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MIT's Nano-Magnets Can Clean Up Oil Spills
Oil spill cleanup technology is a crazy innovative field—we learned as much in the wake of the BP Gulf disaster, when everyone from conservation biologists to barbers to Kevin Costner rushed to sell the government on their wild, sometimes literally...
Brian Merchant
9.12.12
Stuff

Our Intern Did a Ritual Pulling
We took one of our Canadian interns and stabbed him in the chest with fish hooks.
Gregory Pike
9.12.12
Stuff

I Gave Up a Decade of Vegetarianism for Burger King’s Bacon Sundae
I broke my decade-long streak as a animal-loving vegetarian to scarf down Burger King's bacon sundae. This is partially to be blamed on the band VAR.
Maria Sherman
9.12.12
Stuff

The Deaths of David Foster Wallace
Wallace's intersecting plotlines and cascades of footnotes were a testimony to the ‘infinitude’ of the world, as he experienced it. His biography, on the other hand, is more like a square meal than a crack binge. But it satisfies some basic biography...
Leslie Jamison
9.12.12
Film

User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Experimental Creative Studio Neue
Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Julie Le Baron
9.12.12
Tech

Movie Madness
An amateurish film produced by a 52-year old Israeli-American overtly ridicules Mohammad, depicts him as a woman-hating, overzealous pedophile, a fraud, a womanizer and a madman, and shows him having sex and calling for massacres.
Daniel Stuckey
9.12.12
Motherboard Blog

America's Border-Industrial Complex Can't Get Its Virtual Fences in a Row
Border security will never die. Federal budgets and immigration waves may both be on the wane, but hey, no matter. The U.S-Mexico border-industrial complex continues booming apace, with some even saying there's no end in sight in pushing to build up a...
Brian Anderson
9.12.12
Features

Shocker Of The Day: Another Person Is Trying To Sue Courtney Love
And Frances Bean wants out.
Angela Wig
9.12.12
Features

Who's Better? Beatles Vs. Stones
Who will win the battle of the Brits?
Noisey Staff
Noam Klar
9.12.12
Question Of The Day

How Do I Look Cool at University?
Drink a lot and never shop at Primark, apparently.
Phoebe Hurst and Lloyd Greenall
9.12.12
Fashion

Fashion Week Internationale Is Back, Back, Back!
We interviewed the host about Rio's transsexual prostitutes and Seoul's fashion trains.
Bertie Brandes
9.12.12
Music

Play for Pizza - Why Old Flame Records Is the Best
Life lesson: you can beg for free pizza on Twitter, and it will get sent to you, but it only works if you're a super cool music journalist with questionable morals and ethics.
Kelly McClure
9.12.12
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