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Where Art And Space Travel Meet: Why Is The Art World Suddenly So Captivated By The Cosmos?

Take a look at creators around the world who are using art to explore and explain the increasingly prominent topic of space travel.
Kyle Chayka
10.8.12
New music

Flying Lotus - "Flotus"

FlyLo flexes his production muscles.
Ryan Bassil
10.8.12
Photo

Diplo Has a New Photo Zine

He's teamed up with photographer Shane McCauley to photograph different countries and their music scenes. The first issue, about Jamaican Dancehall, is being released on Wednesday.
Christian Storm
10.8.12
Motherboard Blog

This Is What the Bacteria Living on Your Money Look Like

You shouldn’t put money in your mouth, obviously, mainly because it has lots of gross stuff on it. We just can’t see it. That is, until Sorin Popescu, a 23-year-old pharmacy student from Romania, harvested some of the bacteria and created an art...
ALEX PASTERNACK
10.8.12
Dogmageddon

God Vs. The Ladies

The original scriptures—the template which has led to today's incarnation of religion—were written by men during a time when women were property and mystical beasts who occasionally farted out children. This factoid explains the troubling inherent...
Rick Paulas
10.8.12
Motherboard Blog

The 69-Year Old Contractor That's Searching for Columbus' Lost Fort

On Christmas, 1492, Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria ran aground on a reef somewhere in the Caribbean. He orded the timber salvaged to build a fort, and when Columbus set sail a few weeks later to return to Spain, he left behind 39 sailors in a new...
Derek Mead
10.8.12
Features

Andrew W.K. Rocks One Million Volt Keyboard Solo On Seven Tesla Coils

The party-est thing you ever did see.
Josh Schneider
10.8.12
Music

LAYERS: Pulling Apart The Pieces Of Mumbai Science's "Unite"

The very first LAYERS on a club song.
Abdullah Saeed
10.8.12
New music

Stream "End All Suffering," We Were Skeletons' New Single

It's the first single from their mathy, screamy new record.
Benjamin Shapiro
10.8.12
The Raised Up Right Issue

One in the Oven

Richard Kern and I drove out to the East Hampton family home of Jemima Kirke, the star of HBO's 'Girls,' to photograph her at eight months pregnant. I also chatted with her about the time we did key bumps together in a bathroom, dating assholes, and...
Annette Lamothe-Ramos; Photos by Richard Kern
10.8.12
Motherboard Blog

Why Aren't Any of the Candidates Talking About Climate Change?

The current election cycle has been great at bringing a lot of issues to forefront of the American voters’ minds — Social Security, the tax code, Big Bird. Climate change is not one of those issues. While we’ve heard Mitt Romney and Barack Obama talk...
Adam Clark Estes
10.8.12
New music

Tyler, The Creator - "Untitled"

A mysterious new track leaked over the weekend.
Ryan Bassil
10.8.12
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