Happy Friday. Here's the best stuff we've spent the week filling your brain with.
This guy's been injecting snake venom for 20 years in a quest for immortality.
EXPLAINING RAVE CULTURE TO AMERICANS
Now that you're all taking ecstasy and going nuts to "EDM", it's time we had a little talk.
ESQUIRE'S MEGAN FOX INTERVIEW IS THE WORST THING EVER WRITTEN
It compares her skin to the colour of the moon in the thin air of northern winters.
BELFAST'S FLAG RIOTS ARE SETTING MY HOMETOWN ON FIRE AGAIN
I watched loyalists, republicans and police attack each other over the Union Flag this weekend.
ALT-LIT IS FOR BORING, INFANTILE NARCISSISTS
How did this literature of absolute nothingness get to be so popular?
BRITISH TOURISTS ARE THE LOUSIEST TOURISTS IN THE WORLD
This is why.
NORTH KOREA SMOKES WEED EVERY DAY, EXPLAINING A LOT
Kim Jong-un has the munchies.
THE TIME I WAS TIED NAKED TO A POLE BY CONGOLESE SOLDIERS
Things were pretty tense in Kinshasa when the Second Congo War kicked off.
Remembering my high school daze of dolphin-chested, pubescent boys.
TATLER'S IN-HOUSE DACHSHUND WAS KILLED YESTERDAY
Life is a revolving door.
WHY CAN'T ANYBODY LOVE TOM CRUISE?
An open letter to the most undesirable man in Hollywood.
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VICE News: Triple Hate
The Klan, the Crips, racism and the spectre of history.
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The Tanzanian Government Is About to Kill Off the Maasai
They're kicking them off their land and all their cows are going to die.
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Here Comes the White-Power Safety Patrol
The White Student Union advocates for “persons of European heritage” – aka “white people.”
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The Loneliness of the Village at the End of the World
Niaqornat's residents might be witnessing the end of the world, too.
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Jodorowsky's 'Dune' Would Have Been More Insane Than You Can Even Imagine
Salvador Dali was going to play the Emperor.
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Get Rich or High Trying
The smart money is increasingly looking to marijuana as the nation's biggest new business.
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World Peace Update
After 50 weeks of these, we're still not there yet.
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Rave and Hardcore YouTube Comments Will Restore Your Faith in Humanity
They're genuinely some of the most beautiful things I've ever read.
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Hearing from Three Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Who've Been On Hunger Strike for 100 Days
What life is like inside the prison camp.
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Saudi Arabia Isn't Having a Feminist Revolution
Weirdly, Saudi photographer Nouf Alhimiary thinks being allowed to cycle doesn't count as women's rights.
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The Wizard of the Saddle Rides Again
The KKK protested renaming a park that memorialised one of the most infamous racists ever.
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VICE News: This Is What Winning Looks Like
A documentary about the ineptitude and corruption of the Afghan security forces.
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VICE News: Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor
A new drug called sisa is tearing its way through Athens' poor.
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Some Rich People Are Building a Giant Clock Inside a Mountain
It's going to run for 10,000 years and will apparently change how we understand time itself.
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We Watched the Stockholm Suburbs Burn
But was it really a riot, or just a coupe of bored arsonists?
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Fashion Tidbits Roundup: David Bowie, Glitter and Topless Abercrombie Models
These are things you should know about, this week.
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Photo Dump Vol. 120
More stupid pictures we found on the stupid internet.
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Milf Teeth: In Ibiza with Endless House
Maybe I'm an old raver now, too.
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In Search of Tim Dog, the Rapper Turned Con Artist who Probably Faked His Own Death
We spoke to several people close to him who think he's alive, and after some digging, we think so, too.
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Speaking with Adam Kokesh, Before He Was Detained by the Feds
This would be the first in a series of controversies surrounding Adam and his politics.
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George's Fun Happy Place
George has a lot of problems to overcome, but he's capable of an incredible lightness.
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Cry-Baby of the Week
This week: Some kids got arrested for a water balloon fight and a guy is suing Taco Bell for stealing his ideas.
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Spanish Bombs: Granada Unveils Joe Strummer Plaza
Granada inaugurates a plaza for Clash frontman Joe Strummer.
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Question of the Day: How Do you Feel About the Stockholm Riots?
"It's a good thing that Husby is burning."
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Please Start Banning Books Again
There has never been a better time to start censoring art in America.
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Question of the Day: What Did You Learn from Sex-Ed?
"I learned how to play volleyball naked on the beach."
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VICE News: Triple Hate
Memphis City Council, the Klan and the Crips.
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Deportee Purgatory
About 40 percent of Mexican immigrants deported from the US are sent back through Tijuana.
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The Loneliness of the Village at the End of the World
Niaqornat's residents might be witnessing the end of the world, too.
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I Don't Have the Stones to Be a Crime Reporter
I tried covering the Tia Sharp case but just felt guilty the whole time.
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VICE News: Triple Hate
The Klan, the Crips, racism and the spectre of history.
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VICE News: Sisa: Cocaine of the Poor
A new drug called sisa is tearing its way through Athens' poor.
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I Tested Out Three of Cambodia's Spiritual Practices
And learned that Cambodian ghosts apparently don't believe in Jesus.
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VICE on HBO Outtakes: The Fat Farms of Mauritania
Appetite-inducing pills have become the new way to pack on the pounds.
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Meet the Malaysian Neo-Nazis Fighting for a Pure Malay Race
They know Nazis don't like Asian people, but they don't care.
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VICE News: White Student Union - Trailer
A documentary about race, class and self-righteous college students yelling at each other.
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Austerity's Drug of Choice
Greece's infamous new drug, sisa, is meth mixed with filler ingredients like battery acid.
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Greg Palast's Column: I Upset My Least Favourite Big Fat Greek Minister
Theodoros Pangalos doesn't like talking about Greece's economic collapse.
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I Spent the Weekend Watching Topless Feminists Piss Off Neo-Nazis
Hanging out with Femen in Paris was a blast.
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VICE News: This Is What Winning Looks Like
A documentary about the ineptitude and corruption of the Afghan security forces.
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Who’s Getting Rich off the Prison-Industrial Complex?
A rundown of some of America's incarceration investors.
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Interviewing South African Rape Victims Isn't Easy When You're Disfigured
It's said that in the South African townships, disfigurement is associated with witchcraft.
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Austerity's Drug of Choice
Sisa is tearing its way through Athens' poor. 
Topless Jihad
Hanging out with the ladies of Femen. 
Meet the Malaysian Neo-Nazis
Fighting for a pure Malay race. 
Teens Are Trapped In Abusive Drug Rehab Centres
The billion-dollar anti-drug cult industry. 
Tanzania's Government Is About To Kill The Maasai
They're kicking them off their land. 
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