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Sim Chi Yin – The Rat Tribe: Meet the Million Migrant Workers Living Beneath Beijing’s Streets

Beijing’s former bomb shelters are now home to a million or more young migrants seeking to save rent as they forge a new life in the Chinese capital. In this intimate video portrait, co-published with Al Jazeera America, a 21-year-old … Continue reading

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Astronomers Get Their Wish, and the Hubble Crisis Gets Worse

Natalie Wolchover Senior Writer/Editor The Gaia telescope gauges the distances to stars by measuring their parallax, or apparent shift over the course of a year. Closer stars have a larger parallax.   We don’t know why the universe appears to … Continue reading

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How To Count Past Infinity

Sources and links to learn more below! I’m very grateful to mathematician Hugh Woodin, Professor of Philosophy and Mathematics at Harvard, for taking the time on multiple occasions to discuss this topic with me and help me wrap my (finite) … Continue reading

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Alzheimer’s and the Brain

Vsauce is proud to announce our support for Alzheimer’s Association’s #TheLongestDay now and throughout June during Alzheimer’s & Brain Awareness month. Visit http://www.alz.org/Vsauce to join us! More good links: http://www.alz.org/facts/ Alzheimer’s disease facts and figures [PDF]: http://www.alz.org/documents_custom/2… Basics of Alzheimer’s … Continue reading

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Google’s Hidden CIA Connection – The Full Story

— ColdFusion Podcast links — Google Podcasts – http://bit.ly/2xo8doR Apple Podcasts – https://apple.co/2WI2IeU Spotify – https://spoti.fi/2KT1taB Stitcher – http://bit.ly/2WI4f4E Script by Fil Zivko Sources: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018… https://pando.com/2016/03/21/new-clin… https://listverse.com/2016/09/21/10-i… https://www.newsweek.com/assange-goog… https://techonomy.com/2013/06/how-sta… https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-o… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel https://www.cia.gov/library/readingro… https://www.wired.com/2010/07/exclusi… https://healthland.time.com/2012/03/2… View at Medium.com https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/us… https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytim… https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytim… … Continue reading

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Homeless Man Reunites w/ Family After They See Viral Makeover Photo

His family hadn’t seen him in over 10 years and assumed he was dead, but now they’re finally reunited. https://www.instagram.com/p/CI1Ih3bAw9t/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link Sometimes, a little good deed can go a long way. It can even change a life. When a man experiencing … Continue reading

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The Urban Green

Communities around the world are currently faced with a number of large scale environmental challenges, including dangerous, irreversible climate change. Many of these challenges stem from cities and our resource intensive urban lifestyles. Fortunately, an array of concrete solutions to … Continue reading

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When Trees Meet Buildings

Architects, engineers and developers are creating increasingly greener structures – and doing it in a more literal way than ever before. For more by The B1M subscribe now – http://ow.ly/GxW7y Read the full story on this video, including images and … Continue reading

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Architects Imagine Office Building for Working in a Post-COVID World | My Modern Met

How will office buildings change after the pandemic? One architecture firm has an idea. Architecture firm Büro Ole Scheeren is reimagining the future of office architecture in response to COVID-19. As the pandemic forced many traditional workplaces to become virtual, … Continue reading

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