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The Most Watched Load of Garbage in the Memory of Man
For a few weeks there, New York City was thinking earnestly about trash.
Articles tagged "new york city"
Evil Predator Fish from China That Can Live on Dry Land Are Invading Central Park
Bad news, America. The frankenfish is back.
Why New York Doesn't Need 'Don't Honk' Signs
Are we more OK with noise than with things cluttering up our eyesight? Attention psychology suggests it's possible.
The Other Hot Dog King of New York: A Chat With Ed Beller, Inventor of Stainless-Steel Pushcarts
Ah, the sweet, sweet smell of hot dogs steaming from a bright, shiny curbside cart. What’s more New York than that? Not much. And seeing as nobody running around this city has time to sit down for a long, wholesome lunch break anymore, today's ever-w…
How an Unfinished Park Built Atop a Giant Pile of Trash is Making New York City Millions
Public parks don't tend to be cash cows, not unless they get "advertising":http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/11/has-gov-rick-scott-ruined-floridas-parks or become, well, private. But the park that sits on top of the old Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Is…
Let's Raise a Glass to the Clean Water Supply of New York City
How the city gets clean water to its citizens.
ONES + ZEROS: Lying is OK, Stealing Too
Ones and Zeros is Motherboard’s weekly investigation into the particle accelerator that is the internet.
MB Mixtape 2011 .09: Starscream, "Space"
_No, no, it's not another list. It's a mixtape, the finest in innovative, future-forward sounds assembled by your pals at Motherboard. You get one track a day from now until the end of the year, and then it all comes together into the best document o…
How Dangerous Is a Three-Way at a New York Intersection?
If you suffer from "Agyrophobia":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agyrophobia, do not watch this video. Made by "Ron Gabriel":http://blog.ronconcocacola.com/ for his MFA thesis at the School of Visual Arts, it shows an intersection in New York that looks…
Ryoji Ikeda's "the transfinite" Is a Ghoulish, Epileptic Dive Into Information
For his first installation in the United States, Ryoji Ikeda has turned the Park Avenue Armory into a giant computer of the sort that Edgar Allen Poe might have imagined. Walk into the cavernous main hall -- typically used for Army National Guard dri…
Doctor Laser: Inside the Wondrous Lab of One of the World's Last Holographers
In the heyday of holography, back in the 1970s, there were four schools dedicated to the holographic arts around the world, and five studios in New York City alone. Today, there are only a few left in the world. And no one is holding the candle highe…
I'll Tumblr For Ya
Vice's 2009 interview with David Karp. "We checked the domain name for 'Tumbler.com' and it was this mom and pop store for tumbler glasses. We thought it'd be pretty fun one day, when we got enough money, to acquire their whole business."
