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Smoking a Ton of Weed as a Teenager Probably Makes You a Dumb(er) Adult

Are you kind of an idiot? Did you own more than two named bongs as a teenager? Have you ever smoked weed out of an apple procured from a high school lunchroom? Well then, the _Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences_ has a "brand new study...
Michael Byrne
8.28.12
Motherboard Blog

The 60-Year Rise of IBM's Immortal Mainframe

The very term "mainframe computers" brings to mind data scientists in lab coats shuffling punch cards and smoking cigarettes, but don't let that get to you. Despite decades of technology evangelists calling for the death of the ancient mainframe...
Adam Estes
8.28.12
Motherboard Blog

Motherboard TV: How One Guy Turned Fry Grease Into an Energy Revolution

Despite the best efforts of Republicans in Congress, the U.S. military really "wants biofuels":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/28/the-navy-wants-biofuels-but-congress-won-t-let-it-have-them--2. If the Pentagon ever gets its way, that kind of massive...
Derek Mead
8.28.12
videos

How One Guy Turned Fry Grease Into an Energy Revolution

The biofuel industry has come a long way from filtering and burning old grease, with cellulosic and algal fuels that are miles more high tech than grease or fermented corn.
Derek Mead
8.28.12
New music

Eating Out - "Burn" (Official Premiere)

Relive your favorite 90s high school stereotypes with the debut video from the Canadian pop-punk supergroup. (Cool kids only.)
Noisey Staff
8.28.12
Music

VICE Premieres: "Stampede of Savings" by Gaytheist

Your mom, your daddy, and that one person you like from the grocery store? They're all gaytheists. Oh, and you are too for that matter.
VICE Staff
8.28.12
Features

We Saw Cursive & Titus Andronicus at the House Of Vans

Indie-rock night at the House Of Vans.
Benjamin Shapiro
8.28.12
Fashion

Is This Guy Really Turning Customized Stingrays into Customized Trainers?

Rayfish is a Thai company that says it can genetically "biocustomize" stingrays so that they grow in any color and pattern. Rayfish claim that they are able to turn these pretty GM stingray into shoes. I interviewed the owner to see if he's full of...
Sam Voulters
8.28.12
Travel

The Fighting Farm Women of Guerrero, Mexico

At midday, I set out for Cruzco, a sacred spring where the people from the village meet every year to make offerings to their deities. Once they'd laid down their flowers, food, resin or wax, or recited a prayer or a song, they all begin to line up for...
Rodrigo Cruz
8.28.12
Design

Check Out These Awesome Animal Crossing GIFs From Reed + Rader

Reed + Rader conceive a storyline based upon one of their favorite open-ended video games.
Kathleen Flood
8.28.12
Motherboard Blog

In Vietnam, Rhino Horn Is a Party Drug

Vietnam is the world's worst for wildlife trafficking when it comes to "compliance and enforcement":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/7/24/vietnam-is-the-world-s-worst-for-wildlife-crime. While there are many good cops in the country, it's still overrun...
Derek Mead
8.28.12
Fashion

Bitches Get Stitches

Girls in S&M-type gear by Christian Cowan-Sanluis.
Adam-Peter Hicks, Christian Cowan-Sanluis
8.28.12
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