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'Streetscape Symphony' Elevates New York's Noise to Art Gallery Walls

Remodeling the city's soundscape with help from an Xbox Kinect camera, MAX/MSP, and creative listening.
Michelle Lhooq
4.27.13
Motherboard Blog

Second Screen Use Doubled Over the Past Year

Great news for marketers, less so for your attention span.
Brian Merchant
4.27.13
Motherboard Blog

'Innocence of Muslims' Is Driving an Increase in Government Takedown Requests at Google

That riot-starting little piece of content from last year is giving Google all kinds of grief.
Adam Clark Estes
4.27.13
Stuff

Can MDMA Cure PTSD?

Last year, a study showed that MDMA works like a therapeutic catalyst. Patients’ scores when measuring common PTSD symptoms such as anxiety, paranoia, nightmares and depression, consistently dropped by over 75 percent. A new study in Vancouver is set...
Dave Dean
4.27.13
taji's mahal

Hanging with Slick Eastwood

For this week's Mahal, I was invited to see Slick Eastwood perform his comedy act in Bushwick, Brooklyn. A few days later, Slick and I met up again in Downtown Manhattan to lurk the streets and discuss his creative process.
Taji Ameen
4.27.13
Stuff

Remembering the 2003 Blackout, My Most Shameful Night

While every resident of the eastern United States and Canada dealt with adversity on the night of the blackout, I dealt with an additional, more secret, more shameful challenge that I still haven’t fully processed close to a decade later.
Chris Gethard
4.27.13
News

Good News! You Can’t Be Automatically Deported for Sharing Three Joints

Well, here’s bit of good news from the Supreme Court, a group not generally considered friendly to criminal defendants or recreational drug users: you cannot, it turns out, be automatically deported for the kindhearted but nonetheless illegal act of...
Sam Taylor
4.27.13
Features

Woah, Weezer’s “Buddy Holly” Was Included On The Windows 95 Install CD

It's true!
Ryan Bassil
4.27.13
Stuff

Gary Indiana Has a New Show

'Gristle Springs' is Gary's first show in over a decade. The long gap is at least partly due to the fact that he is and has always been far more concerned with the integrity of his work than making a buck or a friend.
Jonathan Smith
4.26.13
Words

The DJs That Saved Bill Brewster

The famed UK author recalls the DJ sets that kept him alive.
Jessica Gentile
4.26.13
New music

Allston Pudding Made a 130-Song Mixtape to Raise Money for Boston Relief

In the wake of last week's shocking tragedy, Boston music blog Allston Pudding put together a mixtape raising money for Governor Deval Patrick's One Fund, which helps those most affected by the Boston bombings.
Ezra Marcus
4.26.13
Features

The Indie Rock Equivalent to Every Book in the Old Testament

Another Friday, another Friday Thinks with Luke Winkie.
Luke Winkie
4.26.13
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