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Could the Sea Squirt Be a Bountiful Biofuel Source?

Maybe prepare yourself to hear, "I'm going down to the vase tunicate station for some smokes."
Mat McDermott
6.25.13
Motherboard Blog

Finally: A Drone for Dropping Rhymes, Not Bombs

Meet the drone laureate: David Shook, a poet and filmmaker in Los Angeles, wants to see his Poetry Drone cruising over cities and raining antiwar poems on those below.
Meghan Neal
6.25.13
Interviews

The Smith Westerns Can Now Legally Drink Beer But Still Aren't Smoking Blunts With Chief Keef

The band talks 'Soft Will,' being super young, and the Chicago music scene.
Eric Sundermann
6.25.13
Motherboard Blog

Old Security Photos Highlight the Unknown Builders of the Atomic Bomb

For all the famous names, there were hundreds more people working behind the scenes.
Derek Mead
6.25.13
Gaming

Gamer's Paradise: How to Make Games For Change You'd Actually Want to Play

Games are a natural vehicle for edutainment. So why are most "games for change" still so terrible?
Leigh Alexander
6.25.13
News

Germany's Blood-Drenched Debt Could Save Greece's Economy

Some Greeks are claiming Germany owes them $211.5 billion, including interest, for being complete assholes during WWII. Needless to say, that would put quite a dent in Greece's financial woes.
Gregory Frye
6.25.13
Motherboard Blog

The Incredibly Mysterious Voynich Manuscript Still Has Scientists Stumped

Even the NSA tried and failed to decipher it, but the research indicates you shouldn't give up just yet.
Ben Richmond
6.25.13
Question Of The Day

What's the Most Altruistic Thing You've Ever Done?

"I didn’t sleep for four days when my sister was in labour."
Dan Wilkinson
6.25.13
Stuff

BREAKING NEWS: Members of a Christian Group Are Being Assholes

A Christian group in Texas has begun taking photos of people's cars as they patronize "sinful businesses" and posting them online. They're calling it the "Ephesians 5:11 Project" after a Bible passage which reads, "Have nothing to do with the fruitless...
Jamie Lee Taete
6.25.13
Neither Big nor Easy

Odoms and Ballzack Are Kings of the Wank

The surreal hip-hop duo have never even left Louisiana, but have a huge following in New Orleans—but not as big a following as that of Lil Doogie, a puppet they created that has so many fans he can sell out venues by himself.
Michael Patrick Welch
6.25.13
Music

David Yow Wants to Paint You

David Yow, the screamer behind the Jesus Lizard and Scratch Acid, just dropped his first solo record. To celebrate, we're hosting a contest where one extremely lucky human will win an original portrait by Yow himself.
Benjamin Shapiro
6.25.13
NSFW

Recognizing Your Ex-Girlfriend in Porn

Sex is arguably the most intimate physical act. Seeing a woman I once loved plunge her hands inside another woman inverted that intimacy, making it alienating and public.
Miles K
6.25.13
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