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Behold the First National Algal Biofuel Testbed

We need biofuels, and we need them #asap. Because peak oil is here, even if it's not technically "peak oil." Because oil is getting scarcer and harder to extract and more expensive and yet our global economy still pretty much depends on the black stuff...
Brian Merchant
9.18.12
Menk, by John Doran

We Can Find New Ways of Living

Northerners gone wild: pissing on churches, puking in gutters, horrifying small Algerian boys.
John Doran
9.18.12
Design

DARPA's Latest Four-Legged Robot Makes Drones Look Cuddly

It’s disquietingly quiet on foot, too.
Kevin Holmes
9.18.12
Stuff

We Ate Rat Salad

Have you ever thought about the nutritional nuggets that are scurrying about under your filthy floors? We’d like to show you how to prepare some rat-based snacks with our easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide. Yum!
Lewis Wright and Bruno Bayley
9.18.12
Popping the Marks

The Innocence of White People

As an artist, I support everyone’s right to make shitty, cheap-looking art, and I do not believe that bloodshed is ever an acceptable way of responding to art. But in the big picture, this isn’t really about violent religion vs. nonviolent art; it’s...
Michael Muhammad Knight
9.18.12
Film

6,000 Paintings And Plenty Of Man Hours Make Up This Atmospheric Animation

Painstaking is a word you could use to describe the process of making Reza Dolatabadi’s film Khoda.
Kevin Holmes
9.18.12
Photo

Fashion Week Internationale: Season 2 Launch Party

We rounded up Brazillian DJs, alcohol and transvestites to celebrate yet another season of fashion madness.
Mimi Rasmussen
9.18.12
The Weird Science Issue

Excerpts from ‘The Periodic Table of Energy’

In 1973, Timothy Leary—the “high priest” of LSD—was arrested by US officials. During his imprisonment he conceived 'The Periodic Table of Energy,' a 203-page “manual explaining how to decode the basic blueprints which guide the evolutionary journey...
Timothy Leary
9.18.12
Fashion

Meeting the Geniuses of London Fashion Week

"HIV is definitely the most fashionable STI... because of all the glamorous media coverage."
VICE Staff
9.18.12
New music

Waka Flocka Flame: "Murda" (White Ring Remix)

White Ring give Waka Flocka a distorted "witch-house" makeover.
Kieran Yates
9.18.12
New music

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs: "Your Love" (Video)

Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs serves up an internet wet dream featuring Japanese schoolgirls and cats.
Kieran Yates
9.18.12
Fashion

London Fashion Week Roundup: Day Four

Seems like someone told every single designer showing today that luxury sportswear is in.
VICE Staff
9.18.12
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