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The next pandemic could come from our farms
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- The next pandemic could come from our farms
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- 6 years ago
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- We've engineered the perfect environment for deadly new germs.
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In the last half-century, the global production of meat has undergone a seismic shift. While meat was once mostly raised on small farms, today almost all the meat we eat comes from industrialized “factory” farms, known as “concentrated animal feeding operations,” or CAFOs. Animals in CAFOs are often packed closely together, which makes them both efficient and, for many, ethically dubious. But infectious disease experts worry about CAFOs for a different reason: Because they’re also an ideal environment for virus and bacteria mutations that human immune systems have never seen. In other words, they’re a highly likely source for the next pandemic.
You can read more about the pathogen risks in factory farming at Vox.com:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/4/22/21228158/coronavirus-pandemic-risk-factory-farming-meat<...
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- Help us cover the US election
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- 6 years ago
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- What do you think the candidates should be talking about?
UPDATE: You can watch the results of this project at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5eKjlXtsOo6SDi2ZvcHQ69q
The US has a huge election coming up, but to explain it, we want your help. Instead of deciding on our own what the most important issues are, we want to know what you think is important. What do you wish the candidates in the 2020 US election would talk about?
Once we’ve heard from you, we’ll update our Community tab with the list of the ideas that we’re turning into videos, so you’ll know what’s in the works. Starting in September, we’ll publish one video from that list every week.
A lot of news coverage of elections focuses on the polls, or the candidates’ personalities, or predictions about who might win. With this project, we want to do something different, and focus instead on how your lives might be affected by the election’s outco...
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- The risky way to speed up a coronavirus vaccine
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- 6 years ago
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- A Covid-19 vaccine could take a long time. Some scientists are proposing a controversial plan that could get us one faster.
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With thousands of people dying of Covid-19 every day, the sooner a vaccine can be deemed safe and effective, the better. But vaccine development is a lengthy process that isn’t easy to rush, and that’s in part because of the final step in testing any vaccine: the phase III trial. Phase III requires tens of thousands of volunteers, each of whom get either a placebo or an experimental vaccine. The problem is the next part: Vaccine developers have to wait until a statistically significant number of them, going about their lives normally, eventually get naturally infected. This can take years.
To speed that up, some epidemiologists and scientists are calling for something called a human challenge trial, in which a subject who has been given the vaccine is deliberately infect...
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- The global coffee crisis is coming
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- 6 years ago
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- It's becoming harder and harder to grow.
Sources and Additional Reading:
Andres Guhl http://etd.fcla.edu/UF/UFE0003960/guhl_a.pdf
https://revistas.uniandes.edu.co/doi/pdf/10.7440/res32.2009.08
Phillip A. Hough and Jennifer Blair https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Mike Hoffman https://fortune.com/2017/06/14/trump-paris-climate-change-agreement-coffee-prices/
Christian Bunn et al. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-014-1306-x
Davis et al., https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/1/eaav3473
CABI https://www.cabi.org/
Federación Nacional de Cafeteros https://federaciondecafeteros.org/
Richard Schiffman (Yale) https://e360.yale.edu/features/as-cli...
Jessica Eise and Natalie Lambert https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/11777/2907
https://apps.fas.usda.gov/newgainapi/api/report/downloadreportbyfilename?filename=Co...
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- The coronavirus is mutating. Now what?
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- 6 years ago
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- The coronavirus is mutating, and scientists are concerned about one mutation in particular: D614G.
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- The British Museum is full of stolen artifacts
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- 6 years ago
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- And so far, it isn't giving them back.
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Some of the world’s greatest cultural and historical treasures are housed in London’s British Museum, and a significant number of them were taken during Britain’s centuries-long imperial rule. In recent years, many of the countries missing their cultural heritage have been asking for some of these items back.
Benin City in Nigeria is one of those places. They've been calling for the return of the Benin Bronzes, hundreds of artifacts looted in 1897 when British soldiers embarked a punitive expedition to Benin. Many are now housed in the British Museum.
And it's just the beginning. As the world reckons with the damage inflicted during Europe’s colonial global takeover, the calls for these items to be returned are getting louder and louder.
To dig deeper into the 1897 Benin Punitive Expedition and the Benin Bronzes check out this...
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- How “forever chemicals” polluted America’s water
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- 6 years ago
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- Why 99% of Americans have these chemicals in their blood.
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North Carolina’s Cape Fear River is a massive water system. It stretches across the lower half of the state, collecting runoff from 29 counties and providing water to millions of people. But in the city of Wilmington, where the river meets the Atlantic Ocean, the water has residents worried.
In a 2019 test of tap water, Wilmington and neighboring Brunswick county were among the top five areas for high levels of PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — a group of man-made chemicals commonly used for making nonstick or water-resistant products. Now North Carolina is reckoning with the legacy of pollution upstream — and discovering what decades of PFAS contamination means for the rest of the country.
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https://w...
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- Facebook showed this ad to 95% women. Is that a problem?
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- 6 years ago
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- How algorithmic ad targeting can segregate us.
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In 2019, Facebook settled a lawsuit with civil rights groups following the revelation that advertisers using their platform could use the targeting options to exclude many specific demographics from seeing their ads. It's now more difficult for an unscrupulous advertiser to use Facebook's platform to discriminate.
However, even when you remove human bias from the system, Facebook's ad delivery algorithms can result in biased outcomes. According to research from Northeastern University, Facebook sometimes displays ads to highly skewed audiences based on the content of the ad.
By purchasing ads and inputting neutral targeting optio...
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- Tony Hawk breaks down skateboarding’s legendary spots
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- 6 years ago
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- Full pipes, ledges, stair sets, and pools: These are the skate spots that made legends.
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Tony Hawk, the legendary skateboarder, and Iain Borden, an architectural historian, are your guides in this deep dive into skateboarding history via the sport’s most iconic spots. From a giant pipe in the foothills of California's San Gabriel Mountains to a 20-stair set at a high school in Orange County, these everyday locations have become a proving ground for skaters all over the world.
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Skateboard magazine archives:
Skateboarder Magazine 1964-1979 - https://skateboarding.transworld.net/skateboarder-magazine-archives/
Vintage Skateboard Magazines: http://vintageskateboardmagazines.com/new/magazines.html
And linked here is a Google Doc listing every skate vid...
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- The most notorious act of protest for women’s suffrage
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- 6 years ago
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- In 1913, suffragette Emily Davison disrupted a major horse race in the name of winning British women the vote.
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British suffragettes in the early 20th century used spectacle and drama to draw attention to their fight to win women the vote. They delivered public speeches, marched, displayed colorful banners, and got thrown in jail, all in an effort to pressure legislators to extend suffrage to women.
But after a violent clash with police in November 1910 — a day known as “Black Friday” — their tactics changed. They began committing random acts of property damage: smashing windows, setting fire to buildings, even destroying fine art on public display.
The most radical act of destruction came in 1913, when militant suffragette Emily Wilding Davison threw herself under King George V’s racehorse at a major public event. She died of her injuries and became a suffragette martyr. ...
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- How slow motion works
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- 6 years ago
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Slow motion is a key part of modern visual culture, from iPhone selfies to movies. So how does it work?
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards explores how slow motion works and how it became a part of movie history. It’s a history that starts at the very beginning of photography, when pioneers like Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge discovered that capturing images required capturing motion, too.
Slow motion was key in the silent film days, in which camera operators would overcrank their cameras (slowing down footage) or undercrank (speeding it up). These experiments could range from goofy to dreamy. Soon after the addition of sound, Hollywood embraced a standard speed for movies — and slow motion became an even more important tool.
As the video shows, it showed up in...
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- The fight for America's 51st state, explained
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- 6 years ago
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- Washington, DC is closer than ever to becoming a state. Could it actually happen?
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On June 26, 2020, the US House of Representatives voted to make America’s capital city, Washington, DC, the country’s 51st state. It was a historic vote, and the closest the country has come to adding a new state in over 60 years. But it was also, for the time being, completely symbolic. Because at least in 2020, DC has no chance of actually becoming a state.
That June 26 vote was almost entirely along party lines; Democrats mostly voted in favor of DC statehood, and Republicans against it. That’s because making DC a state would give the Democrats additional seats in Congress, potentially affecting the balance of power between the parties. It’s why President Trump and the Republican-controlled Senate have both promised to strike down any bid for DC statehood. And in fact, statehood in the US has always been a pol...
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- Why scientists are so worried about this glacier
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- 6 years ago
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- It's at the heart of Antarctica and on the verge of collapse.
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Man-made climate change is warming the planet's atmosphere and oceans, and the effects are being felt the most at the poles. In Antarctica, home to the largest chunk of ice on earth, ice shelves and glaciers are beginning to collapse, and one in particular could spell disaster. The Thwaites Glacier, in West Antarctica, has retreated more than 14 kilometers in the last two decades as warm ocean water undermines it. The glacier is situated on a downward slope that falls deep into the center of Antarctica. It's why scientists are racing to find out how close it is to total collapse - and what that would mean for future sea levels.
Further Reading:
The Doomsday Glacier, Rolling Stone Magazine:
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/the-doomsday-glacier-113792/
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- The story behind this iconic Olympics protest
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- 6 years ago
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- Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s 1968 US national anthem protest, explained.
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The image of sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raising their fists during a medal ceremony at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City is an enduring image of silent protest. But the key to understanding it goes beyond the black-gloved fists. All three medal winners, including silver medalist Peter Norman of Australia, wore buttons that read “Olympic Project for Human Rights.” The Olympic Project for Human Rights (OPHR) was a coalition of prominent athletes formed in 1967 that threatened to boycott participating in the upcoming Olympic games, in order to draw attention to systemic racism in the United States. The group, led by professor Harry Edwards, ultimately voted to compete in the games and hold their demonstrations there, which led to the now-iconic display on the medal stand following the men’s 200-meter final. This act got ...
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- How humans are making pandemics more likely
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- 6 years ago
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- It’s never been easier for animal pathogens to spill over into humans.
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Over the last 40 years, disease outbreaks among humans have become more and more frequent. The majority of those diseases are zoonoses, or diseases that originated in animals, like Ebola, West Nile virus, and probably Covid-19. But what makes zoonotic outbreaks likelier than ever is actually something humans are doing.
According to science journalist Sonia Shah, author of the 2017 book "Pandemic," the expansion of humans onto more and more of the planet’s land has increased the likelihood of disease outbreaks in two ways. First, as humans move into what were once animal habitats, we end up living closer to animals that might contain dangerous pathogens; and second, as we destroy or alter animal habitats, we’re driving away or killing off animals that once served as a “firewall” between those pathogens and us. And the ...
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- A brief history of police impunity in Black deaths
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- 6 years ago
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- Black Americans are more likely to be killed by police. The police are rarely held accountable.
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On May 25, 2020, Minneapolis police officers killed an unarmed black man named George Floyd. After video of Floyd’s death spread on the internet, protesters filled the streets across the US, demanding an end to police brutality and a reckoning with the unequal treatment of Black Americans, but also with another, more direct demand: That his killers be punished.
Until recent years, there was no reliable data on how many people in the US were killed by police every year, or on the legal outcomes of those killings. But data collected by the Mapping Police Violence project provides some answers, including one that has held steady every year for which we have data: Police are almost never charged with killing someone, and are even less often convicted.
The data shows that less than 3% of p...
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- Why the US has so many Filipino nurses
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- 6 years ago
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- The US colonized a country and built a labor supply.
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Filipino nurses have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus in the US. That’s because they make up an outsized portion of the nursing workforce. About one-third of all foreign-born nurses in the US are Filipino.
Since 1960, 150,000 Filipino nurses have come to work in the US. And that’s because over the past century the US built a pipeline that draws nurses from the Philippines every time it faces a shortage. This system began in the early 20th century when the US invaded and colonized the Philippines and lives on through today.
To understand the long history behind the large presence of Filipino nurses in the US and how and why it continues to this very day, watch the video above. And let us know what you think in the comments!
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- What "defund the police" really means
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- 6 years ago
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- It's not as radical as it sounds.
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Among those protesting police brutality in the US, there is a slogan that’s taken hold: “defund the police.” The key idea is a push to move the billions of dollars we spend on police in the US, to social services and other public spending. The disparities between policing budgets and those of other city agencies are massive. And while defunding the police might sound radical, it’s a policy activists have been talking about for decades. For some, it can mean reforms that simply lessen the police role in society, while for others — the slogan is a call to abolish the system and create something new entirely.
These ideas have all converged into the popular “defund the police” slogan, and the renewed energy around the movement is working.
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https://www.vox.com/21291901/nypd-billion-de-blasio-defund-police-reform<...
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- What's in a name? A lot, actually. [Advertiser content from Qatar Foundation]
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- 6 years ago
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- Almost everyone has school memories of the student — or students — who had to bear the brunt of having a name that others couldn’t, or wouldn’t, correctly pronounce. A name that was different from their peers, or “difficult” for a teacher to say out loud. But the question is, different from what, and why was the pronunciation challenging? A name like Kholoud may raise an eyebrow in the United States, but in many Arabic-speaking countries, the name is much more common.
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- Why America's police look like soldiers
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- 6 years ago
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- Why are the police bringing military assault rifles to protests? And where did they get them?
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Across the country, Americans protesting racial injustice and police brutality – the overwhelming majority of them peacefully – have been met by police forces that look more like an army. Officers have shown up to protests with riot gear, armored trucks, and military rifles. This is what America’s police now look like, and it’s the result of a decades-long buildup of military equipment among the country’s police departments. It began as a Reagan-era program to give police departments more resources to fight the War on Drugs, and has escalated ever since. Today, the idea of a militarized police force is baked into how American police see themselves.
Read more about the history of police militarization:
https://www.cato.org/publications/white-paper/overkill-rise-paramilitary-police-raids-america...
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- Why locusts are descending on East Africa
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- 6 years ago
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In a region where food is already scarce, billions of insects are now eating everything in sight.
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Since late 2019, East Africa and the Middle East have been experiencing their worst locust outbreaks in decades. A small locust swarm can eat more food than 35,000 people; but some locust swarms in the area have grown to over two thousand times that size. And it’s all coming right on the heels of a season of catastrophic flooding in the region.
But that isn’t a coincidence: The desert locust thrives when dry weather turns wet. And in 2018 and 2019, a series of freak weather events brought record-setting rainfall to the Middle East and East Africa. The result of all this is a region at risk of a famine, in the middle of a pandemic. And because freak weather is a hallmark of c...
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- Why all Americans should honor Juneteenth
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- 6 years ago
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- An historian explains the history and significance of the holiday.
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Note: This video was previously titled, "Juneteenth, explained." The title has been changed to better reflect the video's content.
When American schoolchildren learn about chattel slavery in the US, we’re often told it ended with Abraham Lincoln’s signature on the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
But, as late as June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Texas were still held in bondage. On that date, the Federal troops entered the state and began to punish slave holders and former confederates who refused to obey the law.
“Juneteenth is a deeply emotional moment for enslaved people,” says historian Karlos K. Hill, of the University of Oklahoma.
In Texas and across the country, emancipated African Americans began celebrating annually, with parades, concerts, and picnics. “Being able to go ...
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- Why American farmers are throwing out tons of milk
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- 6 years ago
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- The coronavirus supply chain problem, explained through milk.
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Coronavirus continues to infect nearly every aspect of American life — on US farms, it’s led to the widespread destruction of fresh food. Take milk, for example. Dairy farmers across the country have dumped millions of gallons of fresh milk. This, at a time when millions of Americans are dealing with food insecurity. Since so many schools and businesses are now closed, dairy farmers have nowhere to direct those products. Check out the video above to learn more about this break in the food supply chain, and why it’s not easy to redirect supply that was going to schools and businesses to consumers or food banks instead.
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- Empty middle seats on planes won't stop the coronavirus
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- 6 years ago
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- An empty seat won’t prevent transmission, but it might help a little.
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As coronavirus lockdowns loosen, flights are starting to fill up — leading many people to call for empty middle seats. Keeping middle seats open on a plane can help maintain physical distance between passengers. But it’s unlikely to prevent virus transmission; there are many other ways coronavirus can spread on an airplane. One thing’s for sure, though: a vacant middle seat will definitely affect how much we pay to fly.
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- Why this font is everywhere
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- 6 years ago
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- How Cooper Black became pop culture’s favorite font.
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There’s a typeface that has made a resurgence in the last couple of years. It’s appeared on hip hop album covers, food packaging, and advertising. Perhaps you know it from the Garfield comics, Tootsie Roll logo, or the Pet Sounds album cover by the Beach Boys. It's called Cooper Black, and its popularity and ubiquity has never waned in the hundred years since it was first designed.
In the video above, Steven Heller and Bethany Heck tell the story of Cooper Black and deconstruct all the reasons it's been pop culture's favorite font for so long.
Sources:
Design literacy: Understanding graphic design. Steven Heller, 2014.
The Book of Oz Cooper: an Appreciation of Oswald Bruce Cooper. Society of Typographic Arts, 1949.
Font Review Journal: https://fontreviewjournal.com/cooper/
Fonts In Use: https://fon...
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- The 1850s map that changed how we fight outbreaks
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- 6 years ago
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- It all starts with a pump.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards explores Dr. John Snow’s map of the Broad Street Pump, which changed epidemiology forever.
In 1854, news spread about a mysterious new cholera outbreak in London. At the time, doctors and scientists largely believed the disease traveled in a “miasma” — a floating cloud of sickness. Dr. John Snow suspected bad water might actually be the agent of transmission — and he wanted to prove it in time to stop the outbreak.
Through a mix of personal interviews, clever detective work, and data analysis that included tables and a famous map, Snow managed to stop the outbreak and convince local public health officials, eventually, that cholera could be transmitted through water, not a miasma. Since his breakthrough study, the map has become an iconic piece of epidemiological history, as an illustration of keen d...
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- Why it's so hard to get unemployment benefits
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- 6 years ago
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- It's not the computers. It's the politicians behind them.
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Millions of Americans across the country have lost their jobs. But whether or not those people can get the unemployment benefits they deserve actually depends on where they live. In some states, more than two thirds of jobless people typically collect unemployment benefits. But in others, like Florida, fewer than one in 10 unemployed people get those benefits.
That massive difference has often been blamed on technology; Florida’s unemployment system is notoriously difficult to use. But technology doesn’t build itself. The real explanation requires a look at the ideology of the people who did.
Sources/further reading:
Ain’t No Sunshine: Fewer than One in Eight Unemployed Workers In Florida Is Receiving Unemployment Insurance (National Employment Law Project, 2015) https://s27147.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/Aint-No...
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- The eclipse photo that made Einstein famous
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- 6 years ago
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- In 1919, a total solar eclipse helped redefine gravity.
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Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, published in 1915, defined gravity as the influence of massive objects, like planets and stars, curving space around them. This was very different from the way Isaac Newton had defined gravity over 200 years earlier: Newton described an attracting force that kept planets and stars in orbit with each other. If Einstein was right, then light would also bend near massive objects. And in 1919, two British expeditions set out to test it by photographing a total solar eclipse. By comparing the position of stars with the sun in front of them and another with the sun elsewhere, Arthur Eddington and his team proved that the stars’ apparent positions moved during the eclipse. This was the first, but not the last tim...
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- The most urgent threat of deepfakes isn't politics
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- 6 years ago
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- The real threat of deepfakes, explained with Kristen Bell.
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Actress Kristen Bell first found out there were deepfake porn videos of her online from her husband, actor Dax Shepherd. In the videos, her face has been manipulated onto porn stars’ bodies.
“I was just shocked,” the actress told Vox. “It's hard to think about that I'm being exploited.”
And this isn’t only happening to celebrities. Noelle Martin, a recent law graduate in Perth, Australia, discovered that someone took photos she’d shared on social media and used them first to photoshop her face into nude images, and then to create deepfake videos.
Deepfakes are often portrayed as a political threat — fake videos of politicians making comments they never made. But in a recent report, the research group Deeptrace found that 96% of deepfakes found online are pornographic. Of...
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- Protests aren't what they look like on TV
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- 6 years ago
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- What protest news coverage does — and doesn't — show you.
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The killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery have ignited protests around the world. Those protests have dominated news coverage. But when it comes to communicating the protests’ scale, character, and purpose, a lot of that coverage falls short.
Part of that is because of the media’s incentive to highlight the most dramatic imagery; it’s why so much protest coverage has been filled with violent and chaotic scenes of fire, looters, and tear gas. But it’s also because of the nature of protest imagery itself. In this video, journalism professor Jason Johnson and Vox editor Kainaz Amaria explain that, while the news can show you what a protest looks like, it’s a lot worse at telling you why it’s happening.
Further reading:
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/5/29/21274891/george-floyd-c...
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- How deadly is Covid-19?
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Making sense of the coronavirus death toll.
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Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html
https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-launches-new-initiative-expand-access-testing-low
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
There are two ways you could assess the deadliness of a crisis like the novel coronavirus pandemic. One is to ask, “How many people are dying?” And the other is to ask, “What is the risk of dying if you contract the virus?” For months, public health officials were unable to fully answer either of those questions.
Now, with death certificates and antibody-survey data coming in, we’re slowly getting a better picture of Covid-19 mortality. As we explain in this video, that picture is of a diseas...
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- Why tigers get coronavirus but your dog will be fine
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Check out this episode of our new Quibi show, Answered. There's a new episode daily you can watch here: https://link.quibi.com/answeredbyvoxyt
We have seen reports of everything from Malayan tigers to pugs testing positive for COVID-19. In this episode, we explore which animals can contract and transmit the coronavirus, and whether or not we should be worried about our pets.
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- How coronavirus spreads outdoors vs. indoors
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Can a runner give you Covid-19?
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If you want to stay totally safe from Covid-19, and eliminate the risk of either getting it or transmitting it, you have to stay home. But as the weather gets warmer, public places start to open up, and many places enter their fourth month of life under coronavirus, that’s becoming less and less realistic.
At the same time, we know that coronavirus can be transmitted through the air -- and that raises some pretty big questions. Is it safe to go the beach? What about a park? Is a heavy-breathing runner going to infect you as they pass you? In short: How do you go outside safely?
Read Vox reporter Sigal Samuel’s article about the risks of transmitting Covid-19 outdoors: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/4/24/21233226/coronavirus-runners-cyclists-airborne-infectious-dose
A helpful chart for thinking through the risks of different scenari...
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- What Bill Gates hopes we learn from coronavirus
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Vox interviewed Bill Gates in 2015 about his fears of a global pandemic. Now that we’re living in that reality, what does he think comes next?
Watch our 2015 interview with Bill Gates here: https://youtu.be/9AEMKudv5p0
This interview was conducted on April 25, 2020. You can listen to the rest of the interview on the Ezra Klein Show, available wherever you listen to podcasts, or read it here: https://bit.ly/2TCZx9O
For more information on The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s efforts to fight coronavirus: https://bit.ly/3elJyog
For more of our sources:
The latest data on the pandemic around the world: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
WHO data on SARS’ spread: https://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/2003_07_11/en/
WHO MERS Case count: https://www.who.int/csr/don/07-july-2015-mers-korea/en/
For much more on the effectiveness on the USA’s efforts against HIV/AIDS in Africa, also ...
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- The US tested the wrong people for coronavirus
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- And you can tell because of a number called the test positivity rate.
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As the rate of new coronavirus cases in the US slows down, many states and cities there are encouraging businesses to open again, easing the lockdowns that have been in place since March. But public health experts warn that in many of those places, opening up is premature.
The reason is that throughout the US, as well as in many other countries, we still don’t really know how many people have the virus, or where they are. That’s dangerous because it means infected people who don’t feel sick are probably mingling with the rest of the population, which could enable further outbreaks. And the only way to really prevent that is by proactively testing people for covid-19 until the people who have it have been tracked down and isolated.
The US started testing its population for covid-19 very slowly, but it’s since...
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- One reason why coronavirus hits Black people the hardest
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Toxic air can weaponize the coronavirus.
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Across the US, black people are dying from Covid-19 at disproportionately high rates. While there are many different factors at play behind the stark racial disparities — there’s one possible reason that’s been lurking in the air for decades: pollution.
The long history of segregation and housing discrimination has long put black people at greater risk of living near chemical plants, factories and highways, exposing them to higher levels of air pollutants. These pollutants have had a chronically negative impact on health, leading to conditions like hypertension and asthma. Now, those same diseases are associated with severe cases of Covid-19, and showing that where you live can determine whether you survive from Covid-19.
Read the full study on air pollution exposure and Covid-19 mortality: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm
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- The real story behind this war poster
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Rosie the riveter is iconic. But what’s the real story behind the poster?
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards explores the story behind the women riveters of World War II.
During World War II, millions of women entered manufacturing and the workforce in general. How did the labor pool change so dramatically, so quickly? And how does it connect to the familiar poster of Rosie the riveter that people still love today?
These riveters came from other industries and outside the workforce, guided with the help of private industry and some government agencies. The US Employment Service helped place men and women at wartime jobs, and the Women’s Bureau and War Manpower Commission helped find and train that labor.
The traditional Rosie the riveter story is not without its omissions: white women benefited most from labor changes, and many of the riveters were alrea...
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- Why beef is the worst food for the climate
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Avoiding high-emission foods can have a bigger climate impact than any other consumption change.
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Our consumption habits emit billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Our diets account for one-fourth of those emissions.
The food we eat emits so many greenhouse emissions because of the land it takes to grow it, but it also has something to do with biology. This video explains why the production of some foods emit more than others, and which foods to avoid to be a more climate-conscious consumer.
This video was based on this chart, created by the University of Oxford’s Our World in Data:
https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
Sources:
For more Vox.com coverage of food emissions:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/20/21144017/local-food-carbon-footprint-climate-environment
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- Dr. Anthony Fauci, explained
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Where Dr. Fauci came from — and the crisis that shaped his career.
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Correction: At 4:28, a previous version of this video read "Federal Drug Administration." It should read "Food and Drug Administration."
Dr. Anthony Fauci has become one of the most recognizable faces of the United States’ coronavirus response, as a member of the Coronavirus Task Force and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But it was an earlier crisis that shaped his career — and that’s crucial to understand his position today.
As the above video shows, Dr. Fauci’s involvement in the AIDS crisis, from the virus’s discovery to the present day, has affected the course of his career and the way the disease is treated around the world. That history, in turn, informs how we learn about and treat the coronavirus today.
In addition to scientific progress, AIDS also ne...
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- 8 million subscribers! + other things bringing us joy
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Thank you to our 8 million subscribers for the most curious, surprising, and funny audience we could hope for!
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- Why we're seeing mass layoffs in the US but not the UK
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Tens of millions of Americans are out of work because of the coronavirus. But it didn't have to be that way -- and it's not too late for the US to change course.
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Few Americans alive today have ever seen unemployment numbers as bad as they are right now. At the end of April 2020, economists estimated that between 13 and 18 percent of US workers were unemployed. It's the highest rate since the Great Depression.
That figure can seem somewhat inevitable; the unfortunate but unavoidable cost of economic lockdown. It’s why, in response, Congress has prioritized shoring up unemployment insurance benefits.
But a handful of European countries have shown that mass unemployment isn’t a given in a situation like this. It’s a policy choice.
In this video, we explain how and why the UK, Denmark, and the Netherlands chose a different path. With the help of economist Heidi Shierholz...
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- How voting by mail could save the US election
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Coronavirus threatens the US election. Voting by mail could save it.
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On April 7, 2020, as the coronavirus held much of the US under lockdown, the state of Wisconsin held an election. Many other states had already decided to delay their spring elections to protect voters. But in Wisconsin, voters were forced to choose between participating in the election, and their own safety. Wisconsin's decision sparked outrage, but it also highlighted a question that the US really needs to figure out soon: How do you hold an election during a pandemic?
Fortunately, there's actually a simple solution to this one: voting by mail. Tens of millions of Americans already vote this way, and if the rest of the US can prepare their election systems in time for the November election, they could avoid Wisconsin's fate. But time's running out.
Read more from Dave Roberts on Vox.com: https://www.vox.com/science-and...
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- How coronavirus charts can mislead us
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- How to read a popular chart of coronavirus cases by country.
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Much of the data about the coronavirus epidemic and covid-19 is flawed. It is collected and reported in different ways by different countries, and almost certainly undercounts the number of cases and deaths. But organizations and journalists still need to report the available data to inform the public and help guide policymakers. Much of that data ends up in visualizations, like charts and maps, which can make it easier to understand and analyze.
But it's important to know how the process of data visualization can shape our perception of the crisis. In this video, we deconstruct one particularly popular chart of covid-19 cases around the world which uses a logarithmic scale, and explain how to avoid being misled by it.
Sources:
https://ourworldindata...
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- What face masks actually do against coronavirus
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Face masks don't make you invincible.
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The fight against coronavirus is global. But the guidelines on whether you should wear a face mask as part of that fight are often completely different from place to place. That means that, for a lot of people, whether you wear a face mask when you leave the house is basically up to you.
Here’s where almost every expert agrees: If you have Covid-19, and you leave the house, you should wear a mask. Masks help keep sick people from spreading their germs. Most of the uncertainty around mask use is related to a totally separate question: Whether masks can protect healthy people from getting Covid-19.
The truth is that no mask can actually guarantee that you won’t get sick; experts say one of the most dangerous assumptions about face masks is that they basically make you invincib...
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- The right way to play Monopoly
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- How do you win Monopoly? And how do you keep it fun at the same time?
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Is there a right way to play Monopoly?
Brian Valentine takes a stab at the answer — he was the United States representative to the 2015 World Monopoly championships, where he earned a third-place finish. As the above video shows, playing Monopoly right involves learning the rules all over again, processing key strategies, and, above all, valuing the people you play it with.
Valentine shares his knowledge about probability heat maps that show the likelihood of landing on a certain space, nuances of gameplay around houses and hotels, and even a few tips on making games fun instead of rancorous.
Further reading
There are tons of articles that break down the math of Monopoly. While it’s not the only ingredient to playing Monopoly right, it’s an important one. This Business Insider article by Walt Hi...
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- Why kids write letters backward
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Almost all kids will mirror write at some point. Why?
*Our in-studio shoot with other Vox team members was done before the Covid-19 outbreak. We are currently safely working from home.*
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If you work with (or have) kids under 7, you might notice that a handful of them flip letters, or sometimes entire words, when writing. It’s a little creepy to look at — and reminiscent of Danny from The Shining – but it’s entirely normal.
Our minds are exceptionally good at saving space when necessary. Sitting in a classroom, you probably won’t notice the consistent buzz of a heater unless you focus on it. Our eyes do something similar when it comes to orientation. This is because in the natural world, the direction something is facing doesn't really matter all that much. This allows us to identify and recognize objects quickly. It's a truly efficient way to think.
Except, when...
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- What the coronavirus looks like up close
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Seeing the virus up close helps us understand it.
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The images of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that first appeared in humans in late 2019, were made using electron microscopy. The virus measures around 100 nanometers, and the smallest wavelengths of light that humans can see measure around 400 nanometers, meaning the virus is too small to see with a standard light microscope. To see something that small, you need a device that uses smaller wavelengths than light. Electrons, when accelerated in a field, behave as a wave with a tiny wavelength to accomplish this.
Two electron microscopy techniques, SEM and TEM, offer different views. A Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) scans the surface of a sample and records information that bounces back, similar to a satellite image. A Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) transmits elect...
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- The big lesson from South Korea's coronavirus response
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Testing and tracing were the key to slowing the spread of coronavirus.
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In South Korea, citizens have flattened the curve of the novel coronavirus -- and it's because of lessons they learned from fighting the MERS outbreak in 2015. Through a combination of aggressive and widespread testing measures, along with a system know as “contact tracing,” they’ve been better positioned to spot the path of the virus and curb its spread. While they are still vigilant for a second wave of Covid-19 cases, people in South Korea are slowly returning to public life. Watch the video above to find out how their testing and contact tracing measures work, and how it can be a lesson for countries still in lockdown.
You can learn more about the 205 MERS outbreak in South Korea and the lessons learned from it here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5840604/
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
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- Why NASA quarantined the Apollo 11 astronauts
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- On July 21, 1969, the Apollo 11 quarantine began.
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In this episode of History Club, Vox's Phil Edwards and Coleman Lowndes chat with Amy Shira Teitel of The Vintage Space about the Apollo 11 quarantine.
Thanks Amy - check out her channel here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCw95T_TgbGHhTml4xZ9yIqg
In History Club, Vox's Phil Edwards and Coleman Lowndes share their discoveries about history both weird and wonderful. Check out the full playlist here.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5c3rxeWn3e09JkcZlUx7-UU&advanced_settings=1&disable_polymer=1
It was an unusual process for an unprecedented task: keeping potential moon germs from entering the Earth’s atmosphere (and affecting its population).
To try to isolate the Apollo astronauts from the Earth, NASA went...
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- The 8-bit arcade font, deconstructed
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- In his book Arcade Game Typography, type designer Toshi Omagari breaks down the evolution, design, and history of arcade game fonts.
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In the video above, he guides us through this delightful 8-bit world and breaks it down pixel by pixel.
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Let's talk about sources!
Archive.org has a wonderful collection of vintage arcade games that you can play online. This is where many of the videos of arcade games came from. https://archive.org/details/internetarcade
In addition to that, Barcade allowed us to film their collection of arcades. https://barcadenewyork.com/
Toshi's book served as a blueprint for all the fonts you see in the video. You can purchase it here: https://thamesandhudson.com/arcade-game-typography-9780500021743
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