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- How to support our journalism #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- Support our journalism at vox.com/memberships
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- The Gray Area | Yuval Noah Harari on the AI revolution
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- 2 years ago
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- In this episode of The Gray Area, host Sean Illing talks with author and historian Yuval Noah Harari.
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Harari’s new book, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks, explores how the information systems that shape our world often sow the seeds of destruction, and why the current AI revolution is just the beginning of a brand-new evolutionary process that might leave us all behind.
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- The camera that changed photography forever #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- How Kodak invented the "snapshot"
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- How Kodak invented the “snapshot”
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- 2 years ago
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- The original Kodak camera changed photography forever.
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In 1888, Eastman Kodak patented roll film, and the company's business model of selling film, and then processing and printing the photos taken on that film for their consumers, made photography available to the masses for the first time. Before the Kodak No. 1 box camera debuted, photography was a complicated process involving chemistry and expertise on big, bulky equipment.
When Kodak introduced the Brownie and sold it for a dollar in 1900, photography went fully mainstream. The company dominated the film sales and development market during the 20th century and successfully marketed its automatic cameras as crucial to capturing fleeting moments — at home and on vacation.
But digital camera sales began to outpace film camera sales in the early 2000s, and Kodak failed to keep up. They filed for bankrup...
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- The Comstock Act, explained
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- 2 years ago
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- A back-door abortion ban that Congress has already passed.
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- Are crime stats fake?
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- 2 years ago
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- Can we trust a crime report that leaves out Chicago?
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- Exactly how Trump could ban abortion
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- 2 years ago
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- Whether the US bans it completely is basically up to the next president.
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For decades, the anti-abortion movement in the United States worked toward one major goal: the overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decision that established a federal right to abortion. In 2022, they finally succeeded, and states across the country began banning abortion immediately. Today about half the states either ban or severely restrict abortion. But now the anti-abortion movement is regrouping around a new goal: using the federal government to ban abortion in the rest of the country.
If Republicans take control of Congress in the 2024 election, it’s very possible they could pass a national abortion ban law. But experts don’t consider that the most likely way a national abortion ban could come about, for two reasons: Polling shows it would be extremely unpopular, and it would requi...
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- What are glass bricks?
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- 2 years ago
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- Glass bricks do more than just look cool
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- Tornado alley moved east #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- Why the new tornado alley could be more destructive.
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- Is physical media dead? #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- Why physical movies aren't going away any time soon.
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- How the Hindenburg killed an entire industry #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- How to prepare for a natural disaster #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- Here are the supplies FEMA says you should have on hand in case of a natural disaster.
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- Are pit bulls as dangerous as everyone thinks? #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- Pit bulls are one of the most controversial and misunderstood dog breeds in America. Many critics view pit bulls as “inherently dangerous” and say that they are more violent than other dogs. If you rely solely on news stories and cultural anecdotes, you might think that’s the case. But dog bite statistics are less reliable than you may think.
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- The Workhouse: a New Series from Into the Mix, a Ben & Jerry’s podcast on joy and justice
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- 2 years ago
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- Into the Mix, a Ben & Jerry's podcast on joy and justice that takes you beyond the headlines in your newsfeed to real stories from real people. In our first episode, we hear Inez Bordeaux's story, a nurse activist and mother of four who worked with community members to shut down a notorious workhouse in St.Louis that negatively impacted her life.
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- Tips for sleeping in the summer heat
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- 2 years ago
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- How to keep your body cool for better rest.
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If you’ve ever had trouble falling asleep because of how hot it is outside, try out these 5 cool tips.
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- The clips that explain Kamala Harris #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- Watch the full video on our channel
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- How pit bulls got a bad reputation
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- 2 years ago
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- Why do so many people think pit bulls are violent?
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Pit bulls are one of the most controversial and misunderstood dog breeds in America. Many critics view pit bulls as “inherently dangerous” and say that they are more violent than other dogs. If you rely solely on news stories and cultural anecdotes, you might think that’s the case.
However, many misconceptions and myths surround pit bulls, including confusion about their breed. And though there's a lot of data about dog bites and the frequency of pit bull attacks, these statistics are less reliable than you may think.
In this video, we explore the reputation of pit bulls through the decades and examine whether the data actually supports the claim that they’re dangerous and aggressiv...
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- Kamala Harris, explained in 7 moments
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- 2 years ago
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- The rise of Kamala Harris, from San Francisco prosecutor to presidential nominee.
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Vice President Kamala Harris is potentially on the verge of becoming one of the most powerful people on Earth. At the same time, in part because her rapid ascent to the Democratic presidential nomination didn’t involve the sustained public attention of a long presidential primary, she’s more of a cipher to many Americans than major party presidential nominees typically are. So who is Kamala Harris? In this video, we hand that story over to four reporters who have covered her at different points in her career.
Kamala Harris first entered public life as the elected district attorney of San Francisco. She tried to distinguish herself from her predecessor, known for taking a progressive approach to crime, by calling herself “smart on crime.” She spoke more clinically and quantitatively th...
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- Why "pop-up" restaurants are everywhere now
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- 2 years ago
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- This video is presented by Verizon Business. Verizon Business has no editorial influence on our videos, but their support makes videos like these possible.
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From 2021 to 2022, one specific type of restaurant grew 105% in the US: pop-ups, or temporary restaurants. From 2022 to 2023 there were 155% more pop-ups. If you’re a foodie in a US city, it’s made the diversity of food you can get today higher than ever before. Why are so many chefs deciding to "pop up' all of a sudden?
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- Why "pop-up" restaurants are everywhere now
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- 2 years ago
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- The post-covid pop-up boom, explained.
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From 2021 to 2022, one specific type of restaurant grew 105% in the US: pop-ups, or temporary restaurants. From 2022 to 2023 there were 155% more pop-ups. If you’re a foodie in a US city, it’s made the diversity of food you can get today higher than ever before. Why are so many chefs deciding to "pop up' all of a sudden?
To find out, we talked to the owners of two New York City pop-ups to get their stories. For Jorge Aguilar & Amanda Rosa, chef & co-owners of the breakfast taco pop-up Border Town, their story starts in the pandemic. They were unemployed, and instead of trying to rent a space and open a brick and mortar restaurant, they started working temporary locations, marketing themselves via instagram. Eric Huang, chef and owner of Pecking House, ...
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- How AI could help us talk to animals
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- 2 years ago
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- Why researchers think we're close to getting interspecies chatbots.
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AI researchers and biologists are teaming up to detect patterns in animal communication that are difficult, if not impossible, to observe with the human eye alone. The studies that have come out so far are steps towards what some AI companies see as a larger goal: building large language models to decode animal communication that is beyond the reach of human comprehension.
This video explains how they might do that, using the same tools that gave us text, image and translation tools for human language.
Here is the study about elephant names co-authored by Joyce Poole and Mickey Pardo:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02420-w
Karen Bakker's book The Sounds of Life is a great read if you want to learn more about how biologists are taking advantage of advancements ...
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- Who will be Kamala Harris's VP? #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- Warning: Gretchen Whitmer erasure
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- The giant metal walls keeping London above water
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- 2 years ago
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- They’ve kept London safe from floods since the ’80s. But there’s a problem.
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For most of the 20th century, Londoners along the Thames River faced a high risk of floods. Storms like the 1953 North Sea Storm resulted in the deaths of hundreds and the displacement of thousands of people, and spurred discussions on how to protect London from future disasters.
By the 1980s, engineers introduced a solution: the Thames Barrier. This impressive structure comprises multiple moving metal gates that can halt water flow during potential flood events. Since its creation, London has successfully avoided costly storm-related death and destruction, inspiring other coastal cities to model their defense systems after the Thames Barrier.
But today’s changing climate and rising sea levels are challenging the integrity of London’s anti-flood walls. From 1980 to 1990, the barrier was closed only four ...
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- Why the Earth is getting greener #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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There’s a change happening to the planet that might sound counterintuitive at first: the Earth is getting greener. Over the last four decades, researchers have measured Earth’s overall color profile from satellite view, analyzing where the planet is “greening” or “browning.” In that time, the amount of green vegetation has increased dramatically. How did that happen?
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- Why do we have grass lawns?
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- 2 years ago
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- Lawns aren’t natural. Why do so many Americans have them?
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Grass lawns are so ubiquitous in the US you would assume that they're the most natural and obvious choice for what to put in our yards. But turf grass is not only not native to the US, but it takes a lot of time, money, and resources to maintain.
Today, some cities are offering "cash for grass" programs and giving residents as much as $25,000 to replace their turf grass lawns with more environmentally sustainable options.
But some people still like green grass lawns and enjoy maintaining them, so what should they do? In this video we go through the multitude of options that yard owners have and talk to experts to see what they have to say.
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Lawn People: How Grasses, Weeds, and Chemicals Make Us Who We Are by Paul Robbins
The Lawn: A History of an American Obsessio...
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- 3 scenarios for Biden dropping out #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- Can Paris fix its poop problem before the Olympics?
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- 2 years ago
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- Paris’s bold Olympic promise to clean the River Seine.
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A key promise in Paris’s bid to host the 2024 Summer Olympics was that its famous river, the Seine, would be cleaned up in time to host open water swimming events: the triathlon, para triathlon, and marathon swimming. But swimming has been banned in the Seine for a century because the Paris sewer system is designed to dump wastewater into the river during heavy rain, when the sewers get overwhelmed by stormwater.
When that happens, levels of E. coli, a bacteria associated with fecal matter, spike in the river, making it too contaminated to swim in. In order to make good on its promise to clean th...
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- Fireworks, explained
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- 2 years ago
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If you’re in the US this July 4th, you’ll be seeing a ton of fireworks. But have you ever wondered how they make sure that each individual firework epxlodes into a distinct and creative shape? In this video, we explain how fireworks work!
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- The Future of AI is Open [Advertiser content from IBM]
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- 2 years ago
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- AI is primed to change how we do business. With new open source initiatives including IBM Granite models and InstructLab, IBM aims to leave an imprint on the future of business.
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- What should an electric car sound like?
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- 2 years ago
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- The driving sounds of EVs, explained by the designers who make them.
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For over a century, the internal combustion engine powered vehicles with an intricate combination of moving parts and tiny explosions. That combustion process inevitably made noise, and that noise came to define the background soundscape of our roads, cities, and day-to-day life. But as hybrids and EVs became increasingly mainstream — and more of their near-silent electric motors filled the streets — it became clear that silent vehicles didn’t fit in the ecosystem we’d built around cars.
Spearheaded by associations of the blind and visually impaired, legislation eventually began to require electric vehicles to emit an artificial engine noise out of hidden external speakers. These hidden speaker systems, called “Acoustic Vehicle Alerti...
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- Are headphones destroying our hearing?
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- 2 years ago
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- Here’s how to protect your ears.
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I wear headphones every day. And if I’m at work, I have those bad boys on for nearly 8 hours straight. In a perfect world, I’m listening at a reasonable volume…but in reality it’s hard to know if that’s true. So when does loud become too loud?
The answer is: it’s really hard to tell.
According to the WHO, over a billion young adults are at risk of permanent, avoidable hearing loss due to unsafe listening practice.
While that sounds like a bunch of old people trying to suppress us young people from listening to our rock and roll the way we like it, it’s a scary statistic. It’s e...
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- The Earth is lumpier than you think #shorts
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- 2 years ago
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- And it's because sea level isn't so level.
We covered the geoid and how to measure sea level in a longer video about Mt. Everest's height, here:
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- Most Americans are wrong about crime
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- 2 years ago
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- But they’re right that something has changed in American cities.
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In 2020 and 2021, amid a pandemic that wreaked general havoc on the social fabric of the United States, violent crime rose. Today, most Americans believe that crime in the US has come roaring back — maybe even to the levels of the 1980s and ’90s.
But a look at the data shows a very different story. Nevertheless, the feeling that our cities are less safe is at least partly coming from something real. Something has changed in American cities, particularly since the pandemic. So what’s different, and what is the truth about crime in America right now?
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- Why China is winning the EV war
- Date posted
- 2 years ago
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- And what it means for US climate goals.
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The Biden administration set a climate goal that 50 percent of all new car sales in the US would be electric by 2030. Meanwhile, China reached that milestone this year, in 2024. This video explains how China was able to fast-track EV adoption and develop an EV battery that rivals what any other country has been able to do so far. It’s been a decade of government strategies that have created some of the biggest battery companies in the world, like CATL and BYD.
The Biden administration wants to keep Chinese cars and batteries out of the country — but our video explains what kind of position that puts the US in in terms of meeting its own climate goals.
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- You can help reverse the overdose epidemic
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The fatal overdose epidemic in the US, which began in the 90s with increased overdoses on prescription opioids, finally looked like it was starting to take a turn in 2018. But then the covid pandemic hit, and amid increased isolation during lockdowns, fatal drug overdoses in the US skyrocketed, crossing 100,000 fatalities in a single year for the first time in 2021.
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We’ve all heard that using our phones before bed is bad for us, but do we actually know why?
One of the most commonly cited reasons is that our phone’s blue light is disrupting our ability to fall asleep. And study after study has shown that just changing the color of light, or turning on night mode or night shift, isn’t enough to counteract the effects of our screens. The truth is that color temperature is just one aspect of how our phone light is stimulating our brains. Sleep science suggests that the key to getting good rest is much more complex.
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- Why can’t prices just stay the same?
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- 2 years ago
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- If high inflation hurts just about everyone, why can’t we have no inflation?
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Over the past few years, most of the world has experienced some pretty intense inflation, with prices rising as much as 10 percent in a single year. In 2024, even though inflation rates have fallen to more manageable levels, prices are still way up and are very unlikely to come down. Which, understandably, continues to be a source of major stress for people all over the world. So why can’t prices just stay the same?
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- 2 years ago
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- We set out to solve why a forest in the middle of Uruguay looked like that — and wound up finding something much bigger.
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Deep in the geographic center of Uruguay, there’s a peculiar group of trees just a few kilometers down the road from the small town of San Gregorio de Polanco. From the ground, it's not particularly notable. But from above, the view is mind-boggling: Hundreds of trees are arranged in perfect concentric arcs, all spiraling toward the center. Together, they look remarkably like a human fingerprint.
When we first saw this forest in a Reddit post, we were fascinated. Why had the trees been arranged in this shape? Who planted them there? And why — when you zoom out on satellite view — was the entire country of Uruguay covered in similar-looking forests? To answer that question, we went straight to the source: interviewing locals, experts, and people whose lives have been shaped...
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- How AI tells Israel who to bomb
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- 2 years ago
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- AI is supposed to help militaries make precise strikes. Is that the case in Gaza?
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Israel's war with Hamas, in response to the attacks of October 7, 2023, has led to more fatalities than in any previous Israeli war, with at least 34,000 Palestinians killed as of May 7, 2024. In Israel’s 2014 war in Gaza, just over 1,400 were killed. One factor in that difference is the use of artificial intelligence.
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- The debate over the Anthropocene, explained
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- 2 years ago
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- Humans have changed the planet. Should that go on the geologic calendar?
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The word “Anthropocene” has gained cultural resonance in recent years, as it’s become clearer that humans have made an indelible — and destructive — impact on our planet. But it’s also a term with a specific technical meaning: an epoch, or geologic unit of time, named for humans.
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- 2 years ago
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- The (bad) options for Americans facing an emergency expense.
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A 2023 Federal Reserve survey found that a third of Americans say that they don’t have the cash to cover a $500 emergency expense. So what happens if they need it?
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- The lies that sell fast fashion
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- 2 years ago
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- You deserve better than Shein.
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There are countless articles and videos breaking down the abysmal labor practices, horrifying environmental toll, and overall mountain of waste produced by the fast fashion industry. Activists and even just large swaths of the general public have been raising the alarm about this for well over a decade, but it hasn’t stopped the rise of some of the worst offenders in the industry. For example, the ultra-fast fashion brand Shein has skyrocketed in value over the past five years largely due to their marketing success on TikTok. A lot of us know that fast fashion is bad, but the only way companies like Shein still thrive is if we convince ourselves otherwise and hit “add to cart” anyway. So why do we do it?
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- 2 years ago
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- Why we’re all paying so much more for Netflix, and what we can do about it.
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When streaming first came onto the scene, it seemingly came with a promise: the movies and TV that you love, without ads, for a much cheaper price than cable.
Less than 20 years down the line, it feels like that promise has been broken. Streaming is more expensive than ever, and prices just keep going up. Password sharing has been cracked down on, forcing more of us to pay to stream. And in the backdrop of all that, advertising is back with a vengeance, thanks to the rise of the cheaper ad-supported subscription tiers.
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- Yemen's Houthis say they're avenging Gaza. But there's a lot more to it.
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After the Israel-Hamas war broke out on October 7, 2023, the Houthis, a Yemeni rebel group, began attacking ships passing through the Red Sea. The Houthis pledged to attack any ship in these waters that does business with Israel, to protest Israel’s war on Gaza and to show solidarity with Palestinians there. But as the attacks have continued, another motive for them has become apparent: strengthening the Houthis’ control of Yemen.
After a nine-year civil war, the Houthis today control a sizable area in Yemen, with over 70 percent of the Yemeni population within the group’s territory. The conflict has devastated the country, creating one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. More than 377,000 Yemenis have been killed — by airstrikes from a Saudi-led coalition; landmines and detonations planted by ...
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