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Peru's Erection Vendors Are Driving the Scrotum Frog to Extinction
How far would you go to get hard?
The Kid Who Will Clean Up The Ocean
Twenty-year-old Boyan Slat plans to rid oceans of plastic using giant nets and natural gyres. It would be the largest structure ever built on the high seas.
How to Build a Magnetized Piano Harp
In the final episode of season two of Sound Builders, Andy Cavatorta awakens dormant notes and pitches from one of the world's most popular instruments.
The Exquisite Sounds of Plants
In this episode of Sound Builders, we meet Mileece, a sound designer who developed technology for sonifying plant life.
The Techno-Collagist Who Turns Lasers and Human Limbs into Instruments
In this new season of Sound Builders, we meet sonic artists who are pushing the audio experience to a whole new level.
This Iranian Drone Is a Better Lifeguard Than David Hasselhoff
Here's what can be done when we set our eyes to the skies to do good.
Peru's DVD Pirates Are Its Top Culture Dealers
How Lima's notorious bootleggers use low methods to deliver high culture.
The DIY Engineer Who Built a Nuclear Reactor in His Basement
Long shot it may be, but at least he's going for it.
The Forensic Dentist Who's Reviving Mexico's Unidentified Corpses (NSFW)
Watch our doc on life, death, and an unassuming Mexican dentist whose proprietary chemical formula rehydrates corpses to lifelike states for identification.
Tapped: All the Ways Your Phone Can Be Hacked
In our third and final episode of "Phreaked Out," we check out a slate of real-time phone hacks to tackle the question of mobile phone security.
The Jellyfish That Holds a Key to Immortality
Motherboard paid a visit to Japan to visit a researcher who is studying the only known animal that has figured out how to defeat death.
Meet Reed Ghazala, the Father of Circuit Bending
A special rebroadcast of episode three of season one of Sound Builders, our show about noise.
How to Build a Robotic Accordion in an Afternoon
Call it a keycordion.
The Fine Art of Turning (Toy) Weapons Into Guitars
Don't quite know how to Frankenstein that ol' rusty hatchet into a stringed instrument? Let Ken Butler show you.
This Is What an Underwater Pipe Organ Sounds Like
A special rebroadcast of episode five of season one of Sound Builders, our show about noise.
This Robotic Guitar Looks Nothing Like a Robot or a Guitar (But It Still Shreds)
A special rebroadcast of episode four of season one of Sound Builders, our show about noise.
Watch Sound Designer Diego Stocco Build a 'Mad Max'-Style Bass With Pipes
A special rebroadcast of episode two of the first season of Sound Builders, our show about noise.
Watch Psych-Pop Duo Peaking Lights Make Sound Waves with Recycled Electronics
A special rebroadcast of episode one of the first season of Sound Builders, our show about noise.
How Sloth Fur is Going to Revolutionize Medicine
The cure for cancer might be found on nature's apex couch potato.
The Lab Apes of Liberia
Our crew traveled to remote Liberia to discover "Monkey Island," an area inhabited solely by former lab-tested chimpanzees who survived disease and two civil wars.
Linkin Park Wants to Take a Vacation in Space
For the first episode of our mini-series Spaced Out with Friends, we hung out with Mike Shinoda and Joe Hahn to talk about living in the great beyond.
We Drove a Car While It Was Being Hacked
In this episode of "Phreaked Out," we met some of the top security researchers at the center of the car hacking world.
How LA's Traffic System Got Hijacked
In 2006, a pair of LA traffic engineers hacked traffic lights to cause gridlock as part of a labor protest.
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