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The Ill-Conceived Manhattan Project National Park Is Not Going to Be Built

I think a lot of people wish the invention of the atomic bomb is something we could all take back. It's not necessarily a realistic thought -- there's always the argument that _someone_ would have eventually developed one -- but the AEC's insane...
Derek Mead
9.21.12
Motherboard Blog

Waiting in Line for iPhones and for Everything Else

Everyone hates waiting in line, 99% of the time. It sucks. It’s boring, it’s frustrating, every impulse in our modern techno-entitlement complex tells us it’s pointless, and sometimes it’s actually dangerous. But inevitably, people will do it to get a...
Brian Merchant
9.21.12
Fashion

I Was Communist Romania's Top Model

If I've learned anything from popular culture, it's that any country that has ever dabbled with communism has been MISERABLE. Everything is built from concrete and soil and people have to marry tractors. So, I wasn't wildly surprised when I heard that...
Lorena Lupu, Photos by Dinu Lazăr
9.21.12
Motherboard Blog

Science Confirms: The iPhone Is the New Pacifier

We've all seen it happen. You're standing in line at the grocery store, perusing the latest Us Weekly and thinking about buying a pack of gum, when here comes the 21st-century mom, basket full of kale and kombucha, pushing a stroller with a little one...
Adam Estes
9.21.12
Art

Your Eyes And Mind Will Be Blown By This Light Painting Animation For McLaren's New Super Car

Marshmallow Laser Feast and James Medcraft team up to create a visual spectacle of awesomeness.
Kevin Holmes
9.21.12
The Weird Science Issue

The Novelizer

Sadly, the market for novelizations has begun to dry up. So I called Alan Dean Foster, author of novelizations for many films like 'Alien' and 'Star Wars,' to find out how the science-fiction fans of tomorrow will satisfy their appetite for transmedia...
Hamilton Morris
9.21.12
Stuff

Cry-Baby of the Week

This week: Ass-hating assistant minister Vs. gay-hating principal.
Jamie Lee Taete
9.21.12
A Living Diary of a Dying Industry

Record Label Wants You to Go to Acupuncture School, Stop Pissing in Sandbox

As indie labels shutter their offices in domino succession, Temporary Residence Ltd. seems to have become the go-to model for how to run a record label. But it seems the secret to his success is similar to those of our past interviewees: NEVER FUCKING...
A. Wolfe
9.21.12
The Weird Science Issue

Comic Book Star Sam Humphries and His Post-Aids Pansexual Wonderland

Marvel Comics has made Sam Humphries the head writer of 'The Ultimates.' Sam began his career with a self-published comic called 'Our Love Is Real' that takes place in a future where people are having sex with dogs, vegetables, and even crystals.
Mitchell Sunderland
9.21.12
Slutever

Orgasms: Where R They?

As we all know, sex is really fun. But sometimes it can be a frustrating nightmare. Did you know that only 30 percent of women achieve orgasm during sex?
Karley Sciortino
VICE Staff
9.21.12
VICE News

The Mexican Mormon War

The Mexican drug cartels are at war... with Mormons. In Part 5, we're stalked by the cartel after going on patrol with the police and drinking with the Mormons.
Shane Smith
9.21.12
Motherboard Blog

A Swiss Railway Might Sue Apple Over the Clock in iOS 6

For all the arguing over design minutiae in Apple's ongoing _thermonuclear patent war_ -- rounded corners this, unlock slider that -- you'd think the company would be obsessing internally over making sure any new product development is clean as a...
Derek Mead
9.21.12
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