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Title: Who’s buying all the guns? #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The number of guns in the US is skyrocketing. The rate of gun ownership is not.

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Why most Chinatowns look the same #shorts

Title: Why most Chinatowns look the same #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The iconic "Chinatown" look started as a survival strategy.

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Title: Why fake punches in movies look real
Runtime: 6:46
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Punching in movies, explained by someone getting punched repeatedly.

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Movie fight scenes at their best are spectacular, visceral, and impactful. Films like Creed, John Wick, and Bullet Train have scenes that make you feel every punch.

But not all fight scenes are created equal. We’ve all seen scenes that rely on quick cuts to conceal the absence of actual physical contact, or scenes that just don’t land. Crafting a fight that immerses the audience and makes them feel like they’re in the midst of the action requires a delicate dance between choreography, the work of stunt performers, strategic camera angles, immersive sound effects, and, above all, a compelling story.

Most of the time, actors and stuntmen aren’t really hitting each other. So how do they make it feel realistic? In Vox’s latest, stunt coordinator and second unit directo...

The problem with Monaco Grand Prix #shorts

Title: The problem with Monaco Grand Prix #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: One of the biggest F1 races in the world also has the shortest circuit.

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Title: Sudan's conflict, explained
Runtime: 10:48
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: How Sudan's top two military men turned on each other

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On December 19, 2018, protests broke out in small cities throughout Sudan amid an economic crisis, eventually reaching the country's capital, Khartoum. These protests posed the biggest challenge to Sudan's longest-serving dictator, Omar al-Bashir, who throughout his regime did everything he could to remain in power. Bashir relied on various security sectors to protect him from being overthrown. However, his plan ultimately failed on April 11, 2019, when the country's army, the Sudanese Armed Forces, and a paramilitary force, the Rapid Support Forces, sided with the protesters and carried out a military coup, toppling Bashir.

The end of Bashir's regime brought hope to the protesters, but they remained skeptical about the men who had overthrown him. SAF’s Abdel Fattah Burhan and RSF’s Mohamed Hamdan ...

The surprises we leave when we exit the womb #shorts

Title: The surprises we leave when we exit the womb #shorts
Runtime: 0:46
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Our pals over at Vox’s Unexplainable are exploring pregnancy mysteries in a new miniseries. Check it out wherever you get your pods.

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One of the earliest altered digital photo scandals in the media #shorts

Title: One of the earliest altered digital photo scandals in the media #shorts
Runtime: 0:56
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The 1982 National Geographic cover photo scandal, explained by Vox senior producer Coleman Lowndes.

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This weekend reading rec is all over twitter right now #shorts

Title: This weekend reading rec is all over twitter right now #shorts
Runtime: 0:58
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Here's your weekend reading recommendation for the weekend of May 19, 2023.

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The reason why medieval babies look like middle aged men #shorts

Title: The reason why medieval babies look like middle aged men #shorts
Runtime: 0:53
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Why do medieval paintings of babies look like ads for heart medication? Phil Edwards explains.

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Why you’re probably not doing your “dream job”

Title: Why you’re probably not doing your “dream job”
Runtime: 6:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: What jobs do 15-year-olds expect to do at 30?

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Every few years, thousands of teenagers are asked a very simple question: What job do you expect to have when you're 30?

It's an important question because having an answer helps teenagers plan for the future, whether that's taking a specific class or deciding whether to attend college. That's why the OECD's PISA survey has asked this question since 2000.

But in the last 20 years, we've seen a concerning trend: More and more teenagers name the same basic jobs, like doctor or lawyer, almost as if they're picking jobs out of a children's book. And even more worrisome is that more and more teenagers don't even name a job.

All of this hints that today's teenagers aren't thinking enough about their future plans – and, fair or not, this lack of career preparation will likely have lifelo...

Who is this tween following Kim Jong Un everywhere? #shorts

Title: Who is this tween following Kim Jong Un everywhere? #shorts
Runtime: 0:50
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Vox reporter Ellen Ioanes explains why this tween is following North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un everywhere.

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How Palestinians were expelled from their homes

Title: How Palestinians were expelled from their homes
Runtime: 16:26
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The Palestinian catastrophe, explained.

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Around the time that Israelis celebrate Independence Day, Palestinians commemorate “The Nakba,” or “The Catastrophe.” The Nakba was a series of events, centered around 1948, that expelled hundreds of thousands Palestinians from their homeland and killed thousands. The Nakba isn’t the beginning of the story, but it’s a key part of Palestinian history — and the root of Israel’s creation.

Prior to the Nakba, Palestine had a thriving population — largely made up of Arabs — that had lived and worked the land for centuries. But with the founding of Zionism, years of British meddling, and a British pledge to help create a Jewish state in Palestine — things began to change drastically. By 1947, with increasing tensions between Jewish settlers and Palestinian Arabs — the British left Palestine, and t...

Title: How A24 took over Hollywood
Runtime: 9:56
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: They went from solely distributing uncut indie gems to getting everything they made everywhere all at once

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When you think back on your favorite movies, you might think about their famous directors or actors. But recently, a new name has become synonymous with indie film culture and appeal, and it’s not an individual, but a studio.

You have to admit, their logo is pretty cool.

A24 swept the 2022 Oscars. They’ve made some of the most distinct and interesting movies and TV shows of the past 10 years. But most importantly, they’ve garnered a reputation for quality — and their brand loyalty so strong that hipster film bros everywhere are wearing A24 t-shirts and caps right now.

But unlike Universal or Paramount, studios that have been around for over a century, A24 has done this in just over a decade. How did this independent ...

Why Texas judges have so much power right now

Title: Why Texas judges have so much power right now
Runtime: 6:56
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Why is Texas so good at changing policy for the whole US?

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In April 2021, Texas sued the US government over immigration policy. But they didn’t sue in Texas’s state capital; or in Washington, DC; or in any of the five federal courthouses along Texas’s border with Mexico. They filed the suit in a small Texas city called Victoria, far from any important government officials or immigration centers. And they did it there because they knew that if they did, a judge named Drew Tipton would be assigned to their case.

In the time since Joe Biden has become president, Texas has sued the federal government 31 times. That’s a lot, but what’s more striking is that eight of those lawsuits have been heard by Judge Tipton specifically. The reason that’s weird is that, normally, judges are supposed to be assigned to cases randomly. But in Texas, you can choose ...

New York used to be the oyster capital of the world #shorts

Title: New York used to be the oyster capital of the world #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: This is the rise and fall (and rise again) of New York oysters.

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These photos once ended child labor in the US #shorts

Title: These photos once ended child labor in the US #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: And the 3 techniques used by Lewis Hines for these photos.

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Where King Charles’s giant diamonds come from #shorts

Title: Where King Charles’s giant diamonds come from #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: If you’re tuning into the coronation, it’ll be hard to ignore two giant diamonds in King Charles III’s crown and scepter. Here’s where they came from.

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Should we reflect sunlight to cool the planet?

Title: Should we reflect sunlight to cool the planet?
Runtime: 9:57
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Solar geoengineering might help lower temps, but it’s a controversial approach.

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The climate change crisis has become so dire that we’re being forced not only to think of ways to curb emissions and mitigate greenhouse gases, but of ways to adapt to our current situation to buy ourselves more time.

One of those technologies is called solar geoengineering. It happens in nature when huge volcanic eruptions cover the stratosphere with ash: That ash forms a layer that reflects sunlight and cools the planet underneath. Solar geoengineering takes advantage of that principle, using different scientific methods to make the planet more reflective overall. The problem is, deploying it would require messing with our very complicated climate on a massive scale, and many scientists don’t think the risks are worth it.

To get an in-depth look at the pr...

Implicit bias starts in preschool #shorts

Title: Implicit bias starts in preschool #shorts
Runtime: 0:49
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: When preschool teachers expect misbehavior, who do they watch?

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Title: An AI artist explains his workflow
Runtime: 8:18
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: How it works — and why it takes a surprisingly long time to make something good.

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How does an AI artist maintain consistency with a recurring character? While AI art may appear to involve just a few clicks, it can be quite time-consuming.

The video above demonstrates the abridged workflow of the anonymous creator behind "Stelfie" — a time-traveling selfie-taker. The artist's process involves custom 3D-generated heads, initial sketches, and extensive toggling between Photoshop and the AI program Stable Diffusion to achieve the ideal appearance.

Throughout this process, the artist employs typical AI art tools such as inpainting (modifying specific image areas), outpainting (extending beyond the frame), and denoising (controlling image alterations). AI art can be as labor-intensive as traditional art, but its distinct outcomes make the final ...

This is one of the most censored books in America #shorts

Title: This is one of the most censored books in America #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: This week’s weekend reading rec is one of the most censored books in America: Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe.

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How to fix clean energy’s storage problem

Title: How to fix clean energy’s storage problem
Runtime: 5:38
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: We can’t truly switch to renewable energy without a breakthrough.

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In the past few decades, solar and wind energy have made remarkable progress; they're now satisfying significant portions of our energy demand. But there's a problem holding us back from relying on them even more: They can’t be stored very well.

Solar energy is only generated while the sun is up, and wind energy while the wind is blowing. But our power grids are designed to respond to demand whenever it occurs. Even suddenly, as is the case with storms and heat waves.

When solar and wind are not available and demand spikes, the power companies need to burn fossil fuels — particularly natural gas, because it can be stored easily. If we ever want a power grid that relies solely on solar and wind energy, we’ll need to come up with ways to store them. Luckily, experts and ...

Record number of demands to censor library materials in 2022 #shorts

Title: Record number of demands to censor library materials in 2022 #shorts
Runtime: 0:59
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: There were a record number of demands to censor library materials in 2022. Halley Brown called the American Library Association, which published this data, to find out why.

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Why people want Dianne Feinstein to resignstein #shorts

Title: Why people want Dianne Feinstein to resignstein #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Trump appointed more federal judges in 4 years than any other modern president. Biden is trying to catch up, but there’s a problem: Senator Dianne Feinstein, the crucial vote on judges, is MIA and no one knows when she’s coming back.

Correction: Senator Feinstein was hospitalized two months ago, but has spent most of the time since recuperating at home.

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Title: How TikTok dances trained an AI to see
Runtime: 8:08
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: And remember the Mannequin Challenge? Yep, they used that too.

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The quest for computer vision requires lots of data — including real world images. But that can be hard to find, which has led researchers to look in some pretty creative places.

The above video shows how researchers used Tik Tok dances and the Mannequin Challenge to train AI. The quest is for “ground truth” — real world examples that can be used to train or grade an AI on its guesses. Tik Tok datasets provide this by showing lots of movement, clothing types, backgrounds, and people. That diversity is key to train a model that can handle the randomness of the real world.

The same thing happens with the Mannequin Challenge — all those people pretending to stand still gave researchers — and their models — more real world data to train with than they ever could have hop...

White, pink, and brown noise, explained #shorts

Title: White, pink, and brown noise, explained #shorts
Runtime: 0:59
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: White, pink, and brown noise explained by Coleman Lowndes.

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Mifepristone is safer than antibiotics, Viagra, and pregnancy #shorts

Title: Mifepristone is safer than antibiotics, Viagra, and pregnancy #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The Supreme Court just overturned a lower court decision that would have banned the abortion pill mifepristone. But the challenge never should have got this far-- it’s safer than lots of other prescription drugs.

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Sources:

Association of Azithromycin Use With Cardiovascular Mortality. JAMA Netw Open. 2020;3(6):e208199. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.8199

Analysis of Medication Abortion Risk and the FDA report “Mifepristone U.S. Post-Marketing Adverse Events Summary through 12/31/2018” UCSF Bixby Center for Reproductive Health

Information about Mifepristone for Medical Termination of Pregnancy Through Ten Weeks Gestation, US Food and Drug Administration

The U.S. Maternal Mortality Crisis Continues to Worsen: An International Comparison, The C...

The big problem with cement, and how to fix it

Title: The big problem with cement, and how to fix it
Runtime: 8:11
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Concrete emits a ton of carbon. Here's how we get it to net-zero.

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Cement accounts for 8 percent of our global carbon emissions. It’s also an incredibly difficult material to do without: It’s the glue that holds together the rock, sand, and water in concrete. And concrete is the building block of the world: It’s in our buildings, our streets, our sidewalks, and our infrastructure. Aside from water, there’s no material on earth we use more of.

In order to get to net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050, we’ll have to address how we build and how we make cement. Because cement production is so closely linked to urbanization and development, China accounts for a vast majority of today’s cement-related emissions. Other countries with more development in their future will need to emit more emissions to produce cement, too. All that means the whole world needs ...

Title: Are men the default in AI art? #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: AI kinda has a thing for men. By Joss Fong.

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Title: Can AI kill the greenscreen?
Runtime: 8:31
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Can a color really beat the AI revolution? For now, it looks like it can.

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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.

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The case against the term “jaywalk” #shorts

Title: The case against the term “jaywalk” #shorts
Runtime: 0:36
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Professor of Urban Planning Robert Schneider explains why he doesn’t use the term “jaywalk.”

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What Florida’s 6-week abortion ban really means #shorts

Title: What Florida’s 6-week abortion ban really means #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Florida’s new law leaves a tiny window for abortion access. By Christina Thornell and Joss Fong.

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Weekend Reading Rec: Kids are not content | #shorts

Title: Weekend Reading Rec: Kids are not content | #shorts
Runtime: 0:57
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

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Spotted Lanternflies are coming back #shorts

Title: Spotted Lanternflies are coming back #shorts
Runtime: 0:53
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Get ready for another summer striking down this beautiful but invasive bug.

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Title: How solar energy got so cheap
Runtime: 6:31
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Cheap solar is a policy success story.

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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.

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Title: Why AI doesn't speak every language
Runtime: 10:15
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: It could learn them all. But will it?

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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.

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Further reading:
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How spring sprang too early for a lot of the US #shorts

Title: How spring sprang too early for a lot of the US #shorts
Runtime: 0:57
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The rhythm of the season got thrown out of whack. Here’s what it means.

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The Trump investigations you should actually care about

Title: The Trump investigations you should actually care about
Runtime: 6:35
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The four criminal investigations into the former president, explained

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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...

Yes, you can run for president from prison #shorts

Title: Yes, you can run for president from prison #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
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

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The tricky plan to pull CO2 out of the air

Title: The tricky plan to pull CO2 out of the air
Runtime: 6:27
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: Will carbon dioxide removal work? It has to.

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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
Runtime: 0:54
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: How a failed arcade game paved the way for the most iconic character in video game history.

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Why Ramadan starts on a different day each year #shorts

Title: Why Ramadan starts on a different day each year #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: How the lunar cycle determines Islamic months and holidays.

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Title: Why AI art struggles with hands
Runtime: 9:57
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: And how can it get better?

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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.

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Title: Why Israelis are protesting #shorts
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Title: What is an indictment? #shorts
Runtime: 0:51
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: What is an indictment and what does it mean if one is arraigned?

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Your Friday reading recommendation | 3/31/2023 #shorts

Title: Your Friday reading recommendation | 3/31/2023 #shorts
Runtime: 1:00
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/

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At first I thought this was a photo of DC #shorts

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Title: Why your voice is like a fingerprint
Runtime: 6:11
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: The features that make your voice unique.

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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.

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Title: Why China's population is shrinking
Runtime: 7:40
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: And why that’s a big deal.

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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...

Your Friday reading recommendation | 3/24/2023 #shorts

Title: Your Friday reading recommendation | 3/24/2023 #shorts
Runtime: 0:52
Date posted: 3 years ago
Description: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/mark-zuckerberg-metaverse-meta-horizon-worlds.html

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