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Cow burps are a climate problem. Can seaweed help?
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- Cow burps are a climate problem. Can seaweed help?
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- 3 years ago
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- Changing the diet of cows might help them release less methane.
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There are around 1.5 billion cows on the planet being raised as livestock for things like meat and dairy — and they’re a climate problem we’ve struggled to solve. Cows have a specialized digestive tract that allows them to digest tough plant material like grass or hay, but in that process, methane is produced as waste, and the cows ... burp it out. Methane is a greenhouse gas that’s nearly 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, these burping animals are considered one of the largest sources of methane production in the United States,...
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- Why the Nakba is key to understanding Palestinian history #shorts
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- Where was the Israeli army on October 7 #shorts
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- Where the Israeli army was when Hamas attacked
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- 3 years ago
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- For decades, Israel has prioritized illegal settlements for Jewish Israelis in the West Bank.
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In the early hours of Saturday, October 7, Israelis living near the border with Gaza awoke to the sounds of Hamas fighters killing and kidnapping their neighbors. As the hours stretched on and they hid, terrified, their frantic text messages contained versions of this question: Where is the army?
To answer that question, we need to travel to the West Bank.
Watch this video to better understand how Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s obsessive focus on the West Bank has left Israelis everywhere vulnerable.
Note: The headline on this piece has been updated.
Previous headline: Where was the Israeli army on October 7
Check out Vox’s coverage of the Israel-Hamas War: https://www.vox.com/2023/10/7...
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- Why there’s a race for deep sea metals #shorts
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- Why are the giant pandas leaving the DC Zoo? #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- The National Zoo has a long relationship with giant pandas — but in December, the three pandas that call DC home are leaving for China. Vox producer Halley Brown headed to the Zoo to learn more and say goodbye.
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- The True Cost of Financial Abuse | Advertiser content from The Allstate Foundation
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- Financial abuse is a form of domestic violence that affects millions of Americans every year — so why don’t more people know about it? Join Vox, The Allstate Foundation, and Hello Sunshine to learn more about this important, but often-overlooked topic.
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- The race to mine the bottom of the ocean
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- 3 years ago
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- We have a lot to gain — and a lot to lose — from deep-sea mining.
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There are metallic deposits scattered throughout our ocean floors — among hydrothermal vents, under the crust of seamounts, and scattered along sea plains in the form of rocks. As it happens, in our search for climate solutions, these metals have become more critical than ever to help us transition away from fossil fuels. We need them for everything like electric car batteries, copper wiring for electrification and wind turbines. Our land-based deposits have met our needs so far, but it’s unclear whether they will continue to, or whether we’ll want to keep destroying the environment to do so.
This video explains the history and the debate over mining metals in the deep sea and why one Cana...
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- Are US politicians really that old? (yes) #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- Why useless decongestants are still for sale
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- 3 years ago
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- Phenylephrine doesn’t work better than a placebo. So why is it still on shelves?
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If you’ve taken an over-the-counter decongestant in the past 20 years, you’ve probably taken something with phenylephrine as the main active ingredient. A Food and Drug Administration panel recently recommended that it be taken off shelves because it doesn’t work any better than a placebo. What happened?
In the above video, Vox’s Phil Edwards chronicles the history of the FDA’s regulation of over-the-counter medicines. That process is the reason that, despite decades of evidence that phenylephrine doesn’t work (especially in typical OTC doses), it’s remained an option for consumers.
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- US politicians are really old and refusing to retire #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- In the US, the share of lawmakers under the age of 40 is at an all-time low. Are we living in a gerontocracy?
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- Solar’s land scarcity problem #shorts
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- The anti-racist town in the American South, explained
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- 3 years ago
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- Soul City was meant to be an antiracist town in the American South.
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In the 1960s, Floyd B. McKissick, a prolific civil rights activist, embarked on an ambitious idea: What if Black Americans could build and lead their own city? A place centered on the idea of racial equality and economic power, where everyone, especially people of color and the poor, could thrive? That idea turned into Soul City, North Carolina: the Black-led, capitalist utopia that almost came to be.
At the time, the federal government was encouraging the idea of new cities. The US Department of Housing and Urban Development opened up a process to finance new towns built by private developers. McKissick took the opportunity to pitch his idea and hoped to secure federal funding to finally make his dr...
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- Why Jaws and Barbie were such blockbusters
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- 3 years ago
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- She’s Barbie. He’s just Jaws.
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The summer of 2023 was the summer of Barbie. Everywhere you looked there was marketing — posters, ads, trailers. There were Barbie cafe’s, Barbie progressive commercials, everyone was wearing pink! It was a delightful wave of cinematic energy.
But it was also completely overwhelming. At times it felt inescapable.
Barbie’s marketing felt different. And in some ways it was — but it owes a lot to the blockbusters that came before.
As promised, here are the links:
I started listening to this podcast to learn more about Jaws, and then I listened to every episode in like a week. Life-changingly good podcast if you’re into movies: https://open.spotify.com/show/6nhQUF8rDmBaRjbZp9zgzv or https://w...
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- How to fight climate change with parking lots
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- 3 years ago
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- Why haven’t we covered them in solar panels?
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In 2021, President Biden set an ambitious climate goal for the US to reach net-zero carbon emissions economy-wide by 2050. And as part of the transition to renewable energy, the country has drastically ramped up production of solar over the past few years. But that’s led to a new problem: finding enough land on which to put solar panels.
The easiest and cheapest places to install solar panels are often large, undeveloped plots of land. It's why, in many places across the country, we've seen rural areas — including fragile desert ecosystems and valuable farmland — turned into solar farms. Man...
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- Why aren’t there more delivery bikes in the US? #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- Reporting on ChatGPT in education
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- 3 years ago
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- Students, how are you using chatbots in your work, if at all? Teachers and professors, what are your AI policies and how do you enforce them?
Drop Joss a line at joss@vox.com to let her know what you’re seeing in your classrooms.
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- It's time to replace urban delivery vans
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- 3 years ago
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- E-bikes are cleaner, and safer. So why aren’t we using them?
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Remember during lockdown, how we all got obsessed with ordering everything online and having it delivered right to our doorsteps? Yeah, turns out that isn’t going away anytime soon, and we’re starting to understand the many downsides. The delivery vans that make our next-day shipping dreams come true are driving up C02 emissions while making our streets more crowded and less safe.
Fortunately, there’s a hero waiting in the wings: the e-cargo bike. Not only can these bad boys deliver packages in urban environments just as quickly (and sometimes faster) than delivery vans, they ...
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- How Republicans conquered Florida
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- 3 years ago
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- Florida was once the iconic swing state. What happened?
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In 2022, before he began a campaign for the presidency, Ron DeSantis was reelected governor of Florida in a landslide. This was impressive and surprising because the 2022 elections were disappointing for Republicans almost everywhere else in the US. But DeSantis’s overwhelming victory was doubly impressive and surprising because when he had first been elected, just four years earlier, it was by just a tiny margin.
For a long time, in fact, tiny election margins were the norm in Florida elections. Florida was a “swing state” — it sometimes voted for Democrats, sometimes for Republicans, and was a major prize up for grabs in presidential elections. But by 2022, something had changed: Florida Republicans up and down the ballot w...
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- How these dams made Libya's flood so deadly #shorts
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- How to take the global temperature #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- 2023 is another record-breaking year for global warming. Joss Fong explains how they do the math.
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- Popular names aren’t as popular as they used to be #shorts
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- We have a request
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- Why most tennis players struggle to make a living
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- 3 years ago
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- Tennis fails where other sports provide a living for their players.
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During the US Open in New York, Vox video sat down with professional tennis players and the head of the Professional Tennis Players Association to explain the pay problem in the top-five global sport. Tennis is unique among other professional sports in how players are paid, what costs they are responsible for, and how they are categorized as independent contractors. The result is that — unless you are consistently among the very top-ranked players like Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray, Roger Federer, Serena Williams, and Naomi Osaka — it’s nearly impossible to make a living with income from tennis alone.
Unlike other sports that provide support for people outside the very top performers, tennis leaves them high and dry.
In 2021, Novak Djokovic and Vasek Pospisil co-founded a...
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- Why Silicon Valley is here
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- 3 years ago
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- One radio engineer had a plan. And it worked.
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Today, one of the hottest parts of the global economy is in Silicon Valley. And it’s thanks to, in large part, a radio engineer who had a plan.
As the above video shows, Fred Terman was key in building a technological hub in an area best known for its prunes. Thanks to his work developing Stanford Research Park, a new cycle of business innovation began and has continued to this day.
Watch the above video to learn more.
Further reading:
The Stanford Daily has extensive archives of early issues. It’s fun to peruse, and you can find an article about HP here: https://archives.stanforddaily.com/1956/02/02?page=1§ion=MODSMD_ARTICLE1
Here’s a full 1969 interview with Terman:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwk2Y4mi87w
Read Hoefler’s original a...
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- The secret language of ships #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- Decoding the symbols on some of the world’s largest ships.
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- The day women shut down Iceland
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- 3 years ago
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- The strike that helped close the gender pay gap in Iceland.
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Iceland has made significant progress with its gender pay gap in the past 50 years. In 1975, Icelandic women made around 40 percent less than what men made. Today, that number is around 10 percent, making Iceland one of the few countries in the world where women are paid almost as much as men.
To understand how Iceland made so much progress, you have to take a look at what happened almost 50 years ago. In 1970, a radical feminist group called the Redstockings formed in response to outdated ideas in Iceland surrounding issues like violence against women, reproductive rights, and women’s labor. The Redstockings were known for their loud and public demonstrations, and in 1975 they proposed their biggest idea yet: a women’s strike. A day when women would collectively refuse to work at home and in...
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- Why airplane legroom isn’t regulated… yet #shorts
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- Why this is the Trump indictment you should care about #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- It seems like the former president is getting indicted every other day. But this latest one could be the most important. From producer Liz Scheltens.
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- What we get wrong about saving the bees
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- 3 years ago
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- Honeybees get a ton of attention, but they’re not the ones who need help.
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Every year there are alarming headlines about honeybees in the US. Each one highlights some grim facts about the fate of these insects and the subsequent fallout: Colonies are collapsing, beekeepers are struggling, and farming is at risk. The stakes are high. Honeybees are estimated to pollinate up to $15 billion worth of food in the US. It’s safe to say that without them our plates and farms would look very different. Naturally, they’ve become the face of a larger movement to “save the bees,” but the truth is … they’ll be fine.
Honeybees are domesticated animals being cared for by a billion-dollar agriculture industry. They’re so ingrained into American life that it might surprise you that they’re not even from the US — they were brought here by settlers in the 1...
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- The surprising factor making Maui's wildfires worse #maui #hawaii #wildfire
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- 3 years ago
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- Hurricane winds, drought conditions, and...cow fodder?
Be sure to check out this super informative piece from Hawaii Business Magazine. They get into way more detail about the role of invasive grasses in Hawaii's increasingly frequent wildfires
https://www.hawaiibusiness.com/wildfires-hawaii-invasive-plants-environmental-community-action/
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- How airplane legroom got so tight
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- 3 years ago
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- And why it isn’t regulated — yet.
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When you’re flying, there’s one thing you want to be above all else — comfortable. (Well, besides safe, of course!)
Whether or not you’re comfortable is determined by a slew of factors, but none draw more ire than seat pitch — the fancy term used to describe the distance between where your seat begins and the seat in front of you ends. You probably know it as legroom.
Legroom is a precious commodity, and airlines are aware of this. After all, there is a finite amount of space on planes. In order to get the maximum number of people onboard, you have to either innovate — like by designing slimmer seats — or you have to shrink the seat pitch. Airlines have done both. Plus, they now give you the option to spend some more money to upgrade for more legroom, allowing you (and your wallet) to choos...
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- The biggest reason SUVs dominate US roads #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- There’s a reason why it seems like every car on the road is a truck or SUV, and it’s not (just) because people like driving them.
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- Rental Scams Are On The Rise: Check Your FOMO At The Door [Ad content from Zelle]
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- 3 years ago
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- Don’t pay for the dream apartment before you actually get to see it.
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- High female employment rates in Europe mean more babies #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In the EU high fertility rates go hand in hand with higher female participation in the workforce. It’s a striking new phenomenon that illustrates how empowering women to achieve the work-life balance that works for them, can make a huge difference in countries experiencing population declines.
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- Title
- How cruise ships got so big
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Today’s cruise ships are several times as big as the Titanic.
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Cruise ships are freaking big. They’re the biggest passenger vessels humans have ever built. In size and appearance, they look nothing like almost any other boat. So how did they get that way?
The predecessor of today’s cruise ships was the ocean liner: big, beautiful ships that sailed across the Atlantic. But ocean liners had a totally different purpose from cruise ships: They were for transportation. Everything about them was designed to facilitate an ocean voyage from one continent to another.
But air travel changed that. Planes eliminated the main reason to take a ship somewhere, and ocean liner business plummeted. So the industry pivoted and began selling a ship as the destination itself. The cruise ship was born. But the ocean liners, built for a voyage, weren’t ideal...
- Title
- Barbie’s past life as a German sex worker #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Before she was a surgeon, an astronaut, or a marine biologist, Barbie was a German sex worker named Lilli.
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- Don’t Let Your Survival Instincts Trick You Into A Bank Imposter Scam [Ad content from Zelle]
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Why are there so many scam victims? It all comes down to survival instincts. Humans are predisposed to go with the flow for our own gain - that can mean we listen when someone who sounds like they are from our bank (but isn’t) is trying to help us. Call the number on your bank-issued card - your real bank will let you know if anything is truly wrong.
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- Title
- The 2023 Women’s World Cup logo, explained #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Explained by producer Coleman Lowndes.
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- Title
- A fact-checked debate about euthanasia in Canada
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 2 opposing perspectives and 6 true facts about Canada’s policy on Medical assistance in dying (MAID).
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:36 Fact #1
3:10 Dr. Green Introduction
3:29 Background info
4:07 Fact #2
5:21 Dr. Maher introduction
5:42 Fact #3
7:20 Fact #4
8:31 Fact #5
10:04 Fact #6
11:20 Questions
13:44 Personal experiences
15:47 Debunk
17:10 Uncertainties
19:00 Closing statements
In 2016, a Supreme Court case in Canada removed the criminal penalties for doctors providing a patient with a medically assisted death. Since then, the country has been embroiled in a legal and ethical debate about where to draw the line on who qualifies for one.
In the US states where it's legal, that line is drawn at a terminal diagnosis with 6 months to live. On the other end...
- Title
- That time 90s activists “liberated” Barbie #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In 1993, the “Barbie Liberation Organization” switched out the voiceboxes of hundreds of Teen Talk Barbies and G.I. Joe dolls. The US news media proceeded to lose its collective mind.
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- Title
- Why Americans love big cars
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- It’s not just a consumer choice; it’s a policy choice.
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It’s no secret that big cars dominate American roads. But even so, some of the stats are staggering: Last year, 80 percent of all new cars sold in the US were SUVs and trucks. That’s compared to just 52 percent in 2011. Meanwhile, many automakers are phasing out passenger cars as consumer demand for them has disappeared.
Not all of this is a result of consumer choice, though. A huge factor in why SUVs and trucks are so popular in the US is hidden in a 50-year-old policy decision. In this video we cover the history of the SUV, and how its origin story and popularity is rooted in US fuel economy standards.
The Washington Post data visualizations are from this story:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/04/07/trucks-outnumber-cars/
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- Title
- Flight attendant uniforms over time #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- From small accessories in the 1940s to space helmets in the 1960s, flight attendant uniforms have changed a lot since they first started flying almost a century ago. Here’s a quick fashion history.
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- Title
- Why no aquarium has a great white shark #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- Many have tried to keep a white shark in captivity. Here's why that's so difficult.
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- Why would Republicans want to raise the voting age? #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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- Title
- Oppenheimer’s secret city, explained
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- How Los Alamos built Oppenheimer’s bomb.
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Los Alamos quickly became the centerpiece of the Manhattan Project — the United States’ successful attempt to develop a nuclear bomb. But why was Los Alamos selected, and how did that relate to the selection of the subsequent testing site? The above video tells the story of Oppenheimer’s selection of the site and the unique culture that was built there.
Los Alamos was more than a lab — it was a secret city, built for the express purpose of atomic development. Housing top scientists, their families, and support staff, this island of research led to a century-changing technological development.
Further Reading
Manhattan: The Army and the Atomic Bomb (https://history.army.mil/html/books/011/11-10/)
This logistical history of the Manhattan project provides great non-scientific backgrou...
- Title
- Three facts about US rail travel #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Here are 3 facts you might not know about passenger travel in the US.
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- Title
- The controversial bomb the US just sent Ukraine #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The US just shipped a bunch of cluster bombs to Ukraine. These bombs are controversial because they can indiscriminately target civilians, frequently making them the subject of war crimes investigations.
The US is one of a few holdouts in banning these weapons. Another country that has declined to ban them is Russia, which has reportedly already used them in the war with Ukraine.
We covered the use of cluster bombs at length in 2022. You can find the full video here: https://youtu.be/OTk4Q4Nm5CA
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- Title
- What I learned from taking a train across the US
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Here’s how US train travel went from excellent to mediocre.
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If you’ve taken the Amtrak recently, you might have no idea that the United States used to have the largest and wealthiest rail system in the world. How did the US go from having luxurious, widely used passenger trains to the Amtrak system we have today?
Video producer Dean Peterson makes a 72-hour journey on Amtrak from LA to NYC to show its current state of operation. From getting kicked in the head by his sleeping seat mate to taking in sweeping views of the desert at sunset, Dean shows the highs and lows of being stuck on Amtrak for days on end.
Along the way, he explains the history of passenger rail in the US — starting in the problematic robber baron era to the US government’s takeover of passenger rail. Will the United States ever catch up to the rest of the world w...
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- Why Barbie is banned in Vietnam #shorts
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- 3 years ago
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