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Unrepentant Racists React to the Curiosity's Mars Landing
Two notable, seemingly disparate events took place over the last week or so—NASA's Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars, and a racist maniac tragically murdered several people in Wisconsin. Pretty apt week for humanity, there.
Anyhow, I was...
Brian Merchant
8.7.12
New music

The Neighbourhood - "Female Robbery"
Check out the new video, featuring heaping doses of film noir atmospherics and New Wave gravitas.
Suze Olbrich
8.7.12
Pretty Girl Bullshit

I'm in Love with Aliya Mustafina!
And the teenage Russian gymnast's sad, sad eyes.
Bertie Brandes
8.7.12
Motherboard Blog

This is What Wall Street's Terrifying Robot Invasion Looks Like
Given the the endless mind-whirling acronyms, derivatives and structures of the financial markets, we're rarely "served with a visualization":http://blogs.reuters.com/felix-salmon/2012/08/06/chart-of-the-day-hft-edition/ that so elegantly illustrates...
ALEC LIU
8.7.12
Stuff

How to Speak Like a Maritimer
People speak so weirdly in Canada’s Maritime Provinces that you practically need a translator for the toothless fisherman-ese.
Gregory Pike
8.7.12
Fashion

I Walked Around in a Burqa All Day (And I’m Not Muslim)
After watching 74 YouTube videos and parsing 108 Google search pages, not a single one could tell me if burqas were comfortable or how Americans react to seeing someone resembling the Grim Reaper float by them in line at Starbucks. So, I figured that...
Annette Lamothe-Ramos
8.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Inside the Hacking World of Pregnant Lady Beetles
Someday a more ambitious writer than me will write a book about biological hacking, and the biological/evolutionary basis for modern techno-hacking. There's nothing inherently human about hacking, at least in the very crude sense of hacking being...
Michael Byrne
8.7.12
Travel

The Grinberg Method
Sandra sat me on a massage table, naked feet forward, and proceeded to ask me the standard opening questions of psychotherapy. Instead of meticulously taking notes, she responded to my answers by squeezing my toes and kneading my feet. This was weird...
Al Burian
8.7.12
Music

We Saw This: The Antlers
Music is, among many other things, a form of self-indulgence. It's an excuse to stay in your room all day with the door closed and cry. I suppose we feel particular loyalty to people or things with which we've spent days crying, which is why I always...
Helena Fitzgerald
8.7.12
New music

Blood Diamonds: "Phone Sex" (Lemonade Remix)
Oh Lemonade, you spoil us.
Noisey Staff
8.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Hunting for Signs of Alien Life on Mars, Burying Them Here on Earth
As far as NASA scientific missions go, the Curiosity rover is an easy sell: hunting for signs of life. Though, omitted from many headlines I've seen is that we're actually more looking for signs of past life or, even more likely, signs that Mars was...
Michael Byrne
8.7.12
The Photo Issue 2012

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Photographer Nick Haymes is known for his pictoral documentation of the troubled life of "Paranoid Park" star Gabe Nevins, which was collected into the excellent photobook "Gabe" in 2012. In this selection, Nick follows an androgynous subject named...
Nick Haymes
8.7.12
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