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How Michelle Obama's Speech Won the Internet
There are good political speeches and there are great ones and there are those that are choreographed to expand their impact beyond live television and newspaper editorializing to become three dimensional entities on social media outlets. Michelle...
Brian Merchant
9.5.12
Stuff

Emily Dickinson Was So Horny and Ready to Die
Paul Legault's new book, 'The Emily Dickinson Reader,' offers greatly condensed and often aphorism-like statements, termed here 'English-to-English' translations, each based on the 1,789 poems Dickinson produced in her lifetime. One by one he entirely...
Blake Butler
9.5.12
Motherboard Blog

Green Ways to Cool Your Steaming-Hot Server Farm
Few people think about what's happening on the other end of the cord to keep their Internet alive. Among other things is a vast network of data centers that quite literally contain the all of the files that constitute the billions of web pages, mobile...
Adam Estes
9.5.12
Film

'Reincarnated' is Premiering at TIFF
And we're having a party.
VICE Staff
9.5.12
Film

Supercut Film School: Q&A With Elusive, Anonymous Video Essayist kogonada
In a matter of seconds, a kogonada film can get to the heart of perhaps not what makes a filmmaker great, but what makes a filmmaker honest, consistent and, above all, a deliberate creative thinker.
Jonathan Poritsky
9.5.12
Motherboard Blog

Climate Change's Impact On Food Prices May Be Worse Than We Thought
In case you hadn't guessed by all of the photos of withered corn crops, the extreme droughts wracking the nation's heartland this year are going to raise food prices. And since climate change means more extreme weather events, the cost of food is going...
Derek Mead
9.5.12
Motherboard Blog

Voyager 1's Exit From Our Solar System Has Only Taken 35 Years
Voyager 1 launched 35 years ago. Now it's about to leave the boundary of our solar system. And it's still going strong.
Amy Shira Teitel
9.5.12
New music

Here Is Widows' New Video for "Croc"
This coast-straddling hip-hop duo is here to help us enjoy ourselves when things gets biblical.
Benjamin Shapiro
9.5.12
Motherboard Blog

One Man's Two-Year Quest to Meticulously Map 'Infinite Jest'
On top of the growing popularity of ebooks and the Orwellian end of the written word as we know it, Jonathan Franzen now has to deal with this. And he just lost self-proclaimed “Luddite” Thomas Pynchon "to the digital tide":http://motherboard.vice.com...
Ben Richmond
9.5.12
Motherboard Blog

Samsung Is Copying Apple's Shady Labor Practices, Too
Samsung just can't get a break. Less than two weeks after a judge ordered it pay $1.05 billion in damages to Apple for patent infringement, the South Korean company is now catching flak for shady labor practices in China. The New York-based human...
Adam Estes
9.5.12
Motherboard Blog

The Six Names You Won't Hear at the Democratic National Convention
Joe Biden summed up the essence of Obama’s reelection campaign months ago. “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive." These duel sentiments will be showcased at the DNC over the next few days, the slightest glimmers of hope amplified to...
Michael Arria
9.5.12
Design

49 Hovering Quadrotors Make This The Biggest Flying Robot Performance Yet
Ars Electronica’s voestalpine Klangwolke event puts on an intense flying light show.
Abdullah Saeed
9.5.12
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