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The Police Watched This Guy Get Beat Up by Fascists

Greece really isn't a great place to be right now.
Elektra Kotsoni
10.12.12
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Here's a Senator's Recipe for Southern Fried Oysters, as Read During a 15-Hour Filibuster in 1935

It should come as no surprise that the filibuster is exclusive to politics. Who else would allow a tactic in which a person prevents an entire group from acting by talking for as long as he or she can? So, in honor of politicians talking, I decided to...
Michael Wertheim
10.12.12
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Check Out This Newly Discovered, Thoroughly Depressing Diamond Planet

This newly-discovered planet is a classic lifeless hell-scene — but it does boast a whole lot of diamonds.
Michael Byrne
10.12.12
Motherboard Blog

Liquid Nitrogen Cocktails Look Cool, But You Might Lose Your Gut

Liquid nitrogen, the instant wart-removing, CPU cooling, cryogenic liquid that expands into gas at ratio of 1-to-694 in room temperature environments has now been linked with an unexpected gastrectomy (stomach removal) of a young woman near Lancaster...
Daniel Stuckey
10.12.12
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Why Isn't Election Day a National Holiday?

Imagine if Election Day were a national holiday. It wouldn’t be the world’s greatest national holiday since it always falls on a Tuesday and sort of messes up the possibility of a long weekend. And seriously, if Columbus gets his own day, American...
Adam Clark Estes
10.12.12
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The Taliban Shot a 14 Year-Old Girl in the Face For Being a Blogging "Pioneer"

In 2009, an 11 year-old girl named Malala Yousafzai stood up to the Taliban after it shut down all schools for girls in the Swat Valley of Pakistan. She had dedicated herself to becoming a doctor, to receiving an education. And before she turned 1...
Brian Merchant
10.12.12
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A Foxconn Worker Lost Half His Brain, and Foxconn Refuses to Pay His Medical Bills

If you can help it, avoid Foxconn. With the latest case of the lobotomized, it’s starting to look less like The Jungle and more like Saw III. That’s not a good look.
Adam Clark Estes
10.12.12
Motherboard Blog

With a Media War Brewing, Reddit Faces Its Biggest Decision Yet

The "front page of the Internet" chooses between r/creepshots and being a media player.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
10.12.12
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Watch this Happy American Film about Iran, Made Around the Time the C.I.A. Staged Its Coup

Long before the current saber-rattling in the Middle East and “credible” talk of Israeli-US attacks on the country’s enrichment facilities, Encyclopedia Britannica made this film about a happier Iran.
Mclean Gordon
10.12.12
Motherboard Blog

Follow Russian YouTube Daredevils Through Their Daily Routine

It’s about three minutes into this documentary when a ponytailed Russian dude — who’d just freeclimbed a radio tower — starts spinning a Rubik’s cube like a bawse while his mom is frying sausages that you realize holy shit, this guys is a badass. And...
Derek Mead
10.12.12
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Minha Yang: Creating Algorithmic Beauty

Minha Yang harnesses simple algorithms to push the limitations of the media arts genre, while challenging other artists in his sphere.
The Creators Project
10.12.12
The Raised Up Right Issue

On the Wagon

Brain seepage, I think to myself as I watch paramedics tend to a rider who’s been ripped from his saddle. He’s not getting up. It’s the first hour of the first day of the National Championship Chuckwagon Races in Clinton, Arkansas, and I’m just...
Jeff Winkler
10.12.12
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