John Green returns to the show to talk about tuberculosis — a disease that kills more than a million people a year. Steve has an idea for a new way to get treatment to those in need. <ul><li>SOURCES: <ul><li><a href="https://www.johngreenbooks.com/">John Green</a>, best-selling author and YouTube creator.</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>RESOURCES: <ul><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Everything-Tuberculosis-Signed-Persistence-Deadliest/dp/0525426051">Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection</a>, by John Green (2025).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/03/21/tuberculosis-deadliest-curable-disease-tests-john-green/">The Deadliest Infectious Disease Isn’t a Science Problem. It’s a Money Problem</a>," by John Green (The Washington Post, 2024).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D-gxaie6UI">The Deadliest Infectious Disease of All Time</a>," by John Green (Crash Course, 2024).</li><li>"<a href="https://nerdfighteria.info/v/tSC06P9A5W4">Barely Contained Rage: An Open Letter to Johnson & Johnson</a>," by John Green (Vlogbrothers, 2023).</li><li>"<a href="https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w28168/w28168.pdf">Designing Advance Market Commitments for New Vaccines</a>," by Michael Kremer, Jonathan D. Levin, and Christopher M. Snyder (NBER, 2020).</li><li>"<a href="https://scholar.harvard.edu/files/sendhil/files/are_ceos_rewarded_for_luck_the_ones_without_principals_are.pdf">Are CEOs Rewarded for Luck? The Ones Without Principals Are</a>," by Marianne Bertrand and Sendhil Mullainathan (The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 2001).</li><li>"<a href="https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5150491/">A Further Communication on a Remedy for Tuberculosis</a>," by Robert Koch (The Indian Medical Gazette, 1891).</li></ul></li></ul> <ul><li>EXTRAS: <ul><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/his-brilliant-videos-get-millions-of-views-why-dont-they-make-money/">His Brilliant Videos Get Millions of Views. Why Don’t They Make Money?</a>" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2025).</li><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/update-sendhil-mullainathan-thinks-messing-around-is-the-best-use-of-your-time/">Sendhil Mullainathan Thinks Messing Around Is the Best Use of Your Time (Update)</a>," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).</li><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/update-john-greens-reluctant-rocket-ship-ride/">John Green’s Reluctant Rocket Ship Ride (Update)</a>" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).</li><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/rajiv-shah-never-wastes-a-crisis/">Rajiv Shah Never Wastes a Crisis</a>," by People I (Mostly) Admire (2024).</li><li>"<a href="https://freakonomics.com/podcast/theres-so-many-problems-which-ones-can-i-make-a-difference-on/">'There’s So Many Problems — Which Ones Can I Make a Difference On?'</a>" by People I (Mostly) Admire (2022).</li><li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Anthropocene-Reviewed-Signed-John-Green/dp/0525555218">The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet</a>, by John Green (2021).</li><li><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-anthropocene-reviewed/id1342003491">The Anthropocene Reviewed</a> (podcast).</li><li><a href="https://nerdfighteria.com/">Nerdfighteria</a>.</li><li><a href="https://tbfighters.org/">TBFighters</a>.</li></ul></li></ul>

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