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All of Your Devices Are Bumming You Out

A new study from Michigan State University shows that media multitasking exhibits a strong correlation with social anxiety and depression.
Austin Considine
12.7.12
News

Climate Change Is the Real Fiscal Cliff and We're Doomed

Everyone is talking about how the lack of a budget agreement by the end of the year will result in chaos, but none of them are talking about the most significant dilemma facing our country. By not addressing climate change, we’re walking ourselves off...
Mike Abu
12.7.12
New music

Watch Robb Bank$'s New Video for "Cadie," Featuring Phlo Finister

The 17 year old rapper is riding a serious Lil-Wayne-meets-Basquiat vibe.
Noisey Staff
12.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Copycats, Takedowns, and Ass Rainbows: What Does Copyright Mean for Internet Memes?

One chapter in a long and sticky saga about the visual jokes, references, and ideas that fly around the internet--and the laws designed to stop them dead in their rainbow-colored tracks.
Austin Considine
12.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Future Sex: An Interview with James Deen, America's Porn Sweetheart

Deen says he just goes into his scenes and does the best job he can. Women just happen to like him.
Kelly Bourdet
12.7.12
Music

Here's a Video of Grip Plyaz Wilding Out

The clip shows Grip doing what he does best: rocking crowds, imbibing copious amounts of drugs, and falling down. It's great, but it doesn't tide us over. If his "Purp, Wind, & Fire" doesn't come out next week, we are going to blow a fucking gasket.
Siobhan Cassidy
12.7.12
The Mercy Rule

The Pelicans’ Grief

Team names work best when they’re both goofy and ambitious. The very words Utah Jazz conjure someone pouring a quart of milk into a clarinet; the idea of a Sacramento King mostly just gives you the image of a winking Guy Fieri sitting on a pepperoni...
David Roth
12.7.12
Art

Color Becomes A Perception-Altering Substance In These Interactive Rooms

Carlos Cruz-Diez’s Chromosaturation installation immerses the viewer in monochromatic environments.
Kevin Holmes
12.7.12
Music

We Spoke with Al Walser, the Euro DJ Who Trolled the Grammys

Yesterday, everyone started collectively freaking out while trying to uncover how Al Walser—the dark horse candidate alongside more famous douchebags like Avicii, Skrillex and the Swedish House Mafia—managed to score a nomination for Best Dance...
Michelle Lhooq
12.7.12
The Hopelessness Issue

Billie JD Porter's Half-Life Story

Billie JD Porter was ten when VICE started in the UK.
Billie JD Porter
12.7.12
Features

A Conversation With Vintersorg, A Black Metal Schoolteacher

Educational black metal. Yeah, you read that right.
Jimmy Ness
12.7.12
Stuff

Cry-Baby of the Week

This week: The woman who poisoned her dirty roommate Vs. the woman who found a bug in her apple.
Jamie Lee Taete
12.7.12
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