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Inside New York City's Kung Fu Underground

A kid named Rinson had the first knockout that Saturday. He sported a hexagonal tattoo on his chest and a looping right hand that floored his foe midway through the first round. It got bloodier from there. There was Ruben, who turned his opponent's eye...
Jim Genia
9.7.12
Stuff

Asking for Trouble

A collection of stories about landing in the shit.
VICE Staff
9.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Stretchable, Tattoo-Like Electronics Are Here to Check Your Health

earable computing is all the rage this year as Google pulls back the curtain on their Glass technology, but some scientists want to take the idea a stage further. The emerging field of stretchable electronics is taking advantage of new polymers that...
Adam Estes
9.7.12
Girl News

Girls and Fashion - Part II

Guys, it is Girls and Fashion: Part Deux: The Fashioning! Guess why. No guess. No guess. Because it is Fashion Week, which is when a particular subset of the beautiful and the damned do not so much descend on New York but wiggle-wobble into and around...
Kate Carraway
9.7.12
Fashion

NYFW - More Clothing for Listless Wood Nymphs

This is going to be my fifith season covering NYFW for VICE and I’m jaded and cranky as fuck. Last year I exclusively wore jeans and a t-shirt all week long. Me and another writer joked that we were “street style repellers” and I didn’t get my picture...
BEVERLY HAMES
9.7.12
A Living Diary of a Dying Industry

Have You Hugged a Music Publicist Today?

Music publicists are here to help you, not to spam you, and certainly not to get rich off you. We talked to two of them about what their jobs are like.
A. Wolfe
9.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Watch Marines Turn Vietnamese Villages Into County Fairs In This 1967 Video

In 1965, the U.S. sent 3,500 Marines into Vietnam to support the Air Force's activities and begin the United States' ground war in a region that had already seen decades of fighting. The surge was cause for General William Westmoreland to infamously...
Derek Mead
9.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Tracking Students With RFID Chips Is Pretty Lucrative

Today in the department of bad ideas, we have a pair of San Antonio high schools that's decided to tag its students with RFID chips so that they can track their every move on campus. Starting this fall, the Northside Independent School District will be...
Adam Estes
9.7.12
Stuff

Chuck Norris Has More Than Just Flexible Pants

Chuck Norris, Ronald Reagan's greatest speech, and how conservatives have been scared of the same made up shit for 50 years.
Luke O'Neil
9.7.12
Boyle's Brains

The Secret Life of Objects on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown in a 24-Hour Grocery Store

Only one of these Great Value Happy Drinks does not have an STD.
Megan Boyle
9.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Here Are the 5 Worst Super PAC Ads So Far

Super PACs and unlimited corporate spending are the story of this election cycle; not Paul Ryan or his lies, not heartwarming national convention speeches, not Romney's tax returns. No, the amount of filthy, favor-buying money that will pour into both...
Brian Merchant
9.7.12
Motherboard Blog

Booming Chemical Production In Developing Countries Is Killing the World's Poor

Long the bane of poor, misunderstood New Jersey, the chemical industry is increasingly shifting production to developing countries, where production costs are lower. Doing dirty business in the developing world also has the added benefit of fewer...
Derek Mead
9.7.12
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