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The real reason Amelia Earhart is so famous
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- The real reason Amelia Earhart is so famous
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- 8 years ago
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- A carefully executed publicity campaign turned a pretty average pilot into an aviation legend.
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Amelia Earhart is often thought of as the first or greatest female pilot of her time. But the real reason she is seen as an aviation legend comes from a carefully executed publicity campaign starting with her transatlantic passenger flight in 1928, which launched her out of obscurity and into celebrity status. From there, she pursued an ambitious career of record-breaking and stunts in order to stay in the headlines and fund her aviation career.
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- Here's how Trump's nuclear "button" actually works...
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- 8 years ago
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- There's no physical button, but there is a "football" and "biscuit".
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Just a week into 2018, Donald Trump tweeted a provocative message directed at the North Korean regime's leader, Kim Jong Un. His message cited a "nuclear button", and claimed that his was much larger than Kim's. But how does the U.S. protocol for launching nuclear warheads actually work? It's a process that's designed to be fast - there are only a few steps. But it's still more complicated than a simple button.
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- Iran's massive protests, explained in 4 minutes
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- 8 years ago
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- How the price of eggs sparked an uprising in Iran.
Read more about the protests on Vox.com here: http://bit.ly/2m2r4k0.
Since December 28th, Iran has undergone multiple days of populist protests. At least 20 deaths have occurred, as protestors clash with Iranian security forces, and hundreds of people have been arrested. The demonstrations began in Mashad, Iran's second largest cit, and have since spread throughout the country. There are multiple reasons for the protests, but the main one seems to stem from Iran's halting economy.
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- Why the market for skin whitening is growing
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- 8 years ago
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- Skin whitening has proven to be damaging, physically and mentally. But sales are booming. The market is predicted to be worth $31.2 billion by 2024.
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- Takeout creates a lot of trash. It doesn't have to.
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- 8 years ago
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- Our single-use items aren't helping the fight against climate change but there are easy hacks to reduce and reuse.
Climate Lab is produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox. Hosted by conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan, the videos explore the surprising elements of our lives that contribute to climate change and the groundbreaking work being done to fight back. Featuring conversations with experts, scientists, thought leaders and activists, the series demystifies topics like nuclear power, food waste and online shopping to make them more approachable and actionable for those who want to do their part. Sanjayan is an alum of UC Santa Cruz, a Visiting Researcher at UCLA and the CEO of Conservation International.
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- N.E.R.D.'s hit song "Lemon" owes a lot to New Orleans bounce
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- 8 years ago
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- Big Freedia explains where “Lemon” got its bounce from.
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For the final episode of Earworm I'm digging into N.E.R.D.'s hit song "Lemon" featuring Rihanna. Its sound is quintessential Pharrell: happy, energetic, and bouncy. The more I listened to it though, the more I realized that its bouncy energy was inspired by a genre of hip-hop that has rarely trickled into the mainstream – New Orleans Bounce.
To learn more about the genre and to get the definitive answer on whether "Lemon" is a bounce song, I spoke with Big Freedia, a Native of New Orleans and an artist widely credited with bringing bounce music to the masses.
Thanks so much for watching Earworm this year!
Sources:
http://wheretheyatnola.com/
Bounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00BERRR2M/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
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- 2017, in 7 minutes
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- 8 years ago
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- In a tumultuous 2017, these are some of the stories that defined the year.
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- How this military explosive is poisoning American soil
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- 8 years ago
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- The bomb that went off twice: https://features.propublica.org/bombs-in-our-backyard/military-pollution-rdx-bombs-holston-cornhusker/
In our latest ProPublica collaboration, we report on RDX, one of the world’s most powerful conventional explosives developed by the U.S. military. But it’s now believed by many to cause cancer, and is increasingly turning up in drinking water supplies near military sites across the country.
Check out the full ProPublica piece at https://features.propublica.org/bombs-in-our-backyard/military-pollution-rdx-bombs-holston-cornhusker/ for the in-depth reporting, and stay tuned for more stories in this collaboration! If you'd like to sign up to receive more ProPublica journalism, go here: http://propub.li/2hwf4V9
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- Filthy Frank fans made us do this
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- 8 years ago
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- Filthy Frank is a star. But is he an artist or an asshole?
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Whether you call him George Miller, Joji, Pink Guy, Filthy Frank (or Salamander Man, Safari Man, Chin-Chin, Santa's Brother, etc), one thing is clear — Filthy Frank has dominated the internet, from memes like the Harlem Shake to rants that have consistently earned millions of views. His fans even mobilized to direct our crowdsourced video to be about Frank's lore.
That lore includes characters like Filthy Frank himself, fake Frank, Pink Guy, Chin-Chin, Prometheus, Red Dick, and many others. It's been chronicled in a book about "Francis of the Filth," recapped on Filthy Frank Wikias, and shown up in other YouTube videos.
The lore of Filthy Frank proves to be a complicated topic. More than listing off mythology about "chromosomes" and "realms" of the "omniverse," it's a starting off point for a debate about whether Filthy Frank, a...
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- How Trump makes extreme things look normal
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- 9 years ago
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- The scariest part of Trump's first year as president isn't how abnormal he is, it's how normal he makes everything else look by comparison.
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“Don’t normalize this” has become a kind of rallying cry during President Trump’s first year in office -- a reminder to not get too acclimated to Trump’s norm-breaking and erratic behavior.
But the real danger of the Trump presidency might have less to do with Trump’s abno...
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- Where babies in movies come from
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- 9 years ago
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- What hoops do you have to jump through to cast a baby in your movie?
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There are many rules and regulations involved in casting babies in movies. Babies have been in film since the birth of cinema, but many of the practices have changed since then. Some states like California have very stringent rules about baby employment on film sets. But the regulations are on a state by state basis and vary wildly. We spoke with a baby agent about what you have to do in order to cast a baby in your movie.
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- How smart is today's artificial intelligence?
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- 9 years ago
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- Current AI is impressive, but it's not intelligent.
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Sources:
https://hbr.org/2016/11/what-artificial-intelligence-can-and-cant-do-right-now
https://www.mckinsey.com/global-themes/digital-disruption/harnessing-automation-for-a-future-that-works
https://www.amazon.com/Master-Algorithm-Ultimate-Learning-Machine/dp/0465065708
https://ai100.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/ai_100_report_0831fnl.pdf
https://www.bloomberg.com/professional/blog/business-focus-artificial-intelligence-rising-2/
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.368.2254&rep=rep1&type=pdf
http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/publis/pdf/jackel-95.pdf
https://www.recode.net/2016/5/4/11634228/learning-about-deep-learning
https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/12/12158238/first-click-deep-learning-algorithmic-black-boxes
https://www.theverge.com/2017/3/30/15124466/ai-photo-style-transfer-...
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- A teenager's journey through weight loss surgery
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- 9 years ago
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- Diets and exercise fail most people with severe obesity. So Jewel elected to become one of the few teenage patients of bariatric surgery. For more on Jewel's weight loss journey and the science of bariatric surgery, read our feature article: http://bit.ly/vox-jewel
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Jewel is an 18 year old high-school student who is obese. After trying diets and exercise, she chose to undergo bariatric surgery. It's an operation usually reserved for adults, but more and more teenagers are finding success with it. It comes with a variety of risks, but the potential is great. She could see a reduction in her risk for cancer, diabetes, sleep apnea and lots of other related diseases.
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- How the end of net neutrality could change the internet
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- 9 years ago
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- The Federal Communications Commission has voted to repeal the Net Neutrality protections it adopted in 2015. Here's what that means for the future of the internet.
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- Star Wars’ infamous Holiday Special, explained
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- 9 years ago
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- How the 1978 spinoff accidentally shaped the Star Wars universe.
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A long time ago in living rooms across the US, a bizarre 98-minute Star Wars-themed variety show aired on CBS to an estimated 13 million viewers. It wasn't necessarily the first of its kind: hosts like Donny & Marie Osmond and Richard Pryor had done TV variety shows with Star Wars characters in 1977, which had helped boost box office sales. But unlike those shows, the Holiday Special featured the original film's cast. George Lucas was convinced to approve the project in order to maintain interest in the franchise until The Empire Strikes Back's 1980 release — but the special itself is a confusing mess. A crossdressing Harvey Korman leads a cooking show segment, Jefferson Starship stars in a holographic concert, and Chewbacca's dad watches some very suggestive virtual reality entertainment. But if nothing else, the Holiday Special was one of the f...
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- Why this elbow is a TIME person of the year
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- 9 years ago
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- The “Silence Breakers” are outliers. Most assault goes unreported.
Sources:
TIME’s reporting: http://time.com/time-person-of-the-year-2017-silence-breakers
and http://time.com/5052362/time-person-of-the-year-2017-arm-cover
RAINN statistics: https://www.rainn.org/statistics/criminal-justice-system
EEOC report (PDF): https://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/task_force/harassment/upload/report.pdf
Time magazine named "the Silence Breakers" its Person of the Year for 2017. These are the women and men who shared their stories of assault, harassment, and hostility and publicly named their alleged abusers. But the story goes beyond the magazine’s cover.
That elbow in the lower right-hand corner is attached to a young hospital worker from Texas, who anonymously reported her harassment for fear of the negative impact it could have on her and her family. It represents a much larger contingent than the women on the cover: the silenc...
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- The diet that helps fight climate change
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- 9 years ago
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- You don’t have to go vegan to fight climate change. Research shows that small changes to our diets can make big differences.
Climate Lab is produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox. Hosted by conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan, the videos explore the surprising elements of our lives that contribute to climate change and the groundbreaking work being done to fight back. Featuring conversations with experts, scientists, thought leaders and activists, the series demystifies topics like nuclear power, food waste and online shopping to make them more approachable and actionable for those who want to do their part. Sanjayan is an alum of UC Santa Cruz, a Visiting Researcher at UCLA and the CEO of Conservation International.
Prior episodes at https://goo.gl/phMcK8 or visit http://climate.universityofcalifornia.edu for more
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- These factory workers get paid to go to school
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- 9 years ago
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- Can we make apprenticeships great again?
In many cases, automation is changing the workforce faster than we can keep up. Manufacturers say they expect to have millions of unfilled positions. Adapting apprenticeship programs could help close the expanding wage and skills gaps by giving people another option for job training.
If you're interested in reading more about the pros and cons to apprenticeships here are some helpful links that I used for my research:
Department of Labor: https://www.dol.gov/general/topic/training/apprenticeship
Cost analysis study from Case Western Reserve University:
http://www.esa.doc.gov/sites/default/files/the-benefits-and-costs-of-apprenticeships-a-business-perspective.pdf
Deloitte:
https://www2.deloitte.com/us/en/pages/manufacturing/articles/boiling-point-the-skills-gap-in-us-manufacturing.html
Brookings Institute:
https://www.brookings.edu/blog...
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- NASA's plan to save Earth from a giant asteroid
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- 9 years ago
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- Don’t panic.
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65 million years ago, a large asteroid collided with Earth near present-day Chicxulub, Mexico. The impact was a climactic event that likely contributed to dinosaur extinction. Today, Earth remains vulnerable to asteroid collisions. In recent history, space rocks have landed in The United States, Russia, and elsewhere. In the event of a potential asteroid collision, NASA has developed several options for dealing with the threat. Researchers at NASA’s Center for Near Earth Object Studies and Jet Propulsion Laboratory have proposed using blunt force, weaponized deflection or a theoretical tool called a gravity tractor to deflect impact. In addition to developing contingency plans, NASA scientists are also searching the sky for future asteroid threats.
Sources:
Source article: https://www.vox.com/a/asteroid-day
Chicxulub impa...
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- The US medical system is still haunted by slavery
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- 9 years ago
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- Black women's history matters in medicine.
Read ProPublica's feature piece on how the US is the most dangerous industrialized country in which to give birth, and racial disparities in maternal mortality make it even worse for women of color: https://www.propublica.org/article/nothing-protects-black-women-from-dying-in-pregnancy-and-childbirth And they're seeking your help in understanding the problem. If you nearly died during pregnancy or know someone who died due to childbirth related causes, check out this page for more information: http://propub.li/2Ae5RMi
At 0:54, a previous version of this chart mistakenly said "deaths per 1,000 live births," but it is "100,000" instead. The error has been fixed.
UPDATE: On Tuesday, April 17, 2018 — New York removed the statue of J. Marion Sims as part of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s review of city markers that could be deemed “symbols of hate.”
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- How J Dilla humanized his MPC3000
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- 9 years ago
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- J Dilla made his MPC3000 musical.
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There's a halo of reverence around J Dilla, a producer and beatmaker from Detroit who made some of the most fascinating and influential beats in hip hop history. Before his early death in 2006, J Dilla worked with countless artists and producers - from Erykah Badu and Janet Jackson to Busta Rhymes and Madlib - and developed an off-kilter style of rhythm and sampling that transcended the machine he used to create music, the Akai Midi Production Center, otherwise known as the MPC.
Spotify Playlist created by Okayplayer: https://open.spotify.com/user/okayplayer87/playlist/0Xd9a6zJMMYLURcINKVkQd
Brian "Raydar" Ellis' music: https://soundcloud.com/raydarellis
To learn more about J Dilla, check our following sources:
Compiled list of Dilla samples: https://dilladata.wordpress.com/
Redbull Music Academy: http://www.redb...
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- Europe’s most fortified border is in Africa
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- 9 years ago
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- The death trap that separates Europe and Africa still can't stop everyone.
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Vox Borders Episodes:
1. Haiti and the Dominican Republic ( https://youtu.be/4WvKeYuwifc)
2. The Arctic & Russia (https://youtu.be/Wx_2SVm9Jgo)
3. Japan & North Korea (https://youtu.be/qBfyIQbxXPs)
4. Mexico & Guatemala (https://youtu.be/1xbt0ACMbiA)
5. Nepal & The Himalaya (https://youtu.be/ECch2g1_6PQ)
6. Spain & Morocco (https://youtu.be/LY_Yiu2U2Ts)
The sixth and last Vox Borders episode deals with a border between Morocco and Spain. The journey to asylum is never easy. And ...
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- The fight to make bad jobs better
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- 9 years ago
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- It's easy to find a job, just not a good one.
Sources:
https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/04_jobs_autor.pdf
https://cew-7632.kxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/Americas-Divided-Recovery-web.pdf
http://www.epi.org/publication/still-falling-short-on-hours-and-pay-part-time-work-becoming-new-normal/
https://krueger.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/akrueger/files/katz_krueger_cws_-_march_29_20165.pdf
https://cornerstonecapinc.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/Retail-Automation_Stranded-Workers-Final-May-2017_corrected.pdf
https://newrepublic.com/political-ad-database
https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2013/04/art2full.pdf
http://www.unionstats.com/
https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag44-45.htm
https://www.bls.gov/iag/tgs/iag722.htm
https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/house-bill/2942/text
http://sfgov.org/olse/formula-retail-employee-rights-ordinances
https://www.seattle.gov/laborst...
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- How Technicolor changed movies
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- 9 years ago
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- What was "glorious Technicolor?" It was a groundbreaking technology — but it was more than that, too.
Find an extra commentary video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJCtHs-dh0M
To learn more, check out:
The George Eastman Museum: https://eastman.org/
Eastman's Technicolor Online Research: https://www.eastman.org/technicolor-online-research-archive/
Barbara Flueckiger’s Timeline of Historical Film Colors: https://filmcolors.org/
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards explores the history of Technicolor: both the technology and the company. Many people recognize Technicolor from The Wizard of Oz, but the technology existed long before then. Two strip Technicolor and three strip Technicolor both revolutionized the film industry and shaped the look of 20th century film.
But Technicolor also influenced movies thro...
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- The real reason American health care is so expensive
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- 9 years ago
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- Hint: single-payer won’t fix America’s health care spending.
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Americans don't drive up the price by consuming more health care. They don't visit the doctor more than other developed countries:
http://international.commonwealthfund.org/stats/annual_physician_visits/
But the price we pay for that visit - for a procedure - it costs way more:
http://static1.squarespace.com/static/518a3cfee4b0a77d03a62c98/t/57d3ca9529687f1a257e9e26/1473497751062/2015+Comparative+Price+Report+09.09.16.pdf
The price you pay for the same procedure, at the same hospital, may vary enormously depending on what kind of health insurance you have in the US.
That's because of bar...
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- Why cities are full of uncomfortable benches
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- That bench won't be yours forever.
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When designing urban spaces, city planners have many competing interests to balance. After all, cities are some of the most diverse places on the planet. They need to be built for a variety of needs.
In recent years, these competing interests have surfaced conflict over an unlikely interest: purposefully uncomfortable benches.
Enter the New York City MTA. They’ve installed 'leaning bars’ to supplement traditional benches & save platform space. But designs like this carry an often invisible cost: they rob citizens of hospitable public space. And the people who experience this cost most directly are those experiencing homelessness.
A few notes of thanks:
First to Historian A. Roger Ekirch who kindly got me up to speed on the expansion of streetlights in historic western city districts.
Another thanks goes to auth...
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- Building a border at 4,600 meters
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- How China and Nepal are taming the Himalaya mountains.
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Vox Borders Episodes:
1. Haiti and the Dominican Republic ( https://youtu.be/4WvKeYuwifc)
2. The Arctic & Russia (https://youtu.be/Wx_2SVm9Jgo)
3. Japan & North Korea (https://youtu.be/qBfyIQbxXPs)
4. Mexico & Guatemala (https://youtu.be/1xbt0ACMbiA)
5. Nepal & The Himalaya (https://youtu.be/ECch2g1_6PQ)
6. Spain & Morocco (https://youtu.be/LY_Yiu2U2Ts)
For thousands of years, humans have drawn lines on the earth, dividing the planet into nations. But there are some parts of the world that no empire, nation or state has been able to tame.
In this epis...
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- The robot-proof job men aren't taking
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Nursing is the job of the future. So why have men stayed away?
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It’s easy to imagine that the jobs of the future, if they even exist, will all revolve around technology. But it turns out, the jobs that are least likely to succumb to automation are those that involve building human relationships. The healthcare field is a prime example— nurses, physician assistants, and physical therapists have higher-than-average salaries and major expected job growth. These fields share something else in common— they’re dominated by women. Despite the erosion of traditionally “masculine” fields like manufacturing, men just aren’t taking these high-paying, in-demand healthcare jobs in the numbers you’d expect. For decades, nursing in particular has been considered “women’s work,” in part because it’s assumed that women, more so than men, have a kind of innate capacity for caring and empathy. But men in nursi...
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- Road signs suck. What if we got rid of them all?
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Shared space designs, explained with 99% Invisible. Check them out here: https://99percentinvisible.org/
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Some cities in Europe are undergoing a fascinating transformation: they’re getting rid of all of their road signs. That’s thanks to a design concept called “shared space,” where urban planners drastically lessen the presence of traffic lights, signs, and barriers, encouraging all forms of transportation to share the road. There’s evidence that drivers often totally ignore road signs, so the heightened risk forces commuters to remain on high alert as they pass through an intersection, in theory leading to safer travel. But by stripping cities of their traditional traffic control systems, they leave disabled residents in the dark — and that’s sparked a powerful debate of how to balance ease of movement with all residents’ needs.
This is one of a series of videos we're launching ...
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- 9 charts to be thankful for: humanity is getting better
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- It's not all bad news out there.
For more data about how the world is getting better.
Longevity: https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy/
Global poverty: https://www.vox.com/world/2016/10/2/13123980/extreme-poverty-world-bank
Why the world bank uses a $1.90 a day poverty line: https://www.vox.com/2015/10/7/9465999/world-bank-poverty-line
Hunger: https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SN.ITK.DEFC.ZS
Malaria: https://ourworldindata.org/malaria/
Child Labor: https://ourworldindata.org/child-labor/
War deaths: https://ourworldindata.org/war-and-peace/
Paris Climate accord: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/07/climate/syria-joins-paris-agreement.html?_r=0
Coal production: https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels/#coal-production-by-region
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- How Trump turned Sean Hannity into a conspiracy theorist
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- 9 years ago
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- Hannity has transformed from typical right-wing pundit into Fox News' leading conspiracy theorist, and that's making the network's advertisers nervous.
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- How the US outsourced border security to Mexico
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Mexico is doing America's immigration dirty work.
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Vox Borders Episodes:
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For the first time ever in 2014, the U.S. recorded more undocumented migrants from Central America than from Mexico. In particular, 52,000 unaccompanied children were detained between October 2013 and June...
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- How job surveillance is changing trucking in America
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Automation is coming for truckers – but first, they're being watched.
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The promise of self-driving trucks will radically reshape one of America's most common jobs. There are 3.5 million professional drivers in the US, all of whom may face job displacement in the autonomous future being developed by companies like Otto, Daimler, and Tesla. But before robots take the wheel entirely, there will be a long period where truckers and artificial technology split the responsibilities of the work. The first big step toward that future comes in the form of the electronic logging device, a dashboard monitor that tracks speed, location, and a driver's schedule, and reports it to an employer or a third-party monitoring service. It has a lot of truckers worried.
Read Karen Levy's work here:
https://goo.gl/XHYuvv
https://goo.gl/BVJWmY
Read the FMCSA's report on ELD safety:
https://g...
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- The military coup in Zimbabwe, explained
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- 9 years ago
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- Why the Zimbabwe coup is not a revolution.
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On November 14th 2017, Zimbabwe military troops drove tanks into the capital city, Harare. They patrolled the streets, blocked access to government buildings, and took over the state television station to insist….
This is not a military takeover of government.
Once praised as a war hero, Robert Mugabe helped Zimbabwe win independence from Great Britain in 1980. He became president under Zimbabwe’s new constitution with the support of the people.
But soon, he digressed into a repressive dictator.
He secured his power through aggression and threats, there have been reports of state-sponsored torture and killings.
And even though Zimbabwe is technically a democracy, there’s evidence Mugabe rigged elections in his favor.
Now that Mugabe is 93 years old, and reportedly in poor health, the fight f...
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- The environmental cost of free two-day shipping
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- What’s the environmental impact of online shopping and what are the solutions to make it more sustainable?
Climate Lab is produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox. Hosted by conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan, the videos explore the surprising elements of our lives that contribute to climate change and the groundbreaking work being done to fight back. Featuring conversations with experts, scientists, thought leaders and activists, the series demystifies topics like nuclear power, food waste and online shopping to make them more approachable and actionable for those who want to do their part. Sanjayan is an alum of UC Santa Cruz, a Visiting Researcher at UCLA and the CEO of Conservation International.
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- Walking while black
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- 9 years ago
- Description
- Jacksonville’s enforcement of pedestrian violations raises concerns about another example of racial profiling: http://propub.li/2hCCBaE
After watching a viral video of a Jacksonville cop stopping a young black man for jaywalking, reporters Ben Conarck and Topher Sanders examine how “walking while black” can come at a high price. In this second piece of the Vox + ProPublica collaboration, they dig into how police citations for pedestrian violations often fall along the lines of race and poverty, and introduce us to some of the people fighting these tickets.
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- Title
- The all-American fruit you've probably never heard of
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The founding fathers loved the pawpaw fruit, so how come almost nobody today has heard of them?
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Make sure to check out Andrew's book about the pawpaw:
https://www.amazon.com/Pawpaw-Search-Americas-Forgotten-Fruit/dp/1603587039/ref=sr_1_sc_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1510698459&sr=8-3-spell&keywords=pawpwa
Special thanks to Mike Tschappat for permission to use his photograph in the video.
- Title
- How beauty brands failed women of color
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- But the industry is changing – and Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty isn’t the only brand laying the foundation for a more inclusive beauty industry.
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Rihanna’s new makeup line Fenty Beauty has been an instant success — and it’s not only popular because Rihanna’s name is attached to it. Fenty Beauty carries a wide range of foundations — 40 to be exact — which has the beauty industry shook. Cosmetics and the beauty industry as a whole, has a long history of creating products that did not match deeper-toned people of color. There are a number of factors that have lead many mainstream beauty companies to having a narrow selection for people of color — and not all of those reasons are rooted in product development. With Fenty Beauty, Rihanna is showing the industry that it’s worth investing money and time into creating nuanced products beyond the ranges of ivory, beige, and tan.
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- The big debate about the future of work, explained
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Why economists and futurists disagree about the future of the labor market.
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Sources:
https://economics.mit.edu/files/11563
https://www.aeaweb.org/full_issue.php?doi=10.1257/jep.29.3#page=33
http://voxeu.org/article/how-computer-automation-affects-occupations
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/future-work-lit-review-20150428.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/documents/Artificial-Intelligence-Automation-Economy.PDF
https://www.vox.com/2015/7/27/9038829/automation-myth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PWX7RPG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect
https://www.amazon.com/Second-Machine-Age-Prosperity-Technologies-ebook/dp/B00D97HPQI/ref=sr_1_1
https://www.amazon.com/New-Division-Labor-Computers-Creating/dp/0691124027/ref=sr_1_1?
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf
- Title
- The world is poorly designed. But copying nature helps.
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- 9 years ago
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- Biomimicry design, explained with 99% Invisible. Check them out here: https://99percentinvisible.org/
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Japan’s Shinkansen doesn’t look like your typical train. With its long and pointed nose, it can reach top speeds up to 150–200 miles per hour.
It didn’t always look like this. Earlier models were rounder and louder, often suffering from the phenomenon of "tunnel boom," where deafening compressed air would rush out of a tunnel after a train rushed in. But a moment of inspiration from engineer and birdwatcher Eiji Nakatsu led the system to be redesigned based on the aerodynamics of three species of birds.
Nakatsu’s case is a fascinating example of biomimicry, the design movement pioneered by biologist and writer Janine Benyus. She's a co-founder of the Biomimicry Institute, a non-profit encouraging creators to discover how big challenges in design, engineering, and sustain...
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- Harassment is breaking Twitter's free speech experiment
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- 9 years ago
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- Twitter started off as a radical free speech experiment, but widespread harassment is forcing the social media giant to rethink what kind of platform it wants to be.
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- How to break the two-party hold on American politics
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- 9 years ago
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- Replacing our current system with proportional representation will make more room for the wide range of views in US politics.
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https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/10/11/16453512/gerrymandering-proportional-representation
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- Title
- Catalonia’s independence movement, explained
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- 9 years ago
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- This referendum was not the region's first.
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On October 1st Catalonia held a controversial referendum on independence. Before the vote took place, the Spanish Constitutional Courts ruled the vote illegal and sent the national guard to stop it from happening. Despite government opposition, the vote was held and clashes between voters and police ensued.
Ninety percent of the participants voted in favor of independence, but public surveys say that current support for independence in Catalonia is only 41 percent.
Despite the contested referendum results, Catalonia has declared independence unilaterally. In response, Spain is moving to dissolve the Catalan regional government, remove its leaders from office and hold regional elections.
You can read a full explainer on the situation via Sarah Wildman at our website: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/2/16393956/catalonia-catalan-in...
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- The latest revelation that ties the Trump campaign to Russia
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- 9 years ago
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- It sure looks like collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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US intelligence agencies have confirmed that emails from the Democratic National Committee and from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta were stolen by Russian hackers.
And now in the latest string of indictments and guilty pleas announced by the Justice Department, the evidence suggests at least one Trump adviser knew of the theft in advance, and lied about it.
The revelations come from George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign, who met with Russian sources who told him of Clinton's stolen emails, several months before they were released. His guilty pl...
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- Inside North Korea's bubble in Japan
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Why North Korea has children’s schools in Japan
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Vox Borders Episodes:
1. Haiti and the Dominican Republic ( https://youtu.be/4WvKeYuwifc)
2. The Arctic & Russia (https://youtu.be/Wx_2SVm9Jgo)
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4. Mexico & Guatemala (https://youtu.be/1xbt0ACMbiA)
5. Nepal & The Himalaya (https://youtu.be/ECch2g1_6PQ)
6. Spain & Morocco (https://youtu.be/LY_Yiu2U2Ts)
For this episode I found myself embeded with a small community in Japan. They were born there, they speak the language. But they're not Japanese citizens, or even ethnically Japanes...
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- The dollhouses of death that changed forensic science
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- 9 years ago
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- Frances Glessner Lee created dollhouses with dead dolls. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explains why.
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Frances Glessner Lee's "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" are part of a new exhibit at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Art museum. The collection is part art, part science, and part creepy peek into the world of forensic science.
These miniatures significantly advanced forensics and forensic science, but they aren't just CSI curios - they're complex, confounding works of art that manage to be morbid and beautiful at the same time.
Lee's legacy bridges ...
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- Why this awful sounding album is a masterpiece
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Brace yourselves, this video is about Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band.
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Trout Mask Replica, by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band was inducted into the Library of Congress' national recording registry in 2010 - nearly 40 years after it's release. The album has been widely cited by artists of all kinds as a shining point of creativity and original thought - it also is very very hard to listen to. It's the musical equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting. Its discordant rhythms and motifs sound made up on the spot by a child, but every sound and riff you hear on the album was arduously rehearsed over the course of a year by a group of young musicians who were remarkable in their own right.
Samuel Andreyev and Susan Rogers join me on Episode #6 of Vox Pop's Earworm to breakdown why this album is such a masterpiece.
Samuel Andreyev's Frownland analysis: https://w...
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- The opioid crisis is making grandparents become parents again
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Grandparents are struggling to raise grandchildren on their own.
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Sources:
http://datacenter.kidscount.org/
https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/children-temporary-assistance-needy-families-tanf-child-only-cases-relative-caregivers
http://grandfamilies.org/Portals/0/16-Children-Thrive-in-Grandfamilies.pdf
http://www.gu.org/OURWORK/Grandfamilies/TheStateofGrandfamiliesinAmerica/TheStateofGrandfamiliesinAmerica2016.aspx
http://rocklandgov.com/departments/social-services/
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The opioid crisis is driving up the population of "kinship caregivers" in record numbers. As overdose totals rise, grandparents and other relative caregivers are stepping in to raise the children of addicted parents. Unlike foster care, "kinship care" has unique requirements that are often not recognized in a child welfare system that was designed to support non-relative foster parents. As grandparents struggle to raise children...
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- 9 facts about violence against women everyone should know
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Violence against women is still all too common. Here are some of the staggering statistics.
*This is an update to a previously published video from 2014.
Data sources:
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/campus-sexual-violence
https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-packet_statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdf
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bjs.gov%2Fcontent%2Fpub%2Fpdf%2Ffvsv9410.pdf
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/183781.pdf
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- How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history
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- 9 years ago
- Description
- The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South's memory of the Civil War.
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy was a significant leader of the “Lost Cause,” an intellectual movement that revised history to look more favorably on the South after the American Civil War. They were women from elite antebellum families that used their social and political clout to fundraise and pressure local governments to erect monuments that memorialized Confederate heroes. They also formed textbook review committees that monitored what Southern schoolchildren learned about the war. Their influential work with children created a lasting memory of the Confederate cause, and those generations grew up to be the segregationists of the Jim Crow Era in the South.
Note: At 5:05, a previous version of the video mistakenly covered Kentucky as a former Confederate state on the map. The error has been corrected.<...
