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Our Chance to Slow Global Warming Is Officially "Fading Away"

The US's top climate agency says serious warming is all but guaranteed.
Brian Merchant
3.6.13
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The Museum of Modern Art Is Playing Games

The museum recently added 14 games and game-y artifacts to its permanent collection. And it's about time.
Colin Snyder
3.6.13
Interviews

Get to Know Tree, the Lone Practitioner of Soul Trap

We check in with the incredibly unique Chicago rapper.
Frances Capell
3.6.13
Pretty Girl Bullshit

The Pretty Girl's Swearword Bible 2013

The dirty words you are – and are not – allowed to say.
Bertie Brandes
3.6.13
Motherboard Blog

Is Your Language a Shakespearean Feast, or Have You 'Stol'n the Scraps'?

On the anniversary Shakespeare's last play, test his influence on your writing. We tested its influence on Deadwood.
Austin Considine
3.6.13
Music

Big Narstie's Guide To... EastEnders

We Rrang Mr Narstie up to chat about his expert subject.
Noisey Staff
3.6.13
The Fashion Issue 2013

A Sweatshop of One's Own

What if the crap-manufacturing industry collapses and all of the indentured servants the US employs there are no longer able to produce cheaply manufactured garments? What atrocities would Americans be forced to wear? To illustrate this predicament, I...
Kara Crabb
3.6.13
vice shorts

I'm Short, Not Stupid Presents: 'Voice Over'

This short—'Voice Over'—opens with a desperate space pilot who has been jettisoned from his ship after crash landing on an alien planet. To make things worse, one of the local creatures has crawled inside of his suit and is getting frisky with his...
Jeffrey Bowers
3.6.13
Art

Hong Kong's Urban Cityscape Informs This Abstract, Interactive Sculpture

Wendy W Fok’s La Technologie Culturelle D’objet represents the digital culture of Hong Kong.
Adriana M. Padilla
3.6.13
Greg Palast

Vaya Con Dios, Hugo

"It's a chess game, Mr. Palast," Chavez told me. "And I am a very good chess player." When it comes to class war on a chessboard, even in death, I wouldn't bet against Hugo Chavez.
Greg Palast
3.6.13
Photo

Photographing the Children of Romania's Communist Estates

During the communist period, housing estates were built all over Romania in an attempt to provide homes for workers. However, once the revolution came and capitalism swept in, the buildings were forgotten about and fell into disrepair.
Ioana Moldovan
3.6.13
Features

Big Narstie's Guide To...EastEnders

"Kat's fanny and the floppy disk have something in common - they're both obsolete."
Big Narstie & Jo Fuertes-Knight
3.6.13
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