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Dark matter and a possible worst-case scenario for physics
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- Dark matter and a possible worst-case scenario for physics
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- 1:10
- Date posted
- 18 hours ago
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- It’s possible that dark matter may only interact gravitationally, which would be a worst-case scenario for physicists. Journalist Joseph Howlett explains why on this week’s episode of Unexplainable, available on Netflix or wherever you get your podcasts.
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- The anonymous online doxxing campaign targeting women in college
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- 1:38
- Date posted
- 19 hours ago
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- Maddie Kowalski’s life was turned upside down when someone shared intimate, non-consensual images of her on the internet last November. Now, she’s fighting to hold the men who humiliated her accountable. Listen to the entire episode of Today, Explained wherever you get your podcasts.
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- China is optimistic about AI
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- In China, over 83% of citizens believe that AI products bring more benefits than drawbacks. In the US, that number is just 39%. In other words: China is a lot more optimistic about AI.
President Trump and Chinese President Xi are set to meet this week in Washington and AI security is among the big topics of discussion. But how will the two countries see eye-to-eye on AI and its future if their approaches to the technology are so drastically different?
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- How AI can help with science
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- 1:49
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- Researchers are increasingly using AI to aid in scientific research and medical care, potentially improving a healthcare system often viewed as flawed and inaccessible.
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- Mehdi Hasan on what moderate Democrats misunderstand about Gaza
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- 1:46
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
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- For some voters, the war in Gaza is about more than foreign policy. Mehdi Hasan joins Vox’s Astead Herndon to explain how politicians’ positions on Israel have become a test of their independence, credibility, and willingness to stand up for their constituents.
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- Why Maine is the abortion rights movement’s biggest test of 2026
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- 2:23
- Date posted
- 2 days ago
- Description
- Sen. Susan Collins (ME-R) cast the pivotal vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh in 2018. He then helped overturn Roe v. Wade four years later. Now she’s battling for her Senate seat in the upcoming midterm against Democrat Troy Jackson, and abortion rights groups are betting that voters haven’t forgotten how she contributed to the fall of Roe.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/e/503317
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- What the media gets wrong about Israel | America, Actually
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- 33:15
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
- Description
- Mehdi Hasan says his MSNBC show being canceled was the greatest thing that could have happened to him. As the founder of Zeteo, he argues that independent journalism gives him the freedom to speak plainly about topics traditional newsrooms struggle to cover, and that the media’s approach to Israel and Gaza has damaged its credibility with audiences.
In this episode of America, Actually, Vox’s Astead Herndon talks with Hasan about public trust in the news, how journalists respond to President Donald Trump’s attacks on the press, and the relationship between independent media and rising progressive candidates. They also discuss why Israel has become more than a foreign policy issue for some voters, and what those tensions mean for the Democratic Party.
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- Is science trying to tell us we don’t know everything?
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- 1:06
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
- Description
- Will we ever fully be able to understand science? Probably not. On this week’s episode of Unexplainable, journalist Joseph Howlett and host Noam Hassenfeld discuss why science is like religion — we’ll likely never have all of the answers. Watch the full episode on Netflix or wherever you get your podcasts.
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- This is how you rule the world | The Gray Area
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- 54:30
- Date posted
- 3 days ago
- Description
- What should a college teach? How to think? How to find a career? How to be a good citizen? What about how to acquire money, influence, and power?
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In today’s episode, guest host Bryan Walsh speaks to journalist and writer Theo Baker about his investigation into Stanford University, where Baker was an undergrad student at the time. He entered the school as a bright-eye freshman, eager to build a career in tech. He left disillusioned by the school’s culture. His book reveals an insidious relationship between Silicon Valley and Stanford, where power, money, and success are prized higher than ethics, education, and the wellbeing of students.
Guest Host: Bryan Walsh, Senior writer, Coefficient Giving
Guest: Theo Baker, author of How to Rule the World: An Education in Power at Stanford University
00:00 Intro
02:06 Stanford: myth vs. reality
05:56 The ‘Stanford inside Stan...
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- How deportations changed Latinos’ minds on Trump
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- 1:18
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
- Description
- New numbers show that 62% of Latinos now think that Trump wants to deport undocumented immigrants broadly, which is up 26 percentage points from where voters were at the election. But why didn’t they think so in 2024?
Co-founder and president of Equis Research, Stephanie Valencia, explains on this week’s episode of America, Actually. Watch here on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts.
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- Why Latino voters have turned on Trump | America, Actually
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- 30:07
- Date posted
- 5 days ago
- Description
- Latino voters have often been called a "sleeping giant" in US politics, but Equis Research co-founder Stephanie Valencia says that’s wrong: they’re a "swinging giant.” This dynamic, independent-leaning electorate is actively redefining national politics. And now, many of the Latino voters who helped propel President Donald Trump to the White House in 2024 are having second thoughts.
In this episode of America, Actually, Vox’s Astead Herndon breaks down the dramatic decline in Trump’s approval rating among the group, the myth of the "monolithic" Latino vote, and how unforced errors in Spanish-language campaigning can leave crucial swing voters on the table. Later, Colorado congressional candidate Manny Rutinel discusses how he’s campaigning in a 40% Latino battleground district.
00:00 The Latino vote swings back
02:04 Latinos should be known as a “swinging giant”
04:34 Where campaigns go wrong
08:57 Why Trump’s approval rat...
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- How the Real Housewives are redefining women over 50
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- 1:47
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
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- The Real Housewives franchise turned 20 this year. And the show’s depiction of older women both thriving and faltering has given the American public a more nuanced view of women over 50.
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- How a crucial battleground candidate is rethinking AI safety
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- 1:29
- Date posted
- 6 days ago
- Description
- “Whether it's data centers or artificial intelligence, I wanna make sure that there are guardrails in place so that technology works for humans, not the other way around.”
Colorado congressional candidate (D) Manny Rutinel talks to Vox’s Astead Herndon about the role data centers and AI play in his campaign. Watch this week’s episode of America, Actually here on YouTube or listen wherever you get your podcasts on Saturday.
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- How to remove AI from your life
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- 2:17
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
- Description
- Good news — you can make tiny adjustments to your tech to take some AI out of your everyday routine. Vox’s Adam Clark Estes gives a few tips on how to de-AI your life.
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- Why even the best aquariums can’t give animals what they need
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- 1:38
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
- Description
- Three beluga whales recently died at Chicago’s Shedd Aquarium. It speaks to a larger issue — animals in captivity can’t get what they need to thrive. Vox’s Kenny Torrella explains how the conditions can be “torturous” for highly intelligent and social beluga whales.
Read more: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/502874/beluga-whales-marineland-shedd-aquarium
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- How do you pray when you don’t believe in God?
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- 2:03
- Date posted
- 7 days ago
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- There’s an unexpected power to prayer, even if you don’t believe in God. The key to unlocking these benefits? Honest speech. Casper ter Kuile writes about this and more in his monthly Vox column, Soul Searching.
Read it and become a member today: https://www.vox.com/advice/491643/how-to-pray-when-you-dont-believe-in-god
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- Could this be the cure for Alzheimer’s disease?
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- 1:32
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
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- In the US, there are only two FDA-approved drugs that can actually slow the progression of Alzheimer’s. In China, a promising new experimental surgery seems to improve the symptoms of Alzheimer’s in patients who’ve had it for years.
On the Today, Explained podcast, we look at what this means for Alzheimer’s treatment.
https://www.vox.com/the-highlight/501710/alzheimers-disease-dementia-test-treatment-medication-infusion
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- The Macklemore controversy rocking Ed Sheeran’s tour
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- 2:44
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
- Description
- Ed Sheeran’s tour is facing a major shakeup after Macklemore was removed from the remaining US dates following pro-Palestinian comments onstage.
Now, several other opening artists are walking away from the tour in solidarity — putting Sheeran at the center of a larger debate over political speech, artistic freedom, and whether major artists can truly remain apolitical.
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- Title
- Is it possible that we are sharing the same stories?
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- 0:48
- Date posted
- 8 days ago
- Description
- Can a story show us that we are all more connected than we ever thought? This week, on Unexplainable, host Noam Hassenfeld tries to track down the oldest story in the world.
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- Title
- Why don’t AI companies just slow down?
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- 1:39
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
- Description
- CEOs like Sam Altman and Elon Musk agree that this whole AI thing might be moving a little too fast. The problem? Nobody wants to slow down first. Every company is afraid a rival will race ahead. Meanwhile, President Trump’s fear is getting lapped by China on this stuff. So who will make the first move?
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- Title
- Sydney Sweeney knows what she's doing
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- 2:04
- Date posted
- 9 days ago
- Description
- Sydney Sweeney bares it all in a new advertisement for Novig, a sports betting company in which she has an equity stake. The ad has sparked intense backlash online, with people saying that Sweeney is sexualizing women’s sports. But, is this uproar intentional?
The Cut news reporter Olivia Craighead explains how Sweeney likely knows exactly the controversies she’s causing.
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- The right’s anti-Muslim midterms strategy
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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- In recent weeks, we’ve seen the right’s revival of blatant anti-Muslim sentiment, from President Trump describing Democratic candidates as “jihadists” to Vice President JD Vance calling Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed “very, very evil.”
On Today, Explained, Vox correspondent Christian Paz speaks on why some Republicans have turned to this playbook to win the midterms.
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- How do you reconstruct an old story?
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- 0:43
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- Humans have been telling stories since time immemorial, but how do we keep track of them? It turns out that, just like biologists, anthropologists build family trees with themes and characters to figure out where stories came from and when.
On this week's episode, Unexplainable tries to see if we’ve found the oldest story in the world.
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- Is the path to parenthood becoming a luxury?
- Runtime
- 1:47
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- Anna Sussman, author of Inconceivable, sits down with The Gray Area guest host Christine Emba to discuss rising infertility rates and why access to reproductive care is still a lottery.
#FertilityCare #ReproductiveHealth #Parenthood #InfertilityAwareness #HealthcareAccess #WomensHealth
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- Will I ever want to have kids? | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 55:10
- Date posted
- 10 days ago
- Description
- Why does it feel so hard to start a family today? How much of that is truly a personal choice?
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In this episode of The Gray Area, guest host Christine Emba sits down with journalist Anna Louie Sussman to discuss her new book, Inconceivable: The Impossibility of Family in an Age of Uncertainty. Together, they look past the surface-level "cost of living" arguments to explore how economic volatility, climate anxiety, and the commodification of reproduction are reshaping the way millennials and Gen Z think about parenthood.
00:00 Intro
01:43 Generational uncertainty
03:34 Empowerment of choosing to parent
08:54 “Project me” and parenting
15:36 Structural infertility and climate anxieties
30:18 Financialization of fertility care
39:39 Is uncertainty pushing more people away from parenthood?
Guest Host Christine Emba, columnist and author
Guest: An...
- Title
- How to date in real life
- Runtime
- 1:42
- Date posted
- 11 days ago
- Description
- Dating doesn’t have to be a chore. On this week’s episode of Explain It to Me, host Jonquilyn Hall talks to dating coach Lily Womble about why she tells singles to ignore the traditional rules of dating in order to make it fun again.
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- Why some of California's billionaires are fleeing
- Runtime
- 1:13
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
- Description
- Californians are voting in November on a first-of-its-kind billionaire wealth tax. Some of the state’s richest are already voting with their feet.
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- Title
- Why 9/11 memes are everywhere
- Runtime
- 1:22
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
- Description
- A whole new generation is experiencing 9/11 – this time through internet memes. And thanks to AI and social media, what was once internet fodder hidden deep within emails and chat forums is now everywhere.
So how did this happen? Vox’s Today, Explained podcast explores why people joke about tragedies, and how that affects the way we process horrible events.
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- Five things you need to know for the 2026 midterms | America, Actually
- Runtime
- 30:41
- Date posted
- 12 days ago
- Description
- With the 2026 midterms fast approaching, we’re asking a simple question: What actually matters to voters right now?
In this midterm study guide, Vox’s Astead Herndon breaks down five forces shaping the election cycle. He examines the shifting foundations of both major parties—from Donald Trump’s rising unpopularity over inflation and foreign policy, to the ideological civil war within the Democratic base. Plus, Astead answers your questions about the growing influence of AIPAC funding, why "affordability" has become the central message for both parties, how data centers are triggering mass voter anxiety over the future of AI, and what Trump’s executive orders mean for the future of mail-in voting and election integrity.
America, Actually publishes video episodes every Saturday tackling key issues in politics, culture, and the economy. Subscribe to Vox’s YouTube channel to get them. Listen to episodes of America, Actually on Apple Podcasts, Spotify,...
- Title
- The new midlife crisis
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- The definition of a midlife crisis has changed.
It used to be about clinging to our youth, but now it’s about finally accessing "real adulthood." Amil Niazi, a columnist at The Cut, talks about the new midlife crisis on The Gray Area.
Listen to the full episode of The Gray Area wherever you get your podcasts.
#Midlife #Adulthood #ModernLife #GenerationalShift #LifeStages #Millennials
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- Title
- Election deniers on the ballot
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- President Trump loves to rail against mail-in voting. He also votes by mail himself. CNN’s Andrew Kaczynski explains why the bigger question for the 2026 election isn’t what election deniers might do if they lose, but what they could do if they win.
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- Title
- The truth behind the millennial "midlife crisis" | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 51:20
- Date posted
- 13 days ago
- Description
- Is "adulthood" a moving target? For millennials, hitting the milestones of the past—homeownership, secure careers, and financial independence—feels tougher than ever. We aren't just having our individual midlife crises; we are simultaneously navigating an economic, cultural, and existential crisis, too.
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Guest host Jonquilyn Hill sits down with Amil Niazi, columnist at The Cut, to explore why this stage of life feels so precarious. From the domino effect of the 2008 financial crisis and the collapse of the traditional career path, to the pressures of the "sandwich generation" — caretaking for both children and aging parents — we break down why the millennial experience is fundamentally different from generations past.
00:00 Intro
01:43 The millennial economic domino effect
04:50 Redefining adulthood
07:45 Quarterlife vs midlife crisis
14:04 Is it late-stage capitalism?<...
- Title
- Why you can’t walk anywhere in the US
- Runtime
- 1:41
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
- Description
- When you think about it, it’s pretty crazy that most places in the US aren’t walkable. And it turns out that many Americans agree with that sentiment. Vox’s Marina Bolotnikova explains why the US is built for driving and how some people want to see that change.
Read the full article: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/502209/america-cities-walkability-surveys
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- Title
- How Big Pork takes money from small farmers — then uses it to lobby against them
- Runtime
- 1:50
- Date posted
- 14 days ago
- Description
- Every time you buy bacon, ribs, or pork chops, some of that money may ultimately help fund one of Big Pork’s most powerful lobbying groups.
A new analysis of financial documents obtained by Vox found that since the early 2000s, the National Pork Board — which legally can’t use its funds for lobbying — has moved $66 million into the National Pork Producers Council, a lobbying organization.
Read the full story: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/499438/pork-checkoff-usda-board-producers-council
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- Title
- Why you should still send in your mail-in ballot
- Runtime
- 1:32
- Date posted
- 15 days ago
- Description
- There’s been a lot of confusion lately about mail-in voting, thanks in part to Trump targeting it and changes at USPS. But you should still “vote by mail. If you already have a mail ballot, like some people do, you should vote. The longer answer is that might not always be true. So if you want to vote by mail, do it quickly.”
Vox’s Zack Beauchamp explains that despite Supreme Court cases challenging mail-in voting, everyone should continue to vote by mail anyway.
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- Title
- Christians can fight back against Christian nationalism
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 16 days ago
- Description
- A religion scholar is getting increasingly worried about the odds of a white Christian nationalist takeover in the US. While panicked allusions to Nazi Germany have been a common occurrence in the Trump years, Robert P. Jones believes those references are warranted now.
Vox’s Christian Paz breaks down why this is: https://www.vox.com/politics/501931/christian-nationalism-nationalist-white-authoritarian-backslide-robert-jones-prri-christianity
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- Title
- How to be less neurotic | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 37:07
- Date posted
- 17 days ago
- Description
- If you could change anything about your personality, anything at all, what would it be? And why would you want to change it?
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Writer Olga Khazan spent a year trying to answer those questions, and documented the experience in her new book Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Personality Change.
In this episode, which originally aired in March of 2025, Sean speaks with Olga about the science of personality change, the work it takes to change yourself, and what makes up a personality, anyway.
00:00 Intro
02:16 What is ‘personality?’
08:07 Neuroticism and you
15:31 The ‘best’ personality
19:52 The science of personality change
29:57 Is being ‘well-adjusted’ always good?
31:38 Practical ways to make changes
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Olga Khazan, author of Me, But Better: The Science and Promise of Perso...
- Title
- Why isn't Congress doing more to protect America's food safety?
- Runtime
- 1:11
- Date posted
- 19 days ago
- Description
- This summer has been filled with food recall after food recall. The cyclospora parasite has caused some 30,000 illnesses. At other times in history, that would have sparked Congressional hearings and investigations. But not today.
Helena Bottemiller Evich, the founder and editor-in-chief of Food Fix, spoke to Vox about the recent recalls and what, if anything, the U.S. government can do to keep our food safe.
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- Title
- How to undo the damage of sitting all day | The Gray Area
- Runtime
- 41:50
- Date posted
- 20 days ago
- Description
- We’ve all heard that "sitting is the new smoking," but the research behind that phrase goes much deeper. How bad is sitting for you really?
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In this episode guest host Bryan Walsh is joined by Manoush Zomorodi — host of NPR’s TED Radio Hour and author of Body Electric — to explore how our sedentary, screen-filled lives are reshaping our physical health from the neck down. Manoush shares findings from her own clinical trial, where she partnered with scientists to determine the minimum amount of movement the human body actually needs to function.
Whether you're a desk jockey or a parent concerned about screen time, this conversation offers a practical, science-backed approach to reclaiming your physical health in a digital world.
00:00 Intro
01:57 The hidden cost of sitting
09:13 Kinking your body and brain
17:23 The active couch potato trap
21:18 What screens...
- Title
- Data centers can’t win on Earth. How about in space?
- Runtime
- 1:51
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- Americans really hate data centers. But would they be more in favor of them if they were in space? Maybe … But no one has figured out how to pull it off (yet), and it would come with its own set of trade-offs. You can find more stories like these by becoming a Vox Member and signing up for the Nice Things newsletter: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/501756/orbital-data-centers-space
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- Title
- Lindsey Clancy and the surprisingly simple solution to helping moms with postpartum depression
- Runtime
- 1:59
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- The trial of Lindsey Clancy, the mother accused of killing her three children in Massachusetts, has stirred conversation over the treatment of postpartum depression. While Clancy’s case is distinctly rare and involves potential postpartum psychosis, postpartum depression is remarkably common.
Vox’s Dylan Scott reached out to organizations across the country that are offering effective treatment with a simple approach: peer support from other women.
Learn more: https://www.vox.com/health/501565/lindsay-clancy-trial-postpartum-depression-psychosis
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- Title
- Why some of America’s wild horses are being slaughtered
- Runtime
- 1:35
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- Wild horses are an iconic fixture of the American West, yet every year the government rounds up thousands for adoption. But according to a recent New York Times investigation, some are sent to slaughter — a problem that's only getting worse under the Trump administration. Vox’s Kenny Torrella explains why.
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- Title
- The price of proving you’re an adult
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- Meta’s new teen-safety rules depend on knowing who’s under 18. That could mean ID checks, AI facial scans, and less online anonymity for everyone. WIRED senior writer Paresh Dave explains why protecting teenagers could also create new privacy and free-expression risks.
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- Title
- What happens when a blue state votes on trans sports?
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 21 days ago
- Description
- Twenty-seven Republican-controlled states have imposed measures to restrict trans athletes from playing in girls’ and women’s sports since 2020, but this November will be the first time voters have a chance to weigh in on the question directly. Ballot measures are appearing this year in Washington, Arizona, Colorado and Nebraska.
But Washington’s goes further than any other state in one key way: it would apply to all students seeking to play girls’ sports, not just athletes whose eligibility has been challenged.
The initiative, I-638, would require every girl to prove their sex assigned at birth, via “only one or more of the following: the student's reproductive anatomy, genetic makeup, or normal endogenously produced testosterone levels.”
Opponents — like Kelsey Gellner, Seattle-based pediatric nurse and board member for the Washington State Nurses Association — organizing under the NO HATE in WA State campaign, warn that the mo...
- Title
- People don’t believe in this science, yet
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- Some critics say synthetic biology’s promises are too utopian, or that the technology will not develop quickly enough to matter. Kate Adamala sees today’s early experiments differently: as the field’s version of the Wright brothers’ first flight.
On this week’s episode of Unexplainable, the University of Minnesota synthetic biologist explains why she believes the technology could advance faster than skeptics expect.
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- Title
- The mind games behind professional weightlifting
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- Professional weightlifting requires more than raw strength. Athletes get six attempts across the snatch and clean and jerk, and the weight they declare determines when they compete. Because that number can go up but not down, lifters can disrupt an opponent’s timing, play mind games, and even miss four attempts and still win with two big lifts. #weightlifting #olympics
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- Title
- Olympic weightlifting, explained
- Runtime
- 8:25
- Date posted
- 22 days ago
- Description
- Olympic weightlifting is defined by only two moves: the snatch and the clean and jerk. But behind what seems like a simple contest to see who can lift the most is a sport built on technique, speed, strategy, and psychology.
We speak to Matthew Tung, a competitive weightlifter who represents Hong Kong internationally, who breaks down how the lifts work, the strategy behind athletes changing their declared weights mid-competition, and how a lifter can miss four of their six attempts and still bring home gold.
In this video, we explore what it really takes to compete in Olympic weightlifting and what the rest of us can learn from athletes who have pushed strength training to the extreme.
Read more about professional weightlifting:
Weightlifting in Olympics: Everything you need to know https://www.olympics.com/en/news/weightlifting-olympics-rules-history-snatch-clean-and-jerk
A Guide to Competitive Weightlifting
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- Title
- Angie Nixon’s playbook to be Florida’s next senator | America, Actually
- Runtime
- 34:30
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- Florida state Rep. Angie Nixon overcame a 17-to-1 fundraising gap to win the state’s Democratic Senate primary. Can she score another upset victory in November?
In this special episode of America, Actually, Nixon joins Vox’s Astead Herndon to break down her primary win, her progressive policy stance, and her strategy to become Florida’s next US Senator.
00:00 How Angie Nixon pulled off a stunning upset
01:55 The grassroots strategy that powered her victory
03:38 Can progressive policies win statewide in Florida?
07:01 From union organizer to Senate candidate
11:06 Why progressives struggle to reach Black voters
14:35 Nixon on Israel, Gaza, and supporting BDS
16:39 Policing, public safety, DEI, and reparations
22:49 The Democratic establishment, DSA, and the socialist label
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- Title
- Why do people keep falling for scams?
- Runtime
- 1:52
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- Scams are as old as time. So how do people keep getting fooled? Because the fraud changes to match the most vulnerable issues of the moment.
Explain It to Me host Jonquilyn Hill takes a dive into the fraud case involving a man pretending to be on the San Francisco 49ers — and what it says about us as a society.
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- Title
- Scientific "unboxing" of a mysterious underwater world
- Runtime
- 1:06
- Date posted
- 23 days ago
- Description
- Down where the light starts to fade — between around 30 and 150 meters below the ocean surface — there are mysterious "mesophotic coral ecosystems," also known as "deep reefs."
These ecosystems are hard to dive down into, and therefore hard to study, so we still don’t know much about them. Like even what creatures live there.
To learn more, Luiz Rocha, a curator of ichthyology at the California Academy of Sciences, dove down into the depths in Palau, Guam, the Marshall Islands, and French Polynesia between 2016 and 2018 and left behind scientific devices known as ARMS (Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures).
Those structures spent almost a decade becoming encrusted with deep reef life, slowly turning into mini versions of the reefs themselves. Earlier this year, Rocha and colleagues from several institutions returned to Palau to retrieve the ARMS and unwrap them like scientific presents.
Vox's Byrd Pinkerton, host of the Unexpl...
