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China and the US Are at Nuclear War in Afghanistan

The race for uranium is heating up.
Greg Palast
6.7.13
video

Step Inside MoMA's Rain Room

Random International discuss why they decided to create a room full of falling water.
TCP Staff
6.7.13
News

This Woman’s Dad Was Tortured and Imprisoned in Bahrain

Maryam Al-Khawaja was in the United States when her phone rang. Back in Bahrain, her native country, a government crackdown on the massive prodemocracy uprising was proceeding at a ferocious pace. The president of the Bahrain Center for Human Rights...
Jared Malsin
6.7.13
Motherboard Blog

Just Some Songs About Phones, Listening

Suggested listening for when your privacy is put on hold.
Brian Anderson
6.7.13
Features

We Talked To Royal-T About Grime's Past, Present, And Future

Grime upstart drops knowledge along with the bass.
Ezra Marcus
6.7.13
News

Privacy’s Public, Government-Sponsored Death

The idea that there’s a private sphere and a public one and that the government rarely intrudes on the former is hopelessly outdated—the question we should be asking ourselves isn’t how do we stop surveillance; it’s how do we live with it.
Harry Cheadle
6.7.13
Motherboard Blog

Former FCC Chairman: Share Your Wifi for the Good of America

Because our telecommunications systems should be safeguarded against any eventuality—including a future would-be American Mubarak or Gaddafi too?
DJ Pangburn
6.7.13
News

I Went to the Street Memorial for the Murdered French Anti-Fascist

Hundreds of people gathered to remember Clément Méric, the teenager killed by fascist thugs.
Patrick Randall, Photos: Maxime Lelong
6.7.13
Art

Pondering Life's Big Questions With Holographic Sculptures

Jeff Robb's Three Acts Of Will uses holography to create three dimensional sculptures aimed to disorientate and overwhelm.
Kevin Holmes
6.7.13
wild things

The $wiftest Pigeon

In tribute to the intrepid bootleggers who've propped up their country's market economy, China's rich have taken arguably the worst bird of all time, the pigeon, and slapped a Louis Vuitton logo on it. Racing pigeons are the new thoroughbreds here...
Thomas Morton
6.7.13
Stuff

Shut the Hell Up About My Open Relationship

I'm in an open relationship—this means the person spooning me to sleep at night is not always my boyfriend. Of the issues we face as a pair, I’d say the most annoying one is knowing that, after divulging our relationship choices, it is the only thing...
Monica Heisey
6.7.13
Motherboard Blog

Global Warming Plays Favorites

Case in point: Blue Lake, a body of freshwater on Australia's North Stradbroke Island, has been almost completely untouched by climate change for the last 7,000 years.
Tatiana Baez
6.7.13
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