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How to Have the Hottest Venus Transit Party on Earth
For all but our youngest and healthiest readers, Tuesday night will be the last chance we'll have to see Venus transit between the Earth and the Sun. (It's doubtful any of us will make it to 2117, when Venus makes its Sun pass again, as the human...
Ben Richmond
6.4.12
Features

Jesse Hlebo Is The Busiest Man In New York
Even being choked-out by a cop can't slow this multi-talented artist down.
Damon McMahon
6.4.12
Stuff

That One Time I Almost Stepped on a Peep for Money
Foot jobs are a thing.
Beca Grimm
6.4.12
Comics!

Talkin' 'Bout the Boards - Girls + Emotion = Barbarian Sorceress Dick-Slaying Psychos
Every week you leave comments on this website and I pick three that I like (or hate) to draw. Here are this week's.
Nick Gazin
6.4.12
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The New-Old Photogenics: How the Countess of Castiglione Launched Portrait Photography
With all due respect to those noble Frenchmen who inadvertently huffed so much silver nitrate while inventing photography, recounting the self-obsessed origins of the camera and photograph may only be possible by looking at how these technologies...
Ben Richmond
6.4.12
Motherboard Blog

Occupy Wall Street Made a Mobile Solar Charging Station
Tommy Mitchell, who has degree in neuropsychology and works for a renewable energy company in New York, designed and built a solar-powered device charger he imagines leasing to fairs and outdoor events. And the idea came from Occupy.
Brian Merchant
6.4.12
Film

Gorgeous Short Film The Eagleman Stag Explores The Relativity Of Time
Mikey Please’s beautiful and surreal stop-motion film, The Eagleman Stag, follows a man’s quest to understand time.
An Xiao
6.4.12
the it's actually quite weird issue

Lap That Shit Up
Even if you think your shit doesn’t stink, consider that at one point or another your thirst has probably been quenched by water from a septic tank.
Toby Fehily
6.4.12
Motherboard Blog

This Is What Happens When Galaxies Collide
The Andromeda galaxy is on a collision course with the Milky Way and there's no escape.
Amy Shira Teitel
6.4.12
the it's actually quite weird issue

Deaf Comedy Jam
Deaf comedy hasn’t had a lot going for it ever since black people ran it into the ground in the 90s.
Allison Van Siclen
6.4.12
Pen Pals

Uncle Jamm Wants Yous!
It’s regrettable to me that I was as useless as tits on a bulldog reindeer for six years behind bars, and I wish I could’ve gone to the military to learn how to blow people up.
Bert Burykill
6.4.12
VICE Guide to Travel

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The VICE Guide To Karachi
VICE travels to Karachi.
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