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We Can Be Gyros Just for a Day
On last month's equinox I was traveling with a friend of mine through the Aegean Sea. Over the 16-hour boat ride we passed hundreds of small islands on our way to a magical cluster of the Greek Isles called the Kiklades. They are all arid and pseudo...
Julia Kennedy
10.8.12
Motherboard Blog

The Taliban Shut Down the Brand New Dam That Powers South Waziristan With a Couple AK-47s
How the Taliban Use AK-47s and Kidnappings to Keep the Poor in the Dark
Brian Merchant
10.8.12
Music

Where Art And Space Travel Meet: Why Is The Art World Suddenly So Captivated By The Cosmos?
Take a look at creators around the world who are using art to explore and explain the increasingly prominent topic of space travel.
Kyle Chayka
10.8.12
New music

Flying Lotus - "Flotus"
FlyLo flexes his production muscles.
Ryan Bassil
10.8.12
Photo

Diplo Has a New Photo Zine
He's teamed up with photographer Shane McCauley to photograph different countries and their music scenes. The first issue, about Jamaican Dancehall, is being released on Wednesday.
Christian Storm
10.8.12
Motherboard Blog

This Is What the Bacteria Living on Your Money Look Like
You shouldn’t put money in your mouth, obviously, mainly because it has lots of gross stuff on it. We just can’t see it. That is, until Sorin Popescu, a 23-year-old pharmacy student from Romania, harvested some of the bacteria and created an art...
ALEX PASTERNACK
10.8.12
Dogmageddon

God Vs. The Ladies
The original scriptures—the template which has led to today's incarnation of religion—were written by men during a time when women were property and mystical beasts who occasionally farted out children. This factoid explains the troubling inherent...
Rick Paulas
10.8.12
Motherboard Blog

The 69-Year Old Contractor That's Searching for Columbus' Lost Fort
On Christmas, 1492, Christopher Columbus’ Santa Maria ran aground on a reef somewhere in the Caribbean. He orded the timber salvaged to build a fort, and when Columbus set sail a few weeks later to return to Spain, he left behind 39 sailors in a new...
Derek Mead
10.8.12
Features

Andrew W.K. Rocks One Million Volt Keyboard Solo On Seven Tesla Coils
The party-est thing you ever did see.
Josh Schneider
10.8.12
Music

LAYERS: Pulling Apart The Pieces Of Mumbai Science's "Unite"
The very first LAYERS on a club song.
Abdullah Saeed
10.8.12
New music

Stream "End All Suffering," We Were Skeletons' New Single
It's the first single from their mathy, screamy new record.
Benjamin Shapiro
10.8.12
The Raised Up Right Issue

One in the Oven
Richard Kern and I drove out to the East Hampton family home of Jemima Kirke, the star of HBO's 'Girls,' to photograph her at eight months pregnant. I also chatted with her about the time we did key bumps together in a bathroom, dating assholes, and...
Annette Lamothe-Ramos; Photos by Richard Kern
10.8.12
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