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Culture

When Education Gets Gamified, Everyone Loses
If you 'gamify' school itself, the only clear losers are students.
Jordan Pearson
4.16.14
we saw this

A Decade Under the Influence: On Seeing Taking Back Sunday at Age 26
I've got a bad feeling about this.
Eric Sundermann
4.16.14
Internet

Bring On This Facial Recognition CAPTCHA Already
Want to keep bots out and let people in? Make the test something that people have evolved to do.
Ben Richmond
4.16.14
NYC

Nazi Summer Camps, Fancy Dogs, and Other Gems from NYC's Amazing Photo Archive
The NYC Municipal Archives has released 30,000 never-before-seen digital images. You're going to want to check them out.
Becky Ferreira
4.16.14
cctv

This Anti-Snooping Patent Is the Anti-Google Glass
A patent listing Bill Gates as an inventor describes tech that would detect when cameras are snooping on your screens.
Victoria Turk
4.16.14
Food

Brunch Is America's Most Hated Meal, Because We All Ruined It
Brunch should be the most popular meal on the planet, but we've poisoned a great thing with expensive dishes, long lines, and elitist attitudes.
Dave Schilling
4.16.14
News

This Billboard for Rabbit Pizza Is Made From Dead Rabbit Parts
The internet was up in arms—sorry, paws—yesterday over a New Zealand pizza chain erecting a billboard to try and sell their smoked rabbit pizza that was plastered with rabbit pelts and the line, "Made from real rabbit. Like this billboard."
Eleanor Morgan
4.16.14
Stuff

The '50 Shades of Grey' Musical is Rated R for Reductive
Three years after 50 Shades of Grey burst onto the scene and turned every mid-40s maternal brunch into a place where people shared safe words and discussed the finer points of rope play, a 50 Shades "parody" musical cottage industry has...
Marie C. Hudson
4.16.14
Interviews

Amen Dunes Is Not Psych Music, No Matter How Much You Want It to Be
Stream the band's latest single "I Can't Dig It" and read our extensive interview with Damon McMahon.
Eric Sundermann
4.16.14
Art

Matthew Schreiber's "Sideshow" Is A Laser-Filled Fun House
James Turrell's lighting expert uses holograms and lasers to muse on novelty and the occult.
Zach Sokol
4.16.14
Words

Hidden Depths: Roska
Next up in our Hidden Depths series is Roska.
All these songs are memories from a certain time in my childhood. All these tracks are more authentic than R&B today, tracks today just don’t feel right - it feels like more...
Elissa Bradley
4.16.14
Interviews

An Elaquent Interview With The Guelph Producer
The Guelph beat musician discussed Soundcloud as the modern equivalent of crate digging, and predicting the next big thing by looking backwards.
Eric Zaworski
4.16.14
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