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Why coronavirus scammers can send fake emails from the WHO
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- Why coronavirus scammers can send fake emails from the WHO
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- 6 years ago
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- Organizations could prevent domain spoofing, but many don't.
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During the coronavirus pandemic, scammers have sent several emails using the domain of the World Health Organization. Some are addressed from Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, the director-general of the WHO, and carry attachments that can install malware on the victim’s device. Others announce a coronavirus cure that you can read all about in an attachment. They each appear to be sent from the WHO's who.int email address.
If it seems like it shouldn’t be this easy to impersonate a leading global health institution, you’re right. There is a way for organizations and companies to prevent spoofing of their domain using a free authentication system called DMARC, but the WHO, like many other...
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- Coronavirus is not the flu. It's worse.
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- 6 years ago
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- Send this to anyone who still thinks Covid-19 is basically the same as the flu.
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Covid-19, the disease caused by the coronavirus, has similar symptoms to the flu. They also spread in similar ways. So it's natural to want to compare the two. But Covid-19 is very different, in ways that make it much more dangerous. And understanding how is key to understanding why we have to take it so seriously.
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How social distancing and “flattening the curve” works: http://bit.ly/3aOlHM8
The math behind social distancing: http://bit.ly/3a78wG8
The rules of social distancing: http://bit.ly/2xDoZnb
How does the coronavirus outbreak end? Your biggest questions answered: http://bit.ly/39YzlfG
How has the coronavirus pandemic impacted your life? Share to help Vox’s repo...
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- Being our best selves during coronavirus
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- 6 years ago
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- The virtual solidarity we all need right now.
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The spread of coronavirus has affected people all around the world. Many are locked in their homes, countless businesses are shut down, and life as many knew it has come to a halt. But amid the crisis and the uncertainty, acts of kindness and solidarity have spread.
Take a look at the many expressions of joy, teamwork, and support that have emerged from different corners of the world. They're a reminder that while many of us are isolated in our homes or on the frontlines of the fight against this virus, we are all in this together.
Read more on Vox: http://vox.com/coronavirus
How social distancing and “flattening the curve” works: http://bit.ly/3aOlHM8
The math behind social distancing: http://bit.ly/3a78wG8
The rules of social distancing: http://bit.ly/2xDoZnb
How does the coronavirus outbreak e...
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- Why paid sick leave is essential to beating coronavirus
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- 6 years ago
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- Paid sick leave keeps everyone healthier. During a pandemic, it's a necessity.
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In most developed countries, workers have the right to a certain number of paid sick days. It’s a policy that isn’t rooted in just generosity — during pandemics like the novel coronavirus, it can literally save lives.
When workers have to choose between earning a living and staying home sick, it incentivizes them to come to work when they're ill, and potentially infect their colleagues and anyone else they come into contact with. That’s why public health officials are concerned that millions of American workers don’t have access to paid sick days. And a disproportionate share of those workers are concentrated in occupations like food service and hospitality, where there’s potential to infect the hundreds of customers many of them interact with every day.
Correction: At 1:18, islands in Canada, ...
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- Social distancing during coronavirus, explained by an expert
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- 6 years ago
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- To fight coronavirus, we need to change how we live.
Read more about the coronavirus pandemic at http://vox.com/coronavirus
“Social distancing,” also called physical distancing, is the best way to slow the spread of coronavirus and save lives in your community. It means leaving home as little as possible, keeping six feet away from others in public, and generally just limiting in-person social contact. But the rules of social distancing can be sort of blurry and confusing. Can you have close friends over for dinner? Can you visit relatives? Can you get on a plane if you’re wearing a face mask? What is life even supposed to look like without social contact?
We spoke with University of Pennsylvania social epidemiologist Carolyn Cannuscio about how we should think about social distancing, and what measures we should each be taking to do our part in slowing down the pandemic. Practicing social distancing properly isn’t easy, she says. But it...
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- How soap kills the coronavirus
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- 6 years ago
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- Plain old soap and water absolutely annihilate coronavirus.
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You've been told a thousand times: wash your hands to stop the spread of COVID-19. But why does this work so well? It has to do with the way the soap molecules are able to absolutely demolish viruses, like the coronavirus.
Read more on Vox:
How does hand sanitizer compare to soap: http://bit.ly/2WqzEfo
Songs to wash your hands by: http://bit.ly/2Uj3T5g
How social distancing and “flattening the curve” works: http://bit.ly/3aOlHM8
How does the coronavirus outbreak end? Your biggest questions answered: http://bit.ly/39YzlfG
How has the coronavirus pandemic impacted your life? Share to help Vox’s reporting: http://bit.ly/2vBunqA
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- Why fighting the coronavirus depends on you
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- 6 years ago
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- If we can slow the virus down, it could save hundreds of thousands of lives.
Read more about the Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic at http://vox.com/coronavirus
In March 2020, the World Health Organization officially classified Covid-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, as a pandemic. That means the disease no longer constitutes just an outbreak or even an epidemic; the coronavirus has now spread around the world, and will continue to reach into other countries and communities.
That’s in part because of how contagious the virus is. When you’re infected with the flu, it takes about two days before you start to show symptoms. But coronavirus symptoms take an average of five to six days to appear, so it’s easy to spread well before you notice that you’re feeling sick. Many people are spreading it while going about their daily lives as usual.
The risk is that once coronavirus starts to spread in a community, about 20% of c...
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- Delhi’s deadly riots, explained by an expert
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- 6 years ago
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- The new law that's testing India’s secular values.
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On December 11th, 2019, India’s parliament passed a controversial new law: the Citizenship Amendment Act. The law fast-tracks citizenship for migrants from three neighboring countries, specifically if they are Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Jains, Parsis, or Christians. It conspicuously leaves out Muslims.
Since the law was passed, it’s drawn widespread opposition and protests, and not only because it discriminates against Muslims. The law is also closely linked to another controversial initiative: the National Registry of Citizens, a citizenship list that could potentially leave millions of people, primarily Muslims, stateless.
So far, only the northeastern state of Assam has implemented the NRC. In August 2019, the government of Assam published a citizenship list that left off nearly 2 million residents. And without the citizenship fa...
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- How San Francisco erased a neighborhood
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- 6 years ago
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- A hotel at the heart of San Francisco’s housing wars
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With an explosion of tech companies and startups in recent decades, San Francisco has struggled with a massive affordable housing crisis. But the beginnings of that crisis go back much further than Silicon Valley.
In 1968, a group of predominantly Filipino elders in San Francisco launched a battle to protect their home from eviction. Called the International Hotel, their home ended up in the crossroads of a city prioritizing the “Manhattanization” of its downtown area. Their fight for their neighborhood would evolve into a nearly decade-long protest with thousands of supporters and become a symbol of the campaign for affordable housing for decades to come.
In the Vox series Missing Chapter, Vox Senior Producer Ranjani Chakraborty revisits underreported and often overlooked moments from the...
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- How wildlife trade is linked to coronavirus
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- 6 years ago
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- And why the disease first appeared in China.
NOTE: As our expert Peter Li points out in the video, “The majority of the people in China do not eat wildlife animals. Those people who consume these wildlife animals are the rich and the powerful –a small minority.” This video explains how the people of China are themselves victims of the conditions that led to coronavirus. The virus is affecting many different countries and cultures, and there is never justification for xenophobia or racism.
You can find further reading on this on Vox:
https://www.vox.com/2020/2/7/21126758/coronavirus-xenophobia-racism-china-asians
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/4/21157825/coronavirus-pandemic-xenophobia-racism
https://www.vox.com/identities/2020/3/6/21166625/coronavirus-photos-racism
As of early March 2020, a new coronavirus, called COVID-19, is in more than 70 countries and has killed more than 3,100 people, the vast major...
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- Computers just got a lot better at writing
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- 6 years ago
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- How machines can mimic our language.
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Something big happened in the past year: Researchers created computer programs that can write long passages of coherent, original text.
Language models like GPT-2, Grover, and CTRL create text passages that seem written by someone fluent in the language, but not in the truth. That AI field, Natural Language Processing (NLP), didn’t exactly set out to create a fake news machine. Rather, it’s the byproduct of a line of research into massive pretrained language models: Machine learning programs that store vast statistical maps of how we use our language. So far, the technology’s creative uses seem to outnumber its malicious ones. But it’s not difficult to imagine how these text-fakes could cause harm, especially as these models become widely shared and deployable by anyone with basic know-how. Read more here: https://www.vox.com...
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- The case for Elizabeth Warren
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- 6 years ago
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- To fix the country's problems, you have to understand them.
Up next: The case for Bernie Sanders: http://bit.ly/2wdX38E
This video is one of a series in which Vox writers argue the cases for the leading Democratic candidates in the 2020 election. (Vox does not endorse individual candidates.)
The case for Bernie Sanders: https://youtu.be/1PjNlBV-_s8
The case for Joe Biden: https://youtu.be/4c5fuOPCeYw
The case for Elizabeth Warren: https://youtu.be/VBpmYDLECF8
The case for Pete Buttigieg: https://youtu.be/0yT7hpF654k
And you can read our cases for all the candidates, including Mike Bloomberg and Amy Klobuchar, at http://vox.com/the-case-for
Update: Elizabeth Warren withdrew her candidacy on March 5, 2020: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/3/5/21120368/elizabeth-warren-drops-out-2020-race-bernie-sanders-women
Elizabeth Warren is 70, but she’s a relative newcomer to politics. Before she...
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- The case for Joe Biden
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- 6 years ago
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- It comes down to where the people who love him are.
Up next: The case for Bernie Sanders: http://bit.ly/2wdX38E
This video is one of a series in which Vox writers argue the cases for the leading Democratic candidates in the 2020 election. (Vox does not endorse individual candidates.)
The case for Bernie Sanders: https://youtu.be/1PjNlBV-_s8
The case for Joe Biden: https://youtu.be/4c5fuOPCeYw
The case for Elizabeth Warren: https://youtu.be/VBpmYDLECF8
The case for Pete Buttigieg: https://youtu.be/0yT7hpF654k
And you can read our cases for all the candidates, including Mike Bloomberg and Amy Klobuchar, at http://vox.com/the-case-for
Former Vice President Joe Biden has been a familiar face in American politics for decades. And he’s built his long career on personal relationships — relationships with fellow Democrats, but also with Republicans. More than any other candidate in this race, Biden’s campaign i...
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- The case for Pete Buttigieg
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- 6 years ago
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- What’s the case for a President Mayor Pete?
Up next: The case for Bernie Sanders: http://bit.ly/2wdX38E
This video is one of a series in which Vox writers argue the cases for the leading Democratic candidates in the 2020 election. (Vox does not endorse individual candidates.)
The case for Bernie Sanders: https://youtu.be/1PjNlBV-_s8
The case for Joe Biden: https://youtu.be/4c5fuOPCeYw
The case for Elizabeth Warren: https://youtu.be/VBpmYDLECF8
The case for Pete Buttigieg: https://youtu.be/0yT7hpF654k
And you can read our cases for all the candidates, including Mike Bloomberg and Amy Klobuchar, at http://vox.com/the-case-for
Update: Pete Buttigieg withdrew his candidacy on March 1, 2020: https://www.vox.com/2020/3/1/21121523/pete-buttigieg-drops-out-2020-presidential-election
If he won the 2020 election, former South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg would become the youngest US president ever...
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- The case for Bernie Sanders
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- 6 years ago
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- To understand Bernie's future, look at what he's already done.
Up next: The case for Joe Biden: http://bit.ly/2TibqRm
This video is one of a series in which Vox writers argue the cases for the leading Democratic candidates in the 2020 election. (Vox does not endorse individual candidates.)
The case for Bernie Sanders: https://youtu.be/1PjNlBV-_s8
The case for Joe Biden: https://youtu.be/4c5fuOPCeYw
The case for Elizabeth Warren: https://youtu.be/VBpmYDLECF8
The case for Pete Buttigieg: https://youtu.be/0yT7hpF654k
And you can read our cases for all the candidates, including Mike Bloomberg and Amy Klobuchar, at http://vox.com/the-case-for
Bernie Sanders knows what energizes his crowds: Big ideas. Visions of political revolution. New ways of doing things. It’s why his supporters love him. But it’s also why many Democrats are still unsure about him.
But as Vox’s Matthew Yglesias argues, a goo...
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- The conspiracy behind this famous statue
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- 6 years ago
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- The Venus de Milo has another missing piece.
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The Venus de Milo is iconic. Why? It turns out a missing piece might have something to do with it.
In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards explores the secret history of the Venus de Milo, the famous armless statue from Greece. Found in 1820, the Venus de Milo was always considered notable, but it’s a complicated political situation that made the statue iconic.
French art and the Louvre were struggling when Venus was discovered. A large cache of art — looted by Napoleon around the world — had recently been returned to various home countries, and that left a huge gap in the Louvre’s classical art collection. Venus was the perfect solution — and the French went to extreme lengths to make sure nobody questioned her legitimacy. The result was a globally famous statue with a complicated and secretive history.
Make...
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- America's presidential primaries, explained
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- 6 years ago
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- Why does America's system for picking the president start in Iowa?
Before Americans vote on the next president in November, both major political parties have to settle on a nominee. That process is called the primary, and in 2020 it consists of 64 different contests, held on 22 different days, over several months. And for some reason, it all starts in the midwestern state of Iowa. So how did America's political parties come up with this system? And is there a better way to do it?
Read more from Li on the future of Iowa: https://www.vox.com/2020/2/3/21046546/presidential-primary-state-order-iowa-new-hampshire-south-carolina
A previous version of this video misidentified the states of Missouri and Arkansas. The error has been corrected.
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- How the British royal family makes money
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- 6 years ago
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- This is what Harry and Meghan are giving up.
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The British royal family is very rich, but not as rich as you might think. And that’s because of a centuries-old model for how they make their income — and taboos about earning a private income outside of their official duties.
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are breaking free from the rules of how royals make money, which just might be a savvy financial decision.
Note: The properties illustrated on our map are only the properties we were able to geo-locate precisely from the following sources.
https://www.thecrownestate.co.uk/en-gb/our-places/asset-map/
https://www.duchyoflancaster.co.uk/properties-and-estates/holdings/
https://duchyofcornwall.org/
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- This photo triggered China's Cultural Revolution
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- 6 years ago
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- Mao Zedong swimming in a river in 1966 was a big deal.
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In 1966, Mao Zedong, China’s communist leader and the founder of the People’s Republic of China, was rumored to be in failing health. The devastating policies of his Great Leap Forward (1958-1962) — which forced millions of peasants to work tirelessly on government farming communes and by manufacturing crude steel — resulted in the greatest famine known to human history, costing anywhere between 23 and 55 million lives.
Mao wanted to leave behind a powerful Communist legacy, like Marx and Lenin before him. And in order to do so, he needed to connect with the younger generation before he died. So after announcing his Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, he swam across the Yangtze River. Mao had done the same swim 10 years earlier to prove his vitality, and he hoped it would work again.
His "Cultural Revolution" was a cal...
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- How a Bible prophecy shapes Trump's foreign policy
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- 6 years ago
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- For an influential group of American Christians, support for Israel -- and hatred of Iran -- are based in a biblical prophecy.
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When President Trump authorized the drone strike that killed the powerful Iranian general Qasem Soleimani, he wasn't just flexing America's muscle in the Middle East.
He was also acting on the advice of a politically powerful group of evangelical Christians who believe that the US and Israel are part of the Bible's plan to bring about the second coming of Jesus.
Once considered a fringe element of the religious right, evangelical Christian Zionists are playing an increasingly visible role in Republican politics. Today, unprecedented access to the Trump administration has given them an opportunity to reshape the Middle East.
Additional reading:
https://newrepublic.com/article/156166/pence-pompeo-evanglicals-war-iran-christian-zionism
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- Was this the greatest dog of all time?
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- 6 years ago
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- The Westminster Kennel Club Dog show had a champion who won three times in a row. How did she do it?
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This year, the Westminster Dog Show will draw lots of attention. But no dog will surpass the legacy of the first Best in Show winner — a smooth fox terrier named Warren Remedy. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explains how it happened.
Warren Remedy won three Best in Show titles at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show, and she cemented her place in canine history. But her legacy extends beyond her title — as an exemplar of the smooth fox terrier breed, she helped establish the “type” that people expected.
That was largely because of her breeder, a wealthy Manhattan socialite named Winthrop Rutherfurd. Rutherfurd famously dated a Vanderbilt before settling down with a vice president’s daughter, but in addition to lighting up the gossip pages, he bred fox terriers...
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- A VFX artist reacts to 5 Oscar-nominated movies
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- 6 years ago
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- The 2020 VFX Oscar nominations, explained by a VFX artist.
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1917, Avengers: Endgame, The Irishman, The Lion King, and Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker are five very different movies nominated for the same award: the 2020 Oscar for Visual Effects. Each movie is a masterpiece of computer generated art, from the Avengers’ time travel suits to Star Wars’ chase scenes to the incredible de-aging effects in The Irishman.
It’s easy to be awed by these effects — or to not even notice them. So we brought in Niko Pueringer, a visual effects artist from the production studio Corridor Digital, to help us break down the visual magic behind each film.
Check out Niko and Corridor’s YouTube channel for more visual effects breakdowns: https://www.youtube.com/user/samandniko/featured
Like this one, where they re-made visual effects in The Mummy Returns: https://youtu.be/KH1V6CHO1J...
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- How to make a movie look like one long shot
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- 6 years ago
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- The trick to spotting cuts in a “one-take” film.
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The Best Picture nominee 1917 tells a pretty simple story: two British soldiers cross the no man’s land of World War I to warn a battalion of an impending ambush. What really makes the movie stand out is how director Sam Mendes and cinematographer Roger Deakins made the movie look like it was filmed in one continuous take. The techniques required to pull off hidden cuts have their roots in Alfred Hitchcock's movie Rope — and if you look closely, you can catch where they happen in 1917.
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- How ads follow you around the internet
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- 6 years ago
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- Hint: It’s why every site asks you to accept cookies.
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You’ve seen the pop-ups: “This site uses cookies to improve your experience. Please accept cookies.”
Cookies do improve your experience. They function as the website’s short term memory; with each new click you make, cookies help the site identify you as the same person. Imagine every time you add something to your cart and click away, it disappears. Or each time you load a new page on Facebook, you have to log in again. Without cookies, the online world we know today couldn’t exist.
But that world relies on advertising, which gives three kinds of companies a strong incentive to track your online behavior. Brands want to sell products by serving you ads for things you’re likely to buy. Platforms and publishers — like Vox — want to make money by serving those ads when you’re on their ...
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- Why this Russian gas company sponsors soccer teams
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- 6 years ago
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- Gazprom’s soccer jersey strategy, explained.
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Russia has the world’s largest reserves of natural gas, and most of it is controlled by the state-owned company Gazprom. But Gazprom has also built a global profile as a soccer sponsor. Good publicity for Gazprom means good publicity for Russia; since Gazprom is owned by the Russian state, domestic approval for the foreign energy provider can help build a reputation for Russia in places that might otherwise be wary of their creeping influence. And as Vladimir Putin pursues that influence abroad, building relationships with foreign business leaders using the sport of soccer has proven extremely useful.
One place where that's been especially true is in Germany, where the team FC Schalke 04 has a longstanding sponsorship deal with Gazprom. When the deal was first signed in 2006, Russia was vying to increase their presence in the Western European gas ...
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- That famous cello prelude, deconstructed
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- 6 years ago
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- Bach's G major prelude has captivated cellists and music lovers for years. Cellist Alisa Weilerstein deconstructs it.
Bach's six cello suites are considered a rite of passage for cellists. They're masterpieces of classical music, and the prelude in G major — the first movement of the suites — is perhaps the best example of Bach's power as a composer. In it, he's able to achieve rich and complex harmonic movements with just a four-stringed instrument, while using the very basic tenets of music composition. Those basic tenets are what Alisa Weilerstein, a renowned cellist and McArthur fellow, helps us understand.
A previous version of this video mislabeled a C sharp as a C natural. We also removed a simplified chord visual that mislabeled a C natural as a C sharp.
Alisa's discography: https://alisaweilerstein.com/discography/
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Further reading:
https://costanzabach.st...
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- How Iran's Soleimani became a US target
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- 6 years ago
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- He commanded an army of militias across the Middle East.
Correction: In a previous version of this video, we mistakenly labelled Iran's Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Ayatollah Khomeini. We regret the error.
Before Qassem Soleimani was killed in a US air strike in Iraq, he was arguably Iran's second most important leader. He commanded the soldiers and spies of Iran's elite Quds Force, a group whose job was to forge partnerships with militias across the Middle East, through which Soleimani spread Iran's influence and his own. From Hezbollah in Lebanon to the many Shia militias in Iraq, these groups played a central role in the medley of wars that have roiled the Middle East for the last few decades. Soleimani didn't invent Iran's use of proxy militias; that dates back to at least 1979, when Iran's new regime looked around the region and found many enemies and few friends. But 40 years later, thanks in part to Soleimani's work, Iran has the advantage in the Middle E...
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- The lost neighborhood under New York's Central Park
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- 6 years ago
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- Before Central Park was built, a historic black community was destroyed.
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If you’ve been to New York, you’ve probably visited Central Park. But there’s a part of its story you won't see.
It’s a story that goes back to the 1820s, when that part of New York was largely open countryside. Soon it became home to about 1,600 people. Among them was a predominantly black community that bought up affordable plots to build homes, churches and a school. It became known as Seneca Village. And when Irish and German immigrants moved in, it became a rare example at the time of an integrated neighborhood.
Everything changed on July 21, 1853. New York took control of the land to create what would become the first major landscaped park in the US -- they called it “The Central Park.”
In the Vox series Missing Chapter, Vox Senior Producer Ra...
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- Why Australia's fires are linked to floods in Africa
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- 6 years ago
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- Fires are normal in Australia. This year was off the charts.
Correction: A previous version of this video had the date January 7, 2019 at 0:11 and sourced the Department of Western Australia at 0:24. It has been corrected to January 7, 2020 and the Government of Western Australia. The current version also corrects an error at 2:10 and 2:29 where our voiceover mixed up East and West.
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Australia’s recent fire season has been hellish with no end in sight. At least 17.9 million acres have burned, 28 people have died, and an estimated 1 billion animals have been lost. But while Australia burns, East Africa has been grappling with record-breaking rainfall leading to catastrophic floods. Both have a common cause — and it lies in the Indian Ocean.
Want to help? Here are some organizations that are collecting donations that could use your support:
The New South Wales Rural Fire Service, Country Fire Service Foundation, and Country ...
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- Are Australia’s koalas going extinct? We asked an ecologist.
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- 6 years ago
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- This fire season has been one of the worst on record in Australia. One billion animals are estimated to have died — among them, the iconic koala. Slow-moving and dependent on the forest, koalas have been especially hard hit with thousands dead in New South Wales alone.
Koalas were already threatened before the Australia fires broke out. Decades of human activity has whittled their population down dramatically. But after this year’s fire season, experts believe koalas are now in danger of becoming extinct — unless policy changes are put in place to save them.
To learn more, donate, or volunteer, check out these organizations:
WIRES: https://www.wires.org.au/donate/emergency-fund
WWF: https://www.wwf.org.au/get-involved/bushfire-emergency#gs.runjmb
Fauna Rescue: https://www.faunarescue.org.au/
Port Macquarie Koala Hospital: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-thirsty-koalas-devastated-by-recent-fires
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- The original Game of Life was incredibly dark
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- 6 years ago
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- The Game of Life was dark for a reason.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explores the real meaning of life.
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The original game of Life was depressing. Really depressing.
When we think of the Game of Life, the candy-colored 1950s and '60s version comes to mind — featuring the glossy American dream of buying a house, piling kids in the car, and becoming a millionaire.
Born in 1836, Milton Bradley grew up in Lowell, Massachusetts, where he dropped out of college to begin a career in the printing business. He quickly acquired a monopoly — he owned one ...
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- Teaching in the US vs. the rest of the world
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- 6 years ago
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- Teachers in America have a uniquely tough job. But it doesn't have to be that way.
*Note: At 1:09, we misspelled "Sweden." We apologize for the error.
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From hours worked to pay rates, countries like Finland, Japan, and South Korea make teaching a more respected and sustainable profession.
Sources:
A Coming Crisis in Teaching?Teacher Supply, Demand, and Shortages in the U.S.-- The Learning Policy Institute
(https://learningpolicyinstitute.org/sites/default/files/product-files/A_Coming_Crisis_in_Teaching_REPORT.pdf)
OECD Pisa Results: http://www.oecd.org/education/launch-of-pisa-2018-results-paris-december-2019.htm
How teachers in the U.S. and Finland see their jobs-- National Center for Public Education (https://www.nsba.org/-/media/NSBA/File/cpe-how-teachers-in-the-us-and-finland-see-their-jobs-report-july-2018.pdf?la...
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- Should We Be Worried About GMOs? - Glad You Asked S1
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- 6 years ago
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- At the current rate, we'll have to grow as much food in the next 30 years as we have in all of human history. And many experts argue that to do that, we’ll have to engineer the genes of our food. But the concern surrounding whether we should grow and eat genetically modified food has made the technology one of the most divisive topics of our generation.
Glad You Asked host Christophe Haubursin embarks on a journey to Hawaii to understand what the controversy is actually about — and uncovers whether GMOs are really delivering on their promise to feed the world.
Sources:
FDA Consumer Info About Food from Genetically Engineered Plants https://www.fda.gov/food/food-new-plant-varieties/consumer-info-about-food-genetically-engineered-plants
GMOs Decoded
Book by Sheldon Krimsky: https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/gmos-decoded
Global Seed Industry Changes Since 2013: https://philhoward.net/2018/12/31/global-seed-industry-change...
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- How Does the Internet Work? - Glad You Asked S1
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- 6 years ago
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- For most of us, the internet is virtual, made of Instagram posts, emails and YouTube videos. And, access to the vital utility isn’t guaranteed across the world. Glad You Asked host Cleo Abram wants to know: What is the internet actually made of? And, how does it work? Answering that question involves discovering how internet cables are laid in the sea, if 5G is really the future, and how balloons in the stratosphere are helping people connect.
Key Sources:
Submarine Cable Map - https://www.submarinecablemap.com/
Code, Charles Petzold - https://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Software/dp/0735611319
Tubes, by Andrew Blum - https://www.amazon.com/Tubes-Journey-Internet-Andrew-Blum/dp/0061994952
Internet Cable Protection Committee Report - https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/ICPC-sharks.pdf
Pew Internet Fact Sheet - https://www.pewinternet.org/fact-sheet/internet-broadband/
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- Why Are We So Lonely? - Glad You Asked S1
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- 6 years ago
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- We often make assumptions about the things that make us lonely. But research shows that the amount of time you spend with other people, and the quality of our social skills don't really make a difference. So why is it that nearly half of the U.S. population reports feeling lonely regularly? Glad You Asked hosts Alex Clark and Christophe Haubursin set off to discover what causes loneliness, how it affects our health, and what to do to address it.
Resources for help:
Crisis Text Line
https://www.crisistextline.org
U.S - text 741741
Canada - text 686868
U.S. National Suicide Prevention Hotline
https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/
1-800-273-8255
IASP International Crisis Center Resource List
https://www.iasp.info/resources/Crisis_Centres/
SAMHSA Health Treatment Services Locator
https://findtreatment.samhsa.gov/
Thanks to Bumble BFF, the app Alex used to find friends:
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- Is Beauty Culture Hurting Us? - Glad You Asked S1
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- 6 years ago
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- The internet has transformed beauty culture from an exclusive domain of models and magazines to the broad, accessible world of social media. In recent years, research shows that more and more women are saying that they feel beautiful. But at the same time, the vast majority of women say they feel pressure to be beautiful. Glad You Asked hosts Cleo Abram and Joss Fong explore the benefits and costs of today’s beauty culture.
Key Sources:
Fifty Years Ago, Protesters Took on the Miss America Pageant and Electrified the Feminist Movement https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fifty-years-ago-protestors-took-on-miss-america-pageant-electrified-feminist-movement-180967504/
The Digital Beauty Counter: How Beauty Marketers can Connect to Consumers Through Youtube, Facebook, and Instagram Video https://www.pixability.com/insights-reports/digital-beauty-counter/
Beauty Shop Politics, by Tiffany Gill https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/86hd...
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- Is it Wrong to Fly? - Glad You Asked S1
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- 6 years ago
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- Air travel is a quintessential product of the fossil fuel era: It’s both highly convenient and difficult to replace with alternatives. Now as the impacts of climate change are becoming more urgent, a growing “flight shame” movement is prompting consumers to question their air travel. Glad You Asked host Joss Fong explores the ethical implications of flying in a world on the brink of crisis.
Key Sources:
Myclimate flight emission calculator
https://www.myclimate.org/fileadmin/user_upload/myclimate_-_home/01_Information/01_About_myclimate/09_Calculation_principles/Documents/myclimate-flight-calculator-documentation_EN.pdf
Observed Arctic sea-ice loss directly follows anthropogenic CO2 emission
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6313/747
Greenhouse Gas Emissions from a Typical Passenger Vehicle
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-typical-passenger-vehicle
Carbon Footprint Cal...
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- How to fix our unreliable power grid
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- 6 years ago
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- Our electrical grid can be taken down by storms, fires, and squirrels. But there’s a better way to power the world.
A microgrid is a decentralized power system that doesn’t have a single point of failure. That means one squirrel can’t cause a massive blackout, and it also protects against the increasing number of severe weather events, storms, and wildfires.
Read more on the power of microgrids in David Roberts’ and Alvin Chang’s explainer on the topic: https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/12/15/16714146/greener-more-reliable-more-resilient-grid-microgrids
More on how California can become more energy-resilient:
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/12/15/16714146/greener-more-reliable-more-resilient-grid-microgrids
Umair Irfan’s reporting on PG&E’s power shutoffs in California:
https://www.vox.com/2019/10/9/20906551/pge-power-shutdown-blackout-fire-bankruptcy
For data on s...
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- Google and Amazon are now in the oil business
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- 6 years ago
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- Google, Microsoft, and Amazon are teaming up with Big Oil to squeeze more oil and gas out of the ground using machine learning technology.
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Google, Microsoft, and Amazon have been very vocal about their efforts to reduce the world's dependence on fossil fuels. But as The Wall Street Journal and Gizmodo have reported, these same companies are currently teaming up with fossil fuel industry to help them squeeze as much oil and gas out of the ground as possible.
Oil has always been hard to find and hard to extract, and so the industry has teetered precariously on the edge of profitability several times over the course of its history. Over and over again, experts have predicted that we'll soon run out of accessible, affordable oil – but so far, they've been wrong. Just when things look bleakest for black gold, new technology swoops in to keep the industry afloat.
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- Childbirth | from Sex, Explained on Netflix
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- 6 years ago
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- Giving birth is one of the most universal human experiences, yet debates rage on over the best way to do it. From our brand new mini-series Sex, Explained on Netflix. Full series at http://www.netflix.com/sexexplained
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What's going on when we get turned on? From attraction and sexual fantasies to birth control, fertility, and childbirth, Janelle Monáe narrates our brand new look at the birds and the bees on Netflix.
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- 2019, in 6 minutes
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- 6 years ago
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- Let's ring in the new year — and new decade — by looking back at the moments that entertained us, shook us and inspired us. Explore the Vox decade in review: http://bit.ly/2MGJ6pw
From the memes that broke the internet to the politics that broke us, Vox explains the moments that mattered this decade — on our fragile planet and beyond.
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- The rise and fall of Rudy Giuliani, explained
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- 6 years ago
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- How did America's Mayor wind up at the center of Trump's impeachment scandal?
To learn more, listen to this episode of Today Explained, a daily podcast from Vox: http://art19.com/shows/today-explained/episodes/f1c11e8e-1637-4e2b-8261-ab8086c927ce
Rudy Giuliani started his career as a superstar prosecutor and a crime-fighting mayor. Then he led New York City back from the attacks of September 11th, and it made him a beloved national figure. But today's Giuliani is something different: He's the guy willing to say anything to defend Donald Trump on TV, a central figure in the scandal that got the president impeached, and he's under investigation by the US attorney's office he once led. How did Rudy Giuliani get here?
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Read more about Rudy Giuliani on Vox.com:
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/9/25/20883309/rudy-giuliani-ukraine-trump
And check out Andrew Kirtzman...
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- The white lie we've been told about Roman statues
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- 6 years ago
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- The ancient world was actually really colorful.
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When you think of the ancient world, you probably picture towering buildings of white marble, adorned with statues also made of white marble. You’re not alone — most people picture the same thing. But we’re all wrong.
Ancient buildings and sculptures were actually really colorful. The Greeks and Romans painted their statues to resemble real bodies, and often gilded them so they shone like gods. So why is seemingly every museum on planet earth full of white marble sculptures?
It’s partly an honest mistake. After the fall of Rome, ancient sculptures were buried or left out in the open air for hundreds of years. By the time the Renaissance began in the 1300s, their paint had faded away. As a result, the artists unearthing, and copying ancient art didn’t realize how colorful it was supposed to be.
But white marble co...
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- Who pays the lowest taxes in the US?
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- 6 years ago
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- There's a common myth about who pays their fair share, and who doesn't.
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You might have heard that the poor in America barely pay any taxes. And if you look at a chart of how much every American pays in income taxes, that seems basically true. But income taxes are just one type of the many taxes we pay. So what happens if we add them all up? A new analysis by the economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman did exactly that. And it shows that the American tax system might not be as "progressive" as many people believe.
Read more about that analysis in an op-ed Saez and Zucman wrote for the New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/11/opinion/sunday/wealth-income-tax-rate.html
All of their data, which we used to produce this video, is available on their website: https://taxjusticenow.org/
Their full research is presented in their book, the Triumph of Injustice: https://www...
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- Impeachment is Trump's ultimate loyalty test for Republicans
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- 6 years ago
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- Will the GOP choose Trump over the constitution?
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Donald Trump is the 3rd president in American history to be impeached by the House of Representatives, joining Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton. Richard Nixon resigned before the House voted on the articles of impeachment.
But this is the middle, not the end, of the impeachment process – Trump is now officially charged with the abuses of power laid out in the House’s articles of impeachment, but will be tried in the Republican-majority senate. But what will congressional Republicans accept, and what will that mean for future presidents? What we know so far paints a dangerous picture.
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- Glad You Asked is back. Here’s what’s coming Jan 8
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- 6 years ago
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- The implications of flying in a world on the brink of a climate crisis, how social media face filters manipulate our perception of ourselves, and what’s REALLY in a GMO, debunked and demystified. The crew comes back January 8th to challenge what you think you know about these questions and more.
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- How the fisheye lens took over music
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- 6 years ago
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- The fisheye album cover is a modern music staple. This is the story of where it came from.
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When Harry Styles released the album cover to his sophomore project, Fine Line, fans began dissecting everything about it. But any music lover might recognize something about its cover too. The distorted circular image might remind hip-hop fans of 1990s music videos, or psychedelic rock fans of an iconic Jimi Hendrix album cover. The photograph was taken with a fish-eye lens, a novel piece of gear that has excited amateur and professional photographers alike for over half a century. The story of how that lens was developed in the first place might be just as interesting as all the ways it has been used since its invention.
Nikon 8mm Fisheye image used with permission of Ken Rockwell, who can be found at https://KenRockwell.com/ and http://KenRockwell.TV/
Note: The headline on this video has bee...
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- What makes Delhi's air so deadly
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- 6 years ago
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- The policy behind the pollution.
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Every November, Northern India experiences some of the most dangerous air pollution levels in the world. Typical pollution sources like car exhaust, construction dust, and industry emissions are partially responsible, but there is another factor that makes Delhi's air deadly. A policy was enacted in 2009 and it is wreaking havoc on the lungs of residents in India's capital city. To learn what it is and what's being done to stop it, make sure to watch the video above.
To learn more, read on Vox.com: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/11/8/20948348/delhi-india-air-pollution-quality-cause
Sources:
https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.global_summary#India$New_Delhi
https://www.airvisual.com/world-most-polluted-cities
https://www.who.int/airpollution/data/cities/en/
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- Why German spies blew up this US island
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- 7 years ago
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- And how they almost got away with it.
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In the years leading up to the United States’ entry into World War I in 1917, the nation was neutral, profiting from the war by manufacturing munitions and selling them to both sides. But a British naval blockade around Germany made it impossible for the Central Powers to acquire American arms. As a result, Imperial Germany established a ring of saboteurs and spies within the US, secretly destroying munitions factories and ships, and trying to make it look like an accident.
The signature attack of this campaign occurred on July 30, 1916, when saboteurs set fire to a massive stockpile of munitions ready to ship from Black Tom Island, a munitions depot in New York Harbor. The explosion was felt for miles around, but because the US had no infrastructure of domestic intelligence at the times, it took decades to prove that it wasn’t just an unfortunate acciden...
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- The 3 tropes of an Oscar-bait trailer [Advertiser content from Dell]
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- 7 years ago
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- “Jaw-dropping.” “From the Academy Award winner.” “Star-studded.” Chances are you already know exactly how to spot a trailer gearing up for the Academy Awards junket. The holidays are primetime for generating Oscar buzz on the year’s biggest movie releases, and movie studios will spend anywhere between $3 million to $10 million per film to capture the attention of Oscar voters. Streaming platforms are also getting in on the Academy Award action, now with new splashy wins from films like Manchester by the Sea (Amazon) and Roma (Netflix).
That means while you’re trying to pick what to watch next, you’re likely to spot some of these tropes littered throughout the trailers for the 2019 releases hankering for a nomination. Hot-button issues in Bombshell? Check. Prosthetics? (Yeah, you’ve got to see the cast member in Bombshell to know that will be a Best Actor nominee.) Nostalgia galore plus “based on a true story” in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood? ...
