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What’s inside this crater in Madagascar?

What’s inside this crater in Madagascar? On satellite imagery, we spotted a village inside a strange crater in Madagascar. We set out to learn how it got there. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Right in the center of the island nation of Madagascar there’s a strange, almost perfectly circular geological structure. It covers a bigger…

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The rise of Xi Jinping, explained

The rise of Xi Jinping, explained How Xi Jinping became China’s most powerful leader since Mao Zedong Help keep Vox free for everybody: http://www.vox.com/give-now Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Xi Jinping, president of China and general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party since 2012,…

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Something weird happens when you keep squeezing

Something weird happens when you keep squeezing Under extreme pressures, matter defies the rules of physics as we know it. Help keep Vox free for everybody: http://www.vox.com/give-now Subscribe to our channel and turn on notifications (🔔) so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Physicists have a pretty good handle on how stuff behaves on the…

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What I learned from taking a train across the US

What I learned from taking a train across the US Here’s how US train travel went from excellent to mediocre. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO If you’ve taken the Amtrak recently, you might have no idea that the United States used to have the largest and wealthiest…

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Why China is losing the microchip war

Why China is losing the microchip war And why the US and China are fighting over silicon in the first place. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In October 2022, the Biden administration placed a large-scale ban on the sale of advanced semiconductor chips to China. They also…

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Why we all need subtitles now

Why we all need subtitles now It’s not you — the dialogue in TV and movies has gotten harder to hear. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO Have you ever been watching a show or movie, and then a character delivers a line so unintelligible you have to…

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2022, in 7 minutes

2022, in 7 minutes Running up that hill with 8 billion people. Subscribe to our channel! http://goo.gl/0bsAjO In 2022, the world population crossed 8 billion people — and we felt the scale of this monumental milestone in hundreds of ways. After over two years of lockdowns and quarantines, people eagerly restarted their lives, but there…

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Putin’s war on Ukraine, explained

Putin’s war on Ukraine, explained Ukraine is under attack. Subscribe and turn on notifications 🔔 so you don’t miss any videos: http://goo.gl/0bsAjO On February 24th, Russia launched a military invasion of Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin called it a “special military operation,” but the scale of the attack shows this is a full-scale war that…