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The New Orleans Murder Wall Won't Stop Growing

While New Orleans is traditionally thought of as the city of jazz, Mardi Gras, and semi-functional alcoholics, it's also the city with the highest murder rate in the country. A local priest is trying to bring greater awareness to the problem by writing...
Jake Hanrahan
11.15.12
Features

When Bad Taste Happens To Good People

Q-Tip good, Korn bad.
Luke Winkie
11.15.12
Motherboard Blog

Stalin Built the World's First Offshore Oil Rig Into an Entire Floating City

Today, Neft Daslari is a crumbling dystopia, a vast series of oil platforms slowly being eaten by the waves of the Caspian Sea. Like all good dystopias, it was once an industrial marvel—a veritable floating oil city, home to 5,000 workers, a movie...
Brian Merchant
11.15.12
New music

Niko Da Ikon Is Incredible

The best thing to happen to slow jams ever?
Jo Fuertes-Knight
11.15.12
Beauty School Dropout

The Beauty School Dropout Party Season Quiz

Don't dream of humiliating yourself in front of everyone who's important to you without taking it first.
Bertie Brandes
11.15.12
Motherboard Blog

What's Wrong With Robots Making Our iPhones?

What do you do when you're one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers and you've garnered global controversy for claims of low wages and substandard working conditions? Honhai, the Taiwanese company that owns Foxconn, decided last year it...
Adam Estes
11.15.12
News

Did Savita Halappanavar Really Have to Die, Ireland?

Because if you'd given her an abortion, she'd still be alive.
Rebecca Fitzsimons
11.15.12
Motherboard Blog

Watch the Third Part of Noah Hutton's 10-Year Film on a Mapless Quest To Simulate the Human Brain

What's the minimum amount of information needed to simulate a human brain ? Do we need the whole, complete map (known as a connectome) before we begin the (computer, obviously) simulation, or some lesser knowledge threshold from which everything else...
Michael Byrne
11.15.12
Music

Mr. Div's Latest Video Is An Audiovisual Journey Into The Abstract

Matthew DiVito teams up with musician Aldo Aréchar for their video “That Will Be The Day”.
Kevin Holmes
11.15.12
Features

Who Are The Jewish Monkeys?

"What pop would sound like if the holocaust never happened."
Aleks Eror
11.15.12
The Syria Issue

Thousands Are Losing Their Limbs in Assad’s War

Attempting to uphold humanitarian rights in Syria under Assad is risky business—especially for Chavia Ali, the wheelchair-bound Kurdish chairwoman of the Cultural Forum for People with Special Needs.
Milene Larsson
11.15.12
Noisey Blog

Nautic: "Fresh Eyes"

Luscious sounds from the London trio.
Suze Olbrich
11.15.12
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