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Strange News from the North

Fugitive Pigs, Shitting Echidnas and a Sandwich Fight

Last week, the Northern Territory was wracked by a four-day fugitive pig hunt in Darwin, a crisis that engulfed the council, police, government and the public at large.
Toby Fehily
1.17.13
Photos

Dry Heat

Photos by Amanda Charchian and styling by Annette Lamothe-Ramos.
Amanda Charchian
1.17.13
The Guide To Not Normal

The Hidden Secrets of the American Daffodil Society

A group called the American Daffodil Society exists. In real life.
David Gagliardi
1.17.13
News

Life’s Hard When You’re a Convicted Pedophile

Peter Gibson discovered this in 2007 when his niece accused him of sexually assaulting her in 1979, back when she was eight. I can’t say whether he’s innocent or not. I’m just curious about his current life. How does it feel to be someone so...
Julian Morgans
1.17.13
Motherboard Blog

Electronics Update: New Semiconductors Could Improve Efficiency by Half

Data centers, computers, and mobile devices all stand to get a lot more efficient.
Brian Merchant
1.16.13
Motherboard Blog

How to Make a Game in 2013: Putting the Band Together

Time to take our own medicine. Watch us make a video game in under a week. Shit is about to get real.
Colin Snyder
1.16.13
Art

Moments Of A bad dream Captured In GIF Form

Nydia Lilian’s black and white GIF series flashes between the dark and light sides of her subjects.
Abdullah Saeed
1.16.13
Music

How to Not Get Fat Through Rap

So I came across this weird music video slash cartoon last night and it said that if you take 80 bites of your food then your stomach will be too full to overeat. The video is about this rapping stomach named Sam. “I represent the folks in the lower...
Kathy Iandoli
1.16.13
Motherboard Blog

The 150 Things the World's Smartest People Are Afraid Of

The only things we have to fear.
Brian Merchant
1.16.13
Motherboard Blog

Chicago Can't Shake Its Poison Curse

A fresh case of murder-by-cyanide opens old wounds.
Brian Anderson
1.16.13
videos

Spaced Out: 'The Space Composer' is Making Music With the Sun

To sonify is to make beauty available to our human senses through sound. And, through the work of artist and NASA fellow Robert Alexander, it's also a means to discovery.
Michael Byrne
1.16.13
Features

My Walkout Song - Best Coast's Bobb Bruno

Our punchy sister site Fightland picks Bobb's brains about what track gets him ready to smash.
Fightland Staff
1.16.13
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