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This Kickstarter-Funded Moon Elevator Is Real
The idea of a single, high speed elevator that could blast astronauts from Earth to the surface of the moon with the flip of a switch is the stuff of cheesy Fifties science fiction novels. At least it was until former NASA researcher Michael Laine and...
Adam Estes
8.27.12
Getting Fresh with Wilbert

Getting Fresh with Wilbert - Mamma's Musty Attic Hand-Me-Down Swag
When you're money is tighter than the vagina of a virgin midget in pants two sizes too small, don't buy more stuff, just hit your folks up for some hand-me-downs.
Wilbert L. Cooper
8.27.12
Design

Tornado Proof Homes Are Like Organisms That Retract Into The Ground When A Storm Approaches
Life in the American Midwest, the heart of tornado country, could become a lot safer with 10 Design’s housing concept.
Erica Huang
8.27.12
Motherboard Blog

This (Partly) 3D-Printed Race Car Can Break Every Speed Limit in America
A group of 16 engineers working at Belgium's "Group T":http://www.groept.be/www/?set-lang=en have produced what they're calling the world's first 3D-printed race car. The electric open-wheeler, called Areion, is pretty quick, with a 0-62 mph time of...
Derek Mead
8.27.12
The Sprinkles of the Sandman Issue

Tuck It All in There
I wanted to get closer to latex’s special type of power, so I followed it to its source—Japaratinga, Brazil. There I met Willi Graber, a Swiss fetishist who established the communal kink-factory of his dreams in a beachside jungle, just an hour's drive...
Jenni Avins
8.27.12
Motherboard Blog

Bill Nye To Creationists: You're Anti-American and Hurting Your Children
Here's a recipe for video views: Take Bill Nye, famously "well-spoken defender of science":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/7/28/beautiful-bill-nye-patiently-explains-the-nature-of-science-to-fox-news, and have him tell creationists that they're hosing...
Derek Mead
8.27.12
Chunklet to Go Go

History of the Rock Grunt
Hey: how about when you're listening to rock music and the singer, instead of singing words, just lets out a real primal grunt? Isn't that the best? Yes, it is the best. What follows is a historical tour through some of Rock's Great Grunts.
Ben Johnson
8.27.12
Motherboard Blog

Hot Links: Goodbye Arctic Ice, Russian Intelligence Invests In Spam, Isaac Looks Like Katrina
*Hot Links is Motherboard's weekly roundup of killer stories from the weekend.*
Derek Mead
8.27.12
Kill the Engine

A Review of My New Skate Video, 'Second Hand Stoke' (by Me)
It might be somewhat unorthodox—even frowned upon—to write a review of your own company's video.
Michael Sieben
8.27.12
The Sprinkles of the Sandman Issue

This Machine Makes Orgasms
The Multistim looks complicated and vaguely threatening, but if you hook your vibrator up to it, it transforms into a super vibrator that has the potential to make women with anorgasmia quiver like Mexican jumping beans being held by an epileptic.
Pavel Cejka
8.27.12
Music

We Saw This: Liquid Handcuffs + Guy and Marcus Blackman Experimentation Project
Reasons why this show at Hell’s Kitchen on Saturday night was bound to be good: Guy and Marcus rarely play; it was Liquid Handcuffs’ first show; Jack Mannix was launching a zine and the flyer promised cute boys that were young, hung and dumb.
Hannah Brooks
8.27.12
The Creators Project Lecture Series

The Creators Project Lecture Series: Art Of Music Panel Paris 2012
The Creators Project
8.27.12
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