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The Year In "Same Damn Time" Music Journalism References

Satisfying audiences! Satisfying editors! At the same! Damn! Time!
Jeremy Gordon
12.28.12
Motherboard Blog

Disease Is Still a Major Reason Why Tropical Economies Are So Poor

What's more, diseases have a greater impact where biodiversity shrinks.
Austin Considine
12.28.12
Popping the Marks

How Not to Sound Like an Asshole When Talking About Islam

When non-Muslims operate on the assumption that Islam exists as one singular, absolute, and coherent entity that is understood and experienced by each of the world’s billion-plus Muslims in more or less the same way, they look like total douchebags.
Michael Muhammad Knight
12.28.12
The Hopelessness Issue

Realness, to the Extreme

Couldn’t the consistently shitty foundation of almost everything we are and live with be some kind of necessary substructure of checks and balances? Like, a carefully evolutionary-ed trias politica, in the interest of maintaining a relatively stable...
Kate Carraway
12.28.12
Stuff

Making Friends at Stonehenge for the End of the World

Throughout my time at Stonehenge I met hippies, Norse gods, ancient kings, bygone warriors, conspiracy theorists, senile Druids, schizophrenics, witches, wizards, demons, hackers, viking families, trance-heads, and even a guy who thought he was a...
Matt Shea, Photos: Jake Lewis
12.28.12
Features

This Week In Drake - Bleak, Lonely, Desperate And Possibly Drunk Edition

Drake gave himself a room to fuck in and then couldn't find anybody to fuck in it.
Drew Millard
12.28.12
Motherboard Blog

Virtual Body Technology Is Virtual Reality Made Better

Sometimes it's awesome to live in the future — or at least pretend to.
Adam Clark Estes
12.28.12
Music

Delicious with Mish Episode Ten: Featuring Mac DeMarco

If you have not heard of the Montreal crooner Mac DeMarco by now you have been living under a rock or in a ham sandwich or something. In this special episode of Delicious with Mish, my good pal Mac DeMarco and the love of his life Sweet KiKi join me...
Mish Way
12.28.12
Features

The Noisey Guide To Sex Music

SPOILER: Never R. Kelly you guys.
Ryan Bassil
12.28.12
Motherboard Blog

In the Corporate Cult Wars, Starbucks' Secret Weapon Is Backfiring

Corporate coffee for the people, or something.
Michael Byrne
12.28.12
The Photo Issue 2012

My Life with Big Men

In June 1993, CNN’s Africa correspondent Gary Striker wanted to interview Zaire’s ruler Mobutu Sese Seko about what amounted to a civil war in the southeastern part of the country while his army, unpaid for months, pillaged Kinshasa, its capital. I had...
Robert Wiener
12.28.12
HAMILTON'S PHARMACOPEIA

Hamilton and the Philosopher's Stone

In the bucolic pastures of Hazerswoude-Dorp, Holland, nestled in verdant fields of ruminating Holsteins, lazy windmills, and pert tulips, lies a quaint Dutch farm that functions as the world's largest psilocybin-containing-truffle factory.
Hamilton Morris
VICE Staff
12.28.12
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