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The Powerful New SpaceX Engine Is Still Outgunned By NASA's Best

SpaceX's new Merlin 1D engine might do for the future what von Braun and the F-1 did for the past.
Amy Shira Teitel
6.26.12
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Photos from Parties You Weren't Invited To

David Armstrong used to hang out with New York's downtown famous before AIDS came and ruined everything.
Milene Larsson
6.26.12
Motherboard Blog

How an Unfinished Park Built Atop a Giant Pile of Trash is Making New York City Millions

Public parks don't tend to be cash cows, not unless they get "advertising":http://reason.com/blog/2012/05/11/has-gov-rick-scott-ruined-floridas-parks or become, well, private. But the park that sits on top of the old Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten...
ALEX PASTERNACK
6.26.12
News

The Asshole Israeli Army Bulldozed My Farm

They thought there were terrorists hiding in the trees.
Henrietta Hitchcock
6.26.12
New music

DAZED DIGITAL - Teen Daze

The young Canadian artist debuts his dream pop album filled with chill vibes.
Trey Taylor
6.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Before The Muppets, Jim Henson Made an Adorably Surreal Video For AT&T

To describe a robot future, the makers of The Bell System, at the time the leading telephone service in the US and Canada, hired Jim Henson. Then known as the eccentric behind the variety puppet show Sam and Friends, and before he became a household...
Katie Bennett
6.26.12
Motherboard Blog

Despite Huge Busts, Elephant Poaching Has Reached Record Levels

Rates of elephant poaching and the ivory trade have reached their highest pitch in a decade.
Derek Mead
6.26.12
Music

We Saw This: Diamond Rugs

Diamond Rugs may or may not stand for "damn, I'm on drugs."
Sophie Saint Thomas
6.26.12
Design

Build LEGO Cities On Google Maps

Stop what you’re doing right now and go waste some time building virtual LEGO cities.
Kevin Holmes
6.26.12
Design

Crilo Architecture Gnarls Black Metal Into A Goth Building

The Italian firm’s new prototype is deliciously dark.
Abdullah Saeed
6.26.12
Tech

Swabbing Poop on a Silicon Valley Pirate Ship

The average full-time Apple employee makes $11.62 an hour, like $23,000 a year.
Brian Merchant
6.26.12
Stuff

What Kids Say About Favorite Things

"The best thing about my favorite things is aliens, so that they might come and blow up the school."
Lisa Carver
6.26.12
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