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The Creators Project

Meet OKFocus

OKFocus, the creative design agency that counts artists Ryder Ripps, Jonathan Vingiano, and Jules Laplace as its members, likes to take the path less trodden when it comes to website design. This is newly reinforced in their latest project, an alpha-channel video experiment for the Tanlines track "Not The Same." Full story

Flirting, Back Rubs, and Meat Gifts: How Animals Do Valentine's Day

Think Valentine's Day is stressful? Just look at the animal kingdom. Full story

Scanning the Future of 3D-Printed Sex Toys

3D printing hasn’t quite hit its stride. Its primary appeal seems to be its novelty. 3D-printed sex toys are far from perfect or accessible. But as I saw first hand, their pioneers are hoping to change that. Full story

Ten Radically Futuristic Ideas in Obama's State of the Union Address

The president got a little sci-fi with some of the ideas he proposed in his big speech last night. SOTUs are notorious for being lofty wishlists, so consider these proposals Obama's wildest political fantasies. Full story

Let's Colonize Outer Space

NASA Needs to Get a Little More Reckless, Starting with Me

I would like to donate my ova to NASA so that they can raise babies in a highly controlled environment, see how human physiology changes over time/in weird circumstances, and help us get on track to colonize Mars. Full story

Motherboard

The Space Suit Makers

When they first met in 2007, Ted Southern and Nik Moiseev came from two very different worlds. They didn't imagine they'd eventually be in business designing space couture in a modest studio at the Brooklyn Navy Yards. Full story

The Biggest Mammal Victim of the Wildlife Trade is the Adorable, Endangered Pangolin

Pangolins are hunted both for traditional medicine and meat, which has led the International Union for Conservation of Nature to consider all eight species to be in decline. The end result is that some amazing, and woefully understudied, creatures are disappearing before we can e… Full story

LA Cop Christopher Dorner Is Not the First American to Be Hunted by Drones on US Soil

The at-large vigilante cop is the highest profile target of spy drones on American soil, but he certainly isn't the first one. Full story

Hurricane Sandy Turned These Photos Into Trippy Dreamscapes

I wish I could say "Hurricane Sandy developed this guy's film" or some such punched-up header, but as whimsically dreamy as these images are, that likely isn't the case. Full story

How Your Ears Do Math Better Than Mathematicians

If sound waves were like water waves, you you might expect to feel them as a big shove like a big wave of water coming in from the ocean. Except that's not what happens. When sound arrives, it's not a "hit" at all. Let me explain why. Full story

Is the Release of Secret Drone Memos an Empty Gesture?

The day has come. Sort of—members of two Senate intelligence committees now have "access" to classified memos undergirding the legal justification for killing US citizens abroad in the war on al Qaeda. But is the big reveal merely lip service? Full story

How to Make a Game in 2013: Go Make a Game

It's almost that easy. I made a game in a week to prove it. Full story

America's Rules for Drone-Killing Americans Is More Torturous Than America Imagined

Before his CIA pick John Brennan gets grilled in Congress, Obama's own "torture memos" on targeted killings—and a new set of intel on Bush's torture program—shed some harsh light on how America secretly conducts war. Full story

China's Self-Sustaining Man Is Cyberpunk in Real Life

He runs a custom electronics-manufacturing outfit from his living room, grows organic vegetables in his garden, and even raises chickens and pigeons on his roof. It’s the kind of self-sufficiency that would make an eco-freak blush and the entrepreneurial spirit generally reserved… Full story