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Beef Weekly: Madge VS Elton
Elton drops the C-bomb on Madonna.
Sam Taylor
8.8.12
Motherboard Blog

The United State's Next 'Peak of Unrest' Will Occur in 2020, Says Math
At this point, ecologist pretty much have the predator-prey cycle figured out: As a rabbit population grows, a coyote population will follow, thanks to all the new, tasty rabbits. But once the coyotes are numerous enough to eat a _lot_ of rabbits, the...
Derek Mead
8.8.12
News

Bad News: People Are Taking Krokodil in Norway
Or good news, if you're a Norwegian who wants to take flesh-eating, soul-destroying drugs.
Knut-Eirik Lindblad, Photos: Tor Farstad
8.8.12
Design

Makerbot Is Making Mp3 Players Relevant Again With 3D Printing
With the help of Makerbot, you can 3D print an mp3 player that looks like your face—or just about anything.
Michelle Lhooq
8.8.12
Music

Olympic Track Cycling Gets Converted Into A 3 Minute Tron-Inspired Spectacle For The Chemical Brothers' "Velodrome"
Feast your eyes on this new animation from Crystal CG.
Sami Sharaf
8.8.12
Comics!

Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #67
Greetings my nonconventional conventioneers. This is my weekly comics column for VICE where I showcase things of interest within the confines of comics, illustration, fine art, and anything involving paper goods.
Nicholas Gazin
8.8.12
Tech

Narco Surveillance Is Predictably Shady
No one really knows who's hooking up Mexico with $350 million in border-spying gear.
Brian Anderson
8.8.12
Motherboard Blog

Why We Should Be Drinking Our Own Pee
With half the country plagued by drought and a global water crisis around the corner, do you ever feel like flushing your piss down the toilet is wasteful? (Pun intended.) What if science made a magical machine that could that urine back into drinking...
Adam Estes
8.8.12
Music

Talking About Rap and Rapping with YC The Cynic
YC The Cynic is not very good at ping-pong. I know this, because last month YC The Cynic and I met to play ping-pong together at SPIN NYC and I beat him three times in a row.
Drew Millard
8.8.12
Stuff

I Rode in a Zeppelin and Didn't Burn to Death
I was on the balcony smoking a post-bong-hit cigarette when I looked up at the sky and saw a huge blimp-type vehicle bobbing silently overhead. My childhood dream was about to come true. I was going to ride in a motherfuckin' Zeppelin.
Tanja M. Laden
8.8.12
Motherboard Blog

Let's Visit Venus with This New NASA Rover
We've all been basking in Mars love for the last few days, and good. Landing the most sophisticated Mars rover ever built on the red planet earned Science some well-deserved headlines this week, and helped rekindle our somewhat lapsing national love of...
Brian Merchant
8.8.12
Stuff

Hey Atheists, Just Shut Up Please
I speak of a subtype of militant atheists who I’ll call the “Reddit Atheists.” It’s not enough that they don’t believe in God, they want to make sure you don’t believe in God either. Just by being themselves, they make the best case against humanism.
Luke Winkie
8.8.12
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