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Want to Solve the Obesity Epidemic? Stop Blaming the Obese
America is ridiculously fat. That’s not even been a surprise for years; 36 percent of the adult U.S. population is obese, a proportion that’s expected to rise to 42 percent by 2030, according to new reports out this week. There’s at least a bright side...
Derek Mead
5.11.12
Reviews

Squarepusher - 'Ufabulum'
It's like my brain is shooting beams of pure alpha wave energy in an attempt to secure world peace by astral projection, maaaaan....
Gavin Haynes
5.11.12
Features

Noisey Is Hosting A Panel At Internet Week New York!
Everything you need to know about music television on the Internet.
Noisey Staff
5.11.12
Chunklet to Go Go

Bringing in the String Section with Bob Nanna (Braid)
You reached for the stars and all you grasped was the sweet pube-mound of infinite failure. Accept it.
John Wenzel
5.11.12
Art

Hiroshi Sugimoto's Lightning Photography
Electric currents captured in black and white images.
Erica Huang
5.11.12
Art

The Creators Project Is Speaking At Internet Week New York
On Thursday, May 17th we’ll host a panel discussion on the potentialities and challenges of the “digital gallery.”
The Creators Project Staff
5.11.12
Motherboard Blog

How to Change Your Gender
Tom Gabel, lead singer of Against Me!, announced this week that he will transition to living as a woman, and will change his name to Laura Jane Grace. Today, Argentina passed a Gender Identity law that will allow adults seeking sex-reassignment surgery...
Kelly Bourdet
5.11.12
Motherboard Blog

Forcibly Chopping Long Hair is Perfectly Normal: A Visual History
How fair is it to hold 17-year-old Mitt's actions against today's candidate? After all, the current president has admitted to both eating dog meat and doing "a little blow when [he] could afford it" in his youth. And really, is forcibly removing a part...
JONATHAN LIU
5.11.12
Stuff

Cry-Baby of the Week
Is it Cameron Diaz or a guy who killed someone with a hammer?
Jamie Lee Taete
5.11.12
the it's actually quite weird issue

Inside the Looney Disco
Regardless of which psychological disorder they’re afflicted with, all patients are equal on the dance floor.
Christoph Wöhrle
5.11.12
The Showbiz Issue

VICE Presents Your Guide to Movieland Homes
Come with Sean Tejaratchi on a star-studded, surprisingly intimate tour of the most glamourous estates in Tinseltown!
VICE Staff
5.11.12
Internet

Abraham Lincoln Was an Internet Nerd
Abraham Lincoln did "not":http://natestpierre.me/2012/05/10/hoax-abraham-lincoln-invented-facebook/ invent Facebook. But he did rely on the Internet to win the Civil War. Just ask Tom Wheeler, a civil war historian who also happens to be the President...
MARTIN CONNELLY
5.11.12
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