am so grateful that little book has stayed alive for so long.

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The ceaseless work of trying to love others as you wish to be loved, eclipsed only by the work of trying to love yourself as you wish to be loved.