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The Doomsday Clock Is Still at Five Minutes to Midnight

The hands of doom are still inching closer to the end, the world's most pessimistic scientists say.
Brian Merchant
12.24.12
Dogmageddon

Bah Humbug!

The actual holiday of Christmas isn't really, and never has been, a celebration specifically about Christ's birth. People have been celebrating the middle-of-winter holiday—with gifts and massive consumption of booze—way before Jesus.
Rick Paulas
12.24.12
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An Etiquette Guide for Straight People in Gay Bars

We love having straight people hang out with us, we really do, but I'm going to break down the rules for the breeders who forget how to behave when there is a rainbow flag on the wall.
Brian Moylan
12.24.12
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Happy Wookie Life Day: The Star Wars Holiday Special Was the Worst Thing on Television

We weren't supposed to see the Star Wars Holiday Special.
ALEX PASTERNACK
12.23.12
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Climate Change Is Stealing Even More Water from America's Desert Cities

Multiply the yearly water usage of Las Vegas by five.
Michael Byrne
12.23.12
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Science Discovers New Type of Magnetism, Computers Cower with Fear

This fancy new quantum spin liquid could change everything.
Adam Clark Estes
12.23.12
Motherboard Blog

The Revolution Will Be Illustrated: Stephanie McMillan's Occupy Cartoons

The radical, prolific political cartoonist reflects upon the failures and victories of the movement that occupied her for over a year.
Michael Arria
12.22.12
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Well Of Course Someone Is 3D-Printing Records

Turning digital files into physical objects on-demand.
Kevin Holmes
12.22.12
Motherboard Blog

This Is What Climate Change Cost the U.S. in 2012

Billions of bucks and hundreds of lives, to start.
Brian Merchant
12.22.12
ground zero

Syria - The Free Syrian Army

During his time in Syria throughout much of 2012, videographer Robert KIng followed Aleppo's Al-Tawhid Brigade as he dodged bullets and rocket fire to learn more about the largest brigade of the Free Syrian Army. Somehow Robert managed to track down...
Robert King
12.22.12
Stuff

Cry-Baby of the Week

Is it the wannabee Bieber castrator or the girl who doesn't want to wear ID?
Jamie Lee Taete
12.22.12
News

One Day in Argentina's Meltdown

When Argentina's football fans destroyed Buenos Aires.
Oscar Rickett
12.22.12
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