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Calorie Slandering Has Got To Stop

The basic unit of nutrition turned into health terror is the definition of upside-down.
Michael Byrne
8.24.13
Motherboard Blog

How to Accidentally Kill a 400-Year-Old Tree

Hong Kong's "King Banyan" succombs to fatal park design.
Michael Byrne
8.24.13
News

Invasion of the Cloned Horses

The American Quarter Horse Association is “the world’s largest equine breed registry.” Now they’re going to get even larger, because a US court has ruled they must accept cloned horses' applications to join their exclusive club. Predictably, the...
Rebekah Marcarelli
8.24.13
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Atlanta's Drag Queens Don't Have Time for Your Drama

All this talk about human rights can get slightly boring, don't you think? I mean activism is important and all, but all the having to defend your community stuff leaves less to time to celebrate it. Legendary Children is such an attempt: a...
Elektra Kotsoni
8.24.13
Motherboard Blog

Dearest Conservatives, There's Nothing "Delusional" About Being Trans

Predictably, America's Dark Ages trolls were ready this week to mangle some science in the name of transphobia.
Harry Cheadle
8.24.13
Stuff

Bedbugs Made Me a Real New Yorker

There are certain fundamental things that scream “I just moved to New York.” Things like eating cheesecake at Junior’s or heading out to Coney Island to ride the Cyclone. Or getting fucking bedbugs.
Chris Gethard
8.24.13
News

Meet the Gay Russian Teenager Using Twitter to Combat Homophobia

Apart from activists protesting in Moscow and Saint Petersburg, most gay Russians have attempted to mask their identity, making it difficult for Westerners to know what it’s really like to be gay in Russia. But one gay Russian teenager is changing this...
Sofie Mikhaylova
8.24.13
Vice Blog

Go See 'The Red Shoes' Tuesday Night

For the next screening we're doing with Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation, we're showing Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger's The Red Shoes. Not only is this one of the coolest-looking movies we've ever seen, it's also one of Scorsese's...
VICE Staff
8.24.13
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Win Tickets to See Eric Prydz's Epic 2.0 Concert in LA

See the first North American installation of Mr. Prydz's famed live 3D projection show.
David Garber
8.24.13
Motherboard Blog

Inside the CIA's Role in Pakistan's Polio Outbreak

Vaccinations have been banned after the CIA searched for bin Laden with phony doctors. Now polio is primed for a comeback.
Ben Richmond
8.23.13
Motherboard Blog

Stanley Kubrick's Photos of Post-War NYC Subways Are Eerily Intimate

"Life and Love on the New York Subway" gravitates toward the individual, or at the very least small clusters of commuters, leaving the whole thing teetering on the edge of the known.
Brian Anderson
8.23.13
Motherboard Blog

It's Not News That Scientists Agree Climate Change Is Our Fault

It's 2013 and "Scientists Are Pretty Damn Certain We're Frying This Place" is still a headline. That is depressing.
Brian Merchant
8.23.13
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