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Why most images of Neptune are the wrong color #shorts
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- Why most images of Neptune are the wrong color #shorts
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- 1:00
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- 2 years ago
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- If you want to learn more about how scientists colorize space, Vox producer Coleman Lowndes has a great explainer on our channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSG0MnmUsEY&t=253s
Here is a link to the University of Oxford study, which has some news about Uranus, too:
https://academic.oup.com/mnras/article/527/4/11521/7511973?login=false
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- How Michigan explains American politics
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- 18:07
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- How Republicans won Michigan, how they lost it, and what it all tells us.
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The “blue wall” once referred to a group of Northeast, Midwest, and West Coast states that, conventional wisdom said, “always vote for Democrats.” Unfortunately for Democrats, that was wrong, and in 2016 Donald Trump shockingly won three “blue wall” states — including, narrowly, the state of Michigan.
It maybe shouldn’t have been such a shock, though. All three of the “blue” states Trump won actually had a history of electing Republicans at the state level. Michigan in particular had been fully taken over since 2010 by Republicans, who then spent years gutting unions, restricting abortion, loosening environmental protections, and generally just turning a Republican policy wish list into law. So Trump winning Michigan was, in a way, just the culmination of a years-...
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- 2023, in 7 minutes
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- 7:50
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The year’s already over? Let’s look back.
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2023 was dominated by a few big stories: climate change making everything hotter; the Israel-Hamas war; blockbuster movies and concert tours. And during all the massive global shifts, celebrations, and devastation — life happened. Watch this video to remember the major events from this turbulent year.
Read more about this year on Vox.com.
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- Why IBM is building next generation storage solutions. Advertiser content from IBM
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- 5:01
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- One inescapable aspect of modern life is that humans are constantly creating data. So as enterprise data booms, IBM Storage Flashsystem is empowering businesses by scaling them efficiently, by rethinking the way storage operates entirely.
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- What all Christmas movies have in common
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- 8:24
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Listen: They’re all pulling from the same classic songs.
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‘Tis the season for sitting in front of the cozy glow of a Christmas movie. Don’t you just love the snow, the twinkling tree lights, and, of course, the charming sounds of festive music?
But not all Yuletide melodies are created equal.
In a 2015 analysis, FiveThirtyEight found that nine out of the top 10 most featured Christmas songs on movie soundtracks were in the public domain. Or in other words, Christmas movies are full of the classic songs we know and love — that also happen to be free from copyright and free from expensive licensing fees.
The reason why public domain Christmas songs are so popular may be obvious: Lower-budget films, like the ones our moms have grown to...
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- What your credit score actually means #shorts
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- 0:59
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- It’s not just you. Credit scores are confusing as hell.
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- What your credit score actually means
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- 12:38
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- It’s not just you. Credit scores are confusing as hell.
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When credit scores were invented just a few decades ago, they were hailed as a way to democratize lending. Today, they’ve become so essential that not having one can essentially lock you out of daily life. Having a low score can make life challenging, too.
These scores have a long history — and a lot of problems. In this video, we’ll show you where they came from, how they’ve changed over the years, and actually explain what that three-digit number means for you.
Sources and further reading:
Check out Frederick Wherry’s book, Credit Where It’s Due: Rethinking Financial Citizenship, which he co-authored with Kristin S. Seefeldt
Anthony S. Alvarez: https://www.rus...
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- AI can do your homework. Now what?
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- 17:03
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- We interviewed students and teachers on how schools should handle the rise of the chatbots.
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For a year now, students have had access to AI chatbots, otherwise known as Large Language Models, that can write at a high-school level and answer specific and diverse questions related to many school subjects. OpenAI's ChatGPT kicked off a race among tech companies to release their own chatbots and integrate them into existing consumer products.
The most advanced language models, like GPT-4 and Claude2 are kept behind paywalls. They offer more nuanced answers and make fewer mistakes but because reliability is not guaranteed, many businesses cannot yet deploy these systems. That means a significant portion of chatbot use cases are for low-stakes applications, like school work.
This presents a major challenge to educators, who now need to rethink their curriculum to either incorporate chatbot use...
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- Why Israel has so many Palestinian prisoners
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- 11:50
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Inside Israel’s dual criminal justice system.
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Israel has been engaged in harrowing negotiations to recover the roughly 240 hostages held by Hamas and other militant groups in Gaza following the October 7 attack. In exchange for their release, the Israeli government has a bargaining chip that is extremely valuable to Palestinians: the thousands of Palestinian prisoners locked up in Israeli prisons.
Each one of these Palestinian prisoners has been processed by Israel’s military court system, which exists completely separate from the civilian court system that Jewish Israelis interact with. This system and the military orders that govern it have their origins in the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories in 1967.
In this video, two experts explain Israel’s military court system, why it’s been a focus of outcry from human rights organizations and why hostage negotiations ...
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- Why is it so hard to buy a house in the US? #shorts
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The homeowner vacancy rate is the lowest it’s ever been.
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- Why buying a house in the US is so hard right now
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- 9:51
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- We charted America’s homeownership problem.
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Homeownership in the US is basically synonymous with the idea of the American Dream. Owning your own home, the story goes, confers both self-determination and security — instead of paying a landlord, you own a growing asset that will form the base of your wealth. Homeownership is ingrained in US society; the majority of American adults are homeowners.
But somewhere along the line, something changed. Homeownership has been way less accessible to millennials and gen Z than it was to their parents, in part because of dwindling housing supply. But even within that generational disparity, 2023 was a uniquely bad year to try to become a new homeowner. Watch the video above to see exactly how bad, and why.
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- What's inside this crater in Madagascar?
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- 24:33
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- On satellite imagery, we spotted a village inside a strange crater in Madagascar. We set out to learn how it got there.
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Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a bigger area than the city of Paris — and at first glance, it looks completely empty. But right in the center of that structure, there’s a single, isolated village: a few dozen houses, some fields of crops, and dirt roads stretching out in every direction.
When we first saw this village on Google Earth, its extreme remoteness fascinated us. Was the village full of people? How did they wind up there? And what did life look like in such a strange geography? To find out, we teamed up with a local team in Madagascar and fell down a rabbit hole of geology and mapping along the way. It’s a story of how continental shifts and volcanic geology came tog...
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- Why cheating is allowed on game shows
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- 10:54
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- A lot of today’s contests are edited and rigged. But it wasn’t always that way.
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Today’s game shows, whether they’re Mr. Beast on YouTube or Storage Wars on cable, often feature sensationalistic editing, recreations, and straight-up fixing. But it wasn’t always that way. As the above video shows, game shows in America have gone from unregulated, to a Federally regulated activity, and back to unregulated once again.
The Quiz Show scandals of the 1950s set in motion a new law that enforced rules for games of skill. But, as the above video shows, changing media consumption habits and expectations have made game shows a wild west once again.
Further Reading:
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,809056,00.html
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- The rise of Xi Jinping, explained
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- 21:54
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- How Xi Jinping became China's most powerful leader since Mao Zedong
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Xi Jinping, president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012, is one of the most powerful political figures in the world. By initiating an unprecedented third term as China’s leader in October, 2022, Xi has signaled that he may plan to remain in power for life – making him the first Chinese leader since Mao Zedong to hold unchecked power over the People’s Republic of China.
But Xi’s connection to Mao goes deeper than a shared outlook that emphasizes unifying the party around a single leader. When Xi was just a young boy, his family – who had held elite party status thanks to his father’s pivotal role in Mao's “Long March” in 1935 – was denounced d...
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- How bats carry deadly diseases without dying
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- 7:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Bats don’t just host deadly diseases — they can tolerate them shockingly well.
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Bats get a bad rap in all forms of media — and it’s not entirely unwarranted. Whenever they hit the news, it’s typically paired with some deadly disease that they’ve somehow unleashed on humans: from Ebola to Hendra virus to Nipah virus to various coronaviruses such as SARS, MERS, and even Covid-19. Bats are just really good at hosting deadly diseases, so much so that researchers around the globe from Brazil to Australia to China are searching bat genomes for clues about the next potential outbreak.
But there’s another angle to consider.
Bats aren’t just very good at hosting deadly diseases. They seem to tolerate them very well. After all, we’re not finding...
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- Forgotten Transgender History of the Wild West #shorts
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- But what is gender affirming care #shorts
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Gender affirming care isn’t just limited to trans people — here’s a bunch of gender affirming care things that cisgender people do too.
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- Something weird happens when you keep squeezing
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- 11:36
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Under extreme pressures, matter defies the rules of physics as we know it.
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Physicists have a pretty good handle on how stuff behaves on the surface of the Earth. But a lot of matter in the universe exists outside this narrow band of relatively low temperatures and pressures. Inside planets and stars, the crushing force of gravity begins to overwhelm the electromagnetic and nuclear forces that keep atoms apart and maintain the shapes of molecules.
What happens next? Scientists (including a consortia of researchers at the NSF’s Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures) are just starting to figure that out. They use a variety of tools (including some humongous lasers) to simulate planetary cores and see what happens. A few standout findings so far:
W...
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- The Hesitant Fiancée, explained in 60 seconds #shorts
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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Who do you think she’s looking at? 👀
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- Sudan's conflict, explained #shorts
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Learn more at the linked video.
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- Your baby teeth probably fell out in this order #shorts
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- 0:57
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- It’s not random! Teeth emerge and fall out in this order, generally speaking.
- Title
- Why everyone hates this concrete building
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- 8:03
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- And why brutalism dominates US college campuses.
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When you look at college campuses across the US, you’ll see massive concrete buildings everywhere. Many of these are designed in a style of architecture called "brutalism," and it's as divisive as it is distinctive.
Brutalist buildings strive for honesty and transparency in their form and materials. This often means using simple materials like raw untreated concrete as well as using bold geometry.
Its origins can be traced back to the architect Le Corbusier, who pioneered many of the concepts that would become popular amongst brutalist architects.
Brutalism found its way onto college campuses in the wake of World War II. With veterans returning from the war and a baby boom in the US, camp...
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- How China is designing flood-resistant cities #short
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- 0:58
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- These “sponge city” designs resist floods and increase biodiversity to help us adapt to a changing climate.
Watch the full linked video for more.
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- How The Conjuring became the Marvel of horror
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- 8:41
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The Warrens' case files have helped create a shockingly successful horror universe.
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There are film franchises, and then there are shared universes.
Halloween, Scream, The Exorcist are all successful horror franchises. For the most part, they follow one continuous story. Their sequels, re-quels, and reboots all tend to center around the same villain we’ve known since the beginning.
But The Conjuring is different. Every new film pulls on threads from real-life hauntings , creating a wider universe — much like the Marvel Cinematic universe. Except instead of building out its roster of heroes, The Conjuring builds out a roster of villains.
The Conjurings universe is based on the case files of two of the most famous paranormal investigators...
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- Why this 13th-century song shows up everywhere #shorts
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Linked to our full video to learn more!
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- Gaza, explained
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- 15:51
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Why Palestinians in Gaza have suffered for decades.
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On October 7, Hamas, a militant group based in the Gaza Strip, launched a deadly attack on Israel, killing over 1,400 Israelis and kidnapping over 200. In retaliation, Israeli airstrikes have killed, as of this video, over 6,400 Palestinians in Gaza, where Palestinians have lived for decades under an occupation and blockade.
Since 1967, Israel has imposed tight restrictions on travel and essential goods such as food, fuel, medicine, and water in its occupied territories. In 2007, those restrictions became even tighter in Gaza after Hamas seized power there. Since then, it has been nearly impossible for Palestinians to leave Gaza or to access an adequate supply of essential goods.
Today, the Gaza Strip, with a population of over 2 million Palestinians, is a victim of what many...
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- How China is designing flood-resistant cities
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- 6:50
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- These "sponge city" designs resist floods and increase biodiversity to help us adapt to a changing climate.
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From rising sea levels in Mumbai to unbearable heat in Houston, cities around the world are feeling the effects of climate change. Unfortunately, they don’t always have the right infrastructure to handle its impacts — which is one reason why cities are beginning to reimagine urban design. One of these designs is a “sponge city.”
Although one city design certainly won’t save us from the effects of climate change, “sponge cities” can help with how we live with it.
Here are some studies and articles we u...
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- Cow burps are a climate problem. Can seaweed help? #shorts
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- 0:56
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- Cows produce a ton of methane. Researchers think that tweaking their diet could help.
This short is part of a longer video!
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- The right way to kill a fish #shorts
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- The most popular way to kill a fish isn’t great for the fish — or our taste buds. This short is part of a longer video!
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- Cow burps are a climate problem. Can seaweed help?
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- 5:59
- Date posted
- 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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- 3 years ago
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- Where was the Israeli army on October 7 #shorts
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- 0:58
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- Title
- Where the Israeli army was when Hamas attacked
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- 8:27
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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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- Title
- Why are the giant pandas leaving the DC Zoo? #shorts
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- 0:57
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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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- 11:13
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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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- 0:59
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- Title
- Why useless decongestants are still for sale
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- 9:53
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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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- Title
- US politicians are really old and refusing to retire #shorts
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- 0:47
- Date posted
- 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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- 1:00
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- 3 years ago
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- Title
- The anti-racist town in the American South, explained
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- 18:04
- Date posted
- 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...
- Title
- Why Jaws and Barbie were such blockbusters
- Runtime
- 12:49
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 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.
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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...
- Title
- How to fight climate change with parking lots
- Runtime
- 8:32
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- Why aren’t there more delivery bikes in the US? #shorts
- Runtime
- 1:00
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
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- This video is presented by Delta.
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- Title
- Reporting on ChatGPT in education
- Runtime
- 0:32
- Date posted
- 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.
- Title
- It's time to replace urban delivery vans
- Runtime
- 6:20
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 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 ...
- Title
- How Republicans conquered Florida
- Runtime
- 11:45
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- 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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- 0:53
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- 3 years ago
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- How to take the global temperature #shorts
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- 1:00
- Date posted
- 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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