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The pneumatic tube's strange 150-year journey
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- The pneumatic tube's strange 150-year journey
- Runtime
- 3:42
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Tubes have carried cats, mail, and people for a really long time. Vox's Phil Edwards leads the tour...
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Thanks to Ben FrantzDale, Swisslog, and Renown Health for letting us use their pneumatic tube footage.
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More than a century and a half before Elon Musk thought up the Hyperloop, his mash-up of pneumatic and maglev ideas (and a bunch of other moving parts), people were using pneumatic tubes to move people. Though we're familiar with pneumatic tubes from banks, they've been around much longer and used for a lot more.
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- Our sterile homes might be giving us seasonal allergies
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- 2:51
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Seasonal allergies are the worst.
Video by Gina Barton and Liz Scheltens
Millions of Americans suffer from seasonal allergies. There isn’t a clear-cut answer as to why some people have them while others don’t but scientists do have one particular theory. The hygiene hypothesis is the idea that excessively sterile environments are contributing to the development of allergies, asthma, and other autoimmune illnesses. Kids in wealthy countries lack exposure to allergens and other germs that aid in developing a healthy and functioning immune system. While the hygiene hypothesis isn’t the definitive answer to seasonal allergies, it is a starting point.
Read more on seasonal allergies and the hygiene hypothesis:
http://www.vox.com/2014/4/16/5616568/how-seasonal-allergies-work-and-why-you-get-them
http://www.vox.com/2014/6/25/5837892/is-being-too-clean-making-us-sick
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- Title
- The Panama Papers, explained with piggy banks
- Runtime
- 2:07
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- A massive document leak reveals the secrets of shell companies. Matt Yglesias explains, adapting an analogy from reddit user DanGliesack: https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikei...
For much more on the Panama Papers, check out the full explanation at Vox.com: http://www.vox.com/2016/4/3/11356326/...
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- Title
- How much do conservatives dislike Trump? We put them to the test.
- Runtime
- 5:47
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- To win, Trump needs to do the one thing he’s least likely to do.
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- Title
- Justin Trudeau on feminism, fatherhood, and Ryan Gosling memes
- Runtime
- 6:18
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- More from Liz Plank's interview with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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- Title
- When the BBC won April Fools' Day in 1957
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- 2:11
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- How all those dorky April Fools' Day news jokes started: Spaghetti on trees.
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The modern April Fools' Day ritual has already begun — you have to figure out which stories are legitimate and which ones are pranks.
As the above video shows, it wasn't always this way. The media used to be the victim of pranks, not the perpetrator. But thanks to a watershed prank by the BBC (and a few merry pranksters before that), April Fools' Day has begun a universally loved (or loathed) part of our daily reading.
If you want to learn more about the holiday, you can read Michelle Hackman's earnest explainer: http://www.vox.com/2016/4/1/11340608/...
Or nerd out over hoaxes past at www.hoaxes.org.
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- Comedian Lauren Lapkus’s oddball characters, in 3 minutes
- Runtime
- 3:59
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Comedy Bang Bang star and host of the podcast "With Special Guest Lauren Lapkus" explains all of her delightful characters.
Here's are some of her characters in action:
Sunny: http://www.earwolf.com/episode/good-night-in-the-morning/
Big Sue: http://www.earwolf.com/episode/the-beatles-of-cults/
Regina Crimp: http://www.earwolf.com/episode/ruths-ross-dress-for-loss/
Allison Gondry:http://www.earwolf.com/episode/me-2-im-talkin-u2-to-u-too/
Pamela from Big Bear: http://www.earwolf.com/episode/the-tom-leykis-radio-program/
Ho Ho the Naughty Elf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmT-spTd_co
Traci Reardon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaGVO_hsEE8
Special thanks to Julien Lasseur for shooting the interview.
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- Title
- The burden of war falls on fewer Americans than ever before
- Runtime
- 2:33
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Today, less than 1% of Americans serve.
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- Title
- We’ve hit peak lens flare. Here’s how it started.
- Runtime
- 4:25
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- We've reached peak lens flare. Vox's Phil Edwards explains how it happened.
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Lens flare: it's familiar from the very shiny work of J.J. Abrams, but it goes far beyond his flare-strewn canon. Lens flare has a long history and a lot of different meanings.
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- Title
- Justin Trudeau is pretty sure you won't move to Canada
- Runtime
- 10:30
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- 28% of Americans would consider moving to Canada if Trump is elected. For the premiere of our new series 2016ish, Liz Plank brought some of your pleas for Canadian assistance to the Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau.
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For more of Trudeau on being a feminist head of state, fatherhood, and Ryan Gosling memes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9o6cruoP7Y
More on the Vox.com / Morning Consult poll on moving to Canada: http://www.vox.com/2016/3/15/11233676/move-canada-poll
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- Title
- How "the robot" became the greatest novelty dance of all time
- Runtime
- 3:27
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- "The robot", for a mechanical dance, is surprisingly flexible.
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Many thanks to the YouTubers for sharing their dancing footage. Check out their channels here:
Adrian Brambila // https://www.youtube.com/brambilabong
Marquese Scott // https://www.youtube.com/user/WHZGUD2
Chadd Smith // https://www.youtube.com/user/maddchadd
Robot RyRy // https://www.youtube.com/user/BgirlRyRy
Video by Gina Barton and Phil Edwards
“The robot” is one of the world’s most recognizable novelty dances. Its distinctive popping and locking motions are simple enough concepts in themselves but the origins of the robot are little less straightforward. The word robot was first used in the 1921 play Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (Rossum’s Universal Robots). There was a time th...
- Title
- Why ISIS attacked Brussels
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- The Brussels attack is Europe's new reality
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Vox's Max Fisher explains how the attacks in Brussels represent a shifting strategy for ISIS and a terrifying reality for Europe.
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http://www.vox.com/2016/3/22/11284558/brussels-attack-europe-isis-terrorism
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- Title
- Why over-the-counter birth control is so necessary
- Runtime
- 2:31
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Birth control is as safe as ibuprofen. It shouldn't need a prescription.
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- Title
- 28 times TV winked at its favorite films
- Runtime
- 3:38
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- A visual guide to TV's favorite films, side by side.
Daredevil, The Simpsons, and Breaking Bad are just a few shows that love the movies: http://www.vox.com/2016/3/18/11262244...
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- Title
- Proof of evolution that you can find on your body
- Runtime
- 3:55
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- You have your mom's smile, your dad's eyes, and the ear muscles of a Triassic mammal.
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Vestigial structures are evolution's leftovers — body parts that, through inheritance, have outlived the context in which they arose. Some of the most delightful reminders of the common ancestry we share with other animals, they show that the building blocks of the human body predate our species by hundreds of millions of years.
Forty-two percent of Americans say that humans were created in their present form within the past 10,000 years — a percentage that hasn't changed much since 1982, when Gallup started polling views on evolution.
Several lines of evidence, from the fossil record, comparative anatomy, and genetics, tell another story. But you don't have to read all the research to find signs of our evolutionary history — you can see it in the vest...
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- Donald Trump’s message is violent to its core
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- 5:23
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Violence is scary. But violence as a political ideology is terrifying.
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More from Ezra Klein on Trump's ideas:
http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2016/3/12/11211898/donald-trumps-ideology-of-violence
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- Title
- The kiss cam, behind the scenes
- Runtime
- 5:03
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- We've seen kiss cams — but how do they work? Here's a peek behind the scenes.
It's easy to be captivated by the occasional kiss cam fail or kiss cam prank. But behind the humor of kiss cam compilations is the hard work of the people who make it happen. Ever wonder if the kiss cam challenge is real, or fake? This is how it happens.
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- Title
- Stop taking antibiotics to treat your cold
- Runtime
- 1:59
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- A virus and a bacterial infection are not the same thing.
Learn more from Vox's Julia Belluz:
http://www.vox.com/2015/11/16/9743580/antibiotics-colds-bad
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- Title
- Why the Wingdings font exists
- Runtime
- 3:02
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Wingdings is the font made entirely out of symbols. But why?
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As a means of writing sentences, Wingdings fails — but that was never its purpose. It was created to be used as a unique tool for the pre-internet era. It was akin to emojis, but with even more utility.
Read more on the Wingdings font: http://www.vox.com/2015/8/25/9200801/wingdings-font-history
Video by Phil Edwards and Sarah Turbin.
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- Title
- Why people never smiled in old photos
- Runtime
- 3:20
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Early portraits looked pretty grim.
A lot of old photos from the 19th and early 20th century are fraught with doom and gloom—and on the occasion the literal dead face. That led to the popular belief that people just did not smile in old photographs. The common explanation is due to the limited technology at the time to capture a smile. Exposure times were long and the thinking was it's easier to hold a serious expression over a long period. Another theory included early photography being heavily influenced by painting (which meant no smiling).
Read more on why photographs were sans smiles at: http://www.vox.com/2015/4/8/8365997/smile-old-photographs
Video by Phil Edwards and Gina Barton.
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- Title
- Painkillers now kill more Americans than any illegal drug
- Runtime
- 4:02
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- How opioid painkillers became an epidemic
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It's a terrifying fact: More than 47,000 people in America died of drug overdoses in what's been widely called an epidemic.
But the biggest killer of this epidemic isn't cocaine, meth, or even heroin — it's totally legal opioid painkillers
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- Title
- Why voting in 2016 could be nearly impossible for some Americans
- Runtime
- 2:47
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- This year’s primaries are a testing ground for voter ID laws.
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- Title
- Bosses steal billions from workers. Here's how one woman fought back.
- Runtime
- 6:37
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- 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.
- Runtime
- 3:11
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- The R-rated Oregon Trail
- Runtime
- 4:29
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- 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/
For more about the sources, read the full article: http://www.vox.com/2016/3/3/11152436/r-rated-oregon-trail
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.
Some images in this video come from Shutterstock: http://shutterstock.com
You can play the game here: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Oregon_Trail_The_1990
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- Title
- How architecture changes for the Deaf
- Runtime
- 4:48
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- Primary voters don't really look like America
- Runtime
- 2:53
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- How seapunk went from meme to mainstream
- Runtime
- 4:32
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- How leap year works
- Runtime
- 1:55
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- It's not you. Bad doors are everywhere.
- Runtime
- 5:32
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- 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 ...
- Title
- What exactly is a brokered convention?
- Runtime
- 2:32
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- The state of gun violence in the US, explained in 18 charts
- Runtime
- 7:10
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- Donald Trump's rise is a scary moment in America
- Runtime
- 4:51
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- 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.
Vox.com is a news website that helps you cut through the noise and understand what's re...
- Title
- Bernie Sanders' accent, explained
- Runtime
- 4:40
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- 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.
Vo...
- Title
- Broad City's weird and wonderful world of jokes
- Runtime
- 7:34
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- Why aren't all the primaries on the same day?
- Runtime
- 2:57
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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, ...
- Title
- Astronaut ice cream is a lie
- Runtime
- 4:51
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- How the heart became ♥
- Runtime
- 1:30
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- We use it to like Instagram photos and Tweets, but where did it come from?
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- Title
- How Iran's election could make history
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- Pennies are useless. Here's who's fighting to keep them alive.
- Runtime
- 1:20
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- Primary elections are surprisingly new. Here's where they came from.
- Runtime
- 3:51
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- How the NFL's magic yellow line works
- Runtime
- 4:36
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- How one man held his breath for 23 minutes
- Runtime
- 2:35
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- Why Teddy Roosevelt killed 512 animals on safari
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- The Zika virus, explained
- Runtime
- 2:34
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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...
- Title
- Better sleep: a 2-minute guide
- Runtime
- 1:56
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- Save the salamanders, unsung heroes of the forest
- Runtime
- 3:12
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- Hip-Hop is political again. Here's why.
- Runtime
- 3:25
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- If you compare today's hip hop to 1995, you might notice some similarities.
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- Title
- Why Yankee Doodle called it "macaroni"
- Runtime
- 2:25
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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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- Title
- How the Iowa caucus works
- Runtime
- 2:04
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- 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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