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You Need To Listen To Weird Paul

AKA Paul Petroskey, the Pittsburgh prince of DIY weird.
Jeff Ogiba
9.4.12
Motherboard

The New Drug War: Militants Are Slaughtering Elephants In Record Numbers

In June, Interpol announced the "largest illegal ivory bust":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/6/26/despite-huge-busts-elephant-poaching-has-reached-record-levels--2 in history, with 14 African nations coordinating to seize two tons of ivory and make...
Derek Mead
9.4.12
Motherboard Blog

Science Is Getting Closer to Finding a Cure for Paralysis

A team scientists in Switzerland and the United States must be thrilled after an experimental stem cell treatment they developed helped two paralyzed patients regain feeling in their bodies. The small trial involved injecting three patients with 2...
Adam Estes
9.4.12
Prolate Spheroid Preview

The Giant Insane People of the NFL Are Back, Finally

Professional football is played at speeds too fast for the viewer to follow what is happening. The games are too long and the stop-and-start action is constantly interrupted by homophobic, misogynistic beer ads. The rules are bizarre. And the game...
Harry Cheadle
9.4.12
Tech

The Trouble WIth Stealing Real Shitty Music

If you're using any of the Top 100 torrents, you're probably being monitored.
Derek Mead
9.4.12
Motherboard Blog

If You Use Torrents, You're Most Likely Being Monitored

You're a fool if you think your torrent downloading behavior can't be tracked, but with so many people swapping movies and music through BitTorrent _et al_, it's not likely that little old you, ye of occasional downloads, would be singled out, right...
Derek Mead
9.4.12
Music

Parenthetical Girls Bleed for the End of Privilege

VICE premieres the fifth and final bloodletting video in Parenthetical Girls' Privilege project, which comes to an end this month.
Kelly McClure
9.4.12
Question Of The Day

Would You Audition to Be Tom Cruise's Girlfriend?

Or is he just too creepy for you?
Lloyd Greenall
9.4.12
Stuff

Which Is the Coolest Drug?

Drowning before your time, face down in an opiate-induced septic tank of your own vomit is waaaay cooler than dying of boring, old pancreatic cancer anyway, right? Natural causes might be nature's course, but it won't get you on many tributes.
VICE Staff
9.4.12
war

Ghosts of the Jungle

Burma's Karen National Liberation Army is the most effective guerrilla fighting force active today. They usually don’t take too kindly to outsiders, especially those with cameras, but somehow I—a curious Canadian photographer—managed to embed with the...
Bryan Dickie
9.4.12
News

The Thought Police Won't Let Me Be an Anarchist

They stopped me at the airport and talked about my mum being raped.
Simon Childs
9.4.12
Stuff

Gérard Depardieu Ruined My Day

Working at a wine shop is great, except for one slight hitch: I know absolutely nothing about wine.
Al Burian
9.4.12
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