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In Canada’s Healthcare System, Being Female Can Have Deadly Consequences
A new study suggests that Canada's medical wait times have doubled in the last 20 years, and are becoming increasingly gendered. Emma Paling looks at the relationship between gendered wait times and the female mortality rate.
Emma Paling
7.2.14
Design

These Tasty Infographics Make Data Viz More Digestible
"Data Cuisine" represents stats about homelessness and education budget cuts with haute cuisine. This is a punch to your mind and tastebuds.
Beckett Mufson
7.2.14
NHL

Claude Giroux Arrested For Trying to Feel a Cop
Philadelphia Flyers star Claude Giroux is going to be the butt of many jokes for days to come. Bummer.
Jake Steinberg
7.2.14
earth

A Laser Fence Is Being Built to Stop Hawaii's Endangered Birds From Crashing
These birds just want some squid, man.
Ben Richmond
7.2.14
TRENDS IN FOOD

A Prehistoric Poo Made Me Think About the Paleo Diet
A recently discovered fossilized turd suggests that early humans ate their veggies with their meat. Perhaps the paleo crowd had it right all along, but should we really follow early man's example, considering the neanderthals went extinct?
Matthew Zuras
7.2.14
jeff pearlman

Today In Social Sports Stupidity
As expected, we've been gifted with more captivating stuff from Twitter.
Tim Ryan
7.2.14
videos

The Lab Apes of Liberia
Our crew traveled to remote Liberia to discover "Monkey Island," an area inhabited solely by former lab-tested chimpanzees who survived disease and two civil wars.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
7.2.14
North Korea

Choco Pies: Kim Jong-un's Most Hated Dessert
Pyongyang has outlawed South Korean–made Choco Pies, chocolate-covered cakes that some North Koreans had been using as a sort of currency.
Justin Rohrlich
7.2.14
News

Kicking Addiction by Going from Heroin to Methadone to Ibogaine
After 20 years of taking methadone and dabbling with heroin, David Graham Scott kicked the habit with the aid of a powerful psychedelic.
Chem Squier
7.2.14
News

Doctor-Assisted Suicide Is Officially Legal in Quebec
The province of Quebec recently adopted the controversial Bill 52, also known as the “end-of-life-care bill,” which would legally permit doctors to actively participate in the death of terminally ill patients suffering from physical or psychological...
NATHAN MARTIN
7.2.14
middle east

Provocative Social Media Overheats in Afghan Elections
Some Afghans have distanced themselves from hostile social media that they fear may incite violence, but others see it as a force for good.
Ali M Latifi
7.2.14
soccer

Euro 2004: The Tournament Nobody Loved
Ten years ago, a team ground down the rest of the competition to win Euro 2004 and everyone hated it.
W.M. Akers
7.2.14
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