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Are We There Yet? - The May/June Issue of 'Endtime Magazine'
You’d think it would be pretty fun to write for a magazine where you constantly get to talk about the end of the world. It’d be especially thrilling for you every time a new pope gets announced because, obviously, you get to ask, IS THIS POPE THE LAST, EVIL POPE WHO WILL USHER IN THE AGE OF THE ANTICHRIST? The answer they come up with is maybe. Full story
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My Strange Weekend at a Bicycle Race with Lance Armstrong and a Crack Addict
I had no idea a huge bicycle race was set to happen in the small Mexican town I was visiting, but within 24 hours of my plane landing I was shaking hands with Lance Armstrong and bunking with a guy suffering from a debilitating drug problem. Full story
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Heavy Dicks - Drinking Cough Syrup with Weedeater
After the dissolution of legendary sludge-metal band Buzzov•en, Dixie Dave formed Weedeater. For the first episode of Heavy Dicks, Noisey's new metal show, our valiant hosts Fred Pessaro and Jake Boyle join him to sample a well-curated selection of cough syrups and artisanal chee… Full story
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These Sniffing Robots Prove Smelltech Is the Worst
Japanese company CrazyLabo has unveiled two robots—a disembodied head on a box and a deflated dog—that will react to body odor if their sensor perceives that you stink. They are pretty much the unholy children of Smell-O-Vision and that insufferable mechanical singing bass—quite… Full story
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The VICE Podcast Show - Have We Won in Afghanistan?
This week on the podcast we speak with author and filmmaker Ben Anderson, who has just returned from Helmand, the most violent province in Afghanistan. With US forces withdrawing, most of the country is now controlled by the Afghan government and its security forces, which people… Full story
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The Fight to Save America's Best Free College
President Bharucha probably wasn’t too happy when, yesterday morning, 50 students took over his office at Cooper Union. He had left the building minutes before. Since the occupation started, 200 students and the entire tenured faculty of the art department, have signed a vote of… Full story
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Occupying Cooper Union to Keep It Free
Occupiers have pledged to nonviolently resist attempts to evict them from Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha's office. They've declared it “a tuition-free zone,” instigating a standoff between themselves and an institution seeking a new economic model where students would ha… Full story
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There's an App that Lets You Play Dress Up with Drake
I discovered an iPhone app called Dress Drake, which is literally just an iPhone app where you put clothes on Drake. This app is great, mainly because it provides definitive proof that we are living in the future. I would seriously be surprised if we didn't figure out hoverboards… Full story
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Sheffield Is a Paradise
I read somewhere that Sheffield is home to more brain donors than anywhere else in the UK. Looking at these pictures, I'm not sure I understand why that has been allowed to happen. However, it's a great place to get wasted, and its nickname, the Steel City, makes me feel like a c… Full story
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Teaching Evil to Norwegians
Norway has been linked to grandiose notions of evil for centuries. Soltun, a school Norwegians attend for one year after secondary school in the town of Harstad, announced that it will be offering a new course devoted to a yearlong study of the evil that lurks in the hearts of me… Full story
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Alabama’s Strip Clubs of Death
Most of the time, shootings in strip clubs are rare occurrences, the result of a drunk who’s thrown out of the club and comes back with a gun for revenge. But in Alabama the strip-club murder rate is completely out of control. Curious to see the sites of such strange violence, I… Full story
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The Founder of Jim’s Mowing will Make you Smarter and Save the World
“We’re going to change the world. If my theory is correct, this will change everything. This will ruffle feathers, don’t you think anything else. You ask Galileo, you ask Darwin. This is going to cause an uproar.” – Jim Penman Full story
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Speaking with an Alleged Member of the SEA About the 'Onion' Twitter Hack
Last week, VICE interviewed Th3 Pr0, an alleged member of the hacker group Syrian Electronic Army, after they hacked the AP's Twitter and caused the Dow Jones to dip. Today, we caught up with another alleged member to talk about Monday's confusing hack on the 'Onion.' Full story
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Are Drones Really Helping to Save Rhinos and Elephants from Poachers?
As drones hit the sky in countries like Nepal, Mozambique, and South Africa, experts are wondering: Will it matter? Full story
Thought and Memory
New Fiction by Ed Park
Malaysian Neo-Nazis
Fighting for a Pure Malay Race
The Strongest Dwarf in New Jersey
Remembering My Tormentor
Gay Men and Their Misogyny Problem
It's Not Cute Anymore
Snooping Around Nicolas Cage's House
So Many Bummers
Saudi Arabia's Feminist Revolution
It's Not Happening