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John Green

John Michael Green (born August 24, 1977) is an American author, YouTuber, podcaster, and philanthropist. His books have more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars (2012), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Green's rapid rise to fame and idiosyncratic voice are credited with creating a major shift in the young adult fiction market. Green is also well known for his work in online video, most notably his YouTube ventures with his brother Hank Green.

Born in Indianapolis, Indiana, Green was raised in Orlando, Florida, before attending boarding school outside of Birmingham, Alabama. He attended Kenyon College, graduating with a double major in English and religious studies in 2000. Green then spent six months as a student chaplain at a children's hospital. He reconsidered his path and began working at Booklist in Chicago while writing his first novel. His debut novel Looking for Alaska (2005) was awarded the 2006 Michael L. Printz Award. While living in New York City, Green published his second novel, An Abundance of Katherines (2006). Starting on January 1, 2007, John and his brother Hank launched the Vlogbrothers YouTube channel, a series of vlogs submitted to one another on alternating weekdays; the videos spawned an active online-based community called Nerdfighteria and an annual telethon-style fundraiser called Project for Awesome, both of which have persisted and grown over time.

John moved back to Indianapolis in 2007, and published three novels over the next three years: Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances (2008, with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle); his third solo novel, Paper Towns (2008); and Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010, with David Levithan). From 2010 to 2013, John and Hank launched several online video projects, including VidCon, an annual conference for the online video community, and Crash Course (2011–present), a wide-ranging educational channel. Green's 2012 novel, The Fault in Our Stars, and the 2014 film adaptation were massive commercial and critical successes, leading to several other film and television adaptations of his work. He was included in Time magazine's 2014 list of the 100 most influential people in the world.

Green's subsequent projects, his novel Turtles All the Way Down (2017) and The Anthropocene Reviewed (2018–2021), dealt more directly with his anxiety and obsessive–compulsive disorder. The Anthropocene Reviewed began as a podcast in January 2018, with Green reviewing different facets of the Anthropocene on a five-star scale. The podcast was then adapted into The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (2021), his first nonfiction book. Since the mid-2010s, John Green has been a prominent advocate for global health causes: he is a trustee for Partners In Health (PIH), supporting their goal of reducing maternal mortality in Sierra Leone, and has worked with PIH, USAID, the Stop TB Partnership, and the government of the Philippines, among others, in fighting tuberculosis worldwide.

Early life and education
John Michael Green was born on August 24, 1977, in Indianapolis, Indiana,  to Mike and Sydney Green. Within two months of his birth, his family moved to Michigan, then later Birmingham, Alabama, and finally to Orlando, Florida. There he attended Glenridge Middle School and Lake Highland Preparatory School. Green's father worked as the executive director of The Nature Conservancy of Florida, and his mother, after being a stay-at-home mother, worked for a nonprofit called the Healthy Community Initiative. When he was 15, he started attending Indian Springs School outside of Birmingham, Alabama, graduating in 1995. While attending the preparatory school, Green became good friends with Daniel Alarcón, who would go on to become an author as well. Green's future wife Sarah Urist also attended Indian Springs at the same time as Green, though they did not become friends until they became reacquainted in the early 2000s.

Green has characterized his upbringing by saying that "although he had a happy childhood, [...] he was not always a happy child." Green has struggled with severe anxiety and obsessive–compulsive disorder his whole life. He has also spoken about being bullied during high school and how it made life as a teenager miserable for him.

Green enrolled at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio in 1995, graduating with a double major in English and religious studies in 2000. While attending the school, he befriended and was in a comedy troupe with Ransom Riggs. After graduation, Green spent about half a year working as a student chaplain at Nationwide Children's Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, while enrolled at the University of Chicago Divinity School, although he never actually attended the school. He intended to become an Episcopal priest, but the traumatic experiences of working in a hospital with children suffering from life-threatening illnesses and injuries made him reconsider his path. Parts of his experience inspired him to become an author, and later to write The Fault in Our Stars. After his time as a chaplain, Green moved to Chicago where he briefly continued performing with his college comedy troupe.

Booklist magazine and Looking for Alaska
In 2001, Green was hired as an editorial assistant at the book review journal Booklist, later becoming a production editor. Whilst there he reviewed hundreds of books, particularly on literary fiction, Islam, and conjoined twins. He also wrote radio essays for NPR's All Things Considered and Chicago's public radio station WBEZ. He wrote essays for WBEZ after beginning an email correspondence with Amy Krouse Rosenthal, who became a close friend and mentor.

While working at Booklist, Green met author Ilene Cooper, whose example persuaded him he could write a novel, saying, "I saw that real people like Ilene wrote books; they weren't written in ivory towers." Cooper invited Green to lunch to discuss his future. She set a deadline for Green to present her with a draft of his first book, which Green failed to present to her twice over. Near the end of 2001, Green suffered from a mental health crisis so severe he could not eat, and instead drank only two-liter bottles of Sprite. He lived with his parents for a brief time while seeing a psychiatrist and going on medication. When he returned to Chicago, he began writing Looking for Alaska. Green wrote the novel divided into "before" and "after" the character Alaska's death, with chapters denoted through the number of days before or after the death. The structure was partially inspired by Green's reaction to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, months prior, and its status as a dividing line in history and in people's lives.

Green presented the first draft to Cooper, who served as a mentor through the following two versions. Cooper sent the third draft to Dutton Children's Books in early 2003, who awarded Green with a publishing contract and a small four-figure book deal. Looking for Alaska was assigned to editor Julie Strauss-Gabel, which began their collaboration that has persisted through all of Green's books. In a 2015 interview with The New York Times, Green reflected, "In a publishing world that maybe doesn't have as many long-term relationships as it used to, she invested a lot of time in me before I ever earned a profit. I've never written a book without Julie. I wouldn't know how to do it."

Looking for Alaska was published in March 2005. The novel is a coming-of-age school story and teen romance about a boarding school student who gets bullied, partially inspired by Green's experiences at Indian Springs, Alabama, fictionalized as Culver Creek Preparatory High School. The novel was well-received critically, but saw only modest sales at first. The novel was awarded the annual Michael L. Printz Award by the American Library Association (ALA), recognizing the year's "best book written for teens, based entirely on its literary merit." Receiving the award caused book sales to rapidly rise, with Green describing his reaction upon hearing he had won the award as, "probably the purest moment of joy I've experienced. Even when my children were born it wasn't as raw and surprising." It also appeared on the ALA's annual "Top 10 Best Books for Young Adults" and appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list seven years later during a surge in Green's popularity after the release of The Fault in Our Stars. Green left his job at Booklist after receiving the Printz Award.

An Abundance of Katherines
Green moved to the Upper West Side in New York City in 2005 while his then-fiancée Sarah Urist attended graduate school at Columbia University. He worked at Mental Floss magazine while he continued his second novel, having already finished a first draft while living in Chicago. He co-authored several Mental Floss gift books while there, including Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets, What's the Difference? and Scatterbrained. He also critiqued books for The New York Times Book Review.

His second novel, An Abundance of Katherines, was released in September 2006. Set in Chicago, the novel is about an extremely intelligent but depressed 17-year-old boy who is constantly dating (and being dumped by) girls named Katherine. Reviewers noted that the book's tone was significantly more comedic and light than Looking for Alaska. It was runner-up for the Printz Award, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Green began writing his third solo novel while still living in New York.

Paper Towns and collaborative works
Green moved back to Indianapolis in June 2007 when Sarah began a position as a curator of contemporary art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. In an interview in October 2007, Green mentioned that his next solo novel's working title was Paper Towns.

Green's next novel was a collaboration with fellow young adult authors Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle titled Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances, released in September 2008. The book consists of three interconnected short stories, including Green's "A Cheertastic Christmas Miracle", with each set in the same small town on Christmas Eve during a massive snowstorm. In November 2009, the book reached number ten on The New York Times Best Seller list for paperback children's books.

Green's third solo novel, Paper Towns, was released in October 2008. Set in the suburbs of Orlando, Florida, the book is about the coming-of-age of the protagonist, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen and his search for Margo Roth Spiegelman, his neighbor and childhood sweetheart. The story has often been described as a deconstruction of the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" trope, including by Green himself. It debuted at number five on The New York Times Best Seller list for children's books. Paper Towns was awarded the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best Young Adult Novel and the 2010 Corine Literature Prize.

After this, Green and fellow young-adult writer David Levithan collaborated on the novel Will Grayson, Will Grayson, which was published by Dutton in April 2010. Set in the suburbs of Chicago, the book's narrative is divided evenly between two boys named Will Grayson; Green wrote the odd chapters on the Will Grayson who is straight, and Levithan wrote the even chapters on the Will Grayson who is gay. The novel debuted on The New York Times children's best-seller list after its release and remained there for three weeks. It was the first LGBT-themed young adult novel to make it to the list. It was a runner-up for two of the annual ALA awards: the Stonewall Book Award for excellence in LGBT children's and young adult literature, and the Odyssey Award for Excellence in Audiobook Production.

Online video beginnings
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 and was published to their YouTube channel "Vlogbrothers". The two agreed that they would forgo all text-based communication for the project's duration and instead maintain their relationship by exchanging these vlogs. Each submitted one to the other on alternating weekdays. The brothers gained a large following during the early years of YouTube, especially after Hank's video "Accio Deathly Hallows" was featured on the front page of YouTube. In what would have been the project's final video, the brothers revealed that they would extend their video correspondence indefinitely. , they have continued exchanging their vlogs and the channel has over 3.5 million subscribers and 900 million views.

Since the project's inception, the duo has gained a wide-reaching international fanbase whose members identify collectively as "Nerdfighters". One prominent early Nerdfighter was Esther Earl, who developed a bond with the Green brothers and the Nerdfighter community before she died in 2010 at the age of sixteen to thyroid cancer. Green and the Nerdfighteria community continue to celebrate "Esther Day" each year on August 3, and support the non-profit foundation This Star Won't Go Out, founded by Esther's parents Wayne and Lori Earl. Green wrote the introduction to Earl's biography and has stated that Earl was an inspiration for the main character Hazel in The Fault in Our Stars.

The group, in collaboration with the two brothers, promote and participate in several other humanitarian efforts and community events, including loaning more than $4 million through Kiva.org, as well as the Project for Awesome (P4A). The Project for Awesome is an annual telethon-style fundraiser began in 2007. The event includes a 48-hour livestream in which charities are voted on by the community while supporters pledge money and receive donated perks, such as artwork or digital content. The livestream is hosted by the Greens and other YouTube personalities, including Destin Sandlin and Phil Plait. The event has continued annually, gaining support and higher donations over time, most recently raising over $3 million in 2023.

Hank Green and Alan Lastufka co-founded DFTBA Records (an initialism for "Don't Forget to Be Awesome") in 2008, with John Green later becoming a co-owner. Originally a record label, its main focus was music generated by prominent YouTube stars. The company now focuses on selling merchandise.

In 2010, the brothers launched VidCon as a conference for the online video community. The Greens created the conference in response to the growing YouTube community. Hank stated, "We wanted to get as much of the online video community together, in one place, in the real world for a weekend. It's a celebration of the community, with performances, concerts, and parties, but it's also a discussion of the explosion in community-based online video." The event drew many popular YouTubers, as well as their fans, and provided room for the community to interact. The event also contained an industry conference for people and businesses working in the online video field. The convention was a success, leading to it becoming an annual event that was acquired by Viacom in 2018.

The Fault in Our Stars and adaptations
Green had announced in August 2009 he was writing a new book titled The Sequel. The work was later scrapped, with parts integrated into his next book, The Fault in Our Stars, released on January 10, 2012. Green's fourth solo novel, the story is about Hazel, a 16-year-old girl living in Indianapolis, Indiana, who has thyroid cancer. She is forced by her parents to attend a support group where she meets and falls in love with 17-year-old Augustus Waters, an ex-basketball player, amputee, and survivor of osteosarcoma. Green was inspired by his friendship with Esther Earl, as well as his time working as a student chaplain in a children's hospital. In an interview with The Atlantic in 2013, he stated, "The kids I met [while working as a student chaplain] were funny and bright and angry and dark and just as human as anybody else. And I really wanted to try to capture that. I felt that the stories that I was reading sort of oversimplified and sometimes even dehumanized them. [...] I wanted to argue for their humanity, their complete humanity." He crafted the novel in collaboration with his long-time editor Julie Strauss-Gabel. Green signed all 150,000 copies of the first printing.

The Fault in Our Stars was massively successful, creating a passionate fan base of readers. Six months before the release of the book, before it had even been finished, online pre-orders led to the book being a number one seller on Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. After release, the book debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list for children's chapter books. It went on to spend forty-three total weeks at the number one spot and over two years in the top ten.

Green himself also saw a significant increase in his fame, with the Indianapolis Business Journal noting that he had much more "visibility and presence in his fans' lives" than other contemporaneous authors with equal or greater book sales. Upon the book's release, Green began a 17-city book tour, visiting largely sold-out venues across the country. On the first anniversary of its release, John and his brother Hank performed a sold-out show at Carnegie Hall's Isaac Stern Auditorium in New York City, which also featured appearances from Neil Gaiman and The Mountain Goats. Green appeared on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson in March 2013. Green stated his anxiety leading up to the television interview prevented him from getting work done for weeks before.

In late 2013, Green stated that he was writing a new book with the working title The Racket. He sold 5,000 words of a rough draft of the work during that years Project for Awesome. That same year, Green hired long-time Nerdfighter Rosianna Halse Rojas as his executive assistant.

A film adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars was green-lit within three weeks of the book's release. Green had initially been hesitant to sell the movie rights for the book, saying, "I'd had some unhappy experiences before, and I didn't want a movie I didn't like being made from a book that's so important to me. This book frankly is more important to me than my other books." To that end, Green was involved in the movie's pre-production, and was on set for most of the film's shooting. The Hollywood Reporter stated in May 2014 that even before the movie's release, its expected success was causing a shift in the types of films being made for teenagers, with Pouya Shahbazian, the producer of the dystopian science fiction film Divergent, stating, "I've already had calls from studio execs who want to be on the list for small, intimate stories that previously would have been impossible to sell to their senior execs. Who would have believed a small-budget, YA teenage cancer love story would have rival studio execs calling it a potential event movie?" Additionally, the magazine reported that the film studio behind the movie, Fox 2000, would consider anything over $125million in box office earnings a huge success.

On June 6, 2014, The Fault in Our Stars film was released, the first adaptation of one of Green's novels. The film was massively successful, opening number one at the box office during its opening weekend and grossing $307million worldwide against a budget of $12million. Green filmed a cameo role for the movie that was not included in the final cut of the film. The profound success of the book and the movie further launched Green into mainstream culture, an experience he found emotionally fraught. Green appeared on The Colbert Report to promote the movie's release in June 2014. Green was included in Time magazine's 2014 Time 100 list of the 100 most influential people in the world. The trade paperback version of The Fault in Our Stars was the top selling novel of the year on Publishers Weekly's annual list.

Just over a year after the first film's release, an adaptation of Paper Towns was released, starring Cara Delevingne and Nat Wolff. Green served as an executive producer for the movie and entered into a first-look production deal with the studio behind the film, Fox 2000, alongside his now producing partner Rojas. In 2016, Green announced that Fox 2000 would be making a movie about the formation of AFC Wimbledon, a soccer team that he supports, and he would serve as a producer. , the movie has not been produced.

Focus on educational content
As part of the platform's "YouTube Original Channel Initiative", YouTube approached John and Hank with an opportunity to start a Google-funded channel. YouTube gave the brothers $450,000, which they used to launch the Crash Course YouTube channel. The channel was launched in January 2012, with the first episode of its World History series hosted by John Green. The channel has since grown to 44 series covering topics including history, literature, and science. All of the content is available for free and many follow the curricula for the Advanced Placement program. John has hosted several of the series, including the first on world history, which he co-wrote with his high school history teacher, Raoul Meyer.

After two years of producing Crash Course and Hank's science-related channel SciShow through the grants provided by YouTube, the Green brothers sought a more sustainable way to fund the projects. In 2013, they launched Subbable, a subscription-based crowdfunding platform that would enable donators to pledge a monthly sum to creators and receive perks in exchange. Among the platform's creators and channels were the Green brothers' Crash Course and SciShow, and YouTubers CGP Grey, MinutePhysics and Wheezy Waiter. The platform went on to be acquired by fellow subscription-based crowdfunding platform Patreon in March 2015. Patreon added Subbable's creators into its fold and the Green brothers became advisors at Patreon.

Starting in 2012 and 2013, John and Hank began celebrating an event called "Pizzamas" in which they sold merchandise, including t-shirts, of "Pizza John": a white outlined image of John sporting a thick mustache, originating from a 2009 Vlogbrothers video that then became a popular meme in the Nerdfighteria community. Starting in 2014, John and Hank began uploading videos to Vlogbrothers every weekday for two weeks during Pizzamas, and began selling more varied merchandise, including fan art of Pizza John printed on blankets, tote bags, and pizza-scented air fresheners. All the proceeds are donated to various charities, including Partners In Health.

From 2013 to 2018, Green was one of the hosts of the YouTube channel for the magazine Mental Floss, for whom he had worked when in New York. Green presented "The List Show" in which he listed off interesting facts centered on one particular subject. These episodes were directed by Mark Olsen and produced by John and Hank Green and Stan Muller. A new format, titled Scatterbrained, named after one of the books he had written for Mental Floss, was introduced on the channel in 2018; Green was joined by multiple hosts on a single episode each week, which tackled one topic from multiple angles. In 2019, Mental Floss brought its YouTube production in-house and ceased using Green as a host.

On February 20, 2014, Sarah Urist Green launched The Art Assignment, a PBS and Complexly video series. John served as an executive producer for the series. In September 2019, Sarah Urist Green, in collaboration with John and the Poetry Foundation, launched the YouTube channel Ours Poetica.

In June 2015, John Green and his brother Hank 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 "dubious" advice. The podcast closes with a news segment with two standard topics: Mars, presented by Hank, and AFC Wimbledon, presented by John.

EcoGeek LLC, a company founded by Hank Green to support his blog on environmental and science issues in the early 2000s, was renamed to Complexly in 2016. Complexly became the umbrella video and audio production company which produces and manages most of the Green brother's YouTube shows, as well as a number of other shows, podcasts, and projects. John serves as the co-founder and strategic advisor for the company.

Appearances
Green gave commencement speeches at Butler University in 2013 and at his alma mater Kenyon College in May 2016. Both universities conferred Honorary Doctorates of Letters on him.

In January 2016, Green was named to the Forum of Young Global Leaders by the World Economic Forum (WEF). He attended the annual meeting of the WEF in Davos, Switzerland that year. In February 2016, Green visited Jordan to meet with Syrian refugees with the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC). Green has often acted as an advocate for refugees, stating that "for those of you who share my faith, Jesus is awfully unambiguous about the poor, shelterless, and imprisoned".

Turtles All the Way Down
In November 2014, amidst the intense success of The Fault in Our Stars, Green wrote on his Tumblr page that he was not working on his previously announced next project, The Racket, anymore, but was working on something else with a different title. In September 2015, Green announced that he would be taking a break from social media to focus on writing his next book. Around this time, Green experienced a period of severe anxiety, partly due to the perceived burden to follow up the massive success of The Fault in Our Stars. He worried he might never write another book. He stopped taking his prescribed medications hoping to reinvigorate his creativity and his mental health suffered, with him later describing the experience saying, "I can't think straight—I can only think in swirls and scribbles." After he recovered in late 2015, he began writing Turtles All the Way Down.

In August 2016, Green stated that over the next ten months he would be limiting his public appearances in order to finish a draft of the new book. But on September 20, Green took to his YouTube channel to say that he may never publish another book, citing his current writing experience as, "this intense pressure, like people were watching over my shoulder while I was writing." He eventually submitted a draft to his editor Strauss-Gabel, and they worked on the book together for another year.

On June 22, 2017, it was announced that Green's fifth solo novel would be titled Turtles All the Way Down. It was released on October 10, 2017, and debuted at number one on the New York Times bestseller list. The story centers on 16-year-old Aza Holmes, an Indianapolis high school student with obsessive–compulsive disorder and anxiety, and her search for a fugitive billionaire as she begins a relationship with that billionaire's son. Speaking about the novel, Green said, "This is my first attempt to write directly about the kind of mental illness that has affected my life since childhood, so while the story is fictional, it is also quite personal." Like his previous books, Green signed the first 200,000 copies of the book, as part of the initial run of 1.5 million copies.

Upon the release of his book, he and his brother Hank went on a book tour. In May 2018, Green was interviewed by then-quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts, Andrew Luck, after Turtles All the Way Down was named a selection for the Andrew Luck Book Club. They discussed the book and their relationships with anxiety and stress for the event that promoted the PBS series The Great American Read.

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. Pepper, natural species that have had their fates altered by human influence like the Canada goose, or phenomena that only influence humanity such as Halley's Comet. Episodes typically contained Green reviewing two topics, accompanied by stories on how they have impacted his life. At the end of 2018, the Green brothers partnered with WNYC Studios to bring all of their podcasts, including The Anthropocene Reviewed, to the distributor.

Green adapted the essays into a book, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet, which was published by Dutton Penguin on May 18, 2021. The book was Green's first nonfiction book and sixth solo publication. The book received positive reviews and debuted at number one on The New York Times Best Seller list. The book featured revised versions of many of the essays from the podcast, as well as new original essays, ordered chronologically through Green's life to give the book the approximate structure of a memoir. Green wrote about living through the COVID-19 pandemic in many of the essays. As he had done with many of his previous books, Green signed all 250,000 tip-in sheets of the first printing for the United States and Canada. He wrote a review of the experience on the final signed page. This review was later revised and expanded on for an episode of the podcast released on the same day as the book. Green subsequently ended the podcast in August 2021 after 36 episodes.

In May 2021, Green hosted a virtual book tour for The Anthropocene Reviewed, with guests Clint Smith, Latif Nasser, Sarah Urist Green, Hank Green, and Ashley C. Ford making appearances at the various shows. In April 2022, The Anthropocene Reviewed was chosen to be the 2022 common read at the University of Mississippi. Green gave a keynote address at the university's annual fall convocation.

Further adaptations

Green had sold the film the rights for Looking for Alaska in 2005 to Paramount, which hired Josh Schwartz as writer and director. However, after five years with no progress on the project, Green told fans that, while he "desperately loved" the screenplay, there seemed to be little interest at Paramount. In 2012, the book reached The New York Times Best Seller list for children's paperbacks. Finally, in May 2018, it was announced that Looking for Alaska would be made into a Hulu series with Schwartz and others on board. The casting was announced in October 2018. Looking for Alaska was released to Hulu on October 18, 2019. The series was critically well-received, with Kathryn VanArendonk of Vulture calling it a "rare adaptation that dismantles the original in order to build something that works better."

In 2017, Green authorized a stage play adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars. The play was written by theatre director Tobin Strader of Brebeuf Jesuit Preparatory School in Indianapolis and four students at the high school. It was performed in 2019. In 2019, Let It Snow was adapted into a film of the same name by Netflix. On Metacritic, it has a weighted average score of 51 out of 100, based on reviews from five critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".

In August 2014, India's Fox Star Studios announced it would adapt The Fault in Our Stars into an Indian Hindi-language film, with the working title of Kizie Aur Manny. The adaptation ages up the characters and changes the main setting to India. The title of the movie was later changed to Dil Bechara ("The Helpless Heart") and is named after one of the original songs written for the movie. Music composer A. R. Rahman composed the background music and songs of the movie. The film was scheduled to be released on May 8, 2020, after having been initially scheduled in November 2019, but was later postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic in India. It was released on July 24, 2020, on Disney+ Hotstar and was met with mainly positive reviews.

The 2020 Chinese film A Little Red Flower has been noted for having significant similarities to The Fault in Our Stars, which was never theatrically released in China. A Chinese remake of The Fault in Our Stars had been in development by Fox International Productions in 2016. In 2018, a notice was released by the China Film Administration for a project with a similar premise and the same writers and producers to the original remake, and in 2020, A Little Red Flower was released with no credit given to Fox.

Partners In Health
Since the mid-2010s, John and Hank Green and their families have supported the international public health nonprofit Partners In Health (PIH). Beginning with the annual Project for Awesome fundraiser in 2013, Partners In Health received $50,000 as one of the community-chosen charities. The charity was first selected as one of the "designated charities" the following year, meaning Green and the other organizers had chosen for it to receive a large portion of the funds raised, totaling $291,000. It was again selected as a designated charity in 2016 before becoming a permanent designated charity in every iteration of the fundraiser since 2018.

In October 2018, Green founded the Life's Library book club with Rosianna Halse Rojas. The book club read a book approximately every 6 weeks, with online discussion occurring on the Life's Library Discord. Green and Rojas alternated choosing books, with guest curators occasionally making selections. Life's Library was free to participate in, with paid options available to receive digital or physical subscriptions, containing additional materials such as a discussion podcast, or a version of the book itself. All profits from Life's Library were donated to Partners In Health Sierra Leone. The Life's Library project ended in March 2022.

John and Sarah Urist Green visited Sierra Leone in April 2019 after John was inspired by a December 2017 profile in The New Yorker on PIH co-founder Ophelia Dahl. In October 2019, Green announced that he, Hank, and their families would be donating $6.5 million to Sierra Leone's branch of Partners In Health, as part of an initiative to raise $25 million over the following five years. The goal of the initiative is to help fight maternal mortality, specifically in the country's Kono District, where the money will be used to staff and support the Maternal Center of Excellence, among other primary care centers and health workers. The Maternal Center of Excellence broke ground in April 2021, with a planned opening in 2023.

In August 2019, John and Hank performed live versions of their own podcasts on stage, with John presenting a new episode of The Anthropocene Reviewed, as well as a live episode of their shared podcast Dear Hank & John, with all profits going to Partners In Health. The live performances returned in March 2020 with a planned three-city tour including stops in Columbus, Ohio, and Carmel, Indiana, with a third performance set for Ann Arbor, Michigan. However, the third performance was cancelled due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. In September 2021, Green continued his advocacy for refugees, writing an op-ed in The Independent on the need for education for refugee children.

After receiving $429,000 from the Project for Awesome in 2021 and over $100,000 from that year's Pizzamas, Partners in Health received over $1 million during the 2022 Project for Awesome. The week prior to the 2022 Project for Awesome, Partners In Health co-founder Paul Farmer unexpectedly died at the age of 62. Green wrote a tribute to Farmer for The Washington Post.

Complexly and DFTBA
In November 2020, John and Hank started the "Awesome Socks Club", a monthly subscription service where members receive a pair of socks designed by independent artists. All post-tax profits are donated to the charity, in a business model similar to Newman's Own products. , the Awesome Socks Club had over 40,000 members. In March 2022, the brothers started the "Awesome Coffee Club", with an identical business model and goal to the Awesome Socks Club. The coffee is ethically sourced from Colombia via the brothers' sourcing partner Sucafina. In August 2022, Hank Green reported that the Awesome Socks Club had over 40,000 subscribers and the Awesome Coffee Club had over 10,000 subscribers. A third subscription, called "Sun Basin Soap", was announced in April 2023. These products were brought under the common branding and website of "Good.Store" in August 2023.

Appearances and other projects
On January 1, 2017, Green began a YouTube series titled "100 Days" in collaboration with his friend Chris Waters. The pair endeavored to get fit and establish healthy habits, while avoiding emphasis on weight loss. Near the end of the effort, Green fundraised for a 10K charity run for Exodus Refugee Immigration, an Indianapolis-based refugee resettlement organization.

At the end of 2018, John Green chose to leave social media for a year, including Twitter, where he had more than 5 million followers. In January 2019, Green wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post on his decision, saying, "I had noticed over the past couple of years that my attention had become more fractured. I found it harder to lose myself in a book, for instance, without feeling the urge to check my phone or open my laptop." Green created a TikTok account in 2020, which has over 2 million followers and 48 million views. In December 2022, Green left Twitter in response to the policy changes made after Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter.

Green is a frequent lecturer and moderated discussion host. In March 2019, Green moderated a discussion with former First Lady Michelle Obama on her memoir Becoming as part of a YouTube-sponsored event titled "BookTube". In April 2019, Green recorded a live version of the podcast Harry Potter and the Sacred Text at the Indianapolis Central Public Library. Green gave a virtual commencement address to all graduates in May 2020 during the beginning months of the COVID-19 pandemic. In October 2022, Green gave the opening lecture at Harvard University's 2022 William Belden Noble Lecture series, titled "How the World Ends".

Anti-tuberculosis advocacy
Green became a member of the board of trustees for Partners in Health in 2022.

In mid-2023, Green was a leading figure in a successful campaign to persuade pharmaceutical company Johnson & Johnson (J&J) to allow generic versions of the tuberculosis drug bedaquiline to be produced, allowing increased global access to the drug. In May, Green published an op-ed in The Washington Post on the subject. A deal with the Stop TB Partnership was formed after J&J's evergreening of the patent received public backlash from an awareness campaign started by Green in June; J&J stated they had decided to allow generics to be produced the month prior. Two months later, Green urged Cepheid, an American molecular diagnostics company owned by Danaher Corporation, to lower the cost of the cartridges used in their GeneXpert machines to $5, hoping to save lives by giving more people access to early detection of tuberculosis. The pressure campaign was again partially successful, with Danaher reducing the price of one of the most critical tests by one-fifth and committing to make no profit on the sale of that test to lower and middle income countries.

On September 22, 2023, Green attended, and briefly spoke at, a high-level United Nations meeting on tuberculosis. Green is working on a nonfiction book on tuberculosis he expects to be released in 2025. He described the book in February 2024 as "a history of human responses to tuberculosis intertwined with a contemporary story of one person's experience." In March 2024, the Green brothers announced that they and their families were pledging $1 million a year through 2027 alongside $10 million provided by USAID and $11 million matched by the Department of Health in the Philippines to address tuberculosis in the Philippines. That same month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) named John Green a 2024 "TB Elimination Champion" and he published another op-ed in The Washington Post on the need for greater access to tuberculosis diagnostics in poorer countries.

Other efforts
In January 2023, John and Hank announced that Crash Course would be offering college courses on YouTube, in continued partnership with Arizona State University and Google, with the project's main goal being to lower the monetary barriers to receive college credit.

In May 2023, Hank announced he had Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects the lymphatic system. While Hank received chemotherapy and recovered, John took over Hank's role as CEO for their companies DFTBA and Complexly. Laura Joukovski took over the role of CEO at DFTBA in August 2023, and Julie Walsh Smith took over the role of acting CEO at Complexly in October 2023.

Green had announced in December 2017 that a film adaptation of Turtles All The Way Down was in development by Fox 2000 and Temple Hill Productions. In May 2018, Green confirmed that the film adaptation would be written by Isaac Aptaker and Elizabeth Berger, the screenwriters for Love, Simon. In January 2019, it was announced that Hannah Marks would direct the movie. After Fox 2000 was closed as part of the acquisition of 21st Century Fox by Disney, the film was put on hold. In March 2022, it was announced the film had switched studios to New Line Cinema and would be released on the streaming service HBO Max. The film, starring Isabela Merced, began filming in April 2022. Green and Rosianna Halse Rojas served as executive producers. Turtles All the Way Down was released on Max on May 2, 2024. Green makes a cameo appearance in the film as Mr. Adler, a gym teacher at the protagonists' high school.

Books
All of Green's books have received positive critical reception and appeared on the New York Times Best Seller list. Green's books have been translated into 55 languages with more than 50 million copies in print worldwide, including The Fault in Our Stars, which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Green's idiosyncratic voice and rapid rise to fame in 2014 are credited with creating a major shift in the young adult fiction market. While reviewing the Andrew Smith young-adult novel, Winger, A. J. Jacobs of The New York Times used the term "GreenLit" to describe young adult books that contain "sharp dialogue, defective authority figures, occasional boozing, unrequited crushes, and one or more heartbreaking twists." According to The Wall Street Journal, "[s]ome credit him with ushering in a new golden era for contemporary, realistic, literary teen fiction, following more than a decade of dominance by books about young wizards, sparkly vampires, and dystopia. A blurb or Twitter endorsement from Mr. Green can ricochet around the Internet and boost sales, an effect book bloggers call 'the John Green effect'." Zareen Jaffery, executive editor of Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers said: "What I really like about what people are calling 'the John Green effect' is that there's more of an interest in authentic, genuine, relatable characters." Some readers and authors have been critical of the terms. Green himself voiced his disagreement with the idea that he is single-handedly responsible for launching or promoting any one individual's career.

Critics have also noted Green's evolution as an author. With the release of the Turtles All the Way Down in 2017, several reviewers referenced a dismissive perception of Green's now very popular œuvre as "sad teen books", which had emerged since the success of The Fault in Our Stars. Despite this, they praised Turtles All the Way Down as truthful and authentic enough to transcend these imagined drawbacks. Matt Haig of The Guardian wrote, "[Turtles All the Way Down] often dwells in cliché, but only as pop songs and epic poems do, mining the universal to create something that speaks to the familiar rhythms of the heart. It might just be a new modern classic." Likewise, with the release of The Anthropocene Reviewed book in 2021, Scott Neumyer of Shondaland wrote that, "Green may have made his name by writing fiction (and for good reason), but this first foray into nonfiction is his most mature, compelling, and beautifully written book yet."

Green has received criticism for his perceived writing of "Manic Pixie Dream Girls", a term coined by Nathan Rabin to describe a female character that, "exists solely in the fevered imaginations of sensitive writer-directors to teach broodingly soulful young men to embrace life and its infinite mysteries and adventures". Paper Towns and the character of Margo Roth Spiegelman have often been cited as a deconstruction of the "Manic Pixie Dream Girl" trope, and Green has stated he specifically wrote her as such. In October 2022, Green tweeted, "I think basically all criticisms of my work are correct and justifiable other than the most popular one, 'he writes manic pixie dream girls,' which is just so stupid. [...] THE WHOLE POINT OF THE NOVELS is the danger of such misimagining, hence the eventual revelation: 'Margo was not a miracle. She was not an adventure. She was not a fine and precious thing. She was a girl.' It's not like I made it subtle." Despite this, some critics have questioned whether the story adequately deconstructed the trope, or merely perpetuated it. Green has readily discussed what he believes to be flaws in his novels when he looked at them in retrospect. Additionally, in response to a fan's tweet, Green apologized for using the word retarded in Paper Towns, stating, "Yeah, I regret it. At the time, I thought an author's responsibility was to reflect language as I found it. Still, now... eight years later, I don't feel like a book about humanizing the other benefited from dehumanizing language."

Book banning
Several of Green's books have been the subject of book banning attempts. Looking for Alaska was named the most challenged book of 2015 by the American Library Association, with some people complaining about the book's "offensive language" and "sexually explicit descriptions". In September 2022, a group of parents attempted to ban the novel from all Orange County, Florida, school libraries, a district Green had attended as a child.

In August 2023, The Fault in Our Stars was removed from the young adult section at a library in the Indianapolis suburb of Fishers, Indiana, and moved to the general collection after a policy decision was made by the library's board that targeted "language about sexuality and reproduction, profanity and criminal acts." Green responded with a letter to the board, stating the library should "walk this awful policy back and allow the real experts to decide where to shelve my books and those of my colleagues." A Twitter post he made stating, "You Won't Catch Me Alive or Dead in Fishers, Indiana" was turned into a t-shirt by a local clothing company, with proceeds being donated to the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library. After the move received significant attention, the board decided to move the novel back to the Young Adult section, later suspending the policy responsible all together. In October, Green discussed book banning at an event hosted by Indiana State Senator Andrea Hunley at the Indianapolis Central Library.

In November 2023, Green joined a lawsuit by Penguin Random House, the Iowa State Education Association, and fellow authors Laurie Halse Anderson, Malinda Lo, and Jodi Picoult, against the state of Iowa over a new law that banned books that depict sex acts from schools.

Online ventures
As John and Hank Green began uploading YouTube videos regularly in 2007, they became part of the early culture of YouTube as the modern content creator industry was born from the YouTube Partner Program. The New York Times noted John as having "[an] uncanny knack for channeling the voice of marginalized but smart, self-identifying nerds, a gift he has turned into a YouTube empire." Many others have come to regard the brothers and their YouTube empire as pioneering in the online video space. In 2011, The Daily Dot named the Green brothers as the most important people on YouTube.

The Vlogbrothers' content has received positive reception from commentators and fans, especially for the shared values expounded by their videos. Amelia Thomson-Deveaux writing for The American Prospect commented that, "what makes Nerdfighteria so potent does seem to be the moral imperative that the Brothers Green throw at their bajillion viewers' feet: to take their weirdness and anxiety and turn it into empathy. It's become kind of a culture." The Crash Course project has also been successful in its reach, with the John Green-hosted "World History" series alone having attracted millions of viewers.

Personal life and interests
Green is married to Sarah Urist Green, with whom he has two children. John and Sarah met when they both attended the same preparatory school in Indian Springs, Alabama. They became reacquainted eight years later in Chicago, when Green began dating Sarah's boxing partner; after they broke up, John became friends with Sarah. The two became engaged in April 2005 and married in May 2006. In early videos on the VlogBrothers channel, Sarah is referred to as "the Yeti" due to her not appearing visibly on camera, though she no longer is referred to as such.

Green was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and has lived there since 2007. The city has served as the setting for several of his novels, and he wrote a review of it in his podcast and book of essays The Anthropocene Reviewed. Green often speaks of his love for the city. On July 14, 2015, Greg Ballard, the mayor of Indianapolis, proclaimed that that day would be "John Green Day" in his city. That month, Teresa Jacobs, the mayor of Orange County, Florida, declared that July 24 would also be John Green Day.

Green is an Episcopalian Christian, and was married in a Catholic church. Green is an avid sports fan. Green drove the pace car at the 2016 Grand Prix of Indianapolis, and was honorary co-chairman of the 500 Festival Host Committee that year. He is also a supporter of the English football club Liverpool F.C. of the Premier League and an official sponsor of the English League Two club AFC Wimbledon. Starting in 2011, Green had a gaming series on YouTube where he played FIFA, first as the "Swoodilypoopers", a fictionalized version of Swindon Town F.C., and then, starting in 2013, as the "Wimbly Womblys", a fictionalized version of AFC Wimbledon. Advertising revenue from the series was donated to the team.

Books

 * Looking for Alaska (2005)
 * An Abundance of Katherines (2006)
 * Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances (2008) – with Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle
 * Paper Towns (2008)
 * Will Grayson, Will Grayson (2010) – with David Levithan
 * The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
 * Turtles All the Way Down (2017)
 * The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (2021)

Short stories

 * "The Approximate Cost of Loving Caroline", Twice Told: Original Stories Inspired by Original Artwork (2006), illustrated by Scott Hunt
 * "The Great American Morp", 21 Proms (2007), edited by David Levithan and Daniel Ehrenhaft
 * "Freak the Geek", Geektastic: Stories from the Nerd Herd (2009), edited by Holly Black
 * "Reasons", What You Wish For: A Book for Darfur (2011)

Other

 * Cocktail Party Cheat Sheets (2006), Mental Floss gift book for which Green served as an editor and contributor
 * Scatterbrained (2006), Mental Floss gift book for which Green served as an editor and contributor
 * What's the Difference? (2006), Mental Floss gift book for which Green served as an editor and contributor
 * Thisisnottom (2009), an interactive novel hidden behind riddles.
 * Zombicorns (2010), an online Creative Commons licensed zombie novella.
 * The War for Banks Island (2012), a sequel to Zombicorns, released as a Project for Awesome donation perk.
 * The Sequel (2012), an unfinished novel, much of which was reworked into The Fault in Our Stars. The first 6,000 words were released as a Project for Awesome donation perk.
 * Space and The Cat and the Mouse (2013), stories released as Project for Awesome donation perks
 * An Imperial Affliction (2014), extracts used as a prop in the film adaptation of The Fault in Our Stars and later released as a Project for Awesome donation perk.
 * This Star Won't Go Out: The Life and Words of Esther Grace Earl (2014), by Esther Earl, Wayne Earl, and Lori Earl, introduction by John Green
 * My Drunk Kitchen (2014), by Hannah Hart, foreword by John Green
 * The Golden Rule: Deluxe Edition (2019), by Ilene Cooper, foreword by John Green
 * The Shortest History of Our Universe: The Unlikely Journey from the Big Bang to Us (2022), by David Baker, foreword by John Green

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Template talk:Infobox U.S. college admissions

Impetus for creation
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Higher education § Admissions figures tables. {{u| Sdkb  }}  talk 04:59, 17 August 2020 (UTC)

Discussion around launch
You are invited to join the discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Higher education § New template available for admissions statistics to replace the awful tables. {{u| Sdkb  }}  talk 04:59, 17 August 2020 (UTC)
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Qualitative character of admission rate
From my research, it looks like a lower admission rate is usually associated with an increase in applications, which itself reflects an increase in demand, and that this is a qualitatively positive indicator (even though it is not necessarily correlated with "getting a good education"). Is that not correct? Bsherr (talk) 20:03, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

 * It certainly is a associated, but in order to say that something is "good" in wikivoice, which is what green/red effectively does, we need to meet a pretty high bar, and I'm not sure if "associated" meets that — the information displayed is the admit rate, not the total applicants number (or a direct measure of demand). If I recall correctly (maybe @ElKevbo or someone else can recall better), there was also a feeling that admission rates can be easily manipulated (e.g. by encouraging lots of subpar applicants so you can reject them) and that we didn't want to imply that it means more than it actually does or non-neutrally endorse the admissions rat race.  Sdkb  talk 20:29, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

 * Why does the yield rate meet the bar but the acceptance rate does not? --Bsherr (talk) 20:35, 24 April 2024 (UTC)
 * A higher yield rate is a more direct indicator of an institution's attractiveness. One way to think about it: Every college would say publicly that a high yield rate and high SAT stats is a goal of their admissions process. But many fewer would say publicly that they strive for a low admission rate, and the ones with more scruples about the toll the admissions process takes on kids won't even strive for it privately.
 * All that said, this isn't something I feel the most strongly about — when I initially created the template I coded it as green/red before changing my mind. Others may, though; I know @Robminchin commented about the choice. If we'd like to discuss this further, it might be good to run an RfC or something more high-visibility to attract more voices, given that it'll ultimately impact every U.S. college article once the rollout of this template is complete.  Sdkb  talk 20:58, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

 * Yeah, my understanding is that application numbers are somewhat easy to manipulate, at least in the short term. We can really see that when you look at application numbers change when an institution joins the common app, making it really easy for thousands of people to apply.
 * I also worry that we're getting near OR-territory by emphasizing things that aren't emphasized by many scholars and experts. I recommend taking a look at the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education to get a good view of what some prominent higher ed scholars think is important in terms of understanding institutions in common, comparable ways. The organization that now manages the classifications, the American Council on Education, is also planning to make changes to the classification system next year so you can learn more by looking at what they're planning to do and what has been written about their plans. ElKevbo (talk) 21:53, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

Inaccessible font size
User:Sdkb, is there a way accommodate your concerns here without contravening MOS:SMALL? Bsherr (talk) 20:23, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

 * The font size for infoboxes is 88% of the normal font size for the page. reduces it to 85% of that, or about 75%. That goes a little beyond the recommendation at MOS:SMALL, but it's still a clearly readable size, and I think the concern about maintaining a clear visual hierarchy, where the current more significant data is given visual prominence over the less important historical data, should IAR take precedence over the concern that some readers might find it too small.  Sdkb  talk 20:44, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

 * I respectfully disagree. I do not see a compelling reason to ignore MOS:SMALL in this template. ElKevbo (talk) 21:54, 24 April 2024 (UTC)

 * It fails the WCAG 2.0 AA standard, which is the basis for the guideline at MOS:SMALL. So I guess what I am asking is, surely there is another way to maintain a clear visual hierarchy that doesn't discriminate against the visually impaired, right? --Bsherr (talk) 03:15, 25 April 2024 (UTC)


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Monique Albuquerque

Monique Albuquerque (born 11 September 1991) is a Brazilian former professional tennis player.

A right-handed player from Porto Alegre, Albuquerque represented the Brazil Cup team in a total of four ties, across 2009 and 2010. All of her appearances were in the doubles rubbers partnering Roxane Vaisemberg, with the pair winning three of their four matches together. She played on the professional tour until 2011, securing six ITF doubles titles.

From 2013 to 2015, she played varsity tennis for the Miami Hurricanes at the University of Miami.

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Sagenopteris williamsii

Sagenopteris williamsii is an extinct pteridosperm (seed fern) that is known from the late Jurassic and Early Cretaceous strata of the western interior of North America. It was first described as Chiropteris williamsii by J.S. Newberry in 1891, based on specimens from the Great Falls coal field in Montana. In 1956, it was referred to Sagenopteris by W.A. Bell based on additional specimens from western Canada.

Description
Sagenopteris williamsii had four or more palmately arranged, ovate to obovate leaves, each up to 10 cm long and 10 cm wide. They had a petiole, anastomosing venation, and a midvein that thinned toward the apex.

Distribution and age
Leaves of S. williamsii have been reported (as Chiropteris williamsii) from the late Jurassic strata of the Morrison Formation in western Montana. In Canada, they are known from the Jurassic Hazelton Group of north-central British Columbia, the Early Cretaceous Blairmore and Luscar Groups of western Alberta, and the Early Cretaceous Bullhead Group of northeastern British Columbia.

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Noun

 * 1) a ditch supplying water to a paddy field
 * 2) the rear part of the upper of a shoe
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Talk:Serial Programming

Scope
First, all of the items in the table of contents are good topics-- but this book would be HUGE. I'm going to create a Serial communications bookshelf, because I think we need to create several volumes; among them:

Basic Serial Communications
This volume should contain only the basics of serial data communications (and I mean the BASICS-- synchronous, asynchronous, parity, basic RS-232 protocol, and that's it) along with some demo code that will work between two PCs with a null modem cable. The goal should be to avoid overwhelming a novice C programmer who suddenly has to talk to "something on a serial port".

Advanced Serial Communications
This volume should contain stuff that's going to come up for anything beyond simple applications. Cabling limitations should be discussed (why only 50 ft. at 19.2Kbps? capacitance! etc.) Baud rate detection and other advanced concepts go here.

Practical Modem Communications
Should contain that gigantic Hayes AT command set reference we've come up with, along with descriptions and specs for XModem, YModem, YModem-G, ZModem, and, of course, Kermit. Should also cover ASCII/ANSI translation issues. Basically, BBS nostalgia time!

Serial Communications for Microcontrollers
This should cover the implementation of serial communications facilities on microcontrollers that are taken for granted on PCs-- UARTS, FIFOs, etc.-- and should try not to re-cover ground from the previous books. I suggest the PIC16F84 as a micro with a UART, and another Microchip part without a UART to cover implementing one, as reference source code for both cases is available from Microchip.

There is obviously potential overlap here with, say, "Advanced Microcontroller Programming" or "PIC Microcontroller Programming" or whatever we have/will have. ll

Universal Serial Bus Technical Manual
This will take a while, but there's more than enough source material. Should cover cabling, protocol, building small devices around USB "glue" chips and micros, writing basic host-computer drivers, etc. I suggest a simple USB-based LCD controller as the demo project.

I have started writing about the USB technology. It may take a while and I need help. --Grich 09:48, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Serial ATA Technical Manual
Ouch. Not very many people on the planet have the background to discuss implementing both sides of a Serial ATA chain-- the controller and the drives. We need contacts at Seagate or SerialATA.org for this one...

I'll modify this more soon, no doubt...

-- Breakpoint 26OCT2004

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Breakpoint (and others),

I have not "abandoned" this book... I've just had some real life issues come up that have pulled me away. Also, I was working on the 8250 UART programming section where it just wasn't flowing the way I wanted it to work. Instead I'm going to try and rewrite that section almost from scratch or try to see what I can get fixed on it. This is the fundimentals of modem communication as well, so really does fall into a major subsection.

I had an original outline that was more to what I originally wanted to accomplish here, but it appears as though there are some others who want to add more to general serial programming in other areas. Much of this added material sort of broke up my outline, so the general structure of this book is suffering right now. That is fine, and certainly I feel that these other topics need to be added, it is just that the book needs to be reorganized a little bit as well.

A direction I wanted to get more into was serial packet communication as well. This was the "core" of what I really wanted to write about, but there is some preliminary information I wanted to get in first, such as raw RS-232 serial communicaion. Eventually I want this to move on to general low-level network communications done over serial data links, as a teaching tool to explain network concepts that normally get taken care of by a Network Interface Card, but can be done "manually" by software that can be written by an undergraduate or even high school student. Perhaps a modified version of this original book I intended should be on the serial data "bookshelf" as one of several books available.

Rob Horning 14:50, 13 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Microcontroller reference?
I am interested in very simple communication schemes -- ones that will run on the tiny microcontrollers that I can buy for less than US$ 2.

I hope that this WikiBook becomes a reference for people who are developing new protocols -- so they can understand *why* previous protocols do it that way, so they can (a) keep the good parts of those protocols, things that turn out to be the best possible way of doing something, while (b) avoiding the icky things in current protocols that turned out, in retrospect, to be bad ideas. Everyone who designs a new ad hoc protocol seems to slam into the same sorts of pitfalls.

A nice reference on RS-232 and RS-485 might be nice; perhaps even extend to USB and FireWire and EtherNet.

-- DavidCary 05:42, 19 Jun 2004 (UTC)

Serial Reference Data sheets
There are some reference materials available for RS-232 communication, but they are both proprietary (involve copyrights) and are reference orientated, which is a lousy way to try and learn a subject. I would like to add an appendix section to this Wiki book that goes over the items discussed as more of a reference work, as that also has value once you learn the information.

Other things I think would be useful would be the 8250 software specs (the typical UART chip on PCs), 8259 programming (the PIC controller and more info about what goes into it), and a similified explaination of TCP/IP packets, compared to the packet systems I'll be showing in these articles.

Right now I'm trying to find a few images that I can use legitimately to show DB-9 and DB-23 male and female plugs.

Rob Horning

other mechanical connectors
I see you've added pictures to Serial Programming:RS-232 Connections. Very nice. Would it be OK to add other mechanical connectors to that page, or should we use a different page ?

Other mechanical connectors:
 * Last week I saw a cable with the standard 9 pin RS-232 plug on one end, and what looked like a stereo jack on the other end to plug into a digital camera.
 * Many people use 2 pins (usually the outer 2 pins) of 4 pin RJ-11 telephone plugs for RS-485 serial communication (AppleTalk)
 * Is there a standard for connecting the TX, RX, GND of RS-232 to the 4 pins of a RJ-11 connector ? Paul Campbell says "I wired the GND to the yellow line, TXD to the black line and RXD to the red line." http://www.taniwha.com/~paul/fc/ass2.0.html
 * I have a cable with the standard 9 pin RS-232 plug on one end, and a tiny connector (2 mm pitch) to plug into my HP calculator on the other end. (Exactly like http://www.engr.uvic.ca/~aschoorl/faq/48faq-12.html and http://www.area48.com/makeacable.html ... not the http://net.supereva.it/enrico.freeweb/cable49g.htm version).

--DavidCary 03:26, 12 Jul 2004 (UTC)

I don't have any problem with trying to add any other connectors. I believe a "DB-15" connector may also have some value.

--Rob Horning

RS-232 on RJ11
The #1 problem with the RJ-11 connector is that it is not even remotely standardized regarding what wires are used for what RS-232 pin values. There are some interesting problems with hooking up an RS-232 line through a home phone network, however. The suggestion that you are making here to connect using a two-wire serial connection (transmit and ground, or ignoring ground altogether) would have some interesting value, as most homes (at least in the USA) are wired with a 4 wire phone system, but usually only two wires are in use with the other two "reserved" for a second phone line. With FCC regulation changes basically granting control of the phone system to the home owner, you are pretty free to do what you want on your phone system, as long as it stays within your home. If it goes on to another building, it starts to get a little more messy in a legal sense. Even more outside the USA.

I would like to propose that we "establish" an RJ-11 wiring standard, if we can't get one that even looks remotely common. This group of wiki pages could even get something simple going that could even be submitted as an RFC, and we could demonstrate that this does have an affect on the internet, so it would be a legitimate fourm for submitting a standard. Much sillier standards are submitted as RFCs, such as IP over carrier pidgeon or the Twelve Nights of the Enterprise (like the Twelve Days of Christmas). This has some real value because it is something that is openly useful and has practical applications. I especially like RJ-11 for RS-232 because it is a very easy wiring system to implement for a home hobbist, and can be used as a "backup network" for normal RS-232 systems. Even better, wouldn't it be nice to have an RJ-11 connector act as a serial connector for a laptop or PDA? Certainly it would be easier to implement than using a traditional male DB-9 connector.

--Rob Horning

The #1 problem with the RJ-11 connector is that it is not even remotely standardized

Not for RS-232. However, it *is* standardized for RS-485 -- The AppleTalk / LonTalk standard.

RS-485 is a small improvement on RS-232 -- most RS-232 equipment (such as my Hayes modem) can directly connect to most RS-485 equipment (such as my Apple Macintosh), with the right adapter cable.

I agree that discussing and proposing standard for RS-232 on RJ11, here in this wikibook, could be useful.

Should we make an article listing the various ways to connect RS-232 to a RJ11 connector ?

--DavidCary 02:46, 15 Aug 2004 (UTC)

 * The "8051 Board" at http://www.ustr.net/offers/index.shtml uses a RJ11 for its RS-232 connector. (Unfortunately I can't tell from the schematic http://www.ustr.net/offers/board1diags.shtml which pin connects to RX, which pin connects to TX, which pin connects to GND, and to what, if anything, the other pin is connected).

 * RJ-11 connector: Paul Campbell says "I wired the GND to the yellow line, TXD to the black line and RXD to the red line." http://www.taniwha.com/~paul/fc/ass2.0.html

it *is* standardized -- how does the w:LonTalk standard compare to the w:LocalTalk standard ? ... See w:RJ-11 for the exact pins used by LocalTalk ... --DavidCary 02:12, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

I just discovered that there *is* a EIA/TIA standard for RS232 on RJ45. Added it to Serial Programming:RS-232 Connections. --<IP_ADDRESS> 18:17, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

TODO

 * First thing to do: Create a real list of things to do.

 * http://johnscloset.net/ has some good stuff about Ethernet networking. It says "Copyleft: This site was created to be useful to people, and I have no commercial interests in it. Feel free to take what you need from this site. I'd appreciate being credited." Should I copy it here, or is there a better wikibook or other wiki more appropriate for basic home networking ?

 * http://hardwarebook.net/ has many obscure serial cable and other cable information. It says "Copyright © The Hardware Book Team 1996-2004. May be copied and redistributed, partially or in whole, as appropriate." Has anyone contacted these people for permission to copy big chunks of it here? --DavidCary 02:12, 19 May 2005 (UTC)

related Wikibooks
(Moved from the main page and placed there anonymously):

The difference between is ... um ...
 * Serial Programming:RS-232 Technical Manual
 * Programming:Serial Data Communications

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I'm going to remark that this difference is mainly because of the following:

 * The two "wikibooks" were written (or at least started) by different authors.
 * They have differnet goals in mind (reference vs. tutorial)
 * Would be complimentary.

This wikibook is a mess right now, partly because there have been a bunch of "cooks" trying to go at this with no coherant strategy. I'm going to try and push forward now that I have a little bit of time on my hands, and get a couple more chapters done. Rob Horning 11:10, 28 May 2005 (UTC)
 * As one of the 'crocks' who contributed a lot of stuff I have just decided that I will leave you and your wikibook alone. You don't want contributes, you won't get contributions from me. Follow your coherent strategy and vision as much as you like. Hint: If you don't want to be disturbed, don't place your oh-so-coherent stuff on a wiki. <IP_ADDRESS> 10:01, 12 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * I did not suggest that nobody should contribute. The point here was that modules have been added that don't fit in with the flow of the book itself.  It is never my intention anyway to delete anything unless it is obvious spam (subjective, I know) or a substantial rework is done to expand what is said or to fix grammar issue.  That is called editing.  If something is added here that I don't like, I may move it to the serial programming bookshelf directly, but keep in mind that my opinion is as valid as anybody else's.  I am suggesting that before you start a completely new module, to at least read through what has already been done, read the introduction and goals of this wikibook (this is rather substantial), and try to make it fit in with this as a book you might see published in a dead tree format.  Not all of the added content to this wikibook so far meets that standard, IMHO (and that is my opinion).  BTW, I would consider that to be good guidelines for editing just about any Wiki module/article, and try to tread lightly before understanding the community that is putting the content together.Rob Horning 16:31, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I think it might be a good idea to try to merge a couple of half-finished wikibooks, ending up with a three-quarters-finished wikibook. I agree that it's a good idea to distinguish "reference" from "tutorial". But perhaps that would be easier done by breaking the list of chapters on the index page into "introduction", "tutorial", and "advanced reference" sections. I stuck in some "merge" suggestions. If no one objects, I'll start merging them together. (It will be easy enough to split them back apart if we decide it's really too big for a single wikibook, right ?) --DavidCary 16:54, 23 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * Thanks DavidCary. I came up with this wikibook as an initial concept and started to write content, but it appears as though there is a need to develop more kinds of material for serial data programming.  I love the more general serial data communication bookshelf idea (started by Breakpoint) and I think it could be used better.  The question as I see it is what should be put into the bookshelf as separate items and what could be used in this tutorial?  If this main page is going to be the jumping off point, perhaps it needs to be reworked a bit more.  As a book, I would like this to be (at least as a possibility) something you can thumb through in a dead-tree format as well.  Wikibooks is not Wikipedia, even if the interface looks largly the same. Rob Horning 16:31, 24 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Removing "Stub" Status for the main page
I know that Breakpoint was "concerned" that this set of pages was abandoned, but I hope that the idea of this being abaondoned has been dispelled for at least the moment. My concern at the moment by advertising that this is a work in progress is that it tends to attract vandals and others who are merely intent on random changes rather than trying to read the structure and trying to make something that fits into this book.

For this reason I have removed the stub warning and call for articles. Users can still edit here, and I am encouraging others to help participate, but don't rub in my face (as well as all the other contributors here) that this is a tough, complex, and very technical subject that is going to take time to write material for. I expect that this will take another year or two before it is completely written, and even then there are going to be some changes.

In addition, calling this front page a "stub" is totally wrong. While some sub-modules can correctly be called a stub, as an introduction and table of contents it shows exactly what it is, the introduction to a large wikibook. I feel that this introduction is complete with the vision I have for this book, and while there are some changes that can be made, this is more style than substance.

I do like the % completed remarks that show off how much of the module has been written. I want to keep those marks on the page, and keep them updated as parts of this wikibook get completed.

If there are contributions that you (who are reading this talk page) or anybody else wants to make, please feel free to add to them here. I've tried very hard not to edit or remove anything on here... even obvious vandalism, without reviewing it first and seeing if it is appropriate to be placed here. I may do some moving around of content in the future as I get some more modules completed, particularly when they don't fit into the overall motif of this book I've been trying to work toward. Even then, I'm going to try and keep that content here on Wikibooks in some manner, although it may be moved to another collection of pages.

Rob Horning 13:33, 31 May 2005 (UTC)

Merging with Serial Bookshelf
I think it is a simply stupid idea all around. This is a book, not a bookshelf. I actually supported the idea of a full bookshelf for serial programming, and this book is cluttered with a number of topics like the USB technology and serial ATA hard drives that really merit their own seperate Wikibooks.

I have a roadmap and plan for this book, and that roadmap can be disputed and changed. That is fine. Just don't turn this into a Wikiproject conglomeration and a dumping ground for a bunch of stubs that a bunch of deletionists want to get rid of. Besides, I'm still writing more content even now, and it is progressing along on a snails pace, but I am adding a little bit of content everyday.

IMHO, this move to dump the content is going to destroy the flow and feel of this Wikibook. I don't mind other people working on the stuff I'm writing, but please read the introduction, title page, and a couple of completed chapters before you start dumping other stuff here. Try to harmonize any other additions with the rest of this book and not just throw random stubs around that seem like they need a home.

In short, if the Serial Bookshelf gets merged into this Wikibook, I'm going to have no choice but to make another bookshelf or dump the contents onto the Computer Science bookshelf where perhaps they really do belong. --Rob Horning 04:13, 5 November 2005 (UTC)

 * I have removed the merge notices. See Talk:Serial communications bookshelf. --Kernigh 03:22, 6 November 2005 (UTC)

Book renaming
I am proposing that this book be renamed from its present Programming:Serial Data Communications name to simply Serial Data Communications, with the rest of the modules having a similar renaming occur. If there aren't any objections to this, I'm going to perform this change within a week. Most of this is to conform to the spirt of WB:NP, but there may be other directions we can go as well. I do propose to keep the colon naming convention between modules, and as this is a "grandfathered" book as per the naming policy, it is not against policy to keep this naming format. --Rob Horning 11:33, 5 March 2006 (UTC)

 * Since there has been no major objection, I'm going to go ahead and do some page renaming. I'm still going to preserve the colon naming convention, as it is "grandfathered" in as per WB:NP.  That and I fail to see why the colon naming convention is "illegal" on Wikibooks.  --Rob Horning 14:22, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Windows ?
There isn't a section on serial port communications using the Windows API.. I'm curious why.

 * Time. Only time and effort.  I plan on writing it fairly soon to be honest.  --Rob Horning 16:02, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

DE9F
I'm amused to see that the connector picture is labled DE9F. I understand the historical context: I'm just not sure about the relevance of that label to this article. Is this the right place for the re-definition of reality on historical lines?

Is that picture actually of a DE9F (a particular part number), or it it really an anonymous '9 pin serial female' connector? If it really is a DE9F, it needs to have a company name associated with the part number. If it has been discontinued under that part number, it needs to have dates. Arcane part numbers are meaningless without a company name.

I tried briefly to look it up: http://www.arrownac.com/ has lots of components described as DB9F, but none described as DE9F. I'm sure that if I looked hard enough, I could find someone willing to sell me a 'DE9F', but that's not really the point is it?.

(david)<IP_ADDRESS>

 * There is generally a dash: DE-9. The 'F' means female. Many people erroneously call it a "female DB-9" which is technically incorrect, but since nobody ever puts just 9 pins in the larger DB-size shell it doesn't cause confusion. --<IP_ADDRESS> 00:31, 26 November 2006 (UTC)

yet another serial protocol
I thought I was pretty up-to-date on the variety of serial protocols in use, so I was stunned to stumble across yet another serial protocol that I'd never heard of: http://locobuffer.com/ mentions the "LocoNet" system used in some model railroads. --DavidCary 07:44, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

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estasiare

Etymology
From.

Verb

 * 1)  to send into raptures, to enrapture, to entrance, to delight

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Portal talk:Board game design

chess game
Would the chess games from WP:Esperanza go here?--Rayc 00:08, 22 November 2006 (UTC)

page: Game_Critiques
Hi, I have added some text here, see also discussion. I think we can do a collaboration with the course software testing. If you have some time, feedback would be nice. --Erkan Yilmaz 12:51, 18 December 2006 (UTC)

Dice!
Our own little die-roller. How cute. The Jade Knight 20:29, 18 July 2007 (UTC)

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Puff

Etymology 1
, analogous to 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  thud, wham; light, harmless blow

Etymology 2
from the sound of the dice shaker hitting the ground.

Noun

 * 1)   a kind of dice game, anterior to backgammon

Etymology 3
From the dice game, from disguising idioms like „zum Puff gehen“ actually meaning going to a brothel.

Noun

 * 1)   brothel, whorehouse, bordello

Etymology 4
From the sense “thud, wham” understood as a whoosh forming a bulge, and in the sense “cushion seat”, the “laundry basket” apparently not present in French but extended in German from the broad sense in French of any textile heap.

Noun

 * 1)  puff, a bulge in drapery
 * 2)  a kind of beanbag chair, a large cushion ball used as a seat,
 * 3)  laundry basket,
 * 1)  a kind of beanbag chair, a large cushion ball used as a seat,
 * 2)  laundry basket,
 * 1)  laundry basket,
 * 1)  laundry basket,

Etymology 5
, hence often italicized and written with minuscule in early occurrences, and probably also sharing the English pronunciation.

Noun

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Organic Chemistry/Foundational concepts of organic chemistry/History of organic chemistry

Atomic Structure >

Brief History
Jöns Jacob Berzelius, a physician by trade, first coined the term "organic chemistry" in 1806 for the study of compounds derived from biological sources. Up through the early 19th century, naturalists and scientists observed critical differences between compounds that were derived from living things and those that were not.

Chemists of the period noted that there seemed to be an essential yet inexplicable difference between the properties of the two different types of compounds. The vital force theory, sometimes called "vitalism" (vital means "life force"), was therefore proposed, and widely accepted, as a way to explain these differences, that a "vital force" existed within organic material but did not exist in any inorganic materials.

Synthesis of Urea
Friedrich Wöhler is widely regarded as a pioneer in organic chemistry as a result of his synthesizing of the biological compound urea (a component of urine in many animals) utilizing what is now called "the Wöhler synthesis."

Wöhler mixed silver or lead cyanate with ammonium nitrate; this was supposed to yield ammonium cyanate as a result of an exchange reaction, according to Berzelius's dualism theory. Wöhler, however, discovered that the end product of this reaction is not ammonium cyanate (NH4OCN), an inorganic salt, but urea ((NH2)2CO), a biological compound. (Furthermore, heating ammonium cyanate turns it into urea.) Faced with this result, Berzelius had to concede that (NH2)2CO and NH4OCN were isomers. Until this discovery in the year 1828, it was widely believed by chemists that organic substances could only be formed under the influence of the "vital force" in the bodies of animals and plants. Wöhler's synthesis dramatically proved that view to be false.

Urea synthesis was a critical discovery for biochemists because it showed that a compound known to be produced in nature only by biological organisms could be produced in a laboratory under controlled conditions from inanimate matter. This "in vitro" synthesis of organic matter disproved the common theory (vitalism) about the vis vitalis, a transcendent "life force" needed for producing organic compounds.

Organic vs Inorganic Chemistry
Although originally defined as the chemistry of biological molecules, organic chemistry has since been redefined to refer specifically to carbon compounds — even those with non-biological origin. Some carbon molecules are not considered organic, with carbon dioxide being the most well known and most common inorganic carbon compound, but such molecules are the exception and not the rule.

Organic chemistry focuses on carbon and following movement of the electrons in carbon chains and rings, and also how electrons are shared with other carbon atoms and heteroatoms. Organic chemistry is primarily concerned with the properties of covalent bonds and non-metallic elements, though ions and metals do play critical roles in some reactions.

The applications of organic chemistry are myriad, and include all sorts of plastics, dyes, flavorings, scents, detergents, explosives, fuels and many, many other products. Read the ingredient list for almost any kind of food that you eat — or even your shampoo bottle — and you will see the handiwork of organic chemists listed there.

Major Advances in the Field of Organic Chemistry
Of course a chemistry text should at least mention Antoine Laurent Lavoisier. The French chemist is often called the "Father of Modern Chemistry" and his place is first in any pantheon of great chemistry figures. Your general chemistry textbook should contain information on the specific work and discoveries of Lavoisier — they will not be repeated here because his discoveries did not relate directly to organic chemistry in particular. Berzelius and Wöhler are discussed above, and their work was foundational to the specific field of organic chemistry. After those two, three more scientists are famed for independently proposing the elements of structural theory. Those chemists were August Kekulé, Archibald Couper, and Alexander Butlerov.

Kekulé was a German, an architect by training, and he was perhaps the first to propose that isomerism was due to carbon's proclivity towards forming four bonds. Its ability to bond with up to four other atoms made it ideal for forming long chains of atoms in a single molecule, and also made it possible for the same number of atoms to be connected in an enormous variety of ways. Couper, a Scot, and Butlerov, a Russian, came to many of the same conclusions at the same time or just a short time after.

Through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth, experimental results brought to light much new knowledge about atoms, molecules, and molecular bonding. In 1916 it was Gilbert Lewis of U.C. Berkeley who described covalent bonding largely as we know it today (electron-sharing). Nobel laureate Linus Pauling further developed Lewis' concepts by proposing resonance while he was at the California Institute of Technology. At about the same time, Sir Robert Robinson of Oxford University focused primarily on the electrons of atoms as the engines of molecular change. Sir Christopher Ingold of University College, London, organized what was known of organic chemical reactions by arranging them in schemes we now know as mechanisms, in order to better understand the sequence of changes in a synthesis or reaction.

The field of organic chemistry is probably the most active and important field of chemistry at the moment, due to its extreme applicability to both biochemistry (especially in the pharmaceutical industry) and petrochemistry (especially in the energy industry). Organic chemistry has a relatively recent history, but it will have an enormously important future, affecting the lives of everyone around the world for many, many years to come.

<< Foundational concepts| History of Organic Chemistry | Atomic Structure > | Alkanes >>


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2017 Phoenix Mercury season

The 2017 WNBA season was the 21st season for the Phoenix Mercury franchise of the WNBA. The season began on May 14.

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title: 2017 Phoenix Mercury season


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dysdiadochokinesia

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) The impairment of the ability to perform rapidly alternating movements.

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