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Sneaky Peeks From 'VICE' Episode Five

Have you guys been watching our new TV show? Without getting too grandiose about it, if you haven't seen it just imagine the most interesting stories you've ever heard—real Pulitzer magnets—combined with an on-the-ground, in-the-shit perspective and...
VICE Staff
5.5.13
Motherboard Blog

If We Want to Find Aliens, We Need To Look at Weirder Planets

Planets and moons hosting life might not be Earth-like at all, argues MIT researcher.
Amy Shira Teitel
5.4.13
Star Wars

'Star Wars' Is Getting a Navajo Makeover

The classic sci-fi origin story has more in common with Navajo creation myths than you might imagine.
Greg Thomas
5.4.13
Motherboard Blog

Tim Hetherington Was Not Interested in Photography Per Se

Filmmaker Sebastian Junger On the Fearless Photojournalist.
Krishna Andavolu
5.4.13
Stuff

Why I Quit Drinking

I quit drinking in 2002, mere months before my college graduation. As you can imagine, quitting drinking before the window when it’s socially acceptable to be drunk all the time had closed was due to some pretty specific incidents and behaviors that I...
Chris Gethard
5.4.13
Motherboard Blog

Wyoming's Lithium Jackpot Will Help Us Build the Batteries of the Future

Scientists have discovered a single lithium deposit that could meet the entire nation's annual demand.
Brian Merchant
5.4.13
taji's mahal

Clayton Patterson's Music Week

For this week's Mahal, I got to talk music with legendary Lower East Side photographer, Clayton Patterson. Over the decades, he has documented just about every memorable show in Lower East Side and today is still getting out there and seeing relevant...
Taji Ameen
5.4.13
News

Tagging the Revolution in Northern Syria

Graffiti found on the crumbling walls and facades of Azaz’s cityscape—the majority of which are scrawled with a focus on sentiment rather than aesthetics—pay homage to the town’s experience of conflict and to the wider geo-political discourse that...
Martin Armstrong
5.4.13
Travel

Burma's Most Decadent Zoo Is Full of Fake Animals

In 2012, while covering the Burmese elections in Rangoun, I took a train to the city the Burmese never really lived in, the new country's new capital Naypyidaw. As soon as I got there, I realized there wasn't much to do, and ended up passing the time...
Jérémy Suyker
5.4.13
food trucks

Montreal’s Food Truck Plan Is a Symbolic 'Screw You' to Poor People and Immigrants

As those who are attentive to gastronomic rumblings in Canada are doubtless already aware, a few weeks ago it was announced that Montreal is finally lifting its 60-odd year ban on street food, although it is doing it in a way that is as perversely...
VICE Staff
5.4.13
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That's So Ravin': Ravin's Guide to Looking Good

Got a burning question for Ravin? Email her with your thoughts, dilemmas, and all-out rants at ravin.samoan@vice.com
Ravin Samoan
5.4.13
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Red Bull Music Academy Mix Series Vol. 3: Nick Hook

Mixes from the best RBMA artists past and present.
THUMP Staff
5.4.13
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