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Watching the World Cup in Karachi's Most Dangerous Neighborhood

In the Lyari section of Karachi, gangsters run everything, but the violence and intimidation ends when the matches begin.
Osama Motiwala
6.19.14
Meet the Nieratkos

Todd Francis Makes Skateboard Art That Doesn't Suck

For the past decade or so skateboarding has found itself bowing to big corporate sponsors and overzealous stage parents' ideas of what's obscene, resulting in mind-numbingly boring board graphics.
Chris Nieratko
6.19.14
Features

'Everything Is Energy': How Time Lords See the World

I hung out with self-proclaimed time travelers, dream programmers, and channelers of the extraterrestrial at the recent New Life Expo in New York.
Steven Melendez
6.19.14
News

New York's Silent but Deadly Fracking Problem

Fracking has been hailed as a “transition fuel” with significantly less of an impact on global warming than traditional oil. But a growing health crisis in Minisink, New York, illustrates that fracked gas is not exactly Polar Springs.
Peter Rugh
6.19.14
World Cup

Eyes Wide Shut: The Bombings in Nigeria and the World Cup

In places outside the U.S., the threat of terrorism is turning the joy of the World Cup into life-shattering horror. And still, the games go on.
Brian Lauvray
6.19.14
Photo

Magnum Photos' 67-Hour 'Flash Sale' Broke the Internet

Magnum's website crashed due to too much traffic when they launched their 67 hour "Flash Sale" of Instagram prints.
Matthew Leifheit
6.19.14
Opinion and Analysis

El Paso Releases Video of Cop Executing Handcuffed Man — Where’s the Anger?

The video shows a summary execution by a police officer — an incident that should not be treated as an anomaly.
Natasha Lennard
6.19.14
Design

New Mobile App Lets You Create And Send Custom Digital Avatars

Today, Intel unveiled "Pocket Avatars," a video-messaging app that includes 40+ avatars that can mimic your facial gestures.
Beckett Mufson
6.19.14
Space

The Cassini Satellite Probed the Polar Vortex on Saturn's Moon Titan

The probe is sea-side by the only known extraterrestrial surface sea in the solar system.
Ben Richmond
6.19.14
Power

Don't Fear the Robots Taking Your Job, Fear the Monopolies Behind Them

The shift to a robot economy is as much political as it is technological.
Victoria Turk
6.19.14
Fashion

This Ex-Muslim Started a Tumblr for Women Who Have Abandoned the Hijab

I talked to Hiba Krisht about the 15 years she spent wearing the Muslim head covering against her will and how Islam can hypersexualize women.
Simon Davis
6.19.14
Premieres

Get "Crazy Crazy" and Listen to Desert Sharks' New EP

Brooklyn's rock songstresses shred through three songs.
Noisey Staff
6.19.14
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