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Title: The Enduring Myth of Black Criminality
Runtime: 3:15
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: In his October cover story, Ta-Nehisi Coates explores how mass incarceration has affected African American families. "There's a long history in this country of dealing with problems in the African American community through the criminal justice system," he says in this animated interview. "The enduring view of African Americans in this country is as a race of people who are prone to criminality."

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Is Our Definition of Happiness Changing?

Title: Is Our Definition of Happiness Changing?
Runtime: 2:35
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of professors, psychologists, and journalists how people's definitions of happiness could be evolving. "I do think there's been a rise in materialistic sorts of values," says Eli Finkel, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University. "Those tend to be hard to reconcile with happiness." Other panelists include Tim Kasser, Susan Greenfield, Paul Bloom, and Suleika Jaouad.

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Tinder for Exercise: The Case for Workout Partners

Title: Tinder for Exercise: The Case for Workout Partners
Runtime: 5:11
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Working out with someone you perceive to be "better" than you has been found to lead to 200 percent increases in intensity and time spent exercising. That's not to mention the health benefits of social connection. In this episode of If Our Bodies Could Talk, senior editor James Hamblin and heavyweight boxer Jarrell "Big Baby" Miller use one of several new exercise-partnering services to test the psychology of conscious workout coupling.

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Does the Internet Threaten Creativity or Nurture It?

Title: Does the Internet Threaten Creativity or Nurture It?
Runtime: 2:56
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of people who work in media, design, and the arts if the Internet is inspiring or stifling. For Kelly Leonard, of the improv institution The Second City, the advantage of the Internet is open communication: "The Internet is all about dialogue. It is allowing us to talk to everyone all over the world," he says. "I did a Reddit this morning, and I talked to hundreds of people that I've never met in my life." Other panelists include Bran Ferren, Jane Chu, Maurice Ashley, Suleika Jaouad, Tim Brown, Anne Libera, Brian Grazer, and Lil Buck.

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Title: The Case for the 32-Hour Workweek
Runtime: 5:48
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Since 2006, Ryan Carson, the CEO of Treehouse, has maintained a four-day workweek for his employees. “There’s no rule that you have to work 40 hours, you have to work more to be successful,” says Carson. “We’ve proven that you can take it from an experiment into something that’s doable for real companies and real people in highly competitive markets.” Citing the benefits of a more flexible schedule, Carson believes that the reduced time in the office ultimately leads to an overall more productive work environment. But for Carson, his decision ultimately comes down to priorities. “It’s not about more family time, or more play time, or less work time—it’s about living a more balanced total life,” says Carson. “We basically take ridiculously good care of people because we think it’s the right thing to do.”

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Title: How to Stop Saying 'Screen Time'
Runtime: 3:09
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: News media are constantly panicking about the health effects of "screen time," but almost anything can be done on a screen. Is lumping them all together under one name–and issuing warnings and official recommendations–actually productive? In this episode of If Our Bodies Could Talk, James Hamblin discourages technophobic panic.

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Title: Can Technology Help Us Learn Better?
Runtime: 2:32
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of professors, engineers, designers, and journalists how tech has changed the ways we absorb information—if at all. "I think a big change is just the accessibility," says Khan Academy curriculum engineer Pamela Fox. "So, somebody who's just sitting at home has the ability to go online and learn." Other panelists include Tim Brown, Amanda Ripley, Jo Boaler, William Deresiewicz, and Anne Libera.

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What Will Our Planet Look Like in 100 Years?

Title: What Will Our Planet Look Like in 100 Years?
Runtime: 3:29
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of scientists, activists, academics, and filmmakers to envision what Earth would look like in a century. "We know that the oceans control weather patterns—we haven't got the foggiest idea still about how they're changing, but they're changing rapidly and dramatically," says the oceanographer David Gallo. "That's not good for humans, we don't like change and change is coming." Other panelists include Pete McBride, Louie Psihoyos, M. Sanjayan, Leilani Munter, Kathryn Sullivan, and Luiz Rocha.

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Title: Why America Needs a Slavery Museum
Runtime: 6:23
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The Whitney Plantation near Wallace, Louisiana, is the first and only U.S. museum and memorial to slavery. While other museums may include slavery in their exhibits, the Whitney Plantation is the first of its kind to focus primarily on the institution. John Cummings, a 78-year-old white southerner, has spent 16 years and more than $8 million of his own fortune to build the project, which opened in December of last year.

Cummings, a successful trial attorney, developed the museum with the help of his full-time director of research, Ibrahima Seck. The duo hope to educate people on the realities of slavery in its time and its impact in the United States today. “The history of this country is rooted in slavery," says Seck. “If you don’t understand the source of the problem, how can you solve it?”

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Title: What Can We Do to Be Happier?
Runtime: 2:59
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of professors, psychologists, and journalists what to do in order to feel more content. According to the writer Suleika Jaouad, people should learn to slow down a little: "We live in such a fast-paced world that's filled with so many exciting things happening all the time," she says. "But I find that the biggest challenge is really not trying to do all those things, and carving out spaces of time in your day where you can just do nothing." Other panelists include Pete McBride, Tim Kasser, Eli Finkel, Paul Bloom, Robert D. Putnam, and Jennifer Senior.

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The Rise of a Colorado Cannabis Entrepreneur

Title: The Rise of a Colorado Cannabis Entrepreneur
Runtime: 4:24
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Wanda James describes herself and her husband, Scott Durrah, as "serial entrepreneurs." They've owned restaurants, consulting companies, and they are the first African American dispensary owners in Colorado. However, the goal is more than just bringing pot to the people. In the mid-nineties, James became viscerally aware of the issues surrounding cannabis and the arrest of young black men when her brother was sentenced to 10 years for possession at the age of 17.

"The reason why my husband and I are in this industry is to bring light and awareness to the issues surrounding social justice," she says in this documentary produced by Kelly Loudenberg for The Atlantic's American Dreams series. "We have massive issues with the people who are arrested that look like us for simple possession." James and Durrah's dispensary is set to open at the end of 2015, and they also plan to open a marijuana cooking school next door.

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The Importance of Being Naked: Skin Cancer Check

Title: The Importance of Being Naked: Skin Cancer Check
Runtime: 3:35
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Melanoma is one of the most treatable forms of cancer when it's detected early. Still, it is among the leading causes of death by cancer, and mortality rates are no better than they were 20 years ago. In this episode of If Our Bodies Could Talk, James Hamblin undergoes a basic skin-cancer check.

Mount Sinai Health System is an underwriter of the 2015 Aspen Ideas Festival, which is a co-production of The Aspen Institute and The Atlantic. Mount Sinai Health System did not provide funding or input for this video.

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An Inmate's Take on Life in Maximum-Security Prison

Title: An Inmate's Take on Life in Maximum-Security Prison
Runtime: 4:19
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Joseph Norfleet is serving life in prison after missing his intended target in a drive-by shooting and killing a 9-year-old boy in 1994. In this video, Jeffrey Goldberg visits him in the Louisiana State Penitentiary to discuss his experience in prison and the prospect of rehabilitation. Goldberg tells Norfleet's story in more detail in "A Matter of Black Lives," in the September issue of The Atlantic.

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Title: Coming Soon: Inside Angola Prison
Runtime: 1:01
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: There are more than 6,000 men currently imprisoned at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola—three-quarters of them are there for life, and nearly 80 percent are African American. As Jeffrey Goldberg reports in "A Matter of Black Lives," in The Atlantic's September issue, Angola is the end of the line for many convicted criminals in Louisiana, which has the highest incarceration rate of any state in the U.S. In a forthcoming documentary from The Atlantic, we go inside Angola to speak with inmates serving life sentences and with warden Burl Cain, who has managed the prison for two decades.

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Can the New Orleans Mayor End Gun Violence?

Title: Can the New Orleans Mayor End Gun Violence?
Runtime: 4:53
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: About 6,000 African American men have been murdered in the city of New Orleans since 1980. As Jeffrey Goldberg writes in the September issue of The Atlantic, Mayor Mitch Landrieu has made it a priority to curb the violence. In this video, Landrieu speaks with Goldberg about his belief that black lives don't matter only when they're taken by police—they matter when they're taken by anyone.

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Title: Is the Criminal Justice System Broken?
Runtime: 3:33
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of senators, police commissioners, professors, activists, and authors to comment on the state of law enforcement in America. "This land of the free...now incarcerates more human beings than any other nation on the planet," says Senator Cory Booker. "Our criminal-justice system is really violating our values as a people." Other panelists include Ray Kelly, Tracey Meares, Clifton Kinnie, Ta-Nehisi Coates, and Bruce Western.

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Title: The Wanderlust of #Vanlife
Runtime: 12:35
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: In 2011, Foster Huntington created the #vanlife Instagram hashtag, and unexpectedly spawned hundreds of thousands of posts and a family of eager followers. It became a community of like-minded individuals who delight in the kind of adventure you can only get by traveling through the wilderness in a clunky, decades-old vehicle. In this documentary, we follow a group of #vanlife enthusiasts to uncover what the lifestyle means to them.

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Title: What Is Happiness?
Runtime: 2:35
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of professors, psychologists, and journalists how they would define happiness. According to Eli Finkel, a professor of psychology at Northwestern University, the definition is twofold: "It seems to me that happiness is some blend of experience of pleasure and the experience of meaning and fulfillment in life," he says. "I think much more of the latter than the former." Other panelists include Tim Kasser, Susan Greenfield, Brian Grazer, Paul Bloom, Suleika Jaouad, Robert D. Putnam, and Jennifer Senior.

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Title: A Brief Visual History of Booze
Runtime: 2:25
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Human ingenuity knows no bounds when it comes to making alcohol.

Here at The Atlantic, we're interested in the history behind things in everyday life—in this case, how humans have chosen to get intoxicated for thousands of years. The Mongols fermented mare's milk to make a drink called kumis, and the Aztecs drank pulque, a fermented agave sap. Chicha is corn beer that was a favorite of the Incans, and tonto is banana beer from Uganda. What could be next? Craft beer may be having its moment, but we're playing the long game.

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If You're Taking Youth For Granted, Try This Instant-Aging Suit

Title: If You're Taking Youth For Granted, Try This Instant-Aging Suit
Runtime: 5:04
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: James Hamblin wears a new exoskeleton that simulates the experience of being 75 years old in this episode of If Our Bodies Could Talk. Cool?

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Title: What Do You Do to Feel More Creative?
Runtime: 2:24
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: At this year's Aspen Ideas Festival, we asked a group of people who work in media and design to explain what they do to find inspiration. According to Tim Brown, the CEO of IDEO, it's important to avoid one thing: "Routine is what makes you not creative, I think. Routine causes you to stop asking questions." Other panelists include Kelly Leonard, Suleika Jaouad, Bran Ferren, Anne Libera, Brian Grazer, and JR.

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One Writer Tried Every 'Brain Enhancing' Product

Title: One Writer Tried Every 'Brain Enhancing' Product
Runtime: 4:43
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Writer Patricia Marx (Saturday Night Live, The New Yorker) tried every brain-enhancing product she could find. She tells James Hamblin about trading memory for wisdom in this episode of If Our Bodies Could Talk.

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Title: An Animated History of Transportation
Runtime: 2:33
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Ever since the first hominids left Africa, human beings have been on the move. The canoe was invented in 8,000 B.C. and the first form of public transportation was a stagecoach operated in Paris in 1662. Fast forward to today's self-driving car prototype, and it's clear just how far we've come.

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Title: Living Simply With a Flip Phone
Runtime: 4:48
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The promise of constant contact isn't good for all relationships. For Judith Goudsmit, a young New Yorker with no desire for a smartphone, the flip phone offers reprieve. She tells her increasingly rare story in this episode of If Our Bodies Could Talk with James Hamblin.

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Title: Housing Through the Centuries
Runtime: 2:17
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Throughout human existence, homes have varied drastically in scope, size, and design. Cob houses originated in the eleventh century, are made from straw and earth, and last for hundreds of years. In fact, people still make them today. We've come a long way from our cave-dwelling ancestors, however: This year, a house was printed for the first time. For around $160,000 you could print your own mansion in 2015.

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Ask a Tween: Could You Live Without Your Phone?

Title: Ask a Tween: Could You Live Without Your Phone?
Runtime: 1:49
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: In this episode of "Ask a Tween," we interviewed students at Alice Deal Middle School in D.C., who told us about their phone habits and pondered whether or not they could go without a cell phone. "If I didn't have something to communicate with my friends, it'd be harder to have a social life," says 12-year-old Ricardo Sheler. "It might be at certain times a little boring, because if you're stuck in the car you'd have nothing to do," adds 12-year-old Emma Berdy.

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How to Cook a Real Chicken Nugget (and Why)

Title: How to Cook a Real Chicken Nugget (and Why)
Runtime: 5:19
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: A group of chefs in New York is teaching public schools how to make healthier versions of classic lunches—using only the ingredients available in cafeterias. In this episode of "If Our Bodies Could Talk," James Hamblin learns one such recipe, the quintessential nugget.

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Ask a Tween: What Social Media Do You Use?

Title: Ask a Tween: What Social Media Do You Use?
Runtime: 2:01
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: In this installment of "Ask a Tween," we interviewed students at Alice Deal Middle School in D.C. about the types of social media they use. "Well I don't have a Vine but, like, most people have it," says 12-year-old Rashida White. "My favorite social media is Instagram because you get to connect with people and your friends and family."

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Title: Ask a Tween: What Is Dating Like?
Runtime: 2:40
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: In this installment of "Ask a Tween," we interviewed students at Alice Deal Middle School in D.C., who told us about what it's like to date in the seventh grade. "You could either be really chill with it or some people take it too far," said 12-year-old Ricardo Sheler. "I have friends who are boys, but I don't like any of them," added 12-year-old Alissa Simon. "They're all really immature."

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Title: A Brief Visual History of Weapons
Runtime: 2:18
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: From the axe, which originated in 1,000,000 B.C., to today's killer drones, mankind's use of weapons has been varied and incredibly inventive. Weapons have changed history and aided in the rise and fall of civilizations. For example, gunpowder, a Chinese invention, led to the development of cannons and guns—revolutionizing warfare in the Middle Ages and beyond.

Much of the research for this video came from the book A History of the World in 100 Weapons.

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Ask a Tween: What Advice Would You Give To Adults?

Title: Ask a Tween: What Advice Would You Give To Adults?
Runtime: 1:54
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: In this installment of "Ask a Tween," we interviewed students at Alice Deal Middle School in D.C., who told us how they would advise the adults in their lives. "I think sometimes we all feel like we're the center of everything," said 12-year-old Alissa Simon. "We need to, like, learn to get along with the people who we share our lives with."

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Title: A Rational Defense of Sleeping Alone
Runtime: 3:23
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Why is it so uncommon for couples to sleep in separate beds? Imagine a world where everyone sleeps well, because no one sleeps together.

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Ask a Tween: What's Your Favorite Emoji?

Title: Ask a Tween: What's Your Favorite Emoji?
Runtime: 1:34
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: In this installment of "Ask a Tween," students at Washington D.C.'s Alice Deal Middle School tell us about their favorite emoji. "Sometimes in chats, I'll spam the monkey symbol," Ricardo, a 12-year-old, says. "I call it a monkey spam. I don’t know why I do it, it’s…it’s weird."

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What ISIS Thinks of 'What ISIS Really Wants'

Title: What ISIS Thinks of 'What ISIS Really Wants'
Runtime: 5:34
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Graeme Wood sits down with Atlantic editor in chief James Bennet to discuss "What ISIS Really Wants," his groundbreaking cover story about the ideology behind the Islamic State. In the interview, Wood explains how he reported the story without visiting Iraq or Syria, how he tracked down sources across the globe—such as Musa Cerantonio, an Australian preacher reported to be one of the Islamic State’s most influential recruiters—and how they reacted after reading the story. "I just wanted to find out exactly what [Cerantonio] thought," Wood says. "The things that he wanted to tell the world were the things that I wanted to listen to."

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Title: Should the Jews Leave Europe?
Runtime: 20:34
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Atlantic editor in chief James Bennet moderates a discussion between national correspondent Jeffrey Goldberg and contributing editor Leon Wieseltier. Goldberg is the author of "Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?," the cover story featured in the April issue.

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Ask a Tween: What Does It Mean to Be Popular?

Title: Ask a Tween: What Does It Mean to Be Popular?
Runtime: 2:13
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: This is the second installment of The Atlantic's "Ask a Tween" series, where we ask tweens for their thoughts about pretty much everything. We interviewed students at Alice Deal Middle School in D.C., who told us what popularity means in 2015. Social media presence can have a big impact: "You're putting yourself on the web, so that allows people to see who you are, so in order to be popular people have to like you," says Rashida, a 12-year-old. However, "popularity at school is, like, different than overall or on Instagram," adds 13-year-old Dylan.

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Title: Our Incredible, Microscopic World
Runtime: 2:36
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Nikon announced the winners of the annual Small World in Motion competition on April 27. The photomicrography contest first introduced a video category in 2011, which includes digital time-lapse footage taken through a microscope. As a preview, they shared some of the finalists' videos from this year's competition with us, which we've edited together. More than than 130 entries were received this year, featuring remarkable footage that spans everything from embryonic mouse kidneys to a killer T cell engaging a cancer cell. Enjoy a trip into the microscopic world with this incredible footage.

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Title: The Joy of Learning French, Part Deux
Runtime: 2:13
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: After seven weeks of nothing but French, Ta-Nehisi Coates reflects on his summer of study and the benefits of learning another language.

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Title: How Do Trees Know When It's Spring?
Runtime: 3:45
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: It’s a warm, sunny day in April, and all the trees are in bloom. But how did they know it was warm and sunny? And on a warm, sunny day in February, what keeps them from blooming? Scott Aker, a horticulturalist at the U.S. National Arboretum, tells Robinson Meyer how the process works and what to look for.

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What's This Bone Broth People Are Drinking?

Title: What's This Bone Broth People Are Drinking?
Runtime: 6:08
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Carrying around a coffee cup full of hot meat stock is somehow cool, as James Hamblin learned when he visited Fleisher's Craft Butchery in Brooklyn. It may not have the health benefits some people believe, but it's an intriguing way to turn waste into profit.

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An Animated History of 20th-Century Hairstyles

Title: An Animated History of 20th-Century Hairstyles
Runtime: 1:54
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The history of hairstyles in the 20th century is a lively one, from the Gibson Girl's chignon to the conk, which was worn by musicians like Sam Cooke in the 1920s, to Lucille Ball's poodle cut, and of course, feathered hair made famous by Farrah Fawcett. It was a century of fast-paced fashions, made memorable by the identities showcased by hairstyle.

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Ask a Tween: What's Your Favorite Slang Word?

Title: Ask a Tween: What's Your Favorite Slang Word?
Runtime: 2:01
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: This is the first episode in a new series from The Atlantic, where we ask tweens for their thoughts on everything from middle-school jargon to what it's like growing up in the digital age. We interviewed students at Alice Deal Middle School in Washington, D.C., who shared some of their favorite slang words with us: swag, on fleek, and werk (with an "e"). "Sometimes slang words come out of famous videos or Vines," Max, a seventh-grade student, says. "It's social media," says Ricardo, another seventh-grader.

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Cryotherapy: The Dubious Appeal of Shooting -260º Nitrogen at Your Naked Skin

Title: Cryotherapy: The Dubious Appeal of Shooting -260º Nitrogen at Your Naked Skin
Runtime: 6:04
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: More and more people are trying cryotherapy. They believe freezing themselves helps treat an array of illnesses, but James Hamblin is doubtful. He visited Kryolife in New York City to see what the fuss is all about.

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The Absurd Psychology of Restaurant Menus

Title: The Absurd Psychology of Restaurant Menus
Runtime: 4:50
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Would people eat healthier if celery was called "cool celery?" James Hamblin investigates the logic of food names with Arthur Meyer, the co-author of FUDS: A Complete Encyclofoodia from Tickling Shrimp to Not Dying in a Restaurant.

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Title: Confessions of Moms Around the World
Runtime: 5:37
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: In some European countries, women get luxurious maternity leave, steeply discounted daycare, and flexible working hours so they can run to parent-teacher meetings in the middle of the afternoon. And yet, when I travel, I still encounter moms who feel stressed and under-appreciated. Meanwhile, in the developing world, I’ve met mothers living in difficult circumstances whose hopes and dreams for their children align pretty closely with those of middle-class Americans.

That made us curious about how geography and culture affect the experience of motherhood. We interviewed 10 moms living in various countries and asked them what it’s like to be them and what makes motherhood in their country unique. Their answers speak volumes about how our families and communities can influence the way we raise our children. And they might make American moms wonder whether they should really be jealous of Swedish women and their supposedly ultra-egalitarian husbands.

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Title: What Happens Inside a Dying Mind?
Runtime: 2:17
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: What makes a person believe that he visited heaven? Is there a way for science to get at what’s really going on? In the April 2015 issue of the Atlantic, Gideon Lichfield mounts an empirical investigation of near-death experiences, concluding that more rigorous research must be pursued to understand what happens in the minds of "experiencers," as they call themselves.

One thing is abundantly clear, though. Near-death experiences are pivotal events in people's lives. "It's a catalyst for growth on many different levels—psychologically, emotionally, maybe even physiologically," says Mitch Liester, a psychiatrist.

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Coming Soon: "Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?" by Jeffrey Goldberg

Title: Coming Soon: "Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?" by Jeffrey Goldberg
Runtime: 0:29
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: A sneak preview of our April cover story, which will be available online March 16.

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Title: How to Drive Without Texting
Runtime: 2:43
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: April is Distracted Driving Awareness Month. Plan ahead.

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Title: Why Principals Matter
Runtime: 6:23
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: Earlier this year, Nadia Lopez was ready to quit her job at Mott Hall Bridges Academy. Lopez founded the public middle school in 2010, hoping to provide educational stability to students in Brownsville, Brooklyn—the poorest neighborhood in New York City. Four years later, though, she worried her work wasn't influencing the community.

Then Vidal Chastanet, an eighth-grader at Mott Hall, was featured on the Humans of New York photo blog, where he praised Lopez as the most influential person in his life. "When we get in trouble, she doesn't suspend us," he said. "She calls us to her office and explains to us how society was built down around us." The post, which immediately vent viral on Facebook, was shared more than 145,000 times. Three days later, Stanton and Lopez started a fundraising campaign to send Mott Hall students to visit Harvard. The campaign attracted significant attention online, raising more than $1.4 million in just three weeks.

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Title: A Brief History of Contraception
Runtime: 2:00
Date posted: 12 years ago
Description: The use of contraceptives dates all the way back to 1850 B.C., when women in ancient Egypt used honey, acacia leaves, and lint to block sperm. This two-minute animation traces the history of contraception through the centuries, from sea sponges (500 B.C.), linen sheath condoms (1564), lemon cervical caps (1700), and the "rhythm method" (1920) to modern advancements such as vaginal rings, hormone injections, IUDs, and patches.

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