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Interviews

Get High as Fuck with Cannabis Corpse

They’re like Cannibal Corpse—only really, really baked.
J Bennett
6.24.14
iraq

Reports Emerge That Judge Who Sentenced Saddam Hussein to Death Has Been Killed by ISIS

Judge Raouf Abdul Rahman, who was ethnically Kurdish, led the Supreme Iraqi Criminal Tribunal during Saddam’s trial in 2006.
Olivia Becker
6.24.14
Features

How Challenger Exploded, and Other Mistakes Were Made

Torrents of big data can't stop mistakes—sometimes they make them more likely. The tragedy of Challenger, as with G.M. and others, was that some people had tried to stop it.
ALEX PASTERNACK
6.24.14
News

Egypt Sentenced Three Journalists to Jail for Doing Their Job

Egyptian judges have been prone to extreme and barely explicable decisions, including throwing mass death sentences around like confetti, but when you have seen a farce happen in front of you—and that is what this trial with its guilty verdict was—it's...
Tom Dale
6.24.14
2014 World Cup

World Cup Video Gets Three Arrested in Iran

The video, which featured women without the mandatory headscarf, was deemed "vulgar" by police.
Jordan Larson
6.24.14
Social Media

We're the Lousy Product That Social Media Sells

A new Gallup poll could get a lot of social media managers fired—if only there was a better way to reach this dumb demographic.
Ben Richmond
6.24.14
News

A Vote Against a Rent Freeze Means New York Is Still Run by and for the Rich

NYC's Rent Guidelines Board didn't get the memo about Bill de Blasio's progressive utopia.
Matt Taylor
6.24.14
News

Canada’s Response to the Sentencing of Canadian-Egyptian Journalist Mohamed Fahmy Borders on Indifference

Egypt handed down stiff sentences this week against Canadian-Egyptian journalist Mohamed Fahmy and two Al Jazeera colleagues who have been detained in the country since December on vague terrorism charges. Despite calls for help from the Fahmy family...
Ishmael N. Daro
6.24.14
Design

Find Your Inner Zen In These Blissed-Out Digital Sunsets

"Infinite Sunset," the new Processing Application from Joseph Gray proves that nature's cool, but digital sunsets last forever.
Emerson Rosenthal
6.24.14
videos

Struggling to Survive: Before the Dawn of the Apes (Year 5)

In this Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes short film directed by Daniel Thron, the Simian Flu has all but wiped out humanity and an orphaned teenage girl survives by bartering things she has stolen from dead people's homes.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
6.24.14
Interviews

An Interview with America's Favorite Junk Rock Band, Sloppy Seconds

Shirtless, sweaty, and unleashed. ...Ladies?
Stephanie Dubick
6.24.14
2016 election

A Scientific Analysis of 2016 Presidential Candidates Based on Sporting Events Their Wedding Attendees Missed

Which of the 2016 presidential candidates pissed off his or her wedding guests by counter-scheduling against a sporting event?
Robert Wheel
6.24.14
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