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Tree Planting Is Really Awful

Tree planting is a popular summer job in Canada. You can make a lot of money quickly, you spend a lot of time in the great outdoors, and it’s a paid way to lose weight while you dig holes in the hot sun over and over and over. It’s the perfect job, if...
Jean-Philippe Marquis
1.8.13
Music

Anamanaguchi Let The Cat Out Of The Bag With "Meow"

The power punk chiptune group release their first music video ever.
Kathleen Flood
1.8.13
Tech

What the Hell Is Eric Schmidt Doing in North Korea?

It's unclear how he got his plane ticket, or who even let him through customs.
Adam Clark Estes
1.8.13
Motherboard Blog

Hybrids Are the Future, Even on Titan

Here's hoping some Texan with oil money to spend will take up the challenge of exploring the Saturnian moon with HyTAQ, a brilliant quadrotor concept.
Amy Shira Teitel
1.8.13
Motherboard Blog

The Seductive Allure of Neuroskepticism

Maybe the public isn't a sucker for a good fMRI scan after all.
Alicia Puglionesi
1.8.13
Stuff

How Will the David Foster Wallace Legacy Survive Itself?

As much as I despise the thought that all this post-death doing is killing what was wonderful about what had been, it is a good reminder to anybody that what you do or say or create often only begins to define what you always are.
Blake Butler
1.8.13
Reviews

Solange - "True" EP

WHY LIKE 40% OF THESE JOINTS SOUND LIKE THE BAND IS PLAYING FISHER PRICE BABY XYLOPHONES & SHIT?
The Kid Mero
1.8.13
Motherboard Blog

"Rogue" Geoengineers Could Hack the Planet's Climate and Ruin Everything, Report Warns

It's like the opposite of the ultimate Bond villainy.
Brian Merchant
1.8.13
Mick Rock and Barney Clay

David Bowie Returns As A Little Puppet In An Eerie Video By Tony Oursler

The pop legend is back with his first release in a decade.
Abdullah Saeed
1.8.13
motherboard show

There Is No Escape: Zorbing Is Absolutely Terrifying

This is the most haunting video that I have ever watched on the Internet.
Brian Anderson
1.8.13
Features

In Honor of Today's 'Girls' Season 1 Soundtrack Release, Here are Our Season 2 Predictions

Hannah starts fires with her brain, Marnie rolls in waffle truck money, Shoshanna digs METZ, and Jessa is Irish.
David Bailey
1.8.13
Motherboard Blog

Why Is China Beating the U.S. at Its Own "Clean" Nuclear Technology?

The key to clean nuclear energy is a naturally abundant element called thorium.
Adam Clark Estes
1.8.13
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