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High Tech, Low Life: Changing China's Attitude Towards Media

How two bloggers are responsible for the prodigious changes sweeping China’s media sphere.
An Xiao Mina
5.2.12
Music

Miss Jen's Music News Toots - Tori Amos Signs Some Weird Band

Includes actual talk of a Muffin Man.
Miss Jen
5.2.12
Sports

This Week in Balls - May 2, 2012

Racist hockey tweets, the Brooklyn Nets, the NFL draft, and more in the column with the biggest balls of them all.
Lou Doggs
Sports Staff
5.2.12
Art

Grotte Stellaire: From Lascaux To The Palais De Tokyo

As part of the Triennale, Julien Salaud exhibits astral animals of all kinds.
Marwann Frikach
5.2.12
Motherboard Blog

Our $24 Billion Oil Rig: Why Are We Giving Giant Handouts to the World's Richest Companies?

Simply put, the continued existence of "oil subsidies":http://utopianist.com/2011/09/why-cant-we-kill-big-oil-subsidies/ amounts to one of the most obvious and enduring failures of American democracy. Hyperbole isn’t my thing. But I’ll stand by...
Brian Merchant
5.2.12
Film

Photomosaics Capture The Imagery Of Wong Kar-wai's Films

Experience the director’s colorful films in under a minute.
Erica Huang
5.2.12
Motherboard Blog

Newly-Discovered Caribbean Lizards Are Rad, But Also Probably Extinct

In the largest batch of species discovery since the early 1800s, a team of researchers from Penn State University recently identified, and named 24 new species of lizards known as skinks, all from the Caribbean Islands.
Lara Heintz
5.2.12
Design

User Preferences: Tech Q&A With Designer Dominic Harris

Each week we chat about the tools of the trade with one outstanding creative to find out exactly how they do what they do.
Kevin Holmes
5.2.12
Design

Robotic Bird Can Swoop And Perch Like A Real Hawk

This is how it starts, next thing you know there’s more replicant animals than real.
Kevin Holmes
5.2.12
News

Syrian Slaughter Update - Week Twelve

Don't worry everyone, al-Qaeda are here to make everything better!
Henry Langston
5.2.12
Comics!

Nick Gazin's Comic Book Love-In #57

You don't need to collect memes into books. If you want to profit off of them, put them onto T-shirts.
Nick Gazin
5.2.12
Music

We Saw This: The Shins

Lots of observant frowning happened.
Stephanie Maida
5.2.12
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