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Psychedelics Make Us Human: An Interview with Techno-Ecologist Richard Doyle

h3. This Enchanted Contemplative Experience of Radical Interconnectionh4. _This is part one of a two part interview by Jason Silva, who is a fellow at the Hybrid Realities institute and host on Current TV. "Read the second part":http://motherboard.tv...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
6.20.11
News

Arborcide in Brooklyn

Somewhere along the line, Steve Maynard lost control. He used to live a normal life. He was a husband and a father employed as a construction worker in New Jersey. Then tragedy struck--schizophrenia zeroed in on his mind like a shot out of the sky, and...
Vinnie Rotondaro
6.20.11
Motherboard Blog

The Learnin' Corner: How the Early Universe Got Something From Nothing

_Michael J. Ramsey-Musolf is a professor of physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His research concerns the interface of theoretical nuclear physics, particle physics, astrophysics, and cosmology._ We think that the universe started with a...
Vice Magazine
6.20.11
Motherboard Blog

The Largest Computer In The World

h3. How to fight Soviet missiles with punch cards, light wands and the world's biggest computerShortly after the Soviet Union detonated their first atomic bomb, on August 29, 1949, the United States government decided that it needed some technology...
ALEX PASTERNACK
6.20.11
Motherboard Blog

The "Waiting for Superman" Director Made a Film for IBM About Ducks

Between "An Inconvenient Truth" and "Waiting for Superman," Davis Guggenheim has probably become the country's most famous young serious non-fiction filmmaker. Now he's made a short film for none other than IBM. It features the voice of David...
ALEX PASTERNACK
6.20.11
News

Asshole Of The Week - Apple

Zach Pontz
6.20.11
Film

Rainbow Light Beams Strike Tokyo

Keiichi Matsuda illuminates Tokyo in bossarica’s new music video.
Patrick Alsobrook
6.20.11
Art

GlitchBot Is In Your Flickr Photos, Churning Them Up

Artist Bit_Synthesis’ flawed machine randomly compresses users’ photos into glitchy artworks.
Kevin Holmes
6.20.11
Art

Iconic Movie Posters Reinterpreted As Neon Signs

Neon isn’t just for sordid smut-shop signs—in this sereis of gifs, it illuminates the movie world.
Kevin Holmes
6.20.11
Motherboard Blog

Self Portraits From the Apple Store

["VICE":http://www.viceland.com/blogs/photos/2011/06/15/pictures-of-you-at-the-apple-store/] I just got a smartphone, like, three months ago, so I’ve spent a significant amount of my life in the Apple Store checking my email on their free internet...
Vice Magazine
6.20.11
Stuff

The Night I Accidentally Partied With Lesbian Juke Fans

TODD DIEDERICH
6.20.11
Art

Clothing—A Platform For Digital Artwork?

Q&A with Ritchie Chan, the owner of Beijing’s coolest concept fashion store: Triple-Major.
Madi Ju
6.20.11
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