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How you hear these notes depends on where you’re from #shorts
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- How you hear these notes depends on where you’re from #shorts
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- 6 months ago
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- How you hear these two tones might depend on if you grew up in California or the United Kingdom. Noam Hassenfeld, host of the Unexplainable podcast, talks to researcher Diana Deutsch about why people from different countries hear tritones differently. This is the first episode of The Sound Barrier, a new limited series on Unexplainable. #music #sound
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- Is free will a myth? | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- We all think of ourselves as authors of our lives. The difference between our happy ending and someone else’s tragic one are the choices we each make. But what if none of that’s true?
Sean’s guest today is Robert Sapolsky, a biologist and neuroscientist at Stanford University and author of Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will. They dig into Sapolsky’s claim that free will is an illusion and discuss what the science says about genes, stress, culture, and how all this research might reframe the way we think about meritocracy, blame, punishment, and even hatred.
This episode originally aired in November of 2023.
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Robert Sapolsky, biologist and neuroscientist at Stanford University and author of Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will.
00:00 Intro
07:12 What is determinism?
24:47 Can you choose to change?
36:37 Are we just responding to stimuli?
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- Where those annoying spam texts are coming from #shorts
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Have you been getting texts offering you $1,000 an hour for a remote job? Or even texts from the head of your company asking you to purchase Amazon gift cards? These text scams are getting increasingly common, and it’s all thanks to a Chinese crime syndicate that’s bigger than we can even imagine. Explain It to Me host Jonquilyn Hill talked to Wired technology reporter Matt Burgess to understand what exactly is going on. #scam #phish #texts #sms
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- How therapy-speak can be more harmful than helpful #shorts
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Gaslighting. Narcissist. You’ve probably heard these terms used a lot more frequently in recent years. They’re pop psychology terms, also known as therapy-speak, and they’ve become increasingly common in our mainstream vernacular. But oftentimes, people misuse the terminology and let it serve as a blanket term for more complex thoughts and feelings, making it more difficult to receive proper mental health support for clinical diagnoses. Vox correspondent Allie Volpe explains why therapy-speak is so alluring, and how to use more words, not fewer, to describe a situation.
The limits of therapy-speak by Allie Volpe, Vox:
https://www.vox.com/even-better/23769973/limits-therapy-speak-narcissist-gaslighting-trauma-toxic
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- The messy truth about free speech
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- On September 15, Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night show opening monologue included comments about the shooting of right-wing media figure Charlie Kirk, and how the "Maga gang" was "desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk as anything other than one of them.”
Soon after, Brendan Carr, the chair of the FCC and an appointee of President Donald Trump, appeared on a conservative podcast and threatened to act against ABC and its parent company, Disney, for Kimmel’s remarks. On September 17, ABC and Disney suspended “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”
Kimmel’s suspension launched a national debate and protest around freedom of speech and satire. From celebrities like Wanda Sykes to Republicans like Sen. Ted Cruz, people from across the spectrum weighed in on the decision. The show returned days later on September 23, but the FCC’s actions left many questioning whether Kimmel’s First Amendment rights were violated.
This incident is...
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- Can these unusual underwater pyramids help save the ocean? #shorts
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- A critical food source in southwestern Madagascar is quickly disappearing. Could these underwater pyramids help? Vox reporter Benji Jones goes diving in Madagascar to find out. #environment #climate #climatechange #reef #ocean
Read more reporting from Madagascar from reporter Benji Jones:
• Most animals on this island nation are found nowhere else on Earth. And now they’re vanishing.
https://www.vox.com/climate/464953/madagascar-lemurs-chameleons-endangered-animals
• Scientists are testing a surprising approach to fighting hunger in one of the poorest places on Earth
https://www.vox.com/climate/465060/madagascar-military-coup-environmental-problems-fishery-coral-reef
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- Should you bring your health questions to ChatGPT? #shorts
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Have you noticed AI being used at your doctor’s office? These days, it’s becoming more and more common. On this week’s episode of our podcast Explain It to Me, host Jonquilyn Hill talks to Dr. Dhruv Khullar, a physician at Weill Cornell, about the growing use of AI in medicine to diagnose patients and understand symptoms. Khullar sheds light on how to best use these AI tools to your advantage and what to avoid. #AI #ChatGPT #medicine #tech
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- The sea creatures in Madagascar are amazing — but can they survive? #shorts
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- Overfishing in southwest Madagascar is causing the region’s incredible coral reefs — and the human life they sustain — to collapse. But the problem is more complicated than it seems. Vox reporter Benji Jones talks to local fishers and goes diving to learn about what’s happening to the country’s sea life. #madagascar #fishing #octopus #shorts
Read more reporting from Madagascar from reporter Benji Jones:
Most animals on this island nation are found nowhere else on Earth. And now they’re vanishing.
https://www.vox.com/climate/464953/madagascar-lemurs-chameleons-endangered-animals
Scientists are testing a surprising approach to fighting hunger in one of the poorest places on Earth
https://www.vox.com/climate/465060/madagascar-military-coup-environmental-problems-fishery-coral-reef
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- We’re not doomed by climate change. We’re just confused. | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 6 months ago
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- The story we tell about climate change is mostly a story about loss. But look to the data, and that story starts to fall apart. Emissions are peaking in key sectors. Clean energy is scaling faster than anyone predicted. Real progress is happening. It’s just not happening in the way we imagine it.
Sean’s guest today is Hannah Ritchie, Deputy Editor at Our World in Data and author of Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change. They discuss why our picture of the planet is so distorted, why despair can be as dangerous as denial, and what a truly energy-abundant, livable future could look like.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Hannah Ritchie, author of Clearing the Air
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262052740/clearing-the-air/
00:00 Intro
00:38 We know how to solve big problems
12:10 The cost of renewables has plummeted
28:58 Contested topics in the climate world
38:55 There's too much focu...
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- Can we save Madagascar’s wildlife? #shorts
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Madagascar has some of the world’s most unique animals, like lemurs, chameleons, and tenrecs. Yet many of them are now struggling to survive, amid years of climate extremes and political unrest. Watch as Vox reporter Benji Jones explores what’s driving an environmental crisis in one of the planet’s most famous biodiversity hot spots — and what might work to fix it. #madagascar #lemurs #ocean #climate #climatechange
Read more reporting from Madagascar from reporter Benji Jones:
Most animals on this island nation are found nowhere else on Earth. And now they’re vanishing.
https://www.vox.com/climate/464953/madagascar-lemurs-chameleons-endangered-animals
Scientists are testing a surprising approach to fighting hunger in one of the poorest places on Earth
https://www.vox.com/climate/465060/madagascar-military-coup-environmental-problems-fishery-coral-reef
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- Leaked Young Republicans group chat exposes antisemitism #shorts
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Just how serious of an antisemitism problem does the American right have — and what, if anything, should they do about it? A group chat leaked by Politico found leaders of Young Republicans praising Adolf Hitler and using offensive antisemitic language. It’s only one example of how normalized bigotry has become among the right wing. #republicans #youngrepublicans #politico #antisemitism
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- How viral ICE videos are dividing — and shaping — reality #shorts
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- There’s a growing number of viral videos showing federal agents — usually from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency and US Border Patrol — using force and aggression to control crowds, disperse protesters, and seize immigrants. But these videos, and the reactions to them, also point to a widening gap between red and blue America. #ice #immigration #timcast #trump
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- Why everything on the internet is getting worse | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Open a browser and you can feel it instantly: everything online just feels … worse.
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Search results that look like ads. Social feeds that you don’t control. Streaming platforms that are packed with ads. Services that used to be free, but are now behind paywalls. It’s not your imagination — it’s enshittification, the process by which good platforms turn bad … and it’s starting to happen outside the internet as well.
Sean’s guest today is Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It. They discuss how the web became enshittified, why monopolies are the true engine behind our digital decay, and what it would mean to build a freer, fairer, and more human internet.
Host: Sean Illing (@seanilling)
Guest: Cory Doctorow (https://x.com/doctorow), author of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and Wha...
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- How close is America to civil conflict? | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Is America at a tipping point?
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Sean Illing talks with Barbara Walter, one of the world’s leading experts on violent extremism and domestic terror. She’s the author of How Civil Wars Start, about how democracies unravel from within, and a professor at UC San Diego’s School of Global Policy and Strategy.
Walter talks to Sean about the warning signs she’s seeing in the US, why polarization and party identity become combustible, and what lessons we can draw from other countries. They also discuss what an American civil war might look like in the 21st century, the social and informational dynamics that accelerate breakdown, and whether America still has a path away from the brink.
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Barbara Walter, professor at UC San Diego and author of How Civil Wars Start
00:00 Intro
01:23 Our political leaders are reacting differently t...
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- Maybe kids should have smartphones #shorts
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- On this week’s episode of our podcast Explain It to Me, host Jonquilyn Hall talks to Adam Clark Estes, Vox’s technology correspondent, who says that there may be a few good reasons for introducing your young ones to #tech early on. #smartphones #screentime
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- This song you know but also don’t #shorts
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- From The Who to The Velvet Underground to your favorite disco music, one mysterious song ties them all together. The melody and rhythm may seem familiar, yet every time you hear it, something about it changes. On the latest episode of Vox’s podcast, Unexplainable, host Noam Hassenfeld explores the song “In C” to understand how music gets created out of randomness and chaos.
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https://www.vox.com/unexplainable
#music #inc #thewho #velvetunderground #disco #techno
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- How Your Memory Can Remake the Past | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- We like to think of memory as a record of the past. But that’s not really what it is. Memory doesn’t keep the past — it can also remake it. It stitches fragments into stories, and those stories — true or not — are what we end up calling our life, and sometimes, our collective history.
Sean’s guest today is Charan Ranganath, a neuroscientist and author of a book called Why We Remember. The two discuss the strange alchemy of remembering and how the stories our minds create end up creating us.
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Charan Ranganath, neuroscientist and author of Why We Remember
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- You can be more empathetic (if you want to be)
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- It feels like empathy is having a weird moment right now, with some even arguing that empathy can be morally wrong. So what’s going on with empathy? Who are its critics, and is there some truth to the idea that empathy can be harmful?
Explain It to Me’s host, Jonquilyn Hall, talks to a therapist, a religion reporter, and a psychologist to understand the different forms of empathy, why it’s being criticized, and how to get better at practicing the beneficial aspects of it.
#empathy #toxicempathy
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- More Americans see the declining birth rate as a problem #shorts
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- In a recent Pew survey, over half of Americans now say that if fewer people have kids, it would negatively impact the US. This includes not just Republicans, but also more Democrats, Democratic-aligned independents, and women, since 2024.
And yet, most Americans don’t think the government should play a role in encouraging people to have more kids. However, among the 44% who do, they believe the government should provide more tax credits for parents and require businesses to offer paid leave.
Senior policy correspondent Rachel Booth looks at the new data and its relationship to the pronatalism movement.
Read more:
- The movement desperately trying to get people to have more babies (Vox):
https://www.vox.com/policy/363543/pronatalism-vance-birth-rates-population-decline-fertility
- Growing share of Americans say fewer people having kids would negatively impact the U.S. (Pew)
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2...
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- The surprising origins of Sober October #shorts
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- It’s Sober October, during which manosphere influencers like Joe Rogan and cancer research advocates abstain from alcohol — for very different reasons. One group wants to raise awareness about alcohol’s health risks. The other is all about short-term gains. But together, they represent one of the most remarkable cultural trends of the moment: Americans are drinking less alcohol.
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- Nevada is home to more than 600 ghost towns #shorts
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Vox producer Dolly Li road tripped through northern Nevada to try and find some of these hidden ghost towns and learn about the real history behind the boom and bust cycles of mining in the state. Along the way, she stops by a town that many call a ghost town, but is still home to a dozen residents.
Through visiting a few abandoned places and speaking to historians about the technology and infrastructure that made mining a key industry of the state, we piece together a rich and fascinating story of Nevada’s development. #nevada #ghost #ghosttowns
This video is presented by Travel Nevada. Travel Nevada doesn’t have a say in our editorial decisions, but they make videos (and adventures!) like this one possible.
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- Sen. Elizabeth Warren says the government shutdown is all about health care #shutdown #government
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren speaks with Today, Explained co-host Sean Rameswaram about the government shutdown and what it means for Americans’ health care coverage.
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- Why Nevada has so many ghost towns
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Nevada is home to over 600 ghost towns, many of which are the remnants of the gold rush era of the 1800s and 1900s. Some of these ghost towns are well-known, like Rhyolite, but others are just coordinates on a map — hidden like secrets to the true history of Nevada.
Vox video producer Dolly Li road tripped through northern Nevada to try and find some of these hidden ghost towns and learn about the real history behind the boom and bust cycles of mining in the state. Along the way, she stops by a town that many call a ghost town, but is still partially occupied by a dozen residents.
Through visiting a few abandoned mining towns and speaking to historians about the technology and infrastructure that made mining a key industry of the state, we piece together a rich and fascinating story of Nevada’s development.
We had a chance to speak to a lot of great experts and historians for this video. Here are some links to their work:
Tami For...
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- Who really controls TikTok? | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- This week, Sean talks with Emily Baker-White, author of Every Screen on the Planet, about why TikTok feels uniquely addictive, how it turned social media into a push-not-pull entertainment feed, and what happens when human editors inside the company can override the algorithm.
A few days after they spoke, TikTok was in the headlines again. So they jumped on a follow-up call to unpack the latest twists in the saga of who will ultimately control the app's US-operations.
Host: Sean Illing (@SeanIlling)
Guest: Emily Baker-White, reporter and author of Every Screen on the Planet: The War Over TikTok
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- The number of men choosing to be single fathers is growing. Here’s why. #shorts
- Date posted
- 7 months ago
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- Explain It to Me host Jonquilyn Hill spoke with Faith Hill, a reporter at The Atlantic who has covered the phenomenon of single fathers by choice, to better understand why more men are deciding to raise children on their own.
#fatherhood #fathers #singlefather #parenting
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- How changes to the H-1B visa program will likely leave American workers worse off #shorts
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- The H-1B visa program isn’t perfect. While it does allow US companies to hire foreign workers who legitimately contribute rare intellectual skills, organizations often abuse the program as a way to acquire cheap labor. But, President Donald Trump’s $100,000 fee on new visa applications isn’t the be-all and end-all solution he thinks it is. Here’s why. #h1bvisa #immigration
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- The myth of marriage and success for Black children #shorts
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Sociologist Christina Cross’s new book, Inherited Inequality: Why Opportunity Gaps Persist Between Black and White Youth Raised in Two-Parent Families, seeks to challenge the emphasis on nuclear families being the key to success for Black children.
Cross’s research reveals that Black kids raised by two parents still struggle far more than white kids from two-parent families, and do only about as well as white kids who only had one parent at home. Read more of this Q&A at Vox.com: https://www.vox.com/policy/461778/inherited-inequality-book-children-single-mother-two-parents-families-racial-inequality-marriage
#BlackFamilies #BlackChildren #Marriage #SingleParent #ChristinaCross
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- How the climate fight will be won | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- The sun will save us
Bill McKibben has spent four decades warning us about climate change. Much of what he predicted has come true. And yet, his new book Here Comes the Sun is more hopeful than you might expect. That’s because, for the first time, we have a genuine alternative: Solar and wind energy are now the cheapest, fastest-growing sources of power on Earth. The revolution has already begun.
This week, Sean is joined by McKibben to talk about the peril and promise of this moment. They explore how close we are to catastrophe, why each fraction of a degree of warming matters, and how the fossil fuel industry is fighting a desperate last stand. They also discuss the politics of energy in the age of Trump, why Texas and Utah may hold surprising lessons, and how cheap, abundant power could transform not just the climate fight but democracy itself.
This episode was made in partnership with Vox's Future Perfect team.
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- Therapist Nedra Grove Tawwab doesn’t want you to overuse therapy buzzwords. Here’s why
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
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- Boundaries. Gaslighting. People pleasing. What do these have in common? They’re therapy buzzwords. Therapist and author Nedra Grove Tawwab spoke with Explain It To Me host Jonquilyn Hill to discuss why leaning heavily on those words can prevent people from getting to the root of their problems.
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- RFK Jr.’s vaccine panel has been discussing changes to the current vaccine guidance
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- RFK Jr.’s newly appointed Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices made changes to the MMRV vaccine schedule and revised guidance for the Covid-19 vaccine
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- Jimmy Kimmel’s removal from TV is Trump’s most brazen attack on free speech yet. Here’s why. #shorts
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the airwaves because the Trump administration didn’t like what he had to say. His removal demonstrates how far down the authoritarian road the United States has traveled in just eight months. #JimmyKimmel #Kimmel #DonaldTrump #ABC #Disney #MAGA #CharlieKirk
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- Title
- How the space race pushed telehealth forward #shorts
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- In the US, telehealth use exploded after the Covid-19 pandemic, but the technology needed for remote monitoring got its start decades ago during the Space Race. Presented by @TMobile: T-Priority - a 5G network experience made for first responders. #spacerace #nasa #telehealthcare
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- Title
- How much free speech is too much? | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Free speech is often treated as a timeless and sacred right. But what if it’s more myth than reality?
This week, Sean is joined by historian Fara Dabhoiwala, author of What Is Free Speech? They trace the history of free expression from 18th-century pamphleteers, to John Stuart Mill, to the digital platforms that dominate our lives today. They explore why speech is never just “speech,” how context and power shape who gets heard, the dangers of harmful speech, and the challenges of regulating platforms in a global media environment.
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- Title
- Why rural America needs telehealth
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Rural health care is in crisis. Telehealth can help.
Rural health care has been in crisis mode for decades due to a wide range of issues from distance to care to provider shortages and budget shortfalls. Rural residents may have to travel up to twice as far to access a hospital than those in urban areas. Staffing shortages mean that even when they do arrive they’re less likely to find the correct specialist. The American Medical Association reported that about 65 percent of rural areas have a shortage of primary care physicians. The list goes on, and despite multiple grants or special designations designed to help close these gaps, the issues persist. The reality is, rural areas need a range of options to better serve their communities. One that’s working right now is the use of telehealth to supplement care. The trouble is, telehealth is frequently overlooked and underfunded, but if used correctly, proponents say it could be a game changer for rural communities, where...
- Title
- How Charlie Kirk made Gen Z conservatives feel at home
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Activist Charlie Kirk redefined conservatism for Gen Z by creating a new generation of leaders, activists, and groups, leaning into social media platforms, and embracing debate.
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- Title
- Our country is not equipped to handle an event like Charlie Kirk’s assassination. Here's why
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- The polarization of the United States’ political parties and President Donald Trump’s aggressive power grabs put America on shaky ground following the killing of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
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- Title
- Conservative activist Christopher Rufo wants to “break the barrel,” literally and figuratively
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Activist Christopher Rufo spoke to Today, Explained co-host Noel King about his conservative counterrevolution and where he stands on transgender rights, Smithsonian museums, the education system, and even Cracker Barrel.
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- Title
- Why you can’t stop watching #RushTok videos #shorts #bamarush
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- #RushTok, the social media trend in which sororities document their recruitment experiences through choreographed dances and outfit-of-the-day (OOTD) videos, is going viral. #BamaRush videos coming out of The University of Alabama have triggered a conversation among sorority alumni and scholars about the heightened social media exposure for PNMs (potential new members), the expectations placed on young women starting college, and gender norms in the South.
This week on the podcast Explain It to Me from Vox, host Jonquilyn Hill talks to educator Elizabeth Bronwyn Brown, author of “Southern Beauty,” about how the gender rituals of the South are manifesting in this new era of sorority recruitment.
🎧 Listen to this episode from Vox wherever you find your podcasts. #sorority #rushtok #bamarush #alabama #ootd
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- Title
- Over 60% of men under 30 are single #shorts
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- Despite stereotypes painting single women as desperate for romantic partnership and men as content eternal bachelors reticent to be tied down, a study showed that single women are overall more satisfied with their lives than single men. And, according to the Pew Research Center, 63 percent of men under 30 are single, compared to 34 percent of women. #Single #SingleMen #Men #Intimacy #Masculinity
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- Title
- What if there were no billionaires? | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- How much money is too much?
In today’s episode, political philosopher Ingrid Robeyns tells Sean that we need to cap the amount of wealth a person can accumulate. They talk about how extreme inequality affects democracy, the role of money in politics, and why limiting personal wealth benefits everyone, including the super rich.
This episode originally aired in January 2024.
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- Title
- Cannabis, child care, and the battle for the future of low-income children #shorts
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- From California to New Mexico, early education and child care activists are taking on state lawmakers to protect funding for children. #childcare #children #marijuana #legalweed #california #newmexico
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- Title
- Wildfires are now year-round. Here’s what you need to do to protect yourself and your home. #shorts
- Date posted
- 8 months ago
- Description
- As wildfires occur year-round, firefighters in rural areas are trying to help those at risk of catastrophic events protect themselves and their homes. Presented by @TMobile: T-Priority - a 5G network experience made for first responders. #wildfires #firefighters
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- Title
- Why fire "season" doesn't end
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Thanks to our sponsor, T-Mobile: http://t-mobile.com/FirstResponders. T-Priority - a 5G network experience made for first responders.
A third of the US population lives in wildfire risk zones. And the fire season is only growing.
Why is that?
Climate change and the increase of the wildland urban interface (WUI) are two key components. Wildfires are now happening year round, and they’re taking a toll on the wildland fighters, especially in rural America. In this video, we look at how these first responders are being affected by this wildfire evolution and what communities that live in close proximity to wildfire zones can do to better protect themselves.
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- America's lawyers vs. China's engineers | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- America has a hard time building stuff. Roads. Trains. Bridges. Housing.
Everything takes seemingly forever. Meanwhile, China seems to have no trouble at all: high-speed rails, solar panels, electric cars, bridges, ports, all churned out at breakneck speed.
Why is that?
Sean's guest is Dan Wang, author of the new book Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future. They discuss the policies and mindset that allow China to tackle remarkable feats of engineering, the advantages and drawbacks of America’s "lawyerly society," and what China and America must learn from each other.
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- Title
- People used to believe that exercise was dangerous for women #shorts
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Did you know that at one point people believed that exercise would cause women’s uteruses to fall out? Jonquilyn Hill explores how we’ve gone from no exercise to peak exercise, interviewing Danielle Friedman, the author of Let’s Get Physical, on the latest episode of Explain It to Me from Vox. 🎧 Listen now wherever you find your podcasts. #exercise #women #womenshealth #fitness
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- Title
- Gaza’s hunger crisis is officially a famine #shorts
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- The UN-backed Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) system — the world’s leading authority on hunger crises — has officially determined that there is a famine in Gaza. Here’s what that means.
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- Title
- Why Texas Democrat Rep. Nicole Collier was confined in the Capitol overnight #shorts
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- Texas state Rep. Nicole Collier, a Democratic legislator, refused to sign a permission slip to allow around-the-clock escort from the Department of Public Safety. This was the latest event in a series of escalations between Texas Republicans and Democrats. Earlier in August, over 50 Democrats left Texas to stop the redrawing of congressional maps that would benefit the GOP. #texas #democrats #republicans #congress
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- Title
- So, what exactly is the “New Right?” | The Gray Area
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- A loose movement of radical intellectuals is driving American politics. They’re called the “New Right,” and they share a basic hostility to American liberal democracy, a real desire to fundamentally overhaul it, and real influence in the White House. But why do they think that? How much influence do they really have? And what would a response to their rising prominence look like?
Today’s guest is Laura Field, a political theorist who’s spent a lot of time in the conservative intellectual world cataloging the wild world of far-right thinking for her book Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right.
She speaks with guest host Zack Beauchamp, author of Vox newsletter On The Right, about why ordinary Americans should really, definitely, and absolutely care what a handful of thinkers are putting out on obscure Substacks and YouTube channels.
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- Title
- The truth behind all the health supplements we’re told to take #shorts
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- From ashwagandha to creatine, do we actually need all of these supplements to stay healthy? Jonquilyn Hill takes us on a journey through the wellness industry on the latest episode of Explain It to Me from Vox. 🎧 Listen now wherever you find your podcasts. #wellness #supplements #podcast #creatine #protein #probiotics
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- Title
- What to read with so little summer left? Book editor Constance Grady has you covered #shorts #books
- Date posted
- 9 months ago
- Description
- A few summer book highlights from Vox’s Summer Book Club:
📙Woodworking by Emily St. James*
📙A Marriage at Sea by Sophie Elmhirst
📙Sky Daddy by Kate Folk
📙Flashlight by Susan Choi
…and more reccs over at our book club: https://www.vox.com/vox-book-club/420565/vox-book-club
Presented by @AmazonBooks.
*this book was authored by a former Vox writer/editor
#books #beachread #summerreading #bookclub
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