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The Real Reason To Kill A Mockingbird Became So Famous [Overrated - S01E01]

In this episode of Overrated , Vox 's Phil Edwards investigates the largely unheralded business reason behind the success of Harper L...

Gabe Pérez 14 Jan, 2018

The Secret Rhythm Behind Radiohead's Videotape [Earworm - S01E01]

In the first episode of Vox 's Earworm , we speak with Warren Lain. He's a Radiohead fan who also happens to be an incredibly ta...

Gabe Pérez 14 Jan, 2018

Where The 'Comic Book Font' Came From [Vox]

So...why does all the writing in comic books look like that? Vox 's Phil Edwards looked into it and found an aesthetic shaped by comi...

Gabe Pérez 14 Jan, 2018

Inter...what? The Hippest Internet Cafe Of 1995 [Vox]

The cyber-struggle is real. Vox 's Phil Edwards spoke to one of the founders of @ Cafe, an internet cafe that launched just as the in...

Gabe Pérez 06 Jan, 2018

The Black List: How An Email Survey Changed The Movie Industry [Vox]

It's thanks to this underground script list that movies like "Juno" and "Argo" finally got made. Oh, and movies l...

Gabe Pérez 29 Nov, 2017

How Languages Give Birth To Names For Colors [Vox]

Why comparatively few languages have "purple," not all of them have "blue," and some just have "white, black, an...

Gabe Pérez 06 Nov, 2017

This Plane Could Cross The Atlantic In 3.5 Hours. Why Did It Fail? [Vox]

The Concorde gave us supersonic transport. But why did this supersonic plane fail? The answer is complicated. Watch this investigation by...

Gabe Pérez 27 May, 2017

How Free Games Are Designed To Make Money? [Vox]

"Freemium" games can end up gaming gamers. Watch this animated short-doc by Vox.

Gabe Pérez 11 May, 2017