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My Name Is Tom and I’m a Video Game Addict

I was a Nintendo 'Legend of Zelda' fanatic. The later incarnations of 'Zelda'—I think one was called 'Ocarina of Time'—helped me through difficult times in high school, while also making me feel like a loser because I was spending hours playing a...
James Franco
5.29.13
Motherboard Blog

Biodiversity Loss Is Threatening Our Food Supply

At its heart, it's a matter of economics.
Derek Mead
5.29.13
News

The E-Currency Exchange LibertyReserve.com Got Shut Down for Laundering $6 Billion

Yesterday, the US Attorney's office in Manhattan indicted the founder of LibertyReserve.com, an online e-currency trading site that was “the predominant digital form of money laundering used by cybercriminals worldwide.” Liberty Reserve allegedly moved...
Krishna Andavolu
5.29.13
News

Rich Paul Is Appealing His 81-Year Prison Sentence for Selling Pot

A jury found Rich Paul guilty last month and sent him away for a long, long time for a nonviolent crime. But he's appealing—even though he admittedly sold weed to an FBI informant—on the grounds that that jury wasn't properly informed about their...
Harry Cheadle
5.29.13
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I Took a Female Ejaculation Class

You know that thing that most women did when they were 14, where they squatted over a mirror to discover their own vaginas? Maybe it’s my culturally instilled Iranian guilt about the female body but I only did that for the first time last year.
Anna Nash
5.29.13
Young Americans

Coming to America

In the first episode of season two of 'Young Americans,' director Lance Bangs and his crew meet up with young people from coast to coast to discuss their multi-cultural roots.
VICE Staff
5.29.13
Tao Lin's iPhone Photos of Taipei

Taipei Public Art

Tao Lin
5.29.13
Motherboard Blog

This Is Probably Going to Be the First Woolly Mammoth That Gets Cloned

Russian scientists discovered the first woolly mammoth with perfectly preserved blood—and they've already got a deal with a Korean biotech group that wants to clone it.
Brian Merchant
5.29.13
Question Of The Day

Which Would Be the Most Embarrassing Animal to Get Killed By?

A guy in Belarus got killed by a beaver the other day.
William Alexander
5.29.13
Interviews

We Talked to Anamanaguchi About Bitcoin, Memes, and Dick Tricks

Get to know Anamanaguchi, the Internet's sexiest 8-bit boy-band. They poop together, they have sleepovers, and they just launched a pizza into space.
Ezra Marcus
5.29.13
Motherboard Blog

Surgeries on Friday Are More Frequently Fatal

You're better off being a case on a Monday.
Ben Richmond
5.29.13
VICE Premiere

James Franco Just Sent Us His Band's Latest Video

His band is called Daddy, and he does it along with his art school buddy Tim O'Keefe. Their new video for "Crime ( remix)" is composed of footage shot on Harinezumis, which were mounted to 35mm cameras during the production of 'Spring Breakers.'
Benjamin Shapiro
5.29.13
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