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Could a third party fix the hellscape of fail that is the United States Congress? Ezra Klein explains.

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The role political satire plays in France is unlike anything in the US. Vox's Amanda Taub explains.

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Low gas prices have these drivers dancing and singing at the pump.

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You may know exactly what race you are, but how would you prove it if somebody disagreed with you? Jenée Desmond Harris explains. And for more on how race is a social construct:
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Researchers at Duke University have grown the first responsive, contracting human muscle in a lab. It looks amazing.

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The hidden clues and details in the trailers for Avengers: Age of Ultron, due in theaters in May.

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http://www.vox.com/2014/10/23/7047745/avengers-age-of-ultron-trailer-explained
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The average Oscar voter is a 63-year-old white man, so it's no surprise that there is a horrible lack of diversity in this year's Academy Award nominations.

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An hour is a long time. Here is President Obama's speech with a lot less clapping and words.
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In every State of the Union since Barack Obama took office, he has offered policy built for an emergency. But not this time. Ezra Klein explains the 6 most important sentences from the Obama's 2015 address.

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The largest container ship in the world launched earlier this month. It's nearly the size of four football fields. Here's how container ships got so huge and transformed the global economy. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO

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The Box, by Marc Levinson: http://www.amazon.com/The-Box-Shipping-Container-Smaller/dp/0691136408

Eric Burniche http://www.flickr.com/photos/125006583@N05/15460454056

David AE Levy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6lV5QR_4qk

MSC via Vimeo http://vimeo.com/114546802

Maersk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_QChxYgYWw

CaptMikeRossiter https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHPEGzQ4_ys

MINISTRO2010 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkr_n-9-x9Q

Port of Antwerp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtyWgPC84ss

Natures Lullaby https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9H5kzSt1yg

Academic Film Archive of North America https://archive.org/details/TheSeaport

Prelinger Archive https://archive.org/details/IndustryOnPa

ttz_shirasawa https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2Kbrj9L9CMDrm1cY0Dx-Lw

tariqismrgrumpy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJx9OImrLcg

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webministriestv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rcuKON5iFzg

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Allison Swaim https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2qGh9n5Mio

Humberto Florez/Sea-Land Service https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECQVohqeUu4

lyzadanger http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fredmeyer.jpg

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American Sniper is breaking box office records. The movie tells the story of the late Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and the sacrifices his family made as he served four tours in Iraq. But it deeply misrepresents why America went to war in Iraq and how the war actually went down.

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Medical errors in America kill more people than AIDS or drug overdoses. For more, read Sarah Kliff's feature at Vox: http://www.vox.com/2015/1/29/7878731/medical-errors-statistics

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With TransAsia flight 235 crashing in Taiwan this week, after a year of several horrifying accidents, it may seem like plane crashes are becoming more frequent. But thankfully, that's not what the statistics show.

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President Obama talks with Vox Executive Editor Matthew Yglesias about war, peace, the Middle East, China, terrorism, foreign aid, and more.

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President Obama talks with Vox Editor-in-chief Ezra Klein about Obamacare, the economy, political polarization, income inequality, race, and more.

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Cow pus. It all started with cow pus, nearly 220 years ago.

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Words by: Julia Belluz
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Here's what you need to know about Boko Haram, the Islamist group terrorizing northeast Africa's largest democracy.

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Taylor Swift's new video for "Style," just one of three of Swift's songs currently in the Billboard top 20, completes Taylor's evolution from country to pop. But what is pop? We broke down both the musical and music video anatomy of "Style" to find out.

Voiceover: Kelsey McKinney, Vox Culture reporter
Edit & Animation: Joe Posner
"Style" Music Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CmadmM5cOk

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In the 1960s and 1970s geneticists pursued a fascinating hypothesis: Is it possible that a man could be born with a criminal gene?
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The Federal Communications Commission has approved its strongest network neutrality rules yet. What is net neutrality, and how did we get here? Ezra Klein explains.

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The linguistics behind Kevin Spacey's Southern accent in House of Cards.

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Sources: Dennis Preston, Oklahoma State University; Robin Dodsworth, North Carolina State University; Kirk Hazen, West Virginia University
The Atlas of North American English: http://www.ling.upenn.edu/phono_atlas/Atlas_chapters/Ch18_2nd.rev.pdf

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The American economy is in much better shape than it was five years ago. But there's still a major problem when it comes to unemployment. Matthew Yglesias explains.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered his controversial speech to Congress on Iran Tuesday. Here's the key point on which Netanyahu and Obama differ, and why it's such a big deal.

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The Supreme Court’s oral arguments on King v. Burwell - a legal challenge that could dismantle Obamacare — were full of surprises. Sarah Kliff was there.

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President Barack Obama spoke in Selma, Alabama on Saturday to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, the day civil rights protesters were brutally beaten by police officers when they tried to march in support of voting rights. Obama addressed racial progress in America, called on Congress to restore the Voting Rights Act (which protests in Selma helped pass), and articulated his vision of what America is.

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One man cracked his knuckles in one hand for 60 years and not the other. Watch the video to see what he found out.

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There's a long-held myth that cracking your knuckles can damage your hands. The sound definitely might make people around you cringe, but what's making those noises, and is it actually bad for you?

There's a space in your joints filled with synovial fluid, a liquid that reduces the friction in your joints when you move. It contains gases (oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide).

When you pop a joint, you stretch out that space between the bones. That expanding space creates negative pressure, like a vacuum, that sucks in the synovial fluid. It forms bubbles, which then collapse, and that's what you hear.

Most medical sources agree that unless you experience pain when you pop your joints, you're probably fine to keep doing it. Researchers (including one man who cracked his knuckles on just one hand for 60 years) haven't established a connection between cracking your knuckles and arthritis.

One 1990 study of 300 people did find that cracking knuckles over a long period of time led to hand swelling and decreased grip strength, but there hasn't been any follow-up research on that.

Read it here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1004074/pdf/annrheumd00439-0036.pdf

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These gorgeous cat videos come from camera traps -- the motion-sensing cameras that researchers are using to monitor endangered and elusive animals.

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WWF Russia/ISUNR http://www.worldwildlife.org/videos/amur-leopards-caught-on-camera-trap

WCS/Forestry Bureau of Jilin Province
http://www.wcs.org/press/press-releases/rare-leopard-breeding.aspx

Marten Slothouwer/Eyes on Leuser
https://www.youtube.com/user/eyesonleuser

Transylvanian Wildlife Project
https://www.youtube.com/user/TWPRomania

Panthera/Snow Leopard Trust
https://vimeo.com/album/1733547

Jason Hon/Kyoto University
http://biomasssociety.org/en/2011/10/bay-cat-captured-on-video-by-camera-traps/

Imperial College London/ZSL
http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/newsandeventspggrp/imperialcollege/newssummary/news_4-11-2013-17-21-24

Laila Bahaa-el-din/Panthera
http://www.panthera.org/african-golden-cats-0

Yemini Foundation for Endangered Wildlife
http://www.yemenileopard.org/

Diego Mosquera/Tiputini Biodiversity Station
https://vimeo.com/user24899022

Panthera
https://vimeo.com/36354155

Farid Belbachir/ZSL/OPNA
http://www.zsl.org/science/news/a-rare-glimpse-at-the-elusive-saharan-cheetah

Jilin Wangqing National Nature Reserve / WWF
http://www.worldwildlife.org/stories/rare-video-of-amur-tiger-family

Norwegian University of Life Sciences/Snow Leopard Foundation Pakistan
http://www.umb.no/frontpage/article/spying-on-snow-leopards

Kaiberen Project via Panthera
https://www.facebook.com/Kaiberen/videos?ref=stream

Andean Cat Alliance
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Alianza-Gato-Andino-AGA/204268532941589?ref=tn_tnmn&sk=wall

A.J. Hearn and J. Ross
http://www.wildcru.org/research/reaseacg-4/

Samuel Angedakin/Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
http://www.panthera.org/node/5297

Rimba/Laurie Hedges
http://myrimba.org/

Uganda Carnivore Program
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Sen. Cory Booker (D–NJ) sat down with Vox's German Lopez to discuss racial disparities in America's criminal justice system. See the full interview here: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/16/8205027/cory-booker-drug-war

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This new 3D printing technology by Carbon 3d looks like science fiction. But it's entirely real. Vox's Joseph Stromberg explains. For more on how it works: http://www.vox.com/2015/3/16/8227627/3d-printing-liquid-continuous

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Vox Culture Editor Todd VanDerWerff gives us a call from L.A. to discuss Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt's groundbreaking use of color.

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The conflict in Ukraine is more than just Russian aggression. It's deep historical roots are causing a modern-day struggle over what kind of country Ukraine should be. Vox's Amanda Taub explains.

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People love March Madness because we love to root for underdogs.

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Watch these floating heads explain the politics of Iran’s nuclear deal.

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MLB games are now longer than epic movies, but it wasn't always that way.

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Dodger Nation: https://www.youtube.com/user/dodgernationkorea
MLB Classics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeKbktNm0Mk
High-Powered Planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2UY1YTA_LI
Ben Bain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Om4hgHX1A
Eric Hanson: https://vimeo.com/61592992
Gotham Mutt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMAQK23jCSk

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Iran looks a certain way to Westerners. But a look into the day to day lives of normal Iranians can change that perception.

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About 1,000 Americans, plus a handful of interviewees in Times Square, show that when it comes to abortion in the US, there's a surprising gray area. For more, see the full feature: http://www.vox.com/a/abortion-decision-statistics-opinions

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There's a pretty good reason why parents are confused by their kids' new math homework.

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Jennifer Wright explains how the color pink became associated with girls.

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ISIS is still a ruthless group, but it no longer has the territorial advantage it has enjoyed for the past 9 months.

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Daredevil's one-shot fight scene at the end of its second episode just might be our favorite fight scene in years. And the best moment of that scene doesn't even involve fighting.

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We see police sketches in the news all the time, but do they actually work?

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Here's what it's like to transition when you're not a celebrity like Bruce Jenner. For much more on living as a transgender person in America, read the full feature: http://www.vox.com/a/transgender-stories

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Next time you're suffering from a spicy bite, don't reach for water.

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Satellites have been watching us for 40 years. Here's what images taken from space reveal about human activities and our global footprint.

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This video will change the way you look at pigeons.

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Superdove: How the Pigeon took Manhattan... and the World http://www.amazon.com/Superdove-Pigeon-Took-Manhattan-World/dp/0061259160
Pigeons: The Fascinating Saga of the World's Most Revered and Reviled Bird http://www.amazon.com/Pigeons-Fascinating-Worlds-Revered-Reviled/dp/0802143288/ref=sr_1_1
Simon de Kruijf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHucNka_v64
F Alzheimers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c7vuU4R9Nj4
Mike McKenzie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rn55q7zE7Zc
NYU Local https://vimeo.com/49680488
B.F. Skinner Foundation https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-cO_UIkJYUacckkE7LPwTA
Archive.org https://archive.org/details/Betty_Boop_Training_Pigeons_1936
https://archive.org/details/FB-32
justwalkiniam https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2_FARacbU0
NTDTV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsnUXY2EWXI
ocdoves https://www.youtube.com/user/ocdoves
Project Sea Hunt http://www.uscg.mil/history/articles/PigeonSARProject.asp
MrWizardStudios https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOkpvEZ-p2k
The Tom Lehrer Wisdom Channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yhuMLpdnOjY

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Soylent was supposed to allow us to replace food. Unfortunately, it didn't exactly live up to the hype. For much more about Soylent, read the full article here: http://www.vox.com/2015/5/12/8590673/soylent

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Barack Obama changed American politics. So the Daily Show had to change too.

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Nearly 2,000 migrants have perished in the Mediterranean so far this year. Vox's Dara Lind explains why. For more at Vox.com: http://www.vox.com/2015/4/27/8500171/eu-mediterranean-disaster-response

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It sure looks like the New England Patriots have been caught cheating again. Read more at Vox.com:
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It costs taxpayers billions to keep US bases around the globe running. Why are they there in the first place?

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The US has around 800 military bases in other countries, which costs an estimated $100 billion annually, a number that could be much higher depending on whether you count the bases still open in Iraq and Afghanistan. This is according to American University professor David Vine in his book Base Nation, in which he seeks to quantify the financial, environmental, and human costs of keeping these bases open.

The word "base" is a broad term that captures all sorts of military posts, stations, camps, forts, etc. around the globe. The Pentagon specifics that a "base site" is any geographic location that is "owned by or leased to, or otherwise possessed" by the military.

Most of these bases cropped up after World War II when the US took position as the global leader and peacekeeper in and around Japan and Germany. The Korean and Cold Wars sped up the expansion of US military infrastructure to other countries. Containing Soviet communism led the US to set up posts all over the globe to ensure a geopolitical foothold in places that were vulnerable to Soviet influence — which basically meant everywhere.

Even though Japan, Germany, and Korea are now American allies and stable democracies, thousands of troops and many bases still remain in these countries. Even though the Cold War is over, much of the military infrastructure built up in response to that era remains operational.

American taxpayers are in charge of the bill for keeping these bases running. This estimated $100 billion is pumped out of our economy to the location of these bases. It's a massive military system that ensures US influence in every corner of the planet, and given the uncontested nature of this widespread strategy, there isn't likely to be any change soon.

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You don't have to spend a lot of money on a bottle of wine. Few wine experts and regular people can tell the difference between expensive wine and cheap wine.

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We already know quite a bit about the dangers of spending a long time in a zero gravity environment. And with two astronauts spending an entire year in space, we're about to learn more.

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What's likeliest to kill more than 10 million human beings in the next 20 years? It's probably not what you'd think. For much more, read Ezra Klein's feature story: http://bit.ly/3cyulAe

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There's something out there that's as bad as war, something that kills as many people as war, and Bill Gates doesn't think we're ready for it.

"Look at the death chart of the 20th century," he says, because he's the kind of guy that looks at death charts. "I think everybody would say there must be a spike for World War I. Sure enough, there it is, like 25 million. And there must be a big spike for World War II, and there it is, it's like 65 million. But then you'll see this other spike that is as large as World War II right after World War I, and most people, would say, 'What was that?'"

"Well, that was the Spanish flu."

In a 1990 paper on "The Anthropology of Infectious Disease," Marcia Inhorn and Peter Brown estimated that infectious diseases "have likely claimed more lives than all wars, noninfectious diseases, and natural disasters put together."

Infectious diseases are our oldest, deadliest foe.

And they remain so today. "In a good year, flu kills over 10,000 Americans," says Dr. Thomas Frieden, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "In a bad year, it kills over five times that. If we have a pandemic, it will be much worse. People think the H1N1 flu wasn’t so bad. But more than 1,000 American kids died from H1N1!"

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Prosthetics and puppets and pyrotechnics, oh my!

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Senator Sanders' presidential campaign has become an unlikely internet sensation, dominating social media. Vox's Matt Yglesias explains. For more over at Vox.com: http://www.vox.com/2015/5/7/8560925/bernie-sanders-reddit

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If you have played a claw machine you probably haven't won many prizes and maybe even thought they are rigged. Find out what really happened to your allowance. Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more: https://www.facebook.com/philedwardsinc1/

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SUMMER IS COMING.

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The White Walkers are some of Thrones’ creepiest villains — but they also help tell a really interesting metaphor about climate change.

For starters, the White Walkers are a threat to all humanity: Their zombie minions are equally happy to rip apart people of all nations and noble houses. Yet instead of uniting to combat the shared threat to human existence, the houses in the show spend basically all their time on their own petty disagreements and struggle for power. White Walkers are generally ignored; some nobles deny their existence outright.

Swap climate change for White Walkers and "countries" for noble houses, and it starts to sound a lot like the real world.

Specifically, it sounds like the problem of international coordination on climate change. No one country can prevent catastrophic warming on its own: Every country that's a major greenhouse gas emitter is part of the problem.

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Where does the flu come from, and how can we make the flu vaccine better? A scientist armed with pipe cleaners and 10,000 RNA samples explains.

Vox presents a new video contributed by Flora Lichtman and Sharon Shattuck and made possible by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The new study this video was based on: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature14460.html?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureMagazine

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A lot has changed in paleontology since Jurassic Park first came out in 1993.

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National Geographic: A Velociraptor Without Feathers Isn’t a Velociraptor http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/2013/03/20/a-velociraptor-without-feathers-isnt-a-velociraptor/
The Guardian: Siberian dinosaur spreads feathers around the dinosaur tree http://www.theguardian.com/science/lost-worlds/2014/jul/24/kulindadromeus-feathers-dinosaur-birds-evolution-siberia-russia
Science Mag: Earliest dinosaurs may have sported feathers http://news.sciencemag.org/evolution/2014/07/earliest-dinosaurs-may-have-sported-feathers

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Masih Alinejad is an Iranian journalist and advocate for religious freedom and women's rights. She is the moderator of My Stealthy Freedom, a Facebook group that has over 800,000 followers. There, she and other Iranian women post photos of themselves removing their headscarves in public — a quiet but brave protest against the Iranian laws that govern not just their clothing, but the way they practice their religion.

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Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital have successfully grown a rat leg in a petri dish, and it could change prosthetics forever.

Eventually, this technology could allow for human hand, arm, and leg transplants without the risk of the patient's body rejecting the new limb.

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You have probably seen the odd, and often shirtless, photo-ops staged by Russian President Vladimir Putin. While most world leaders content themselves with appearing at sober state functions or occasional political rally, Putin's official photocalls suggest a rich, Walter-Mitty-esque fantasy life. But even though we may think these photos are just Putin stroking his wild ego, there is actually a very rational political strategy behind them.

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President Obama reacts to the mass shooting at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, that took the lives of nine people Wednesday night. It was not nearly the first time he'd made remarks after a mass shooting. For more on the shooting in South Carolina: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/17/8802547/mass-shooting-emmanuel-charleston-sc For more on gun violence in the United States: http://www.vox.com/cards/gun-violence-facts

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Was the shooting that killed 9 people in Charleston's Emanuel AME Church on Wednesday terrorism? Vox's Dara Lind explains. For our full coverage on the Charleston shooting: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/18/8804245/charleston-shooting-ame-church-clementa-pinckney

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What does Siri really sound like? Susan Bennett, the original voice behind Siri, explains voice acting in 4 voices. Get ready to hear Siri like you've never heard her before. For much more on the art of voiceover, see the full feature on vox.com: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/23/8831131/siri-voiceover-susan-bennett

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This controversial method teaches infants survival skills to save themselves from drowning.

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The US Supreme Court struck down states' same-sex marriage bans on June 26, effectively bringing marriage equality to the entire US. Watch it sweep the United States over the last 11 years. For more on the decision on Vox.com: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/26/8823655/gay-marriage-legal-scotus-obergefell-v-hodges

"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice, and family," Justice Anthony Kennedy, who joined the court's liberals in the majority opinion, wrote. "[The challengers] ask for equal dignity in the eyes of the law. The Constitution grants them that right."

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Bree Newsome, an organizer and activist from Charlotte, North Carolina, temporarily took down South Carolina's Confederate flag this morning by climbing up the 30-foot flagpole on statehouse grounds. Read more at Vox: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/27/8856969/bree-newsome-confederate-flag

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Have you ever wondered why you love makeover movies so much? We broke down the best moments that happen in almost every makeover movie for you: http://www.vox.com/2015/6/29/8861989/anatomy-of-a-makeover-movie

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Taste and smell problems affect about 10 to 15 million people in the US. Though traditionally dismissed by doctors as a minor problem, taste and smell disorders can pose a serious risk — and we're just starting to understand how to treat them. Christophe Haubursin explains in under 2 minutes.

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New research takes us inside the teeth of these extinct killing machines.

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Greece is in a state of economic and financial crisis that's dominated global headlines this week. Vox's Matt Yglesias explains the real roots of the crisis. For our more on the Greek crisis: http://www.vox.com/cards/eurozone-crisis

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The New York Times recently set the internet on fire, suggesting peas should be in guacamole. They even received a presidential rebuke. So we investigated.

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ISIS Propaganda is terrible to most people. But it has been a key component to the group's recruiting success.

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Every year, 75,000 patients acquire infections at hospitals — and die during their visit. The infections are often preventable. Come back tomorrow morning for the full feature and short documentary by Vox's Sarah Kliff. The full video is here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlFnPAydJgk

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Some hospitals treat infections like plane crashes. Others treat them like car accidents. That difference in attitude can determine whether patients live or die. For more at Vox.com: http://www.vox.com/2015/7/9/8905959/medical-harm-infection-prevention And for an interactive map on hospitals in your area: http://www.vox.com/a/infections-hospitals-map

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A tiny spacecraft has been traveling 9 years for this moment — the day we finally get a close look at Pluto. Here's what you need to know about NASA's New Horizon's mission.

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Serena Williams is widely regarded as the best female tennis player of all time. But her career has been followed by severe racism and sexism that taps into stereotypes about black women.

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Longtime Serena Williams fans know that, along with celebrating, they should brace for more of the expressions of bigotry have threatened to tarnished nearly every victory, magazine cover, and interview of her entire incredible career.

All too often, instead of being celebrated, she's targeted with outrageous racist and sexist comments.

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Iran and six world powers just cut a historical deal that would limit the Iranian nuclear program in exchange for economic sanctions relief. The details of the of the 159-page report are terribly technical. But there are some important aspect of this deal that we've distilled into this 3-minute video.
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Donald Trump is showing a side of the GOP that party leaders don't want you to see. For more at Vox: http://www.vox.com/2015/7/12/8937107/donald-trump-troll-GOP

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"You've participated in one of the biggest killings in human history. I want to know what it means to you."

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Rubik's Cube world record-holder Collin Burns tells us how he did it.

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We never knew what Pluto looked like. Now we do. Thanks, NASA.

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NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has returned photos of Pluto, the dwarf planet located at the far reaches of our solar system. These pictures of Pluto and its moons are the first high-definition images of Pluto that humans have ever seen.

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Why are the babies in medieval art so ugly? Phil Edwards dug a little to find out: http://www.vox.com/2015/7/8/8908825/ugly-medieval-babies

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In a wide-ranging discussion, Bernie Sanders discusses his views on socialism, single payer, open borders, Zionism, and more with Vox Editor-in-chief Ezra Klein. Table of contents below:
0:00 – Socialism
3:20 – Universal health care
5:50 – Global poverty & open borders
9:29 – Unions
11:31 – Grassroots organizing
16:04 – Race
17:56 – Oligarchy and campaign finance
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23:10 – Iran
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27:24 – Climate change
31:33 – China
34:04 – Greece
35:24 – Universal basic income

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Bernie Sanders speaks with Vox Editor-in-chief Ezra Klein about campaign finance. For the rest of the conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5vOKKMipSA

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Bernie Sanders speaks with Vox Editor-in-chief Ezra Klein about climate change. For the rest of the conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5vOKKMipSA

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Bernie Sanders speaks with Vox Editor-in-chief Ezra Klein about global poverty. For the rest of the conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5vOKKMipSA And for Vox's Dylan Matthews' take on this section of the interview: http://www.vox.com/2015/7/29/9048401/bernie-sanders-open-borders

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A wedding videographer explains the bizarre economics of your big day.

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Undercover videos filmed by an anti-abortion group have Republicans calling to defund Planned Parenthood. Here's what the videos do and don't prove.

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Pareidolia — the phenomenon by which we interpret familiar patterns from randomness — explains why the human brain sees faces where there are none.

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General debates get all the attention, but it turns out that the primaries is where all the action is.

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Most Americans killed by bullets every year are completely alone when they die.

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It's not because they're drunker than you are.

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Asian flush, also widely known as Asian glow, is when Chinese, Japanese and Korean people turn red after drinking alcohol. What causes Asian glow? Genetics, basically. Around 36% of Northeast Asians are deficient in one of the enzymes that metabolizes alcohol, due to a gene mutation called ALDH2*2. This leads to a buildup of a toxic substance called acetaldehyde, which causes Asian flush and can also cause cancer, especially esophageal cancer.

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Impact was designed for 1960s ads. How did it become the #1 font for internet memes? Follow Phil Edwards and Vox Almanac on Facebook for more: https://www.facebook.com/philedwardsinc1/

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Where you were born makes all the difference

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Conceived in 1989 and revised in 2004, Trump: The Game lets you amass a real estate fortune by firing your competitors.

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Republican presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump is the only candidate with his own Hasbro board game. As he continues to lead the polls among the GOP primary electorate, we decided to try playing the game. "It takes brains to make millions. It takes Trump to make billions." What does that even mean.

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What does a meth user look like? You’re probably not picturing Courtney – and that’s one reason why it’s so important to hear his story.

In the 1990s and early 2000s, meth became the most widely used illicit drug among urban gay men. "Early characterizations of the meth problem in the gay community depicted the party boy or the middle-class white man as the prototype of the meth user," says Dr. Perry Halkitis, professor of applied psychology, global public health, and medicine at New York University.

Public health campaigns in the early 2000s targeted white gay meth users as a way of combating the AIDS epidemic. This, Halkitis believes, created a stigma among middle- and upper-class white gay men and pushed the drug underground in the gay community. And while Halkitis says meth use is still common among all subsets of the gay population, a recent study of his found meth now disproportionately affects HIV-positive and African-American gay men.

To make this short, filmmaker Spencer Macnaughton spent weeks of chatting online with many men and attending a Crystal Meth Anonymous meeting at New York's LGBT Community Center, where 38 gay male ex-meth users shared their recovery stories. For more on how this was made, see the article on Vox.com: http://www.vox.com/2015/8/24/9196953/meth-unseen-face-pnp

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We've been putting our routers in the wrong place this whole time.

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Wifi map courtesy of Jason Cole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hcK9B4HHY8 http://jasmcole.com/2014/08/25/helmhurts/

Wifi signals are made of radio waves that have a shorter wavelength than AM radio and cell phones but longer than satellite tv. How can I make my wifi faster? There are several things you can do to make your wifi faster without paying more, and they mostly have to do with the placement of your wifi router.

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"Everything we knew was gone."

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Interviews by The Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum http://l9livingmuseum.org/
and Estelle Caswell

Ten years ago, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, bringing with it an immense storm surge and winds over 120 miles per hour.

The massive eyewall of the storm directly hit the Mississippi coast where Leonard Papania, a police officer and resident, immediately began search and rescue.

Sixty miles west, the natural disaster turned into a manmade catastrophe when the levee system protecting New Orleans broke down, covering 80 percent of the city in at least 10 feet of water. Called the worst engineering failure in US history, the flooding killed hundreds of people and rendered hundreds of thousands homeless.

The Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood was one of the worst-hit parts of the city — only one in five of its residents have returned. Following the disaster, the Lower Ninth Ward Living Museum collected oral histories about Hurricane Katrina from residents of the neighborhood. The video above paints a picture of what survivors across the Gulf Coast experienced during the storm and its aftermath.

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Factory farms made it illegal to expose animal abuse. What are they trying to hide?

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In seven states in the US, there are laws that criminalize shooting or possessing video of an agricultural facility without the owner’s permission. The food industry wants to keep farms private — but given that similar anti-whistleblower bills have failed in most states and have earned overwhelmingly negative press, it appears that the public doesn’t entirely agree.

When activist organizations do these undercover investigations, they can often reveal shocking employee behavior on farms — but they can also reveal perfectly legal, standard industry practices that the public doesn’t know about.

And with a population increasingly uninvolved with food production, there’s a lot that we don’t know about how our food is made.

Food in America is unique: we spend less on food in the US than any other country, only 6.5 percent.

It’s hard to say whether anti-whistleblower laws will last long — just this summer, a federal judge overturned Idaho’s law, ruling that it was an unconstitutional violation of the right to free speech. The food industry is trying to figure out a way to strike a balance between transparency and business interests, and it's a balance that's still very much in the works.

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Mandatory minimums were supposed to help crack down on drug crime in the 80s. But they've had huge unintended consequences.

10 charts that show the racism of US criminal justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InOsF5x1lZw
Senator Cory Booker on "caste system" criminal justice: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQMZGkMPDFU

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These statutes dictate specific prison terms for certain crimes deemed uniquely harmful to society. By design, they bar judges from using discretion during sentencing. Minimums have been around since America’s founding, but the most consequential ones were erected in the 1980s in response to the ravages of the inner-city drug trade. The idea was to establish uniformly stringent punishments to both deter drug offenses and lock away kingpins. And a central feature of this framework was the now infamous minimum sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine violations.

The US government created a 100-to-1 minimum sentence disparity between crack and powder cocaine.

In the US, crack consumption is tied to income, and income is tied to race. So this arbitrary sentencing disparity has forced courts to punish black Americans much more harshly than white Americans for basically the exact same crime. As a result, tens of thousands of young men, most of whom are black, have been snatched up by law enforcement on low-level drug offenses and thrown into prison for mandatory terms that make a mockery of any sense of proportionately. This situation is so absurd that its sparked the formation of a reform coalition composed of the most unlikely of allies, including the Koch brothers, the NAACP, Newt Gingrich, the ACLU, Senator Rand Paul, and the Obama White House.

Fortunately, policymakers have started injecting some common sense into the minimums regime. A landmark 2005 Supreme Court decision afforded federal judges some leeway to stray from dictated terms. A major federal criminal justice

Dentists should keep their hands in our mouths, not our pockets.

There's an invisible problem in dentistry: some dentists using "creative diagnosis" to perform unnecessary work in the interest of making extra money. Read Joseph Stromberg's article for more: http://www.vox.com/2014/10/13/6957627/dentist-rip-off

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There are over 4 million refugees from the Syrian civil war so far.

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For much more on the refugee crisis: http://www.vox.com/2015/9/5/9265501/refugee-crisis-europe-syria
And why people are fleeing Syria in the first place: http://www.vox.com/2015/9/4/9261971/syria-refugee-war

Data sources:
http://data.unhcr.org/syrianrefugees/regional.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/05/us/many-obstacles-are-seen-to-us-taking-in-large-number-of-syrian-refugees.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=a-lede-package-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
http://www.rescue.org/blog/us-commitment-accept-8000-syrian-refugees-not-enough-says-irc

The Huffington Post's interview with Secretary of State John Kerry: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKSVNertfKg

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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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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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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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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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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 and operated the photo systems. In an essay for Buzzfeed, writer and photographer Syreeta McFadden described growing up with film that couldn't record her actual appearance:

"The inconsistencies were so glaring that for a while, I thought it was impossible to get a decent picture of me that captured my likeness. I began to retreat from situations involving group photos. And sure, many of us are fickle about what makes a good portrait. But it seemed the technology was stacked against me. I only knew, though I didn’t understand why, that the lighter you were, the more likely it was that the camera — the film — got your likeness right."

Many of the technological biases have since been corrected (though, not all of them, as explained in the video above). Still, we often see controversies about the misrepresentation of non-white subjects in magazines and advertisements. What are we to make of the fact that these images routinely lighten the skin of women of color?

Tools are only as good as the people who use them. The learned pre