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Sorry Religions, Human Consciousness Is Just a Consequence of Evolution
Are we ordained by our creator or are we just delusional lumps of carbon and guts? Neuroscientist Michael Graziano concludes something closer to latter. But it’s not delusion that makes our brains aware. It’s a highly functional adaptive strategy.
Krishna Andavolu
9.12.13
Motherboard Blog

Albatrosses Are Full of Our Plastic: An Interview with the Directors of 'Midway'
"We have become disconnected from the miracle of our world."
Whitney Mallett
9.12.13
Music

Mr. Hálek's Fungus
Václav Hálek is the world's most prolific composer of mushroom songs. As in the songs they sing to him. The mushrooms. Because God asked them to.
Thomas Morton
VICE Staff
9.12.13
Photo

JH Engström Is About to Release His Fifteenth Photo Book
Swedish photographer Jan Henrik Engström is one of the reasons contemporary Scandinavian photography is acknowledged worldwide. If you were already aware of that, you probably know him better as 'JH' and came across him some time after his widely...
Jonas Mathiasson
9.12.13
Motherboard Blog

Isotype, the Proto-Infographic You Probably Didn't Know Existed
Created in the first quarter of the twentieth century, Isotype is an important progenitor to modern day infographics.
Lex Berko
9.12.13
Movie Barn

Filming the Unfilmable
The Turner Diaries is a white-supremacist screed written by neo-Nazi activist William Pierce back in the 1970s. It partially inspired a half-dozen real-life crime sprees, including the Oklahoma City bombing. Could it ever be adapted into...
Sam McPheeters
9.12.13
Fringes

7:19
Meet the Mushroom Composer
Listen to the music that mushrooms make and write it down for those of us who can't hear their songs. Which mushrooms, exactly? Every single damn one of them.
The Dap Corner

Things In My Parents' House, Volume One
Pens, old magazines, and a plant that looks like weed.
Dapwell
9.12.13
News

Furious Turks Are Back on the Protest Warpath
Demonstrations representing a variety of causes continue to flare up in Istanbul and throughout the country, and troublingly, the police and Tayyip Erdoğan's government have responded to all of them with violence.
Yiannis Baboulias , Photos: Olcay Kabaktepe, Nazim Se
9.12.13
Motherboard Blog

Turns Out Amber Doesn't Hold Our Dinosaur Dreams
Sometimes, life can't find a way.
Jason Koebler
9.12.13
Motherboard Blog

Being Ridden by the Witch: Sleep Paralysis Is the Greatest Nightmare
And it has nothing to do with dreams.
Michael Byrne
9.12.13
Question Of The Day

Do You Think National Service Should Be Reinstated?
"I would say yes, we should."
Jack Barry
9.12.13
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