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RECENT HISTORY: The Weird Week We Didn't Have a Natural Disaster, So We Thought About Economics and Got Bummed Again

_Each week, Motherboard turns back to examine its recent history._ * "Thinking like a dog":http://motherboard.tv/2011/9/3/hungry-like-an-optoelectronic-wolf-downloading-animal-senses-into-human-reality makes the world so much more awesome and smelly...

Each week, Motherboard turns back to examine its recent history.

  • Never get scammed buying weed again, thanks to technology. It’s no weed.yelp.com, but it’ll do for now. (Someone make weed.yelp.com already.)

  • Being poor is real as fuck; economics, maybe not so much.

  • What’s worse than dying in a heinous airplane crash? Getting sucked out of a pressurized jet cabin at 35,000 feet. It happens. You just think about that.

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  • We also learned about spice, bath salts, and how they figure into the difficult game of playing “pin the tail on the illegal substance.”

  • Motherboard’s weekly Oddity series looked back at America’s brief war against hurricanes, dubbed Project Stormfury, and how we lost.

  • The everything-electronic future of organic material-based electronics crept closer. Electronic skin, anyone?

  • “I have a dream” that the copyright assholes of the world might lay off just one goddamn minute, OK. It’s a motherfucking SPEECH.

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