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The Awesome Possibilities of the New See-Through Brain
"I burned and melted more than a hundred brains."
Adam Clark Estes
4.10.13
Motherboard Blog

The Solar Power Industry Is Finally Producing More Energy Than It Uses
At the rate installations are going, the energy and carbon debt incurred in making all the solar photovoltaics made to date could be paid off as soon as 2015.
Mat McDermott
4.10.13
CAPS LOCK REVIEWS

The Knife's 'Shaking the Habitual' is Actively Irritating
WHAT THE FUCK IS GOIN ON BRUH? THERE'S A RECORD LABEL THAT CONDONES THIS B?
The Kid Mero
4.10.13
Motherboard Blog

Meet the Kansas Lawmaker Who Wants to Ban the Act of Planning for Future Generations
Rep. Dennis Hedke literally wants to outlaw the act of planning for future generations.
Brian Merchant
4.10.13
Features

The Illustrious History of Margaret Thatcher Diss Tracks
The woman who so aggressively cut funding to the arts inspired a pretty killer mix-tape – who would have thought the Iron Lady could, in death, become a pop-culture icon?
Dominic Maxwell-Lewis
4.10.13
Tech

The Bitcoin Crash Begins
After peaking at $266, the anonymous, open-source cryptocurrency took a tumble on Wednesday afternoon. A big tumble.
Adam Clark Estes
4.10.13
Sports

Bringing Baseball Back to Montreal Is a Terrible Idea
Hockey is Canada’s game, baseball is America’s. So why should I care about a painfully boring sport designed around nine innings of narcolepsy-inducing "athletics"?
Patrick Lejtenyi
4.10.13
Motherboard Blog

Theories on a Bitcoin Crash
After peaking at $266, bitcoin took a tumble on Wednesday afternoon. A big tumble.
Adam Clark Estes
4.10.13
Travel

Yemen's Deposed President Has Built a Museum Dedicated to Himself
In addition to one pair of exploded jeans the ex-president was wearing when someone tried to blow him up, the gallery consists of some 2,000 pieces from 81 countries, mostly given to him as diplomatic gifts during his 33-year rule. I went along to gawk...
Tik Root, Photos: Juan Herrero
4.10.13
News

"Pipe Trouble" Wrongfully Enraged A Whole Bunch of Noobs
Pipe Trouble is an 8-bit puzzle game, funded by TVO, designed to enlighten its player to the ongoing conflict regarding Canadian pipeline development. Unfortunately it ended up causing a whirlwind of fuckery, caused by people who don't understand video...
Patrick McGuire
4.10.13
Stuff

Jeff Goldblum Is a Six-Foot Pianist
Every Wednesday in Los Angeles, Jeff Goldblum plays jazz tunes for free. It sounds like a joke, but it's not. It probably isn't very LA cool of me, but when I saw that Dr. Ian Malcolm tickles the ivory right in my backyard, well, sorry, but my honky...
Grant Pardee
4.10.13
Photo

Remember Haiti? Giles Clarke Does
On January 12, 2010, a massive earthquake hit Haiti, killing over 230,000 people, injuring many more, and leaving 1.5 million homeless. Although the media has since moved on for the most part, many Haitians are still struggling in scores of tent cities...
Giles Clarke
4.10.13
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