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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
Stuff

Cry-Baby of the Week
This week: A man has an affair but refuses to give his wife a divorce, and a telemarketer threatens to kill a homeowner who hung up on him. Which one is the bigger cry-baby?
Jamie Lee Taete
9.7.12
The Weird Science Issue

Letter from the Guest Editor
I looked deep and found things that palpate the tender abdomen of what we call science with a cold, ungloved finger. Inhale the alkyl nitrites of curiosity and penetrate the puckered sphincter of knowledge, scientia!
Hamilton Morris
9.7.12
The Weird Science Issue

Don’t Eat Those Carnitas
Pork tapeworms are tiny nutrient-starved horrors that use scythelike appendages to claw their way into the brains of humans. Once there, they bore cysts through the gray matter in much the same way that a garden-variety worm tunnels through an apple.
Kinsey Paulson
9.7.12
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