Prosecutors Tighten Fist, Pirate Bay Slips Through Their Fingers
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Articles tagged "sweden"
Scientists Have Manipulated Old Stem Cells to Produce Younger Blood
Put away the fangs, you old vampires. You may soon be making your own young blood instead of sucking ours.
Piracy as a Kind of Freedom: A Review of a Pirated Copy of the Pirate Bay Movie
The film is a rallying cry for a freer internet, but it shies away from the obvious question: is piracy more than glorified stealing?
I Was Sterilized By the Swedish Government
On Thursday, the Swedish High Courts ended the practice of forced sterilization, allowing transgendered people to have children. What about those who have already been sterilised against their will? though?
Instagram "Slut" Account Triggers a Swedish Teenage Riot
The incident once again reveals the repulsive superhighways social media allows predators to create.
The Best Video Evidence Yet That Apple is a Cult
Yeah, it's a familiar refrain by now; Apple is a cult. Its shiny products and aesthetic inspire slavish devotion amongst fans, its Stores are bastions of eerily synchronized helpfulness, and workers are willing to accept lower wages and fewer benefit…
What Got Lost In the Julian Assange Circus
Let the character assassination, conspiracy theories and press circus continue. Amid what is perhaps one of the most controversial debates over human rights in a generation, some remain more interested in Julian Assange's ugly behavior, like how he "…
1/0s: What Facebook Knows About Us, Sweden's "Hitler," Turtle Power
Ones and Zeros is Motherboard's weekly report on the world that is and might be.
In Sweden, Forced Sterilization is Still a Thing
Since 1972, transgendered individuals in Sweden who wish to legally change their sex must first be sterilized. Yes, you read that correctly. Sweden, progressive homeland of Ingmar Bergman and government subsidized everything, has arguably the most ag…
Ones and Zeros: The Debt Ceiling is Not Really a Ceiling
_Since 1957, Sir Isaac has been helping us travel through space_ h3. One: "Using good old fashioned gravity and an ion engine the Dawn Space probe reaches orbit around the planetoid Vesta":http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-gentle-nudges-vesta.ht…
What Place Does Art Have on the Internet?
It's mind boggling how the ways in which we ingest data and the instruments and software that facilitate our consumption of media and news are revolutionizing how we inform ourselves. Take for instance, education. Traditionally a kind of group pr…
Julian Assange Is Being Extradited To Sweden
Internet guy, Julian Assange is being extradited to Sweden to face charges of sexual assault. The whole thing smells a lot like Barry Levinson's 1997 masterpiece, _Wag the Dog_. Anyone seen that movie?
