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Wiretapping Undersea Fiber Optics Is Easy: It's Just a Matter of Money

Security expert Anton Kapela explains how easily one could tap one of the 200 undersea cables that connect continents to the Internet.
DJ Pangburn
7.22.13
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Wikipedia Isn’t Quite as Sexist as Everyone Thinks

Is the "13 percent" statistic even true?
Meghan Neal
7.22.13
Motherboard Blog

Researchers Can Stop and Start Genetic Transcription in a Flash

With just a pulse of light, Massachusetts researchers can manipulate genes with unprecedented accuracy and speed.
Andrew Overton
7.22.13
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STEMS: Inside Una - "The Astronomer (John Tejada Remix)"

For all you aspiring producers, techno great Tejada explains the precise filters, chopping, and processing he used on this remix.
THUMP Staff
7.22.13
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Guillaume Simoneau Photographed the End of His War-Torn Relationship

It’s one thing to have to have your life under the microscope of the public eye, but it’s another to offer it up voluntarily.
Ken Wallingford
7.22.13
Art

Here's What Wi-Fi Would Look Like If We Could See It

Artist Nickolay Lamm imagines the size, shape, and color of wi-fi signals were they visible to the human eye.
Meghan Neal
7.22.13
Motherboard Blog

The Brain's "Love Hormone" Forms Social Bonds and Preserves Traumatic Memories

Love and fear have a complicated relationship in terms of brain chemistry.
Ben Richmond
7.22.13
Motherboard Blog

An Alien Fleet of Self-Replicating Probes Could Have Already Scoured the Milky Way, Mathematicians Say

They might even still be here.
Brian Merchant
7.22.13
Motherboard Blog

Dolphins Give Each Other Names, Are Probably Plotting Something

That's all well and good, but how imaginative are their nicknames?
Jason Koebler
7.22.13
Art

Animated Light Paintings Of Skeletons Skateboarding And Breakdancing

Darren Pearson brings his light paintings to life through stop-motion. And he's working on a film!
DJ Pangburn
7.22.13
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California Has Its Own Version of Stand Your Ground

A California activist named Tiffany Hobbs is trying to educate and channel the anger about Trayvon Martin's death into action and is working to amend two state laws, the Provocative Act Murder Doctrine and the Castle Doctrine, which allow for the sort...
Josh Androsky
7.22.13
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Lil Jabba Footworks Out of Bounds

Musical genius or stoned madman? Footwork hermit Lil Jabba lets us into his castle.
Oliver Rivard
7.22.13
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