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Colbert Interviews Neil deGrasse Tyson on the Beauty and Truthiness of Knowing

Is it better to know or not to know? What are the most valuable qualities of knowledge, and how does its acquisition justify the various ills it occasionally visits upon the world and its people? When these big questions are being asked by an out-of...
Janus Rose
11.29.11
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The Gadgets of #Occupy

The raid on the Occupy stronghold of Zucotti Park left "laptops smashed":http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/18/who-smashed-the-laptops-from-occupy-wall-street-inside-the-nypd-s-lost-and-found and "wifi towers":http://motherboard.tv/2011/11/21/occupy-s...
Lara Heintz
11.29.11
Stuff

Elevate Me Later

Patrick Carr owns the only elevator museum in the United States of America. Like all elevator repairmen, Patrick is a thief who won't hesitate to take anything that's not nailed down.
Harry Cheadle
11.29.11
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Climate Change Is Making Ladybugs Change Color

Fewer sunny days and a warming climate are making ladybugs off the coast of the Netherlands turn from black to red. Mammals might adapt to a warming climate by, say, losing fur over generations or developing more sweat glands. Fish might adapt by...
Michael Byrne
11.29.11
The Mercy Rule

Commercials Are Fucking Terrifying

The average NFL commercial break is television's crowning insult to the notion of our shared humanity.
David Roth
11.29.11
Art

Sergio Albiac Paints Portraits Using Your Video Memories

The latest in his generative video portrait series attempts to establish a greater emotional depth for portraiture.
Kevin Holmes
11.29.11
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All Day We Think About Sex But Sex Isn't All We Think About

Nineties Korn anthems be damned, it turns out that men aren't _only_ thinking about sex all day. "According to Terri Fisher":http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-11/osu-sds112811.php, a psychology professor at Ohio State, college-age men indeed...
Derek Mead
11.29.11
Photo

Tyler, the Creator Presents: Josh Terris

These Photos Are By Josh Terris. Josh Takes Photos Of Teenagers Who Do Stupid Shit At Parties. Or Skateboarding. I Actually Think I Seen A Pig In One Of Them.
Tyler, the Creator and Josh Terris
11.29.11
Art

BERG's "Little Printer" Lets You Create Personalized Mini-Newspapers Of Web Content

Subscribe to feeds, status updates and publications with your smartphone, then get designed mini-newspaper deliveries on demand.
Kevin Holmes
11.29.11
motherboard show

Upgrade: Flying Around The World In A Solar Powered Plane

Sean Yeaton
11.29.11
The Tp For Your Bunghole Issue

Make a Dumbful Noise

Remember at the beginning of the 90s when normal people got into Garth Brooks and "Time" magazine was running articles called things like "Has Country Gone City?" It was a tense moment.
Baby Balls and Iva Prolic
11.29.11
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Motherboard TV: Upgrade: Flying Around The World In A Solar Powered Plane

It can't be very hard for Bertrand Piccard to explain to his family why he wants to fly around the world with only sunlight for fuel. In the 1930s, his grandfather, Auguste Piccard, a physicist and inventor, applied his excitement and interest in...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
11.29.11
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