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Design

Plastic Not So Fantastic: A Look At Some Of The More Unusual 3D Printing Materials

Additive manufacturing is only just beginning to take shape. It’s still out of reach for most of us, monetarily speaking, but at least in the future we’ll be able to print replacement bones and organs. And bicycles.
Kevin Holmes
3.15.11
Film

Collapsus: The Energy Risk Conspiracy

We are all aware that our fossil fuels are low, very low. The difficult-to-grasp gravity of the situation is shown with artistry in this compelling hybrid story about the world’s energy risks. 

Inge de Leeuw
3.15.11
Art

Blocking Your View: Data Visualization With Legos

Artist Samuel Granados uses the retro favorite to illustrate migration statistics between continental America in 3D.
Kevin Holmes
3.15.11
Motherboard Blog

Fermilab Closes In On the Higgs Boson

Researchers at Fermilab's Tevatron particle collider are "talking big":http://www.symmetrymagazine.org/breaking/2011/03/14/tevatron-experiments-report-new-higgs-search-results/ this week as they prepare to present new measurements narrowing down even...
Michael Byrne
3.15.11
Music

B6's Ambient Sounds of the City Installation

Lou Nanli aka B6 takes us on a sensual audiovisual journey throughout Hangzhou and Shanghai, China.
Kathleen Flood
3.15.11
Motherboard Blog

Courtesy Of Google Earth, the World's Bridges On Acid

Turns out one of the biggest problems with life on Google's Earth is bridges. The 3D rendering software just doesn't get it, treating them instead as flat rubber bands that distort and bend or just disappear when roadway meets quick elevation change. A...
Michael Byrne
3.15.11
Vice Blog

LOOK BUT DON'T LOOK

VICE Staff
3.15.11
Vice Blog

BILLY WENT TO TAMPA

VICE Staff
3.15.11
Stuff

BRINGING MICHAEL JACKSON BACK TO LIFE

Alex Godfrey
3.15.11
News

Monrovia Trife Life

The story of Philip Taylor is a story of a young man given every chance by his rich, successful parents: good schooling, a fine house, encouragement to express himself artistically. Last week he was arrested for attempted murder. Let's just hope his...
VICE Staff
Alex
3.15.11
Motherboard Blog

Gallery: Charity Posters For Japan

I've noticed that, now, almost as soon as the dust has settled from any major catastrophe, as the calls for relief teams and aid donations go out something else tends to pop up: the relief poster.
MARTIN CONNELLY
3.15.11
Motherboard Blog

How Mark Zuckerberg is "Totally Wrong"

Internet stud Christopher Poole, aka _moot_, "is calling out Mark Zuckerberg":http://venturebeat.com/2011/03/13/4chan-moot-christopher-poole-sxsw/ for what he believes to be a constrictive view on online identity. Poole founded the controversial image...
ALEC LIU
3.15.11
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