457: Big Ball Curators

Hank Green· Host0:00

[gentle music] Hello, everyone. Before we get started, I wanna tell you about Humans. Humans is a podcast where I talk to people about the questions that I have about being a person. And sometimes those conversations are with people who have just had experience being people, like my brother or the editor of The New York Times game Connections. These are just people who've, like, done it, and tried weird stuff, and so I wanna talk to them about how they do it. But I also am talking to people who have maybe some special insight into what's going on with humans, like Hannah Ritchie, who is a data scientist who studies our impact on the climate, or Jennifer Szuba, who studies demography and what it means for humans that people are having fewer kids than they used to. I also just had a conversation with the author of the Warriors books. These are books about cats that live in the woods. I did not realize that this was a person who would have so much insight into humanity, and also into the responsibilities that we have when we create content for children. That conversation was so good. It's gonna be a while before it comes out, but oh my God. So yeah, I'm talking to authors, and actors, and astrophysicists, and it's cool, and it's really interesting and fun, and I've really been enjoying it. I- I'm so glad it's finally out into the world. The overall conceit is just that, like, it's good to take a little time to zoom out sometimes, to understand that the thing that we are is very weird and unique in the history of our Earth, and also the known universe, and we don't know how to do it. No one's ever been the kind of thing that we are, and