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Kate Brown's Dark and Grimy Photography
It’s hard to not to fall in love with Kate and her distinct photography that takes us from high fashion to sketchy parties to bathrooms to porn conventions
Mish Way
6.21.13
Motherboard Blog

NASA Wants You to Take Pictures of Clouds
With the CloudSpotter app, now you can lay around in the grass on a criminally gorgeous day AND contribute to weather science.
Tatiana Baez
6.21.13
Motherboard Blog

American Car Use Has Declined Every Year Since 2005
We hit Peak Car eight years ago.
Brian Merchant
6.21.13
Stuff

We Went to a Fur Auction in North Bay
Turns out it's where you can buy 90% of Canada's legally harvested polar bear fur.
Dave Dean
6.21.13
Design

High-Tech Floating Houses Planned For Nigeria Water Communities
A visionary plan for a floating city in Nigeria proposed by architecture and urban design firm NLÉ.
Johnny Magdaleno
6.21.13
Motherboard Blog

Eight Revelations from the Steve Jobs Movie Trailer
In the end, he found success because he remained true to himself.
Derek Mead
6.21.13
Friday Thinks With Luke Winkie

What if Regis Philbin Had Written 'Yeezus?'
And other questions raised by Modern String Theory and my brain-droppings.
Luke Winkie
6.21.13
This Week in Racism

Paula Deen Is Exhausted from Being So Racist All the Time
America’s Sweetheart and expert chef of all things deep-fried finally came clean about using the “N-Word," claiming that her Southern upbringing made use of the word natural. Her “Sorry for Being Racist” press tour was supposed to start this morning on...
Dave Schilling
6.21.13
Chicken

Girl Eats Food: Mini Fried Chicken Hors d'Oeuvres
Dirty fried chicken doesn't have to be from Dixy's at 3AM on a Friday night.
Jo Fuertes-Knight
6.21.13
Words

Setup/Breakdown: Populette & Kim Ann Foxman
Arps. Minimoogs. Rolands. An in-depth tour of Brooklyn's Throne of Blood studios.
Antoine Carbonnaux
6.21.13
News

The Pillaging of the Umayyad Mosque
On October 13, 2012, Aleppo's Umayyad Mosque, a UNESCO World Heritage site and one of the oldest mosques in the world, suffered extensive fire damage amid fierce fighting between President Bashar al-Assad's forces and the Free Syrian Army. Photographer...
Robert King
6.21.13
Pen Pals

The Guys Who Really Should Be Locked Up
You might think that someone who’s been locked up a lot like me might have more sympathy for inmates, regardless of what their crime is, but I doubt that I do. When I hear a guy sitting next to me in group say he just did 31 years, I really don’t want...
Bert Burykill
6.21.13
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