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Why voting in 2016 could be nearly impossible for some Americans
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- Why voting in 2016 could be nearly impossible for some Americans
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- 10 years ago
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- This year’s primaries are a testing ground for voter ID laws.
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- Bosses steal billions from workers. Here's how one woman fought back.
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- 10 years ago
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- Stealing from workers is treated a lot differently than regular theft
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If you steal $600 worth of merchandise, the police will probably come after you. But if your employer steals $600 of your wages, you are likely to never see that money again.
And chances are high that you have experienced wage theft yourself, whether you work a 9-to-5 job or are an independent contractor. The Economic Policy Institute estimates that wage theft is costing US workers $50 billion a year. And even though New York has one of the strongest wage theft protection laws on the books, it is actually very difficult to enforce those laws in practice. According to a 2015 report from the Center for Popular Democracy, "2.1 million New Yorkers are victims of wage theft annually and are cheated out of cumulative $3.2 billion in wages and benefits they are owed." A recent survey by the Freelancers Union found that 71 percent of freela...
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- Afrofuturism mixes sci-fi and social justice. Here’s how it works.
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- 10 years ago
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- What does the future look like for black people?
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Video by: Gina Barton, Victoria Massie, and Joe Posner
Black people are rarely featured in sci-fi and fantasy films — that is, unless that black person is Will Smith. How do black people get to exist in the future? Afrofuturism, a scholarly and artistic movement that imagines the future through black people’s experiences is one answer. The term was coined in 1994 by culture critic Mark Dery in his "Black to the Future" essay.
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- The R-rated Oregon Trail
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- 10 years ago
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- The Oregon Trail was a great game — but there were some things they couldn't teach kids. This is the bloody, sexy, drunken trail. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more: https://www.facebook.com/philedwardsinc1/
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We all loved The Oregon Trail as kids — and the gameplay was pretty accurate. But there were a few things about pioneer life that weren't fit for that precious hour in the computer room.
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You can play the game here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990
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- How architecture changes for the Deaf
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- 10 years ago
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- We live in a world made for people who hear.
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Read the full feature on DeafSpace:
http://www.curbed.com/2016/3/2/11140210/gallaudet-deafspace-washington-dc
What would our cities looks like if they were designed for the deaf? DeafSpace is an emerging approach to design and architecture that is informed by the unique sensory experience of those who don't hear. We visited Gallaudet University to see what DeafSpace looks like in action.
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- Primary voters don't really look like America
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- 10 years ago
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- Who are these people?
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We live in a country with a two-party system. We only get two real choices (usually) when it's time to pick a president. This means the people who pick each party's nominee play a hugely important role.
So who are these people?
For starters, it's a small group. Just 20 percent of American adults vote in presidential primaries. They tend to be older, whiter, and better-educated than your average general election voter.
Primary voters also tend to be highly partisan, which helps explain why ideas at the fringes of each party (free college for all, a giant wall along the Mexican-US border) gain traction during the primaries.
Primaries in the US are also sequential; rather than everyone voting on the same day, some states have their primaries early in the year, some later (for more on why, check out our previous videos). Unless you live in a st...
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- How seapunk went from meme to mainstream
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- 10 years ago
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- An underground art movement makes a splash on SNL.
Seapunk is an underground art movement that officially began in 2011 via a twitter hashtag. It's inspired by the colors and sounds of the ocean and computer graphics of the late 1980s and 90s. Here's how it became mainstream.
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- How leap year works
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- 10 years ago
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- Because the solar system doesn't care about our calendar.
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This fact has been vexing humans for centuries: Earth's year (one orbit around the sun) isn't neatly divisible by its day (one rotation about its axis). One full orbit takes more than 365 days but less than 366.
That's not surprising — there's no reason for the two to be linked. The trouble comes when we try to overlay a useful calendar onto this random system. And as a result, our annual calendar is always slightly wrong.
Leap year is our jury-rigged solution to this problem. To nudge our calendar closer to accuracy, we simply stick an extra day at the end of February every four years. Without it, our calendar would slowly shift further and further from the true year.
But technically, we should only add 97 percent of a day. Sounds close enough but after a century, we've overcorrected the calendar by nearly a day, s...
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- It's not you. Bad doors are everywhere.
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- This video is about doors. Joe Posner investigates, with some help from 99% invisible, a wonderful podcast. Check them out here: http://www.99pi.org
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There's a door on the 10th floor in the Vox Media office I hate so much. You probably know one of these too. But it's not our fault.
And luckily, Roman Mars of 99% Invisible magically arrived in my cellphone to send me on a cross-country journey to find out the incredible surprises behind this common complaint:
Don Norman started complaining about doors over 25 years ago. Doors shouldn't need instructions – the shape of them can guide you through just fine. So why do so many doors need instruction manuals right on the side of them?
When most people complain about something, nothing happens. Don Norman is not most people – he's a psychologist and cognitive scientist. Don Norman thought about, and wrote about his ...
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- What exactly is a brokered convention?
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- 10 years ago
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- It's contentious, rare, and a throwback to a bygone political era.
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Political journalists and pundits are in a tizzy over the possibility of a brokered GOP convention this summer. Instead of the scripted snooze-fests we're used to, we could see the kind of backroom deals and delegate-swapping that once characterized party conventions.
But what, exactly, is a brokered convention?
A brokered convention happens when no single candidate has a majority (51 percent) of delegate...
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- The state of gun violence in the US, explained in 18 charts
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- 10 years ago
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- America doesn't have a gun problem, it has several of them.
These charts and maps break down the scope of the problem: http://bit.ly/2odFYVK
No other developed country in the world has anywhere near the same rate of gun violence as America. The US has nearly six times the gun homicide rate as Canada, more than seven times as Sweden, and nearly 16 times as Germany.
The debate over gun regulation in the US seems intractable, but there is one fact that both sides can agree on: Mass shootings are just the tip of a very complicated problem.
Read more:
• How gun control works in America, compared with 4 other rich countries http://bit.ly/2sFmSwv
• After Sandy Hook we said never again. And then we let more than 1,600 mass shootings happen. http://bit.ly/2GxwfjT
• Why mass shootings don't convince gun owners to support gun control http://bit.ly/2Gvxz6Q
• Watch: How gun control could help prevent s...
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- Donald Trump's rise is a scary moment in America
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- 10 years ago
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- We are so busy laughing at Trump that we’ve lost sight of how dangerous he is. Vox's editor-in-chief Ezra Klein explains. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
For more of Ezra Klein on Trump: http://www.vox.com/2016/2/10/10956978/donald-trump-terrifying
Matt Yglesias disagrees here: http://www.vox.com/2016/2/20/11067932/rubio-worse-than-trump
Trump is in serious contention to win the Republican presidential nomination. His triumph in a general election is unlikely, but it is far from impossible. He's not a joke and he's not a clown. He's a man who could soon be making decisions of war and peace, who would decide which regulations are enforced and which are lifted, who would be responsible for nominating Supreme Court justices and representing America in the community of nations. This is not political entertainment. This is politics.
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- Bernie Sanders' accent, explained
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- 10 years ago
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- Bernie Sanders' accent, explained
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Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump both speak with a New York City accent. And Queens College linguist Michael Newman thinks it might be good for their brand. Writing in the New York Times, he said:
"Americans have come to associate New Yorkers, and so New York accents, with saying what you mean, intense emotional talk and not worrying too much about whom you offend."
But the larger pattern outside this year's presidential race is that the New York City accent is stigmatized, and its most distinctive features are fading.
That's why Bernie Sanders provides such an interesting case study. He was born in 1941 and raised in a lower-middle-class household in a Jewish part of Brooklyn. Even though he's now spent more of his life in Vermont than in New York, his voice tells a story of his past and the past of the nation's greatest city.
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- Broad City's weird and wonderful world of jokes
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- 10 years ago
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- Broad City's best jokes reward die-hard fans.
Read more about the callbacks, running gags and easter eggs here: http://www.vox.com/2016/2/17/11028154/broad-city-jokes-gags
Video by Estelle Caswell and Caroline Framke
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- Why aren't all the primaries on the same day?
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- 10 years ago
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- Because Iowa and New Hampshire have taken American politics hostage, that's why.
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The presidential primaries effect us all. So why does it seem like it's decided by a few random people in the middle of nowhere?
Well, technically, it's not. Delegates are, for the most part, awarded based on population, and are selected by primary voters or caucus-goers in all 50 states.
But that's not the whole story. Timing matters, and it matters a ton. Voters in Iowa and New Hampshire, who have already voted, basically end up having votes that are five times as powerful than the rest of us.
The power of the media, and how people respond to earlier results, make a huge difference. A win in Iowa or New Hampshire can give candidates momentum in later states, and a loss can force others to drop out before most states even vote. Which means if you live in a state with a later primary, ...
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- Astronaut ice cream is a lie
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- 10 years ago
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- Astronaut ice cream — did it really fly? Vox's Phil Edwards investigates, with the help of the Smithsonian and an astronaut. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more: https://www.facebook.com/philedwardsinc1/
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For links to key documents, check out the article: http://www.vox.com/2016/2/15/10998344/astronaut-ice-cream
Astronaut ice cream, space ice cream, a freeze-dried mistake: whatever you call it, you've probably eaten astronaut ice cream as a kid. But did it really fly? And was it really eaten by astronauts?
The Apollo 7 mission is the only time NASA says the sweet stuff flew. So we asked Apollo 7 Lunar Module Pilot Walt Cunnningham if it was true. The answer might surprise you.
Space food in general has a fascinating and complicated history, even without the ice cream. Take a look at Neil Armstrong's fruitcake.
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- How the heart became ♥
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- 10 years ago
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- We use it to like Instagram photos and Tweets, but where did it come from?
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- How Iran's election could make history
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- 10 years ago
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- These elections will actually matter.
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Iran is about to hold a national election that could shape the country's future for a generation — potentially even more so than the presidential elections in 2009, when "green movement" protests signaled public outrage with the regime, and in 2013, when voters elevated the moderate Hassan Rouhani on a promise of economic and diplomatic opening.
On February 26, Iranians will vote for candidates for their parliament and for a body called the Assembly of Experts — which, though few outside Iran have heard of it, could be in a position to radically alter Iran's politics.
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- Pennies are useless. Here's who's fighting to keep them alive.
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- 10 years ago
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- Canada got rid of them, why can't the US?
Watch Matthew Ygelsias explain who's fighting to save to the penny.
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Video by Gina Barton, Matthew Yglesias, Matt Moore
Pennies may hold sentimental value to Americans, but they are basically useless. It is not uncommon for people to leave them in a loose-change container when receiving money after a transaction. Americans for Common Cents, a pro penny group in Washington DC, is fighting to keep the penny in circulation. They are backed by Jarden Zinc Products, a company that sells the zinc-based coin blanks to the US Mint.
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- Primary elections are surprisingly new. Here's where they came from.
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- 10 years ago
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- Primary voters used to be powerless. That all changed in 1968.
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Right now, presidential candidates are crisscrossing the country, begging primary voters for their support. But it's easy to forget that not too long ago, these voters had no say in whom their party nominated for president.
In the nation's early days, members of Congress picked their party's nominee. And for most of the 19th and 20th centuries, party bosses told delegates at the convention which candidate to support, and everybody else found out in the papers and on TV.
But everything changed after the Democratic National Convention in 1968. Watch our video to see why.
Check back next week to find out why we have the weird primary schedule that basically disenfranchises millions.
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- How the NFL's magic yellow line works
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- 10 years ago
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- The clever engineering behind the virtual yellow first-down line you seen on TV for NFL games.
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Since the late 1990s, the virtual yellow line has been quietly enhancing football broadcasts by giving viewers a live, intuitive guide to the state of play. The graphic is engineered to appear painted on the field, rather than simply plopped on top of the players, so it doesn't distract from the game at all.
The line debuted during a September 27, 1998, game between the Baltimore Ravens and the Cincinnati Bengals. It was developed by a company called Sportvision Inc. and operated by six people in a 48-foot semi-truck parked outside the stadium.
ESPN was the only network that immediately agreed to pay the steep price of $25,000 per game. Before long, other companies began offering the yellow line to the other networks, and now you won't see a football game without it.
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- How one man held his breath for 23 minutes
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- 10 years ago
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- Don't try this at home.
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In 2014, freediver Goran Čolak broke the Guinness World Record for static apnea and went without breathing for 23 minutes. On average, a human body at rest takes about 12 to 20 breaths a minute, but you probably never think about it. So how did Čolak master the art of oxygen deprivation?
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- Why Teddy Roosevelt killed 512 animals on safari
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- 10 years ago
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- Theodore Roosevelt had a massive kill list. Vox's Phil Edwards asks you to decide if he had a good reason. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more: https://www.facebook.com/philedwardsinc1/
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President Theodore Roosevelt loved the outdoors — and he loved to hunt. One of the most astonishing records of his post-Presidency is his massive kill list from a safari he and his son Kermit led. But there was a good contemporary reason for the carnage, if you take TR's point of view. That leaves it to you to take a side in the historical debate.
See the full list here: http://www.vox.com/2015/7/29/9067587/theodore-roosevelt-safari
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- The Zika virus, explained
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- 10 years ago
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- Why Zika was just declared a global health emergency.
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Learn more about Zika at Vox.com:
http://www.vox.com/2016/2/1/10871562/zika-health-emergency-who
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/20/10795562/zika-virus-cdc-mosquitoes-birth-defects
http://www.vox.com/2016/1/21/10805922/zika-virus-pregnancy
Three years ago, the Zika virus was nowhere to be found in the Western Hemisphere. To date, the largest outbreak occurred in French Polynesia in 2013 with 383 reported cases. But in 2015, Brazil suddenly found itself with an unprecedented Zika outbreak. More than a million people have been infected by the mosquito-transmitted—and potentially sexually transmitted disease.
The mosquito-borne virus doesn't seem to harm most of its victims. But there's increasing evidence that it can cause serious damage to the brains of fetuses and, in rare instances, devastating neurological pro...
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- Better sleep: a 2-minute guide
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- 10 years ago
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- Try quality instead of quantity
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Insufficient sleep is a public health problem. But while we hear plenty about how we should be getting more sleep, it turns out that quality of sleep could sometimes have greater benefits than the quantity. It might be worth trying to sleep better.
Here are three simple tips to get you started:
Step 1: Cool down your room
Step 2: Understand the power of light
Step 3: Get comfortable with herbs
Go ahead and give these tips a try — and see how things change for you during the day.
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- Save the salamanders, unsung heroes of the forest
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- 10 years ago
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- Foreign salamanders could infect American salamanders with a flesh eating fungus and destroy them.
Brian Resnick explains the worldwide crisis: http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2015/12/10/9881764/save-the-salamanders-bsal-fungus
Video by Estelle Caswell, Joss Fong, Brian Resnick
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- Hip-Hop is political again. Here's why.
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- 10 years ago
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- If you compare today's hip hop to 1995, you might notice some similarities.
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- Why Yankee Doodle called it "macaroni"
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- 10 years ago
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- What's the deal with Yankee Doodle Dandy and macaroni? Vox's Phil Edwards explains.
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More background here: http://www.vox.com/2015/9/13/9312147/macaronis-yankee-doodle
We've all heard the Yankee Doodle Dandy lyrics and wondered what they meant. But the Yankee Doodle song turns out to have a surprisingly logical explanation.
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- How the Iowa caucus works
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- 10 years ago
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- Each US primary election season kicks off in Iowa. Learn the process behind one of the pivotal events of the general election. More information available at http://www.vox.com/2016/1/25/10817088/iowa-caucus-2016-poll-trump-sanders
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- Why your laptop charger is so hot
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- 10 years ago
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- Turns out, Nikola Tesla is partly to blame. Liz Scheltens explains, with a little help from NPR's Planet Money. Subscribe to their awesome podcast here: http://n.pr/1RZaOeT
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- Flint's water crisis, explained in 3 minutes
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- 10 years ago
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- Flint, Michigan, tried to save money on water. Now its children have lead poisoning. Joe Posner explains. For much more on Flint's water crisis: http://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2016/1/20/10799294/flint-michigan-water-crisis-lead-contaminated
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- The Israel-Palestine conflict: a brief, simple history
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- 10 years ago
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- The conflict is really only 100 years old.
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One of the biggest myths about the Israel-Palestine conflict is that it's been going on for centuries, that this is all about ancient religious hatreds.
In fact, while religion is involved, the conflict is mostly about two groups of people who claim the same land. And it really only goes back about a century, to the early 1900s. At its heart, it is a conflict between two self-determination movements — the Jewish Zionist project and the Palestinian nationalist project — that lay claim to the same territory.
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Your basic questions about Israel and Palestine answered:
– What are Israel and Palestine? Why are they fighting? http://bit.ly/2NKJPcd
– What is Zionism? http://bit.ly/2G549P6
– How did Israel become a country in the f...
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- The video the Illuminati doesn’t want you to see
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- 10 years ago
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- Find more background here: http://www.vox.com/2015/5/19/8624675/what-is-the-real-illuminati
Vox's Phil Edwards investigates the real Δ.
The Illuminati is fascinating, but is it real? This is the history of the real group, including everything from the Freemasons to Dan Brown. If you've heard about the group, you've probably wondered: what is the real illuminati? Conspiracy theories like "illuminati confirmed" have confused the issue, so here are the illuminati facts about the history of the group.
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- The racist history of US immigration policy
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Banning an entire racial or ethnic group from entering the US isn't new, and the data shows it.
Vox's Alvin Chang explains. For his full interactive map of the data: http://www.vox.com/2016/1/4/10709366/immigration-america-200-years
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It is immigrants, and their descendants, who largely make up today's US population. European immigrants were the first and largest group to arrive, and there were subsequent policies that made it much easier for people from those countries to come to the US. That said, a decent numbers of Canadian and Chinese immigrants also arrived early in this country's history, and over the years, different policies allowed greater numbers of Hispanics and Asians to immigrate.
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- Obama's 2016 State of the Union, in four minutes
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- President Obama's final State of the Union address to the nation was about an hour long. We cut it down for you.
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- David Bowie, remembered in 9 songs that sampled him
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Rest in peace, David Bowie
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The incredible legacy that David Bowie left behind after he died late Sunday night is so large, it's hard to document in a single way. His gender-fluid performances, a space-cover of "Space Oddity," his role in the fall of the Berlin wall, we've written a lot about Bowie at Vox:http://www.vox.com/2016/1/11/10749394/david-bowie-dead-songs-legacy
If you're newer to his music, here are 13 songs that defined him: http://www.vox.com/2016/1/11/10749308/david-bowie-songs/in/10513435
But one thing that will always travel forward now that David Bowie is gone, is his music. Countless celebrities poured on about his influence yesterday, but we also can track those who directly documented his influence in quotations or sampled his music.
Of course, the video above is nowhere near a complete documentation. For even more, you can check out the incredible resourc...
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- The school-to-prison pipeline, explained
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The school-to-prison pipeline starts in preschool.
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Video by: Dara Lind, Liz Scheltens, Gina Barton
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http://www.vox.com/2015/2/24/8101289/school-discipline-race
http://www.vox.com/2015/7/30/9075065/school-to-prison-pipeline-study
Thousands of law enforcement officers are stationed in American schools — and they're a key part of the "school-to-prison pipeline," which places students into the criminal justice system for matters of school discipline.
It started in the 90s, when schools began responding to rising crime rates with zero-tolerance policies. There were originally put in place to stop weapons and drugs from entering schools and to prevent tragedies like Columbine—these policies extended beyond to include smalle...
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- The world has never eradicated a parasite. But Jimmy Carter is about to.
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Warning: Some images contained in this video are graphic.
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- Want a happier marriage? Share the housework equally.
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Women working was once a threat to marital stability, however, things appear to be changing.
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- How Chipotle made hundreds of people barf
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Chipotle's food safety crisis, explained.
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After hearing a trickle of reports about food poisoning over recent months, millions of lunch-seeking Americans are probably wondering: Is it safe to eat at Chipotle?
The bad news is that public health investigators haven't identified the source of the E. coli that sickened almost 60 Chipotle customers in 11 states. By the time they started testing the restaurants and the employees, they couldn't find a trace of the bacteria.
But that may be a blessing in disguise because without a specific ingredient or supplier to blame, Chipotle has to inspect everything.
Spurred by repeated cases of food poisoning in the past six months — not just from E. coli, but also norovirus (caused by sick workers) and Salmonella (caused by contaminated tomatoes) —Chipotle announced an ambitious food-safety plan that, if implemented, could make Ch...
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- The Oregon standoff, explained in 3 minutes
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- There's a reason the FBI hasn't gone in guns blazing. Joe Posner explains. For much more on the Oregon standoff at Vox.com: http://www.vox.com/2016/1/3/10703712/oregon-militia-standoff/in/10475659 For more on the Waco & Ruby Ridge sieges: http://www.vox.com/2016/1/5/10714746/waco-ruby-ridge-oregon/in/10475659
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- The poison-eating heroes who helped make food safe
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- These brave souls sat down to dinner, ate something weird, and saved lives in the process.
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- Why Mormons identify with Syrian refugees
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- They were religious exiles once too
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When Republican governors call for a ban on Syrian refugees, or Donald Trump calls for a ban on all Muslims, Mormons tend to identify with this religious discrimination, a sentiment echoed by Gov. Herbert in a recent Facebook post:
"I am the governor of a state that was settled by religious exiles who withstood persecution after persecution, including an extermination order from another state's governor. In Utah, the First Amendment still matters. That will not change so long as I remain governor."
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- How Momofuku Ando invented instant ramen
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Before World War 2, ramen wasn't instant. But one tinkerer fixed that...
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- Title
- What makes a truly great logo
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Here's how a simple mark ends up meaning something big as a great logo. Joe Posner, and Michael Bierut (designer of the Hillary Clinton logo) explain. For more from Michael Bierut on graphic design, check out his book "How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, cry, and (every once in a while) change the world": http://www.amazon.com/How-Michael-Bierut/dp/0062413902
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About once a month, there's a new logo to fight about on the internet. The biggest one in recent memory was the highly controversial Hillary Clinton logo, which did not escape scrutiny from Vox.com either.
But as a designer/filmmaker, something about these repeated discussions struck me as missing the point on what makes logos tick. It often has little to do with the subjective musings. So I called up Michael Bierut, the designer of that Hillary Clinton logo and countless others....
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- Why alcohol doesn't come with nutrition facts
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Ever wonder why almost everything you buy has a nutrition label, but alcoholic beverages don't? It's all thanks to some crazy regulations and powerful industry lobbyists.
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- SantaCon's surprising roots in Danish performance art
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- SantaCon began as anti-consumerist art — so how did we get to the beer crawl of today?
More background here: http://www.vox.com/2015/12/22/10640590/santacon
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- 2015 in 4 minutes
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Protests in Baltimore, a migrant crisis in Europe, the first Triple Crown winner in three decades, and stunning shots of Pluto. 2015 was a year to remember.
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- Fear and loathing at a Trump rally
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Islamophobia in America goes much deeper than Donald Trump.
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Video by Joe Posner, with many thanks to Max Fisher, Dara Lind, Ezra Klein and Joss Fong.
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- The rise of ISIS, explained in 6 minutes
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Its history goes back way before the group ever existed.
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In the few short years since the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria formed, it has done the seemingly impossible, seizing vast areas of the Middle East to form a mini-state it calls a reincarnation of the ancient Caliphate. It is at war with all its neighbors and virtually the entire world, yet someone remains, and is launching increasingly deadly terror attacks abroad.
To understand how this terrible group came about and how it has grown so powerful, you need to understand the story behind its rise. And that is a story that goes back decades, to long before ISIS existed.
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