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Lying Actually Makes You Sick
There's a lot to be said for living a good, honest life. If you avoid lying, chances are you'll have an easier time at work. You won't have to sneak around with your significant other. You'll be well liked by the clergy. And according to new research...
Adam Estes
8.6.12
Tech

YouTube, We Have a Problem
NASA’s livestream coverage of the Curiosity rover’s landing on Mars was practically as flawless as the landing itself, a refreshing alternative to all that troubled Olympics coverage. All that can stop the Curiosity rover now are Martians—and weird...
ALEX PASTERNACK
8.6.12
Motherboard Blog

NASA's Mars Rover Crashed Into a DMCA Takedown
The biggest copyright fail on Earth and elsewhere.
ALEX PASTERNACK
8.6.12
Features

CREATORS PROJECT - Meet Wendy
Step inside Wendy, the crown jewel of this year's Warm Up at MoMa PS1.
Abdullah Saeed
8.6.12
Question Of The Day

Do You Miss the Riots?
Is it just us, or were they actually kind of exciting?
Sheree Millington
8.6.12
Kill the Engine

Should Skateboarding Be in the Olympics?
Modern vert and mega ramp are essentially gymnastics on wheels anyway, so why not include them? Oh yeah, that's right... because most pro skateboarders are on drugs.
Michael Sieben
8.6.12
Motherboard Blog

Bill Nye, Star Trek Barbershop Quartets and a Space Rave: What It Was Like to Celebrate Curiosity with NASA's MSL Team
_Motherboard's space correspondent Amy Teitel was at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, over the weekend to hang out and party extraterrestrial-style with NASA's Mars Science Laboratory team. The MSL group, of course, was waiting...
Amy Shira Teitel
8.6.12
Music

VICE Premiere: "Summer Bummer" by The Band in Heaven
We have the premiere of The Band in Heaven's new video for "Summer Bummer," and also breaking news that the comedian Victoria Jackson is a Christian racist.
Kelly McClure
8.6.12
Motherboard Blog

Brazil's NASA Says Amazon Deforestation is Way Down
Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE) has just announced that data from its satellite monitoring system shows that deforestation in the Amazon is down a hefty 23% this year, which is good news for those who appreciate the planet's lungs...
Brian Merchant
8.6.12
Question Of The Day

Are You Gay?
In New York City there are a bunch of people walking around all the time and sometimes we just want to ask some of them, “Hey! Are you gay? Or what?” So we did.
VICE Staff
8.6.12
Noisey Blog

i-D Online - Edward Violinhands
There’s no sufficient description for the seismic thrill that catches you unaware when Hahn-Bin starts playing the violin.
Sarah Raphael
8.6.12
eye for an eye

Robodeer
Brian Wolslegel, owner of Custom Robotic Wildlife, shows us how he makes custom robotic taxidermy that police use as bait in sting operations to catch poachers.
VICE Staff
8.6.12
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