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Pen Pals - Gang Bangin' Behind the Fence

Gangs have a lot do in jail, like smuggle ceramic scalpels in their butt-pockets.
Bert Burykill
4.18.12
Music

We Interviewed the Music Supervisor for Breaking Bad and The Walking Dead

How to go from making mixtapes, to making music for zombies and druggies.
Ned Hepburn
4.18.12
Design

Revolutionary Bridge Design From Wang Yaohua

Latest design from architect Wang Yaohua discusses the balance between aesthetics and functionality in architecture.
Xue Tan
4.18.12
Motherboard Blog

Seeing the Strangest Light Before the Earth Quakes

What shook out deep below San Francisco in the early hours of April 18, 1906, went unseen. Yet the magnitude-8 earthquake killed untold thousands of civilians (and displaced hundreds of thousands more) and left the city in flaming ruins, under short...
Brian Anderson
4.18.12
Motherboard Blog

The Next Massive Oil Spill Will Be Cleaned With Sound

This week marks the two year anniversary of BP's megalithic oil spill debacle. Unlike the similarly catastrophic Exxon Valdez crash in 1989, which clocked in at a mere 250- 750 thousand barrels or spillage, the Deepwater Horizon disaster not only cost...
Lara Heintz
4.18.12
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Subscribe to Our YouTube Channel, You Bastards

We're not looking for trouble here. Just subscribe and make this easy on everyone.
VICE Staff
4.18.12
Motherboard Blog

Why Our Dark Matter Ghost Hunting Expeditions Might Be Failing

Dark matter is thought to be the ghosts that helped build the structured universe, ghosts that the universe _needed_ to make galaxies happen. I say "ghosts" because dark matter doesn't interact with the universe in ways beyond gravity; the...
Michael Byrne
4.18.12
Film

The Making-of Vincent Morisset's BLA BLA

The web-based film’s transition into an interactive installation at the Gaîté lyrique in Paris.
Kathleen Flood
4.18.12
Motherboard Blog

Research Proves DJ Drivers Are All Going to Die

It's time for us all to admit that driving and the "I Want A Song To Exactly Fit My Mood" disposition don't mix.
SAM MCDOUGLE
4.18.12
Sports

The Golden Gloves Aren't Golden Anymore

In New York City, boxing has gone the way of the Italian mafia, the Times Square porno theater, and the checkered cab.
Andrew Pry Ortega
4.18.12
Motherboard

Swarming Robots Won't Kill Us All: An Interview With Quadrotor Inventor Vijay Kumar

I was sitting at my desk, munching an embarrassingly-gargantuan chocolate-granola cookie and musing, “What on Earth are the latest developments in the infinitely fascinating field of robotics?” (This is something I think about a lot.) Then I vaguely...
Michelle Lhooq
4.18.12
Question Of The Day

What Do You Miss Most About Being Young?

We asked some people to pine for something they can never have again.
Darren Wee
4.18.12
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