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Hank Green & Payton Mitchell
April 26, 2024

Hi, We’re Here!

It's John! The Turtles All the Way Down movie comes out May 2nd on Max and I've been traveling around for screenings of the film and press stuff. It's been amazing to see the movie with people, not least because it has confirmed my feeling that the Turtles movie is really special. I can't wait for y'all to see it. If you can, I recommend watching it with family, friends, or someone you love--even though that will mean fewer Max logins and therefore less perceived success!

It's been almost exactly ten years since my first movie adaptation, The Fault in Our Stars, premiered. What a weird decade.

I would tell you to follow the official Turtles All the Way Down Instagram account, but there isn't one, so instead follow this ridiculously good account created by a Nerdfighter, and stay up to date on the movie with this ridiculously good website created by a Nerdfighter. Never. Underestimate. Nerdfighteria.

Thanks for being here with us.

John

This Week in Stuff

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What’s Hank Reading?

For the last four or five years, I have told Orin a bedtime story (pretty much) every night about a little boy who lives in a hill with a fox in the forest. They get up to all kinds of adventures but, y'know, it's not that interesting. In part, this is because Orin despises drama and if there is any conflict in the story he stops me and makes me fix it. Another important fact here is that Orin LOVES cats. He's a real cat guy. So when we saw the "Warriors" books at a book store we decided to try it out.

Y'all, I am very pleased that both he and I are really enjoying these books. They're tense and complex and it's got stuff for both me and him. A quick glance at the number of books in the series makes me worried that it will drag on a bit, but I'm loving it so far. The bad news is that, for a while, he wanted me to tell him one of my stories some nights and read Warriors other nights...but now he just wants to read Warriors. I mean, I know that someday I will not be telling him "Little Boy and the Fox" stories anymore, BUT IS TODAY THAT DAY!?! So this is not really a book review so much as a lil crisis I'm having.

I'm also reading "8 Billion and Counting" but I'll save that review for once I'm through more of it!!

Investments in waste management are key to ending plastic pollution

Hannah Ritchie

Monday, April 22, was Earth Day. This year’s theme was ending plastic pollution.

The world produces vast amounts of plastic: more than 450 million tonnes yearly. But when it comes to plastics leaking into our rivers and oceans, it’s the management of plastics — not their production or use — that matters most.

When plastic is not correctly recycled, incinerated, or stored in sealed landfills, it can pollute the environment. According to the OECD Global Plastics Outlook, around one-fifth of the world’s plastic waste is mismanaged in this way.

As this map shows, mismanaged plastic waste per person tends to be higher in low-to-middle-income countries. This is because their plastic use has increased much faster than their investments in waste management infrastructure. (These estimates come from research by Lourens Meijer and colleagues.)

To end plastic pollution, improvements in waste management — alongside more responsible use of plastics — will be critical. Domestic policies will be crucial, but richer countries can also contribute through foreign investments in waste management infrastructure.

Our World in Data is a UK-based non-profit organization that publishes research and data to make progress against the world’s largest problems. You can find more of their data insights here.

The Nerdy Poets Department

Thank you to everyone who sent us poems! They were exactly as wonderful as we knew they’d be. We picked a few to share with you, and we hope you enjoy them as much as we did.

A Fish with a Dream

The man in the boat says it floats on the air

in the same way it floats on the water.

He starts the propeller and settles back in

as he flies off to visit his daughter.

But when I reach up

to the sweet blue jay sky

I fall back with a splash

After each desperate try.

The man in the boat came back one spring day

and he scooped me up into his hand.

He carried me, cradled, through evergreen woods

and planted me deep in the land.

And one day I'll reach

to the highest known height

as my branches embrace

all the birds in their flight.

by Alyshia B
Comic style illustrations of a beaver near a river with the text:hen a beaver hears flowing water does it know why it needs to build a dam? Is the river a beaver's muse? A source of knowing inspiration? Or is it an unknown force subconciously pushing the wet beast to create?

by Raffnag

We’re here because we’re here because we’re here

We’ve followed Hank and John as they have grown

We wait for P4A to come each year

We see the sprouting of the seeds we’ve sown

And whether we will laugh or groan or cry

At jokes or puns or problems of huge scale

The thing is, Nerdfighteria will try

To be community where others fail

We’ve read John’s books and learned so much from Hank

We fight mortality and now TB

We’ve seen this group grow strong, and I’ll be frank

There’s nowhere on the ’net I’d rather be

So thank you for your thoughtfulness and drive

To work to make a world where all thrive

by Linnea Peterson

lunch sounds good

it’s only 7:30

by Eden Ganze
word magnets on a fridge: stars melt like sweet honey on my tongue, drunk on sweet moonlight, glass ghosts swim through peach colored clouds, laughing lazy in the warm breeze, dancing in the candy sky, we are drinking magic, and devouring dreams

By Indigo Sunrise

This Week at Complexly

Crash Course is bravely going where we haven't before: to space! Join John Green and Dr. Katie Mack as they converse about the universe -- its birth and... its eventual death. Dense with info about the incredible universe we're a part of, but in a way that's approachable to the non-astrophysicists out there, we think you'll love this new kind of Crash Course.

We can make clocks that keep accurate time for millions of years. We can also make clocks with such high resolution they tick one billion billion times per second. So why can't we make a clock that does both? SciShow explains!

Some Games to Play!

Nerdy Connections (by Complexly)

SpellCheck.xyc (by Answer in Progress.)

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Nerdy Connections game #14: phil, kitty, mary, mac, jane, pad, chuck, lydia, liz, pod, calico, tortie, phone, cam, tabby, solid

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Gubbins end game postcard: a night sky with a bilboard that says "we are here because we are here because we are here"

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