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How one typeface took over movie posters
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- How one typeface took over movie posters
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- 8 years ago
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- Why Hollywood kept using Trajan.
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For the past 25 years, one typeface has dominated Hollywood typography: Trajan. It’s everywhere, from Shakespearean epic classics like Titus to gory modern flicks like The Human Centipede. It was even the official typeface of the Academy Awards for a while. In movie poster design, if you want to make a film look official, you use Trajan. So how did that happen? Designer Yves Peters set out to answer that question.
Read ScreenFonts, Yves’ monthly movie poster reviews: https://typenetwork.com/news
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- Can Trump really pardon himself?
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- 8 years ago
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- We asked legal experts about the limits of a president’s pardoning power.
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Take a look at the US Constitution and you’ll find that the president has fairly broad power to pardon individuals accused, charged or convicted of crimes against the federal government.
President Trump’s use of pardons early in his presidency, some believe, sends signals to his allies that Trump is willing to pardon them if they’re convicted of a crime in one of the several investigations surrounding the 2016 elections. The president has also repeatedly claimed that he could even pardon himself.
So what are the checks to a US president’s pardoning power and what does the Constitution have to say about this sort of self-serving pardoning?
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- It's not you. Date labels on food make no sense.
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- 8 years ago
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- Food labels don’t mean what you think they mean.
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When people clean out their fridge, they look at whatever date is on the label and throw it in the trash if it’s past that date. But the chances are that you’re throwing out tons of perfectly good food because date labels on food are often really confusing.
Food labels can mean many different things and often don’t give you any indication of whether the food is safe to eat or not. Many people assume that they’re federally regulated, but baby formula is the only product required to have consistent date labels. For everything else it’s up to the states to decide.
This creates a confusing state-by-state patchwork of labels with everything from “use by” to “freshest before” to “sell by” to “packaged on.”
And all this confusion causes us to waste tons of food every year. All the uneaten food waste costs ...
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- Why Americans suck at soccer (well, the men)
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- 8 years ago
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- We’ve got a theory, and it involves the soccer wars.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox’s Phil Edwards puts forth a theory about terrible American men’s soccer.
There are a lot of reasons Americans suck at soccer - but if you look at the history, you’ll find a surprisingly compelling explanation for why American soccer never took off. In the 1920s, soccer was a surprisingly successful sport in the US, with massive matches and a robust league. What went wrong?
American soccer and English football first diverged in the 1800s, when American colleges like Harvard and Yale started playing a more rugby-like game. But America quickly caught up with soccer in the 1920s, attracting large ...
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- How Islamist militant groups are gaining strength in Africa
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- 8 years ago
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- Terrorist groups are destabilizing countries all over the continent.
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Islamist terrorist groups have found a new home and it's not in the Middle East -- it's in Africa. Specifically, the Sahel, a band of territory in West Africa between the Sahara desert and the savannah.
Since the early 2000s, Islamist extremist groups have increasingly strengthened their base here -- training fighters, raising money, and launching a massive number of attacks.
Some are linked to al-Qaeda and other Islamic State. This is throwing these already weak countries into crises and making the region one of the most dangerous in the world.
To truly understand the international conflicts and trends shaping our world you need a big-picture view. Video journalist Sam Ellis uses maps to tell these stories and chart their effects on foreign policy.
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- The voices of children separated at the border
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- 8 years ago
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- Over 2,300 children have been separated from their families.
Read ProPublica reporter Ginger Thompson’s article here: https://www.propublica.org/article/children-separated-from-parents-border-patrol-cbp-trump-immigration-policy
And listen to the full audio clip at ProPublica’s YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PoncXfYBAVI&t=70s
In April 2018, the Trump administration and Attorney General Jeff Sessions instituted a “zero tolerance” policy on undocumented immigration. Undocumented migrants and asylum seekers detained at the border now face immediate criminal prosecution, often before their asylum claims can even be processed. Thousands of children and other migrants are now being held in detention centers operated by US Customs and Border Protection, where they await trial.
A backlash against this policy is growing, with conservatives and liberals alike decrying it as cruel and inhumane. Both the White House...
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- How TV gave us the classic soccer ball
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- 8 years ago
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- The 2018 World Cup football is a nod back to an iconic design.
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Learn more about how the World Cup works and the schedule for this year’s tournament here: https://www.vox.com/2018/6/12/17356780/world-cup-2018-russia-teams-schedule-tickets
And if want more coverage of the 2018 World Cup, you can find our reporting on Vox.com: https://www.vox.com/world/2018/6/13/17460054/world-cup-2018-fifa-russia
When you think of a soccer ball, you probably imagine a classic black-and-white paneled ball. It’s known as the Telstar ball, and it was created thanks to TV.
The 1966 World Cup in England was broadcast live across the globe and it was at this point that television became a huge part of the sport. Thanks to the BBC, it was seen by four hundred million people. But spotting the ball was a bit challenging.
Back then, soccer balls looked more like reddish-brown volleyb...
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- Dungeons and Dragons, explained
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- 8 years ago
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- Why we love this nerdy role-playing fantasy game.
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In an age of virtual reality, video games, and smartphones, more and more people are getting into this magical, nerdy tabletop fantasy role-playing game. Here’s why you should play Dungeons & Dragons, too.
If you want to learn more about D&D, here are my (Carlos M) recommendations:
Great D&D weekly livestream: Critical Role
https://geekandsundry.com/shows/critical-role/
Great D&D podcast: Dungeon Rats
http://neonrival.com/thedungeonrats/
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- How did quietness become a sign of quality? [Advertiser content from 3M]
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- 8 years ago
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- Absolute silence doesn't actually exist in nature.
Even in the quietest of spaces, there’s still wind blowing, air conditioners humming, and birds chirping. But there's also a huge field of study devoted to quietness.
Go inside a Minnesota facility that's devoted to studying the science of silence and find out how silence actually became golden.
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- What does “denuclearization” mean?
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- 8 years ago
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- It depends on which country you ask.
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Read our analysis on the winners and losers from the US-North Korea summit here: https://www.vox.com/2018/6/12/17450974/trump-kim-jong-un-summit-winners
And if you need to catch up the ongoing events between Trump and Kim Jong Un, you can find our reporting on Vox.com: https://www.vox.com/world/2018/6/6/17431264/trump-kim-jong-un-north-korea-summit
President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un struck a historic deal to work toward “complete denuclearization” of the Korean Peninsula. The trouble is they don’t have a shared vision of what “complete denuclearization” looks like.
And while handshakes were exchanged and agreements were signed after unprecedented talks in Singapore, no country with a nuclear program as advanced as North Korea's has ever denuclearized.
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- Trump invented a fake spy scandal. People will still believe it.
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- 8 years ago
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- It's a tactic the president has used before, and it works.
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President Trump calls it calls it “spygate:” the allegation that the FBI and democrats put a spy in his campaign to help Hillary Clinton. It’s not true.
Top republicans like Speaker Paul Ryan have even disputed the president. But even though it’s a conspiracy theory, millions of Americans will still believe it. It’s a playbook he has used before.
“Spygate” is an attempt to delegitimize the FBI and special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. If the American people lose trust in them, they won’t believe whatever the investigation finds. It’s working.
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- Why 350°F is the magic number for baking
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- 8 years ago
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- Turns out there’s a lot of chemistry in cooking.
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Ever notice the first step for baking a cookie is almost always to preheat the oven to 350 degrees?
Even when you’re baking something else, an oven with a digital temperature reader typically defaults to 350. What’s so magical about this number and why is it that so many recipes call for it?
I spoke with longtime pastry chef and Institute of Culinary Education creative director Michael Laiskonis and found that – as with most “magical” things – it’s actually science.
Special thanks to Chef Daniel Kleinhandler of Bar Boulud and Boulud Sud and Chef Jenny McCoy for their help with this video!
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- Trade wars, explained
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- 8 years ago
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- Complex geopolitical maneuvering explained with Game of Thrones and . . . googly eyes.
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Tariffs can be used as a useful tool to protect domestic industry or to serve as a punitive measure against another country. But President Trump’s bluster and threats of imposing tariffs on foreign imports to the US have raised the specter of a trade war with China, and more recently, Mexico.
The “weapons” used in a trade war are the stuff we use everyday — the food we eat, the cars we drive to work and the computers we use. If a trade war can have such a pervasive impact on our daily lives, why would a country choose to engage in one? And what even is a trade war anyway?
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- Why so many sitcoms look the same
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- 8 years ago
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- The one about sitcom lighting.
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards explores the surprising history behind sitcom lighting.
Karl Freund was the genius cinematographer behind Metropolis, the silent film classic. But then he designed the set for I Love Lucy - the first of the multicam, laugh-track heavy sitcoms. Today, they look bland, but it wasn’t always that way. But at the time, Freund had a good reason to tackle the challenge.
These lighting techniques are still in use today on sitcoms like Friends, the Big Bang Theory, and other multi-camera hits. What looks generic to our eyes was, at one time, the result of an artist who made the impossible look easy.
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- How noise pollution is ruining your hearing
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- 8 years ago
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- Our ears are exposed to dangerous levels of noise every single day.
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Health organizations warn that continual exposure to noise levels above 70 decibels can potentially damage your ears. And yet we are routinely exposed to noise much louder than that in everyday situations.
Our world is increasingly noisy and our bars, restaurants, gyms, and streets all produce decibel levels that can cause harm to our hearing in mere minutes.
Hearing loss is incredibly common and is the fourth highest disability worldwide. One in four American adults shows signs of noise-induced hearing loss, and the problem is only going to get worse.
While hearing damage is irreversible, it's also completely preventable. Watch for tips on how to protect your ears even in incredibly loud environments.
For more of Julia's reporting on noise and hearing loss check out her articles:
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- Why chronic floods are coming to New Jersey
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- 8 years ago
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- Railroads aren’t great if they’re underwater.
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Scientists have directly observed sea level rise since the late 18th century. And as they forecast the next 20, 50, and 100 years, sea level rise will continue to accelerate at an alarming rate. That rise won’t just threaten homeowners on the coast -- it will also impact the critical infrastructure that supports many of our largest cities.
While sea level rise is often phrased as an issue of concern in the future, we can already see some of the implications. Many coastal communities have witnessed a sharp uptick in flooding, during lunar king tide periods. Other places are forced to consider what life might be like as the land they currently occupy goes underwater.
For further reading on this subject, I recommend starting here:
Regional Plan Association ‘Under Water’ and 4th Plan reports for residents of the greater New ...
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- The bold plan to end malaria with a gene drive
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- 8 years ago
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- How genetically engineered mosquitoes might defeat a disease that kills millions of children.
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The invention of the CRISPR gene editing tool has injected new life into a line of research called gene drive. Gene drives use selfish genetic elements to spread a modification through a wild population.
Researchers have proposed using gene drives against agricultural pests and invasive species, but the most urgent application is against vector-borne diseases like malaria, which kills hundreds of thousands of people every year, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa.
We talked to the scientists working on this revolutionary approach to disease eradication to find out how it works and how long it might take to deploy a technology like a gene drive against malaria.
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- The culture war between doctors and midwives, explained
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- 8 years ago
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- A deeper look at history explains why when it comes to midwife use, the US falls behind other affluent countries.
Read more in ProPublica's story here:
https://www.propublica.org/article/midwives-study-maternal-neonatal-care
And catch their latest in maternal mortality reporting here: https://www.propublica.org/series/lost-mothers
Despite spending more per capita on health care than any other country, the U.S. has the highest rate of deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth in the industrialized world. But what makes maternal healthcare in other affluent countries look so different than the U.S.? Among other things, midwives. Midwives in the U.S. participate in less than 10 percent of births. But in Sweden, Denmark and France, they lead around three quarters of deliveries. In Great Britain, they deliver half of all babies, including all three of Kate Middleton’s. So if the midwifery model works for royal babies, why not our own? Check ou...
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- Why people are buying cartoon cats on the blockchain
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- 8 years ago
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- Forget cryptocurrencies. These are cryptocollectibles.
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Every time you send something on the internet, it’s a copy. But using new technology, can we make digital goods that are... rare?
That’s the question behind CryptoKitties, a new game to buy, breed, and sell digital cats on the blockchain. These cats are more similar to real-world collectibles like beanie babies or baseball cards than they are to cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin or Ethereum.
In just the last few months, a whole community of third party sites and services has formed around CryptoKitties. And fans have spent more than $23 million playing along.
All of this is made possible by the clever and surprising code behind the game.
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- Monogamy, explained
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- 8 years ago
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- Here it is! Episode 1 of our new show on Netflix: Explained. There's two more at http://www.netflix.com/explained right now & new episodes every Wednesday.
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In 2016, more than 2.2 million couples got married in America, but more than 800,000 got divorced. Cheating and breakups cause grief and heartache every day. Yet some historians and evolutionary biologists say monogamy is a relatively new, self-imposed system. Their evidence suggests humans lived without it for more than 250,000 years. And we only started marrying for love in the 1700s.
So if monogamy is so hard, why do most of us, all around the world, make it a central goal of our lives?
Vox tackled this question in the first episode of our new show with Netflix, Explained, which premieres today! We’ll have new episodes every Wednesday, on topics ranging from monogamy to gene editing to the racial wealth gap to K-pop and more. If ...
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- Explained | A new series from Netflix + Vox
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- 8 years ago
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- If you like our channel, then you’ll love this: Netflix + Vox. New episodes, every Wednesday, Starting May 23rd. To make sure you don’t miss it, go to netflix.com/explained and click “+My List.”
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- Why it's not a British royal wedding without fancy hats
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- 8 years ago
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- Fantastical fascinators at royal weddings are part of the social fabric of British culture.
This video was produced in collaboration between Vox and BBCThree.
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It’s a busy time for the British royal family as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle prepare to tie the knot. And like any guest in attendance of a wedding, you’ll need to dress for the occasion. And one thing that literally stands out at British royal weddings are the hats and fascinators adorning guests’ noggins.
While hats have fallen out of style for everyday fashion, they have remained as tradition at fancy shindigs like royal weddings, horse races, and other British formal occasions.
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- The royal weddings that shaped European history
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- 8 years ago
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- To Queen Victoria, marriages were about strategic alliances.
Correction: At 5:38, the map of post-war Germany is missing eastern Prussia. The borders of Austria-Hungary should also include portions of northern Serbia and southern Poland.
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This video was produced in collaboration between Vox and BBCThree.
Over the course of her 63-year reign, Queen Victoria strategically planned marriages to place her descendants in royal families all over Europe. In doing so, she created one of the most remarkable royal families in history.
By the early 19th century, Europe had been at war for decades. After the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic wars killed millions, European leaders came together to restore peace by reshaping major states for a new balance of power. Great Britain went on to become one of the strongest states. And years later, Queen Victoria and her husband Albert came up w...
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- Why Israelis and Palestinians both claim Jerusalem
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- 8 years ago
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- The U.S. embassy to Israel has moved from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. Here's how this sacred city factors into a conflict 70 years old.
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When President Trump's administration announced the move in 2017, it also officially recognized Jerusalem as Israel's capital. And while Israeli leaders celebrated, Palestinians denounced the move.
That's because both Israelis and Palestinians consider Jerusalem as their rightful capital. Jerusalem is home to important holy sites for all the Abrahamic religions, and so it has become a critical bargaining chip in the ongoing discussion between the two sides.
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- How British royals plan a wedding
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- 8 years ago
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- Royal weddings are way more complicated than ours.
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Planning a wedding can be chaotic – from the guest list to the location to choosing the perfect dress. But imagine a wedding is exponentially grander and larger, a wedding that millions around the world tune in to watch and hundreds of thousands celebrate on the streets. That’s a royal wedding. On May 19, British royal Prince Harry and American actor Meghan Markle will say “I will” at St. George's Chapel at Windsor Castle in England. Here are all the preparations needed to get them to the altar.
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- The sound that connects Stravinsky to Bruno Mars
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- 8 years ago
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- It’s an 1980s pop music cliche that dates back to 1910.
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If you listen to the first few seconds of Bruno Mars’ “Finesse” (hint: listen to the Cardi B remix) you’ll hear a sound that immediately creates a sense of 80s hip-hop nostalgia. Yes, Cardi B’s flow is very Roxanne Shante, but the sound that drives that nostalgia home isn’t actually from the 1980s.
Robert Fink and the inventor of the Fairlight CMI, Peter Vogel, help me tell the story of the orchestra hit - a sound that was first heard in 1910 at the Paris Opera where the famed 20th century Russian composer Stravinsky debuted his first hit, The Firebird.
The video above is, in short, a history of the original orchestra hit sample from The Firebird Suite to the 1982 hit “Planet Rock” to “Finesse.” And as a treat, here’s a playlist of way more songs with orchestra hits than you probably wanted.
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- Why Stradivarius violins are worth millions
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- 8 years ago
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- Many musicians prefer these 300-year-old instruments, but are they actually worth it?
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Antonio Stradivari is generally considered the greatest violin maker of all time. His violins are played by some of the top musicians in the world and sell for as much as $16 million. For centuries people have puzzled over what makes his violins so great and they are the most scientifically studied instruments in history. I spoke to two world class violinists who play Stradivarius violins as well as a violin-maker about what makes Stradivari so great.
Special thanks to Stefan Avalos for the Stradivari research footage.
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- The big problem with comparing Trump to Nixon
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- 8 years ago
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- Donald Trump may look a lot like Richard Nixon right now. But there is one glaring difference between these two men’s presidencies: Fox News.
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Trump and Nixon are similar in a lot of ways: they both faced major FBI investigations, were accused of obstructing justice, lashed out at the media, and oozed raw sexual charisma. Some pundits look at those similarities and assert that, like Nixon, Trump will also face impeachment.
But Nixon never had Fox News. As trust in mainstream media has collapsed over the past 40 years, the amount of conservative media has exploded. And sources like Fox News have spent months casting doubt on the FBI and the Mueller special investigation.
Without a uniting narrative in the media, it’s unlikely Trump will face impeachment or that Republicans in Congress will be the ones to hold the president accountable for his actions, regardless of what Mueller ulti...
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- The 'duck curve' is solar energy's greatest challenge
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- 8 years ago
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- Renewables require change in the energy supply chain.
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Electricity is incredibly difficult to store, so grid operators have to generate it at the exact moment it is demanded. In order to do this, they create incredibly accurate models of the total electric loads, that is how much energy will be consumed on a given day. But as utilities started to produce more energy from renewable sources like solar, the models started to shift as well.
California researchers discovered a peculiarity in their state’s electric load curves, that started to look more and more like a duck. And that duck shaped chart highlights the greatest challenge to solar energy growth in the US.
Vox writer David Roberts has been covering the issue for a few years now. You can read some of his past explainers on the duck curve, and its solutions at the links below:
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/...
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- Trump quits Iran nuclear deal, undoing years of diplomacy
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- 8 years ago
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- Why Trump hates the deal, what he wants, and how we got here.
Why did President Trump quit the Iran deal? The "Today, Explained" podcast takes a look at the repercussions:
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Trump has been saying he wants to exit the Iran nuclear deal for a long time, a deal that has so far prevented Iran from developing nuclear weapons. And now that he has, decades of negotiations could unravel, with far-reaching consequences for the US foreign policy.
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- Autonomous weapons could change battlefields of the future [Advertiser content from ICRC]
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- 8 years ago
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- Robots will fight the wars of tomorrow.
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Artificial intelligence has already crept into cars, homes, and phones. It’s changed how nations communicate, and it can transform how they wage war. But do we want it to? Maybe not. Here’s the story of how autonomous weapons — those that can select and attack targets without human intervention — have been under development for decades.
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- You asked, we answered. Thanks 4 million subscribers!
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- 8 years ago
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- We reached 4 million subscribers!
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- The George H.W. Bush promise that changed the Republican Party
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- 8 years ago
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- Six words that changed conservatism, and American politics.
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Presidents give hundreds of speeches, but, for better or worse, Americans tend to remember just a few one-liners. For George Herbert Walker Bush, the 41st US president, that line was his pledge at 1988 Republican National Convention when he accepted the nomination.
“Read my lips. No. New. Taxes.”
The crowd roared in approval, but their cheers were short lived. That’s because when Bush took over the Oval Office, he inherited the consequences of his predecessor Ronald Reagan’s supply-side or “trickle down” economics: massive budget deficits. And in 1990, Bush broke his promise and raised taxes.
Bush was a traditional “country club” Republican, whose relatively moderate economic and social beliefs contrasted with more right wing conservatives that had supported Ronald Reagan. So when he lost to Bill Clin...
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- This anti-sex trafficking law could end internet freedom
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- 8 years ago
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- The law impacts sites like Reddit, Craigslist, and Google — and that’s just the start.
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President Trump recently signed into law a set of controversial bills intended to make it easier to cut down on illegal sex trafficking online. Both bills — the House bill known as FOSTA, the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act, and the Senate bill, SESTA, the Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act — have been hailed by advocates as a victory for sex trafficking victims.
But the new law pokes a huge hole in what is generally seen as one of the most important pieces of internet legislation ever created, Section 230 of the 1996 Communications Decency Act. Without this clause exempting websites from liability for the actions of their users, most websites simply couldn’t afford to exist Internet freedom advocates argue that this could lead to further eroding of an open internet — and puts sex workers on the front ...
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- Why sports sound better in your living room
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- 8 years ago
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- Audio engineers are the unsung heroes of the live sports broadcast.
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We don’t often think about audio when we watch sports on TV, but it’s a huge part of the experience. We spoke with several A1 audio engineers who mix the sounds of sports to learn more about what it takes to capture the crack of the bat and the swish of the net.
From the cadence of the quarterback to the sounds of skates on ice, audio mixers are tasked with getting microphones close enough to the action to gather the sounds but still out of the way of the players and the fans.
Once the microphones are set up, they handle the stressful task of live mixing all the audio for the broadcast, so that we can hear the announcers and the sounds of the game, despite thousands of screaming fans and the PA system blaring music.
In the end, if they do the job right, you’ll forget they exist.
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- This 19-year-old can keep astronauts safe from space junk
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- 8 years ago
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- Space debris is a growing threat to space exploration.
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When 15-year-old Amber Yang first heard about space trash it gave her nightmares. How could such an imminent threat to space exploration be left on the back burner?
After seeing videos with astronaut Scott Kelly, she decided to take matters into her own hands. Within a few years she consumed all the media she could on space debris, taught herself to code, and learned the ins and outs of astrophysics.
By 18 she had developed an AI-based space debris tracking program that she claims is one of the most accurate in the world.
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- How Russian trolls weaponized your social media feed
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- 8 years ago
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- Russia spent billions on a troll army to meddle in American democracy. Here’s how you can stop them.
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The Internet Research Agency, explained: http://bit.ly/2qSo9wN
Reddit just shut down nearly 1,000 Russian troll accounts. Read more: http://bit.ly/2HpvIkX
A recent federal indictment against 13 Russian individuals and three Russian companies gives us more information than ever about how exactly a Kremlin-linked organization went about meddling in the 2016 US election. Social media companies have begun to combat the problem. But the homegrown bitterness and hate that these Russian trolls are exploiting is a much harder phenomenon to cure.
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- Why Atlantic fish are invading the Arctic
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- 8 years ago
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- Southern species are flooding into the far north.
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Scientists are witnessing the upending of large parts of the Arctic ocean. As the sea ice recedes and temperatures rise, the warmer waters of the Atlantic are moving north and bringing with them new competitors that vie for the same rich resources. Journalist Eli Kintisch explores an ecosystem undergoing profound change.
This video is part 3 of a three-part series on the changing Arctic.
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msD4agiRTxM
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQliow4ghtU
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- How IBM quietly pushed out 20,000 older workers
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- 8 years ago
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- Age discrimination can be very hard to prove.
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https://features.propublica.org/ibm/ibm-age-discrimination-american-workers/
In a ProPublica feature that collected the stories of over 1,400 former IBM employees, it was estimated that a staggering 20,000 American employees ages 40 and over have been eliminated by the company. How does one of the country’s largest tech giants quietly push out this many older workers? Don’t we have laws to protect people at the end of their careers?
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- How Parkland student David Hogg beats his critics
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg has some strategies for dealing with smears and conspiracy theories.
A Parkland shooting survivor on why teen activists won't be silenced: “We are teenagers who have nothing to lose.” - http://bit.ly/2qMGudJ
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After surviving the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Hogg and his classmates became vocal activists in the fight for gun control. But that spotlight has made them prime targets for the right-wing smear machine: a collection of Fox News hosts like Laura Ingraham, conservative pundits, conspiracy theorists like Alex Jones, Twitter provocateurs, and YouTube commentators who piled on to the teens in the wake of the shooting.
Rather than crumbling under the pressure, they're using humor and advertiser pressure to keep their cause in the media spotlight while disarming their critics. In the face of intense media attention, the...
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- Borders is back! Here's where we're going.
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- 8 years ago
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- I'm hitting the road again and want your ideas!
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Vox Borders is an international documentary series that focuses on the human stories of some of the world's most interesting places. It started last year with six locations, and six docs. Check them out here: http://bit.ly/2H7Ttxv
For season two, I'll be traveling to new places to tell similar stories. Hong Kong is my first stop where I'll be producing multiple shorter video docs on the local stories that need explaining.
Vox Borders stories are always so much stronger when the community helps in the storytelling. To that end, I'm look...
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- How a warmer Arctic could intensify extreme weather
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- 8 years ago
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- Is there a link between the vanishing Arctic sea ice and extreme weather?
Some prominent climate researchers think so. That’s because warming temperatures in the Arctic are altering the behavior of the polar jet stream, a high-altitude river of air that drives weather patterns across the globe. As the winds that propel the jet stream weaken, storms, droughts, and extreme heat and cold move over continents at slower rates, meaning bad weather can stick around for longer.
Eli Kintisch reports aboard the Norwegian research vessel Helmer Hanssen about how changing conditions at the top of the world could be impacting weather far away.
This video is part 2 of a three-part series on the changing Arctic.
Part 1 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=msD4agiRTxM
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3h4Xt9No9o
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- Why Trump's "limited strike" on Syria probably won't work
- Date posted
- 8 years ago
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- Trump gave the same reason last year, and Assad’s use of chemical weapons hasn’t changed.
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President Donald Trump’s limited strike on Syria in April is an established tactic among presidents — his predecessors from Obama through Reagan all used similar actions, with varying results.
But limited strikes that accomplish all their goals are exceedingly rare — only about 6 percent can make that claim, according to research by expert Micah Zenko. Most strikes have mixed success, at best.
For example: Trump’s justification for attacking Syria was to send a message about Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons. That’s the same justification he used when authorizing a limited strike on Syria one year earlier.
Why do presidents even use...
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- How Trump's border wall would disrupt nature
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- 8 years ago
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- The environmental impact of border walls, explained.
Read more about the border wall's effect on wildlife here: http://bit.ly/2GUHzqN
When we talk about the consequences of the proposed wall at the border of the US and Mexico, we usually think in terms of people. But along the political divide are rich pockets of biodiversity, with dwindling populations of species that rely on the ability to move back and forth across the border.
Under the 2005 REAL ID act, the Department of Homeland Security doesn't have to comply with various environmental laws that might otherwise slow or halt construction in a sensitive area. Laws like the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, the National Environmental Policy Act or the Migratory Bird Treaty Act — none of those apply to border wall construction.
Several parcels of land, including the National Butterfly Center, a state park, and other areas in the federal wildlife refuge system — are ...
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- Why black Americans are getting less sleep
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- 8 years ago
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- How the sleep gap reflects inequality and contributes to it.
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A good night’s rest is critical for your health, and a lot can go wrong when you don’t get enough it. Sleep deprivation can contribute to obesity, diabetes, inflammation, heart disease, and more. The minimum recommended amount for adults is 7 hours (this too can vary from person to person). But, a third of Americans are sleep deprived — and on average, Black Americans are clocking in the least amount of z’s.
Black Americans already face steep disparities in health, and not getting enough good sleep can compound on those issues. By examining the sleep gap, and addressing the root causes, we may be able to tackle other inequalities in the US too.
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- How the Catholic Church censored Hollywood's Golden Age
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- 8 years ago
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- For decades Hollywood studios needed to follow a strict set of moral guidelines if they wanted their movies to get made.
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From 1934 to 1954 every Hollywood movie needed to follow a strict set of guidelines laid out by the Catholic church. They included such things as barring excessive drinking, on screen nudity, and even sexual relationships between races. Enforcement was overseen by the Production Code administration, which was led by Joseph Breen. In order to ensure that the production code was followed the Catholic Church founded the Legion of Decency, a group with millions of members that threatened to boycott any movie that didn’t adhere to the guidelines. For decades every line of dialogue needed to be approved by Breen and his administration, making him one of the most powerful people in the history of cinema.
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- Why you keep using Facebook, even if you hate it
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- 8 years ago
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- The network effect is Facebook’s biggest selling point, and the root of many of its problems.
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What happened with Cambridge Analytica highlights this perfectly.
Before many people join a network, it may not be so useful. But the more people join, the more useful it becomes. That’s the network effect. Facebook is a step beyond that — it’s the network effect on steroids.
This is what makes facebook so great — it knows everything about you! — and what makes facebook so awful — IT KNOWS EVERYTHING ABOUT YOU. And while its network of 2.13 billion monthly users doesn’t pay any money to use the core service, Facebook makes plenty of money — millions daily — *buy providing advertisers access to that user data*. And everyone on the site agreed to this when they signed up.
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- What melting sea ice means for life in the Arctic
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- 8 years ago
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- Light is flooding into the Arctic. There will be winners and losers.
That’s what brought an international group of scientists to the Barents Sea to investigate how plant and animal life will adapt to the new normal.
Two key factors that govern the arctic ecosystem are rapidly changing: ice and light. The Arctic is the fastest warming place on earth, and ice that used to form on the surface of the ocean is vanishing. That’s threatening species large and small that rely on it, but it’s also created an opportunity. Less ice means more light reaches the underwater ecosystem, benefiting the algae that anchors it as well as apex predators like whales and seals.
This video is part 1 of a three-part series on the changing Arctic.
Part 2 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQliow4ghtU
Part 3 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3h4Xt9No9o
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- What America's shopping mall decline means for social space
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- 8 years ago
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- The mall was America’s third place — for better or for worse.
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Our lives are lived in 1 of 3 places, the home, the workplace and the “third place,” which is anywhere outside of those two.
Toward the end of the 20th century, the regional shopping mall had become that third place, the hang-out spot in suburban America. This was largely by design — an immigrant architect created the first mall in the vision that it would be a community gathering place.
The plan didn’t work out as he intended. While malls did take off, they more often than not couldn’t quite catch on as ideal “third places.” But with an estimated 25% of shopping malls expected to close in the next five years, there’s an opportunity to re-examine where Americans spend their time and what could be the next iteration of the third place.
Further reading for those interested in this subject, I reco...
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- China's trillion dollar plan to dominate global trade
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- 8 years ago
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- It's about more than just economics.
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China's Belt and Road Initiative is the most ambitious infrastructure project in modern history. It spans over 60 countries and will cost over a trillion dollars. The plan is to make it easier for the world to trade with China, by funding roads, railways, pipelines, and other infrastructure projects in Asia and Africa. China is loaning trillions of dollars to any country that's willing to participate and it's been a big hit with the less democratic countries in the region. This makes the BRI a risky plan as well. But China is pushing ...
