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Why all Americans should honor Juneteenth
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- Why all Americans should honor Juneteenth
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- 7:13
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- 6 years ago
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- An historian explains the history and significance of the holiday.
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Note: This video was previously titled, "Juneteenth, explained." The title has been changed to better reflect the video's content.
When American schoolchildren learn about chattel slavery in the US, we’re often told it ended with Abraham Lincoln’s signature on the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863.
But, as late as June 19, 1865, enslaved people in Texas were still held in bondage. On that date, the Federal troops entered the state and began to punish slave holders and former confederates who refused to obey the law.
“Juneteenth is a deeply emotional moment for enslaved people,” says historian Karlos K. Hill, of the University of Oklahoma.
In Texas and across the country, emancipated African Americans began celebrating annually, with parades, concerts, and picnics. “Being able to go ...
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- Why American farmers are throwing out tons of milk
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- 9:52
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- 6 years ago
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- The coronavirus supply chain problem, explained through milk.
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Coronavirus continues to infect nearly every aspect of American life — on US farms, it’s led to the widespread destruction of fresh food. Take milk, for example. Dairy farmers across the country have dumped millions of gallons of fresh milk. This, at a time when millions of Americans are dealing with food insecurity. Since so many schools and businesses are now closed, dairy farmers have nowhere to direct those products. Check out the video above to learn more about this break in the food supply chain, and why it’s not easy to redirect supply that was going to schools and businesses to consumers or food banks instead.
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- Empty middle seats on planes won't stop the coronavirus
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- 6:59
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- 6 years ago
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- An empty seat won’t prevent transmission, but it might help a little.
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As coronavirus lockdowns loosen, flights are starting to fill up — leading many people to call for empty middle seats. Keeping middle seats open on a plane can help maintain physical distance between passengers. But it’s unlikely to prevent virus transmission; there are many other ways coronavirus can spread on an airplane. One thing’s for sure, though: a vacant middle seat will definitely affect how much we pay to fly.
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- Why this font is everywhere
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- 10:21
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- 6 years ago
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- How Cooper Black became pop culture’s favorite font.
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There’s a typeface that has made a resurgence in the last couple of years. It’s appeared on hip hop album covers, food packaging, and advertising. Perhaps you know it from the Garfield comics, Tootsie Roll logo, or the Pet Sounds album cover by the Beach Boys. It's called Cooper Black, and its popularity and ubiquity has never waned in the hundred years since it was first designed.
In the video above, Steven Heller and Bethany Heck tell the story of Cooper Black and deconstruct all the reasons it's been pop culture's favorite font for so long.
Sources:
Design literacy: Understanding graphic design. Steven Heller, 2014.
The Book of Oz Cooper: an Appreciation of Oswald Bruce Cooper. Society of Typographic Arts, 1949.
Font Review Journal: https://fontreviewjournal.com/cooper/
Fonts In Use: https://fon...
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- The 1850s map that changed how we fight outbreaks
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- 6:57
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- 6 years ago
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- It all starts with a pump.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards explores Dr. John Snow’s map of the Broad Street Pump, which changed epidemiology forever.
In 1854, news spread about a mysterious new cholera outbreak in London. At the time, doctors and scientists largely believed the disease traveled in a “miasma” — a floating cloud of sickness. Dr. John Snow suspected bad water might actually be the agent of transmission — and he wanted to prove it in time to stop the outbreak.
Through a mix of personal interviews, clever detective work, and data analysis that included tables and a famous map, Snow managed to stop the outbreak and convince local public health officials, eventually, that cholera could be transmitted through water, not a miasma. Since his breakthrough study, the map has become an iconic piece of epidemiological history, as an illustration of keen d...
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- Why it's so hard to get unemployment benefits
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- 6:03
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- 6 years ago
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- It's not the computers. It's the politicians behind them.
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Millions of Americans across the country have lost their jobs. But whether or not those people can get the unemployment benefits they deserve actually depends on where they live. In some states, more than two thirds of jobless people typically collect unemployment benefits. But in others, like Florida, fewer than one in 10 unemployed people get those benefits.
That massive difference has often been blamed on technology; Florida’s unemployment system is notoriously difficult to use. But technology doesn’t build itself. The real explanation requires a look at the ideology of the people who did.
Sources/further reading:
Ain’t No Sunshine: Fewer than One in Eight Unemployed Workers In Florida Is Receiving Unemployment Insurance (National Employment Law Project, 2015) https://s27147.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/Aint-No...
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- The eclipse photo that made Einstein famous
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- 6:25
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- 6 years ago
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- In 1919, a total solar eclipse helped redefine gravity.
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Albert Einstein’s theory of general relativity, published in 1915, defined gravity as the influence of massive objects, like planets and stars, curving space around them. This was very different from the way Isaac Newton had defined gravity over 200 years earlier: Newton described an attracting force that kept planets and stars in orbit with each other. If Einstein was right, then light would also bend near massive objects. And in 1919, two British expeditions set out to test it by photographing a total solar eclipse. By comparing the position of stars with the sun in front of them and another with the sun elsewhere, Arthur Eddington and his team proved that the stars’ apparent positions moved during the eclipse. This was the first, but not the last tim...
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- The most urgent threat of deepfakes isn't politics
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- 6:31
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- 6 years ago
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- The real threat of deepfakes, explained with Kristen Bell.
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Actress Kristen Bell first found out there were deepfake porn videos of her online from her husband, actor Dax Shepherd. In the videos, her face has been manipulated onto porn stars’ bodies.
“I was just shocked,” the actress told Vox. “It's hard to think about that I'm being exploited.”
And this isn’t only happening to celebrities. Noelle Martin, a recent law graduate in Perth, Australia, discovered that someone took photos she’d shared on social media and used them first to photoshop her face into nude images, and then to create deepfake videos.
Deepfakes are often portrayed as a political threat — fake videos of politicians making comments they never made. But in a recent report, the research group Deeptrace found that 96% of deepfakes found online are pornographic. Of...
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- Protests aren't what they look like on TV
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- 5:33
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- 6 years ago
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- What protest news coverage does — and doesn't — show you.
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The killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmaud Arbery have ignited protests around the world. Those protests have dominated news coverage. But when it comes to communicating the protests’ scale, character, and purpose, a lot of that coverage falls short.
Part of that is because of the media’s incentive to highlight the most dramatic imagery; it’s why so much protest coverage has been filled with violent and chaotic scenes of fire, looters, and tear gas. But it’s also because of the nature of protest imagery itself. In this video, journalism professor Jason Johnson and Vox editor Kainaz Amaria explain that, while the news can show you what a protest looks like, it’s a lot worse at telling you why it’s happening.
Further reading:
https://www.vox.com/first-person/2020/5/29/21274891/george-floyd-c...
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- How deadly is Covid-19?
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- 6:26
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- 6 years ago
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- Making sense of the coronavirus death toll.
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Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/21/world/coronavirus-missing-deaths.html
https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid
https://www.governor.ny.gov/news/amid-ongoing-covid-19-pandemic-governor-cuomo-launches-new-initiative-expand-access-testing-low
https://www1.nyc.gov/site/doh/covid/covid-19-data.page
There are two ways you could assess the deadliness of a crisis like the novel coronavirus pandemic. One is to ask, “How many people are dying?” And the other is to ask, “What is the risk of dying if you contract the virus?” For months, public health officials were unable to fully answer either of those questions.
Now, with death certificates and antibody-survey data coming in, we’re slowly getting a better picture of Covid-19 mortality. As we explain in this video, that picture is of a diseas...
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- Why tigers get coronavirus but your dog will be fine
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- 6:47
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- 6 years ago
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We have seen reports of everything from Malayan tigers to pugs testing positive for COVID-19. In this episode, we explore which animals can contract and transmit the coronavirus, and whether or not we should be worried about our pets.
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- How coronavirus spreads outdoors vs. indoors
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- 6:03
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- 6 years ago
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- Can a runner give you Covid-19?
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If you want to stay totally safe from Covid-19, and eliminate the risk of either getting it or transmitting it, you have to stay home. But as the weather gets warmer, public places start to open up, and many places enter their fourth month of life under coronavirus, that’s becoming less and less realistic.
At the same time, we know that coronavirus can be transmitted through the air -- and that raises some pretty big questions. Is it safe to go the beach? What about a park? Is a heavy-breathing runner going to infect you as they pass you? In short: How do you go outside safely?
Read Vox reporter Sigal Samuel’s article about the risks of transmitting Covid-19 outdoors: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/4/24/21233226/coronavirus-runners-cyclists-airborne-infectious-dose
A helpful chart for thinking through the risks of different scenari...
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- What Bill Gates hopes we learn from coronavirus
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- 3:57
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- 6 years ago
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- Vox interviewed Bill Gates in 2015 about his fears of a global pandemic. Now that we’re living in that reality, what does he think comes next?
Watch our 2015 interview with Bill Gates here: https://youtu.be/9AEMKudv5p0
This interview was conducted on April 25, 2020. You can listen to the rest of the interview on the Ezra Klein Show, available wherever you listen to podcasts, or read it here: https://bit.ly/2TCZx9O
For more information on The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation’s efforts to fight coronavirus: https://bit.ly/3elJyog
For more of our sources:
The latest data on the pandemic around the world: https://ourworldindata.org/coronavirus
WHO data on SARS’ spread: https://www.who.int/csr/sars/country/2003_07_11/en/
WHO MERS Case count: https://www.who.int/csr/don/07-july-2015-mers-korea/en/
For much more on the effectiveness on the USA’s efforts against HIV/AIDS in Africa, also ...
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- The US tested the wrong people for coronavirus
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- 7:21
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- 6 years ago
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- And you can tell because of a number called the test positivity rate.
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As the rate of new coronavirus cases in the US slows down, many states and cities there are encouraging businesses to open again, easing the lockdowns that have been in place since March. But public health experts warn that in many of those places, opening up is premature.
The reason is that throughout the US, as well as in many other countries, we still don’t really know how many people have the virus, or where they are. That’s dangerous because it means infected people who don’t feel sick are probably mingling with the rest of the population, which could enable further outbreaks. And the only way to really prevent that is by proactively testing people for covid-19 until the people who have it have been tracked down and isolated.
The US started testing its population for covid-19 very slowly, but it’s since...
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- One reason why coronavirus hits Black people the hardest
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- 9:03
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- 6 years ago
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- Toxic air can weaponize the coronavirus.
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Across the US, black people are dying from Covid-19 at disproportionately high rates. While there are many different factors at play behind the stark racial disparities — there’s one possible reason that’s been lurking in the air for decades: pollution.
The long history of segregation and housing discrimination has long put black people at greater risk of living near chemical plants, factories and highways, exposing them to higher levels of air pollutants. These pollutants have had a chronically negative impact on health, leading to conditions like hypertension and asthma. Now, those same diseases are associated with severe cases of Covid-19, and showing that where you live can determine whether you survive from Covid-19.
Read the full study on air pollution exposure and Covid-19 mortality: https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/covid-pm
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- The real story behind this war poster
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- 8:32
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- 6 years ago
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- Rosie the riveter is iconic. But what’s the real story behind the poster?
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards explores the story behind the women riveters of World War II.
During World War II, millions of women entered manufacturing and the workforce in general. How did the labor pool change so dramatically, so quickly? And how does it connect to the familiar poster of Rosie the riveter that people still love today?
These riveters came from other industries and outside the workforce, guided with the help of private industry and some government agencies. The US Employment Service helped place men and women at wartime jobs, and the Women’s Bureau and War Manpower Commission helped find and train that labor.
The traditional Rosie the riveter story is not without its omissions: white women benefited most from labor changes, and many of the riveters were alrea...
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- Why beef is the worst food for the climate
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- 4:38
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- 6 years ago
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- Avoiding high-emission foods can have a bigger climate impact than any other consumption change.
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Our consumption habits emit billions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. Our diets account for one-fourth of those emissions.
The food we eat emits so many greenhouse emissions because of the land it takes to grow it, but it also has something to do with biology. This video explains why the production of some foods emit more than others, and which foods to avoid to be a more climate-conscious consumer.
This video was based on this chart, created by the University of Oxford’s Our World in Data:
https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
Sources:
For more Vox.com coverage of food emissions:
https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/2/20/21144017/local-food-carbon-footprint-climate-environment
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- Dr. Anthony Fauci, explained
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- 9:41
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- 6 years ago
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- Where Dr. Fauci came from — and the crisis that shaped his career.
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Correction: At 4:28, a previous version of this video read "Federal Drug Administration." It should read "Food and Drug Administration."
Dr. Anthony Fauci has become one of the most recognizable faces of the United States’ coronavirus response, as a member of the Coronavirus Task Force and director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. But it was an earlier crisis that shaped his career — and that’s crucial to understand his position today.
As the above video shows, Dr. Fauci’s involvement in the AIDS crisis, from the virus’s discovery to the present day, has affected the course of his career and the way the disease is treated around the world. That history, in turn, informs how we learn about and treat the coronavirus today.
In addition to scientific progress, AIDS also ne...
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- 8 million subscribers! + other things bringing us joy
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- 6:45
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- 6 years ago
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- Thank you to our 8 million subscribers for the most curious, surprising, and funny audience we could hope for!
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- Why we're seeing mass layoffs in the US but not the UK
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- 5:39
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- 6 years ago
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- Tens of millions of Americans are out of work because of the coronavirus. But it didn't have to be that way -- and it's not too late for the US to change course.
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Few Americans alive today have ever seen unemployment numbers as bad as they are right now. At the end of April 2020, economists estimated that between 13 and 18 percent of US workers were unemployed. It's the highest rate since the Great Depression.
That figure can seem somewhat inevitable; the unfortunate but unavoidable cost of economic lockdown. It’s why, in response, Congress has prioritized shoring up unemployment insurance benefits.
But a handful of European countries have shown that mass unemployment isn’t a given in a situation like this. It’s a policy choice.
In this video, we explain how and why the UK, Denmark, and the Netherlands chose a different path. With the help of economist Heidi Shierholz...
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- How voting by mail could save the US election
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- 8:32
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Coronavirus threatens the US election. Voting by mail could save it.
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On April 7, 2020, as the coronavirus held much of the US under lockdown, the state of Wisconsin held an election. Many other states had already decided to delay their spring elections to protect voters. But in Wisconsin, voters were forced to choose between participating in the election, and their own safety. Wisconsin's decision sparked outrage, but it also highlighted a question that the US really needs to figure out soon: How do you hold an election during a pandemic?
Fortunately, there's actually a simple solution to this one: voting by mail. Tens of millions of Americans already vote this way, and if the rest of the US can prepare their election systems in time for the November election, they could avoid Wisconsin's fate. But time's running out.
Read more from Dave Roberts on Vox.com: https://www.vox.com/science-and...
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- How coronavirus charts can mislead us
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- 4:58
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- How to read a popular chart of coronavirus cases by country.
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Much of the data about the coronavirus epidemic and covid-19 is flawed. It is collected and reported in different ways by different countries, and almost certainly undercounts the number of cases and deaths. But organizations and journalists still need to report the available data to inform the public and help guide policymakers. Much of that data ends up in visualizations, like charts and maps, which can make it easier to understand and analyze.
But it's important to know how the process of data visualization can shape our perception of the crisis. In this video, we deconstruct one particularly popular chart of covid-19 cases around the world which uses a logarithmic scale, and explain how to avoid being misled by it.
Sources:
https://ourworldindata...
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- What face masks actually do against coronavirus
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- 7:48
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Face masks don't make you invincible.
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The fight against coronavirus is global. But the guidelines on whether you should wear a face mask as part of that fight are often completely different from place to place. That means that, for a lot of people, whether you wear a face mask when you leave the house is basically up to you.
Here’s where almost every expert agrees: If you have Covid-19, and you leave the house, you should wear a mask. Masks help keep sick people from spreading their germs. Most of the uncertainty around mask use is related to a totally separate question: Whether masks can protect healthy people from getting Covid-19.
The truth is that no mask can actually guarantee that you won’t get sick; experts say one of the most dangerous assumptions about face masks is that they basically make you invincib...
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- The right way to play Monopoly
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- 6:37
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- How do you win Monopoly? And how do you keep it fun at the same time?
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Is there a right way to play Monopoly?
Brian Valentine takes a stab at the answer — he was the United States representative to the 2015 World Monopoly championships, where he earned a third-place finish. As the above video shows, playing Monopoly right involves learning the rules all over again, processing key strategies, and, above all, valuing the people you play it with.
Valentine shares his knowledge about probability heat maps that show the likelihood of landing on a certain space, nuances of gameplay around houses and hotels, and even a few tips on making games fun instead of rancorous.
Further reading
There are tons of articles that break down the math of Monopoly. While it’s not the only ingredient to playing Monopoly right, it’s an important one. This Business Insider article by Walt Hi...
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- Why kids write letters backward
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- 4:30
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Almost all kids will mirror write at some point. Why?
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If you work with (or have) kids under 7, you might notice that a handful of them flip letters, or sometimes entire words, when writing. It’s a little creepy to look at — and reminiscent of Danny from The Shining – but it’s entirely normal.
Our minds are exceptionally good at saving space when necessary. Sitting in a classroom, you probably won’t notice the consistent buzz of a heater unless you focus on it. Our eyes do something similar when it comes to orientation. This is because in the natural world, the direction something is facing doesn't really matter all that much. This allows us to identify and recognize objects quickly. It's a truly efficient way to think.
Except, when...
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- What the coronavirus looks like up close
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- 5:13
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- Seeing the virus up close helps us understand it.
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The images of SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that first appeared in humans in late 2019, were made using electron microscopy. The virus measures around 100 nanometers, and the smallest wavelengths of light that humans can see measure around 400 nanometers, meaning the virus is too small to see with a standard light microscope. To see something that small, you need a device that uses smaller wavelengths than light. Electrons, when accelerated in a field, behave as a wave with a tiny wavelength to accomplish this.
Two electron microscopy techniques, SEM and TEM, offer different views. A Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) scans the surface of a sample and records information that bounces back, similar to a satellite image. A Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM) transmits elect...
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- The big lesson from South Korea's coronavirus response
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- 8:04
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- Testing and tracing were the key to slowing the spread of coronavirus.
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In South Korea, citizens have flattened the curve of the novel coronavirus -- and it's because of lessons they learned from fighting the MERS outbreak in 2015. Through a combination of aggressive and widespread testing measures, along with a system know as “contact tracing,” they’ve been better positioned to spot the path of the virus and curb its spread. While they are still vigilant for a second wave of Covid-19 cases, people in South Korea are slowly returning to public life. Watch the video above to find out how their testing and contact tracing measures work, and how it can be a lesson for countries still in lockdown.
You can learn more about the 205 MERS outbreak in South Korea and the lessons learned from it here:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5840604/
https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/...
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- Why NASA quarantined the Apollo 11 astronauts
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- 14:41
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- On July 21, 1969, the Apollo 11 quarantine began.
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In this episode of History Club, Vox's Phil Edwards and Coleman Lowndes chat with Amy Shira Teitel of The Vintage Space about the Apollo 11 quarantine.
Thanks Amy - check out her channel here:
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In History Club, Vox's Phil Edwards and Coleman Lowndes share their discoveries about history both weird and wonderful. Check out the full playlist here.
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It was an unusual process for an unprecedented task: keeping potential moon germs from entering the Earth’s atmosphere (and affecting its population).
To try to isolate the Apollo astronauts from the Earth, NASA went...
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- The 8-bit arcade font, deconstructed
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- 8:12
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
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- In his book Arcade Game Typography, type designer Toshi Omagari breaks down the evolution, design, and history of arcade game fonts.
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In the video above, he guides us through this delightful 8-bit world and breaks it down pixel by pixel.
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Let's talk about sources!
Archive.org has a wonderful collection of vintage arcade games that you can play online. This is where many of the videos of arcade games came from. https://archive.org/details/internetarcade
In addition to that, Barcade allowed us to film their collection of arcades. https://barcadenewyork.com/
Toshi's book served as a blueprint for all the fonts you see in the video. You can purchase it here: https://thamesandhudson.com/arcade-game-typography-9780500021743
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- Why coronavirus scammers can send fake emails from the WHO
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- 8:31
- Date posted
- 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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- 6:31
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- 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.
Read more on Vox:
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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- 3:43
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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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- 6:33
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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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- 6:29
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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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- 3:45
- Date posted
- 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
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and u...
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- Why fighting the coronavirus depends on you
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- 6:30
- Date posted
- 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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- 5:51
- Date posted
- 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...
- Title
- How San Francisco erased a neighborhood
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- 14:56
- Date posted
- 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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- 8:49
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- Computers just got a lot better at writing
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- 6:55
- Date posted
- 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...
- Title
- The case for Elizabeth Warren
- Runtime
- 7:37
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- 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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- 6:07
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- The case for Pete Buttigieg
- Runtime
- 6:23
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- The case for Bernie Sanders
- Runtime
- 7:31
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- The conspiracy behind this famous statue
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- 5:34
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- 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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- 8:03
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- 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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Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's really driving the events in the headlines. Check out ht...
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- How the British royal family makes money
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- 7:54
- Date posted
- 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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- 6:25
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- 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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- 7:43
- Date posted
- 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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- 6:40
- Date posted
- 6 years ago
- Description
- 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...
