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What's Julian Assange Afraid Of?
Pale-faced in shirt sleeves before a crowd flanked by Metropolitan police officers, Julian Assange looked weary as he stepped out onto the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London on Sunday. It was his first public appearance in two months, as he's...
Adam Estes
8.20.12
Design

Miliy Design Carves Out Abstracted Mountain Forms On Modern Building Façade
Mirroring the mountains and hills surrounding Taizhou City, Miliy Design put a traditionalist spin on modern architecture design.
Erica Huang
8.20.12
ramadan

The Night the Free Syrian Army Made Me Dinner
They dared us to try fasting, so that we could have a genuine Iftar experience. Being weak-willed people who can’t go without liquids when it’s 100-plus degrees outside, we failed miserably. I didn’t want to be the first to admit this though, because...
Ruth Michaelson
8.20.12
Stuff

Combover, Interpreted
This month's installment of 'Combover' has no words. Here's your cheat sheet, an interview with photographer Janicza Bravo, who tells us about Combover's strange homoerotic shamanic dream.
Liz Armstrong
8.20.12
Music

We, Too, Are Hooligans
With blood and ink, the only way we know how, VICE got tattoos to show solidarity with Pussy Riot being sentenced to two years in prison.
Kelly McClure
8.20.12
Wide World of Balls

Kicking and Screening
Soccer is back, football is boring, hockey is staring a labor dispute in the eye, and some baseball player who was busted for testosterone made a fake website so everyone would think that the banned substance he took was some sort of supplement he...
Lou Doggs
Sports Staff
8.20.12
Motherboard Blog

Ecologists Are Using Drones to Track Endangered Wildlife
I'd be the first to admit that we at Motherboard are skeptical about drones -- as well as argue that it's not without good reason -- but when you get past the drone war and the "surveillance state":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/5/14/the-accidental...
Derek Mead
8.20.12
Fashion

Augmented Reality Clothing Has Arrived With The Apparel Project
Designers Normals have created a prototype jacket that exists both physically and digitally.
Kevin Holmes
8.20.12
Motherboard Blog

I Want to Live in a Bathysphere
I’ve written many times, although not recently, about the ocean.When I first began Universe in 2005, it was practically a ship’s log: meandering pieces on narwhal tusks, the accidental poetics of my hero, Rachel Carson, and adolescent screeds on the...
Claire L. Evans
8.20.12
Photo

Buy My Teddy Bears Or I'll Kill Myself
Pictures of sad people selling happy things.
Jamie Lee Taete
8.20.12
Motherboard Blog

Hot Links: Tech to Stop the Apocalypse, Samsung and Apple Talk Truce, Bill Gates Goes Nuclear
*Welcome back to Hot Links, Motherboard's weekly roundup of awesome science and tech news to help you start the week.*
Derek Mead
8.20.12
The Sprinkles of the Sandman Issue

Scalps Ahoy
Propeller-inflicted deaths and injuries have become such a serious public health issue in the poverty-stricken Brazilian Amazon. AMRVEA got together with the government and the Brazilian Society of Plastic Surgeons to give 87 scalping victims free...
Matheus Chiaratti
8.20.12
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