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Tropical Disco And Hip-Hop Collide On Kamandi's Remix of Gold Field's "Hold Me"
The New Zealand wunderkind offers a dark and dreamy rework of the original summer jam
THUMP Australia
1.21.15
Sony

We Still Know Almost Nothing About the Sony Hack
Why did the leaks stop, and what happened to the Guardians of Peace?
Jason Koebler
1.21.15
TURKEY

Losers Turn into Lunch at the Camel Wrestling Competition
At the 33rd annual Camel Wrestling Competition in Selcuk, Turkey, the man behind the grill indicates what happens to the losing camels by slowly drawing his finger across his neck and saying "Bitmiş," which is Turkish for finished.
Monique Jaques
1.21.15
News

A Canadian First Nations Girl Who Chose Traditional Medicine over Chemo Has Just Died
Makayla Sault, an 11-year-old Ojibwe girl with leukemia, chose indigenous medicine rather than chemotherapy.
Nick Rose
1.21.15
News

Portland’s Vegan Strip Club Is Being Sued for Allegedly Mistreating Its Dancers
Dancers I spoke with complained of unreasonably long hours and a pattern of dehumanizing behavior by management that ranged from throwing away a dancer's non-vegan food to groping and spanking.
Tara Burns
1.21.15
News

A Former US Military Weapons Specialist Was Arrested in Canada for Allegedly Sending Deadly Chemicals Through the Mail
At the Chimo Hotel in Ottawa, Christopher Phillips was arrested after fleeing Nova Scotia.
Justin Ling
1.21.15
Behind The Lens

She's Stripped Diplo and Watched Kendrick Sleep: Meet the World's Most Determined Music Fan
Elisabeth Ouni has traveled the planet to get Polaroid portraits of her idols.
Tamara Roper
1.21.15
Thinkpieces And Shit

A Love Letter to Myspace, the Social Network Where Music and Identity Intertwined
It was an era of top-down selfies, black-rimmed eyes, snake bite piercings, and Aiden t-shirts.
Emma Garland
1.21.15
Stuff

You’re Going to Live for Ages and it’s Going to be Really Expensive
The good news is they're reversing the effects of aging. The bad news is you haven't got enough savings to live to 100.
Wendy Syfret
1.21.15
war and conflict

German Boko Haram Hostage Freed as Video Claims Responsibility for Baga Massacre
An operation led by Cameroonian armed forces won Nitsch Eberhard Robert's release while a purported Boko Haram video answered for an attack in Borno State that killed anywhere between 150 to 2,000 people.
Sally Hayden
1.21.15
Metal

We've Been Chasing Super-Hydrophobic Metals Since 1805
Chill out about that water-repelling metal.
Alexandra Ossola
1.21.15
officer involved

Officials Name Independent Monitor to Oversee Albuquerque Police Department Overhaul
The monitor comes after a federal report called out the department for excessive use of force, including 40 officer-involved shootings in the last four years.
VICE News
1.21.15
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