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When did Hank Green's Crash Course Biology start?

The episode covered the Agricultural Revolution, and a new episode aired on YouTube every Thursday through November 9, 2012. Hank Green's first series, Crash Course Biology, then launched on January 30, 2012, with its first episode covering carbon. A new episode aired on YouTube every Monday until October 22 of that year.

Why do the Green brothers use humor in Crash Course episodes?

Early on in the history of the show, the Green Brothers began to employ an edutainment style for episodes of Crash Course, using humor to blend entertainment together with the educational content.

Who is the co-founder of Crash Course?

Hank (left) and John Green (right) co-created Crash Course and hosted the initial Biology and World History series, respectively.

When did John Green start Vlogbrothers?

In 2007, John launched the Vlogbrothers channel with his brother, Hank Green. Since then, the brothers have launched events such as Project for Awesome and VidCon and created a number of online series. They launched Crash Course, an educational channel teaching literature, history, science, and other topics.

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Early Life and Career

  • Green was born on August 24, 1977, in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Mike (born 1950) and Sydney Green (born 1952). Three weeks after he was born, his family moved to Michigan, then later Birmingham, Alabama, and finally to Orlando, Florida. He attended Glenridge Middle School and Lake Highland Preparatory School in Orlando. He later attended Indian Spr...
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Writings

  • Green's first novel, Looking for Alaska, published by Dutton Children's Books in 2005, is a school story and teen romance inspired by his experiences at Indian Springs, Alabama, fictionalized as Culver Creek Preparatory High School. The novel was awarded the annual Michael L. Printz Award by the American Library Association, recognizing the year's "best book written for teens, based e…
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Online Video

  • VlogBrothers
    In 2007, John and his brother Hank began a video blog project called Brotherhood 2.0 which ran from January 1 to December 31 of that year. The two agreed that they would forgo all text-based communication for the project's duration instead of maintaining their relationship by exchangin…
  • Crash Course
    In 2012, following a grant from Google, John and Hank launched the short-format educational video YouTube channel Crash Course. The channel has grown to 44 series covering topics including history, literature, and science. All of the content is available for free and many follow t…
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Podcasts

  • Dear Hank & John
    In June 2015, John Green and his brother Hank Green started a weekly podcast titled Dear Hank & John. Taking a mainly humorous tone, each podcast consists of the brothers reading a series of questions submitted by listeners and offering their advice. The podcast closes with a news seg…
  • The Anthropocene Reviewed
    In January 2018, Green launched The Anthropocene Reviewed, a solo podcast where he reviews different facets of the Anthropocene, the epoch that includes significant human impact on the environment, on a five-star scale. This can include completely artificial products like Diet Dr. Pep…
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Other Projects

  • Life's Library book club
    In October 2018, Green founded the Life's Library book club with Rosianna Halse Rojas. The book club reads a book approximately every 6 weeks, with online discussion occurring on the Life's Library Discord. Green and Rojas alternate choosing books, with guest curators occasionally ma…
  • Film producing
    Green served as an executive producer for the Paper Towns movie. He has also entered into a production deal with the film studio Fox 2000 (which made the adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars). Green announced that Fox 2000 will be making a movie about the formation of AFC Wim…
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Personal Life and Public Image

  • Green lives in Indianapolis, Indiana, with his wife, Sarah Urist Green, whom he married on May 20, 2006, and two children. She worked as the Curator of Contemporary Art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art before leaving to start The Art Assignment, a web series with PBS. In early videos on the VlogBrothers channel, Sarah Green is referred to as "the Yeti" due to her not appearing visi…
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Works

  • Books
    1. Looking for Alaska(2005) 2. An Abundance of Katherines(2006) 3. Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances – with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle(2008) 4. Paper Towns(2008) 5. Will Grayson, Will Grayson – with David Levithan(2010) 6. The Fault in Our Stars(2012) 7. Turtles All t…
  • Short stories
    1. "The Approximate Cost of Loving Caroline," Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artworkby Scott Hunt (2006) 2. "The Great American Morp," 21 Proms, eds. David Levithanand Daniel Ehrenhaft (2007) 3. "Freak the Geek," Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd(2009) 4. "Re…
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