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When Saints Go Machine - “Iodine” (Zed Bias Remix) [THUMP Exclusive]
UK garage pioneer Zed Bias turns "Iodine" into a sexy-but-sinister tune you'd put on before jumping into bed with Voldemort.
THUMP Staff
7.16.13
Words

STEMS: Inside Free The Robots' "Ophic ft. Jessie Jones"
Each week on STEMS we ask an artist to break it down for us.
Justin Staple
7.16.13
Motherboard Blog

Texas' 500 Executions, Visualized
The 'Texecution' infographic is fittingly stark--almost torturously so--in making sense of all 500 executions recorded in the Lone Star State since 1982.
Brian Anderson
7.16.13
Motherboard Blog

Bit Rot Is the Bane of Post-Analog Libraries
Will the future library be a bookless "bibliotec" full of MacBooks and high-speed internet? Librarians replaced by search algorithms?
Meghan Neal
7.16.13
Design

Designer Scott Page Creates Spectral 3D Scans Of Buildings
Scott Page utilizes 3D scanners to create haunting images of architectural sites.
DJ Pangburn
7.16.13
Motherboard Blog

Three 'Radical' Graphs Tell the Story of the Planet's Current and Future Population
Behold the future of a crowded, climate-changed earth, rendered in purple lines.
Brian Merchant
7.16.13
Words

Who is Yolo Bear?
With conflicting reports of gender, possible homelessness, and an apparent lack of mouth, the facts on Yolo Bear seemed to become murkier the more I dug into them.
Matt McDonald
7.16.13
Motherboard Blog

Anti-Whaling Activist Paul Watson Marks a Year of Fleeing on the Sea
The Sea Shepherds founder can't come ashore without Interpol busting him, so like Snowden, he may never go home again.
Ben Richmond
7.16.13
News

Dodge the NSA with This Fancy Encrypted Messaging Service
With all the talk pinging back and forth around the interwebs in the ongoing NSA clusterfuck, there's a real surge in the demand for encryption-based messaging services. Heml.is is one such service founded by Peter Sunde, one of the creators of the...
Patrick McGuire
7.16.13
Motherboard Blog

Nuclear Power Remains Safe, But Aging Plants Pose a Problem
Nuclear reactor safety improved worldwide last year, but the day in which we have to replace old reactors with new production capacity is approaching.
Derek Mead
7.16.13
Pen Pals

Some Advice for a Sex Offender on His Way to Prison
I received a particularly desperate letter last week. I won’t provide too many of the details 'cause the case is still going on but it appears the feller did some real rapist shit on a young girl—he says it was consensual, but when a girl is so young...
Bert Burykill
7.16.13
New music

Watch GRMLN's New Video for "Teenage Rhythm"
Everyone remembers the glory days of their 70s...
Noisey Staff
7.16.13
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