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Acidifying Oceans Are Melting Antarctic Snails

Climate change is already wrecking sea life.
Derek Mead
11.27.12
Motherboard Blog

Cambridge Will Study the Techno-Apocalypse with a Dedicated Research Center

The apocalypse will come someday, and while it happening this year is doubtful, it’s still an obviously relevant area of research.
Derek Mead
11.27.12
Motherboard Blog

This Ban on Killer Autonomous Robots Will Never Happen

So, a bunch of hippies are whining about autonomous killer robots again.
Brian Merchant
11.27.12
Motherboard Blog

Holiday Shoppers Beware: The Mannequins Are Watching You

The next time you gaze through the storefront window at that fashionably clad mannequin, know that the mannequin might be staring back.
Greg Thomas
11.27.12
Art

Using Propellers, LEDs, And Lasers To Recreate The Feeling Of Nature

“Flying Stick” uses new technologies to inspire ideas about age-old mysteries of the natural world.
Joey Goldsmith
11.27.12
Motherboard Blog

At Least One Bird Is Pretty Happy About the Local Oil Refinery

Light pollution is bad news for wildlife.
Michael Byrne
11.27.12
Comics!

True Tales: Fleetwood Mac Part 1

Destroy the mucus! Rescue Captain Jeremy Spencer!
Benny Montero
11.26.12
Question Of The Day

How Would You Blow $2.2 Billion and Keep It a Secret?

Kweku Adoboli was jailed last week for somehow managing to lose $2.2 billion of UBS's money in fraudulent deals, which is equal parts hilarious and terrifying. His case got us wondering if it would be possible to spend that much money and keep it on...
VICE Staff
Patrick Henderson and Ryan Bassil
11.26.12
Music

Gunplay Doesn't Fear the Pine Box or Prison

Gunplay has an intensity that is unmatched in hip-hop, and an appetite for drugs and trouble to go with it. I talked with him while he was on house arrest about self-destruction.
Wilbert L. Cooper
11.26.12
Motherboard Blog

A Little Lesson in Knowledge, Courtesy of an Island that Disappeared (If It Ever Even Existed)

Can a place be "undiscovered"? Wrap your brain around this: for the past few days geographers, Internet speculators and conspiracy theorists have been making much ado about a place that scientists exists according to Google, even if scientists who have...
MARTIN CONNELLY
11.26.12
Music

Make And Deliver Virtual Sushi Music With Makisan

Great, now we’re hungry.
Abdullah Saeed
11.26.12
New music

Big Boi Feat. T.I. And Ludacris - "In The A" (Noisey Exclusive)

We've got the premiere of Daddy Fat Sax's newest single.
11.26.12
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