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What the Three Largest NSA Lawsuits Are Fighting For

Who is suing who, and for what? And do they have a snowball's chance in hell of winning?
Meghan Neal
7.10.13
News

Impressions from Lac Mégantic

Surveying the damage of the small Quebec town that was detonated by a runaway train carrying crude oil.
Joel Balsam
7.10.13
Words

Baauer Interviewed by Jim-E-Stack

Toto makes Baauer cry, Leonardo di Caprio rules, and other revelations from the Infinite Daps Tour.
THUMP Staff
7.10.13
Words

Calling All Junglists

To celebrate the release of the new Congo Natty album, Star Eyes breaks down the label's five most ruffneck ragga jungle classics.
Star Eyes
7.10.13
Art

Beautifully Grotesque Creatures Emerge From Volvox Lab's "Lucid Dream"

Volvox Labs create a parallel universe full of impossible, surreal organisms.
Taylor Cole
7.10.13
Features

EDM: Economic Distortion Medium

We went to the EDM Business Conference and Electric Daisy Carnival in Las Vegas to find out: Is 'EDM' is the next Rock 'N' Roll, or is it a cultural and economic bubble that's about to burst?
Drew Millard
7.10.13
News

Have Police Killed Ten Members of the Same Venezuelan Family?

Over the past 15 years, ten male members of the Barrios family, based in Guanayén, northern Venezuela, have been killed. It is the belief of one female member, Eloisa Barrios, that the men were all killed by the police as part of a multi-generational...
Nathalie Olah, Photos: Manuel Gago
7.10.13
Motherboard Blog

An Iceberg Eight Times the Size of Manhattan Finally Split from Antarctica

While the new iceberg, which is as big as a large city, is certainly a behemoth, it's far from the largest ever.
Mat McDermott
7.10.13
Music

Four Days at Toddstock

Todd Rungren is like Prince or David Bowie—a timeless, genre-spanning artist who did nearly everything first. Or at least that's what I learned while hanging out with his biggest fans for four days during a massive birthday party for Rundgren on a...
Michael Patrick Welch
7.10.13
Young Americans

Cultural Stereotypes

We speak to folks from all over to tell us about what preconceived notions they might hold against other people.
VICE Staff
7.10.13
News

The Government Is Retiring Hundreds of Chimps from Biomedical Research

I hate to paint with a broad brush here, but primates in America have horrible lives. Sure, there are your One Percenters like Koko and Bubbles the Chimp, but by and large, the US is one big Bergen-Belsen for our oldest living ancestors. The NIH has...
Tanja M. Laden
7.10.13
Motherboard Blog

You Can See These Oil Disasters from Space

From oil trains leveling Canadian towns to fracking in the Midwest to the BP Gulf spill, satellites are playing an increasingly important role in capturing environmental destruction.
Brian Merchant
7.10.13
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