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Who will be Kamala Harris's VP? #shorts
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- Who will be Kamala Harris's VP? #shorts
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- 1:00
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- 2 years ago
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- Warning: Gretchen Whitmer erasure
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- The giant metal walls keeping London above water
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- 5:34
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- 2 years ago
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- They’ve kept London safe from floods since the ’80s. But there’s a problem.
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For most of the 20th century, Londoners along the Thames River faced a high risk of floods. Storms like the 1953 North Sea Storm resulted in the deaths of hundreds and the displacement of thousands of people, and spurred discussions on how to protect London from future disasters.
By the 1980s, engineers introduced a solution: the Thames Barrier. This impressive structure comprises multiple moving metal gates that can halt water flow during potential flood events. Since its creation, London has successfully avoided costly storm-related death and destruction, inspiring other coastal cities to model their defense systems after the Thames Barrier.
But today’s changing climate and rising sea levels are challenging the integrity of London’s anti-flood walls. From 1980 to 1990, the barrier was closed only four ...
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- Why the Earth is getting greener #shorts
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- 1:00
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- 2 years ago
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There’s a change happening to the planet that might sound counterintuitive at first: the Earth is getting greener. Over the last four decades, researchers have measured Earth’s overall color profile from satellite view, analyzing where the planet is “greening” or “browning.” In that time, the amount of green vegetation has increased dramatically. How did that happen?
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- Why do we have grass lawns?
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- 6:21
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- 2 years ago
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- Lawns aren’t natural. Why do so many Americans have them?
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Grass lawns are so ubiquitous in the US you would assume that they're the most natural and obvious choice for what to put in our yards. But turf grass is not only not native to the US, but it takes a lot of time, money, and resources to maintain.
Today, some cities are offering "cash for grass" programs and giving residents as much as $25,000 to replace their turf grass lawns with more environmentally sustainable options.
But some people still like green grass lawns and enjoy maintaining them, so what should they do? In this video we go through the multitude of options that yard owners have and talk to experts to see what they have to say.
Sources and further reading:
Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are by Paul Robbins
The Lawn: A History of an American Obsessio...
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- 3 scenarios for Biden dropping out #shorts
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- 1:00
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- 2 years ago
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- Can Paris fix its poop problem before the Olympics?
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- 8:06
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- 2 years ago
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- Paris’s bold Olympic promise to clean the River Seine.
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A key promise in Paris’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics was that its famous river, the Seine, would be cleaned up in time to host open water swimming events: the triathlon, para triathlon, and marathon swimming. But swimming has been banned in the Seine for a century because the Paris sewer system is designed to dump wastewater into the river during heavy rain, when the sewers get overwhelmed by stormwater.
When that happens, levels of E. coli, a bacteria associated with fecal matter, spike in the river, making it too contaminated to swim in. In order to make good on its promise to clean th...
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- Fireworks, explained
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- 1:00
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- 2 years ago
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If you’re in the US this July 4th, you’ll be seeing a ton of fireworks. But have you ever wondered how they make sure that each individual firework epxlodes into a distinct and creative shape? In this video, we explain how fireworks work!
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- The Future of AI is Open [Advertiser content from IBM]
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- 4:50
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- 2 years ago
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- AI is primed to change how we do business. With new open source initiatives including IBM Granite models and InstructLab, IBM aims to leave an imprint on the future of business.
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- What should an electric car sound like?
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- 5:18
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- 2 years ago
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- The driving sounds of EVs, explained by the designers who make them.
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For over a century, the internal combustion engine powered vehicles with an intricate combination of moving parts and tiny explosions. That combustion process inevitably made noise, and that noise came to define the background soundscape of our roads, cities, and day-to-day life. But as hybrids and EVs became increasingly mainstream — and more of their near-silent electric motors filled the streets — it became clear that silent vehicles didn’t fit in the ecosystem we’d built around cars.
Spearheaded by associations of the blind and visually impaired, legislation eventually began to require electric vehicles to emit an artificial engine noise out of hidden external speakers. These hidden speaker systems, called “Acoustic Vehicle Alerti...
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- Are headphones destroying our hearing?
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- 6:49
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Here’s how to protect your ears.
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I wear headphones every day. And if I’m at work, I have those bad boys on for nearly 8 hours straight. In a perfect world, I’m listening at a reasonable volume…but in reality it’s hard to know if that’s true. So when does loud become too loud?
The answer is: it’s really hard to tell.
According to the WHO, over a billion young adults are at risk of permanent, avoidable hearing loss due to unsafe listening practice.
While that sounds like a bunch of old people trying to suppress us young people from listening to our rock and roll the way we like it, it’s a scary statistic. It’s e...
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- The Earth is lumpier than you think #shorts
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- And it's because sea level isn't so level.
We covered the geoid and how to measure sea level in a longer video about Mt. Everest's height, here:
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- Most Americans are wrong about crime
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- 11:20
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- But they’re right that something has changed in American cities.
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In 2020 and 2021, amid a pandemic that wreaked general havoc on the social fabric of the United States, violent crime rose. Today, most Americans believe that crime in the US has come roaring back — maybe even to the levels of the 1980s and ’90s.
But a look at the data shows a very different story. Nevertheless, the feeling that our cities are less safe is at least partly coming from something real. Something has changed in American cities, particularly since the pandemic. So what’s different, and what is the truth about crime in America right now?
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- Why China is winning the EV war
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- 8:37
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- And what it means for US climate goals.
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The Biden administration set a climate goal that 50 percent of all new car sales in the US would be electric by 2030. Meanwhile, China reached that milestone this year, in 2024. This video explains how China was able to fast-track EV adoption and develop an EV battery that rivals what any other country has been able to do so far. It’s been a decade of government strategies that have created some of the biggest battery companies in the world, like CATL and BYD.
The Biden administration wants to keep Chinese cars and batteries out of the country — but our video explains what kind of position that puts the US in in terms of meeting its own climate goals.
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- You can help reverse the overdose epidemic
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- 8:12
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The case for why we should all be carrying naloxone.
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The fatal overdose epidemic in the US, which began in the 90s with increased overdoses on prescription opioids, finally looked like it was starting to take a turn in 2018. But then the covid pandemic hit, and amid increased isolation during lockdowns, fatal drug overdoses in the US skyrocketed, crossing 100,000 fatalities in a single year for the first time in 2021.
The main drivers of fatal overdoses over the last ten years are synthetic opioids, like fentanyl. Fentanyl is a highly potent narcotic that often gets mixed into the American drug supply to make drugs – ranging from heroin, to cocaine, to ad...
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- How screens actually affect your sleep
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- 6:39
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- It’s about more than just the blue light.
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We’ve all heard that using our phones before bed is bad for us, but do we actually know why?
One of the most commonly cited reasons is that our phone’s blue light is disrupting our ability to fall asleep. And study after study has shown that just changing the color of light, or turning on night mode or night shift, isn’t enough to counteract the effects of our screens. The truth is that color temperature is just one aspect of how our phone light is stimulating our brains. Sleep science suggests that the key to getting good rest is much more complex.
So if using night shift on our phones is not ...
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- Why can’t prices just stay the same? #shorts
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- If high inflation hurts just about everyone, why can’t we have no inflation?
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- Why can’t prices just stay the same?
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- 7:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- If high inflation hurts just about everyone, why can’t we have no inflation?
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Over the past few years, most of the world has experienced some pretty intense inflation, with prices rising as much as 10 percent in a single year. In 2024, even though inflation rates have fallen to more manageable levels, prices are still way up and are very unlikely to come down. Which, understandably, continues to be a source of major stress for people all over the world. So why can’t prices just stay the same?
As a consumer, steady prices and zero inflation seems like the ideal: You want your purchasing power to stay the same and for your dollar today to buy you exactly the same amount as your dollar tomorrow. But even...
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- How Uruguay became covered in artificial forests #shorts
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- How a 1987 law changed what Uruguay looks like from space.
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- Why does this forest look like a fingerprint?
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- 25:06
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- 2 years ago
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- We set out to solve why a forest in the middle of Uruguay looked like that — and wound up finding something much bigger.
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Deep in the geographic center of Uruguay, there’s a peculiar group of trees just a few kilometers down the road from the small town of San Gregorio de Polanco. From the ground, it's not particularly notable. But from above, the view is mind-boggling: Hundreds of trees are arranged in perfect concentric arcs, all spiraling toward the center. Together, they look remarkably like a human fingerprint.
When we first saw this forest in a Reddit post, we were fascinated. Why had the trees been arranged in this shape? Who planted them there? And why — when you zoom out on satellite view — was the entire country of Uruguay covered in similar-looking forests? To answer that question, we went straight to the source: interviewing locals, experts, and people whose lives have been shaped...
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- How AI tells Israel who to bomb
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- 9:14
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- 2 years ago
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- AI is supposed to help militaries make precise strikes. Is that the case in Gaza?
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Israel's war with Hamas, in response to the attacks of October 7, 2023, has led to more fatalities than in any previous Israeli war, with at least 34,000 Palestinians killed as of May 7, 2024. In Israel’s 2014 war in Gaza, just over 1,400 were killed. One factor in that difference is the use of artificial intelligence.
Israel’s incorporation of AI in warfare has been public for years through both defensive and offensive weapons. But in this war, AI is being deployed differently: It’s generating bombing targets. The promise of AI in a military context is to enhance strike precision and accuracy, but over the past few months Israeli outlets +972 magazine and Local Call have revealed that the multiple AI systems that help the IDF select targets in Gaza hav...
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- The debate over the Anthropocene, explained
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- 9:44
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- 2 years ago
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- Humans have changed the planet. Should that go on the geologic calendar?
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The word “Anthropocene” has gained cultural resonance in recent years, as it’s become clearer that humans have made an indelible — and destructive — impact on our planet. But it’s also a term with a specific technical meaning: an epoch, or geologic unit of time, named for humans.
In 2009, geologists first started investigating whether the Anthropocene should be formally recognized as part of the way we record geologic time. This video explains what happened next: how a team of scientists looked for the evidence to make their case, and what it means to consider human time as...
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- How payday loans become a debt spiral #shorts
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- 0:54
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- You need $500. How should you get it?
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- 6:45
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- The (bad) options for Americans facing an emergency expense.
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A 2023 Federal Reserve survey found that a third of Americans say that they don’t have the cash to cover a $500 emergency expense. So what happens if they need it?
In this video, we compare six of the ways Americans say they get money when they don't have it: credit cards, bank loans, borrowing from a friend or family member, payday loans, selling something, and going into overdraft. How difficult is each one to access? How does paying off each kind of debt work? And how much does each one cost down the line?
None of these options are great for someone who can’t pay an emergency expense. But some of them are a lot worse than others.
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- The lies that sell fast fashion
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- 7:45
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- You deserve better than Shein.
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There are countless articles and videos breaking down the abysmal labor practices, horrifying environmental toll, and overall mountain of waste produced by the fast fashion industry. Activists and even just large swaths of the general public have been raising the alarm about this for well over a decade, but it hasn’t stopped the rise of some of the worst offenders in the industry. For example, the ultra-fast fashion brand Shein has skyrocketed in value over the past five years largely due to their marketing success on TikTok. A lot of us know that fast fashion is bad, but the only way companies like Shein still thrive is if we convince ourselves otherwise and hit “add to cart” anyway. So why do we do it?
The answer is that e-commerce has completely warped our view of what items should cost and how long ...
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- How a solar eclipse warps colors #shorts
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- It's because of a visual phenomenon called the Purkinje effect.
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- Why the era of cheap streaming is over
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- 6:41
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Why we’re all paying so much more for Netflix, and what we can do about it.
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When streaming first came onto the scene, it seemingly came with a promise: the movies and TV that you love, without ads, for a much cheaper price than cable.
Less than 20 years down the line, it feels like that promise has been broken. Streaming is more expensive than ever, and prices just keep going up. Password sharing has been cracked down on, forcing more of us to pay to stream. And in the backdrop of all that, advertising is back with a vengeance, thanks to the rise of the cheaper ad-supported subscription tiers.
As a consumer, this feels infuriating. But we’re not entirely at the whim of these companies. So why is all this happening? And what can we do to not go broke while still enjoying our favorite shows?
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Previous title: Streaming got...
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- The moment Baltimore’s Key Bridge collapsed #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- Title
- What the Red Sea ship attacks are really about
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- 10:16
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- 2 years ago
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- Yemen's Houthis say they're avenging Gaza. But there's a lot more to it.
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After the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7, 2023, the Houthis, a Yemeni rebel group, began attacking ships passing through the Red Sea. The Houthis pledged to attack any ship in these waters that does business with Israel, to protest Israel’s war on Gaza and to show solidarity with Palestinians there. But as the attacks have continued, another motive for them has become apparent: strengthening the Houthis’ control of Yemen.
After a nine-year civil war, the Houthis today control a sizable area in Yemen, with over 70 percent of the Yemeni population within the group’s territory. The conflict has devastated the country, creating one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. More than 377,000 Yemenis have been killed — by airstrikes from a Saudi-led coalition; landmines and detonations planted by ...
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- Why it's hard for Americans to retire
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- 0:56
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- 2 years ago
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- Title
- Why it’s hard for Americans to retire
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- 9:28
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- 2 years ago
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- There’s a reason so many of us don’t have enough retirement savings.
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Vox sat down with people in our New York City studio to talk to them about the state of their retirement savings.
By the standards of most financial experts, Americans are woefully behind on saving for retirement. The reason why is rooted in changes in policy to our retirement system with today's result being a flawed design in how people set aside money so they can one day stop working.
In this video, we interviewed four people about their level of retirement preparedness and two experts about the state of retirement readiness more broadly in the US. One culprit lies in changes to the country’s p...
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- Why is Social Security in trouble? #socialsecurity #finance #money
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- 0:57
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- 2 years ago
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A longer version of this video is on our channel and helps explain some of the basics around how Social Security in the US is funded, why everyone keeps saying it’s “running out,” and some of the ways we’re looking to “save” it.
There’s no denying that Americans rely heavily on Social Security benefits. Estimates from the Social Security Administration found that 97% of adults over the age of 60 are either collecting or will start collecting Social Security. As of February 2023, about one in every five residents in the US collected benefits from these funds. For such a widely used program, it’s a bit surprising that people in the US know so little about how it works. To be fair, mo...
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- Is the US running out of Social Security?
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- 8:13
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- And how does it even work?
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There’s no denying that Americans rely heavily on Social Security benefits. Estimates from the Social Security Administration found that 97% of adults over the age of 60 are either collecting or will start collecting Social Security. As of February 2023, about one in every five residents in the US collected benefits from these funds. For such a widely used program, it’s a bit surprising that people in the US know so little about how it works. To be fair, most of the news around this program over the past decade has been about how it’s doomed in one way or another. Millennials and younger may see the money being taxed from their paychecks and believe they’ll proba...
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- Kristen Noel Crawley’s Three Ways to Find Your Niche
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- 0:30
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- 2 years ago
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- KNC Beauty founder Kristen Noel Crawley shares her three top strategies for solopreneurs to find their niche in a busy marketplace. For Crawley, success is not just about creating amazing products but also about contributing to the community that has supported her journey. With QuickBooks Money, she manages her business finances while staying true to her mission. QuickBooks Money makes business banking simple and allows you to earn 5.00% APY*.
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- Title
- The space race changed how Americans learn about money
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- 1:00
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- 2 years ago
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A longer version of this video is on our channel — it dives deeper into how financial literacy has evolved from the middle of the 20th century up until today..
It’s a common refrain: school is full of useless (if interesting!) lessons… but we learn next to nothing about how to manage our finances.
It’s true that many Americans still lack basic financial knowledge, which is a contributing factor to the money challenges – high levels of debt, insufficient savings, and poor investment decisions – that a lot of us face. But it’s not necessarily true that we never learned anything: many of us sat through a few classes on money management. It just may not have been enough ...
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- Why financial literacy education in the US sucks
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- 6:00
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- 2 years ago
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- Blame the Space Race … (kind of).
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It’s a common refrain: school is full of useless (if interesting!) lessons… but we learn next to nothing about how to manage our finances.
It’s true that many Americans still lack basic financial knowledge, which is a contributing factor to the money challenges – high levels of debt, insufficient savings, and poor investment decisions – that a lot of us face. But it’s not necessarily true that we never learned anything: many of us sat through a few classes on money management. It just may not have been enough to stick.
In this video, we’ll take a brief look at the state of financial education in the US: past, present, and...
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- Why US elections only give you two choices
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- 9:47
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- We don’t like the two-party system. So why do we have it?
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America’s two-party system is widely hated. Very few Americans think the two major parties do an adequate job representing us, and most say more parties are needed. But when it comes time to vote, very few of us actually vote for third-party candidates. Often, this is explained as either a failure of will (we’d have third parties if more people would just vote for them), or a conspiracy (the political and media establishments suppress third-party candidates and ideas).
And it’s not that those things aren’t true. But there’s a much simpler explanation, and it’s the very basic rule governing almost every single one of our elections: Only one person can win. If you’re American, that probably sounds utterly reasonable: what the hell other kinds of elections even are there? But the answer is: lots. Winner-take-all ele...
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- Three Business Tips From Beauty Brand CEO Kristen Noel Crawley
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- 0:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Kristen Noel Crawley moved to LA with a dream to create a successful makeup brand. Now Crawley’s brand KNC Beauty is featured in magazines and loved by celebrities like Kim Kardashian West. Partnering with Intuit QuickBooks, Crawley shares her top three business tips for aspiring solopreneurs. With QuickBooks Money, Crawley knows her business will thrive and still leave her time to pay it forward.
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- Title
- We’re already using AI more than we realize #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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A longer version of this video is on our channel — it dives deeper into the gap in awareness about the prevalence of artificial intelligence in everyday technologies.
We're living through an inflection point for artificial intelligence: From generated images and video to advanced personal assistants, a new frontier of technologies promises to fundamentally change how we live, work, and play. And yet for all the buzz and concerns about how AI will change the world, in many ways, it already has.
From spam filters and sentence suggestions in our email inboxes to voice assistants and fitness tracking built into our phones, countless machine learning tools have q...
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- How giant lasers could get rid of space trash
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- 9:31
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Space debris is a huge problem, but we can fix it.
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Humans are filling the space around Earth with trash. Most of this junk comes from abandoned satellites, discarded jet engines, and other mission-related debris. And when these objects unintentionally collide, they explode into thousands of debris fragments that can seriously damage operational spacecraft. With a booming commercial space industry that has put an unprecedented number of new satellites in space in just the past few years, our space debris problem is only getting worse.
Scientists worry about a situation called the “Kessler syndrome,” coined in the 1970s, where a runaway chain reaction of collisions and fragmentation results in a cloud of debris around Earth so dense that it threatens future space missions.
But there are a few options to begin clearing out the debris surrounding us, most of them united in a strategy of...
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- We’re already using AI more than we realize
- Runtime
- 6:32
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- How artificial intelligence hides in plain sight.
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We're living through an inflection point for artificial intelligence: From generated images and video to advanced personal assistants, a new frontier of technologies promises to fundamentally change how we live, work, and play. And yet for all the buzz and concerns about how AI will change the world, in many ways, it already has.
From spam filters and sentence suggestions in our email inboxes to voice assistants and fitness tracking built into our phones, countless machine learning tools have quietly weaved their way into our everyday lives. But when we're surveyed about which everyday technologies use artificia...
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- How AI creates weather forecasts #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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A longer version of this video is on our channel -- it goes into more depth about the AI revolution happening in meteorology.
We’ve learned how to predict weather over the past century by understanding the science that governs Earth’s atmosphere and harnessing enough computing power to generate global forecasts. But in just the past three years, AI models from companies like Google, Huawei, and Nvidia that use historical weather data have been releasing forecasts rivaling those created through traditional forecasting methods.
This video explains the promise and challenges of these new models built on artificial intelligence rather than numerical forecasting...
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- Can AI help us predict extreme weather?
- Runtime
- 8:12
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- AI models are starting to revolutionize weather forecasting.
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We’ve learned how to predict weather over the past century by understanding the science that governs Earth’s atmosphere and harnessing enough computing power to generate global forecasts. But in just the past three years, AI models from companies like Google, Huawei, and Nvidia that use historical weather data have been releasing forecasts rivaling those created through traditional forecasting methods.
This video explains the promise and challenges of these new models built on artificial intelligence rather than numerical forecasting, particularly as it relates to the ability to foresee extreme we...
- Title
- The evolution of the movie backdrop
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
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When I look at movies from the ’20s to the ’90s, I’m blown away by the worlds that filmmakers were able to create with their visuals. From Mary Poppins to Ben-Hur to Star Wars, they truly made things that people had never seen before — all with little to no help from computers.
How did they pull off such striking and novel visuals? Well, often, it was just with a paintbrush and some glass.
With a technique called matte painting, skilled artists would paint a scene and black out a portion of the frame for live-action photography. The actors would be filmed on footage that blacked out the painted backdrop,, and then filmmakers would combine the two exposur...
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- UV light kills viruses. Why isn't it everywhere?
- Runtime
- 7:44
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- The promise and pitfalls of using light to stop germs.
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When you think of disinfecting a space, what comes to mind? Wipes? Gels? Sprays? Maybe air purifiers or effective HVAC systems? All of these are great defenses against viruses and bacteria, but one thing has been missing from the toolkit despite our knowing about it for over a century: light.
Ultraviolet light is an incredibly powerful disinfectant. Study after study has proven that it can obliterate viruses and bacteria, and yet it’s not often thought about as a defense against germs. In fact, when most people think of UV, they think of the harmful rays from the sun that cause cancer — not the PR you want when advertising, obviously. Luckily, a few years after the pandemic lockdowns, researchers have found a type of UV that isn’t strong enough to penetrate human skin but still effectively stops the germs. Could it be our next defense? Chec...
- Title
- The evolution of the movie backdrop
- Runtime
- 7:21
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Matte paintings have transformed movies for over a hundred years. AI could be the next step in making them.
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This video is sponsored by Microsoft Copilot for Microsoft 365. Microsoft has no editorial influence on our videos, but their support makes videos like these possible.
When I look at movies from the ’20s to the ’90s, I’m blown away by the worlds that filmmakers were able to create with their visuals. From Mary Poppins to Ben-Hur to Star Wars, they truly made things that people had never seen before — all with little to no help from computers.
How did they pull off such striking and novel visuals? Well, often, it was just with a paintbrush and some glass.
With a technique called matte painting, skilled artists would paint a scene and black out a portion of the frame for live-action photography. The actors would be filmed on footage that blacked out the painted b...
- Title
- The best hand-colored photos of the 19th century came from Japan #shorts
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- How colorized photos helped introduce Japan to the world
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- How Houthi attacks in the Red Sea impact trade #shorts
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- Title
- Where Mao’s famous suit actually came from #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- Mao made the suit iconic, but its origin predates his rise.
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- Why we say “OK” #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- It started as a joke.
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- The tragic story of this famous meteorite
- Runtime
- 12:44
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
- Description
- And the boy who fought the museum that took everything from him.
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In 1897, American explorer Robert Peary returned from his latest Arctic expedition to Greenland with an enormous iron meteorite, which he had taken from a small tribe of Greenlandic Inuit, the Inughuit. Also on board his ship were six Inughuit. Peary had convinced them to come with him to New York to be studied by the American Museum of Natural History in exchange for guns and tools. But soon after getting back to New York, Peary left on a promotional speaking tour. The six Inughuit never saw him again.
Within a few months of exposure to the warmer climate, four of the Inughuit — Qisuk, Nuktaq, Atangana, and Aviaq — had died of respiratory disease. And another, Uisaakasak, asked to return to Greenland on one of Peary’s ships. The only Inuk left was 9-year-old Minik, Qisuk’s son. The museum officials told Minik they buried his fa...
