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The Singularity of Ray Kurzweil
Despite being perceived as an extreme optimist, Kurzweil is the first to admit that this technology could very quickly bring an end to the world as we know it.
VICE Staff
2.16.11
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Black Holes and Big Bangs
VBS explores CERN, the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, to determine whether its 17 miles of tubing buried under the Franco-Swiss border will reveal the origin of mass in the universe – or generate an earth-devouring black hole.
VICE Staff
2.16.11
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Sid Meier and the 48 Hour Game
Always a true believer in the idea that games will one day rule the world, Sid Meier wants to inspire a new generation of game designers.
VICE Staff
2.16.11
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Television Meltdown by Soso Limited
Sosolimited is a crew of MIT grads turned audio visual artists – Eric Gunther, Justin Manor and John Rothenberg – with backgrounds in physics, architecture, computer science, media arts and music. They say that TV is garbage – and...
VICE Staff
2.16.11
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I, Professor Sankai
While his colleagues are taking their cues from the more “sophisticated” side of sci-fi like Phillip K. Dick and THX-1138, Sankai has thrown out any pretense of goodwill.
VICE Staff
2.16.11
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The Aquatic Life of Dennis Chamberland
Chamberland is not only certain that the colonization of the ocean floor is imminent; he's making it happen.
VICE Staff
2.16.11
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The Body Farm
A hectare of fine East Tennessean woodland is home to the nation’s oldest and largest open-air collection of rotting corpses.
VICE Staff
2.16.11
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ONES + ZEROS: Videogaming Your Way to Success
h4. "Ones and Zeros":http://motherboard.tv/profiles/ones_and_zeros/posts is Motherboard's daily investigation into the particle accelerator that is the internet. Ones, you’ll come to expect, represent what’s “good” and zeros, what’s “bad.” Get more...
Ones Zeros
2.15.11
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MELBOURNE - BIG ASS COMIC BOOK LAUNCH #1
VICE Staff
2.15.11
Motherboard Blog

The Sun Never Sets on Top Gear: Cars, Cads, and the Exhaust of Empire
Today, Britain’s car industry is like its royal family—kept around as an over-the-top pantomime of Britishness, and more or less German by blood. Volkswagen, which sells about six million vehicles a year, owns Bentley, which sells about 5,000. The...
JONATHAN LIU
2.15.11
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Electric Independence: Matmos
If there's a word for the sort of post-genre electronic music Matmos creates it might be "slippery."
Michael Byrne
2.15.11
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In 1987, Ronald Reagan Was the Higgs Boson's Best Friend
I know, I know: if there's one thing lefty bloggers love pointing out, it's the disconnect between the current right-wing Ronald Reagan fantasy and the tax-raising, big-spending pragmatic reality. Well, here's a good one. If you're under a certain age...
Michael Byrne
2.15.11
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