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Wild Chickens in Miami?

We recently went to Miami and noticed wild chickens seemingly everywhere? Why are there so many wild chickens crossing the road in Miami? Mr. Beat explains.

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Sources/further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_chicken
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/citys-stray-chickens-friend-or-foe-6532610
​​https://www.morningagclips.com/rooster-terrorizes-a-miami-neighborhood/
https://abcnews.go.com/WN/story?id=3478593
https://www.reddit.com/r/BackYardChickens/comments/18zdlcy/wild_chickens_all_over_miami/

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Florida Man? More like Florida Chicken.

Recently we visited Miami’s Little Havana neighborhood. More Cuban exiles live here than arguably anywhere in the world. But there’s also a bunch of wild chickens, and it completely caught us off guard. Wild chickens everywhere, just wandering about.

Miami isn’t the only city where you see this. A 3-hour drive away is Key West, where you also see wild chickens, for example. Tampa, St. Augustine, Houston, New Orleans, and even Los Angeles have some, but they seem to be ALL OVER Miami.

So…why? Why did the chicken cross the road in Miami?


He won the presidential election by 4 votes

Mr. Beat explains the narrowest margin in a presidential election in American history.

Produced by Matt Beat. Music by Silent Partner.

Sources/further reading:
https://books.google.com/books?id=DKNBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA30&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/state.php?year=1832&f=1&off=0&elect=0&fips=24&submit=Retrieve
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1832_United_States_presidential_election_in_Maryland

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Henry Clay won an American presidential election by just 4 votes…
in Maryland.

Now, Andrew Jackson won the presidential election of 1832 OVERALL, but Clay’s 4-vote victory in Maryland is the smallest margin between two major party candidates in any state in any presidential election ever.

See? Every vote counts. But yeah actually every vote DOESN’T COUNT. Especially back then.

Why? Well because back then electoral votes weren’t awarded based on the popular vote. Sure, USUALLY whoever won the popular vote got all the state’s ELECTORAL VOTES, which are what REALLY count in presidential elections. Even though Clay won Maryland by just 4 votes, Maryland normally WOULD have awarded ALL 10 of its electoral votes to him, but it didn’t. Clay got just five, Jackson three, and two electors didn’t even cast votes! Phhh. I mean, whatever. It’s just the most important American election ever. Why would you need to cast votes in it?


Presidents who decided not to run for re-election

How rare is it for presidents not to seek re-election? Well, it's probably not as rare as you might think. Nearly 1/3 of all American presidents chose not to run for another term in office.

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Sources/further reading:
Wallenfeldt, Jeff. "Have Any U.S. Presidents Decided Not to Run For a Second Term?". Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Jul. 2024 https://www.britannica.com/story/have-any-us-presidents-decided-not-to-run-for-a-second-term
https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/rutherford-b-hayes/
https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/james-buchanan-event-timeline

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U.S. President Joe Biden recently announced he would be running for re-election
But that was in 2023, which was, like, forever ago, and now he’s actually NOT running for re-election
So which OTHER American presidents CHOSE not to seek re-election when they could have?

Well, before presidents were limited to two terms, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Ulysses Grant, Grover Cleveland and Harry Truman all declined to run for a third term. James Buchanan and Rutherford Hayes both announced they’d be one-term presidents at their inaugurations. James Polk announced he’d be a one-term president before he even got elected. And finally Calvin Coolidge and Lyndon Johnson both shocked the nation by announcing they wouldn’t seek a second elected term. So yeah, I get why Biden announcing he would not seek re-election was surprising. He was the first since Johnson to do so.

In total, six presidents didn’t seek a second term and eight presidents did not seek a third term.


I went to a political party's biggest party

Mr. Beat goes the 2024 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. While he's there, he gives you a history lesson, because of course he does.

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Sources/further reading:
Shafer, Byron E (1988). "Emergence of the Presidential The Nomination and the Convention". Bifurcated Politics: Evolution and Reform in the National Party Convention. Harvard University Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0674072565.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_nominating_convention
https://course-notes.org/us_history/political_parties/anti_masonic_party
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/2015/12/06/thank-florida-for-presidential-primaries-from-the-community/
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/are-convention-delegates-bound-to-their-presidential-candidate/

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The Cultural Genocide of Native Americans

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"Kill the Indian, Save the Man"
Mr. Beat looks at the Assimilation Period of Native American history. Yeah, it's depressing...but you should watch the whole video, anyway. Uh ok, so this is, like, the description of the video so keep reading. This was produced by Matt Beat and filmed by Matt and Shannon Beat. Drone footage by Shannon Beat. Music by Kwon, Jimena Contreras, Zachariah Hickman, and Doug Maxwell and Media Right Productions. Creative Commons credits: Ken Lund, Bjoertvedt, rossograph, and Tony the Marine.

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An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
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The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs: Native Americans and Whites in the Progressive Era by Tom Holm
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https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/4/4/726
Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report: https://www.bia.gov/sites/default/files/dup/inline-files/bsi_investigative_report_may_2022_508.pdf
https://time.com/6177069/american-indian-boarding-schools-history/
https://haskell.edu/
https://www.humanitieskansas.org/get-involved/kansas-stories/the-big-idea/big-idea-confronting-the-legacy-of-indian-boarding-schools
https://www.watkinsmuseum.org/online-exhibits/haskell-institute-the-roots-from-which-we-bloom-1884-1930/?singlepage=1
https://issuu.com/haskellculturalcenter/docs/guidebook
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/a-century-of-trauma-at-boarding-schools-for-native-american-children-in-the-united-states
https://archive.org/details/rulesgoverningco00unit
https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/teach/kill-indian-him-and-save-man-r-h-pratt-education-native-americans
https://www.theindigenousfoundation.org/articles/us-residential-schools
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_assimilation_of_Native_Americans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_boarding_schools
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Wars
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/blog/2021/11/healing-trauma-federal-residential-indian-boarding-schools
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2024/american-indian-boarding-schools-history-legacy/
http://recordsofrights.org/events/54/a-solution-to-the-indian-problem
Phan, Loan T. (2018). "Ten Stages of American Indian Genocide". Interamerican Journal of Psychology.
https://www.haskellhistory.com/cemetery
https://www.archives.gov/milestone-documents/dawes-act
https://carlisleindian.dickinson.edu/

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What Could an Actor and a Neuroscientist Have to Discuss? A Lot, Actually. #TEDIntersections

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What makes you … you? In the first episode of TED Intersections, a brand new original series from TED, actor Yara Shahidi and neuroscientist Anil Seth and discuss an idea at the intersection of their expertise: How do you define your “self”? This wide-ranging conversation covers everything from how your brain creates your identity to how someone’s perception of their self might change when they’re acting in a fictional role.


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Why we are so divided

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Mr. Beat explains why (it seems like) we are so divided as a society. Check out Dr. Sam Richards and his class/channel @SOC119!

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Age of Fracture by Daniel T. Rodgers (2012)
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Why We’re Polarized by Ezra Klein (2020)
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Echo Chambers and Epistemic Bubbles, C. Thi Nguyen
https://philarchive.org/rec/NGUECA
Situational experience around the world: A replication and extension in 62 countries, Daniel Lee
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jopy.12558
Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger (2016)
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The Evolution of Tribalism: A Social-Ecological Model of Cooperation and Inter-Group Conflict Under Pastoralism, Nicholas Seltzer
Identity Politics, Mary Bernstein
https://www.jstor.org/stable/29737711
https://www.jasss.org/22/2/6.html
https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2020/11/13/america-is-exceptional-in-the-nature-of-its-political-divide/
https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/decennial-census/decade/2020/planning-management/plan/communications-research/2020-tract-segments.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2018/02/05/581873428/could-a-more-individualistic-world-also-be-a-more-altruistic-one
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#socialmedia #medialiteracy #sociology

People seem to be more tribalistic than ever. Often, there are two teams, and you’re either with US or you’re with THEM.
And if someone from our team joins the rival team, boy we hate them even more than our enemies, don’t we. The word “TRAITOR” seems to roll off our tongues a bit easier these days.

And sure, most of the time it just seems like there are TWO teams, but within these two teams there is an endless amount of smaller teams. The number of people we identify as part of our team seems to be shrinking. The number of enemies we have? Well that seems to be growing. And we seem to hate our enemies more. And while our teams used to be more aligned with families, nations, countries, or religions, now our teams are more aligned with political parties, universities, neighborhood associations, media figures, or even Discord servers. This realignment has even caused family members to not talk to each other anymore. We have splintered so much that it’s even difficult to find someone to date on one of those dating app thingies.

And while the political divide in the United States seems to get all the attention these days, I argue that this is a much more systemic problem.

So why do we no longer have anything in common? In this video, I will tell you exactly why we no longer have anything in common, and I even got some insights from Dr. Sam Richards, the brilliant sociologist who runs the famous SOC 119 class at Penn State that has quite a YouTube following as well.