Humans

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Ted Dintersmith: Should We Teach Math Differently?

Ted Dintersmith is a Stanford engineering Ph.D., a successful venture capitalist, and now a committed math reformer. Hank and Ted talk about why questions are more import

Sep 17
1 h 04 min

T-Pain Doesn't Forget

T-Pain is a Grammy-winning artist, songwriter, and music producer. These days he produces music while streaming live on Twitch so that people can see exactly how human hi

Sep 10
1 h 07 min

Hannah Ritchie: The Future Is Not Bleak

Hannah Ritchie is a data scientist, author, and deputy editor of Our World in Data — and she's convinced the world is making more progress than the headlines show. Hannah

Sep 3
1 h 05 min

Jerome Goddard: Welcome to the Bug Kingdom

Jerome Goddard is a medical entomologist, extension professor at Mississippi State University, fiction author, and now a TikTok star. Jerome and Hank cover things you’d e

Aug 27
1 h 11 min

Sam Forstag Might Be My Congressman

Sam Forstag is a former smokejumper who’s running for Congress in Montana’s U.S. House District 1. He’s the Democratic candidate, but is he actually a Democrat? Hank and

Aug 20
1 h 02 min

Katie Mack: The Death of the Universe

Katie Mack is an astrophysicist who studies the end of the universe. Hank and Katie talk about the value of the Artemis II mission, how we can see the beginning of time,

Aug 13
1 h 02 min

Maya Rupert: The Inauthenticity of Authenticity

Maya Rupert is a political strategist and social justice leader. She also served as the campaign manager for Julián Castro’s presidential campaign, and is Hank’s friend a

Aug 6
1 h 05 min

Astronaut Reid Wiseman Thinks We're Going to Be OK

The commander of NASA’s Artemis II mission slid into Hank’s DMs on Instagram asking to talk. Their conversation covers what it’s like to leave Earth behind, why astronaut

Jul 30
1 h 18 min

Vicky Holmes: Finding Humanity in Feral Cats

The original author of the Warrior Cats book series has contributed to over 70 books about feral felines, all while not liking cats. Hank and Vicky discuss following your

Jul 23
1 h 04 min

Andy Weir: Are We Technocrats Or Are We Humans?

The writer of The Martian and Project Hail Mary proudly calls himself a “Hank Green-ist.” Andy and Hank talk about why the present is always better than the past, the sta

Jul 16
1 h 03 min

Alexis Nikole Nelson: How Foraging Became Weird

Known to millions as the Black Forager, Alexis Nikole Nelson turned a lifetime of plant knowledge and a theater degree’s worth of showmanship into a social-media account

Jul 9
1 h 02 min

Jad Abumrad: The Space Between the Brains

The co-creator of Radiolab is as much a fan of Hank’s as Hank is of him. The two talk about Dolly Parton, how to close the gap between your taste and your ability, and wh

Jul 2
1 h 15 min

Ze Frank: Get Uncomfortable

Ze Frank invented vlogging according to Hank. The creator of the YouTube series True Facts and The Show talks to Hank about getting ideas out into the world, why he prefe

Jun 25
58 min

Helen Hunt: When the Universe Betrays You

Oscar-winner Helen Hunt calls out Hank for a video he made about her 20 years ago. They get into aging and Hollywood, why it’s moving to see people giving a shit, and how

Jun 18
1 h 00 min

Puzzle-Maker Wyna Liu's Just a Little Mean

Wyna Liu is the maker of one of Hank's favorite games: Connections. In the New York Times game, players sort 16 words into four categories. Wyna and Hank geek out on what

Jun 11
59 min

John Green: We’re Not Merely a Catastrophe

John disapproves of his brother's new podcast entirely, but is happy to be here. They talk about why John's worried about Hank, why being in favor of humans is now counte

Jun 4
1 h 20 min

Welcome to Humans

Hank Green is a creator and science communicator who desperately wants us to realize how bizarre and special we are. Every week he has a conversation with one of the eigh

May 14
2 min

What listeners say

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This podcast gives me hope for the future. Hank believes in the potential for good in humans and he is a great example of one. Humans are lucky to have this ambassador for our species. He is a wonderful interviewer and I look forward to each episode. Thank you!

Cmiyamak · Aug 2026

When I was in elementary school, i was obsessed with space. I shouldn’t say was, because I still am, but the point stands. Having YouTube on my old kindle lite, and looking up different space videos. I found sci show, people talking about all my favorite topics and embracing science. And that’s where I was first introduced to proper science communication through the internet, and Hank. In middle school and high school, teachers putting on videos for science classes to introduce a topic we were going into, and seeing the same people show up every time, I was always excited. All those years of watching that, to today where I’m working in the aerospace industry and seeing the same excited guy move on to talk in his own personal channel about modern day, politics, people, and finally sitting down and listing to an episode of humans, starting with the Reid Wiseman episode, I’m just as excited to hear all of it. No one I have ever seen has been able to so openly and so excitedly share the wonders of the world as well as Hank. He is insanely good at getting me to stop and reframe how I see the world, how I see people, how I care about the world. Thank you, Hank, for all the lives you have improved, and for just being you.

Joel Cosmic! · Jul 2026

This podcast is everything. It’s my own weekly personal reminder that the world is full of beautiful people doing amazing things, and getting the chance to hear about what the guests do and their life experience has felt so refreshing and wonderful. Please make a million seasons (please)

Lizzywithawhy? · Jul 2026

Hank is honing his interviewing skills every episode, and each one just gets better and better! Thoughtful and fun conversations with excellent guests, this show is a new favorite for me. Normally I find interview shows kind of boring, but this one is really great. I especially loved the recent interview with Alexis Nikole Nelson, AKA Black Forager she’s such a delight and their conversation was so wonderful to listen in on.

dynamitemoney · Jul 2026

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