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Inside Caracas' Tower of David, the World's Tallest Slum
You needn't look to fiction to find such a strikingly modern version of a slum. In Venezuela's capital city, as many as 2,500 people have taken residence in the Centro Financiero Confinanzas, an unfinished skyscraper that's also known as the Tower of...
Derek Mead
8.4.13
Motherboard Blog

Oil Companies Are Quietly Fracking the Seabed Off the California Coast
And they've been doing it behind the state's back.
Michael Byrne
8.3.13
taji's mahal

2013 Summer Roll
Between the outdoor drawing sessions and the sweet breeze of the air-conditioned cinemas, summertime is the most exciting time to mess around in New York City. In honor of the summer's encroaching end, I decided to share another summer photo roll.
Taji Ameen
8.3.13
Motherboard Blog

Chuck Grassley Shows NASA's Vikings How Wasting Money Is Done
A right-wing Senator's attempt to generate a fake scandal is a real scandal.
Amy Shira Teitel
8.3.13
News

Forcible Circumcision Turned This Man Into an Anti-Circumcision Activist
When Paul Tinari was eight years old and boarded at a church-run school in Montreal, Paul was forcefully held down on a desk and circumcised, because a priest had reason to believe Paul had—God forbid—masturbated. Now Paul is an anti-circumcision...
Dave Dean
8.3.13
korea

VICE EATS: Korean Poo Wine
Vice Japan correspondent Yuka Uchida travels from Tokyo to Seoul to try Ttongsul, an ancient medicinal Korean wine made from the feces of children.
Yuka Uchida
8.3.13
into the weird

A Prayer for Wild Pussy Cats and Island Girls
I originally got my Tennessee Williams tattoo as a prayer for myself. As I become healthier and stronger, I see the tattoo as a prayer for others. All the pretty pussycats of the world curled up in a cage waiting for some nice human to come along and...
Sophie Saint Thomas
8.3.13
Motherboard Blog

Califone's New Music Video Self-Generates From Tumblr-Born GIFs and Images
Filmmaker Braden King and programmer Jeff Garneau have created an ever-changing "music video" that pulls material on the fly.
Johnny Magdaleno
8.3.13
Motherboard Blog

Guppies Aren't the Only Aquatic Creatures with Horrifying Sex Rituals
In the animal kingdom, all bets are off when it comes to sexual congress.
DJ Pangburn
8.3.13
Stuff

Tommy Swerdlow Talks About Writing ‘Cool Runnings’ and ‘Snow Dogs’ While High on Heroin
You’ve probably never heard of the screenwriter Tommy Swerdlow, but if your childhood overlapped with the 1990s, he was likely a part of it. With his writing partner Michael Goldberg, he penned classics Cool Runnings, Little Giants</em...
Mitchell Sunderland
8.3.13
Motherboard Blog

Def Con, Day One: Can I Use Your Wi-Fi Please?
When thousands of hackers descend on Vegas.
Jordan Keenan and Daniel Stuckey
8.3.13
Gear

This Guy has Implanted Headphones into His Ears
Hacking into the human body is the future, it seems.
Noisey Staff
8.2.13
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