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Love Tips with Donny Benét: Getting Serious

Funk master and world class lover Donny Benét continues his step-by-step guide to everlasting love this week by walking you through the tricky follow up to the perfect first date.
Donny Benet
7.8.13
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Festival-Goers Have Vacated Roskilde and Left Behind Piles of Shit

And not the kind you’d use to describe Henry Rollins’ spoken word performances.
Henrik Saltzstein
7.8.13
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Postmodernism and Sumo Wrestlers: An Interview with Joseph McElroy

Joseph McElroy is one of postmodernism’s major players, and at age 82, he's still kicking. His new book, Cannonball, tells the complicated story of an inexperienced photographer, who shoots government staged propaganda during the Iraq War...
Taji Ameen
7.7.13
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The Best Walk

Should we fault the thief who steals to keep from starving? The soldier who kills one enemy to save five of his countrymen? Morality ought to be concerned with RESULTS, not laws, and the best results are those which maximize well-being and happiness...
Melanie Gillman
7.7.13
Motherboard Blog

Scientists Make a Light Switch Controlled By Individual Photons

The optic transistor might prove useful in quantum computing.
Andrew Overton
7.7.13
Motherboard Blog

On Alcoholism and American Flag Parachutes

I’m not a fan of labels, but there is one I must accept.
Sophie Saint Thomas
7.7.13
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John Lydon

Lydon airs his opinions on why The Clash have no right to imitate black music and how we won't need governments for much longer.
Motherboard Blog

What It Means That Humans Invented Farming Twice

Innovations aren't miracles. We should stop pretending they are.
Michael Byrne
7.7.13
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Hate in an Elevator

The elevator descended to the third floor and the door clanked open again, giving way to a little 100-year-old Chinese man holding a plastic shopping bag, who promptly entered the elevator and hit at least six different buttons. I watched over his...
T. Kid
7.7.13
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Traveling to Mexico for a Tooth Implant and Tacos

Dental tourism is one of the most cheapskate aspects of neocolonialism. Every year, thousands of cheap Americans travel to Mexico to buy new teeth. I am one such cheap person.
Safy-Hallan Farah
7.7.13
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Into the Weird — Alcoholism and American Flag Parachutes

Legacies are different for those who die from a blackout suicide, drunk driving accident, or drunkenly consuming too many drugs. I’ve been jumping out of a plane every time I’ve used alcohol for sometime now, and my shoddy parachute has collapsed.
Sophie Saint Thomas
7.7.13
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Celebrity Baby Smack Down: North West Vs. the Royal Baby

When I discovered both Kim Kardashian and Kate Middleton would give birth this summer, I became excited about the prospect of a baby smack down, because watching children try to kill each other is rewarding and fun. Who will win the Thunderdome matchup...
Emalie Marthe
7.7.13
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