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Too Cloudy for Fireworks? Check Out These Higgs GIFs

It's not easy to visualize the maybe-discovered Higgs boson, especially since we can't see it. Instead we detect its presence by looking at the wreckage of collisions of protons, and finding the two other particles into which the Higgs is "thought to...
Daniel Stuckey
7.4.12
Motherboard Blog

Hipster Pop Quiz: What is the Higgs Boson?

Of course _you_ know what the Higgs boson is -- it's the theorized particle that composes the energy field that endows every other particle with mass. It's the particle that makes the universe possible, let's nature construct things, like humans, or...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
7.4.12
Stuff

Why I Love America

Four of our country's most famous detractors come clean on Independence Day.
Abu Hamza, Vladimir Putin, Morrissey, Richard Daw
7.4.12
Stuff

Why I Hate America

Four of our country's most famous patriots come clean on Independence Day.
Will Smith, Bruce Springsteen, Salman Rushdie, Lin
7.4.12
Day Jobs

Day Jobs - Violens

No matter how good your band is, you'll never beat Green Mullett Guy as "Coolest Lawyer at the Firm."
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
7.4.12
Photo

These New York Streets Is Good Pictures

Nate "Igor" Smith has a photo show up at the Mishka store right now. Go check it out while it's there and get one of the gigundous prints to class up the wall above your couch.
VICE Staff
7.4.12
Art

User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Nicolas Sassoon

Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Kevin Holmes
7.4.12
Music

We Listened to Brokencyde's Latest Album So You Don't Have To

It's literally the worst thing ever.
Drew Millard
7.4.12
Stuff

An Interview with Nina Arsenault Continues

Was cannibalistic psycho killer Luka Magnotta well-endowed?
Bruce LaBruce
7.4.12
Music

Io Echo - "When the Lilies Die" (Official Video)

A slightly glitchy, very beautiful meditation on the nature of death.
Noisey Staff
7.4.12
Motherboard Blog

The Well, One of the Earliest Social Networks, Is Facing Destruction

Decades before Facebook, before MySpace and before Friendster, a small group of hippies in San Francisco banned together and created one of the earliest social network: The Well. Today, nearly three decades after its founding The Well's online...
Adam Estes
7.4.12
Tech

In the Future, Your Drug Dealer Will Be a Printer

Professor Lee Cronin is working on making your drugs downloadable.
Kevin Holmes
7.4.12
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