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iraq

Kurdish Forces Prepare to Counterattack the Islamic State

With the help of Iraqi airpower, the peshmerga are hoping to retake territory they lost to the Islamic State over the weekend.
John Beck
8.4.14
Space

The Best Method for Finding Aliens Will Involve a Ton of False Positives

Exoplanet atmospheres are really diverse, which makes it tough to know what's simply a weird planet and which ones might have life.
Jason Koebler
8.4.14
Words

"Berlin Taught Me Patience And How To Build A Set": An Interview With Techno's Jimmy Edgar

The Detroit heavyweight talks London, Berlin and collaborating with Sophie.
Jack Dolan
8.4.14
Words

Mad Decent Block Party Resulted in Two Suspected MDMA Overdoses

Mad Decent and Diplo both Tweeted support after two attendees, 17 and 20, passed away this weekend at the Columbia, Maryland concert.
VICE Thump
8.4.14
Pitchers

Routine Moments in Baseball History: Jerry Reuss Goes to Work

A durable pitcher takes the mound during one of his best seasons.
Harry Cheadle
8.4.14
japan

Studio Ghibli Isn't Closing It's Doors (Yet!)

Initial reports of Studio Ghibli's closure may have been misinterpreted.
Beckett Mufson
8.4.14
Austria

Austrian Designers Turn Corruption into Edible Infographics

Pie charts are generally light on the pie, but designers have begun using food as a medium for representing data in the same way that they once used inedible graphs and tables. Call it food for thought, but this isn't like reading your fate through tea...
Nadja Sayej
8.4.14
Words

From Best Eats to Connecting with Fans, Stwo Shares His Top Tour Moments

“The promoters took me there and told me that Kaytranda had loved it so I thought ‘well, if anyone knows his fried chicken it’s Kay.’”
Ziad Ramley
8.4.14
americas

Unauthorized Immigrants Paid $100 Billion Into Social Security Over Last Decade

'Questionably documented' workers are putting an estimated $13 billion a year into the US economy and only taking around $1 billion out.
Roy Germano
8.4.14
The Photo Issue 2001

Rose Marie Cromwell: Wild Blooms of Bushwick

"The life of a flower is a fleeting moment, and it's this ephemeral nature that makes flowers so desirable. Perhaps an artificial flower represents an attempt to conquer death; a very human attempt, which imbues plastic flowers with their own aura of...
Rose Marie Cromwell
8.4.14
Bad Cop Blotter

Thousands of Convictions Are Now in Doubt Because the FBI Sucks at Forensics

Despite its usefulness as fodder for television crime dramas, forensic science has glaring flaws, and the FBI's investigations spanning decades are looking flimsier than ever.
Lucy Steigerwald
8.4.14
Features

Artificial Wombs Are Coming, but the Controversy Is Already Here

Ectogenesis is a social and political minefield.
Zoltan Istvan
8.4.14
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