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Some Cat from Japan - The Genius Behind David Bowie’s Best Costumes
Many of Bowie's most eye-popping outfits—avant-garde kimonos and billowing structural pantsuits—were made by Kansai Yamamoto, a Tokyo-based designer who had no idea that his creations would become such important visual markers in the history of rock ’n...
2012 Is Bullshit; 2020 Is When We’ll Really Be in Trouble
Scientist Peter Turchin's work suggests that the next state of upheaval in the US is set to hit in 2020 based on historical violence cycles.
The Black Walls, Train Sets, and Giant Skulls of H.R. Giger: Interview
HR Giger, regardless of how many museum or galleries he fills with volumes of his other work, will almost certainly go down in history as that strange Swiss guy behind the _Alien_ movie. During the '70s Giger produced a book called _Necronomicon...
Forget Wires, the Future of Electricity Is in 3D Shapes
_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...
East Africa's Space Program is Taking Off
When you think “countries on the cutting edge of deep space exploration,” Kenya is not usually the first that jumps to mind. But here in east Africa, there is a scientist/space pioneer by the name of Dr. Paul Baki who sees big things for the future of...
An Interview with a Guy at CERN about Seriously, What's the Deal with the Higgs Boson
CERN in Geneva published the latest Large Hadron Collider (LHC) research results the other day regarding the elusive Higgs boson, a tiny building block particle that’s never been witnessed but its existence is crucial to quantum theory. It’s so crucial...
Watch The OWS Live Feed, The Greatest TV Show Ever
If you haven't had your eyeballs glued to Tim Pool's live feed of the Occupy Wall Street protests over the last 48 hours or so, you've been blowing it. Since the forced eviction of Zuccotti Park at around 1 AM Tuesday morning, Tim has been blasting...
Proof That Girls Are Better At The Internet Than Boys
There is this enduring, annoying stuff about how girls don’t use the internet as much as guys. I don’t know if that’s true. I do know that girls are so obviously the unchallenged vanguards of the internet, so clearly the winners of such a flexibly...
The Learnin' Corner: Algorithmic Randomness
_Marcus Hutter is a professor in the Research School of Computer Science at the Australian National University in Canberra. He’s most notable for his work in the field of artificial intelligence theory, which is like philosophy with way more math. Here...
34 Years and a Hundred Seven-Inch Records Later, John Wiese is a Prolific Noise Master
If you’ve been steadily making music for the last 13 years, you probably have a good handful of albums to show for it. If you’ve been steadily making noise music for the last 13 years, however, your discography is teeming with releases: limited-edition...
Reddit's Jailbait Section is Dead
_Originally posted on our stepdad website "VICE.com":http://www.vice.com/read/Reddit-Jailbait-Section-Is-Dead_.So the inevitable has happened, the civil liberties of an unlikely clique of teenage boys and creepy older guys have finally been shit on by...