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Islamic State

A British Mother Reportedly Left Welfare Behind and Is Now Helping Recruit for the Islamic State
A former punk rock singer and mother of two is now trying to recruit others to join the caliphate, according to reports.
Colleen Curry
12.22.14
News

An Allegory of Canada for 2014: Rinelle Harper, Nicki Minaj, and Italian Art History
Rinelle Harper survived a brutal attack still brave enough to call for an inquiry into the disappearance and murder of indigenous women. Stephen Harper says it's not a priority. Shawon Kinew looks at Italian art and a possible artistic allegory for the...
Shawon K. Kinew
12.22.14
Art

Wearables Meet Sufi Mysticism in a Cosmic A/V Performance
Maziar Ghaderi's 'Dissolving Self 2' combines eastern mysticism with wearable technology to update the whirling dervish for the modern era.
Emerson Rosenthal
12.22.14
Twitter

Twitter Helped Russia Censor Information About an Anti-Putin Protest
Twitter sent “voluntary” takedown notices to activists trying to organize a January protest.
Jason Koebler
12.22.14
Words

We Delved Into the Weird World of Ellaskins, YouTube's Greatest DJ Instructor
His videos fill you with the kind of sickly sadness that seems to ooze out of every pore and orifice at this time of year.
Josh Baines
12.22.14
dominic raiola

Dominic Raiola Suspended One Game For Stomping On Ego Ferguson
Dominic Raiola earned a one-game suspension for stomping on another player's ankle, his sixth player safety violation since 2010.
Sean Newell
12.22.14
Recipe

Mince Pies
The Puritans hated mince pie. Too bad, because these are damn easy to make and damn good, too.
Tom Adams
12.22.14
Design

Please Build a Cloud City Over Venus
Move over, Mars: NASA may soon send platinum airships to the second rock from the Sun.
Beckett Mufson
12.22.14
Central African Republic

War in the Central African Republic (Full Length)
How a fight for power turned into ethnic cleansing in the CAR
VICE News
12.22.14
Art

Behind the Daily Paywall: The Site that Pays You to Read Pirated Articles
Paolo Cirio hacked into the Wall Street Journal, FT, and the Economist, and has published every paywalled story they ran in 2014. And he will pay you to read them.
Brian Merchant
12.22.14
Words

Air Texture Vol. IV is Better Than the Chill-Out Zones of Most Clubs
Lean back and enjoy these time-lapse pictures with fluid ambient sounds.
THUMP Staff
12.22.14
machines

Small Drones Aren't a Threat to Airplanes If You Don't Fly Them Near Airports
The small drone industry wrote its own regulations because the FAA is slow.
Jason Koebler
12.22.14
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