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Evolution Explains Why Animals Kill Babies

Last night I took my lovely girlfriend out for a birthday dinner to one of those wackily-hip places with crazy neon mood lighting, a cacophony of Top 40 hits and a damn pond in the middle of the place. Ending up at a club for dinner wasn't the worst...
Derek Mead
12.1.11
Visual System

Visual System's Technofuturistic Landscapes Act Natural

Fiber optic highways entangle corridors and industrial spaces.
Dylan Schenker
12.1.11
Tech

The Vibrating History of Female Hysteria

This isn't to cast aspersion on vibrators; they're great.
Kelly Bourdet
12.1.11
NSFW

Meet the Nieratkos - Cupful of Cum

Apparently sperm testing labs get real bent out of shape when you surprise them with a paper bag full of cum.
Chris Nieratko
12.1.11
Stuff

Pop Vox - Beard Envy

With all the glorious face stroking and discovering hidden treasures buried in our beards, we wonder if girls are just a little bit jealous.
Matthew R. Uhlmann
12.1.11
Motherboard Blog

Melting Permafrost Is Making Global Warming Happen Even Faster

Frozen in Arctic and northern soils are trapped some 1,700 billion gigatons of organic carbon, more than four times the amount of carbon ever released by human activity. In a stable global ecosystem, much of it might just stay there, getting pushed...
Michael Byrne
12.1.11
Stuff

Girl Eats Food - Beef Steak in Banana Sauce

An Asian pirate speciality.
Joanna Fuertes Knight
12.1.11
NSFW

Things I Learned at the London Sex Expo 2011

Things are going to be very different for me in 2012.
Jamie Lee Taete
12.1.11
Film

Motherboard Meets Werner Herzog: Into the Abyss, for a Brief, Strange Moment

Werner Herzog on his new documentary, how to have a conversation on camera, and the limits of documentary film.
ALEX PASTERNACK
12.1.11
Music

Emotional Abstraction With DAT DAT DAT's Liquid Music Video

Visual eyewash.
Kevin Holmes
12.1.11
Comics!

Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #40

You can't cheat learning to draw. There are no short cuts, just years of perseverance.
Nick Gazin
12.1.11
Design

Meet Olly, the World's First Web-Connected Smellmaking Robot

No, seriously.
Emerson Rosenthal
12.1.11
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