Articles tagged "vice"

An interview with the anonymous purveyors of the new friends-with-benefits hookup tool.

We met with a guy who's been injecting himself with snake venom for 20 years, and he looks better than ever.

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?

Motherboard's relaunch party picture show.

Divya's apartment is an incredible voyage into the absurd where chicks have two heads and baby deers never wake up.

What's striking is just how natural the "reply girl" phenomenon is. Some video becomes popular -- could be a way-cool internet cat, music video, or the video below, produced by Motherboard's Vice big sister, about said phenomenon -- and it's garnerin…

Shane Smith, of Motherboard's _Vice_ big sister, heads to Bulgaria's would-be Beverly Hills, where capitalism has spawned a market for anything your heart could ever possibly desire. Including weapons to turn New York City into a ghost town. The free…

You remember putting a donk on everything, right? It was "a meme":http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckMvj1piK58 -- these English dudes in a studio talking about putting a donk on it, and a "donk" was just this sound like a drainpipe being hit with a bat…

Thomas Morton, of Motherboard's Vice big sister, "took a recent trip":http://www.vice.com/americana/big-sandy?utm_source=vicetwitterus to the "Big Sandy Shoot":http://www.mgshooters.com/ in western Arizona, where twice a year guns go well beyond _gun…

What is a second? You could do the whole "one one thousand" thing and not be terribly far off, and that might be OK for calculating things like how fast you're driving on the highway or how much you should get paid for a certain amount of time worked…

_This month’s Learnin’ Corner, courtesy of Motherboard's granddad Vice, is an explanation of topological matter in optical lattices by University of Pittsburgh associate professor of physics W. Vincent Liu, whose paper “Topological Matter in Optical…

Last October, the Hermit Kingdom allowed international media to watch its largest ever military parade - part of the campaign to establish Kim Jong-il's youngest son as the leader-in-waiting. Here's how the AP described the parade: bq.. Thousands

The Amazon Rainforest covers 2.1 million square miles in South America, spanning territory owned by nine different countries. It's what people think of when they talk about the 'world's lungs,' and it hosts an incredibly important concentration of th…

For centuries, nerds have looked up at the night sky and dreamed of leaving this world, with all its wars, hatred, and “internet celebrities,” and traveling to distant stars. There, I—I mean they—could build a utopia where there is no such thing as m…

In 2006, Condé Nast, home of The New Yorker, Vogue and Vanity Fair, bought Reddit, a content aggregation website run by a small staff and fuelled by a loyal fan base. A sizable portion of whom are pretty excited about underdressed underage girls.

In his review in the New York Times today, Michael Kinsley "calls Page One":http://movies.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/movies/page-one-inside-the-new-york-times-review.html, the documentary about the New York Times, "a mess." He's right, but not in the way…

_By Matthew Caron_ As we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, the Apocalypse is coming in a mere five days according to the Biblical calculations of Evangelical math guy Harold Camping and his Family Radio Worldwide media group. With the clock ticking…

Yo-Yo Ma meets Lil-Buck.

_Carol Cleland is a philosophy professor at the University of Colorado, Boulder. She has written extensively on the nature of life in general and has authored numerous articles about the shadow biosphere for the International Journal of Astrobiology

Spontaneous human combustion has always been, if you’ll excuse the pun, a hotly debated subject. The usual outcome is that the victim’s body is almost entirely consumed to powder. SHC is frightful, horrific, and xenophobic—it challenges what experts…