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Food

Why Do So Many Soft Drinks Taste Like Teletubby Blood?

The land of off-brand soda is vast and largely uncharted. The tastes these beverages hold exist only inside of their cans and can't be found anywhere else in the whole world. It’s like a Willy Wonka of weird water, and I found a golden ticket.
Blake Butler
7.9.14
Culture

Dubai's Climate-Controlled Dome City Is a Dystopia Waiting to Happen

Dubai's newly proposed Mall of the World—a 4-mile domed, air-conditioned city—is begging to become the most glorious real-world dystopia yet.
Brian Merchant
7.9.14
americas

Joe Biden Hand-Delivered Torture Reports to Brazil at the World Cup

US Vice President Joe Biden gave Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff several declassified documents after watching the US defeat Ghana.
Jason Leopold
7.9.14
Film

[Exclusive] Robots And Choreography Abound In Update To Ballet Masterpiece

Director Tarik Abdel-Gawad creates a stunning choreographic masterpiece around Tchaikovsky's "Francesca da Rimini" using a giant robotic camera.
Emerson Rosenthal
7.9.14
Power

How Refusing to Hand Over Your Passwords Can Land You in Jail

The latest UK case of refusing to hand over crypto-keys shows how widely a law originally intended as a counter-terrorism measure can be applied.
Joseph Cox
7.9.14
Culture

Americans Are Primed to Own the Title of Oldest Person in the World

Meet the .00001 percent.
Ben Richmond
7.9.14
lebron james is popular

Today In Social Sports Stupidity

Yes, one might venture to guess that any apparell associated with LeBron James would sell really well.
Tim Ryan
7.9.14
Holy Shit

Watch Interpol's New Video for "All the Rage Back Home" and Remember Why Interpol Rules

It's the first track from their upcoming record 'El Pintor,' their first album in four years.
Eric Sundermann
7.9.14
Stuff

Aaron Swartz and 21st-Century Martyrdom

Brian Knappenberger's documentary The Internet's Own Boy speaks to Aaron Swartz's martyrdom and a deep strain of malevolence in American culture.
Matt Stoller
7.9.14
Stuff

This Woman Claims She Can Give Blowjobs That Are So Good, They're Fatal

We talked to the woman behind "Angel's Fellatio Secrets," who told us about how to give a blowjob with a grapefruit and a fellatio method she calls the "death technique."
Monica Heisey
7.9.14
Russian Roulette

Russian Roulette (Dispatch 54)

Simon Ostrovsky travels back to Sloviansk and visits the cell in which he was held by rebels.
تجربة
7.9.14
Photo

A Dozen Roses: Robert Melee on Photographing His Mother

As the exhibition title suggests, dozen Roses, on view at Higher Pictures through August 1, features twelve images of Melee's mother, Rose.
Joseph Keckler
7.9.14
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