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Mike Check: Reading Between the Lines of the Daisey Story
As an intern at the Believer in 2005, Jim Fingal was assigned to fact-check John D'Agata's article on the 2002 suicide of Las Vegas teenager Levi Presley. The article appeared in 2010, and the factchecking process forms the basis of the book "_The...
Jim Fingal
3.20.12
Features

Learning to Play the Sea Organ!
Ever wonder what it would sound like if Poseidon started an ambient noise project?
Josh Schneider
3.20.12
Stuff

Breaking News: The Wait Is Over...
Something #wicked this way comes...
Ridley de Beauvoir
3.20.12
Sports

In Defense of Luis Suarez, a Racist Little Kid
Suarez has done and said some stupid things in his career, but just like you’d never tell a child that he’s a “piece of shit,” you wouldn’t say it about Suarez with any real certainty.
Ryan O'Hanlon
3.20.12
Music

Bisexual Musicians: Let's Bang Them
Sophie Saint Thomas lists which team-switching musicians she'd get nude for.
Sophie Saint Thomas
3.20.12
Photo

Teen Angst on Camera
I want to cut Nick Haymes's new book open and live inside its ribcage.
Karley Sciortino
3.20.12
Muti Randolph

Muti Randolph Creates Synesthetic Experience in New Show
On Sinestesia, the multimedia artist joins pianist Clara Sverner in a performance blending sound and image.
Fergs Heinzelmann
3.20.12
Motherboard Blog

AA Doesn't Work: Author Paul Carr Quit Drinking Via Social Media
Paul Carr has been sober for 884 days and counting. This, despite being an alcoholic author who, by his own admission, "forged a career - and a respectable income - from drinking too much, doing idiotic things and writing about them." The story of how...
Derek Mead
3.20.12
Sports

Is Darts the New Wrestling?
It's just as dramatic, but much more "real" and three times as drunk.
Clive Martin
3.20.12
Design

Introducing Lytro: Photography's First Major Breakthrough Since The Digital Camera
Rather than capturing light, Lytro captures full-on fields of light.
Emerson Rosenthal
3.20.12
Motherboard Blog

Lifebrowser Makes a Greatest Hits of Your Miserable Existence
I welcome any and all consumer technologies that allow me to see the extent of my own online/digital presence. Besting that might be the ability to see how that presence is actually interpreted by the various artificial intelligence and machine...
Michael Byrne
3.20.12
News

Syrian Slaughter Update - Week Six
The revolution is one year old, but it's not eating its birthday cake just yet.
Henry Langston
3.20.12
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