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What to Do with Your Body After You Die

The enormous mausoleums of the past are out, and space burials are in.
Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant
8.1.13
This Week In Drake

Let's All Talk About Drake's New Song

2 Chainz's verse is kind of boring, Drake's part is great, and Big Sean makes us think about our freshman year of college.
Drew Millard
8.1.13
New music

Listen to Sister Crayon Cover Majical Cloudz's "I Do Sing for You"

Think Au Revoire Simone with brass knuckles.
Jamie Manelis-O'Donnell
8.1.13
Art

High-Tech Dance Project Turns Performers' Bodies Into An Augmented Nervous System

Using myoelectric sensors, French art collective bypass human-body logics to create PU_P3TS, an experimental art performance.
Benoit Palop
8.1.13
Motherboard Blog

Antarctic Permafrost Is Melting 10 Times Faster Than It Has in 11,000 Years

Changing weather patterns mean the McMurdo Dry Valleys are receiving more sunlight than before.
Mat McDermott
8.1.13
Meet the Nieratkos

Ed Templeton’s Huntington Beach

Chris Nieratko
8.1.13
Motherboard Blog

Julian Assange, Politician, Wants To WikiLeak Australian Politics: Interview

In the buildup to Julian Assange’s run for the Australian senate, VICE was invited to the Ecuadorian embassy in London for a rare in-person interview.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
8.1.13
A Few Impressions

Keep Standing by Me

What’s so great about Stand By Me? Everything. The film capitalizes on the fact that kids can say and do anything and it uses the childhood genre is a lens through which it can delve into universal issues of identity, loyalty, and morality—the...
James Franco
8.1.13
Words

DB's No School Like The Old Skool: Reid Speed

The story of Play Me records boss Reid Speed's early years in the NY underground, plus an archival two-step mix.
DJ DB (aka DB Burkeman)
8.1.13
Motherboard Blog

Camping Could Cure Insomnia, Make You Less of a Zombie in the Morning

Exposure to natural light could help reset your biological clock.
Jason Koebler
8.1.13
Motherboard Blog

Is China Wiring Africa for Surveillance?

Or is the US pointing fingers instead of looking in the mirror?
Meghan Neal
8.1.13
Stuff

I Used to Be a Scientologist, Now I Help People Out of Cults by Smoking Weed

Dennis Erlich was the original guy who exposed the craziness of Scientology on the internet. A member since 1967 and later a minister, he started to rebel against the church in the mid-80s. Now he runs a support group to help people out of cults...
Chris O`Neill
8.1.13
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