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Sorry Ma, Forgot to Trash the Replacement Refs
The NFL's replacement refs are worse than ever, a bunch of hockey players are joining a children's hockey league, Jeremy Lin hates spending money, and the Dodgers re-up their GM.
Lou Doggs
Sports Staff
9.17.12
Stuff

The Raindance Film Festival Is Coming Soon
We have two films premiering there and discounts on tickets so you can go watch them.
VICE Staff
9.17.12
Motherboard Blog

Researchers Aim For Commercially Viable Green Crude in Four Years
Four years. This is the goal set by researchers at Texas A&B for the deployment of near-commercial-scale technology to conjure regular ol' oil -- the kind that might wind up at a gas pump -- from genetically modified algae. The task is as "simple" as...
Michael Byrne
9.17.12
News

Asking a Lebanese Atheist About All this Religious Screaming
Life as non-believer in the Muslim world is a little harder when its burning.
Oz Katerji
9.17.12
Motherboard Blog

Motherboard TV Preview: Drone On
They are overhead, far way, buzzing in the distance, doing their thing. Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are "cruising over Benghazi":http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/09/14/us-protests-libya-airport-idUSBRE88D0PJ20120914 in the wake of attack on the...
Brian Anderson
9.17.12
Photo

Fire Dance with Me
Sunny Shokrae is back with another dispatch from the lesser-seen side of Asia. This time she shows us the world of Thai fire dancing.
Sunny Shokrae
9.17.12
The Creators Project: Beijing 2012

Real Estate At The Creators Project: Beijing 2012
During Real Estate's down time, they head to the Great Wall, explore the Forbidden City and the 789 Art District, and eat a ton of good food.
The Creators Project
9.17.12
Motherboard Blog

The Latest Sign of Life on Mars: Balls
NASA's not quite sure what to think of a curious geological phenomenon that the aging Opportunity Rover came across last week on Mars. The formation looks like a rash of tiny spheres, each about three millimeters in diameter, but scientists have no...
Adam Estes
9.17.12
tour stories

The Chickenhead Convention
"Yo! Don’t you pay attention to directions? The Chickenhead Convention is THAT WAY,” pointing in the way of the other room. The group members start clucking, high fiving each other and laughing."
Kathy Iandoli
9.17.12
VICE News

The Mexican Mormon War
The Mexican drug cartels are at war... with Mormons. VICE founder Shane Smith went down to Ciudad Juárez, near the US border, to investigate this bizarre story. Here's Part 1 of our documentary filled with guns, drugs, murder, and Romneys.
Shane Smith
VICE Staff
9.17.12
Motherboard Blog

As An African Religion Grows, So Does Leopard Poaching
Much of the trade in illegal animal parts is due to false beliefs that rhino horn or tiger penises cure ailments, but here's another curious facet: in Southern Africa, leopard skins are in increasingly high demand thanks to the growth of a local...
Derek Mead
9.17.12
Motherboard Blog

Scientists Can Now 3D Print Blood Vessels in Seconds
3D printing was already impressive. I mean, this is technology that can take a computer file and turn it into a real life thing. Pretty much anything, too — sculptures, burritos, human fetuses, bicycles, bones, cars, kidneys, assault weapons. One big...
Adam Estes
9.17.12
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