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nature

These Are the Oldest Living Things on Earth, and They're Dying

"They have lived through any event you can think of in modern history... Shakespeare or the renaissance, or even the invention of the wheel."
Fatima Bhojani
4.22.14
Music

What Is a Second-Hand Download, Anyway?

It sounds like an oxymoron, but the resale of 'used downloads' is being considered in the EU's copyright reforms.
Victoria Turk
4.22.14
How-To
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Lard Biscuits with Cara Nicoletti

Lard Biscuits with Cara Nicoletti
South Korea

South Korea's Culture Is Not to Blame for the Ferry Disaster

The catch-all of “South Korean culture,” or even neo-Confucian obedience, fails to account for what happened.
Jakob Dorof
4.22.14
Crimea

Crimea Might Become the Las Vegas of Russia

This move is widely seen as an attempt by Putin to expand Russia’s influence over Crimea’s economy and exert further control.
Olivia Becker
4.22.14
capsule

VICE News Capsule - Tuesday, April 22

Abducted Ukrainian journalist, a Myanmar opposition figures dies, British fighter in Syria, and Venezuelan protesters alter Easter tradition
تجربة
4.22.14
News

A 'Regeneration Supernova' Is About to Destroy East London

A "Regeneration Supernova" is heading for the London borough of Newham, thanks to China and Mayor Boris Johnson. The plan is not about "modernizing" or "improving" a run-down area—it's about wiping it out in a "supernova" and rebuilding it into a...
Dan Hancox
4.22.14
Stuff

Ex-Soldiers Are Being Given MDMA to Help Them Forget About War

Traumatized by the deaths of two of his friends in a truck-bomb attack, Tony Macie was prescribed conventional medication to treat his PTSD after returning to the US. When that wasn’t working out for him, he started to research alternative remedies.
Jack Gilbert
4.22.14
the vice reader

Todd Brendan Fahey and His Acid-Laden Writing Style

In 1996, Todd wrote “acid novel” Wisdom’s Maw under the influence of 500-microgram doses of LSD-25. The novelist would drop as soon as his wife went to work and be back inside corporeality by the time she got home. I spent 36 years as an acid head, and...
R. U. Sirius
4.22.14
VICE News

Violence and Private Security in South Africa

VICE News
4.22.14
Drugs

How Silk Road Bounced Back from Its Multimillion-Dollar Hack

Silk Road is paying back users' lost bitcoins, but over 1000 are lying unclaimed.
Joseph Cox
4.22.14
Stuff

We Spoke to Some Devastated Man City Fans About David Moyes' Sacking

One side of Manchester is in mourning today.
Samuel Breen, Photos: Chris Bethell
4.22.14
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