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Canada Should Keep an Eye on the Fukushima Disaster

Just a friendly reminder that two-and-a-half years after an earthquake and tsunami caused a series of equipment failures and nuclear meltdowns in northeastern Japan, the threat of radiation poisoning in the Pacific Ocean will be around another 40 years...
Sarah Berman
9.8.13
The Hot Box Issue

E.T. On the Street

E.T. was roaming the street robbing homies, when he ran into a dealer and asked him for Reece's Pieces. It didn't end well, but you probably already know that, because this is Johnny Ryan's page, not some 1980s Steven Spielberg kids movie.
Johnny Ryan
9.8.13
Motherboard Blog

Earth Is Getting a New Moon with Some Help From Air Freight

It even has its own app.
Kevin Holmes
9.7.13
taji's mahal

This Skateboard School Is Keeping Kids Out of Trouble in Brownsville

For this week's Mahal, I checked out the Summer Skateboarding Program at Mt. Ollie Baptists Church in Brownsville, Brooklyn. The program is a result of a collaboration between the Harold Hunter Foundation and Airwalk. Through the program, skateboarders...
Taji Ameen
9.7.13
Motherboard Blog

Can Man Ultimately Take on 'The Machine' in Chess, or Anywhere?

'The Machine' revisits the time a supercomputer beat a champion chess player, amid anxiety that the same fate would befall us all.
Ben Richmond
9.7.13
Motherboard Blog

'Endtrip' Is an Animated Psychedelic Death Fantasia

Soon available in stereoscopic 3D. Oh, and a tunnel of boobs.
DJ Pangburn
9.7.13
News

Live Streaming the Black Bloc Anarchists' Protest in Rio

Since June, millions of activists have taken to the streets of Brazil to protest rising bus fares, the costs of hosting the 2014 World Cup, and Rio Governor Sérgio Cabral Filho. Today is Sete de Setembro, Brazil's independence day, and the black bloc...
VICE Staff
9.7.13
Photo

I Went to a Vibe-Tastic Bookstore in the Middle of LA's Woods

Who needs a bookstore with, like, fucking walls and shit? Just put your hand-stitched journals and art projects on a hand-dyed linen blankets in the woods, get some friends together, and BOOM, YOU GOT AN ART-BOOK POP-UP SHOP IN NATURE, SONNNNNNNNNN!
Chloe Cassidy
9.7.13
Travel

Just Before Dawn at a Berlin Swinger Club

A few hours after making a boozy decision to go to a club for swingers called Zwanglos III I found myself being pressed up against a bar by a half-naked overweight woman who had taken a fancy to me. So my night was going pretty OK, in other words.
Leila Djamila
9.7.13
News

Talking to Australians on Election Day

Australia, one of only 10 countries that enforces compulsory voting, took to the polls this weekend to decide on a new government. Here's how some of us felt about that.
Carly Learson and Erin Black
9.7.13
Stuff

I'm Gonna Miss You, Jack Nicholson, with Your Face Like Satan's

A eulogy for the career of one of Hollywood's darkest, wildest icons.
Clive Martin
9.7.13
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12th Planet & Kastle Live on Lunch Breaks!

THUMP presents your favorite DJs live from the belly of the NestHQ in LA. Tune in, turn on, turn up!
THUMP Staff
9.6.13
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