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I Want My MTL

I Want My MTL: DɘɘpΩRɘst
Have you ever had sex on Benadryl?
Guillermo Martinez de Velasco
8.16.12
Motherboard Blog

How Nintendo Bankrolls Guerrilla Warfare in Congo
That Nintendo Wii you got for your birthday sure is fun. But it's also built with the spoils of one of the deadliest wars the world has ever seen. Historically, "conflict minerals" like coltan, tin, tantalum and tungsten, which are pulled from mines in...
Adam Estes
8.16.12
News

Our Boss Was on the Daily Beast's Newsbeast
This morning VICE editor-in-chief Rocco Castoro almost missed his 10 AM call time for his first appearance on the Daily Beast's Newsbeast. Today's topic centered around Vice President Joe Biden's "put y'all in chains" gaffe.
VICE Staff
8.16.12
Pen Pals

Meet the Neighbors
Here in prison, my bunky is a drug addict from a family of drug addicts. He has spent most of his 20s in and out of jail. I have the top bunk and he has the bottom. All I can say is don’t get caught, kids… This ain’t living.
Bert Burykill
8.16.12
New music

King Cyst - "The Plum Man"
We've got the premiere track off the band's freshman release.
Noisey Staff
8.16.12
Stuff

A Cringeworthy Letter from an Idiot Who Wants to Save Africa
When you get a letter from a Western kid in Africa who writes things like, "Open your heart to the world and it will let you into its soul," and "I am the light when you are afraid of the dark," and "I am the motherfucking man," you just have to...
Oscar Rickett
8.16.12
Yeasayer + Casey Reas

First Look: Yeasayer's Prismatic New Tour Environment Designed By Casey Reas
Crystalline sculptures, beacons of light, psychedelic projections and more combine to make Yeasayer’s live show a feast for the senses.
Julia Kaganskiy
8.16.12
Motherboard Blog

Science Is This Close To Making a Male Birth Control Pill To Kill Your Sperms
I don't have to tell _you_ about how great this could be. Lady birth control via pill is miserable for a whole lot of people, condoms are things that you actually have to use every goddamn time, and then there's all of that other stuff you can get if...
Michael Byrne
8.16.12
Design

What Will Our Post-Petroleum Future Look Like? The Good News Is It Could Involve Lasers
Alternative modes of transport, clothing that can clean the air around us, laser fusion, and more are explored.
Kevin Holmes
8.16.12
Stuff

How to Best Handle Being a Homeless Person
I'm gonna give you some tips on how to navigate your way out of this and/or help avoid falling into my current situation, which is squatting on a couch in Bushwick, NY.
Jessie Peterson
8.16.12
The Creators Project: São Paulo 2012

Karol Conka LIVE at The Creators Project: São Paulo 2012
This year we invited the Karol Conka and Nave to perform at The Creators Project...
The Creators Project
8.16.12
Motherboard Blog

Climate Change Will Knock Your House Over
Take heed, denizens of the north—global warming might knock your house over. So, the climate is changing, and we're pretty familiar with much of the early fallout: more frequent and more hellish heat waves, drier, longer droughts, dust bowls part deux...
Brian Merchant
8.16.12
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