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The Olympics Will Stop Being Shitty if Everyone Does This
If we nuke sports that involve judges and boats, and start paying athletes, the Olympics will not suck.
Bhaskar Sunkara
7.26.12
Design

10 Insane Things You Didn't Know 3D Printers Could Do
i.e. Make you dinner, build you a fully functioning mini-model home, and maybe even save your life.
Michelle Lhooq
7.26.12
Music

Why Hasn't Rockabilly Come Back Around?
Rockabilly has turned into a lifestyle brand and died out of relevance because it doesn't want its participants to be a mess.
Helena Fitzgerald
7.26.12
Boyle's Brains

People I Met in Truck Driving School
This May I passed a trucking school on my bike and enrolled shortly after. For four weeks a small group of men and I watched instructional DVDs and took tests in a classroom Mondays through Thursdays from 5:30 to 10:45. Fridays we’d meet in a...
Megan Boyle
7.26.12
Carsten Nicolai

Your Guide To The Best Art At The London Olympics This Summer
The 2012 Olympics have more to offer visitors than just gymnastics and beach volleyball. Here’s our guide to the best art London has to offer this Olympic season.
Kevin Holmes
7.26.12
Music

Techno Badass Louis Brodinski Exposes The Bromance Beyond The Beats
An interview with Louis Brodinski—savior of all things techno.
Emerson Rosenthal
7.26.12
amphetamine logic

Dawn of the Dustheads
It's 5 AM on a Thursday and Same and I are in my apartment in the East Village, high on PCP and surrounded. All of the men are nursing 40 oz. Ballantines and the girls they brought are strangers, looking around at my strange life and into my mirrored...
Cat Marnell
7.26.12
Features

Scientists Confirm That Pop Music Is Too Loud & It All Sounds The Same
A crack team of Spanish philistines just confirmed that your parents were right all along.
Benjamin Shapiro
7.26.12
Film

Mountain: An Animated Portrait Of Seoul
UK director Dave Prosser illustrates his impression of another city that never sleeps.
Kyuhee Baik
7.26.12
Yang Yongliang

Yang Yongliang Brings Chinese Landscape Painting Into The 21st Century
Yang Yongliang seamlessly blends scenes of modern metropolises with the ancient art of Chinese landscape painting.
Erica Huang
7.26.12
video

Yang Yongliang: Saving Traditional Chinese Art From Extinction
Chinese new media artist Yang Yongliang was classically trained in Chinese painting and calligraphy from a very young age but uses digital tools to capture that time-tested aesthetic. Traditional Chinese culture permeates his cutting-edge creative...
The Creators Project
7.26.12
Motherboard Blog

A Brief History of Atom Smashers
Smashing two things together in order to uncover their hidden properties is something hardly limited to the pleasure-inducing, dirty acts you’re now thinking about. Particle physicists all over the world have been constantly working on and improving...
Rachel Walden
7.26.12
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