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The Israeli Election: Settlers Are Here to Stay

All the Israelis I spoke to wanted more of the West Bank for themselves, weirdly.
Ruth Michaelson
1.24.13
Ray Lei

Ray Lei Animates A Fantastical World Ruled By Giant-Handed People

The short animation Big Hands Oh Big Hands, Let It Be Bigger And Bigger is a sentimental tale of acceptance.
Erica Huang
1.24.13
Features

The Rhino Horn Crisis and the Darknet

Rhinoceros horn trafficking has become a billion dollar business and the scourge of a threatened species. I went looking for it online.
Derek Mead
1.24.13
Motherboard Blog

Somebody Whose Name Rhymes With Ronald Frump Will Pay You $20 to Pretend You Hate Wind Turbines in Public

There's only one man who's rich, dumb, and pompous enough to pay people to stand outside in January and pretend they hate clean energy.
Brian Merchant
1.24.13
dogs

A Selection of Mark Peckmezian's Wonderful Photographs

We put together a selection of our favourite photos from Mark's portfolio. Dogs, guys, girls, and a guy with a vagina all made the cut.
Patrick McGuire
1.24.13
Munchies

Enrique Olvera

Enrique is not afraid to mix ants with mayonnaise and coffee and put it all on ears of baby corn. The 14-course tasting menu at his restaurant, Pujol, is considered by many to be the finest in Mexico.
VICE Mexico
1.24.13
Motherboard Blog

We Can Now Store Data on Single Strands of DNA

Your DNA-powered iPod could hold something like a bajillion songs.
Adam Clark Estes
1.24.13
New music

Exclusive Stream and Download: I Am The Cosmos' Sublime Debut Album, 'Monochrome'

As hypnotic as it is beautiful, 'Monochrome' finds I Am The Cosmos making a bold push for one of the best albums of 2013.
DJ Pangburn
1.24.13
Comics!

The Adventures of First World Ferret

It's time to check in with First World Problems Ferret on his thankless task to power laptops and iPods worldwide.
Alex Sheriff and Pat Maloney
1.24.13
NSFW

Dear Kelly McClure, My Name Is Penis, I'm Not New Here

So yesterday I (Kelly McClure) wrote a thing about how guys piss on restroom floors because they don't know how to work their dicks and it made a lot of people upset in some way or another. One random guy wrote me a five paragraph email about it, and...
Ben Johnson
1.24.13
Tech

What the Czech Play That Coined the Term 'Robot' Tells Us About Today's Robonomics

Playwright Karel Capek was going to call the artificial workers in his play "Labori," but his brother suggested “robots,” instead. It’s not surprising then, that the robots in 'Rossum's Universal Robots' feel like a pretty thinly-veiled metaphor.
Ben Richmond
1.24.13
Motherboard Blog

Abortion in America

Four decades after Roe v. Wade, where are we?
Kelly Bourdet
1.24.13
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