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Power

London's Black Cabs Really Don't Like Uber

With legal challenges and planned gridlock protests, the iconic London taxi's battle against app services is getting tense.
Victoria Turk
5.30.14
Food advertising

Wackaging Is Your Food's Attempt at Hitting on You

Imagine a world where everything you read was desperately trying to make friends with you. This is the world of "wackaging"—the rapidly growing trend for chatty food packaging that's becoming harder and harder to swallow.
Monica Heisey
5.30.14
Stuff

Cry-Baby of the Week - A Woman Allegedly Attacked a Baby Because Someone Asked Her to Stop Swearing

This week: A woman is suing her local supermarket for prosecuting her crime, and a woman allegedly attacked a baby because someone asked her to stop swearing.
Jamie Lee Taete
5.30.14
Stuff

Joey Barton And Piers Morgan On Question Time

UKIP were there too – it was a festival of wankers.
Clive Martin
5.30.14
Stuff

America Needs Alzheimer’s Funding Now

While the National Institute of Health spends $3 billion a year on AIDS research, and nearly $4.9 billion on cancer, for Alzheimer’s it spends only $500 million, an enormous drop off for an illness that is already widespread and growing rapidly.
Blake Butler
5.30.14
Features

Apocalypse Talk: How Our Best Metaphors for Collapse Help Us Prevent It

Over the past 50 years, humanity has turned to sinister metaphors—population bombs, silent springs—to understand and overcome our environmental woes. Can we do it again?
Brian Merchant
5.30.14
New music

PREMIERE: Roses Gabor - "Rush"

One of the most sultry new voices in British R&B
VICE Staff
5.30.14
Culture

What Happens When a Men’s Rights Music Festival Comes to Town?

It gets cancelled.
John Semley
5.30.14
ANIMALS

This Newly Discovered Fish Has an Anus Behind Its Head

The cave-dwelling Amblyopsis hoosieri was discovered in Indiana, and is already on the endangered list.
Ben Richmond
5.30.14
Internet Exploring

"Gangnam Style" Just Became the First YouTube Video with 2 Billion Views, so I Finally Watched It

I am the 2 billionth hippest person in the world.
Kyle Kramer
5.30.14
machines

How Far Are You Flung When an Amusement Park Ride Goes Terribly Wrong?

Get ready for some #datajournalism.
Alejandro Tauber
5.30.14
Culture

Maya Angelou Is the Reason We Need International Whores’ Day

International Whores' Day, the most necessary holiday you’ve never heard of, is on Monday. In honor of Maya Angelou, let's take this opportunity to finally deal with the fact that she had sex for money. She seemed to have dealt with it just fine.
Allegra Ringo
5.30.14
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