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You will not go to space today.
ALEC LIU
11.16.12
marathonning

Twenty-Four Straight Hours of College Basketball Destroyed My Mind

What happens when a writer tries to watch the first 24 hours of the college hoops season? A lot, turns out.
B. David Zarley
11.16.12
Ma Yansong

Ma Yansong's New Apartment Complex Refuses to Tame the Wilderness

Chinese architecture firm MAD’s latest plans herald a return to nature.
Jennifer Mills
11.16.12
Features

Hey MTL - Noisey is Rolling Deep at the M For Montreal Fest

Montreal's best kept secret dropped the hammer this week, and Noisey is running on fumes trying to see a million billion shows.
Noisey Staff
11.16.12
Features

Welcome To Beeftown - 50 Cent Vs. Chief Keef

Try to say "Chief Keef Beef" five times fast.
Noisey Staff
11.16.12
Features

Ringo Deathstarr Do it Themselves

We chatted with singer/guitarist Elliot Frazier about 'Mauve' and life on the road.
Vincent Brunetto
11.16.12
Music

Dan Deacon's App Illuminates The Massive Crowd At A Michael Jackson Cover Band Show

At the Catalyst Conference in Atlanta last month, Dan Deacon was the unsuspecting visualist for raucous performance of pop hits.
Abdullah Saeed
11.16.12
Motherboard Blog

The Oil Company Whose Rig Just Exploded Sucks At Everything, Especially Safety Videos

And here is a safety video the company made to educate employees about all of the various precautions that it had taken to ensure its oil rigs don’t explode.
Brian Merchant
11.16.12
Motherboard Blog

An Oil Rig Just Exploded in the Gulf of Mexico

Isn’t this just perfect, on the day — one day! — after BP was handed a record $4.5 billion fine for the Deepwater Horizon disaster.
Derek Mead
11.16.12
Motherboard Blog

Melting Glaciers Preserved in Years-Long Timelapses: An Interview with the Makers of Climate Documentary 'Chasing Ice'

While a handful of researchers, scientists and naturalists have all watched enormous glaciers calve off into the oceans, no one seems to have the same intimacy with ice like James Balog.
Daniel Stuckey
11.16.12
Features

The Birth of Divine Fits

How Britt Daniel of Spoon and Dan Boeckner of Handsome Furs came together to create something amazing.
Abdullah Saeed
11.16.12
News

Occupy's Rolling Jubilee Wants to Give Americans Money for Nothing

Jubilee, as laid out in the Bible's book of Leviticus, was a time when debts were forgiven. OWS's Strike Debt committee appropriated the concept in a symbolic way and used it as the namesake for its first major project, in which a fund—financed by...
DJ Pangburn
11.16.12
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