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The Madagascar Institute

What you need to know about the Madagascar Institute, first of all, is that it’s not a collective. That word’s too hippy, too emotional, not active enough. They’re a “combine,” says co-founder Chris Hackett, a group...
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2.16.11
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Curtis Roads

Bringing music down to the microsound level.
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2.16.11
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Electric Independence - JD Samson

JD Samson is the awesome, pubestachio'd beat-maker behind Le Tigre and MEN, and the leading lesbian of her charitable volunteer group Dykes Can Dance.
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2.16.11
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Richard Garriott

Richard shows us the grounds of Britannia Manor, an elaborate house combining the teenage fantasies of like five separate breeds of boy.
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2.16.11
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Psychedelic Photomicrography and the Silicon Zoo

Michael Davidson takes pictures of teeny tiny living and non-living cells through a high-powered microscope.
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2.16.11
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Space Shuttle Parking Lot

A shuttle launch is still one of mankind's most complex and massive undertakings, a carefully-primed $1.3 billion event that turns years of planning and construction into a spectacle that lasts only a few minutes.
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2.16.11
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The Atomic Trucker

John Coster-Mullen takes a break from trucking to build his own nuke.
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2.16.11
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Josh Kalis

In Episode 3 of the Kalis series, Josh talks about his trip to the mental hospital, getting dropped from H-Street, and being over skating.
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2.16.11
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The Electrophobes

Being allergic to electricity isn’t a death sentence, but it is a lifetime-of-boredom sentence.
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2.16.11
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Electric Independence: Matmos

For the debut of the second season of Electric Independence, Motherboard’s electronic music series, we visited Matmo at their Baltimore studio.
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2.16.11
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The Thankless Search for Intelligence Out There... Somewhere

Adora Svitak, a 12 year-old prodigy who has been declared "the most clever child in the world," is the host of our new Motherboard series.
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2.16.11
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Brian Gibson: A Total Change in Lifestyle

To brew his distinctive earth-crunching, head-banging bass sounds for noise band Lightning Bolt, Brian Gibson constructs some of the most complex playing techniques and pedal arrangements known to rock.
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