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Why Your Conventional Grocery Store Tomatoes Are Gross and Boring

The short answer is, somewhat ironically, that you the consumer are more likely to buy gross and boring tomatoes. Conventional tomatoes, the fat, perfectly red things you buy at Giant or wherever, are grown in such a way as to take advantage of a...
Michael Byrne
6.28.12
Cheesecake

Girl Eats Food: Fake Cheese Cheesecake

A dairy extravaganza that'll put your after-dinner cheeseboard to shame.
Jo Fuertes-Knight
6.28.12
Motherboard Blog

Mike Merrill Is a Publicly Traded Person

Thirty-five-year-old Kenneth Mike Merrill, resident of Portland, Oregon, is a publicly traded person. Just as a person might say their parents want the best for them and are invested in their future, Merrill’s parents are literally invested. As are...
Ali Moran
6.28.12
The Creators Project: Paris 2012

The Creators Project: Paris 2012 Overview

Our week-long residency in Paris kicked off at Le Centquatre with a panel on the Art of Music with Philippe Zdar, Para One, and Canblaster, the same place that Chris Milk's transformative, large-scale installation The Treachery of Sanctuary was on display
The Creators Project
6.28.12
Tech

Obamacare Is Dead!

The individual mandate has been shot down! Wait...
Brian Merchant
6.28.12
Motherboard Blog

The Big Winner of ObamaCare Decision: Nate Silver

Minutes before we learned Chief Justice Roberts had sided with the majority in ruling the Affordable Care Act constitutional, between 70% and 80% of savvy reality arbitrageurs on InTrade were predicting with their dollars that the Court would strike...
JONATHAN LIU
6.28.12
Music

Here's What You Missed At The Creators Project: Paris 2012 Event

We set up shop in the French capital last week. Here’s a quick summary of what went down.
The Creators Project
6.28.12
Motherboard Blog

Forget Obamacare, This Video Claims the UN Wants to Ban Food

I was digging around Archive.org for some archival healthcare videos — you know, because healthcare is kind of a hot topic today — hoping to find some jolly old PSAs from the early part of 20th century with doctors suggesting you smoke meth for chronic...
Derek Mead
6.28.12
Design

IKEA Hack Creates 3D-Printed Elephantiasis Lamp

Well, this is one way to give a cookie-cutter IKEA product some individuality.
Kevin Holmes
6.28.12
Motherboard Blog

Queen Victoria is the Internet's Latest and Greatest Oversharer

A month ago, at the push of a button and as a diamond jubilee gift to the world, Queen Elizabeth II put her great-great-grandmother’s complete journals online. Like WikiLeak’s Cablegate page, Queen Victoria’s Journals combines Web 1.0 aesthetics with a...
JONATHAN LIU
6.28.12
Music

Danny Brown: "Die Like A Rockstar (Brodinski Remix)"

The French techno producer works some magic.
Noisey Staff
6.28.12
amphetamine logic

Nothing Is Wrong If It Feels Good

It's a sunny afternoon in Soho and I've had five glasses of champagne with a married celebrity at a bar. I’m spun like a kite from gobbling Dexedrine all week. Amphetamine Logic is about to step in.
Cat Marnell
6.28.12
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