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The Oregon standoff, explained in 3 minutes
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- The Oregon standoff, explained in 3 minutes
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- 3:12
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- There's a reason the FBI hasn't gone in guns blazing. Joe Posner explains. For much more on the Oregon standoff at Vox.com: http://www.vox.com/2016/1/3/10703712/oregon-militia-standoff/in/10475659 For more on the Waco & Ruby Ridge sieges: http://www.vox.com/2016/1/5/10714746/waco-ruby-ridge-oregon/in/10475659
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- The poison-eating heroes who helped make food safe
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- 1:53
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- These brave souls sat down to dinner, ate something weird, and saved lives in the process.
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- Why Mormons identify with Syrian refugees
- Runtime
- 2:53
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- They were religious exiles once too
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When Republican governors call for a ban on Syrian refugees, or Donald Trump calls for a ban on all Muslims, Mormons tend to identify with this religious discrimination, a sentiment echoed by Gov. Herbert in a recent Facebook post:
"I am the governor of a state that was settled by religious exiles who withstood persecution after persecution, including an extermination order from another state's governor. In Utah, the First Amendment still matters. That will not change so long as I remain governor."
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- Title
- How Momofuku Ando invented instant ramen
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Before World War 2, ramen wasn't instant. But one tinkerer fixed that...
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- Title
- What makes a truly great logo
- Runtime
- 4:45
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Here's how a simple mark ends up meaning something big as a great logo. Joe Posner, and Michael Bierut (designer of the Hillary Clinton logo) explain. For more from Michael Bierut on graphic design, check out his book "How to use graphic design to sell things, explain things, make things look better, make people laugh, cry, and (every once in a while) change the world": http://www.amazon.com/How-Michael-Bierut/dp/0062413902
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About once a month, there's a new logo to fight about on the internet. The biggest one in recent memory was the highly controversial Hillary Clinton logo, which did not escape scrutiny from Vox.com either.
But as a designer/filmmaker, something about these repeated discussions struck me as missing the point on what makes logos tick. It often has little to do with the subjective musings. So I called up Michael Bierut, the designer of that Hillary Clinton logo and countless others....
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- Why alcohol doesn't come with nutrition facts
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- 2:46
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Ever wonder why almost everything you buy has a nutrition label, but alcoholic beverages don't? It's all thanks to some crazy regulations and powerful industry lobbyists.
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- SantaCon's surprising roots in Danish performance art
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- 3:37
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- SantaCon began as anti-consumerist art — so how did we get to the beer crawl of today?
More background here: http://www.vox.com/2015/12/22/10640590/santacon
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- 2015 in 4 minutes
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- 4:02
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Protests in Baltimore, a migrant crisis in Europe, the first Triple Crown winner in three decades, and stunning shots of Pluto. 2015 was a year to remember.
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- Title
- Fear and loathing at a Trump rally
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- 6:59
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Islamophobia in America goes much deeper than Donald Trump.
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Video by Joe Posner, with many thanks to Max Fisher, Dara Lind, Ezra Klein and Joss Fong.
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- Title
- The rise of ISIS, explained in 6 minutes
- Runtime
- 6:19
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Its history goes back way before the group ever existed.
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In the few short years since the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria formed, it has done the seemingly impossible, seizing vast areas of the Middle East to form a mini-state it calls a reincarnation of the ancient Caliphate. It is at war with all its neighbors and virtually the entire world, yet someone remains, and is launching increasingly deadly terror attacks abroad.
To understand how this terrible group came about and how it has grown so powerful, you need to understand the story behind its rise. And that is a story that goes back decades, to long before ISIS existed.
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- Title
- El Niño is back. Here's how it works.
- Runtime
- 2:59
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Update at 2:23 – 2015 was the hottest year on record, until 2016. Which broke the record again.
El Niño is a weather phenomenon that occurs irregularly in the eastern tropical Pacific every two to seven years. When the trade winds that usually blow from east to west weaken, sea surface temperatures start rising, setting off a chain of atmospheric impacts.
El Niños can be strong or weak. Strong events can temporarily disrupt weather patterns around the world, typically making certain regions wetter (Peru or California, say) and others drier (Southeast Asia). Some countries suffer major damage as a result.
El Niños also transfer heat stored in the deeper layers of the ocean to the surface. When combined with global warming, that can lead to record hot years, as in 1998.
Countries across the globe will have to brace themselves as this event peaks this winter and lasts through the spring. El Niño has already triggered longe...
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- What people get wrong about climate change
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- 2:53
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- When discussing climate change, it's not about saving the planet.
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One of the common mistakes people make about climate change is saying that it’s about “saving the planet.” But that’s not really the right way to think about it.
Earth has gone through immense climate changes many times before, in some cases leading to mass species extinction. Now, we’re living through the onset of human-caused climate change, and slowing it down isn’t about saving the Earth. It’s about saving ourselves.
Humans have been around for just .004% of Earth’s history. And in all of human history – the 200,000 years since our species began – we’ve had agriculture for just 5% of that time and electricity for .07% of that time.
The simple truth about climate change is that it isn’t new to the planet, but civilization is. And with climate change we’re inviting a level of clim...
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- The World War II meme that circled the world
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- 2:08
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Kilroy was here — those three words showed up in a lot of surprising places. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more: https://www.facebook.com/philedwardsinc1/
We know about the epic drama of World War II, but what about the jokes? The above video tells the story (as best as we can). The iconic piece of graffiti that was known, in America, as "Kilroy Was Here" traveled the world in a fashion remarkably similar to a modern meme.
Read some more background here: http://www.vox.com/2015/12/11/9886246/kilroy-was-here
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- Re-reading is inefficient. Here are 5 tips for studying smarter.
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- 1:26
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Up your study game with pointers from top memory researchers.
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- Title
- Learn these 8 Scrabble words to supercharge your game
- Runtime
- 1:26
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Chances are your holiday season will involve a lot of indigestion and board games. We can't help with the indigestion, but what if you could improve your Scrabble game using a simple hack?
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- Title
- Une brève histoire de la guerre Syrienne
- Runtime
- 5:39
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- We got lots of requests to translate our video on the Syrian Civil War into French. So we did. See it in English here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKb9GVU8bHE
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- Title
- How the DEA invented "narco-terrorism"
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- 5:52
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- These undercover videos supposedly showed Al-Qaeda in the drug trade. What they actually showed was more shocking. Produced in collaboration with ProPublica. For the full story, read more here: https://www.propublica.org/article/the-dea-narco-terror-trap
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By Ginger Thompson & Joe Posner
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- Title
- Why outlet stores aren’t as good a deal as they seem
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- 2:45
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Here's the secret they don't want you to know.
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Outlet stores began in the 1930s as a place for excess and damaged goods to be sold employees. As outlet stores grew they began offering the same goods to non-employees.
Today, shoppers believe they can purchase excess designer clothes from last season at a good price in outlet stores like Nordstrom Rack or Saks OFF 5TH. Wrong. The little-known truth about outlet stores is that most of their merchandise was actually made to sell only at outlets.
Some brands—including Kate Spade New York, Michael Kors, Gap, Banana Republic— are being sued for their misleading retail price comparison on the merchandise tag.
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- Title
- America's gun problem, explained in 90 seconds
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- There have been an estimated 1,042 mass shootings in the US since the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012.
Read more about guns in America at Vox.com: http://www.vox.com/2015/10/3/9444417/gun-violence-united-states-america
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- Title
- The math problem that stumped thousands of mansplainers
- Runtime
- 4:58
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Monty Hall Problem went viral in 1990.
Special thanks to Zachary Crockett at Priceonomics where this story came from: http://priceonomics.com/the-time-everyone-corrected-the-worlds-smartest/
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- Title
- How the first nude movies were made
- Runtime
- 5:25
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- They are surprisingly old...and amazingly candid.
Eadweard Muybridge was fascinating, completely bizarre, and undoubtedly a genius. This is how he photographed incredible subjects in all different conditions.
Read more here: http://www.vox.com/2015/11/29/9793100/muybridge-nude-series-animal-locomotion
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- Title
- They lost parents in 9/11. Here's their message for Paris.
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- 2:39
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- "I know what it's like to have my father killed on national television."
By Eléonore Hamelin
When I asked the children of 9/11 victims if they would be interested in sending a message to Paris and victims of terrorism, they were up for it. They wanted to tell the people of Paris that, unfortunately, they’re not alone. But no matter how hard it is, you can overcome fear and terror. As much as most of these kids were resistant to it, the 9/11 attacks became a part of their identity. By embracing this identity, these now young adults have become symbols of hope and resilience.
When terrorists attacked New York City in 2001, Terrease Aiken, now 22, was 8; Juliette Candela, 21, was 6; Francesca Picerno, 23, was 9; and Joseph Palombo, 26, was 12
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- Turkeys have gotten ridiculously large since the 1940s
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- 2:27
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Thanksgiving turkey on your table looks nothing like the one your grandparents ate as kids.
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- Title
- Shut up about the y-axis. It shouldn’t always start at zero.
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- What commenters get wrong about charts.
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If you write things on the internet, angry email is inevitable. If you make charts on the internet, angry email about those charts is inevitable. Especially if your charts sometimes use a y-axis that starts at a number other than zero. You see, an old book called How to Lie With Statistics has convinced people that truncated axes are a devilish tool of deception.
The truth is that you certainly can use truncated axes to deceive. But you can also use them to illuminate. In fact you often have to mess with the y-axis in order to craft a useful image -- especially because data sometimes reachers into negative territory and sometimes goes nowhere near zero. The right principle is that charts aught to show appropriate context. Sometimes that context includes zero, but sometimes it doesn't. It's long past time to say no to Y-axis Fundamentalism.
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- NASA is hiring astronauts. Do you qualify?
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- 1:28
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- You don't actually need 20/20 vision to become one of NASA's astronauts.
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On Decemeber 14th, NASA will begin accepting applications for astronauts—the application will be available on the USA Jobs web site. The basic requirements to qualify for the position aren't as unattainable as some may believe. Some of the basic requirements to join NASA's elite astronaut corps include: having a bachelor's degree in engineering, biological science, physical science, or mathematics, plus 3 years of related professional experience, or at least 1,000 hours as pilot of a jet aircraft.
There are currently 47 active astronauts in the space agency's corps. In a press release, NASA said, "The next class of astronauts may fly on any of four different U.S. vessels during their careers: the International Space Station, two commercial crew spacecraft currently in development by U.S. companies, and NASA’s Orion de...
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- Why ISIS would attack Paris
- Runtime
- 1:58
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- If ISIS was telling the truth when it claimed responsibility for Friday's Paris terror attacks, then this represents a "major shift in ISIS's global strategy," according to Will McCants.
McCants is the director of the Brookings Institution's Project on US Relations with the Islamic World, and the author of The ISIS Apocalypse — one of the best books to date on the group. I called him on Saturday to try to understand what lessons about ISIS we should draw from the Paris attacks if indeed the group is responsible as both it and the French government say.
Read more at http://www.vox.com/world/2015/11/14/9735512/paris-attacks-isis-why
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- The Paris attack: How the world is responding
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- 2:24
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Around the world, people stand in solidarity with the people of France.
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- Title
- How a swarm of honeybees cook a giant hornet alive
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- To learn more about the scientist who figured all this out click here: http://www.vox.com/2015/11/12/9721328/honeybees-giant-hornet-kill
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- Title
- The 116 images NASA wants aliens to see
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- 5:06
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Here are all the photos flying through interstellar space on Voyager's Golden Record. http://www.vox.com/2015/11/11/9702090/voyager-golden-record-pictures
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When Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 launched into space in 1977, their mission was to explore the outer solar system, and over the following decade, they did so admirably.
With an 8-track tape memory system and onboard computers that are thousands of times weaker than the phone in your pocket, the two spacecraft ...
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- The University of Missouri situation, explained
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- 3:14
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- How a hunger strike and football brought down the University of Missouri administration. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO
Correction: The video mistakenly refers to Jonathan Butler as Jordan – we regret the error.
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- Title
- James Bond’s espionage career, in one map
- Runtime
- 4:31
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Here's every place Bond visited for Her Majesty the Queen.
For explanations, caveats, and a full list of James Bond locations, read the article: http://www.vox.com/2015/11/6/9672118/james-bond-countries
will help explain stuff like “Latin America"
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- Title
- Guy Fawkes Day: explained
- Runtime
- 0:59
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- An abridged history of how Guy Fawkes day earned its namesake.
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- Soul patches, explained
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- 2:24
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Here's who to blame.
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The soul patch, a tiny strip of facial hair located just below the bottom lip, has seen its fair share of significant cultural moments from it inception during the jazz era. The soul patch's story is, at heart, one of a great cultural shift in the 20th century. It's a tale that shows how facial hair can change. What hipsters love in one decade can become, startlingly quickly, uncool in another.
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- Title
- The hallucinogens that might have sparked the Salem witch trials
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- 3:52
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Witches and Bread? Spooky!
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- Republican Fight Night: Wait, who are all these people?
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- 2:33
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- Title
- Why Cuban cab drivers earn more than doctors
- Runtime
- 5:01
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- In Cuba, cab drivers are the one percent
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Cuba’s economy works as a central planning model, where government ministries dole out resources and set everything from prices to inventories to salaries. The fact that a taxi driver can make so much more than a physician is a reflection of the Cuban government’s heavy focus on tourism. For years, the central planning apparatus has valued tourism as a key mechanism for both bringing in revenue as well as propagating the idea that Cuba is thriving. Many pesos are collected by the high prices on everything related to the tourism industry.
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- Title
- Scientists agree: Coffee naps are better than coffee or naps alone
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- 2:25
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Is your napping technique backed up by scientific research? This one is.
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It's counterintuitive, but scientists agree that drinking coffee before napping will give you a stronger boost of energy than either coffee or napping alone. To understand a coffee nap, you have to understand how caffeine affects you. After it's absorbed through your small intestine and passes into your bloodstream, it crosses into your brain. There, it fits into receptors that are normally filled by a similarly shaped molecule called adenosine. Adenosine is a byproduct of brain activity, and when it accumulates at high enough levels, it plugs into these receptors and makes you feel tired. But with the caffeine blocking the receptors, it's unable to do so. Here's the trick of the coffee nap: sleeping naturally clears adenosine from the brain. So if you nap for those 20 minutes, you'll reduce your levels of adenosine ju...
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- Thin underwater cables hold the internet. See a map of them all.
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Your internet isn't just underwater. It's also covered in Vaseline. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more: https://www.facebook.com/philedwardsinc1/
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The internet is known to pulse through fiber optic cables and cell phone towers, but 99% of high-speed international information is transferred under the sea. How long has this been happening? Underwater cables delivering information isn't a novel idea — the first Transatlantic cable was laid in 1858—undersea cables have been around since the telegraph.
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- Benghazi, the attack and the scandal, explained
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- 4:14
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Let's start with what actually happened on September 11, 2012.
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On September 11, 2012, a partially armed group of men stormed a US diplomatic outpost in the Libyan city of Benghazi. At the time, it was not clear who they were or why they'd attacked. But by the time the attack was over, four Americans, including US Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, had been killed.
The attack ended by the early hours of September 12. But it has echoed in Washington ever since. The controversy has centered on Republican accusations that the Obama administration did not take heed of intelligence warnings before the attack, that during the attack it refused to call in available military support, and that after the attack it deliberately covered up what had happened.
Repeated independent investigations have disproven all of these allegations. But Republicans have continued to push them, insisting ...
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- Why the Myers-Briggs test is totally meaningless
- Runtime
- 3:36
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- I-N-T-P...E-N-F-J...B-U-L-L...S-H-I-T
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- Title
- Castro hates the internet, so Cubans created their own
- Runtime
- 6:45
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- A few years ago some computer gamers based in Havana strung a small web of ethernet cables, from house to house, so they could play video games together. The network has grown quietly and today its called StreetNet: a bootleg internet for Havana with over 10,000 users. It was an innovation forged by necessity in a country where only 5 percent of the citizens have access to the uncensored internet. Watch the why Cuba's internet is stuck in 1995.
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Cuba has some of the worst internet access in the world, with just 5 percent of Cubans able to access the uncensored web.
Since the communist revolution of 1959, the Castro regime has enforced a strict ban on all forms of information flow that challenge official policy and history. Enforcing such censorship has been relatively easy for an island nation that has a monopoly over all media outlets. But when the internet arrived in the '90s, it complicated matters for the...
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- Ta Prohm’s haunting ruins are also a 1,000-year-old climate change warning
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- 3:13
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The temple was built in 1186, but has since merged with the jungle.
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- Title
- These 11 voice actors play more than 100 Simpsons characters
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- 7:55
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- This is why they make $300,000 per episode.
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The Simpsons just entered it's 27th season and has been renewed for a 28th. As the longest-running primetime scripted series on television, The Simpsons has produced hundreds of characters, each with a different voice — but not necessarily a different actor. That's because each of the principal actors on the show voice multiple characters, in some cases dozens of them.
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- Title
- Gerrymandering: How politicians rig elections
- Runtime
- 2:46
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Most Americans think elections are rigged, and they're right. Vox editor-in-chief Ezra Klein explains how gerrymandering works, and how to fix it. Thank you so much for watching and subscribing – you just took us over 200,000 subscribers! This is one of our favorites and it's as true today as when we released it over a year ago when only about 1,000 subscribers saw it. Enjoy!
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"US elections are rigged. But Canada knows how to fix them" http://www.vox.com/2014/4/15/5604284/us-elections-are-rigged-but-canada-knows-how-to-fix-them
Gerrymandering cardstack: http://www.vox.com/cards/gerrymandering-explained/what-is-gerrymandering
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- This is Cuba's Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify – all without the internet
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- 7:02
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- Media smugglers get Taylor Swift, Game of Thrones, and the New York Times to Cubans every week through an illegal network of runners.
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In Cuba there is barely any internet. Anything but the state-run TV channels is prohibited. Publications are limited to the state-approved newspapers and magazines. This is the law. But, in typical Cuban fashion, the law doesn't stop a vast underground system of entertainment and news media distributors and consumers.
"El Paquete Semanal" (The Weekly Package) is a weekly trove of digital content—everything from American movies to PDFs of Spanish newspapers—that is gathered, organized and transferred by a human web of runners and dealers to the entire country. It is a prodigious and profitable operation.
I went behind the scenes in Havana to film how the Paquete works. Check out the video above to see how Cubans bypass censorship to access the media we ...
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- Color film was built for white people. Here's what it did to dark skin.
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- 4:40
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The unfortunate history of racial bias in photography.
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For decades, the color film available to consumers was built for white people. The chemicals coating the film simply weren't adequate to capture a diversity of darker skin tones. And the photo labs established in the 1940s and 50s even used an image of a white woman, called a Shirley card, to calibrate the colors for printing.
Concordia University professor Lorna Roth has researched the evolution of skin tone imaging. She explained in a 2009 paper how the older technology distorted the appearance of black subjects:
"Problems for the African-American community, for example, have included reproduction of facial images without details, lighting challenges, and ashen-looking facial skin colours contrasted strikingly with the whites of eyes and teeth."
How this would affect non-white people seemingly didn't occur to those who designed...
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- The new frontier of LGBTQ civil rights, explained
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- 4:48
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The Supreme Court expanded marriage equality across the US. But that doesn't mean LGBTQ people have equal rights yet.
Note: This is an updated version of "How most states discriminate against LGBT people" - a video we made this spring, before the Supreme Court decision.
We've updated all the maps, but for live links to the ones we used: GLSEN: http://glsen.org/article/state-maps
Human Rights Campaign: http://tinyurl.com/ohc4ov6
ACLU: http://tinyurl.com/o7fdx5o
Special thanks Adam and Drew for sharing their coming out videos with us
Adam Jernberg: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLb-XWWlkHfTM_vFLZkxKtLlfBnosDVWmM
Drew Carter: https://www.youtube.com/user/AndroidBiscuit
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- Title
- How scientists discovered Homo naledi, the new human ancestor
- Runtime
- 2:14
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- If these 2 explorers were slightly fatter, it might have never happened.
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http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/evolution/dawn-of-humanity.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150910-human-evolution-change/
http://www.vox.com/2015/9/10/9301479/homo-naledi-species-hominin?
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- Title
- The new NFL extra point rule that could change football
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
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- The NFL made one of the biggest changes to football in recent years by moving back the extra point kick, but this small change could have a big impact on who wins games.
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- Title
- Cursive handwriting is dying. But some politicians refuse to accept it.
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- 2:23
- Date posted
- 11 years ago
- Description
- The bizarre fight over cursive handwriting, explained in 2 minutes.
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Penmanship sample from Schin Loong https://www.youtube.com/user/OpenInkStand
Eleven US states have either passed laws or amended the Common Core curriculum to require teachers to cover cursive handwriting in elementary schools. This came in response to the Common Core standards, released in 2010, which require keyboarding skills, but do not mention handwriting or cursive specifically. Advocates for cursive instruction worry that kids will not be able to read founding documents like the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence if they don't learn cursive. But it appears that they are fighting the inevitable.
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