VOX
YouTube's messy fight with its most extreme creators
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- YouTube's messy fight with its most extreme creators
- Runtime
- 7:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- YouTube has to appeal to advertisers to make money, but its most extreme creators are pushing the video platform into a tough debate and censorship and free speech on the internet.
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- Title
- How drug companies make you buy more medicine than you need
- Runtime
- 6:47
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- They make eye drops too big -- and make you pay for the waste.
This is our first installment in our collaboration with ProPublica. Check out the full piece at https://www.propublica.org/article/drug-companies-make-eyedrops-too-big-and-you-pay-for-the-waste for their in-depth reporting, and stay tuned for more stories in this collaboration!
Correction: At 2:17 the graph should read "Total US Spending" and not "US government spending."
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- Title
- Divided island: How Haiti and the DR became two worlds
- Runtime
- 15:52
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- One island, two worlds.
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Haiti and the Dominican Republic share a border, and an island. But the two countries are very different today: the Dominican Republic enjoys higher quality of life for many factors than Haiti. I went to this island and visited both countries, to try and understand when and how their paths diverged. And I began to learn how those differences are playing out in the present.
Vox Borders is a new international documentary series presented by lululemon, by Emmy-nominated videojournalist Johnny Harris. For this series, Johnny is producing six 10-15 minute do...
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- Vox Borders: Life at the edge of nations
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The six Vox Borders documentaries are publishing every Tuesday starting October 17th, on Youtube and Facebook. To make sure you don't miss them, follow Johnny on social media or sign up for his newsletter:
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We sent Johnny to six different borders, to document the human impact of the lines drawn on maps. He's spent six months traveling to different borders all over the world, and and the documentaries are finally launching.
Vox Borders is a new international documentary series presented by lululemon, by Emmy-nominated videojournalist Johnny Harris. For this series, Johnny is producing six 10-15 minute documentaries about different borders stories from:
Haiti and the Dominican Republic
Svalbard, in the Arctic Circle
Mexico and Guatemala
Japa...
- Title
- Why we really really really like repetition in music
- Runtime
- 7:34
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- It slays all day.
In episode #5 of Vox Pop's Earworm, producer Estelle Caswell, comes to appreciate the art of repetition with the help of Colin Morris and Elizabeth Margulis. Colin is a computer scientist who created two really amazing ways to visualize repetition in song lyrics and how they've increased over the last 50 or so years. Elizabeth Margulis has dedicated her career to music research and runs the music cognition lab at the University of Arkansas. Her book "On Repeat: How music plays the mind" delves deep into the science behind musical repetition and explores the many ways our brains react to it.
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The Pudding interactive "Are Pop Songs Getting More Repetitive?": https://pudding.cool/2017/05/song-repetition/
SongSim: https://colinmorris.github.io/SongSim/#/gallery
Elizabeth Margulis: http://www.elizabethmargulis.com...
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- Assign us a video topic! 3 million subscribers challenge
- Runtime
- 1:38
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Survey: https://voxmedia.typeform.com/to/RXeDg5
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- Title
- How granite countertops took over American kitchens
- Runtime
- 6:17
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Granite countertops are an American obsession. But how did they become so ubiquitous? Our nation's countertop history has had a few surprising twists and turns.
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Granite countertops are beautiful, but aren't they a little overrated? In the past, Americans loved their formica and laminate countertops, so what changed the kitchen landscape?
It turns out that stone imports from countries like Brazil and Italy, improved means of importing and cutting granite, and a general decrease in cost made the once-elite material accessible to the HGTV-loving masses. The history of granite countertops isn't just about shin...
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- Why Rotten Tomatoes scores don't mean what they seem
- Runtime
- 4:43
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- It’s about consensus, not quality.
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EDIT: At 2:57, a previous version of this video mistakenly featured a clip from Atonement. The video has since been updated to feature a clip of Dunkirk.
The Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer maintains high status in today’s Hollywood. A certified fresh badge can act like a marketing tool for a film. So filmmakers are sensitive to how their work fares on the platform. But the Tomatometer number you see measures something different than quality — it measures consensus.
Earlier this summer, some executives criticized the platform, saying that critics tanked their summer hits. Films like Baywatch, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales, and The Mummy all performed below expectations at the box office. Hollywood needed a scapegoat. Because Fandango, one of the largest online ticket-distributors, features the tomatometer at the point-of purchase, R...
- Title
- How tax breaks help the rich
- Runtime
- 8:47
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The US has a problem with income inequality. The current tax code makes it worse.
Correction: At 2:20, we say that the Glenstone Museum is only open for private tours. But, in fact, it’s free and open to the public for scheduled tours.
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The gap between the rich and the poor in America looks more like developing countries than other Western nations. Trump and the GOP have proposed tax plans that will give massive tax breaks to the wealthy while it remains unclear if the middle class will get a tax ben...
- Title
- The only wild monkeys in Europe
- Runtime
- 4:35
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- I visited Gibraltar and hung out with monkeys.
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This dispatch is from Gibraltar, a British enclave on the southern coast of Spain. Gibraltar is home to Europe's only population of wild monkeys, the Barbary Macaques. They've lived on the island for hundreds of years, and have become part of its history, but nobody knows how they got there. Their origin is shrouded in legend.
Vox Borders is a new international series focused on telling the human stories that emerge from lines on the map. I've traveled to six different border locations to produce a final...
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- Why we still need courtroom sketch artists
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- 5:12
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- In an age where everyone's phone has a camera, why do we still rely on sketch artists to document trials?
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We sat down with Christine Cornell, a courtroom sketch artist who has been covering trials for over 40 years to talk about why even in an age where everybody's cellphones have cameras on them, we still often need artists to portray what happens in courtrooms.
She has covered the trials of Bill Cosby, Donald Trump, Martha Stewart, and Martin Shkreli, as well as people like the Boston Bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and El Chapo. She explains what it takes to be a courtroom sketch artist and how she think that compassion is one of the key traits artists must possess.
She also gives a demonstration of her technique by drawing a portrait of Dean.
Make sure to check out Christine's website for more examples of the many trials she's covered over her career http://www.christinecornel...
- Title
- How bump stocks make semiautomatic guns more deadly
- Runtime
- 2:23
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This gun modification made the Las Vegas shooting even more deadly.
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When a gunman opened fire on a crowd at a Jason Aldean concert in Las Vegas earlier this week, he was using a legal firearm. In the United States, semiautomatic weapons are available to the general public. Fully automatic guns are not. But there is a loophole. Gun owners can purchase a "bump stock" modification that takes advantage of recoil mechanics to make a semi-automatic rifle far more dangerous. And that opens up a grey area in gun control policy.
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- Title
- Open offices are overrated
- Runtime
- 6:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- If you work in an office, there's a good chance it's an open one. How did we get here? And why is it so bad?
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Open offices have been around a surprisingly long time. But they're relatively misunderstood for their role in workplace culture. Where did open offices and cubicles come from, and are they really what we want?
This episode of Overrated explores the history, including Frank Lloyd Wright, Herman Miller, and other key figures in the office design movement. Our workplaces haven't always been this way — this is how we got here.
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- Don't fall for the antifa trap
- Runtime
- 7:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The media's panic about antifa reflects an old bias in the way journalists cover protest movements.
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- Title
- Why Puerto Rico will be without power for months
- Runtime
- 4:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The island was ill-prepared for a disaster of this magnitude.
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Prior to 2006, Puerto Rico's economy was held together by United States business interests. But when that tax break expired, the island's economic recession became a depression. Because Puerto Ricans are US citizens, they are allowed to travel freely between the territory and the mainland. Because of the high cost of living on the island and opportunity for higher pay on the mainland, many leave.
Mismanagement of public utilities combined with a dwindling tax base has left the island with dated infrastructure, and concerning prospects for post-hurricane recovery.
You can read more of Vox's coverage on the hurricane relief effort in Puerto Rico here: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/9/26/16365994/hurricane-maria-2017-puerto-rico-san-juan-humanitarian-disaster-electricty-fuel-flights-facts
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- The ancient city designed to track time
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- 3:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Keeping time was challenging for ancient civilizations, so this one built a city to do it.
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This dispatch is from the ancient archaeological site at Teotihuacán, in Mexico. I walked around the ruins with a guide, and learned about how the people who built the site planned it in a way that helped them track time. Scholars theorize that the structures at Teotihuacán were built to align with the cosmos on certain days of the year, which let the people know when it was time to plant crops or conduct rituals.
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- Crowdfunding, explained by Exploding Kittens
- Runtime
- 7:00
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- From a game with friends, to a nine-million dollar phenomenon.
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Exploding kittens started of as a card game of Russian roulette with a hint of Old Maid between a group of friends. It turned into a national phenomena with the help of a crowd—a crowd that was built from folks on Kickstarter. But with incredible rewards of crowdfunding, there can be costly risks as well to putting out valuable ideas of products to the world before they actually get made.
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- Title
- How Hans Zimmer and Radiohead transformed "Bloom" for Blue Planet II
- Runtime
- 6:52
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Radiohead's "Bloom," remixed for the ocean.
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If you listen closely enough to Radiohead and Hans Zimmer’s rework of “Bloom” for Blue Planet II, you can hear a really fascinating orchestral trick at work. They call it the “tidal orchestra” — it’s a musical effect created by instructing each player to play their notes only if the person next to them isn’t playing. The result is a randomly swelling and fading musical bed for the entire series that captures the feeling of ocean waves. It’s a captivating way to score a soundtrack for the ocean — but it also fits in with a long history of capturing randomness in music composition.
"(ocean) bloom"
Created by Hans Zimmer and Radiohead
In collaboration with Bleeding Fingers
Music Produced by Russell Emanuel
Recorded by Geoff Foster at Air Lyndhurst Studios
Mixed by Nigel Godrich, Geoff Foster and...
- Title
- How QWERTY conquered keyboards
- Runtime
- 5:48
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- There's a big chance your keyboard says QWERTY. In this episode of Vox's Overrated, Phil Edwards investigates the keyboard's history.
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If you've ever been curious about typewriter history, the rise of QWERTY wasn't an accident. Typing and typewriters weren't always around, and the inventor of the QWERTY typewriter layout didn't know it would become the standard.
Over time, however, business reasons and typing education made QWERTY a standard across the industry and, eventually, for the vast majority of typists. Though there are exceptions to QWERTY's domination, for the most part, this keyboard layout remains the default even today.
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- Why 23 million Americans don't have fast internet
- Runtime
- 7:16
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Buffering...
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Sources:
FCC 2015 Notice of Inquiry: https://apps.fcc.gov/edocs_public/attachmatch/FCC-15-10A1.pdf
FCC 2016 Broadband Progress Report: https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/broadband-progress-reports/2016-broadband-progress-report
FCC Broadband Deployment Map: https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/maps/bpr-2016-fixed-25mbps-3mbps-deployment/
FCC 4G Data: https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/maps/nationwide-lte-coverage-ye-2015/
Community and Regional Development Research Study on Economic Health in non-metro counties: https://cardi.cals.cornell.edu/sites/cardi.cals.cornell.edu/files/shared/documents/ResearchPolicyBriefs/Policy-Brief-Feb15-draft03.pdf
Akamai State of the Internet Report, 2017: https://www.akamai.com/us/en/about/our-thinking/state-of-the-internet-report/
FCC 2017 Notice of Inquiry: http://transition....
- Title
- The “ethnic cleansing” of Myanmar’s Rohingya Muslims, explained
- Runtime
- 5:15
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The Rohingya have been systematically driven out by the Myanmar government leading to the fastest growing humanitarian crisis in recent years.
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- Title
- The rise and fall of the American fallout shelter
- Runtime
- 12:32
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Whatever happened to fallout shelters? And would they have actually worked?
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards looks at the history behind one of the Cold War's more unusual legacies — the fallout shelter. Of course, any history of the fallout shelter has to include nuclear proliferation, civil defense, Presidential politics, and a turtle named Bert.
The video above serves as a condensed history of the Cold War’s fallout shelter fad, from the kookily cheerful propaganda videos to the hobbled Federal agencies that tried to administer Civil Defense. Yes, it includes the classic Cold War film Duck and Cover, in which a bomb-fearing turtle named Bert teaches kids that hiding under their desks could be sufficient protection from nuclear annihilation.
Any history of fallout shelter ...
- Title
- How to solve problems like a designer
- Runtime
- 4:51
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The design process for problem-solving, in 4 steps.
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IDEO is an international design company founded in 1991. In the beginning, IDEO designed products—the first notebook-style computer, hard drives, even the next generation (of its time) PalmPilots. Most notably, in 1980, the firm was tasked by Steve Jobs to design a more affordable mouse for the Apple Lisa computer. By 2001, IDEO stepped away from designing products and pivoted to designing experiences. The process to solving problems, whether they be simple or complex, encompass these four steps: observing, ideamaking, prototyping, and testing. Tim Brown, CEO and president of the company, explains how human-centered design (and this four-step process) is a major key in how IDEO approaches complex challenges.
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- Title
- How American Gothic became an icon
- Runtime
- 6:11
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- How did American Gothic go from third place painting to icon? There's a story to this famous painting.
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Grant Wood's American Gothic is a classic painting. But to understand its fame, you have to learn some context about how it became an icon.
When Grant Wood painting his sister and dentist in front of a house in Eldon, Iowa, he didn't know his painting would become iconic. But American Gothic soon became the subject of countless homages and parodies.
Wood's place in American art history is unique — and worth knowing to truly appreciate American Gothic.
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- Title
- You have more than five senses
- Runtime
- 4:24
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Here are a few of the other senses your kindergarten teacher (and Aristotle) left out.
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- Title
- Treating hurricanes like war zones hurts survivors
- Runtime
- 7:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The media's search for "bad guys" during a natural disaster gets us angry about all the wrong things.
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- Title
- How the triplet flow took over rap
- Runtime
- 9:42
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The “Migos flow” deconstructed.
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In 2013, Migos made it to the Billboard Charts with "Versace." It was a viral hit and it put the spot light on a very unique rap flow - the triplet. The triplet, often now called the "Migos flow" happens when three syllables are rapped over one beat. It's now so popular that nearly every mainstream rap artists these days has used it, often to great effect. Kendrick rapped in triplets on one of the most dramatic moments of his latest album, Damn. and Chance the Rapper used triplets on the opening track of Coloring Book. This video is about where the triplet flow came from and how it's been a common tool for rappers since Three 6 Mafia and Bone Thugs-N-Harmony's debut albums in the '90s.
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Further reading
Complex: http://www.complex.com/music/2014/03...
- Title
- How an underground script list changed movies
- Runtime
- 7:35
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The e-mail survey that became a Hollywood institution.
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Many thanks to Franklin Leonard and TED for this interview we recorded at TED 2017.
Phil Edwards has a chat with Franklin Leonard, the creator of The Black List, Hollywoods’ famous anonymous survey of unproduced screenplays. The Black List isn’t a guarantee that a script will be produced, however, it does give overlooked scripts a second shot of getting on the big screen. A handful of academy award- winning-films found their second chance on the Black List. And in an industry brimming with multi-year contracted sequels, and well-established franchises, the Black List survey has become one of the few places in Tinseltown where one-off scripts have a chance to make it to the big screen.
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- Title
- The real reason To Kill A Mockingbird became so famous
- Runtime
- 5:28
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
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In this episode of Overrated, Vox's Phil Edwards investigates the largely unheralded business reason behind the success of Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird."
Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird is a literary classic, but it was also a landmark book in the paperback revolution. Thanks to publishers like Penguin Books, paperbacks changed dramatically from pulp fiction and dime store novels to a a legitimate way to read great literature.
To Kill A Mockinbird's timing helped it capitalize upon that business shift and become a classic in classrooms — for business reasons as well as literary ones.
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- Title
- What Hillary Clinton really thinks
- Runtime
- 51:45
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Hillary Clinton’s theory of politics is unfashionable, but she doesn’t care.
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On page 239 of What Happened, Hillary Clinton reveals that she almost ran a very different campaign in 2016. Before announcing for president, she read Peter Barnes’s book With Liberty and Dividends for All, and became fascinated by the idea of using revenue from shared natural resources, like fossil fuel extraction and public airwaves, alongside revenue from taxing public harms, like carbon emissions and risky financial practices, to give every American “a modest basic income.”
Her ambitions for this idea were expansive, touching on not just the country’s economic ills but its political and spiritual ones. “Besides cash in people’s pockets,” she writes, “it would be also be a way of making every American feel more connected to our country and to each other.”
This is the kind of transformative vision tha...
- Title
- How 9/11 changed Disney's Lilo & Stitch
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- 9/11 was a turning point in every facet of American society — including cinema.
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In September of 2001, Disney was approaching final cut on Lilo & Stitch — a children's film set for release in early 2002. The climax of the film initially featured Stitch piloting a 747 through a fictional Hawaiian city. But that urban backdrop was replaced with a mountainous backdrop, and the aircraft was re-worked to look like an alien spacecraft.
The changes were informed by the shift in the mood in America following the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Disney wasn't alone in their obligation to rework content to a more appropriate tone for a nation still reeling from the attacks. Children's shows like Power Rangers, Pokemon, and Invader Zim had episodes taken off the air due to scenes where buildings and cityscapes were destroyed.
The nation had changed, and the national conversation facilitated by popular...
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- Why a storm surge can be the deadliest part of a hurricane
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- 4:01
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- 9 years ago
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- It can start before a hurricane even makes landfall.
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Storm surge, or coastal flooding, tends to be the deadliest aspect of hurricanes. As wind from the storm pushes water onshore several feet above the normal tide, it can trap people in their homes, wash away entire houses, and make rescue missions harrowing and slow.
In the US, the Eastern and Southeastern coastlines are among the most vulnerable areas for storm surges. Along the East Coast, hurricane Sandy produced a massive storm surge in 2012. On the Gulf Coast, places like Galveston, Texas and New Orleans have seen multiple hurricanes so they've built some infrastructure to help defend against excessive flooding. Levees, canals and seawalls are designed to stop or redirect rising water away from cities. But even those can be inadequate, when faced with an especially strong hurricane.
What really concerns experts, though, are places ...
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- Why these all-white paintings are in museums and mine aren't
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- 6:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Why do all-white paintings sell for millions of dollars and end up in museums?
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So-called "white paintings" are in museums all across the world and Robert Ryman's all-white painting "Bridge" sold for a record $20.6 million at a Christie's auction in 2015. How are these seemingly plain white paintings considered art and why is it that not anyone can pick up a tube of white paint and make one?
We talk to Elisabeth Sherman, an assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York about why there is much more to these paintings than meets the eye, and while you could have painted on of these priceless pieces of art, you didn't.
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- The colleges where the American dream is still alive
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- 3:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- These schools are much better than Harvard, Yale, or Princeton at making poor kids rich.
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Wealthy, prestigious universities such as Harvard Yale, Stanford and Columbia garner billions in donations with the message of financial aid. They show off case after case of talented students from humble backgrounds reaching the top 1% after attending elite schools. The story goes that these universities aren’t just world leaders in cutting-edge research, they’re engines of upward social mobility.
But the latest research by the Equality of Opportunity project suggests this is a myth. A study 10.8 million people on the effect colleges have at moving kids born into the bottom 20 percent of the income distribution up to the top 20 percent showed that though elite universities are very good at moving students up the income ladder, they let in very few low-income students. The problem isn’t one of financial aid...
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- DACA, explained
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- 5:28
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Protection from deportation and the chance to work have been life-changing for DACA recipients. Will Trump get rid of it?
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The most consequential decision President Donald Trump made on immigration in his first year in office wasn’t about the wall, or who’s going to pay for it, or anything else he talked about incessantly on the campaign trail.
It was his decision to announce, on September 5, that his administration would be winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — a program he didn’t mention outright, that many people didn’t know about and even fewer understood.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which has protected nearly 800,000 young adult unauthorized immigrants from deportation and allowed them to work legally since 2012. The immigrants protected through DACA grew up in the US; people might not assume they are unauthorized ...
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- The wall of eyes trained on the US - Mexico border
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- 5:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- There's more to the border than just a wall.
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This dispatch is from the Rio Grande River, on the Texas side of the U.S. border with Mexico. I embedded with border patrol, to learn about the technology, techniques, and challenges of monitoring a section of the border with over 300 miles of river.
Vox Borders is a new international series focused on telling the human stories that emerge from lines on the map. I've traveled to five of six border locations to produce a final set of documentaries. While I travel I'm releasing video dispatches on YouTube and Facebook, documenting my experiences in a vlog that's independent from the final Vox Borders documentaries. Learn more: http://www.vox.com/borders
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- Why more pop songs should end with a fade out
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- 7:42
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The fade out is underrated. It should come back.
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The fade out in music is one of those necessary tools in a record producers arsenal. But if you listen to today's hits it's much more likely you'll hear a song that has a hard abrupt electronic ending. Bill Weir, wrote a great piece at Slate a few years ago tracking the rise and fall of the fade out in pop music: from one of the very first fade outs created by a literal wooden door to the epic 4 minute fade out of "Hey Jude." In the video above he brings me through that sonic journey.
Here's the Slate article for reference: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2014/09/the_fade_out_in_pop_music_why_don_t_modern_pop_songs_end_by_slowly_reducing.html
Some songs don't just stick in your head, they change the music world forever. Join Estelle Caswell on a musical journey to discover the stories behind your favorite songs.
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- 7 seasons of color on Game of Thrones, in one chart
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- According the data, winter has arrived indeed.
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The Vox Visuals team created an interactive chromatology of the first 7 seasons of Game of Thrones. What we learned? The show, for the most part, is quite de-saturated and dark. But most interesting was a methodical shift in hue as winter descends upon Westoros. The show managed to shift the average hue of aggregate color palettes from warm to cool as the seasons changed.
For a more complete chromatology of the show (and a primer on color theory to boot!) you can check out the full interactive: https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/8/24/16162814/game-of-thrones-color-spectrum
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- Why fact-checking can’t stop Trump’s lies
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- 7:11
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Why do Trump’s supporters continue to believe misinformation, even in the face of fact-checking?
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- Why America still uses Fahrenheit
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- 4:51
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Fahrenheit, explained to the rest of the world
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Since I've moved to the US in 2010, there's one thing that I still don't fully understand: the imperial system. Virtually every country on earth uses Celsius but America has yet to follow. Although it might not seem like a big deal, not using the metric system puts America at a great disadvantage. For example, American kids have to learn 2 sets of measurements making science education even more difficult. On top of that, American companies have to produce extra products to export to metric countries. So why does the United States still have such an antiquated system of measurement?
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- How climate change makes hurricanes worse
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- 3:23
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Here's what we know about climate change and hurricanes.
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We know that humanity's carbon footprint has shifted the baseline conditions of the climate, the context in which every weather event takes place. But trying to isolate the human influence from everything else that is going on can be really hard, especially for hurricanes, or what scientists call "tropical cyclones."
They're super complex and the quality of the historical data we have for them isn't great. We do have physics, though. Hurricanes are driven by the transfer of heat from the sea to the air through evaporation. The storm's maximum possible wind speed, or its potential intensity, depends in part on how warm the ocean is – and of course, we're warming the ocean.
So researchers expect intense tropical cyclones to become frequent if we continue to warm the planet.
The hurricanes of the future will also be wet...
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- A mountaintop view of the total solar eclipse
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- What 2017's total eclipse looked like from 9700 feet above sea level.
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- The collapse of Venezuela, explained
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- 7:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Venezuela is in chaos. How did we get here?
Correction at 1:58: The Supreme Court tried to strip the country’s National Assembly of its powers in March 2017 and not 2016. We regret the error.
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Venezuela was once the richest country in Latin America. It has the largest known oil reserves in the world and its democratic government was once praised world wide.
But today, Venezuela’s democratic institutions and its economy are in shambles.The country has the highest inflation in the world, making food and medicine inaccessible to most Venezuelans.
Over the last four years, its GDP has fallen 35%, which is a sharper drop than the one seen during the Great Depression in the US. The country’s murder rate has surpassed that of the most dangerous cities in the world.
These conditions have sparked months of protests against the president, Nicolas Maduro. And it’s e...
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- We need to change how we bury the dead
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- 5:52
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The way we traditionally bury the dead is horrible for the environment.
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The modern way of burying a body, the "casket in the ground method" most of us are used to is horrible for the environment. It uses an incredible amount of resources, emits toxic pollutants into the air, and pumps the ground full of formaldehyde, which is known to cause cancer. It's also prohibitively expensive. The average cost of a modern funeral costs between $10,000 to $12,000.
There are a number of greener options available though. Cremation uses less resources and requires less space than a traditional burial, but isn't perfect. There are more experimental methods on the horizon such as promession and alkaline hydrolysis.
No matter which method we choose, it's clear that we need to reform how we bury the dead.
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- This timeline shows confederate monuments are about racial conflict
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- 2:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A history of confederate monuments, in one timeline.
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Following clashes of violence surrounding protest against the removal of Robert E. Lee's statue in Charlottesville Virginia, America's debate over the legacy of confederate symbolism has reopened. The central questions: Are these monuments meant to commemorate the racial tension underlying the confederacy's secession? Or are they meant to serve as a simple marker of American history?
The Southern Poverty Law Center created this timeline to document the upwards of 1500 monuments constructed between the civil war and today. For a deeper look at the data, you can check out their comprehensive report, "Who's Heritage? Public symbols of the confederacy," available here: https://www.splcenter.org/20160421/whose-heritage-public-symbols-confederacy
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- Trump's plan to cut his own taxes
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- 2:48
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The proposed budgets in Congress will make Trump even richer.
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The Trump Organization is the 48th-largest private company in the US, and brought in $9.5 billion in revenue in 2016. But the Trump Organization doesn't pay taxes like a big corporation. It's a special kind of entity called a "pass-through" business.
The designation was originally for small-business owners to byp...
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- How an MS Paint artist made this picture
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- 7:53
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Pat Hines used MS Paint for all the illustrations in his book. Here's how.
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We've also created 2 videos that show the entire process (YouTube has a 12 hour limit - Pat spent 15 hours making this picture).
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards interviews an artist using an unlikely tool: MS Paint. Microsoft Paint isn't known as the best artistic tool. But Pat Hines used it to create the illustrations for his horror fantasy, Camp Redblood. And the results are incredible.
He explains how Microsoft Paint works for him, and includes notes about his favorite artists, like Herge, Ivan Bilibin, and more. He also shows why he prefers Paint to Photoshop and Illustrator and how it create...
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- How a recording-studio mishap shaped '80s music
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- 8:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Warning: This is an unapologetic ode to gated reverb drums
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Over the past few years a general nostalgia for the 1980s has infiltrated music, film, and television. I deeply love those gated reverb drums of the '80s - you know that punchy percussive sound popularized by Phil Collins and Prince? So for my second episode of Vox Pop’s Earworm I spoke with two Berklee College of Music professors, Susan Rogers and Prince Charles Alexander, to figure out just how that sound came to be, what makes it so damn punchy, and why it’s back.
Correction: At 2:01, a previous version of the video mistakenly said the noise gate only lets frequencies above a certain threshold pass through. We should’ve said “amplitudes” instead of “frequencies.” The error has been rectified.
At 3:45 we noted that plate reverb boxes were made using aluminum. In fact, t...
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- After Charlottesville, how do we cover an immoral president?
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- 4:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Donald Trump is using the most powerful office in the country to play defense for white supremacists and neo-nazis. How can media coverage of his presidency ever be the same?
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- Tales from the shadow of the moon
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- 5:20
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Eclipse chasers tell us what it's like to witness a total solar eclipse.
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The August 21, 2017, total solar eclipse in the US was the most-viewed totality in history and the first for a whole generation of Americans. But there is a small community of enthusiasts who have already seen 5, 12, even 30 total eclipses before.
That's because after their first eclipse, they were hooked, and now spend all of their vacation time and spare money chasing total solar eclipses around the world, with the solar system as their travel guide.
We interviewed 9 of these eclipse veterans to find out what totality is like, what we should expect, and whether they have advice for first-timers.
For more, watch our explainer video on the how solar and lunar eclipses work and what makes a total solar eclipse so special: https://youtu.be/oNH3akWXaV8
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