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Iran Wants to Spill Oil in the Persian Gulf To Drive Up Oil Prices

Economic sanctions placed on Iran by the United States and European Union and gradually tightened over the last year have begun to strain Iran; the country's currency has tumbled as oil production has "hit its lowest point in 23 years":http://www.cnn...
Derek Mead
10.15.12
Question Of The Day

Would You Stay with Your Partner If They Could Never Have Sex Again?

Ah, love. Love love love. What is love? And if you are really in love, would you stay in a sexless relationship or would you bolt? Would you stay with your lover if they could never bump uglies again?
VICE Staff
Chloe Cross and Ryan Bassil
10.15.12
Chunklet to Go Go

Dawn of the Dusk

Interpol says they got a picture of a one year old child in a roasting pan like a piglet. Had an apple in his mouth and everything.
James Halcrow
10.15.12
New music

Kanye West: "White Dress"

Is Yeezy about to put a ring on it?
Ryan Bassil
10.15.12
Wide World of Balls

Reason for the Season

Hockey is still DOA, baseball postseason is a-rolling, the Nets played inside a casino and it wasn't on TV, Deron Williams allegedly wears a wig, and some NFL guy is a pillhead.
Lou Doggs
Sports Staff
10.15.12
Motherboard Blog

The Navy's MacGyver Bot Makes Its Own Tools, Doesn't Have a Mullet

Having whole-heartedly employed "drones":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/6/20/who-the-hell-knows-how-many-civilians-drones-have-killed for air strikes, the U.S. military is now embarking on a project to put autonomous robots on the ground to serve as...
Gregory Thomas
10.15.12
Motherboard Blog

Those Craigslist Drug Dealers Should Have Used the Dark Web

Plenty of people have used Craigslist to hunt down and entrust perfectly amicable roommates (check), to sell cars that were worth less than the work they needed (check), to buy $2 seats to Mets games (check, Shea days), and to trade a bunch of other...
Daniel Stuckey
10.15.12
Motherboard Blog

In Which Big Game and Eugenics Go To Washington: or, Environmentalism Is Born (Part One)

In the aftermath of a rollicking dinner party in 1887, Teddy Roosevelt and his friends decided to start a club. It would be devoted to their shared passions: the thrill of the chase, pitting nature against human daring and ingenuity – a club for big...
Alicia Puglionesi
10.15.12
The Raised Up Right Issue

Advertisers Are Living in Your Brain

A group of researchers used brain-computer interface devices to extract PINs from people’s minds and published their findings. One of the paper’s authors, told us not to worry about being mindfucked. Instead, this technology will mostly be used for...
Hannah Murphy
10.15.12
Features

Mike Skinner Talks Life After The Streets

And about Twitter, Danny Brown and gazillionaire DJs.
Ryan Bassil
10.15.12
Marshall Headphones: On The Road - BRANDED

Rockfield Studios With a Wizard - Trailer

Krusher is a man synonymous with heavy metal for decades.
VICE Staff
10.15.12
Good Morning, Sinners... with Warren Ellis

The Valley of Expectations

Human spaceflight may be dead, but the future's still death from above. Ever look up and notice how much the American Space Shuttle resembles some styles of drone? That happened when we weren’t looking.
Warren Ellis
10.15.12
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