I came across an article about a subject I'm interested in. I read it and thought "wow, this is so well explained, the concepts are so well ordered, I wish I could put my thoughts together this well" And at the bottom was my name as author.
I was digging through old art of mine recently and came across an unfinished piece. No memory of the hours obviously put in or why I didn't finish it. It was very good. So me and former unremembered self did a collab on this art which is now finished. Sometimes the seperation via time from yourself and your former works gives you a new appreciation for the things you've done.
I heard "the test will last your entire life, and everything, everything, will be on it" at a critical part of my teenage development, and it is forever lodged in my brain
Same! I had forgotten about it but it really is part of why I love learning about stuff and also why I see value in learning about stuff. I wonder how many people he affected with just that short statement alone
I am a physician now, after 21 years of GRUELING, PAINSTAKING WORK. I saw this video 8 years ago. And again when in medical school to dumb stuff down for me when I was overwhelmed. I, on behalf I’m sure of A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE, thank you. And we’re glad you’re still here. ❤
Same while going through nursing school - textbook readings and lectures just had *so much* info dumped on you all at once, and it was so much easier if I already had a simple framework to plug it into.
Curly hair hank is still wierd to me... But also he is rocking that look and I dont think i want straight hair hank back Also, it's a wild thought that Hank and John have been doing this for so long that they have become essentially institutional resources for people who might be in crisis and it's even weirder that one of those people was Hank himself
As someone who has hair almost exactly like his is now, I would take straight hair Hank back in a heartbeat. I honestly feel bad for him, knowing what he has to deal with now.
I hope you are totally recovered from that awful beast of a disease. I'm on edge about my husband, because he had to have two - mercifully small - operations to get rid of skin cancer. It was on his bald head, making it difficult to stitch together. The "on edge" bit is that he has always had a number of moles on his back, and some have always been weirdly shaped. The oncologist has been taking photos of his back and he has to return every 6 months to get another one done so they can compare them. We don't want him to need any other ops, and not just because of the obvious reason. He has a physical disability based at a particularly sensitive place in his spine, which was made worse after an operation. The op was okay, but he was starting to recover when we got rear-ended at some traffic lights 🤦🏻♀️. He's now limited in how far he can walk, amongst other things. Guessed where the most concerning mole is? His back literally cannot be touched there, at least with him conscious. His sister died of leukaemia when she was only 32 (28 years ago come December - it still feels like yesterday). I'm not even counting the cases on my side of the family! You can imagine why we're all rather tense! So I automatically feel very "protective", so to speak, of others going through the same sort of thing. I don't mean to be rude, I certainly don't want to pry into anyone's business, I just want to hear that you beat that damned disease! Be well, anyone who reads this it's for you too. Be well, stay well and have a long and happy, healthy life ahead of you. It _can_ be beaten. My sister, now sans breasts but also sans cancer, will tell you that!
@@y_fam_goeglyd I'm so sorry you and your husband have had such a rough experience through cancer. I wish you both the best possible outcome. Thanks for your kind words of encouragement! My breast cancer is stage 4, so management is the only option with hormone therapy and targeted therapy. I'm seen each month for labs, injections, etc. It's a whole lifestyle, cancer. I don't wish it on anyone.
Someone I love dearly has breast cancer, she just got surgery to remove it but still needs radiation and possibly chemo and this comforts me in some strange way. I like Hank Green myself but what if there are terrified people who can be comforted or at least more knowledgeable because this exists for free. Same with John Green and TB. I am from America and guess what? I know someone with TB and it is common and hard and heavily discriminated against but someone out there is finally telling people “Yes the TB treatment is monopolized and hard to get access to EVEN HERE and it isn’t an ancient illness”
I had lymphoma in 2019 which was miraculously eradicated through immunotherapy. Before chemo, I was programmer. It took a year before I could code again, and if I'm lucky it only takes me one or two months to accomplish what I used to be able to do in a day. I'm frequently put in contact with the products of that previous version of me. It's humbling and sobering. And terrifying. I hope I get to be like him again.
I am a social studies teacher and I continuously return to that original crash course video and try to live and teach by “the test.” Crash Course has been a guiding tool over the years, thank you for what you create! (Btw y’all should should start selling that poster on dftba again, I would 100% put that up in my classroom)
I work as a lymphoma nurse specialist and I haven’t before considered using crash course to help educate my patients about their disease! It’s such a good option, especially for people who hate written information! Thanks Hank
When she was about 3 years old, my daughter suddenly needed to know everything about gravity and the states of matter. Crash course was there for her! I had to slow the video playback speed because they always went too fast for her, and pause to try to explain many concepts to her, but it was still really helpful. 6 years later she's forgotten everything, but it's still a good memory for me.
As soon as this video started, I was all "But Hank, you taught *me* about the Lymphatic System!" Because not only have I rewatch this A&P series in full multiple times, each time a loved one had a new serious diagnosis, I'd go back to the relevant episodes and swot-up, so I was better able to handle the news, and to share the knowledge when relevant. From celiac disease and bowl cancer, MND and neurological conditions, and far more than I'm ready to face listing in it's entirety, that Crash Course series, more than any other, has been a friend, and an ally, in the worst moments of my family's lives. I could not be more grateful to you all, and yes to you, Hank. Because it may not be your words, my old friend and total stranger, but the way you said the words, the choices you made in how you delivered the scripts, it made learning about things - that were trying to kill the people I love - more manageable, less painful, and ultimately more successful. If I were a rich person, I would give the Crash Course team more money than they could spend each year. Knowledge isn't just power, it's kindness, it's love. Thank you
Your videos helped me help my mom during her cancer treatment over and over again. (She didn't make it and now we can't watch your cancer comedy special together which is sad, I was really looking forward to that). However I am so grateful for crash course and your own personal vlogs being there every time I needed help helping her. ❤
I’m sorry for your loss. My grandmother has also recently passed from fighting cancer for the past ten years. It really sucks. Sending you a virtual hug from the other side of the world.
I'm glad past Hank could help present Hank in that moment. Also, I can 1000% relate to the "i am freaking out about a serious medical issue I currently or potentially have. brain cannot comprehend words" phenomenon.
Hearing John's mission statement about the test again made me cry. Those words impacted me a lot when I saw the first video when it came out 12 years ago, and they slipped into my subconscious and haven't consciously thought of them directly since that time period in my life. Everything about my life has changed since then. But those lessons have not, means a lot to hear that again. Thank you for playing that during this again.
This is really amazing. At one point in my life I created something like Lego bricks for editing bacterial and yeast genomes. I designed and patented robotic systems to generate thousands of entirely new strains of bacteria. Then sometimes people will ask me about my work and I have to say 'hold on let me check my notes' because past me was a genius with these things but current me can't remember what that dude was thinking or how he came up with those ideas. It's like imposter syndrome but for yourself. I think it probably says something deeper about what 'knowing things' and 'the self' means. Which ultimately helps me forgive myself as I get older and envy my younger self, who knew things I don't know anymore, but didn't know things I know today (mostly about life and happiness). Anyway you yourself are a team through time that makes you who you are, and be kind to all versions of yourself that existed and will exist!
My freshman year Logic professor told me, "The point of college and life in general is to become smarter."..If you leave college smarter than when you started than you have succeed (Grades be damned), that is the only 4 year plan you need (the only answer you need to where you see yourself in four years, is hopefully smarter).
My astronomy club is watching the Crash Course Astronomy series (with smart and fun host Phil Plait). At each monthly meeting, we set aside several minutes to watch the next one. Most of us already know most of what each episode will explain, but NONE of us know ALL of it, so it's valuable to each of us. Last night, at our June, 2024 meeting, we were behind, and our president said we should just delay Crash Course until next month, and almost everyone said 'aw, man' or 'no' or 'please' or something similar. So we just watched episode 14 and let the meeting run late. As I've written in comments before, I so wish I could contribute more financially, but I simply don't have the funds to do more (I am a low-level Patron of SciShow). So, I'm really grateful to the folks who can -- and do! -- buy the coins or find other ways to support the whole Nerdfighteria community. Thanks!
Crash course was amazing for me: I quit my job due to burnout and PTSD and started studying psychology. Whenever a course book would overwhelm me I would watch crash course. Both because it explained it better, but also because it beat my fear of failure and negative self talk. It just felt friendly and was just what I needed ❤ thank you so much ❤
When my grandma had surgery on her heart I used Crash Course A&P to learn about it and then showed her, and she was so impressed she had me show it to the woman who she was sharing a room with in recovery
Hank, that was epic! I got DX''d with breast cancer in December of 2019, just a few months after I lost my husband to heart disease/diabetes. But, talk about deja vue! Glad we are both walking away from this clean.
This is like when I write documentation at my job so that other people know what to do if I'm gone...and then I have to pull up that same instruction manual 2 months later because I forgot how to do it. 😂 But seriously, "The Test" spiel really sums up the true value of learning--you never know what will end up on your test! I am so happy I could get a Crash Course Coin this year, I couldn't ask for a more unambiguously good way to use the funds. Plus it'll be my first one!
Wow this is an incredibly effective ad. This is the video that convinced me to buy a coin. It reminds me of the time Hank said "Margins matter tho" and it convinced me to vote. You're good at making convincing arguments my guy
Dear Hank, this is one of the best "What goes around, comes around" stories I've heard. You planted your skills well - in your vision for the channel, and concerns that people have access to important knowledge. And that in time, you were able to reap the harvest of sharing that very same access when you needed it most. ❤ I am so very pleased and grateful that you benefitted so perfectly from your own passion in action. ☺️ 💜
God I love that quote from John, it and the words/design of the coins make me tear up real easy. Free education is so important to me on a fundamental level and I definitely got some of that passion from watching Hank and John be educators and learners over the years. I got the cheapest coin this year (2000 people is more than enough for me lol) because I have some money spare for it, I hope I continue to have the time and money to invest into education throughout my life.
Seriously, your anatomy and physiology video courses got me through a good chunk of my classes for nursing and I thank you for that. They were invaluable to me and so easy to absorb. I still remember the way you likened the urinary system to cleaning your fridge, taking everything out, replacing only what you need, discarding the rest. It's one of the best learning resources out there, and it's free.
Man listening to John's Crash Course speech this many years later makes me feel a lot of things. Reminds me how optimistic we all were about the internet and its future back in 2011 And on one hand Crashcourse has clearly succeeded better than anyone could have expected. So the optimism was justified and realized! On the other hand, the world seems so much more complicated now, 13 years later. The social internet has exacerbated many problems we hadn't conceived of, and these problems often seem so immense and intractable and hopelessly unsolvable. idk. sorry for being a buzzkill
I've informed future me in this way too, one year apart. It really is spooky, looking up something with the same search engine that kicks off every other web adventure, finding something really informative, and discovering that YOU AUTHORED IT and then forgot. In my case, it was instructions for installing mods into a game's Mac release, low stakes and easy to forget. This is a warning in disguise- when we extend our human abilities with tech, we don't fully encompass ourselves anymore.
Not quite this, but I've had this very odd experience where I've read comments I left like ten+ years ago, and the weirdest part was that, not only did I not remember writing them, but I didn't recognize them as being things that were written by me. Like, it felt like they were written by someone else.
CGP Grey likens cell phones to external prosthetic memory. He does so in the context of "and, therefore, the rules we put in place to allow access by government fiat will be the rules in place for *internal* prosthetic memory," but this really demonstrates how technology in general - even if it's as simple a technology as writing down a phone number - really is that, and has been for millennia.
@@martinpaulsen1592 I'm not sure what that has to do with the discussion, but it's an argument that's technically right, but also clearly daft, while still posing a real and serious individual liberty issue.
I'm a multiply neurodivergent trauma survivor and Crash Course (especially the "Anatomy and Physiology", "Psychology", and "Philosophy" courses) have had a huge impact on my healing.
"There is one person I can say objectively that I am smarter than, and it is me 4 years ago. He knew, like, all the things that I currently know except less, and he had all the life experiences that I currently have except fewer." - Hank Green
Yes! Learning is about teaching us how to think not what to think. I’m so glad you were here for you lol 💗 and thanks to the huge team that made it happen too. 👏🏼
Is there a hard copy version of the crash course videos? Might be cool to buy a dvd by subject :) I love physical media and the paywall bit makes me think, well, what happens one day when John and Hank arent in charge of the company anymore?
I was at the Denver comedy show where you added a bit about this in and then were SO UPSET when we lost it over it cause it didn't make it into the filmed special! So funny, glad you got to talk about it elsewhere still lol
Hank, that's just us in the sysadmin world and programming world. We leave comments and docs for ourselves. That's why we all HAVE TO take time to document our knowledge and write down the stuffs that we did. Otherwise, 8 years later no one can maintain the scripts that we ourselves made. But not even our later self can help with the configuration. We forget and that is the human condition. Glad your old video can help your current self regain your previous obtained hard-earn knowledge.
What an absolutely surreal moment that must have been. It's so incredible to think about all the people who might be helped in the same situation, facing the same test you did. 🥺💖
This video feels so close to my heart. When my mom was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, I went to all of her doctors appointments with her. As a junior in high school, they were overwhelming, confusing, and emotional. As hard as I tried, I was having trouble understanding her body and what was really wrong with her. I also ended up on so many different google result pages before defaulting to the videos I’d seen, and loved, so many times before in school. You’d think that the knowledge it provided me with would be scary, and of course it kind of was, but the power of understanding (more) felt like relief. It gave me a sense of confidence and hope that helped me survive it all as it went down. What you, and the whole CrashCourse team do is invaluable. I’m so grateful for all that you’ve done for me, and for the world, and I’m damn glad you’re still around.
John's monologue about the test is my personal version of Snape's speech about potions class. It's forever lodged in my brain and moves me to tears every time I hear it.
I was diagnosed with bladder cancer last year, for some reason I remembered today that you also had been diagnosed and I just wanted to hear from you, you have a stand out voice in my head, and I always watched Crash Course and PBS Eons, and to this day I still do, although mostly by memory in my head. I wanted to say after watching this I decided to take a Crash Course on my bladder again, and well I just feel better after seeing/hearing you talk about it in that video. Best wishes to you, it's one heck of a fight. I don't know what else to say, but I wish I could shake your hand, you've done a lot for me, I want to do more for you
My mom was recently diagnosed with cancer and all of your videos, scishow ect have helped us so much I’m glad you got to help you just as you’ve always helped us ❤
As a nurse who recently had breast cancer who was once a women's health nurse who previously educated on breast cancer, I totally get this. I'm so glad you're doing well. I love your passion for education and appreciate you & your team (and your brother). ❤️ from Billings, MT
I love how you directed so much specific credit for the crash course video to the many people who worked on it, but I also hoped you allowed yourself to feel a little pride for your own part in making this successful. You deserve it.
You are right my friend it is too many words for me to fathom cause I am very high while writing this but I want nothing more than you beating this cancer!!! Love you dude keep preaching knowledge!!
I'm in paramedic, school and I literally had to go back today and review the lymphatic system because I'd forgotten most of it. And I studied it 5 months ago. Like I forgot the thymus is an organ in our body!
hank! when i was diagnosed with a complex connective tissue disorder i watched all of crash course anatomy and physiology to try to wrap my head around the role of connective tissue in my body and understand my disability better. i'm really grateful that avenue of learning was available to us both.
I don’t know if you and john know how far of a reach crash course truly has, but it’s a source of hope for me that one day we could have a society that uses technology to disseminate our accumulated knowledge as a species. Right now it seems bleak, but if we educate ourselves and future generations we could potentially make a better future for everyone, and to me this project is a huge youth outreach program. Thank you, hank.
Thanks for allowing for multiple lovers of learning to truly appreciate what Crash Course brings to our lives by providing equitable ways for us to donate and support the future of this program. Glad you found a piece of you again Hank ❤ (just signed up for patreon!)
I love you Hank. I think this every time I see a video, but now I'm commenting it. Made such a difference in my life and its the community that I wish I had in physical form around me instead of in internet form.
The beauty of Crash Course is that in a very real way, the world needs direct, impact-focused effort made by a team of dedicated and motivated people now more than ever. These are increasingly uncertain and scary times, and having something made not for profit or immediately, selfishly-motivated gain and instead made for the benefit of the world at large because it's the *right* thing to do is exactly what staves off the terrifying things we're facing as a species. I think this sort of uncanny moment is starting to recognize the sheer impact Crash Course will have on GENERATIONS of learners.
This is comedy GOLD! But seriously, the fact that you were able to get the information you needed during a stressful time of your life that you were involved in is amazing! And you knew it was a source you could trust.
I’m suddenly reminded of John’s “me from the past” bit from past Crash Course episodes in the most hilarious way. Only this time, the “me from the past” is the one doing the teaching instead!
Crash course is just incredible, truly the biggest impact I've ever seen on the internet. I used to watch the very first episodes as they came out while I was in high school, it seemed normal to me that I was watching those world history videos because I was in that class, but now I realize how amazing it is that I was in that class while those episodes were coming out!!
Hank i am so happy that you are doing better and that the😮 treatments worked 🙏🙏 Being honest, I have only known you from Crash Courses in Biology. I love the way you share knowledge and you seem like a great human being. I am truly happy, grateful and relieved that you are still alive and well and sharing your passion with us ❤ I had leukemia so maybe this hits a nerve for me and i cry a little bit from happiness from you being okay. P.S: i also got curly hair after chemo from leukemia and i love it! Ahahah Love from Portugal ❤❤
This is a wonderful moment about which to hear. It is perhaps less surreal than at first glance. It is a little bit like finding an old journal, reading an entry, and learning or relearning or remembering something important. But, how truly wonderful!
So the coin I bought helped to educate... Hank Green?
There's a nepotism joke somewhere, but I'm too uneducated to find it
Wow……….. cosmic.
Free education for all!
That's a awesome concept!! It definitely did
Hank was like "Huh, this guy seems like he knows what he's talking about..."
i can absolutely see him saying that out loud to himself
Narrator: "He didn't."
Even Hank Green needs Hank Green to understand stuff sometimes
Lol
he should start tagging himself in tweets
bro educated HIMSELF
that’s next level
He did his research.
Self-taught.
@@pattheplanter heheheheheh
prescience
Educate yourself.
John’s “the test” segment was so aggressive in the best possible way
My husband has a poster of that up in his science/math classroom. I love it so much.
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I've made my kid watch it multiple times 😊
optimistic kafka
Brought a tear to my eye 🥲
it must have been either very comforting or very weird to have hank tell himself what the lymphatic system is.
Probably both.
Weirdly comforting, or comfortably weird.
Both? Both.
definitely both
Both. Both
if i won the lottery i wouldn’t tell anyone, but there would be signs (50 20,000 learner coins)
I came across an article about a subject I'm interested in. I read it and thought "wow, this is so well explained, the concepts are so well ordered, I wish I could put my thoughts together this well"
And at the bottom was my name as author.
and you immediately found a typo or grammatical error that you didn't see before? lol
I was digging through old art of mine recently and came across an unfinished piece. No memory of the hours obviously put in or why I didn't finish it. It was very good. So me and former unremembered self did a collab on this art which is now finished. Sometimes the seperation via time from yourself and your former works gives you a new appreciation for the things you've done.
When I re read my work after a year or so, it seems wild to me that I sat there and wrote it. Like, how is this me?? 😅
@@CorwinFoundHaving ADHD, I experience this a lot. “Me and my former self did a collab” is going to permanently enter my lexicon
I was not expecting to see my own face from a decade ago when I clicked on this video.
Glad to see you here to see it Karen! :)
Hank also didn't when he searched for the Linfatic system
I heard "the test will last your entire life, and everything, everything, will be on it" at a critical part of my teenage development, and it is forever lodged in my brain
Same! I had forgotten about it but it really is part of why I love learning about stuff and also why I see value in learning about stuff. I wonder how many people he affected with just that short statement alone
I am a physician now, after 21 years of GRUELING, PAINSTAKING WORK. I saw this video 8 years ago. And again when in medical school to dumb stuff down for me when I was overwhelmed. I, on behalf I’m sure of A LOT OF OTHER PEOPLE, thank you. And we’re glad you’re still here. ❤
Same while going through nursing school - textbook readings and lectures just had *so much* info dumped on you all at once, and it was so much easier if I already had a simple framework to plug it into.
Me too! I’m now a veterinarian and Crash Course helped me all the way from high school through undergrad and even grad school.
Curly hair hank is still wierd to me... But also he is rocking that look and I dont think i want straight hair hank back
Also, it's a wild thought that Hank and John have been doing this for so long that they have become essentially institutional resources for people who might be in crisis and it's even weirder that one of those people was Hank himself
Our straight haired Hank is now a curly haired hunk
Maybe i adapt to things too fast, but straight hair Hank looks weird to me now. Like looking into yesterday and it waves back
I'm sorry for the circumstances but the curly hair looks very good. It's the mark of a new era. He's cherubic.
As someone who has hair almost exactly like his is now, I would take straight hair Hank back in a heartbeat. I honestly feel bad for him, knowing what he has to deal with now.
Im getting a Tom hanks energy from his hair and it's even better Knowing his name is Hank, the shirt just seals the deal for a Forrest Gump look
Hope he liked and subscribed!
Honestly, SciShow and CrashCourse helped me TONS when I got my cancer diagnosis. Thank you, Hank!
Keeps me sane too!
I hope you are totally recovered from that awful beast of a disease. I'm on edge about my husband, because he had to have two - mercifully small - operations to get rid of skin cancer. It was on his bald head, making it difficult to stitch together.
The "on edge" bit is that he has always had a number of moles on his back, and some have always been weirdly shaped. The oncologist has been taking photos of his back and he has to return every 6 months to get another one done so they can compare them. We don't want him to need any other ops, and not just because of the obvious reason. He has a physical disability based at a particularly sensitive place in his spine, which was made worse after an operation. The op was okay, but he was starting to recover when we got rear-ended at some traffic lights 🤦🏻♀️. He's now limited in how far he can walk, amongst other things. Guessed where the most concerning mole is? His back literally cannot be touched there, at least with him conscious.
His sister died of leukaemia when she was only 32 (28 years ago come December - it still feels like yesterday). I'm not even counting the cases on my side of the family! You can imagine why we're all rather tense! So I automatically feel very "protective", so to speak, of others going through the same sort of thing. I don't mean to be rude, I certainly don't want to pry into anyone's business, I just want to hear that you beat that damned disease!
Be well, anyone who reads this it's for you too. Be well, stay well and have a long and happy, healthy life ahead of you. It _can_ be beaten. My sister, now sans breasts but also sans cancer, will tell you that!
@@y_fam_goeglyd I'm so sorry you and your husband have had such a rough experience through cancer. I wish you both the best possible outcome. Thanks for your kind words of encouragement! My breast cancer is stage 4, so management is the only option with hormone therapy and targeted therapy. I'm seen each month for labs, injections, etc. It's a whole lifestyle, cancer. I don't wish it on anyone.
Someone I love dearly has breast cancer, she just got surgery to remove it but still needs radiation and possibly chemo and this comforts me in some strange way. I like Hank Green myself but what if there are terrified people who can be comforted or at least more knowledgeable because this exists for free.
Same with John Green and TB. I am from America and guess what? I know someone with TB and it is common and hard and heavily discriminated against but someone out there is finally telling people “Yes the TB treatment is monopolized and hard to get access to EVEN HERE and it isn’t an ancient illness”
Bro actually taught himself a lesson. 😂😂
stumbling across a man you once were from many years before a lifechanging event is very doctor of you
Doctor Who?
I had lymphoma in 2019 which was miraculously eradicated through immunotherapy. Before chemo, I was programmer. It took a year before I could code again, and if I'm lucky it only takes me one or two months to accomplish what I used to be able to do in a day. I'm frequently put in contact with the products of that previous version of me. It's humbling and sobering. And terrifying. I hope I get to be like him again.
I am a social studies teacher and I continuously return to that original crash course video and try to live and teach by “the test.” Crash Course has been a guiding tool over the years, thank you for what you create! (Btw y’all should should start selling that poster on dftba again, I would 100% put that up in my classroom)
My partner would do that too in their classroom.
PLEASE sell that poster again! :D I need another one, I'm hard on my stuff!
I work as a lymphoma nurse specialist and I haven’t before considered using crash course to help educate my patients about their disease! It’s such a good option, especially for people who hate written information! Thanks Hank
I know it would be super comforting to get a handout that says, “Scan this QR code for more info” and have it lead to a CC explanation.
When she was about 3 years old, my daughter suddenly needed to know everything about gravity and the states of matter. Crash course was there for her! I had to slow the video playback speed because they always went too fast for her, and pause to try to explain many concepts to her, but it was still really helpful. 6 years later she's forgotten everything, but it's still a good memory for me.
How prophetic is John's preamble to Crash Course to come full circle.
I need to catch up on my CC.
As soon as this video started, I was all "But Hank, you taught *me* about the Lymphatic System!" Because not only have I rewatch this A&P series in full multiple times, each time a loved one had a new serious diagnosis, I'd go back to the relevant episodes and swot-up, so I was better able to handle the news, and to share the knowledge when relevant. From celiac disease and bowl cancer, MND and neurological conditions, and far more than I'm ready to face listing in it's entirety, that Crash Course series, more than any other, has been a friend, and an ally, in the worst moments of my family's lives. I could not be more grateful to you all, and yes to you, Hank. Because it may not be your words, my old friend and total stranger, but the way you said the words, the choices you made in how you delivered the scripts, it made learning about things - that were trying to kill the people I love - more manageable, less painful, and ultimately more successful. If I were a rich person, I would give the Crash Course team more money than they could spend each year. Knowledge isn't just power, it's kindness, it's love. Thank you
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Your videos helped me help my mom during her cancer treatment over and over again. (She didn't make it and now we can't watch your cancer comedy special together which is sad, I was really looking forward to that). However I am so grateful for crash course and your own personal vlogs being there every time I needed help helping her. ❤
I'm so sorry 💗💗💗
I am so sorry for your loss. 💔💔❤️🩹
My condolences. 😢
Thanks for sharing. ❤
I’m sorry for your loss. My grandmother has also recently passed from fighting cancer for the past ten years. It really sucks. Sending you a virtual hug from the other side of the world.
Thank you so much for sharing!! I hope you continue to do so :)
the power of crash course truly knows no bounds. Glad you’re with us, hank
I'm glad past Hank could help present Hank in that moment. Also, I can 1000% relate to the "i am freaking out about a serious medical issue I currently or potentially have. brain cannot comprehend words" phenomenon.
That bit about John talking about the test of life made me cry ngl
Hearing John's mission statement about the test again made me cry. Those words impacted me a lot when I saw the first video when it came out 12 years ago, and they slipped into my subconscious and haven't consciously thought of them directly since that time period in my life. Everything about my life has changed since then. But those lessons have not, means a lot to hear that again.
Thank you for playing that during this again.
This is really amazing. At one point in my life I created something like Lego bricks for editing bacterial and yeast genomes. I designed and patented robotic systems to generate thousands of entirely new strains of bacteria. Then sometimes people will ask me about my work and I have to say 'hold on let me check my notes' because past me was a genius with these things but current me can't remember what that dude was thinking or how he came up with those ideas. It's like imposter syndrome but for yourself. I think it probably says something deeper about what 'knowing things' and 'the self' means. Which ultimately helps me forgive myself as I get older and envy my younger self, who knew things I don't know anymore, but didn't know things I know today (mostly about life and happiness). Anyway you yourself are a team through time that makes you who you are, and be kind to all versions of yourself that existed and will exist!
I just bought a coin! Thanks Hank to you, John and anyone else who was a part of this amazing thing you started and continue doing.
My freshman year Logic professor told me, "The point of college and life in general is to become smarter."..If you leave college smarter than when you started than you have succeed (Grades be damned), that is the only 4 year plan you need (the only answer you need to where you see yourself in four years, is hopefully smarter).
My man, crash course is your legacy, but you got to see your own legacy while you're alive. Those videos are incredible
My gods, you guys were INFANTS!!! Thank you, for what both of you have done and continue to do for this world. You remind us what it is to be awesome.
My astronomy club is watching the Crash Course Astronomy series (with smart and fun host Phil Plait). At each monthly meeting, we set aside several minutes to watch the next one. Most of us already know most of what each episode will explain, but NONE of us know ALL of it, so it's valuable to each of us. Last night, at our June, 2024 meeting, we were behind, and our president said we should just delay Crash Course until next month, and almost everyone said 'aw, man' or 'no' or 'please' or something similar. So we just watched episode 14 and let the meeting run late.
As I've written in comments before, I so wish I could contribute more financially, but I simply don't have the funds to do more (I am a low-level Patron of SciShow). So, I'm really grateful to the folks who can -- and do! -- buy the coins or find other ways to support the whole Nerdfighteria community. Thanks!
Crash course was amazing for me: I quit my job due to burnout and PTSD and started studying psychology. Whenever a course book would overwhelm me I would watch crash course. Both because it explained it better, but also because it beat my fear of failure and negative self talk. It just felt friendly and was just what I needed ❤ thank you so much ❤
When my grandma had surgery on her heart I used Crash Course A&P to learn about it and then showed her, and she was so impressed she had me show it to the woman who she was sharing a room with in recovery
Hank, that was epic! I got DX''d with breast cancer in December of 2019, just a few months after I lost my husband to heart disease/diabetes. But, talk about deja vue! Glad we are both walking away from this clean.
Past Hank helping out Future Hank in his time of need, like a true space/time bro.
This is like when I write documentation at my job so that other people know what to do if I'm gone...and then I have to pull up that same instruction manual 2 months later because I forgot how to do it. 😂
But seriously, "The Test" spiel really sums up the true value of learning--you never know what will end up on your test! I am so happy I could get a Crash Course Coin this year, I couldn't ask for a more unambiguously good way to use the funds. Plus it'll be my first one!
That was the most beautiful 'ad' ever.
Wow this is an incredibly effective ad. This is the video that convinced me to buy a coin. It reminds me of the time Hank said "Margins matter tho" and it convinced me to vote. You're good at making convincing arguments my guy
Dear Hank, this is one of the best "What goes around, comes around" stories I've heard. You planted your skills well - in your vision for the channel, and concerns that people have access to important knowledge. And that in time, you were able to reap the harvest of sharing that very same access when you needed it most. ❤ I am so very pleased and grateful that you benefitted so perfectly from your own passion in action. ☺️ 💜
God I love that quote from John, it and the words/design of the coins make me tear up real easy. Free education is so important to me on a fundamental level and I definitely got some of that passion from watching Hank and John be educators and learners over the years. I got the cheapest coin this year (2000 people is more than enough for me lol) because I have some money spare for it, I hope I continue to have the time and money to invest into education throughout my life.
Seriously, your anatomy and physiology video courses got me through a good chunk of my classes for nursing and I thank you for that. They were invaluable to me and so easy to absorb. I still remember the way you likened the urinary system to cleaning your fridge, taking everything out, replacing only what you need, discarding the rest. It's one of the best learning resources out there, and it's free.
I also watched the Crash Course video when I was diagnosed with HL, I'm glad it helped Hank too
Man listening to John's Crash Course speech this many years later makes me feel a lot of things. Reminds me how optimistic we all were about the internet and its future back in 2011
And on one hand Crashcourse has clearly succeeded better than anyone could have expected. So the optimism was justified and realized!
On the other hand, the world seems so much more complicated now, 13 years later. The social internet has exacerbated many problems we hadn't conceived of, and these problems often seem so immense and intractable and hopelessly unsolvable.
idk. sorry for being a buzzkill
I've informed future me in this way too, one year apart. It really is spooky, looking up something with the same search engine that kicks off every other web adventure, finding something really informative, and discovering that YOU AUTHORED IT and then forgot. In my case, it was instructions for installing mods into a game's Mac release, low stakes and easy to forget. This is a warning in disguise- when we extend our human abilities with tech, we don't fully encompass ourselves anymore.
Not quite this, but I've had this very odd experience where I've read comments I left like ten+ years ago, and the weirdest part was that, not only did I not remember writing them, but I didn't recognize them as being things that were written by me. Like, it felt like they were written by someone else.
CGP Grey likens cell phones to external prosthetic memory. He does so in the context of "and, therefore, the rules we put in place to allow access by government fiat will be the rules in place for *internal* prosthetic memory," but this really demonstrates how technology in general - even if it's as simple a technology as writing down a phone number - really is that, and has been for millennia.
@@martinpaulsen1592 I'm not sure what that has to do with the discussion, but it's an argument that's technically right, but also clearly daft, while still posing a real and serious individual liberty issue.
I just bought my first Crash Course coin! I'm so happy to be able to contribute so more people can learn stuff for free!
Hank did the #1 habit of 7 habits of highly effective people, Be Proactive. 😮
Hank is cool
Yea! Yea he is
I play that speech from John about "the test" for all my students, at the beginning and the end of the year.
I'm a multiply neurodivergent trauma survivor and Crash Course (especially the "Anatomy and Physiology", "Psychology", and "Philosophy" courses) have had a huge impact on my healing.
Hey- Hank. You should check out Hank Green to help you understand the lymphatic system. Also, the curls rock.
"There is one person I can say objectively that I am smarter than, and it is me 4 years ago. He knew, like, all the things that I currently know except less, and he had all the life experiences that I currently have except fewer."
- Hank Green
Yes! Learning is about teaching us how to think not what to think. I’m so glad you were here for you lol 💗 and thanks to the huge team that made it happen too. 👏🏼
Is there a hard copy version of the crash course videos? Might be cool to buy a dvd by subject :) I love physical media and the paywall bit makes me think, well, what happens one day when John and Hank arent in charge of the company anymore?
My grandpa has the heart of a lion and a lifetime ban from the zoo
I was at the Denver comedy show where you added a bit about this in and then were SO UPSET when we lost it over it cause it didn't make it into the filmed special! So funny, glad you got to talk about it elsewhere still lol
I literally JUST watched the video of you playing connections and talking about this a few hours ago. This is a wild coincidence!
Hank, that's just us in the sysadmin world and programming world. We leave comments and docs for ourselves.
That's why we all HAVE TO take time to document our knowledge and write down the stuffs that we did. Otherwise, 8 years later no one can maintain the scripts that we ourselves made. But not even our later self can help with the configuration.
We forget and that is the human condition.
Glad your old video can help your current self regain your previous obtained hard-earn knowledge.
Straight-hair Hank saves the day for Curly-hair Hank
Crash Course is the reason hundreds of Psych students get great information at our Junior College every semester. THANK YOU!!!!!
What an absolutely surreal moment that must have been. It's so incredible to think about all the people who might be helped in the same situation, facing the same test you did. 🥺💖
This is a great example as to why continued self education is so important in life.
Crash Course is one of the best resources… I feel like that sentence needs more words, but it doesn’t. ❤
Welcome to our world, Hank! You’re constantly helping us understand it better-thanks so much!
This video feels so close to my heart. When my mom was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, I went to all of her doctors appointments with her. As a junior in high school, they were overwhelming, confusing, and emotional. As hard as I tried, I was having trouble understanding her body and what was really wrong with her. I also ended up on so many different google result pages before defaulting to the videos I’d seen, and loved, so many times before in school. You’d think that the knowledge it provided me with would be scary, and of course it kind of was, but the power of understanding (more) felt like relief. It gave me a sense of confidence and hope that helped me survive it all as it went down. What you, and the whole CrashCourse team do is invaluable.
I’m so grateful for all that you’ve done for me, and for the world, and I’m damn glad you’re still around.
Panic colors everything and of course you forgot you made that episode when you were freaking out
John's monologue about the test is my personal version of Snape's speech about potions class. It's forever lodged in my brain and moves me to tears every time I hear it.
I was diagnosed with bladder cancer last year, for some reason I remembered today that you also had been diagnosed and I just wanted to hear from you, you have a stand out voice in my head, and I always watched Crash Course and PBS Eons, and to this day I still do, although mostly by memory in my head.
I wanted to say after watching this I decided to take a Crash Course on my bladder again, and well I just feel better after seeing/hearing you talk about it in that video. Best wishes to you, it's one heck of a fight. I don't know what else to say, but I wish I could shake your hand, you've done a lot for me, I want to do more for you
Thank you for everything. I have been watching for years
Currently I can only contribute by view and comment right now maybe next year. Thanks for what you do Hank Green!
Hank is rocking those chemo curls.
My mom was recently diagnosed with cancer and all of your videos, scishow ect have helped us so much
I’m glad you got to help you just as you’ve always helped us ❤
As a nurse who recently had breast cancer who was once a women's health nurse who previously educated on breast cancer, I totally get this.
I'm so glad you're doing well.
I love your passion for education and appreciate you & your team (and your brother).
❤️ from Billings, MT
I love how you directed so much specific credit for the crash course video to the many people who worked on it, but I also hoped you allowed yourself to feel a little pride for your own part in making this successful. You deserve it.
You are right my friend it is too many words for me to fathom cause I am very high while writing this but I want nothing more than you beating this cancer!!! Love you dude keep preaching knowledge!!
You look amazing, Hank! Happy you are doing so much better!
You and your brother rock! Hope you're feeling and doing better!
That had to be surreal, Hank.
I'm in paramedic, school and I literally had to go back today and review the lymphatic system because I'd forgotten most of it. And I studied it 5 months ago. Like I forgot the thymus is an organ in our body!
I've actually been watching since you all started this. I just love learning things. I hope you keep it up as it is awesome
hank! when i was diagnosed with a complex connective tissue disorder i watched all of crash course anatomy and physiology to try to wrap my head around the role of connective tissue in my body and understand my disability better. i'm really grateful that avenue of learning was available to us both.
I don’t know if you and john know how far of a reach crash course truly has, but it’s a source of hope for me that one day we could have a society that uses technology to disseminate our accumulated knowledge as a species. Right now it seems bleak, but if we educate ourselves and future generations we could potentially make a better future for everyone, and to me this project is a huge youth outreach program. Thank you, hank.
This is kind of like that one time I actually read my own notes
Thanks for allowing for multiple lovers of learning to truly appreciate what Crash Course brings to our lives by providing equitable ways for us to donate and support the future of this program. Glad you found a piece of you again Hank ❤ (just signed up for patreon!)
I love you Hank. I think this every time I see a video, but now I'm commenting it. Made such a difference in my life and its the community that I wish I had in physical form around me instead of in internet form.
I had no idea. Sending love & prayers ❤🙏
I feel like this is a movie premise, congrats!
The beauty of Crash Course is that in a very real way, the world needs direct, impact-focused effort made by a team of dedicated and motivated people now more than ever. These are increasingly uncertain and scary times, and having something made not for profit or immediately, selfishly-motivated gain and instead made for the benefit of the world at large because it's the *right* thing to do is exactly what staves off the terrifying things we're facing as a species.
I think this sort of uncanny moment is starting to recognize the sheer impact Crash Course will have on GENERATIONS of learners.
I am so happy that you were there for you
Such a moving and compelling video, Hank. You're going to sell lots of coins from people who see it. I really feel for what you went through.
This is comedy GOLD! But seriously, the fact that you were able to get the information you needed during a stressful time of your life that you were involved in is amazing! And you knew it was a source you could trust.
I’m suddenly reminded of John’s “me from the past” bit from past Crash Course episodes in the most hilarious way. Only this time, the “me from the past” is the one doing the teaching instead!
Just watched your stand up special, it's amazing! Love it so much, and hope you may decide to do another one someday 🥰
GAAAAH the side by side of your old vs new hair just BOGGLES the mind!!
Crash course is just incredible, truly the biggest impact I've ever seen on the internet. I used to watch the very first episodes as they came out while I was in high school, it seemed normal to me that I was watching those world history videos because I was in that class, but now I realize how amazing it is that I was in that class while those episodes were coming out!!
Love that you could have a total recall moment like this. Wish it could have been under better circumstances obviously
Amazing story Hank!
Sometimes, the best advice you can get is from yourself. And Hank just proved it 😂
Hank i am so happy that you are doing better and that the😮 treatments worked 🙏🙏
Being honest, I have only known you from Crash Courses in Biology. I love the way you share knowledge and you seem like a great human being. I am truly happy, grateful and relieved that you are still alive and well and sharing your passion with us ❤
I had leukemia so maybe this hits a nerve for me and i cry a little bit from happiness from you being okay.
P.S: i also got curly hair after chemo from leukemia and i love it! Ahahah
Love from Portugal ❤❤
This is a wonderful moment about which to hear. It is perhaps less surreal than at first glance. It is a little bit like finding an old journal, reading an entry, and learning or relearning or remembering something important. But, how truly wonderful!