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How a Haitian village cooks with sunlight
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- How a Haitian village cooks with sunlight
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This sustainable initiative is helping to save Haiti's forests.
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Haiti has a significant deforestation problem, driven in part by the widespread usage of charcoal for cooking in Haitian households. This practice is doubly problematic as it also raises health concerns for Haitians who burn charcoal in their homes. One initiative, spearheaded by The Nature Conservancy, is tackling this problem through the introduction of solar ovens. These ovens cook food with reflected sunlight, reducing the burden of deforestation in a sustainable way.
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- How Trump's Charlottesville response emboldens white supremacy
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- 4:20
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- By refusing to take a side on the violence in Charlottesville, Trump has taken a side.
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- Voyager 2's 11 billion mile journey at a human scale
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- 3:46
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- 40 years later, Voyager 2 is really, really, really far from Earth.
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NASA measurements for planetary distances (averaged due to elliptical orbit): https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/factsheet/planet_table_british.html
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August 20, 2017 marks the fortieth anniversary of the launch of Voyager 2. Along with Voyager 1, NASA sent the twin spacecraft to collect data about giant planets of our outer solar system. Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune, as well as discovering many new moons orbiting both Jupiter and Saturn. In addition to collecting data, Voyager 2 was sent with a copy of “The Golden Record”: a disk containing 116 images and various audio recordings that depict human life. Should Voyager 2 ever be encountered by an extraterrestrial, the record will be a means of understanding planet Earth. Besides the collection of d...
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- DC’s abandoned fire and police call boxes, explained
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- 3:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- A massive underground network of cables connected street corners to emergency services long before the telephone was invented.
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You’ve probably walked by them on street corners in Washington, DC: old cast-iron fixtures that definitely used to be something. Most are hollowed, while some have art installations or representations of local history inside. But what are they? And why are they all over the city?
These relics were actually crucial for urban communication before the days of the telephone. They’re fire and police call boxes, and they were installed in DC in the late 1800s.
The fire boxes, which came first, relied on a telegraph system. If you saw a fire, you would run down to the box and turn the key inside. It would send a message through underground cables to the central alarm center. The transmission matched a location on a giant map, telling the fire department where to send...
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- The real reason streetcars are making a comeback
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- 5:57
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- It’s mostly about economic development.
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Starting in the late 20th century, modern streetcar proposals started rippling across municipalities in the United States. They’re touted as infrastructure carrying benefits ranging from the social to economic and the environmental. But these projects often make appearances in the news as costly, blunder-filled experiments in public policy.
Cities are willing to bet big on this technology for its potential to develop the local economy. But there is some disagreement as to whether the streetcar is driving this progress, or if it is simply the result of planning *around* the streetcar.
If you're looking for more information on public transportation and urban planning, here are a few links:
This interactive map by Yonah Freemark and Steven Vance allows you to zoom in on all public transportation projects across North America. http://ww...
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- The tiny island in New York City that nobody is allowed to visit
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- 3:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- There's a tiny island on the East River that you've probably never heard of, and you're not allowed to visit it.
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Most people have probably never heard of it but there is a tiny 100 by 200 foot island on the East River in New York City called U Thant Island. It’s right below Roosevelt Island and next to the United Nations headquarters and has more history per square foot than most places in Manhattan.
It’s origin dates back to the late 19th century when construction of an underground tunnel produce...
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- Meet Haiti's surfing pioneers
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- 2:52
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- They taught me how to surf.
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The sport of surfing remains relatively unknown in Haiti. The organizers of Surf Haiti are trying to change that. They run a surf commune in the southern coast of Haiti at Jacmel. By raising domestic awareness of surfing through lessons and education, these surfers hope to build momentum for Haiti to submit a surfing bid to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where surfing will debut as an Olympic event.
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- The secret rhythm behind Radiohead's "Videotape"
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- 10:15
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Watch the full first season of Vox Earworm: https://bit.ly/2JKK30W
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In this season opener of Earworm, I speak with Warren Lain. He's a Radiohead fan who also happens to be an incredibly talented musician and music teacher. In December 2016 he uploaded a 38 minute video to YouTube about a Radiohead song that I deeply love, "Videotape."
He had been thinking about the music theory behind this seemingly simple song for the better part of a decade. The reason? “Videotape”, a slow rhythmically monotonous song, is actually syncopated. I’m joined also by Erin Barra, a professor at Berklee College of Music, who helped Warren and I explain this musical illusion.
Warren’s video can be found right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvKhtFXPswk
Some songs don't just stick in your head, they change the music world forever. Join Estelle Ca...
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- The "this is fine" bias in cable news
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- 5:06
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Political journalism tends to treat every story like the ones that came before it. So what happens when politics in the Trump era goes off the rails?
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- What happens after ISIS falls?
- Runtime
- 7:23
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Three ways ISIS will remain a threat after defeat.
Correction: At 0:18, a previous version of the video mistakenly suggested that Turkey-backed forces are fighting ISIS in the west. In fact, the Russia-backed Syrian army and its allies are fighting ISIS in the north and west. The error has been rectified.
We also want to clarify that the color coded lines that appeared in the previous version at 0:18 did not indicate a border or the frontline. The lines were meant to illustrate that ISIS was under attack on all sides. That highlight has now been removed to avoid any confusion.
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It was also a symbolic loss, Mosul is where the group declared a caliphate, or Islamic territory, in 2014. This set them apart from other terrorist organizations. They weren’t just a network of jihadists strung out across several countries, like al-Qaeda, they governed over actual territory, which th...
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- Medicaid, explained: why it's worse to be sick in some states than others
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- 11:02
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Where you live could mean the difference between life and death.
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Matthew is a Medicaid recipient with a life threatening illness. He is one of 70 million Americans who depends on this program. Medicaid was passed in the mid-1960s after decades of fights over the role of government in medical care. FDR and Truman fought for healthcare, but Johnson wound up passing this landmark legislation. Around this same time, developed nations around the world passed universal health programs. The US got Medicaid.
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- Lyme disease is spreading. Blame ticks — and climate change
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- 4:39
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Nature fanaTICKS beware; cases of Lyme disease are on the rise.
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Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the US; and climate change is helping it to spread even more. Animals such as deer, mice, squirrels, other critters in wooded area can be hosts to the bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, that causes Lyme disease in humans. When ticks feed off these hosts, the ticks become infected with it. And the bacteria can then be transmitted to humans via tick bites. There are numerous ways to prevent tick bites, but the best protection is vigilance. Whether you're going hiking, camping, or just a stroll in the woods, check for ticks that may have become attached. The sooner the tick is removed, the lesser your chances of being infected with Lyme disease.
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- Baby Driver's opening car chase, mapped
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- 3:32
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- On location in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Director Edgar Wright choreographed scenes in Baby Driver to specific songs, with carefully-timed stunts to match. This dance played out on the streets on downtown Atlanta, Georgia, with very little CGI added.
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- Title
- How fentanyl is making the opioid epidemic even worse
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- 5:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Fentanyl, a drug more potent that heroin, is the latest iteration of America's evolving opioid epidemic.
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CDC Wonder: https://wonder.cdc.gov/
CDC 2015 heroin report: https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/heroin/index.html
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Correction: an earlier version of this video inaccurately visualized data on the number of drug overdose deaths estimated to have occurred in 2015 and 2016 at 4:49. It showed 690 dots, it's been revised to the correct 650.
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Fentanyl is the latest iteration in an opioid epidemic that is claiming an increasing number of American lives. In the mid 1990s, Americans started getting hooked on prescription pills in record numbers. Many users found their way to addiction by abusing pills like OxyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin – prescription opioids that had been prescribed by medical professionals to treat pain. Hop...
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- The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense
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- 3:02
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Why Christopher Nolan is obsessed with Shepard tones.
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Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk is a nerve-wracking movie. Three separate storylines tell the tale of the famed World War II evacuation in a intense two hours of film. A lot of that feeling has to do with how the film's score uses Shepard tones — layered sound waves that simulate a constant ascent in tone — to create a sensation of building tension. They're a personal favorite trick of Nolan's: he's based sound effects and entire soundtracks with other composers on the auditory illusion. In Dunkirk, composer Hans Zimmer crafted his soundtrack around the effect — and it's an auditory masterpiece.
Read Nolan's interview with Business Insider on the music of Dunkirk: https://goo.gl/SV4Qpb
Shepard tone imagery from EnjoyPA on freesound.org: https://goo.gl/37Hd2P
Shepard tone sound effect from Alexander on orangefreesoun...
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- The bizarre physics of fire ants
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- 3:59
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- They're not just an animal, they're a material. And that's got engineers interested.
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For more information about the Hu lab: http://www.hu.gatech.edu/
Red imported fire ants (solenopsis invicta) are native to South America and an invasive species in the United States. One of the adaptations that makes them so hardy is that they can build large structures by linking their bodies together. This is how they form rafts that can float during floods. When they're aggregated together, fire ants can be seen as a material and the Hu lab at Georgia Tech has been testing that material for years.
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- Why a Haitian graffiti artist is protesting foreign aid
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- 4:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- I spoke with a Haitian graffiti artist about the unintended consequences of longterm disaster relief funding.
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Haiti experienced a devastating earthquake in 2010. Seven years later, over 10,000 nonprofit organizations and $6 billion dollars of aid funding have been funneled into the country. Although there's still a desperate need for basic services such as food, healthcare, education, and shelter, questions have arisen about whether this continuous aid has become a crutch for the Haitian government. Similarly, Haitians themselves are awaking to the notion of self-determination in their country.
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- Why white supremacists love Tucker Carlson
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- 8:37
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Tucker Carlson is the new king of Fox News, hosting the most-watched news show on cable. But he's also become a hero to white supremacists like David Duke and Richard Spencer. To understand why, you need to look at the way he talks about immigrants.
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- Why people get so excited about a total solar eclipse
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- 5:24
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- How solar and lunar eclipses work.
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Note: This is an update of a video we published in 2015.
In this video we explain the differences between a solar and lunar eclipse and why some believe that a total eclipse of the sun is the greatest natural phenomenon of them all.
Total solar eclipses are a big deal not because of how infrequent they are — there’s a total solar eclipse every 18 months on average — but because of how little of the Earth’s surface falls in the path of any given eclipse shadow.
The next total solar eclipse to visit the US will be in 2024. If an eclipse happens to come to your town, you’re lucky. Any given location will see a total solar eclipse only once in more than 300 years, on average. The vast majority of us will have to travel to an eclipse path if we want to see a total eclipse in our lifetimes.
Thankfully NASA has mappe...
- Title
- The high cost of free parking
- Runtime
- 6:43
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Hidden parking rules hurt our cities. Will Chilton and Paul Mackie of Mobility Lab explain.
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The cities we live in are shaped by the way we get around them. Over the past 60 years, with more and more people opting to drive cars, the need for parking spaces has increased with the boom in driving.
To accommodate that demand early on, cities and towns started requiring developers to include parking with their new buildings after World War II. These policies, known as mandatory parking minimums, set precise standards for parking spaces for each building. And these parking spaces don't come cheap.
To learn much more on free parking's affect on cities, Donald Shoup's book is here: https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
And Mobility Lab, who helped make this video, covers many more issues around infrastructure is here: https://mobilitylab.org/
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- Why the ocean is getting louder
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- 9:29
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What the world sounds like underwater.
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We often think of the ocean as a quiet, peaceful place, filled with animals that don't make much noise. So when I went diving in the ocean for the first time, I was surprised at how rich the soundscape around me was: you could hear fish nibbling on coral and squid swimming past you. But more than anything, you could almost always hear the hum of a boat engine. It's part of a big problem in the ocean right now. Ship traffic noise has doubled every decade since the 1960s — and it's wreaking havoc on marine life.
This video was made in collaboration with Twenty Thousand Hertz, a podcast that dives deep into all kinds of stories about sound. Everything from "who's the person behind the voice on your phone," to "what do other planets sound like to our ears?"
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- The Middle East's cold war, explained
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- 10:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- How two feuding countries are tearing apart the Middle East.
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The Saudis and Iranians have never actually declared war on each other. Instead, they fight indirectly by supporting opposing sides in other countries and inciting conflicts. This is known as proxy warfare.
And it’s had a devastating effect on the region. Countries, especially poor ones, can’t function if there are larger countries pulling strings within their borders.
And that’s exactly what's happening in the Middle East. The Saudi-Iranian rivalry has become a fight over influence, and the whole region is a battlefield.
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- Vincent van Gogh’s long, miserable road to fame
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- 2:39
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Van Gogh's travels informed the works we revere today.
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Famous for chopping off a piece of his ear in a fit and delivering it to a woman in a brothel, Vincent van Gogh is remembered for his ailing mental health and the many paintings—over 900— he created during his lifetime. Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in the village of Zundert in the Netherlands.
During his lifetime, Van Gogh’s work had little value to no value in the art world; but a century later, the first version of Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gatchet sold for $82.5 million in 1990 (around $159 million today). Van Gogh heavily financially-dependent on his younger brother Theo van Gogh. Though the relationship was strained at times, both brothers corresponded with each through hundreds of letters over the years.
Well-known paintings such as The Starry Night, Cafe at Night, andWheat Field with Crows were ...
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- The best Fox News explanations for Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting
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- 4:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Fox News has spent the week downplaying Trump Jr.'s attempt to collude with the Russian government during the election. As the Russia story keeps getting worse, we're going to see just how far the network is willing to go to stay on Trump's good side.
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- The hidden oil patterns on bowling lanes
- Runtime
- 7:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Every bowling lane has a hidden oil pattern. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards finds out what that means.
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Every lane has a pattern. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards explores how they change the game.
Bowling isn’t just about a great ball and good form — if you want to understand the sport, you have to understand the lane.
Every bowling lane, including the one in your neighborhood alley, is coated with an oil pattern to protect the wood. But these patterns aren’t just for protection — the way in which oil is applied to the lane can affect the speed and direction of your ball.
These patterns are so important that recreational bowler...
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- Why Donald Trump Jr.'s emails change everything
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- 6:08
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What we know about his exchange with a Russian lawyer, and what it means.
Photo-illustrations by Javier Zarracina. Read more from Vox's Andrew Prokop: https://www.vox.com/2017/7/11/15953204/donald-trump-jr-emails-russia and Ezra Klein: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/11/15953440/trump-russia-emails-watergate
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News keeps breaking about Donald Trump Jr., and it's hard to keep up. So far, we know he met with a Russian lawyer who had promised him documents incriminating Hillary Clinton. In the email exchange setting up that meeting, we learned three things. First, that a person whom the intermediary called "a Russian government lawyer" reached out to the campaign wanting to help. Second, the intermediary specifically mentions the Russian government's desire to help Trump win the US election. And third, Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump Jr. all knew about this effort, and instead...
- Title
- Why people think they see ghosts
- Runtime
- 6:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Even though there is no scientific evidence that ghosts exist, you may not be crazy if you see one.
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48% of Americans profess to believe in ghosts, and around a quarter say that they've actually seen a ghost before. I wanted to find out if there was any proof of their existence, so I spoke with Joe Nickell, allegedly the world's only paranormal investigator who had researched reported hauntings for almost 50 years.
He says that he's never seen any evidence that would point towards the existence of ghosts. Nickell walks us through the various scientific explanations for why people think they see ghosts, including sleep paralysis, waking dreams, traumatic grief, and exposure to infrasound.
So even though there may be no evidence that ghosts exist, that doesn't mean that you might not see one.
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- Why government agencies should move from DC to the Midwest
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- 3:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Midwestern cities need jobs. DC is too crowded. A simple solution.
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Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and other former industrial powerhouses in the Midwest are struggling. The industries that have supported those cities have gone away, leaving them overbuilt and underpopulated. Meanwhile, coastal cities like New York and Washington, DC are overcrowded and absurdly expensive. So, why not relocate some well-paying federal jobs from the capitol area to the Midwest? Vox's Matt Yglesias explains how such a plan might work.
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- The growing North Korean nuclear threat, explained [Updated]
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- 6:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- North Korea has a new missile, and it can reach the US.
This video is an update to a previous version, published on April 26, 2017
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https://missilethreat.csis.org/country/dprk/
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/16/opinions/north-korea-military-parade-explained/
http://38north.org/2015/02/jlewis020515/
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- Title
- Why there are twice as many solar jobs as coal jobs
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- 4:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- America is changing how it gets its energy, and coal is losing out.
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The past decade has seen a revolution in residential solar systems. Cheap panels and creative financing options have led to a massive increase in solar installations-- and that increase is driving an employment boom. At the same time, the coal industry is experiencing a major downturn. But despite the current political rhetoric, it's a downturn that's been in the works for nearly 100 years. Automation, technical advances, and more recently, the rise of cheap natural gas have led to a significant drop in demand, onet that the industry may never recover from.
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- Be careful out there, America
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- 1:16
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- And on independence day, teenage boys hurt themselves with fireworks.
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The thumbnail is a postcard distributed in 1911 from a toy and fireworks dealer in Pittsburgh that we found at the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. You can find out more about it, and the "patriotic tetanus" that earlier generations of July 4th celebrants experencied, here: http://americanhistory.si.edu/blog/patriots-got-tetanus
Brian Resnick wrote more about the annual ritual of teenage boys endangering life and limb at vox.com: https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/3/15914160/fireworks-injuries-hospitalizations
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- Title
- Wildlife crossings stop roadkill. Why aren't there more?
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- 6:37
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- A better way for animals to cross the road.
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Sources:
Highway Wilding: http://www.highwaywilding.org/
ARC Solutions: https://arc-solutions.org/
Wildlife-Vehicle Collision Reduction Study: Report To Congress: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/research/safety/08034/exec.cfm#sec01
Western Transportation Institute Road Ecology Program: https://westerntransportationinstitute.org/programs/road-ecology/
"How Effective Is Road Mitigation at Reducing Road-Kill? A Meta-Analysis" T. Rytwinski et. al: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27870889
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Leanne Allison/Jesse Whittington: https://vimeo.com/57614273
Cminna: https://youtu.be/D2yAVuacAoM
DKrieger: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gr%C3%BCnbr%C3%BCcke_B_31.jpg
El-polacio.com: https://youtu.be/E4KpjwcJs24
Benjamin P. Y-H. Lee: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wildlife_ov...
- Title
- 13 men wrote a health care bill that would hurt women
- Runtime
- 2:09
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What you need to know about how women fare under the Republican healthcare plan.
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Republicans in the Senate are doing their best to repeal and replace Obamacare, as they've promised to do for years. But the bill they put out this week would hurt many of the people they vowed to protect, especially women. The bill slashes Medicaid funding and defunds Planned Parenthood-- both of which would take away prenatal, maternity, and reproductive care from millions of women. These cuts couldn't come at a worse time-- the United States is one of the only developed countries in the world with rising maternal death rate, with more than half of childbirth deaths coming from easily preventable conditions that would become even more widespread if women on Medicaid lose their coverage.
For more on this topic, check out this article from Vox's Julia Belluz: https://www.vox.com/2017/6/22/15845832/republican-senate-heal...
- Title
- The world's stashing seeds in the Arctic. Just in case.
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- I visited Svalbard's Global Seed Vault, built specifically for doomsday.
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In this video I visited Svalbard's Global Seed Vault, founded by the Crop Trust group in 2008. Over 135,000 genetic deposits have been stored since the vault's opening, to be used at a further date in case crop diversity is threatened due to changing global conditions. The seed vault had its first withdrawal, caused by the war in Syria in 2015, and had minor flooding in May 2017.
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- Title
- How Mura Masa makes internet beats
- Runtime
- 3:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The sound of the internet is global.
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Alex Crossan, otherwise known as Mura Masa isn't like most 21 year olds. In three short years he's established a profile as one of the top beat makers in indie spaces on the internet. He got there by leveraging influence from across the world.
Most important to his early success was the proliferation of a new breed of internet music blog. These are groups like Majestic Casual or Soulection — outlets that operate more like collectives than promotional hubs. The artists that get posted on these channels are informed by a global aesthetic that's only made possible by the internet.
A quick couple of shout-outs for this video:
If you want to learn how to play Lovesick on the piano, you should check out this great post from EDMprod. It even has midi you can download into Garageband or any other DAW.
https://www.edmprod.com/track-breakdown-mura-...
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- Donald Trump's refugee ban, explained [Updated]
- Runtime
- 4:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The Supreme Court allowed a partial version of Trump's executive order banning travel from 6 Muslim-majority countries to go into effect this summer. But the full order could have a lasting impact on how the US treats refugees.
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- Title
- The origin of the '80s aesthetic
- Runtime
- 6:18
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The design phenomenon that defined the decade
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Read more about the Memphis Group:
https://designmuseum.org/memphis
http://74.93.158.225/~zanone/MemphisDesign/MemphisDesign_index.html#.U0od5MBDoWw.bitly
https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1058/1166/files/memphis_milano.pdf?14149556525736315536
http://www.tunicastudio.com/magazine/issue-no-3/article/memphis-group
For more work from the designers:
Peter Shire http://petershirestudio.com/
Nathalie Du Pasquier http://www.nathaliedupasquier.com/home2.html
Michele De Lucchi http://archive.amdl.it/en/index-search.asp?q=memphis&x=0&y=0
Aldo Cibic https://www.cibicworkshop.com/article/memphis-design-movement
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Memphis Design movement dominated the '80s with their crazy patterns and vibrant colors. Many designers and architects from all around the world co...
- Title
- The Senate health bill: poor people pay more for worse insurance
- Runtime
- 5:06
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Senate Republicans' bill to overhaul American health care takes what most people don’t like about Obamacare, and makes it much, much worse. Vox's editor-in-chief Ezra Klein explains.
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For much more detail on the Senate bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, Sarah Kliff explains here: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/6/22/15846728/senate-plan-better-care-reconciliation-act
We also reference the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities analysis of tax cuts, which is here: http://www.cbpp.org/research/health/harsh-tradeoff-at-core-of-gop-health-bill-keep-medicaid-expansion-or-cut-taxes-for
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- Title
- The decline of American democracy won't be televised
- Runtime
- 5:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- We imagine democratic failure will start with a spectacular event: a military coup or the declaration of martial law. But in a country like the U.S., democratic backsliding will likely to start off looking a lot more normal -- with slow, legal attacks on our democratic institutions. It's the kind of thing that won't generate many news headlines -- at least not until it's too late.
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- Title
- Decoding the ancient astronomy of Stonehenge
- Runtime
- 6:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The solstice alignments of Stonehenge, explained.
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Note: A previous version of this video referred imprecisely to "Neolithic Britain" when discussing the Newgrange tomb in Ireland. We have removed that phrasing. My apologies to the Irish.
Stonehenge is a popular destination for summer solstice celebrations because the 5,000-year-old monument points toward the summer solstice sunrise on the horizon. However, it also points to the winter solstice sunset in the opposite direction and there's good reason to believe that this may have been the more important alignment for the Neolithic people who built Stonehenge.
We investigate by constructing a tiny model of the Stonehenge monument.
Sources:
https://www.amazon.com/Stonehenge-Understanding-Mysteries-Greatest-Monument-ebook/dp/B00BBF8FLY/ref=sr_1_1
https://www.amazo...
- Title
- How the Bronx brought breaking to the world
- Runtime
- 5:05
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- B-boying. Breaking. Breakdancing. Hip hop made it.
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Special thanks to our interviewees! Follow the links below to check out more of their work:
Joseph Schloss: http://josephschloss.com/
Nelson "Chief 69" Seda: https://www.facebook.com/TheBronxBoysRockingCrewTBB/
http://bit.ly/2rOCKvJ
Miguel "Gravity" Rosario: https://www.facebook.com/pg/5CrewDynasty/posts/?ref=page_internal
http://bit.ly/2sNFdpu
When the culture of hip hop first began to take shape in the 1970s, it consisted of at least four fundamental elements: DJing, emceeing, graffiti, and breaking. Breaking, popularly known as breakdancing today, was created in the Bronx in New York City by Black and Latino youths. The term breakdancing as it’s used in the media, often mixes the dances of New York’s b-boying and west coast developed dance styles like popping, locking, and the electric b...
- Title
- Trump's policy agenda is a bigger scandal than his Russia ties
- Runtime
- 5:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Trump’s health care plan and budget show the scandal hiding in plain sight.
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Will we care as much about Trump’s betrayal of the poor and the sick and the disabled as we do about his betrayal of James Comey and the Israeli intelligence services? He ran promising to protect the sick and the poor, and he is governing in ways that will grievously harm them. We should be outraged.
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- Title
- Are huskies Russian? Depends who you ask.
- Runtime
- 4:27
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What I learned when I trained sled dogs for a day.
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I spoke with my friend Sasha, who works in Barentsburg training Arctic sled dog teams. Dog breeds like the Husky or Samoyed were traditionally bred in Siberia, but in the 1920s when international dog standards were developing, the Soviet Union was closed to the world. Because of this, these traditionally Russian breeds fell under the administration of the Nordic Dog Union. Today, this has led to a schism about the identity and origins of these dogs.
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- Title
- How fan films shaped The Lego Movie
- Runtime
- 7:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The 2014 film was an animation feat — but it was built on the legacy of homemade fan movies.
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When you watch installments of the Warner Bros. line of Lego movies, it's hard not to be struck by how realistic the animation is. It isn't quite traditional stop motion — but it sure looks as if it could be. That's largely thanks to the work of the animators at Animal Logic, a Sydney-based visual effects studio that has worked on The Lego Movie, The Lego Batman Movie, and the upcoming The Lego Ninjago Movie. Powered by live action filming techniques and a close attention to detail, the studio has helped reinvent what Lego animations can look like. But they owe a lot of that aesthetic to the influence of fan films. Since the early 1970s, enthusiasts have made home movies with their own Lego sets. They're called Brickfilms — and they've grown into a sizable community producing great movies and helping many young an...
- Title
- Why people keep watching the worst movie ever made
- Runtime
- 5:33
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Many people consider The Room to be the worst movie of all time. So why do thousands of people flock to midnight screenings of it every month?
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Tommy Wiseau’s film The Room (2003) is by many accounts the worst movie ever made. The plot barely makes sense, the set design is comically inept, and most of the dialogue sounds like it was fed through Google Translate multiple times. Yet, for 14 years, people have been congregating at midnight screenings all across the globe to watch what some people call “the Citizen...
- Title
- Calling Trump a toddler is an insult to my 2-year-old
- Runtime
- 3:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Donald Trump isn’t a toddler — he’s a product of America’s culture of impunity for the rich.
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Cable news pundits and columnists have compared President Donald Trump as a toddler, saying he's unable to control his speech or actions. But really, his behavior is better explained by his decades-long business career. Trump repeatedly broke the rules, exploited loopholes, and settled court cases without admitting wrongdoing or suffering serious financial harm.
And Trump's experience isn't unique. A...
- Title
- The 4 man-made famines threatening 20 million people
- Runtime
- 5:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Fighters are using hunger as a weapon.
Jane Ferguson's reporting in Africa was supported with a grant from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
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It's why South Sudan’s famine is man-made.
And so are the 3 other famines developing in Nigeria, Somalia, and Yemen. Wars in these countries are threatening to starve 20 million people ... or in all four countries, it's war that's threatened to put 20 million people at risk of starvation.
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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- Title
- Why Norway is full of Teslas
- Runtime
- 7:10
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Oslo is the Tesla capital of the world.
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I spent a day in Oslo before traveling to Svalbard, and noticed that there were Teslas everywhere. Upon further investigation, I learned that the Norwegian government heavily incentivizes ownership of electric cars: Tesla doesn't pay a sales tax on the models it sells, electric car owners are exempt from automobile tolls, and they can charge their vehicles for free. The catch is that Norway funds these initiatives through its sovereign wealth fund, which is almost entirely comprised of profits from Norway's oil and fossil fuel exports.
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- Title
- The US government cannot be trusted so long as Donald Trump runs it
- Runtime
- 5:52
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Trump’s behavior casts a shadow over everyone who serves him.
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That is the simple, chilling takeaway of James Comey’s testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee. The question is whether Republicans will admit it to themselves, and if so, what they will do about it.
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- Title
- Grime: London's latest music export
- Runtime
- 5:17
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- It's definitely not hip-hop.
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For many, grime is an enigmatic genre of music. Its genesis at the crosspoint of dub, uk garage, dancehall, and hip-hop make defining the sound less than straightforward. But a recent wave of promotion positions Grime to make a splash in pockets of global culture moving forward.
But to understand how grime overcame an initially sour reputation on its way to international stardom, you have to go back to the early 2000’s.
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