VOX
Can AI kill the greenscreen?
- Title
- Can AI kill the greenscreen?
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Can a color really beat the AI revolution? For now, it looks like it can.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
The greenscreen is a staple of visual effects — and it may stick around even in the age of AI “magic.” The video above explains why.
It turns out that greenscreens, while imperfect, provide certain background separation benefits that are tough for AI to replicate due to the way it’s been trained and the limitations of available data. Preparation can help improve results, but this video shows why, ultimately, AI tools will remain one in a suite of options rather than a greenscreen killer.
Further reading
https://www.cs.unc.edu/~ronisen/
You can find more of Soumyadip (Roni) Sengupta’s papers here, including links to his various greenscreen work.
https://segment-anything.com/
If you want to try the latest breakthrough in image segme...
- Title
- The case against the term “jaywalk” #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Professor of Urban Planning Robert Schneider explains why he doesn’t use the term “jaywalk.”
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Vox is an explanatory newsroom on a mission to help everyone understand our weird, wonderful, complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. Part of that mission is keeping our work free. You can help us do that by making a gift: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom
Check out our articles: https://www.vox.com/
Listen to our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
- Title
- What Florida’s 6-week abortion ban really means #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Florida’s new law leaves a tiny window for abortion access. By Christina Thornell and Joss Fong.
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox is an explanatory newsroom on a mission to help everyone understand our weird, wonderful, complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. Part of that mission is keeping our work free. You can help us do that by making a gift: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom
Check out our articles: https://www.vox.com/
Listen to our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
- Title
- Weekend Reading Rec: Kids are not content | #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- This week’s (04/14/2023) weekend reading rec, via Liz Scheltens, is from Teen Vogue’s Fortesa Latifi. Check it out here: https://www.teenvogue.com/story/influencer-parents-children-social-media-impact
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox is an explanatory newsroom on a mission to help everyone understand our weird, wonderful, complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. Part of that mission is keeping our work free.
You can help us do that by making a gift: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom
Check out our articles: https://www.vox.com/
Listen to our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
- Title
- Spotted Lanternflies are coming back #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Get ready for another summer striking down this beautiful but invasive bug.
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox is an explanatory newsroom on a mission to help everyone understand our weird, wonderful, complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. Part of that mission is keeping our work free.
You can help us do that by making a gift: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom
Check out our articles: https://www.vox.com/
Listen to our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
- Title
- How solar energy got so cheap
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Cheap solar is a policy success story.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Since 2009, the price of solar energy has come down by 90 percent. That’s no accident. It’s the result of policy interventions from the US to Germany to China.
As policy analyst Gregory Nemet puts it, “No one country is responsible. It was a relay race rather than a competition.” The global flow of knowledge, people, technology, and policy helped bring down the price per watt from more than $100 in 1976 to less than $0.50 today, according to this analysis from the folks at Our World in Data. https://ourworldindata.org/cheap-renewables-growth
If we can learn the right lessons from solar’s success, it could help us develop and deploy the technology we need to keep our planet habitable and avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Make sure you never miss behind-the-scenes content ...
- Title
- Why AI doesn't speak every language
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- It could learn them all. But will it?
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Large language models are astonishingly good at understanding and producing language. But there’s an often overlooked bias toward languages that are already well-represented on the internet. That means some languages might lose out in AI’s big technical advances.
Some researchers are looking into how that works — and how to possibly shift the balance from these “high resource” languages to ones that haven’t yet had a huge online footprint. These approaches range from original dataset creation, to studying the outputs of large language models, to training open source alternatives.
Watch the video above to learn more.
Further reading:
https://ruth-ann.notion.site/ruth-ann/JamPatoisNLI-A-Jamaican-Patois-Natural-Language-Inference-Dataset-91523ec89af24bfdbcb9c1ec7e28cc3c
<...
- Title
- How spring sprang too early for a lot of the US #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The rhythm of the season got thrown out of whack. Here’s what it means.
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox is an explanatory newsroom on a mission to help everyone understand our weird, wonderful, complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. Part of that mission is keeping our work free.
You can help us do that by making a gift: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom
Check out our articles: https://www.vox.com/
Listen to our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
- Title
- The Trump investigations you should actually care about
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The four criminal investigations into the former president, explained
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Donald Trump is now the first former US President to face criminal charges. He pleaded not guilty to 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree.
This case involves hush money that Trump’s lawyer paid to an alleged former sexual partner. But it’s actually just one of four criminal investigations into the former president. The other three investigations focus on his behavior after the 2020 presidential election.
A Georgia team is examining Trump’s efforts to persuade Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to “find” more Trump votes after the votes had been counted and Raffensperger had declared Joe Biden the winner.
Federal special prosecutor Jack Smith is heading up the other two investigations. One group is looking at the Tr...
- Title
- Yes, you can run for president from prison #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Nothing in the US Constitution prohibits an imprisoned person from being eligible for the presidency. Eugene V. Debs’s story is proof of that.
Read Vox Senior Politics writer Ben Jacobs’ story on Debs and Trump here: http://bit.ly/3ZOOpG2
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox is an explanatory newsroom on a mission to help everyone understand our weird, wonderful, complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. Part of that mission is keeping our work free.
You can help us do that by making a gift: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom
Check out our articles: https://www.vox.com/
Listen to our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
- Title
- The tricky plan to pull CO2 out of the air
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Will carbon dioxide removal work? It has to.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
In recent years, over 70 countries have committed to net-zero carbon emissions, aiming to become carbon neutral by mid-century. The 2015 Paris Agreement aimed to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius and ideally limit it to 1.5 degrees above pre-industrial levels. Despite global efforts, emissions are still rising, and achieving the 1.5-degree goal has become increasingly difficult.
Most pathways to keep warming below 2 degrees, and eventually return back to 1.5 rely on negative emissions, which involve pulling carbon dioxide from the atmosphere using carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods like enhanced weathering and direct air capture.
However, these techniques are still in early development stages, and require land, energy, and money. Critics argue that relying on CDR implicitly encourages g...
- Title
- How Mario got his name #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- How a failed arcade game paved the way for the most iconic character in video game history.
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox is an explanatory newsroom on a mission to help everyone understand our weird, wonderful, complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. Part of that mission is keeping our work free.
You can help us do that by making a gift: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom
Check out our articles: https://www.vox.com/
Listen to our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
- Title
- Why Ramadan starts on a different day each year #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- How the lunar cycle determines Islamic months and holidays.
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox is an explanatory newsroom on a mission to help everyone understand our weird, wonderful, complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. Part of that mission is keeping our work free.
You can help us do that by making a gift: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom
Check out our articles: https://www.vox.com/
Listen to our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
- Title
- Why AI art struggles with hands
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- And how can it get better?
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Make sure you never miss behind-the-scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Hands drawn by robots … often just don’t look right. Why is that, and what will it take to get better?
Producer Phil Edwards is exploring five different aspects of AI that help explain everything from large language models to where unusual training data comes from. In this first video, he digs into why AI art struggles with hands. The challenges range from the same ones that human artists face to those that are a unique result of how AI generative art is created. The road to improving these hands may not be as obvious as you’d think.
Vox is an explanatory newsroom on a mission to help everyone understand our weird, wonderful, complicated world, so that we can all help shape ...
- Title
- Why Israelis are protesting #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox is an explanatory newsroom on a mission to help everyone understand our weird, wonderful, complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. Part of that mission is keeping our work free.
You can help us do that by making a gift: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
Watch our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Follow Vox on TikTok: http://tiktok.com/@voxdotcom
Check out our articles: https://www.vox.com/
Listen to our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
- Title
- What is an indictment? #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- What is an indictment and what does it mean if one is arraigned?
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- Your Friday reading recommendation | 3/31/2023 #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Here is Paul Tran's "Copernicus": https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/01/20/copernicus
And the finalist page for Lamda Literary Awards 2023: https://lambdaliterary.org/awards/current-finalists/
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- At first I thought this was a photo of DC #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- Why your voice is like a fingerprint
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- The features that make your voice unique.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Most of us use our voices every day to communicate one way or another, but the way we produce sound is so much more than the words we say. Our voices are about as unique as fingerprints — similar instruments, but with endless variations.
As humans, we each essentially produce sound in the same physiological way, but it’s not as simple as plucking a guitar string. And when we talk we’re dropping clues about who we are, what we do, and where we’re from. A dialect can hint where a person is from. An expressive range might suggest a person is a singer or actor. A slow and quiet tone could mean a person is feeling sad or tired. Check out the video above to learn more about the ins and outs of how we produce sounds and why no one else sounds like you.
For more on the ins and outs of how we produce so...
- Title
- Why China's population is shrinking
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- And why that’s a big deal.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
For the first time in six decades, China’s population is shrinking, and it’s predicted it could create a demographic crisis. That’s because China isn’t just shrinking, it’s also aging. And the majority of Chinese couples are not considering having more than one child. Because of this, China is predicted to lose nearly 50 percent of its population by 2100.
China’s population decline can be traced back to the restrictive family-planning policies launched in the 1970s and an impressive economic boom fueled by China’s huge labor force.
China’s modernization brought rapid urbanization, rising income levels, and better education to large parts of China. Combined, these policies and growth have given China one of the lowest birth rates in the world.
Today, China is trying to reverse its populatio...
- Title
- Your Friday reading recommendation | 3/24/2023 #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds.html
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- How Western weapons transformed the war in Ukraine
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- And how the US influences which weapons they get, and which ones they don't.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
When Russia first invaded Ukraine in 2014, the US was hesitant to send more than supplies to the Ukrainian army. But when Russia launched a full-scale invasion in 2022, the US changed its tune. President Joe Biden quickly began approving huge packages of weapons to help Ukraine stymie the Russian attack. And for the first couple of weeks, it worked. The Ukrainian army used weapons from the US and its Western allies to stop Russia from capturing Kiev.
As the war progressed, so did US help. It sent heavy artillery in the spring, and then agreed to eventually send tanks in winter 2023. But each time, it deliberated over whether Ukraine can effectively use the weapons, and whether they'll provoke Russia to escalate the conflict.
So far, that hasn’t happened, and the US...
- Title
- How to win at Monopoly #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Playing games this spring break? Revisit an old favorite 😈
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
![Chasing Community and a Dream One Video at a Time [Advertiser Content From TikTok]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/F4umCSwifXU/2.jpg)
- Title
- Chasing Community and a Dream One Video at a Time [Advertiser Content From TikTok]
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Jessie Whittington made friends within the online DIY community and built a successful soap-making business along the way. How did she do it? She was able to find and use the tools she needed to pursue her dream with the help of TikTok.
- Title
- What does “chance of rain” really mean? #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- If there’s a 16% chance that it will rain in your area, what does that actually mean?
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- Why the dyslexic brain is misunderstood
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- How dyslexia is a differently organized brain.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
The brain isn’t naturally wired to read. It’s a task that requires explicit instruction for our brains to activate different areas, including those that control vision, sound, and meaning. For fluent readers, the result is a complicated reading circuit — connected by neural pathways of white matter — to allow us to process words within milliseconds. But this reading circuit looks different for people with dyslexia.
For decades, the research was largely focused on how this different brain organization often resulted in delays and difficulty in areas like reading, spelling, and grammar. And today, there continues to be stigma and misconceptions around a dyslexia diagnosis.
But the challenges of dyslexia often overshadow another part of the picture. Research has repeatedly shown dyslexia is...
- Title
- Your Friday reading recommendation | 3/17/2023 #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/03/03/ryodan-anime-teens-kremlin-russia-ukraine/
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
![The Art of Teaching [Advertiser Content From TikTok]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/tRBrmtqX1VA/1.jpg)
- Title
- The Art of Teaching [Advertiser Content From TikTok]
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- After struggling to read at a young age, this man is dedicated to helping parents teach their toddlers how to read.
- Title
- Why was the East Palestine train so long?
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Railroad companies have been cutting jobs to save money. Could that have contributed to the crash in East Palestine? Liz Scheltens dives in.
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- Ozempic is a game-changer. Here’s how it works.
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- This diabetes drug could be the future of weight management.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Ozempic, a medication developed to manage type 2 diabetes, has been in the news a lot lately because of one of its signature side effects: drastic weight loss. Both Ozempic and Wegovy, Ozempic’s counterpart approved specifically for weight loss by the FDA, are brand names of a drug called semaglutide. Semaglutide is one of several drugs that mimics a crucial digestive hormone called glucagon-like peptide 1, or GLP-1. It amplifies a process our bodies perform naturally.
GLP-1 is released in our intestines when we eat, and there are receptors for the hormone in cells all over the body. In the pancreas, GLP-1 promotes the production of insulin and suppresses the production of glucagon. This helps insulin-resistant bodies, like those with type 2 diabetes or obesity, manage blood sugar levels. In th...
- Title
- Inside Top Gun: Maverick’s Oscar-winning sound design #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Wanna watch the full video? Click here: https://youtu.be/K5E8eeyAQLM
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- Why the red carpet wasn’t red at the Oscars #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Last night was the first time since 1961 that the Oscar’s red carpet wasn’t red. Here’s why.
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- What happens when you crack your knuckles? #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- What happens to your knuckles when you crack them? And does it cause arthritis?
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- Why Top Gun won the Oscar for sound
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Supervising sound producer Al Nelson breaks down the Mach 10 sequence.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
One of the most exciting things about Top Gun: Maverick is their emphasis on practical effects. Most times, when you see the film’s actors struggling against high-level g-forces, that struggle is real. The actors spent months training to be in planes doing their own stunts, and the whole film feels grounded because of it.
Most times these sequences were shot practically … but not every time. In the film's incredible seven-minute opener (also known as the Darkstar sequence), nearly everything we see is completely fake. The plane used to go Mach 10 doesn’t really exist yet. It’s a prototype for a plane that will exist in the future, built by Lockheed Martin. While a prototype of that plane was used for taxiing around the runway, anytime we see the plane in the air it’s entirely ...
- Title
- Sims 2 vs Sims 4 😱 #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Which Sims character creator is your favorite? Is too much choice too much of a good thing?
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- Why so many people need glasses now
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Nearsightedness is on the rise worldwide. How did that happen?
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Over the past few decades, children around the world have been diagnosed with nearsightedness at increasingly high rates. Nearsightedness, or myopia, can stabilize over time, but it doesn’t get better — meaning that myopes will rely on glasses, contact lenses, or corrective surgery to see for their entire lives.
The blurriness associated with myopia is caused by eyeballs that have grown too long; in a stretched-out shape, eyes aren’t able to properly focus images onto the retina. Researchers believe that two culprits are to blame: the lack of outdoor play, and prolonged time doing up-close activities like using digital devices.
In some countries — like Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea, where over 80 percent of students graduating high school are myopic — intervening t...
- Title
- Train companies refuse to pay for better braking systems #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Could a newer braking system have mitigated the damage from the Ohio train derailment?
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- How America’s richest donate their money
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Billionaires don’t give the same way we do.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Every year, publications like Forbes release lists detailing the generosity of society’s richest philanthropists. But the raw numbers of their donations don’t tell the whole story of how ultra-wealthy charitable giving tends to work. We took that data and put it on a big chart that highlights exactly how much of each billionaire’s personal wealth is going toward charitable giving.
This video outlines how wealth inequality creates a distorted view of the generosity of America’s billionaires. We examine the causes their money goes to support, like education and public health. And we break down the actual methods they use to move massive amounts of donated money around, like foundations and secretive donor-advised funds.
Measuring wealth and philanthropic giving is difficult and subjective. ...
- Title
- The history of the "cure chair" #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- This popular yard chair wasn’t just made to take in the views of the mountains they’re currently named after.
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- Why kids don’t get as cold as adults do
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- There's a special kind of fat that kids have more of.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
55 degrees in the summer feels colder than 55 degrees in the winter. And 55 degrees as an adult likely feels colder than 55 degrees as a kid. But it’s not just a feeling. It all has to do with how our bodies use fat — specifically brown fat, a lesser-known type of fat that can produce roughly 300 times more heat than any other tissue in the body.
Brown fat isn’t the type of fat that adds to our weight (that’s white fat). Brown fat has the sole purpose of being burnt for heating the body, and it’s extremely effective at that. It only appears in specific parts of the body: around the neck, spine, heart, and kidneys. (It clumps around major blood vessels, in order to warm the blood as it passes through the body.)
But brown fat is temporary and can adapt to pressure in a similar way...
- Title
- Labeling the fungi in The Last of Us intro #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Any other ideas on what kind of fungi we might be looking at? Let us know your thoughts and sound off about how much you love slime mold below.
Thank you to Kew Mycology! Check them out on Instagram (KewGardens) or Twitter (KewScience and Kewmycology) to learn all about the fascinating world of fungi that definitely aren’t turning us into zombies.
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox...
- Title
- Why is everything getting so expensive?
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Diapers, food, rent — around the world, prices are rising. So what can we do about it?
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Right now, inflation is inescapable. At the grocery store, the gas station, and in almost every country in the world, people are playing more — way more — than they did just a couple of years ago for everything.
In this video, we explore three explanations for why prices are rising, as well as different policy options for bringing them down.
Further reading:
Coalition of Parent and Community Organizations Accuse Procter & Gamble of Price Gouging in Letter to CEO Jon Moeller About Skyrocketing Diaper Costs: https://parentstogetheraction.org/2022/09/19/open-letter-from-parents-to-procter-gamble-ceo/#:~:text=The%20overall%20cost%20of%20diapers,to%20keep%20their%20babies%20dry.
America’s monopoly problem, in one chart: https://...
- Title
- How South Koreans got so much taller
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Humans have gotten a lot taller in the past 100 years — and South Korea shows us why
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
A century ago, humans were quite short. For example, the average South Korean woman was about 4-foot-7, or 142 centimeters, while the average American woman was about 5-foot-2, or 159 centimeters. Humans were fairly short by today’s standards, and that was true throughout nearly all of human history.
But in the past century, human heights have skyrocketed. Globally, humans grew about 3 inches on average, but in South Korea, women grew an astounding 8 inches and men grew 6 inches.
South Korea is a unique example. In the early part of the 20th century, South Korea was a poor and hungry country. But drastic economic growth fueled improved living conditions.
For example, in 1961 the country’s food supply was about 2,100 calories per pers...
- Title
- This horror film is more political than you think #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- In 1968, Night of the Living Dead introduced us to the zombie genre. It was also one of the first horror movies with a smart, strong, and heroic Black lead.
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- Iconic movie trailers, explained by a trailer editor
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- How trailers work, explained by someone who makes them.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Trailer editor Bill Neil works at Buddha Jones making movie trailers that scare, excite, and, most importantly, get people to want to see a movie.
In this video, he explains the things that a trailer editor notices about trailers old and new, great and terrible, and somewhere in the middle. Starting with trailers from the '60s, he gets all the way to the present while reviewing techniques like sound design, “rug pulls,” and how to hide fake blood.
Note: The headline on this piece has been updated.
Previous headline: Movie trailer editor deconstructs iconic trailers
Make sure you never miss behind-the-scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise an...
- Title
- How Syria's dictator blocked aid to earthquake victims
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Victims in northwestern Syria have received little aid since the earthquake hit. Here's why.
Sources: Washington Post, ACLED, USGS, Al Jazeera, UN
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- Do crosswalk buttons actually work? #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Did you know that most crosswalk buttons do nothing to change the flow of traffic?
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
- Title
- How these buildings made Turkey-Syria’s earthquake so deadly
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- And can the buildings be fixed?
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
On the morning of February 6, a pair of powerful earthquakes, 7.8 and 7.6, hit Turkey and Syria. On top of that, the region was hit with strong aftershocks, which made the destruction even worse. The death toll is already in the tens of thousands with many victims still lying beneath the rubble.
Multiple factors led to this earthquake being so devastating, like fault lines, neighborhoods still reeling from war and delayed rescue missions. But what made this earthquake particularly catastrophic was unsafe buildings. According to the Turkish government, over 6,000 buildings collapsed because of this earthquake. And that’s likely because of the way they were built.
This video will explain how bad building design made the Turkey-Syria earthquake more deadly than it had to be.
Correction: The map a...
- Title
- Russia’s private military force, explained
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Inside the Wagner Group’s playbook.
Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
On January 10, 2023, the Ukrainian town of Soledar was reportedly captured. But it wasn’t captured by the Russian army under Vladimir Putin’s command. The announcement came from a relatively unknown man, Yevgeny Prigozhin, who said his troops now controlled the town. The troops are part of the Wagner Group, a private army that has become a prominent force alongside Russian troops in the war against Ukraine.
But they aren’t new. They've been secretly fighting for Russia around the world since 2014. In this video, we take a look at their playbook and examine the three main steps they use to spread Russian influence around the world in brutal ways. We also look at how they’ve transformed from a ghost army to a recognizable private military group with insignias and an online brand, changing the nature of this secr...
- Title
- Why is there a rise in ADHD ads? #shorts
- Date posted
- 3 years ago
- Description
- Is your "For You Page" full of ADHD ads? There’s actually a specific reason why. Vox senior producer Christophe Haubursin explains.
Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don't miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out http://www.vox.com
Make sure you never miss behind the scenes content in the Vox Video newsletter, sign up here: http://vox.com/video-newsletter
Check out our full video catalog: http://goo.gl/IZONyE
Or our podcasts: https://www.vox.com/podcasts
Follow Vox on Facebook: http://goo.gl/U2g06o
If you value Vox’s unique explanatory journalism, support our work with a one-time or recurring contribution: http://www.vox.com/contribute-now
