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Ralph Baer and His All-Purpose Boxes
In this episode, we travel to New Hampshire to hang out with Ralph Baer. He tells us about his past and how he came to be one of the most important figures in video gaming history.
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Monrovian Analog Blogger
Internet-starved Monrovians turn to this guy’s dry-erase board for all their news-aggregating needs.
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How I Got Famous on the Internetz
For one weekend, the viral internet comes together IRL (in real life). Yup, it’s as bad as it sounds. And by bad, we mean really, really fun. Full story
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Bent Fest
It was an average Saturday at the DUMBO, Brooklyn outlet of Mikey’s Hook Up, a computer retailer and repair specialist. Well-groomed arty-types came in, alone, in couples, with lattes in hand, all there to admire the shiny wares or bring in their dead laptop for repair. Full story
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Carlos and His Heavy Metal Toys
Wasilla, “real America” Alaska is more than just Sarah Palin’s stomping ground and a natural-gas haven. Wasilla’s also the hometown of Carlos Owens, a man whose 20-foot robotic exoskeleton has flamethrower hands. Full story
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Oscar Niemeyer 101
Oscar Niemeyer, the man who designed Brazil's space-age moon-capital, died yesterday at 104. He was one of the 20th century’s most influential architects and certainly its most influential Brazilian. We met up with him a few years ago to make this short documentary. Full story
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Electric Independence - JD Samson
JD Samson is the awesome, pubestachio'd beat-maker behind Le Tigre and MEN, and the leading lesbian of her charitable volunteer group Dykes Can Dance. Full story
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Space Shuttle Parking Lot
A shuttle launch is still one of mankind's most complex and massive undertakings, a carefully-primed $1.3 billion event that turns years of planning and construction into a spectacle that lasts only a few minutes. Full story
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The Body Farm
A hectare of fine East Tennessean woodland is home to the nation’s oldest and largest open-air collection of rotting corpses. Full story
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Something Wrong Is Nothing Wrong
Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans of Jodi.org create chaos, instill fear, and make funny artwork that proves that something wrong still works.
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Electric Independence: Matmos
For the debut of the second season of Electric Independence, Motherboard’s electronic music series, we visited Matmo at their Baltimore studio.
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Television Meltdown by Soso Limited
Sosolimited is a crew of MIT grads turned audio visual artists – Eric Gunther, Justin Manor and John Rothenberg – with backgrounds in physics, architecture, computer science, media arts and music. They say that TV is garbage – and they want to turn that shit int… Full story
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The Madagascar Institute
What you need to know about the Madagascar Institute, first of all, is that it’s not a collective. That word’s too hippy, too emotional, not active enough. They’re a “combine,” says co-founder Chris Hackett, a group dedicated to building unlikely, ne… Full story
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The Thankless Search for Intelligence Out There... Somewhere
Adora Svitak, a 12 year-old prodigy who has been declared "the most clever child in the world," is the host of our new Motherboard series. Full story
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