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Walter Cronkite Explains the Exciting Future of Lasers to 1970's America

Just ten years after its invention, and decades before laser printers, CDs, DVDs, and pointing beams at your teacher's back existed, Walter Cronkite attempted to explain the significance of the laser.The first laser beam was fired by Theodore Maiman of...
ALEX PASTERNACK
8.3.11
Stuff

Gavin Watson In Conversation With Andy Capper

Andy Capper
8.3.11
Motherboard Blog

Homemade Megaphones on a Moroccan Mountaintop

Pablo Serret de Eña creates sound installations with a creativity sense of humour about them that we love.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
8.3.11
Motherboard Blog

Ones and Zeros: Tying the Knot With a Virtual Priest

_Call to Hackers: NSA wants you! (with the exception of Matthew Lillard)_ h3. ONE: "NSA wants more hackers":http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/08/nsa-wants-more-hackers-their-collection-geeks/40713/ (The Atlantic Wire) h3. ZERO...
Ones Zeros
8.3.11
Art

User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Henry Chu

Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Xue Tan
8.3.11
Motherboard Blog

When Resonance Attacks

On July 5th, a 39-story office/shopping center building in Seoul, South Korea started to shake rapidly. For ten minutes vertical tremors violently rocked the building, causing an immediate evacuation of the premises. After the shaking subsided...
Kurt Poropatich
8.3.11
Motherboard Blog

We Still Don't Know How to Talk About the Ethics of Human-Animal Hybrids

In ancient Greece, the word “Chimera” referred to a monstrous beast with the body of a lion, a tail that was a snake, and a goat head growing out of its spine. In genetics, chimeras are any animals that have working genes from two distinct zygotes - in...
SAM MCDOUGLE
8.3.11
Stuff

Spending The Night In An Abandoned Military Base... On Acid!

The second part in a new series where we try to scare people on acid.
Jamie Lee Taete
8.3.11
Stuff

Televisionaries!

This week's TV reviewed by people who can't afford DVD box sets.
VICE Staff
8.3.11
Music

Hipster Nightlife Trend Piece: Ragtime Revival

Tastemakers, cool kids, hipsters, the downtown set: Call them what you will, but every week, it seems, a new rumor surfaces about what they’re up to.
Hanson O'Haver
8.3.11
VICE News

Norwegian Prisons

Last year, VICE visited Norway to get a firsthand look at the country's famously progressive prison system.
VICE Staff
8.3.11
vice meets

Miranda July

In the future, Miranda July, who is a filmmaker, performance artist, musician, and writer, would like to be better at _not_ making things.
VICE Staff
8.3.11
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