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I Went To Eastern Electrics, Didn't Do Drugs
I’ve seen a lot of things in my time as a festival reporter, but this scene is face-off central.
Theo Bark
8.8.13
FIGHTLAND

MMA Worldwide - Bulgaria
In this episode of Fightland's series Worldwide, we visit the former Eastern bloc nation of Bulgaria, where twin brothers Rumen and Rosen Dimitrov are building an MMA team by transforming tough guys into fighters.
Fightland Staff
8.8.13
Motherboard Blog

Twitter Knows Which Restaurants Are Getting People Sick
Tweeting "OMG so sick ughh" isn't just an overshare.
Meghan Neal
8.8.13
News

The Burka Avenger's Creator Talks About the Pakistani Cartoon's Haters
Burka Avenger, a Pakistani superhero cartoon in which the main character dons a ninja-style burka to conceal her identity, has been bouncing around the media echo chamber as of late. Either the Burka Avenger is exactly what the Pakistani youth...
Basim Usmani
8.8.13
Stuff

My Time with One of Somaliland’s Khat Kingpins
Khat is a longstanding part of Somali culture, and people familiar with the plant in Yemen and Ethiopia jump to defend it as a recreational social lubricant. But it’s not so benign in Somaliland anymore. Ethiopian growers flood the market, realizing...
Mark Hay
8.8.13
Motherboard Blog

PayPal's Co-Founder Made an App That Predicts Pregnancy
Max Levchin's new app tracks ovulation data and monitors menstruation cycles in hopes of better addressing growing infertility rates.
Tatiana Baez
8.8.13
Art

Iconic London Building Sets Sail As A Floating Airship
James Bridle's Unmoored takes the Brutalist complexity of the Barbican Centre and casts it adrift across the world.
Kevin Holmes
8.8.13
Motherboard Blog

A Former NSA Chief Thinks Privacy and Free Information Activists Are Potential Terrorists
Michael Hayden, former NSA and CIA director, is helping the US expand the definition of “terrorist.”
DJ Pangburn
8.8.13
Chart Burn

The Adult Contemporary Constitution
Enough with the nonsense. It's time contemporary adults take hold of what defines adult contemporary music once and for all.
Nick Greene
8.8.13
VICE News

The Chemical Valley
Forty percent of Canada's petrochemical industry is packed into a 15-square-mile area in Sarnia, Ontario, called the Chemical Valley. More than 60 chemical plants and oil refineries operate there 24/7. As a result of the Chemical Valley's emissions, in...
Patrick McGuire
VICE Staff
8.8.13
style

Saxophones and 90s R&B are Back and Everyone's Making Out
Nineties fashion and 90s music has been back for a while, but now the return of the sax is sexing things up further. Call this your mini-make out playlist. Call it The Boneyard.
Georgie Okell
8.8.13
New music

Listen to Destruction Unit's "Bumpy Road"
Listen to D-Unit's new brain-scrambler, "Bumpy Road," and hold yourself. You're going to be OK.
Sasha Hecht
8.8.13
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