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The Revolution Will Be Live-Mapped: A Brief History of Protest Maptivism

The revolution may not be televised, but it will be Google-mapped with crowdsourced data from social media networks.
Meghan Neal
6.9.13
Comics!

The Glider Gang

OK everybody, first we'll swoop down on the high school. (Ring! Ring!) Hang on a sec.
Alex Schubert
6.9.13
WEEDIQUETTE

Getting High and Making Beats

I resent the stereotype that weed-smokers aren’t productive. Sloth is merely one activity that goes well with smoking weed, and it happens in off hours. During the workweek, weed stimulates my creativity, or at very least relaxes my mind enough to come...
T. Kid
6.9.13
News

3,500 Cops Who Want All Drugs to Be Legal

“Just so we’re clear,” began Peter Christ during our first phone conversation, “if you look in Webster’s Dictionary at the word hypocrite, you will see a picture of me. I believed that this drug war was a stupid fucking idea even before I became a cop.”
Roc Morin
6.9.13
shorties

The Art of Taboo - Nobuyuki Oura

Artists have always used taboo and controversy to pose questions about society. In the first episode of "The Art of Taboo" we focus on Oura Nobuyuki, who explains the meaning behind his highly controversial portraits of Japan's Showa emperor, titled...
VICE Japan
6.9.13
Motherboard Blog

Behold, Every One of the 17,000 Libraries in the U.S. Mapped

Not just an excuse to rant about how awesome libraries are.
Michael Byrne
6.8.13
The Mercy Rule

The Least Important Important Thing

A VICE Sports columnist bids farewell.
David Roth
6.8.13
Motherboard Blog

Does Mining Our Big Data for Terrorists Actually Make Us Any Safer?

Where's the actual proof these programs offer more benefits than downsides? Where are the thwarted plots to balance against the chill of privacy loss?
Shawn Musgrave
6.8.13
Motherboard Blog

How To Farm the Seas Without Waste

Researcher Thierry Chopin gives aquaculture a facelift.
Tatiana Baez
6.8.13
Motherboard Blog

Why It’s So Disconcerting That SnapChat Is Now Worth Half a Billion Dollars

The economy of cool triumphs once again.
Meghan Neal
6.8.13
The Mercy Rule

The Least Important Important Thing

I would not and should not be writing about sports if I didn't think they were a way to better understand and enjoy a complicated moment-to-moment existence—not to mention a pretty righteous excuse to tell that existence to fuck off for a couple hours...
David Roth
6.8.13
Stuff

The 40-Year-Old Pot Virgin

Jamen Shively only started smoking herb a-year-and a-half ago, but he's been making up for lost time ever since. Now an aspiring marijuana mogul, as well as a dedicated cannabis connoisseur, he even credits the very conception of his latest high...
David Bienenstock
6.8.13
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