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Mira Calix

Mira Calix: Nothing Is Set In Stone (2012)

Monolithic sound sculpture.
The Creators Project
7.23.12
Motherboard Blog

Why Scientists Made a Jellyfish from Rat Cells

Scientists at Harvard and Caltech became a little closer to God recently when they bioengineered a jellyfish using silicone and the muscle cells from a rat's heart. The creature is about the size of a penny and is fashioned after a juvenile moon...
Adam Estes
7.23.12
Travel

Death and Tucson

Someday, should you grow tired of crack-spanging quarters on Decatur Street and splitting tall boys between groups of eight, you may develop an interest in the fabled hospitality of the Union Pacific Railroad.
Christopher Kilbourn
7.23.12
Features

Father John Misty Wants You To Be Bored

On modernity, suffering, and goddamn cameraphones.
Suze Olbrich
7.23.12
Motherboard Blog

Brazil Is Turning Inmates into Power Plants

Since the oil shocks of the '70s, Brazil has been home to a carnival of renewable energy initiatives that now generate a whopping 85 percent of the country's power. At Santa Rita do Sapucaí prison, inmates are contributing to the effort by riding...
ALEX PASTERNACK
7.23.12
Art

Pixels Nervosos Transforms A São Paulo Eyesore With Playful Projection Mapping

Mapping intervention creates digital graffiti on the side of a building in São Paulo.
Fergs Heinzelmann
7.23.12
Music

Iggy Azalea Feat. T.I.: "Murda Bizness" Video

Iggy gets all pageant queen mom on us.
Noisey Staff
7.23.12
Music

SBTRKT: "Gloss"

The man in the mask is back, but don't go chewing your chins just yet.
Noisey Staff
7.23.12
Motherboard Blog

The Green Drone of the Future Will Never Come Down

Drones have become synonymous with phantom death, and yes, it is indeed freaky to know that a pilot at a remote console can kill people from incredible distances, all while watching it unfold on a screen. There’s certainly a moral dilemma there, which...
Derek Mead
7.23.12
Tech

Psycho Twitter, Qu'est Que C'est

Study attempts to spot psychotics via tweet analysis.
Adam Clark Estes
7.23.12
NSFW

The Strangely Uplifting Tale of the Cam-Girl with No Vagina

Omar Katerji
7.23.12
Impose

IMPOSE - Video for "Wut" by Le1f

Mad props to Le1f for his jelly-legged vogueing.
Impose.tv
7.23.12
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