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What Hillary Clinton really thinks
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- What Hillary Clinton really thinks
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- 51:45
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Hillary Clinton’s theory of politics is unfashionable, but she doesn’t care.
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On page 239 of What Happened, Hillary Clinton reveals that she almost ran a very different campaign in 2016. Before announcing for president, she read Peter Barnes’s book With Liberty and Dividends for All, and became fascinated by the idea of using revenue from shared natural resources, like fossil fuel extraction and public airwaves, alongside revenue from taxing public harms, like carbon emissions and risky financial practices, to give every American “a modest basic income.”
Her ambitions for this idea were expansive, touching on not just the country’s economic ills but its political and spiritual ones. “Besides cash in people’s pockets,” she writes, “it would be also be a way of making every American feel more connected to our country and to each other.”
This is the kind of transformative vision tha...
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- How 9/11 changed Disney's Lilo & Stitch
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- 1:33
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- 9/11 was a turning point in every facet of American society — including cinema.
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In September of 2001, Disney was approaching final cut on Lilo & Stitch — a children's film set for release in early 2002. The climax of the film initially featured Stitch piloting a 747 through a fictional Hawaiian city. But that urban backdrop was replaced with a mountainous backdrop, and the aircraft was re-worked to look like an alien spacecraft.
The changes were informed by the shift in the mood in America following the terrorist attacks on 9/11. Disney wasn't alone in their obligation to rework content to a more appropriate tone for a nation still reeling from the attacks. Children's shows like Power Rangers, Pokemon, and Invader Zim had episodes taken off the air due to scenes where buildings and cityscapes were destroyed.
The nation had changed, and the national conversation facilitated by popular...
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- Why a storm surge can be the deadliest part of a hurricane
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- 4:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- It can start before a hurricane even makes landfall.
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Storm surge, or coastal flooding, tends to be the deadliest aspect of hurricanes. As wind from the storm pushes water onshore several feet above the normal tide, it can trap people in their homes, wash away entire houses, and make rescue missions harrowing and slow.
In the US, the Eastern and Southeastern coastlines are among the most vulnerable areas for storm surges. Along the East Coast, hurricane Sandy produced a massive storm surge in 2012. On the Gulf Coast, places like Galveston, Texas and New Orleans have seen multiple hurricanes so they've built some infrastructure to help defend against excessive flooding. Levees, canals and seawalls are designed to stop or redirect rising water away from cities. But even those can be inadequate, when faced with an especially strong hurricane.
What really concerns experts, though, are places ...
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- Why these all-white paintings are in museums and mine aren't
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- 6:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Why do all-white paintings sell for millions of dollars and end up in museums?
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So-called "white paintings" are in museums all across the world and Robert Ryman's all-white painting "Bridge" sold for a record $20.6 million at a Christie's auction in 2015. How are these seemingly plain white paintings considered art and why is it that not anyone can pick up a tube of white paint and make one?
We talk to Elisabeth Sherman, an assistant curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York about why there is much more to these paintings than meets the eye, and while you could have painted on of these priceless pieces of art, you didn't.
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- The colleges where the American dream is still alive
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- 3:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- These schools are much better than Harvard, Yale, or Princeton at making poor kids rich.
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Wealthy, prestigious universities such as Harvard Yale, Stanford and Columbia garner billions in donations with the message of financial aid. They show off case after case of talented students from humble backgrounds reaching the top 1% after attending elite schools. The story goes that these universities aren’t just world leaders in cutting-edge research, they’re engines of upward social mobility.
But the latest research by the Equality of Opportunity project suggests this is a myth. A study 10.8 million people on the effect colleges have at moving kids born into the bottom 20 percent of the income distribution up to the top 20 percent showed that though elite universities are very good at moving students up the income ladder, they let in very few low-income students. The problem isn’t one of financial aid...
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- DACA, explained
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- 5:28
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Protection from deportation and the chance to work have been life-changing for DACA recipients. Will Trump get rid of it?
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The most consequential decision President Donald Trump made on immigration in his first year in office wasn’t about the wall, or who’s going to pay for it, or anything else he talked about incessantly on the campaign trail.
It was his decision to announce, on September 5, that his administration would be winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program — a program he didn’t mention outright, that many people didn’t know about and even fewer understood.
The Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA, which has protected nearly 800,000 young adult unauthorized immigrants from deportation and allowed them to work legally since 2012. The immigrants protected through DACA grew up in the US; people might not assume they are unauthorized ...
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- The wall of eyes trained on the US - Mexico border
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- 5:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- There's more to the border than just a wall.
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This dispatch is from the Rio Grande River, on the Texas side of the U.S. border with Mexico. I embedded with border patrol, to learn about the technology, techniques, and challenges of monitoring a section of the border with over 300 miles of river.
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- Why more pop songs should end with a fade out
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- 7:42
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The fade out is underrated. It should come back.
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The fade out in music is one of those necessary tools in a record producers arsenal. But if you listen to today's hits it's much more likely you'll hear a song that has a hard abrupt electronic ending. Bill Weir, wrote a great piece at Slate a few years ago tracking the rise and fall of the fade out in pop music: from one of the very first fade outs created by a literal wooden door to the epic 4 minute fade out of "Hey Jude." In the video above he brings me through that sonic journey.
Here's the Slate article for reference: http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2014/09/the_fade_out_in_pop_music_why_don_t_modern_pop_songs_end_by_slowly_reducing.html
Some songs don't just stick in your head, they change the music world forever. Join Estelle Caswell on a musical journey to discover the stories behind your favorite songs.
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- 7 seasons of color on Game of Thrones, in one chart
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- According the data, winter has arrived indeed.
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The Vox Visuals team created an interactive chromatology of the first 7 seasons of Game of Thrones. What we learned? The show, for the most part, is quite de-saturated and dark. But most interesting was a methodical shift in hue as winter descends upon Westoros. The show managed to shift the average hue of aggregate color palettes from warm to cool as the seasons changed.
For a more complete chromatology of the show (and a primer on color theory to boot!) you can check out the full interactive: https://www.vox.com/culture/2017/8/24/16162814/game-of-thrones-color-spectrum
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- Why fact-checking can’t stop Trump’s lies
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- 7:11
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Why do Trump’s supporters continue to believe misinformation, even in the face of fact-checking?
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- Why America still uses Fahrenheit
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- 4:51
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Fahrenheit, explained to the rest of the world
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Since I've moved to the US in 2010, there's one thing that I still don't fully understand: the imperial system. Virtually every country on earth uses Celsius but America has yet to follow. Although it might not seem like a big deal, not using the metric system puts America at a great disadvantage. For example, American kids have to learn 2 sets of measurements making science education even more difficult. On top of that, American companies have to produce extra products to export to metric countries. So why does the United States still have such an antiquated system of measurement?
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- How climate change makes hurricanes worse
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- 3:23
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Here's what we know about climate change and hurricanes.
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We know that humanity's carbon footprint has shifted the baseline conditions of the climate, the context in which every weather event takes place. But trying to isolate the human influence from everything else that is going on can be really hard, especially for hurricanes, or what scientists call "tropical cyclones."
They're super complex and the quality of the historical data we have for them isn't great. We do have physics, though. Hurricanes are driven by the transfer of heat from the sea to the air through evaporation. The storm's maximum possible wind speed, or its potential intensity, depends in part on how warm the ocean is – and of course, we're warming the ocean.
So researchers expect intense tropical cyclones to become frequent if we continue to warm the planet.
The hurricanes of the future will also be wet...
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- A mountaintop view of the total solar eclipse
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- What 2017's total eclipse looked like from 9700 feet above sea level.
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- Title
- The collapse of Venezuela, explained
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- 7:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Venezuela is in chaos. How did we get here?
Correction at 1:58: The Supreme Court tried to strip the country’s National Assembly of its powers in March 2017 and not 2016. We regret the error.
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Venezuela was once the richest country in Latin America. It has the largest known oil reserves in the world and its democratic government was once praised world wide.
But today, Venezuela’s democratic institutions and its economy are in shambles.The country has the highest inflation in the world, making food and medicine inaccessible to most Venezuelans.
Over the last four years, its GDP has fallen 35%, which is a sharper drop than the one seen during the Great Depression in the US. The country’s murder rate has surpassed that of the most dangerous cities in the world.
These conditions have sparked months of protests against the president, Nicolas Maduro. And it’s e...
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- We need to change how we bury the dead
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- 5:52
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The way we traditionally bury the dead is horrible for the environment.
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The modern way of burying a body, the "casket in the ground method" most of us are used to is horrible for the environment. It uses an incredible amount of resources, emits toxic pollutants into the air, and pumps the ground full of formaldehyde, which is known to cause cancer. It's also prohibitively expensive. The average cost of a modern funeral costs between $10,000 to $12,000.
There are a number of greener options available though. Cremation uses less resources and requires less space than a traditional burial, but isn't perfect. There are more experimental methods on the horizon such as promession and alkaline hydrolysis.
No matter which method we choose, it's clear that we need to reform how we bury the dead.
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- This timeline shows confederate monuments are about racial conflict
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- 2:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- A history of confederate monuments, in one timeline.
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Following clashes of violence surrounding protest against the removal of Robert E. Lee's statue in Charlottesville Virginia, America's debate over the legacy of confederate symbolism has reopened. The central questions: Are these monuments meant to commemorate the racial tension underlying the confederacy's secession? Or are they meant to serve as a simple marker of American history?
The Southern Poverty Law Center created this timeline to document the upwards of 1500 monuments constructed between the civil war and today. For a deeper look at the data, you can check out their comprehensive report, "Who's Heritage? Public symbols of the confederacy," available here: https://www.splcenter.org/20160421/whose-heritage-public-symbols-confederacy
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- Trump's plan to cut his own taxes
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- 2:48
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- The proposed budgets in Congress will make Trump even richer.
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The Trump Organization is the 48th-largest private company in the US, and brought in $9.5 billion in revenue in 2016. But the Trump Organization doesn't pay taxes like a big corporation. It's a special kind of entity called a "pass-through" business.
The designation was originally for small-business owners to byp...
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- How an MS Paint artist made this picture
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- 7:53
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Pat Hines used MS Paint for all the illustrations in his book. Here's how.
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We've also created 2 videos that show the entire process (YouTube has a 12 hour limit - Pat spent 15 hours making this picture).
Part 1:
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In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards interviews an artist using an unlikely tool: MS Paint. Microsoft Paint isn't known as the best artistic tool. But Pat Hines used it to create the illustrations for his horror fantasy, Camp Redblood. And the results are incredible.
He explains how Microsoft Paint works for him, and includes notes about his favorite artists, like Herge, Ivan Bilibin, and more. He also shows why he prefers Paint to Photoshop and Illustrator and how it create...
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- How a recording-studio mishap shaped '80s music
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- 8:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Warning: This is an unapologetic ode to gated reverb drums
Here's a Spotify playlist of some of the best gated reverb songs: http://spoti.fi/2vH7ZZL
Over the past few years a general nostalgia for the 1980s has infiltrated music, film, and television. I deeply love those gated reverb drums of the '80s - you know that punchy percussive sound popularized by Phil Collins and Prince? So for my second episode of Vox Pop’s Earworm I spoke with two Berklee College of Music professors, Susan Rogers and Prince Charles Alexander, to figure out just how that sound came to be, what makes it so damn punchy, and why it’s back.
Correction: At 2:01, a previous version of the video mistakenly said the noise gate only lets frequencies above a certain threshold pass through. We should’ve said “amplitudes” instead of “frequencies.” The error has been rectified.
At 3:45 we noted that plate reverb boxes were made using aluminum. In fact, t...
- Title
- After Charlottesville, how do we cover an immoral president?
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- 4:31
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Donald Trump is using the most powerful office in the country to play defense for white supremacists and neo-nazis. How can media coverage of his presidency ever be the same?
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- Tales from the shadow of the moon
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- 5:20
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Eclipse chasers tell us what it's like to witness a total solar eclipse.
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The August 21, 2017, total solar eclipse in the US was the most-viewed totality in history and the first for a whole generation of Americans. But there is a small community of enthusiasts who have already seen 5, 12, even 30 total eclipses before.
That's because after their first eclipse, they were hooked, and now spend all of their vacation time and spare money chasing total solar eclipses around the world, with the solar system as their travel guide.
We interviewed 9 of these eclipse veterans to find out what totality is like, what we should expect, and whether they have advice for first-timers.
For more, watch our explainer video on the how solar and lunar eclipses work and what makes a total solar eclipse so special: https://youtu.be/oNH3akWXaV8
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- Title
- How a Haitian village cooks with sunlight
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- This sustainable initiative is helping to save Haiti's forests.
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Haiti has a significant deforestation problem, driven in part by the widespread usage of charcoal for cooking in Haitian households. This practice is doubly problematic as it also raises health concerns for Haitians who burn charcoal in their homes. One initiative, spearheaded by The Nature Conservancy, is tackling this problem through the introduction of solar ovens. These ovens cook food with reflected sunlight, reducing the burden of deforestation in a sustainable way.
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- How Trump's Charlottesville response emboldens white supremacy
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- 4:20
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- By refusing to take a side on the violence in Charlottesville, Trump has taken a side.
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- Title
- Voyager 2's 11 billion mile journey at a human scale
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- 3:46
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- 40 years later, Voyager 2 is really, really, really far from Earth.
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August 20, 2017 marks the fortieth anniversary of the launch of Voyager 2. Along with Voyager 1, NASA sent the twin spacecraft to collect data about giant planets of our outer solar system. Voyager 2 was the first spacecraft to visit Uranus and Neptune, as well as discovering many new moons orbiting both Jupiter and Saturn. In addition to collecting data, Voyager 2 was sent with a copy of “The Golden Record”: a disk containing 116 images and various audio recordings that depict human life. Should Voyager 2 ever be encountered by an extraterrestrial, the record will be a means of understanding planet Earth. Besides the collection of d...
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- DC’s abandoned fire and police call boxes, explained
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- 3:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- A massive underground network of cables connected street corners to emergency services long before the telephone was invented.
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You’ve probably walked by them on street corners in Washington, DC: old cast-iron fixtures that definitely used to be something. Most are hollowed, while some have art installations or representations of local history inside. But what are they? And why are they all over the city?
These relics were actually crucial for urban communication before the days of the telephone. They’re fire and police call boxes, and they were installed in DC in the late 1800s.
The fire boxes, which came first, relied on a telegraph system. If you saw a fire, you would run down to the box and turn the key inside. It would send a message through underground cables to the central alarm center. The transmission matched a location on a giant map, telling the fire department where to send...
- Title
- The real reason streetcars are making a comeback
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- 5:57
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- It’s mostly about economic development.
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Starting in the late 20th century, modern streetcar proposals started rippling across municipalities in the United States. They’re touted as infrastructure carrying benefits ranging from the social to economic and the environmental. But these projects often make appearances in the news as costly, blunder-filled experiments in public policy.
Cities are willing to bet big on this technology for its potential to develop the local economy. But there is some disagreement as to whether the streetcar is driving this progress, or if it is simply the result of planning *around* the streetcar.
If you're looking for more information on public transportation and urban planning, here are a few links:
This interactive map by Yonah Freemark and Steven Vance allows you to zoom in on all public transportation projects across North America. http://ww...
- Title
- The tiny island in New York City that nobody is allowed to visit
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- 3:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- There's a tiny island on the East River that you've probably never heard of, and you're not allowed to visit it.
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Most people have probably never heard of it but there is a tiny 100 by 200 foot island on the East River in New York City called U Thant Island. It’s right below Roosevelt Island and next to the United Nations headquarters and has more history per square foot than most places in Manhattan.
It’s origin dates back to the late 19th century when construction of an underground tunnel produce...
- Title
- Meet Haiti's surfing pioneers
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- 2:52
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- They taught me how to surf.
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The sport of surfing remains relatively unknown in Haiti. The organizers of Surf Haiti are trying to change that. They run a surf commune in the southern coast of Haiti at Jacmel. By raising domestic awareness of surfing through lessons and education, these surfers hope to build momentum for Haiti to submit a surfing bid to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, where surfing will debut as an Olympic event.
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- Title
- The secret rhythm behind Radiohead's "Videotape"
- Runtime
- 10:15
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
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In this season opener of Earworm, I speak with Warren Lain. He's a Radiohead fan who also happens to be an incredibly talented musician and music teacher. In December 2016 he uploaded a 38 minute video to YouTube about a Radiohead song that I deeply love, "Videotape."
He had been thinking about the music theory behind this seemingly simple song for the better part of a decade. The reason? “Videotape”, a slow rhythmically monotonous song, is actually syncopated. I’m joined also by Erin Barra, a professor at Berklee College of Music, who helped Warren and I explain this musical illusion.
Warren’s video can be found right here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvKhtFXPswk
Some songs don't just stick in your head, they change the music world forever. Join Estelle Ca...
- Title
- The "this is fine" bias in cable news
- Runtime
- 5:06
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Political journalism tends to treat every story like the ones that came before it. So what happens when politics in the Trump era goes off the rails?
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- Title
- What happens after ISIS falls?
- Runtime
- 7:23
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Three ways ISIS will remain a threat after defeat.
Correction: At 0:18, a previous version of the video mistakenly suggested that Turkey-backed forces are fighting ISIS in the west. In fact, the Russia-backed Syrian army and its allies are fighting ISIS in the north and west. The error has been rectified.
We also want to clarify that the color coded lines that appeared in the previous version at 0:18 did not indicate a border or the frontline. The lines were meant to illustrate that ISIS was under attack on all sides. That highlight has now been removed to avoid any confusion.
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It was also a symbolic loss, Mosul is where the group declared a caliphate, or Islamic territory, in 2014. This set them apart from other terrorist organizations. They weren’t just a network of jihadists strung out across several countries, like al-Qaeda, they governed over actual territory, which th...
- Title
- Medicaid, explained: why it's worse to be sick in some states than others
- Runtime
- 11:02
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Where you live could mean the difference between life and death.
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Matthew is a Medicaid recipient with a life threatening illness. He is one of 70 million Americans who depends on this program. Medicaid was passed in the mid-1960s after decades of fights over the role of government in medical care. FDR and Truman fought for healthcare, but Johnson wound up passing this landmark legislation. Around this same time, developed nations around the world passed universal health programs. The US got Medicaid.
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- Lyme disease is spreading. Blame ticks — and climate change
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- 4:39
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Nature fanaTICKS beware; cases of Lyme disease are on the rise.
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Lyme disease is the most common vector-borne disease in the US; and climate change is helping it to spread even more. Animals such as deer, mice, squirrels, other critters in wooded area can be hosts to the bacteria, Borrelia burgdorferi, that causes Lyme disease in humans. When ticks feed off these hosts, the ticks become infected with it. And the bacteria can then be transmitted to humans via tick bites. There are numerous ways to prevent tick bites, but the best protection is vigilance. Whether you're going hiking, camping, or just a stroll in the woods, check for ticks that may have become attached. The sooner the tick is removed, the lesser your chances of being infected with Lyme disease.
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- Baby Driver's opening car chase, mapped
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- 3:32
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- On location in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Director Edgar Wright choreographed scenes in Baby Driver to specific songs, with carefully-timed stunts to match. This dance played out on the streets on downtown Atlanta, Georgia, with very little CGI added.
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- Title
- How fentanyl is making the opioid epidemic even worse
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- 5:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Fentanyl, a drug more potent that heroin, is the latest iteration of America's evolving opioid epidemic.
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CDC Wonder: https://wonder.cdc.gov/
CDC 2015 heroin report: https://www.cdc.gov/vitalsigns/heroin/index.html
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Correction: an earlier version of this video inaccurately visualized data on the number of drug overdose deaths estimated to have occurred in 2015 and 2016 at 4:49. It showed 690 dots, it's been revised to the correct 650.
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Fentanyl is the latest iteration in an opioid epidemic that is claiming an increasing number of American lives. In the mid 1990s, Americans started getting hooked on prescription pills in record numbers. Many users found their way to addiction by abusing pills like OxyContin, Percocet, and Vicodin – prescription opioids that had been prescribed by medical professionals to treat pain. Hop...
- Title
- The sound illusion that makes Dunkirk so intense
- Runtime
- 3:02
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Why Christopher Nolan is obsessed with Shepard tones.
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Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk is a nerve-wracking movie. Three separate storylines tell the tale of the famed World War II evacuation in a intense two hours of film. A lot of that feeling has to do with how the film's score uses Shepard tones — layered sound waves that simulate a constant ascent in tone — to create a sensation of building tension. They're a personal favorite trick of Nolan's: he's based sound effects and entire soundtracks with other composers on the auditory illusion. In Dunkirk, composer Hans Zimmer crafted his soundtrack around the effect — and it's an auditory masterpiece.
Read Nolan's interview with Business Insider on the music of Dunkirk: https://goo.gl/SV4Qpb
Shepard tone imagery from EnjoyPA on freesound.org: https://goo.gl/37Hd2P
Shepard tone sound effect from Alexander on orangefreesoun...
- Title
- The bizarre physics of fire ants
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- 3:59
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- They're not just an animal, they're a material. And that's got engineers interested.
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Red imported fire ants (solenopsis invicta) are native to South America and an invasive species in the United States. One of the adaptations that makes them so hardy is that they can build large structures by linking their bodies together. This is how they form rafts that can float during floods. When they're aggregated together, fire ants can be seen as a material and the Hu lab at Georgia Tech has been testing that material for years.
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- Why a Haitian graffiti artist is protesting foreign aid
- Runtime
- 4:01
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- I spoke with a Haitian graffiti artist about the unintended consequences of longterm disaster relief funding.
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Haiti experienced a devastating earthquake in 2010. Seven years later, over 10,000 nonprofit organizations and $6 billion dollars of aid funding have been funneled into the country. Although there's still a desperate need for basic services such as food, healthcare, education, and shelter, questions have arisen about whether this continuous aid has become a crutch for the Haitian government. Similarly, Haitians themselves are awaking to the notion of self-determination in their country.
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- Title
- Why white supremacists love Tucker Carlson
- Runtime
- 8:37
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Tucker Carlson is the new king of Fox News, hosting the most-watched news show on cable. But he's also become a hero to white supremacists like David Duke and Richard Spencer. To understand why, you need to look at the way he talks about immigrants.
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- Title
- Why people get so excited about a total solar eclipse
- Runtime
- 5:24
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- How solar and lunar eclipses work.
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Note: This is an update of a video we published in 2015.
In this video we explain the differences between a solar and lunar eclipse and why some believe that a total eclipse of the sun is the greatest natural phenomenon of them all.
Total solar eclipses are a big deal not because of how infrequent they are — there’s a total solar eclipse every 18 months on average — but because of how little of the Earth’s surface falls in the path of any given eclipse shadow.
The next total solar eclipse to visit the US will be in 2024. If an eclipse happens to come to your town, you’re lucky. Any given location will see a total solar eclipse only once in more than 300 years, on average. The vast majority of us will have to travel to an eclipse path if we want to see a total eclipse in our lifetimes.
Thankfully NASA has mappe...
- Title
- The high cost of free parking
- Runtime
- 6:43
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Hidden parking rules hurt our cities. Will Chilton and Paul Mackie of Mobility Lab explain.
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The cities we live in are shaped by the way we get around them. Over the past 60 years, with more and more people opting to drive cars, the need for parking spaces has increased with the boom in driving.
To accommodate that demand early on, cities and towns started requiring developers to include parking with their new buildings after World War II. These policies, known as mandatory parking minimums, set precise standards for parking spaces for each building. And these parking spaces don't come cheap.
To learn much more on free parking's affect on cities, Donald Shoup's book is here: https://www.amazon.com/High-Cost-Free-Parking-Updated/dp/193236496X
And Mobility Lab, who helped make this video, covers many more issues around infrastructure is here: https://mobilitylab.org/
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- Title
- Why the ocean is getting louder
- Runtime
- 9:29
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What the world sounds like underwater.
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We often think of the ocean as a quiet, peaceful place, filled with animals that don't make much noise. So when I went diving in the ocean for the first time, I was surprised at how rich the soundscape around me was: you could hear fish nibbling on coral and squid swimming past you. But more than anything, you could almost always hear the hum of a boat engine. It's part of a big problem in the ocean right now. Ship traffic noise has doubled every decade since the 1960s — and it's wreaking havoc on marine life.
This video was made in collaboration with Twenty Thousand Hertz, a podcast that dives deep into all kinds of stories about sound. Everything from "who's the person behind the voice on your phone," to "what do other planets sound like to our ears?"
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- Title
- The Middle East's cold war, explained
- Runtime
- 10:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- How two feuding countries are tearing apart the Middle East.
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The Saudis and Iranians have never actually declared war on each other. Instead, they fight indirectly by supporting opposing sides in other countries and inciting conflicts. This is known as proxy warfare.
And it’s had a devastating effect on the region. Countries, especially poor ones, can’t function if there are larger countries pulling strings within their borders.
And that’s exactly what's happening in the Middle East. The Saudi-Iranian rivalry has become a fight over influence, and the whole region is a battlefield.
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- Title
- Vincent van Gogh’s long, miserable road to fame
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- 2:39
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Van Gogh's travels informed the works we revere today.
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Famous for chopping off a piece of his ear in a fit and delivering it to a woman in a brothel, Vincent van Gogh is remembered for his ailing mental health and the many paintings—over 900— he created during his lifetime. Van Gogh was born on March 30, 1853, in the village of Zundert in the Netherlands.
During his lifetime, Van Gogh’s work had little value to no value in the art world; but a century later, the first version of Van Gogh’s Portrait of Dr. Gatchet sold for $82.5 million in 1990 (around $159 million today). Van Gogh heavily financially-dependent on his younger brother Theo van Gogh. Though the relationship was strained at times, both brothers corresponded with each through hundreds of letters over the years.
Well-known paintings such as The Starry Night, Cafe at Night, andWheat Field with Crows were ...
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- The best Fox News explanations for Trump Jr.’s Russia meeting
- Runtime
- 4:25
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Fox News has spent the week downplaying Trump Jr.'s attempt to collude with the Russian government during the election. As the Russia story keeps getting worse, we're going to see just how far the network is willing to go to stay on Trump's good side.
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- Title
- The hidden oil patterns on bowling lanes
- Runtime
- 7:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Every bowling lane has a hidden oil pattern. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards finds out what that means.
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Every lane has a pattern. In this episode of Vox Almanac, Phil Edwards explores how they change the game.
Bowling isn’t just about a great ball and good form — if you want to understand the sport, you have to understand the lane.
Every bowling lane, including the one in your neighborhood alley, is coated with an oil pattern to protect the wood. But these patterns aren’t just for protection — the way in which oil is applied to the lane can affect the speed and direction of your ball.
These patterns are so important that recreational bowler...
- Title
- Why Donald Trump Jr.'s emails change everything
- Runtime
- 6:08
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What we know about his exchange with a Russian lawyer, and what it means.
Photo-illustrations by Javier Zarracina. Read more from Vox's Andrew Prokop: https://www.vox.com/2017/7/11/15953204/donald-trump-jr-emails-russia and Ezra Klein: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/7/11/15953440/trump-russia-emails-watergate
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News keeps breaking about Donald Trump Jr., and it's hard to keep up. So far, we know he met with a Russian lawyer who had promised him documents incriminating Hillary Clinton. In the email exchange setting up that meeting, we learned three things. First, that a person whom the intermediary called "a Russian government lawyer" reached out to the campaign wanting to help. Second, the intermediary specifically mentions the Russian government's desire to help Trump win the US election. And third, Paul Manafort, Jared Kushner, and Donald Trump Jr. all knew about this effort, and instead...
- Title
- Why people think they see ghosts
- Runtime
- 6:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Even though there is no scientific evidence that ghosts exist, you may not be crazy if you see one.
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48% of Americans profess to believe in ghosts, and around a quarter say that they've actually seen a ghost before. I wanted to find out if there was any proof of their existence, so I spoke with Joe Nickell, allegedly the world's only paranormal investigator who had researched reported hauntings for almost 50 years.
He says that he's never seen any evidence that would point towards the existence of ghosts. Nickell walks us through the various scientific explanations for why people think they see ghosts, including sleep paralysis, waking dreams, traumatic grief, and exposure to infrasound.
So even though there may be no evidence that ghosts exist, that doesn't mean that you might not see one.
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- Title
- Why government agencies should move from DC to the Midwest
- Runtime
- 3:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Midwestern cities need jobs. DC is too crowded. A simple solution.
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Detroit, Cleveland, Cincinnati, and other former industrial powerhouses in the Midwest are struggling. The industries that have supported those cities have gone away, leaving them overbuilt and underpopulated. Meanwhile, coastal cities like New York and Washington, DC are overcrowded and absurdly expensive. So, why not relocate some well-paying federal jobs from the capitol area to the Midwest? Vox's Matt Yglesias explains how such a plan might work.
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- Title
- The growing North Korean nuclear threat, explained [Updated]
- Runtime
- 6:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- North Korea has a new missile, and it can reach the US.
This video is an update to a previous version, published on April 26, 2017
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https://missilethreat.csis.org/country/dprk/
http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/16/opinions/north-korea-military-parade-explained/
http://38north.org/2015/02/jlewis020515/
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