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I Spoke to the 'Human Shields' Who Drove to the Iraq War in London Buses
Remembering the activists ten years on.
Stefan Simanowitz, Photos: Christopher Reeves
3.19.13
News

How the 2003 Anti-Iraq War March Changed British Democracy Forever
Apparently it wasn't the huge waste of time everyone thinks it was.
Simon Childs
3.19.13
SXSW 2013

11 Minutes with... Icona Pop
The Swedish duo discuss Girls, SXSW, and Ice Road Truckers.
Melissa Locker
3.18.13
Music

LAYERS: Unpacking The Andrew Weathers Ensemble's "Hard, Ain't It Hard"
We break apart The Andrew Weathers Ensemble’s beautiful Woody Guthrie rework.
Justin Staple
3.18.13
Motherboard Blog

Swartz, Keys, Weev: Doing Hard Time for Hacking Doesn't Actually Require Any Hacking
Pending appeal, Weev is off to jail.
Adam Clark Estes
3.18.13
Tech

Toyo Ito's Biggest Building: A Stadium That's Secretly a Solar Power Plant
2013 Pritzker Prize winner Toyo Ito began his career with luminous and transparent houses in his native Japan. But a sports stadium put him on the map.
ALEX PASTERNACK
3.18.13
SXSW 2013

11 Minutes with... Matt & Kim
We caught up with Matt & Kim at SXSW to talk social media and the secret to booty-shaking.
Melissa Locker
3.18.13
Tech

Deoptimized
As experts and amateurs analyze the trends between online content and metrics, they are coming to the same conclusion: High metrics are irrefutably linked to cognitive laziness, i.e., dumbing down. The internet is pandering to the channel-surfing...
Tommy Dean
3.18.13
SXSW 2013

SXSW: Day Three to Five - Nick
SXSW is beautiful and SXSW is terrible.
Nick Gazin
3.18.13
Really, Ryan?

All the New Gay Boys
With the current generation of gay men, there’s a constant pull between the old queer landscape and the new. What it meant to be gay ten years ago when I came out of the closet is not what it means today. It seems like we’re all just trying to play...
Ryan O'Connell
3.18.13
Motherboard Blog

Scientists Create a Living Clone Embryo from a Long-Extinct Species of Mouth-Birthing Frog
Just a few days ago, people were wondering whether this was a good idea. Too late.
Austin Considine
3.18.13
New music

Watch the New Video for Unkwon's "08" + Download His New EP
The Danish producer slows it down with this lush track.
Sascha Wieland
3.18.13
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