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Why we all need subtitles now

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It’s not you — TV dialogue has gotten harder to hear. Have you ever been watching a show or movie, and then a character delivers a line so unintelligible you have to scramble to find the remote and rewind? For me, this moment came during the climax of the Pete Davidson film The King of Staten Island, where his most important line was impossible to understand. I had to rewind three times — and eventually put subtitles on — to finally pick up what he was saying. This experience isn’t unique. Gather enough people together and you can generally separate them into two categories: People who use subtitles, and people who don’t.
Vox     Jan 21, 2023

The big problem with any debt ceiling fix

Ten-year treasury option traders at the Chicago Board of Trade, pictured in 2007. These people hold the fate of the country in their hands like a tiny bird.
Vox     Jan 21, 2023

When hospitals merge, patients suffer

A new study found that after UK hospitals merge, patients are more likely to die during or soon after a hospital stay and they are also more likely to be readmitted a second time in the near term.
Vox     Jan 21, 2023

How to negotiate over practically anything

tech

Getty Images There’s a better way to get the things you want. Chris Voss had only been an FBI hostage negotiator for a year and a half when he was assigned to handle negotiations for a bank hostage at Chase Manhattan Bank in Brooklyn in 1993. About 90 minutes after first picking up the phone with one of the hostage takers, Voss had struck a deal and was able to convince the kidnappers to leave the bank. Voss credits his success to non-adversarial confrontation and building trust. “In any negotiation — business, personal — you have to find a way to gently show people reality,” says Voss, who teaches a Masterclass on negotiation, “without ...
Vox     Jan 21, 2023

Debunking gas versus electric stoves misinformation - Vox.com

health

Public health officials, researchers, and doctors have long been taking note of the abundant research linking pollution from the gas stove to respiratory problems, and the Consumer Product Safety Commission announced in December it was taking a look at the health risks to determine what regulations would be appropriate for the gas stove.
Vox     Jan 21, 2023

Netflix now has two CEOs, and neither is founder Reed Hastings

Greg Peters, Netflix’s newly appointed co-CEO, speaking at an event in 2018.
Vox     Jan 20, 2023

Attacks on New Mexico Democrats show the dangers of election denialism

politics

A supporter holds up a “Keep America Great” sign while President Donald J. Trump speaks at his Keep America Great Rally on September 16, 2019, at the Santa Ana Star Center in Rio Rancho, New Mexico.
Vox     Jan 20, 2023

Fears of a white-collar recession are overblown

White-collar layoffs are getting lots of attention, but don’t mean everyone’s job is doomed.
Vox     Jan 20, 2023

Honey bees are not in peril. These bees are.

Matt Dunne/ Want to save the bees? First, throw out most of what you know about them. What do you know about bees? That they produce honey? That they live in a hive? That they swarm? Well, I have news: These characteristics don’t actually describe most bees in the US. Of the roughly 4,000 native species, not a single one produces true honey. Not one! Most of them live alone. Most of them have no queen. The bees that many people are familiar with are honey bees, Apis mellifera, a nonnative species that Americans brought over from Europe centuries ago.
Vox     Jan 20, 2023

The FAA is struggling. Who can save it?

All eyes are on the Department of Transportation and the FAA.
Vox     Jan 20, 2023

Introducing the new, even Trumpier class of Senate Republicans

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Minority Leader Mitch McConnell welcomes the new class of Republicans (Sens. Markwayne Mullin, Tedd Budd, Katie Britt, J.D. Vance, and Eric Schmitt) to the Senate.
Vox     Jan 20, 2023

How scientists discovered the universe is really freaking huge

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The first image released from the Webb space telescope shows a section of the distant universe in detail.The very faintest, smallest blips of light in this photos are images of galaxies as they existed more than 13 billion years ago,near the very beginning of time(that light has been traveling through space ever since)
Vox     Jan 20, 2023