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Why LGBTQ rights hinge on the definition of "sex" | 2020 Election
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- Why LGBTQ rights hinge on the definition of "sex" | 2020 Election
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- 9:58
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- UPDATE: In his first day in office, Joe Biden signed an Executive Order that adopts the latest Supreme Court ruling's more expansive inclusion of LGBTQ rights under sex discrimination protections. This reverses Trump's rulings.
Without federal legislation, the fight against LGBTQ discrimination has been waged in the courts and the White House.
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The US Civil Rights Act of 1964 originally protected against discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, and religion. But in a failed political maneuver meant to make the bill so unpopular that it wouldn’t pass, the word “sex” was added as well. That addition protected women from being discriminated against at work, but it also set off a 50-year legal battle over whether the law also protects LGBTQ Americans.
The court has reached a decision in this battle, but the Trump White House has come to a d...
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- The Instagram aesthetic that made QAnon mainstream
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- 9:32
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Conspiracy theory researchers explain how QAnon spread through Instagram.
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At first glance, the images under the hashtags about child trafficking don’t look that different from anything else you’d expect to see on Instagram. They feature bright pastel colors with trendy fonts spelling out taglines like “wake up” and “get loud.”
What the people who see these hashtags — and the lifestyle influencers who often post them — might not know is that the hashtag is being used to bring QAnon ideas into the mainstream. In March, 23 percent of people surveyed by Pew had heard of QAnon; by September, that number had risen to 47 percent. Now the conspiracy theory has reached a bigger support base than ever before via QAnon-lite memes — with serious implications for the election.
Read more of Vox's coverage on QAnon: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/8/1/17253444/qanon-t...
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- The technology that’s replacing the green screen
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- 8:23
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The green screen is a Hollywood staple. Should it be?
It’s easy to complain about overreliance on special effects, but for projects that require impossible-to-film environments or have incredibly expensive shots, how do you get the flexibility of green screens without the drawbacks?
Charmaine Chan has worked on one of the possible answers. Vox's Phil Edwards spoke to her about her career and how it's at the forefront of a big technological shift. As a compositor for venerable effects house Industrial Light and Magic (ILM), she’s worked on films like The Last Jedi, assembling various digital elements into a beautiful, seamless image. Her job changed on The Mandalorian, one of the first shows to use ILM’s upgrade for the green screen: LED panels that used video game engine technology to place a realistic-looking world behind the actors.
It was a huge improvement, because green screens actually have a lot of drawbacks. Removing the green screen...
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- Why American public transit is so bad | 2020 Election
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- 9:40
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Most Americans have no choice but to drive. How do we change that?
We produced this video in 2020 as part of our US election coverage. The rest of those videos are at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5eKjlXtsOo6SDi2ZvcHQ69q
In the middle of the 20th century, the US government made a decision that would transform American cities: It built a huge system of interstate highways, many of which went right through the downtowns of its biggest cities.
This sealed the country's fate as a car culture, and today we're seeing the results. In most cities, it's extremely difficult to get around without a car, in part due to public transit systems built to serve an outdated commute. And when our politics turn to infrastructure, the government often favors building new roads and highways instead of improving and expanding public transportation.
The result is a system that forces more Americans to drive, at the expense of those who rel...
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- How America could lose its allies | 2020 Election
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- 12:29
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- What is NATO? And why is it still around?
This video was part of our 2020 US election series. Watch more at https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ8cMiYb3G5eKjlXtsOo6SDi2ZvcHQ69q
For 150 years, the US avoided formal alliances. It occasionally went to war -- fighting the War of 1812, the Spanish-American War, and World War I -- but did so without entangling itself in promises to other countries. Then, after World War II, it abruptly changed course, and began to build a network of alliances unlike anything that had come before.
Over the next few decades, the US used those alliances to keep countries around the world close, and to fight Soviet expansion, by making a promise that it would go to war if any of its allies were ever attacked. After the Soviet Union fell, the initial purpose of those alliances was gone, but the US recommitted to them, signaling again and again that the central promise of those relationships was still in effect. It kept d...
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- How the next president could change policing | 2020 Election
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- 8:02
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- What the candidates can (and can’t) do about police reform.
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Police reform is a major issue in the 2020 election, yet it’s also one of the issues the president has little control over. Police are primarily funded and managed by local governments instead of the federal government. So when it comes to what the president or Congress can actually do to change policing in America…it’s pretty limited.
But the federal government does have the power to change what's called qualified immunity. It’s a legal protection that shields police from lawsuits over violations of people’s constitutional rights. For protesters of police brutality, reforming it is at the top of their list. And its future could hang on the election.
This was the fifth in our series of 2020 election explainers, all based on viewer suggestions. Watch ...
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- How robots made this food commercial look effortless
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- 8:29
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Creating the perfect food commercial isn’t just a matter of great styling and a mouth-watering dish. Sometimes, you need a robot.
Steve Giralt is a “visual engineer.” Check out his Instagram for more:
https://www.instagram.com/stevegiralt/
The team that built this rig shares amazing BTS as well.
https://www.instagram.com/garageriley
https://www.instagram.com/mattphub
Or explore his website as he starts working on educational content about his work:
https://www.thegaragelearning.com/
Giralt began his career as a stills photographer, but he saw potential for more thanks to his hobbies in engineering. A new discipline was born: visual engineering, using robotics, advanced camerawork, and a lot of creativity to create moving images that have never been seen before. His Smores have lit up Times Square, and, in the video above, you can watch how he uses trial and error (and more than a few robots) to drop the p...
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- How the US poisoned Navajo Nation
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- 12:33
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The biggest radioactive spill in US history.
As World War Two was ending, the growing nuclear arms race put the US in need of uranium. It turned to Navajo Nation, where the uranium mining industry thrived for four decades -- but left disease, pollution and the biggest radioactive spill in US history.
That spill in Church Rock, New Mexico upended the lives of nearby residents, who had to grapple with toxic water, livestock and a lifetime of illnesses. Now, they are still waiting for it to be cleaned up.
Note: The headline for this piece has been updated.
Previous headline: The biggest radioactive spill in US history
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- How US schools punish Black kids | 2020 Election
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- 10:48
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- For the 50 million kids who attend public schools in the US, the 2020 election is personal.
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When it comes to who gets punished and removed from American classrooms, the US doesn’t treat all students equally. Black students get suspended and expelled far more frequently than their white classmates, and often for the same or similar offenses. And the weeks of school that Black kids miss each year can kick off a chain reaction that changes a child’s future.
But the US education system gives the American president a tremendous amount of power over public schools. Whoever holds the Presidency decides how schools handle things like testing, class size, and discipline.
During the Obama administration, the US Department of Education started to take the country’s school discipline problem seriously. They investigated the sc...
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- How colorized photos helped introduce Japan to the world
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- 8:05
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The best hand-colored photos of the 19th century came from Japan.
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For over 200 years, Japan isolated itself from the outside world by forbidding most foreigners from entering the country. But in 1854, a US naval expedition of warships forced Japan to open its port cities, resulting in a flood of curious travelers from Europe and North America, who established businesses there. Photography became a leading industry in newly opened Japan, to satisfy a market of curious outsiders who wanted to know what the country and its people really looked like.
Foreign photographers like Felice Beato and Baron Raimund von Stillfried established photo studios, and they employed fine artists from the Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print industry to carefully apply watercolors to their prints. Eventually, those same apprentices dominated the market with their own photo studios.
By the 20th century, mainl...
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- The $12 trillion ripple effect of Covid-19 [Advertiser content from the Gates Foundation]
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- 3:20
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The pandemic has hit everyone, but it has hit us all in different ways. Many lives have been lost, a number that just entered seven digits. Millions have lost jobs. Others have lost trust in their fellow citizens. Entire sectors of private industry have been upended. Those who have been infected and recovered may yet deal with medical repercussions for the rest of their lives.
None of the above consequences occur in a vacuum. They are not independent repercussions, but the interdependent fallout of a global health crisis. In this vein, you can’t tackle the multiple ripples created by the pandemic as if they were isolated from one another.
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- The forgotten “wade-ins” that transformed the US
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- 13:43
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- How beaches and pools became a battleground for US civil rights.
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When we think of the iconic moments of the Civil Rights Movement in the US, we might imagine bus boycotts, lunch counter sit-ins or the March on Washington. Most of us won’t think of protests at beaches and pools. Yet these battles in the country’s waters played a crucial role in transforming America.
The campaign in the waters of St. Augustine, Florida, became one of the most critical in the movement to desegregate the US. The photos were published around the world, but the full story has often been left out of our history textbooks. And now, the legacy of segregated public waters continues to this day.
Note: The headline for this piece has been updated.
Previous headline: How beaches became a battleground for US civil rights.
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- What voter suppression looks like online
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- 5:36
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Why Russian operatives and domestic parties target Black voters in US elections.
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According to a report by CNN, the federal government has warned that Russia "might seek to covertly discourage or suppress US voters from participating" in the upcoming election. If so, it would be a repeat of their tactics four years ago, when Russian operatives posing as Americans on social media discouraged Black Americans from voting or encouraged them to vote for the third-party candidate, Jill Stein. The Trump campaign itself pursued a strategy of vote suppression targeted at African Americans, who vote against Republicans at higher rates than any other demographic group.
While voter suppression takes many forms — from intimidation at polling places to purges of...
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- How US abortion policy targets the poor | 2020 Election
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- 8:21
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The 2020 US election could decide the fate of a 40-year-old ban on abortion funding.
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For the past 44 years, every US Congress and president have approved a federal budget that includes a ban on federal funding for abortion services, except in extreme cases. It's known as the Hyde Amendment, and even politicians who support abortion access have voted in favor of it. But the landscape of abortion access has evolved so much that Joe Biden might become the first president to lift the Hyde Amendment from the federal budget.
Banning federal funding for abortion services primarily affects people who rely on Medicaid for their health care: people who are living close to the poverty line in the US or are disabled. This has the effect of preventing some of the country’s most vulnerable people from accessing abortion services, since they are th...
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- What it means to be Black in Brazil
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- 11:49
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Racism rooted in slavery has not gone away in Brazil — and it took time until its existence was even acknowledged.
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Brazil imported more African slaves than any other country in the world: over 4 million people. Despite the ancestry forming a big part of the population, the development of a national Black identity was hindered after the country’s abolition of slavery in 1888.
Brazil didn’t have an apartheid system like South Africa’s or Jim Crow laws like the United States, and its mixed population was seen as a symbol of harmony between races. The idea of Brazil being a “racial democracy” affected how Brazilians saw the role of race in their own lives — until the myth was debunked.
“Several people were raised with certain privileges for being a light-skinned person, but still suffering some discrimination and not understanding exactly why is that so,” explains lawyer and...
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- How the Beirut explosion was a government failure
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- 10:53
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- And why Lebanon is on the verge of collapse.
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On August 4, 2020, a massive explosion rocked Beirut, the capital city of Lebanon. The blast occurred when sparks in a warehouse hit a stockpile of ammonium nitrate — a highly explosive material — that was stored in the city's port. It was one of the largest accidental explosions in history and it couldn't have occurred at a worse time for Lebanon.
For the past several years, the country has been sliding into an economic depression and a political crisis. The root causes began during the country's 20-year civil war and extend to the organization of the government, in which control is divided among the country's many religious sects.
After years of corruption and negligence, Lebanon's people are now stuck picking up the pieces.
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New York Times Visual Investigations: https://www.nytim...
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- What long voting lines in the US really mean | 2020 Election
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- 8:13
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The sneaky ways that some US states make it harder to vote.
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The process of voting isn’t the same for all Americans. Depending on where you live, you might vote on a screen, a punchcard, or a piece of paper. You might have to show an ID to vote, or you might not. And you might have to wait a long time, or you might not.
Some of these differences don’t really matter. But some of them make voting harder. And sometimes they can keep people from voting altogether. For decades, the US had a civil rights law that made sure those differences were fair, and didn’t disproportionately keep certain people from voting: the 1965 Voting Rights Act. But in 2013, the US Supreme Court gutted that law, allowing states to pass a slew of new voting laws.
Those new laws often had the effect of making it harder for poor people and people of...
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- How to prioritize and manage savings when home [Advertiser content from Bank of America]
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- 21:45
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- 6 years ago
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- In this segment from the Money Talks: Home Habits series, powered by Bank of America, Vox publisher Melissa Bell is joined by Tonya Rapley, financial educator and founder of My Fab Finance to discuss how to reprioritize personal finance goals right now, whether you’ve experienced a loss in income, or are saving on normal expenses, such as transportation or dining out. Rapley also conducted one-on-one counseling sessions with two audience members dealing with their own unique financial circumstances.
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- How reality TV shows cast the right people
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- 9:01
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- How do you find the perfect person for a reality show? We spoke to the casting director for Queer Eye (and a ton of other shows) to find out.
Danielle Gervais is the Emmy-winning casting director for Netflix’s Queer Eye (and she and her team are nominated this year as well). In addition to the hit series, she’s cast everything from Pawn Stars to Wife Swap.
Vox’s Phil Edwards spoke to her about what it takes to find the right people at the center of each episode: the “heroes” that the show’s core cast give a makeover (or, in Danielle’s words, a “make better”).
It’s not just her and her team sitting in an audition room. After hashing out story themes and location for the new season, they’ll hit the ground in their new setting (in normal circumstances) and try to find the perfect people to feature on the show. Extensive interviews and background checks help finish the project — and the result of all that hard work is an hour ...
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- How America can leave fossil fuels behind, in one chart | 2020 Election
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- 11:11
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- And what the US election means for climate change.
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All of recorded human history has happened during a period in which the average global temperature didn’t change by more than 1 degree Celsius. But the burning of fossil fuels has triggered a temperature rise projected to exceed 3 degrees by the end of the century. It will be catastrophic. But it can be avoided if we massively scale back the burning of fossil fuels.
The US isn’t the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide in the world, but it's emitted more carbon dioxide in total than any other country. So the US has an important role to play in global decarbonization; the world basically can’t get there without the US’s full participation. But the current US president doesn’t have any plans to do that. His Democratic challenger in the 2020 election, Joe Biden, does.
B...
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- How the pandemic distorted time
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- 6:13
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Our perception of time is incredibly malleable — no wonder the pandemic upended it.
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There used to be this thing called a party. The concept was simple — gather a bunch of living, breathing bodies in the same place at the same time and just see what happens. And if my friends wanted me to be on time to a party, they’d lie.
I wasn’t proud of my reputation with time. Once, someone was describing their color blindness to me and it reminded me a lot of how I feel about time. How I know that 3 pm and 3:05 pm are technically different, but I personally don’t perceive that contrast.
I tried my best to banish those thoughts. I bought clocks and set them to five minutes early. And I was finally closing the gap — becoming one of those people who holds the reins of time. And then — the pandemic happened.
And suddenly Tuesdays were Thursdays were Sundays. The whole world joi...
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- How to be a cloud detective
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- 8:03
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- What different clouds mean, explained for kids.
Welcome to our first-ever week of programming for kids!
If you’re standing outside and you look up, you’ll likely see something familiar above you: clouds! They can be long and skinny, low and rumbly, white and fluffy, or anything in between. But what do these different shapes and colors tell us?
Every cloud is packed full of information, and knowing a bit about them can help you tell the difference between different types — and help you predict the weather.
For example, cumulus clouds are pretty easy to spot. They’re the classic cloud shape: big, fluffy, white cotton balls in the sky. These usually mean fair weather; when you see them, it’s a good day to be outside.
If you see a big blanket of clouds covering the sky, they might be altostratus — and they might mean that rain is coming.
Dr. Mayra Oyola from NASA’s jet propulsion lab helped me i...
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- The secret history of dirt
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- 10:39
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Dirt isn’t just the stuff beneath our feet. It’s the stuff of life.
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Dirt is alive. It's full of billions of creatures so small you can't even see them under a microscope. For 10,000 years, dirt has helped humans convert the limitless energy of the sun into the plants and animals we eat to keep us alive. Dirt has been good to us. But it turns out, we haven't been very good to the dirt. Roll up your sleeves. It's time to get dirty.
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- Why bird nests aren't covered in poop
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- 9:43
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- An ornithologist explains how robin hatchlings and their parents keep their nest clean.
Welcome to our first-ever week of programming for kids!
Earlier this year I noticed a bird nest with a single bright blue egg sitting on my front porch. Over the course of a few days, the single egg turned into four, and in a few more days, they hatched. What I witnessed over the course of watching these birds grow was magical, but it also left me with a lot of questions about what goes on in the beginning of a bird's life.
My biggest question: Where does all the bird poop go?
To answer all of my question about these baby birds, I spoke with professor of biology and lifelong bird lover Michael Murphy about the weird and often gross things birds do to survive.
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- I made a catapult to launch marshmallows! Thanks, Leonardo da Vinci.
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- 6:17
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- It’s time to make a catapult.
Welcome to our first-ever week of programming for kids!
We wanted to launch some marshmallows, so we built a miniature machine based on Leonardo da Vinci’s designs.
Leonardo da Vinci was a famous artist and inventor, and his sketchbooks include a couple of catapult drawings that you can use to make a catapult model. We did just that, and it was a lot of fun.
Catapults have a long history, going back to the ancient world (and appearing all across it, from China to Rome). They were used throughout history to bombard castle walls and enemies with projectiles, and they were adapted in the Middle Ages into agents of biological warfare. There are different types, like a mangonel, a trebuchet, and a ballista, each of which has its own unique advantages.
Our catapult is inspired by da Vinci’s, and it features some really creative ways to generate and store power. We hope you like it — and ma...
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- What Black Lives Matter means to an 11-year-old
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Eleven-year-old Jolia Bossette on being a Black kid in America.
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The killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and hundreds of other Black Americans at the hands of police officers have inspired protests across the country and around the world.
The news coverage has been impossible for most of us to ignore, and it begs the question: How are kids, especially Black kids, processing this reality? How do they make sense of these deaths and the systemic factors that made them possible?
In June of 2020,11-year-old Californian Jolia Bossette decided to use her fifth-grade graduation speech as an occasion to give voice to her thoughts and feelings. In her speech, she reminisced about how she was "the cutest thing," as a toddler and asked, "But when did I stop being cute and start being scary?"
"Does my dad scare you? Does my mom scare you? Does my auntie scare you? Because...
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- The problem with banning TikTok
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- 7:46
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- TikTok’s in trouble. But so is the internet as we know it.
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On August 6, President Trump issued an executive order prohibiting transactions with the video-sharing app TikTok. His order said that because TikTok is owned by the Beijing-based company ByteDance, the app could pose national security and privacy risks to users in the US.
But the Trump administration’s targeting of TikTok marks a departure from America’s traditional position on internet governance and online free speech. And it also comes at a time when the concept of a global internet itself is under threat.
Today a growing number of countries are pursuing various forms of internet sovereignty — from Russia building a walled-off “intranet,” to India regularly shutting down its internet in areas of social unrest, to some Europ...
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- When voting rights didn't protect all women
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- 8:29
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- The suffrage movement didn’t protect all women’s right to vote.
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On this landmark 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage, historians Martha S. Jones and Daina Ramey Berry reflect on what the 19th Amendment means for Black American women. The women’s suffrage movement was a predominantly white cause, one that sacrificed the involvement of Black suffragists in return for support for the 19th Amendment from Southern states.
The 1920 legislation enfranchised all American women, but it left Black women, particularly those living in the South, to fight racial discrimination when registering to vote and going to the polls. It wasn’t until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that this type of racial discrimination was prohibited by federal law.
The voting rights fight is still not over, however. There’s evidence that restrictions to voting disproportionately affect minority populations —...
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- Why face masks became political in the US
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- 6:12
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- How America screwed up its messaging on masks.
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The message from public health experts is clear: Wearing a mask can help stop the spread of coronavirus. But that message hasn't completely gotten through; many Americans still simply don't believe it. It's a major failure of communication, one that has almost certainly cost lives.
But the US government actually had a plan to prevent almost this exact situation from happening: A written set of rules to communicating in a public health crisis, including how to make sure that public health information doesn't get mixed up with politics. But then, when the biggest health crisis in a century arrived, they ignored it completely.
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https://emergency.cdc.gov/cerc/manual/index.asp
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https://www.vox.com/2020/7/21/21331310/mask-ma...
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- The next pandemic could come from our farms
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- 9:16
- Date posted
- 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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- 3:03
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- What do you think the candidates should be talking about?
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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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- 9:13
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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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- 11:34
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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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- 6:36
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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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- 9:33
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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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- 12:06
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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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- 8:11
- Date posted
- 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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- 13:11
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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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- 8:15
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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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- 9:41
- Date posted
- 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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- 7:22
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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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- 4:59
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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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- 9:10
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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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- 6:38
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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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- 7:45
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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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- 11:08
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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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- 10:47
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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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- 7:40
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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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- 8:06
- Date posted
- 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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- 5:46
- Date posted
- 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...
