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The First Ever International Space Orchestra Broadcasts Music To Space

Nothing is impossible with “experience designer” Nelly Ben Hayoun. We have a close encounter of the third kind with the creator and director of Ground Control: An Opera In Space.
Shahneze Tsouria
9.12.12
Motherboard Blog

Science Attempts To Explain Why Sex Isn't Totally Repulsive

Sex should be disgusting. We're naturally disgusted by things like cum and spit because of their potential to spread infection -- thanks, evolution -- which is also why we're protective of things like mouths and vaginas. Yet we still have sex, which...
Michael Byrne
9.12.12
Features

Get Ready For The Fifth Annual Art, Beats + Lyrics Tour!

Gentleman Jack brings together cutting-edge digital art and electro with old-school hip-hop.
Noisey Staff
9.12.12
Motherboard Blog

MIT's Nano-Magnets Can Clean Up Oil Spills

Oil spill cleanup technology is a crazy innovative field—we learned as much in the wake of the BP Gulf disaster, when everyone from conservation biologists to barbers to Kevin Costner rushed to sell the government on their wild, sometimes literally...
Brian Merchant
9.12.12
Stuff

Our Intern Did a Ritual Pulling

We took one of our Canadian interns and stabbed him in the chest with fish hooks.
Gregory Pike
9.12.12
Stuff

I Gave Up a Decade of Vegetarianism for Burger King’s Bacon Sundae

I broke my decade-long streak as a animal-loving vegetarian to scarf down Burger King's bacon sundae. This is partially to be blamed on the band VAR.
Maria Sherman
9.12.12
Stuff

The Deaths of David Foster Wallace

Wallace's intersecting plotlines and cascades of footnotes were a testimony to the ‘infinitude’ of the world, as he experienced it. His biography, on the other hand, is more like a square meal than a crack binge. But it satisfies some basic biography...
Leslie Jamison
9.12.12
Film

User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Experimental Creative Studio Neue

Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Julie Le Baron
9.12.12
Tech

Movie Madness

An amateurish film produced by a 52-year old Israeli-American overtly ridicules Mohammad, depicts him as a woman-hating, overzealous pedophile, a fraud, a womanizer and a madman, and shows him having sex and calling for massacres.
Daniel Stuckey
9.12.12
Motherboard Blog

America's Border-Industrial Complex Can't Get Its Virtual Fences in a Row

Border security will never die. Federal budgets and immigration waves may both be on the wane, but hey, no matter. The U.S-Mexico border-industrial complex continues booming apace, with some even saying there's no end in sight in pushing to build up a...
Brian Anderson
9.12.12
Features

Shocker Of The Day: Another Person Is Trying To Sue Courtney Love

And Frances Bean wants out.
Angela Wig
9.12.12
Features

Who's Better? Beatles Vs. Stones

Who will win the battle of the Brits?
Noisey Staff
Noam Klar
9.12.12
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