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Cai Guo-Qiang Makes Art By Blowing Stuff Up [VIDEO]
Motherboard talks to the Chinese artist about why gunpowder is his medium of choice.
Derek Mead
8.27.12
Motherboard Blog

There Are Literally Millions of Better Songs to Play on Mars Besides Some Lame Will.I.Am Track
Here's a big terrestrial groan hot of the presses: Will.I.Am's ""Reach for the Stars"":http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/27/will-i-am-reach-for-the-stars-mars_n_1833353.html is set to "beam down from the Curiosity Rover":http://www.nasa.gov/home...
Brian Anderson
8.27.12
Motherboard Blog

This Is the Worst Summer Ever For Arctic Sea Ice
The jury is in: Arctic sea ice has just hit its lowest levels in recorded history. So sayeth the U.S. National Snow and Ice Data Center, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency, and a bunch of Scandinavian research organizations.
Brian Merchant
8.27.12
Motherboard Blog

Photos of Neil Armstrong Doing Cool Stuff on Earth
We always see pictures of Neil Armstrong in his Apollo spacesuit, training to walk on the Moon, walking on it. But Armstrong was so much more than an astronaut.
Amy Teitel
8.27.12
Yang Yongliang

9 Chinese Artists Who Give Tradition A Facelift With Shiny New Technology
Who says landscape painting and calligraphy are no longer relevant in the 21st Century?
Michelle Lhooq
8.27.12
Features

Johnny De Courcy Can't Not Play Music
We chatted about the Johnny and the Death Rangers frontman's artistic upbringing, Sunset Strip fantasies, and his occasional cross-dressing.
Mish Way
8.27.12
Music

How to Improve Your Mood in Five Replacements Clips
The other night I was dealt a re-visiting of the Replacements as my wild card, and listened to every song from each of their albums, probably for the first time in years. I was re-newed with life force! I felt so many things! And most importantly, I...
Kelly McClure
8.27.12
Motherboard Blog

3D Printing Is Even Cooler When It's Molecular
We thought we'd seen everything come out the other end of a 3D printer — guns, <a href="http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/1...
Adam Estes
8.27.12
Music

LAYERS: Fancy Mike Analyzes The First Incarnation Of "Ramachandran"
Breaking down the sounds that make up this dense, sentimental track.
Abdullah Saeed
8.27.12
Stuff

In Havana
Hemingway was a lousy writer. A phony writer. A writer whose books are a tissue of falsehoods and moronic clichés of masculinity. A mendacious, ridiculous, deluded buffoon of a writer intoxicated by fame to the point of writing drivel.
Gary Indiana
8.27.12
Music

We Saw This: Nite Jewel and Peanut Butter Wolf
PB and Nite Jewel's set-up took kind of forever. I thought I was going to involuntarily pass out while waiting, coming to the cheerful realization that I might be an early joiner to The Old Club.
Beca Grimm
8.27.12
Wide World of Balls

Lance Angeles
What happened last week in sports? A lot of stuff, but the real question is whether Lance Armstrong still shaves his legs, or if they were smooth to begin with.
Lou Doggs
Sports Staff
8.27.12
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