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Yes We Can: What New Packaging Says about Taste in the Beer Industry
In college, there were three kinds of beer at parties. On one end was keg beer – that was the worst. You drank it out of red cups, you played games with it, you inhaled it while someone held you upside down by your feet. On the other end were the...
The Nice Guy at the World's Largest Weapons Expo
It was the second day of the Special Operation Forces Exhibition in Amman, Jordan, and the temperature outside the convention center was around 80 degrees Fahrenheit, with a typical chance of rain of zero. Drones of various sizes hovered in the hot...
Highways Are Now One Step Closer to Being Trains
Behold the road train: a convoy of cars, each synched up with a truck out in front, allowing each to lapse into autopilot. The idea is interesting. Commuters with road train technology would familiarize themselves with the timetables of lead vehicles...
Why is the Waning War on Drugs So Focused on Fake Weed?
A couple months ago Pat Roberston, the infamous televangelist generally making headlines for blaming catastrophic events on gays and abortions, confused the general public by blurting out something entirely sensible: “I've never used marijuana and I...
Want to Solve the Obesity Epidemic? Stop Blaming the Obese
America is ridiculously fat. That’s not even been a surprise for years; 36 percent of the adult U.S. population is obese, a proportion that’s expected to rise to 42 percent by 2030, according to new reports out this week. There’s at least a bright side...
Assume Your Computer is Owned at All Times: A Chat with Cryptocat's Nadim Kobeissi
Here's something that shouldn't surprise anyone: it's open-season on online information and, as far as targets go, you're just a fat, awkward turkey. Facebook and Google record what you’re chatting about, and all the government has to do to get it is...
How to Replace the Kilogram, the Last Physical Unit of Measurement
Of course, the whole anthropocentric measurement thing is rather imprecise (Can you imagine designing a microprocessor with cubits?) so, over time, we've come to define units of measurement with various mathematical constants. A meter, for example is...
OccuPints: Jerry Greenfield, Ben & Jerry's Co-Founder, on Dissent and Free Internet
It was your classic Eleventh Hour curveball. Early this past March, in the latest of late-editing stages for our newest feature documentary "Free the Network":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/3/28/motherboard-tv-free-the-network, I began hearing...
How a $4 Piece of Fabric Saves Millions of Lives
Malaria killed as many as 1,000,000 people in 2010. But the number has decreased sharply as of late, mostly due to a simple technology: fabric mosquito nets.
The Best (Worst) Bike Videos to Watch on Acid
Sixty-nine years ago today, Albert Hofmann went on a bike ride. Three days prior, the Swiss scientist "inadvertently ingested":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/4/16/albert/hoffman-and-the-greatest-discoveries-of-lsd enough lysergic acid...
The Energy Fixers
"The Energy Fixers," a documentary on two pathbreaking projects kickstarted by ARPA-e, the Dept. of Energy's advanced projects funder: a biofuel derived from seaweed and a wind power system that's dramatically more efficient than conventional turbines.
Baseball Fans Are Dicks, Scientifically Speaking
Could revenge baseball-beaning be analogous to honor killings and warfare? Who knows, but baseball is pretty douchey either way.