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What is a NASA Spinoff, Alex?
NASA's latest recruit for its PSAs is Jeopardy host Alex Trebek. But is this enough to give the agency the publicity it needs and deserves?
Amy Shira Teitel
5.29.12
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Prehistoric Internet Porn
The first Internet porn was created by geeks for geeks.
Juanjo Villalba
5.29.12
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Sebastian Meyer Founded Iraq's First Photo Agency
Setting up a reliable source of local photojournalism in a country that has suffered from war and unrest for decades ain't easy.
Grey Hutton
5.29.12
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David R. Smith is Hidden in Plain Sight
Ah, invisibility. To simply disappear one's self is sort of _the_ recurring superpower dream, really - right up there with flight, or X-ray vision. "It just appeals to your imagination," says David R. Smith, a cloaking researcher at Duke University...
Brian Anderson
5.29.12
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This Is the Way Facebook Ends
Let's not forget everything Facebook has done for us. In leveraging our social curiosity and innate egomania, Mark Zuckerberg unleashed a social revolution, compelling us to share even the most mundane aspects of our lives. No longer anonymous trolls...
ALEC LIU
5.29.12
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Hot Links: Robots Climb Inside You, the New Stuxnet, China Backdoors U.S. Military
All the important stories from the weekend that you need to read.
Derek Mead
5.29.12
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Nimrod in Cannes - Part 3
Nimrod's final attempts at winning the hearts, minds, and vaginas of the rich and famous.
VICE Staff
5.29.12
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This Is How Bulgarians Celebrate Their Culture
With a radioactive dosage of kitsch.
VICE Bulgaria
5.29.12
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Alligator Story
Author Barry Gifford shares with us an unpublished short story about beheading, skinning, and gutting a gator in the Gulf.
Barry Gifford
5.29.12
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The Black Tar Tits of Afghanistan
Suckling from a junkie tit can be lethal, which is pretty much the most hopeless image imaginable.
Wilbert L. Cooper
5.29.12
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Nervous System Creates Generative Jigsaw Puzzles
The design studio turn their skills to toy making.
Kevin Holmes
5.29.12
Ghost Recon: Future Soldier

Smaller, Smarter and More Stressful
Here comes the autonomous battalion of flying kill machines.
Sean Yeaton
5.29.12
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