VOX
How the US outsourced border security to Mexico
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- How the US outsourced border security to Mexico
- Runtime
- 14:47
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Mexico is doing America's immigration dirty work.
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For the first time ever in 2014, the U.S. recorded more undocumented migrants from Central America than from Mexico. In particular, 52,000 unaccompanied children were detained between October 2013 and June...
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- How job surveillance is changing trucking in America
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- 9:36
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Automation is coming for truckers – but first, they're being watched.
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The promise of self-driving trucks will radically reshape one of America's most common jobs. There are 3.5 million professional drivers in the US, all of whom may face job displacement in the autonomous future being developed by companies like Otto, Daimler, and Tesla. But before robots take the wheel entirely, there will be a long period where truckers and artificial technology split the responsibilities of the work. The first big step toward that future comes in the form of the electronic logging device, a dashboard monitor that tracks speed, location, and a driver's schedule, and reports it to an employer or a third-party monitoring service. It has a lot of truckers worried.
Read Karen Levy's work here:
https://goo.gl/XHYuvv
https://goo.gl/BVJWmY
Read the FMCSA's report on ELD safety:
https://g...
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- The military coup in Zimbabwe, explained
- Runtime
- 4:33
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Why the Zimbabwe coup is not a revolution.
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On November 14th 2017, Zimbabwe military troops drove tanks into the capital city, Harare. They patrolled the streets, blocked access to government buildings, and took over the state television station to insist….
This is not a military takeover of government.
Once praised as a war hero, Robert Mugabe helped Zimbabwe win independence from Great Britain in 1980. He became president under Zimbabwe’s new constitution with the support of the people.
But soon, he digressed into a repressive dictator.
He secured his power through aggression and threats, there have been reports of state-sponsored torture and killings.
And even though Zimbabwe is technically a democracy, there’s evidence Mugabe rigged elections in his favor.
Now that Mugabe is 93 years old, and reportedly in poor health, the fight f...
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- The environmental cost of free two-day shipping
- Runtime
- 5:37
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What’s the environmental impact of online shopping and what are the solutions to make it more sustainable?
Climate Lab is produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox. Hosted by conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan, the videos explore the surprising elements of our lives that contribute to climate change and the groundbreaking work being done to fight back. Featuring conversations with experts, scientists, thought leaders and activists, the series demystifies topics like nuclear power, food waste and online shopping to make them more approachable and actionable for those who want to do their part. Sanjayan is an alum of UC Santa Cruz, a Visiting Researcher at UCLA and the CEO of Conservation International.
Prior episodes at https://goo.gl/phMcK8 or visit http://climate.universityofcalifornia.edu for more
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- Title
- Walking while black
- Runtime
- 7:59
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Jacksonville’s enforcement of pedestrian violations raises concerns about another example of racial profiling: http://propub.li/2hCCBaE
After watching a viral video of a Jacksonville cop stopping a young black man for jaywalking, reporters Ben Conarck and Topher Sanders examine how “walking while black” can come at a high price. In this second piece of the Vox + ProPublica collaboration, they dig into how police citations for pedestrian violations often fall along the lines of race and poverty, and introduce us to some of the people fighting these tickets.
Check out the full ProPublica/Florida Times-Union piece at http://propub.li/2hCCBaE for their in-depth reporting, and stay tuned for more stories in this collaboration! If you'd like to sign up to receive more ProPublica journalism, go here: http://propub.li/2hwf4V9
And watch Devonte Shipman’s full video here: https://www.facebook.com/devonte.shipman/videos/1599286606749155/
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- The all-American fruit you've probably never heard of
- Runtime
- 6:27
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The founding fathers loved the pawpaw fruit, so how come almost nobody today has heard of them?
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Special thanks to Mike Tschappat for permission to use his photograph in the video.
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- How beauty brands failed women of color
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- 9:11
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- But the industry is changing – and Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty isn’t the only brand laying the foundation for a more inclusive beauty industry.
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Rihanna’s new makeup line Fenty Beauty has been an instant success — and it’s not only popular because Rihanna’s name is attached to it. Fenty Beauty carries a wide range of foundations — 40 to be exact — which has the beauty industry shook. Cosmetics and the beauty industry as a whole, has a long history of creating products that did not match deeper-toned people of color. There are a number of factors that have lead many mainstream beauty companies to having a narrow selection for people of color — and not all of those reasons are rooted in product development. With Fenty Beauty, Rihanna is showing the industry that it’s worth investing money and time into creating nuanced products beyond the ranges of ivory, beige, and tan.
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- The big debate about the future of work, explained
- Runtime
- 9:03
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Why economists and futurists disagree about the future of the labor market.
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Sources:
https://economics.mit.edu/files/11563
https://www.aeaweb.org/full_issue.php?doi=10.1257/jep.29.3#page=33
http://voxeu.org/article/how-computer-automation-affects-occupations
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/sites/default/files/future-work-lit-review-20150428.pdf
https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/documents/Artificial-Intelligence-Automation-Economy.PDF
https://www.vox.com/2015/7/27/9038829/automation-myth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00PWX7RPG/ref=dp-kindle-redirect
https://www.amazon.com/Second-Machine-Age-Prosperity-Technologies-ebook/dp/B00D97HPQI/ref=sr_1_1
https://www.amazon.com/New-Division-Labor-Computers-Creating/dp/0691124027/ref=sr_1_1?
https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/downloads/academic/The_Future_of_Employment.pdf
- Title
- The world is poorly designed. But copying nature helps.
- Runtime
- 6:50
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Biomimicry design, explained with 99% Invisible. Check them out here: https://99percentinvisible.org/
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Japan’s Shinkansen doesn’t look like your typical train. With its long and pointed nose, it can reach top speeds up to 150–200 miles per hour.
It didn’t always look like this. Earlier models were rounder and louder, often suffering from the phenomenon of "tunnel boom," where deafening compressed air would rush out of a tunnel after a train rushed in. But a moment of inspiration from engineer and birdwatcher Eiji Nakatsu led the system to be redesigned based on the aerodynamics of three species of birds.
Nakatsu’s case is a fascinating example of biomimicry, the design movement pioneered by biologist and writer Janine Benyus. She's a co-founder of the Biomimicry Institute, a non-profit encouraging creators to discover how big challenges in design, engineering, and sustain...
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- Harassment is breaking Twitter's free speech experiment
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- 7:46
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Twitter started off as a radical free speech experiment, but widespread harassment is forcing the social media giant to rethink what kind of platform it wants to be.
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- Title
- How to break the two-party hold on American politics
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- 3:18
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Replacing our current system with proportional representation will make more room for the wide range of views in US politics.
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- Title
- Catalonia’s independence movement, explained
- Runtime
- 5:44
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This referendum was not the region's first.
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On October 1st Catalonia held a controversial referendum on independence. Before the vote took place, the Spanish Constitutional Courts ruled the vote illegal and sent the national guard to stop it from happening. Despite government opposition, the vote was held and clashes between voters and police ensued.
Ninety percent of the participants voted in favor of independence, but public surveys say that current support for independence in Catalonia is only 41 percent.
Despite the contested referendum results, Catalonia has declared independence unilaterally. In response, Spain is moving to dissolve the Catalan regional government, remove its leaders from office and hold regional elections.
You can read a full explainer on the situation via Sarah Wildman at our website: https://www.vox.com/world/2017/10/2/16393956/catalonia-catalan-in...
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- The latest revelation that ties the Trump campaign to Russia
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- 4:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- It sure looks like collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
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US intelligence agencies have confirmed that emails from the Democratic National Committee and from Clinton campaign chair John Podesta were stolen by Russian hackers.
And now in the latest string of indictments and guilty pleas announced by the Justice Department, the evidence suggests at least one Trump adviser knew of the theft in advance, and lied about it.
The revelations come from George Papadopoulos, a foreign policy advisor to the Trump campaign, who met with Russian sources who told him of Clinton's stolen emails, several months before they were released. His guilty pl...
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- Inside North Korea's bubble in Japan
- Runtime
- 13:28
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Why North Korea has children’s schools in Japan
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4. Mexico & Guatemala (https://youtu.be/1xbt0ACMbiA)
5. Nepal & The Himalaya (https://youtu.be/ECch2g1_6PQ)
6. Spain & Morocco (https://youtu.be/LY_Yiu2U2Ts)
For this episode I found myself embeded with a small community in Japan. They were born there, they speak the language. But they're not Japanese citizens, or even ethnically Japanes...
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- The dollhouses of death that changed forensic science
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- 8:16
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Frances Glessner Lee created dollhouses with dead dolls. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Vox's Phil Edwards explains why.
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Frances Glessner Lee's "Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death" are part of a new exhibit at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian Art museum. The collection is part art, part science, and part creepy peek into the world of forensic science.
These miniatures significantly advanced forensics and forensic science, but they aren't just CSI curios - they're complex, confounding works of art that manage to be morbid and beautiful at the same time.
Lee's legacy bridges ...
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- Why this awful sounding album is a masterpiece
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- 10:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Brace yourselves, this video is about Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band.
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Trout Mask Replica, by Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band was inducted into the Library of Congress' national recording registry in 2010 - nearly 40 years after it's release. The album has been widely cited by artists of all kinds as a shining point of creativity and original thought - it also is very very hard to listen to. It's the musical equivalent of a Jackson Pollock painting. Its discordant rhythms and motifs sound made up on the spot by a child, but every sound and riff you hear on the album was arduously rehearsed over the course of a year by a group of young musicians who were remarkable in their own right.
Samuel Andreyev and Susan Rogers join me on Episode #6 of Vox Pop's Earworm to breakdown why this album is such a masterpiece.
Samuel Andreyev's Frownland analysis: https://w...
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- The opioid crisis is making grandparents become parents again
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- 8:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Grandparents are struggling to raise grandchildren on their own.
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Sources:
http://datacenter.kidscount.org/
https://aspe.hhs.gov/report/children-temporary-assistance-needy-families-tanf-child-only-cases-relative-caregivers
http://grandfamilies.org/Portals/0/16-Children-Thrive-in-Grandfamilies.pdf
http://www.gu.org/OURWORK/Grandfamilies/TheStateofGrandfamiliesinAmerica/TheStateofGrandfamiliesinAmerica2016.aspx
http://rocklandgov.com/departments/social-services/
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The opioid crisis is driving up the population of "kinship caregivers" in record numbers. As overdose totals rise, grandparents and other relative caregivers are stepping in to raise the children of addicted parents. Unlike foster care, "kinship care" has unique requirements that are often not recognized in a child welfare system that was designed to support non-relative foster parents. As grandparents struggle to raise children...
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- 9 facts about violence against women everyone should know
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- 2:17
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Violence against women is still all too common. Here are some of the staggering statistics.
*This is an update to a previously published video from 2014.
Data sources:
https://www.rainn.org/statistics/campus-sexual-violence
https://www.nsvrc.org/sites/default/files/publications_nsvrc_factsheet_media-packet_statistics-about-sexual-violence_0.pdf
https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bjs.gov%2Fcontent%2Fpub%2Fpdf%2Ffvsv9410.pdf
https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/183781.pdf
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- Title
- How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history
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- 6:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The United Daughters of the Confederacy altered the South's memory of the Civil War.
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The United Daughters of the Confederacy was a significant leader of the “Lost Cause,” an intellectual movement that revised history to look more favorably on the South after the American Civil War. They were women from elite antebellum families that used their social and political clout to fundraise and pressure local governments to erect monuments that memorialized Confederate heroes. They also formed textbook review committees that monitored what Southern schoolchildren learned about the war. Their influential work with children created a lasting memory of the Confederate cause, and those generations grew up to be the segregationists of the Jim Crow Era in the South.
Note: At 5:05, a previous version of the video mistakenly covered Kentucky as a former Confederate state on the map. The error has been corrected.<...
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- It's time to draw borders on the Arctic Ocean
- Runtime
- 12:50
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Why Russia wants to own the North Pole.
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2. The Arctic & Russia (https://youtu.be/Wx_2SVm9Jgo)
3. Japan & North Korea (https://youtu.be/qBfyIQbxXPs)
4. Mexico & Guatemala (https://youtu.be/1xbt0ACMbiA)
5. Nepal & The Himalaya (https://youtu.be/ECch2g1_6PQ)
6. Spain & Morocco (https://youtu.be/LY_Yiu2U2Ts)
The ice in the Arctic is disappearing. Melting Arctic ice means new economic opportunities: trade routes in the Arctic ocean, and access to natural resources. Because of this, the Arctic nations are now moving to expand their border claims. Russia has shown that it’s the most ambitious, using a potent combination of soft power and military buildup to advance its agenda. They’ve sai...
- Title
- What the names for bodies of water mean
- Runtime
- 5:15
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What do all those bodies of water really mean?
In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards travels through the map to define bodies of water.
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Bodies of water seem simple: but there are a lot of different terms for bodies of water. From well-known terms like ocean, lake, river, and tributary, to more obscure ones like tarn, kettle lake, and firth, these bodies of water shape our world. So put on your geography life jacket and go for a swim in the fantastic world of water.
You'll learn about gulfs, arroyos, fjords, oceans, bays, coves, and man other definitions for bodies of water. We can help you understand them — but you have to explore them.
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- Title
- YouTube's messy fight with its most extreme creators
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- 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...
- Title
- Vox Borders: Life at the edge of nations
- Runtime
- 1:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
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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.
Spotify playlist: https://open.spotify.com/user/estellecaswell/playlist/6HrwEf5pmD51Paqc829vp6
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
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- 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...
- Title
- 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...
- Title
- Why we still need courtroom sketch artists
- Runtime
- 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.
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- 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
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- 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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- Title
- 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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- Title
- The ancient city designed to track time
- Runtime
- 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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- Title
- 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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- Title
- 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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Many thanks to Tim Brown and TED for this interview we recorded at TED 2017.
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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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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