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Forget Wimpy Plans and NIMBYs, Let's Solve the Energy Crisis by Blowing Up Mercury

With all the squabbling about oil killing us all, climate change screwing with polar bears, nuclear plants "falling apart":http://motherboard.vice.com/2011/7/1/u-s-nuclear-reactors-are-past-their-expiration-date--2, solar panels sucking on a cloudy day...
Derek Mead
4.4.12
Art

A Vitruvian Man For The Digital Age

Well-defined muscles and ideal proportions are replaced by triangulated, videomapped shapes.
Kevin Holmes
4.4.12
Chunklet to Go Go

How to Best Ruin Your Band’s Legacy

Before you form a band, you should figure out how to best generate nostalgia that would make someone want to see your hypothetical band at a later date in the distant future.
Alex Koenig
4.4.12
The Creators Project: San Francisco 2012

Minha Yang's Meditation 1208~ at Fort Mason 2012

Get a glimpse behind the scenes at The Creators Project: San Francisco 2012 with Korean artist Minha Yang as he explains how facets of Korean...
The Creators Project
4.4.12
News

Real Life War Stories Aren't Very Heartwarming

Transcripts from interviews with Rwandan child soldiers and ex-IDF veterans.
Alice Mckeever
4.4.12
Music

A Robot Band Covers The Beatles While Another Makes Maroon 5 Listenable

Robots make a Maroon 5 song sound good, while another mechanical band cover “Come Together.”
Kevin Holmes
4.4.12
Motherboard Blog

Why Do I Have a Face?

h5. ^Francis Bacon, Three Studies for Self-Portrait (1976)^ We are faced with both an immensity of knowledge and an immensity of ignorance in this world. As young children, we ask questions of our parents and teachers until we get no more answers...
Greg Wayne
4.4.12
Art

How Open Source Is Disrupting Visual Art

Open source practices are turning the art world on its head. Here’s the long and short of what that means for today’s artists.
Kyle Chayka
4.4.12
Motherboard Blog

With Lo-Tech Pink Slime Gone, Where’s the Synthetic Beef?

If pink slime is any indicator, people _really_ don't like hyper-processed meat. Still, lean finely textured beef (as 'pink slime' is known in the industry) is an example of high-tech processing being put to use to "feed the masses":http://boingboing...
Miriam Simun
4.4.12
Day Jobs

Day Jobs - Sonic Boom

Learn how to abuse the system as much as the system abuses you.
Kristen Yoonsoo Kim
4.4.12
video

Motherboard TV: William Gibson in Real Life

William Gibson's foray into television included an _X-Files_ episode that aired in 1998, called "Kill Switch," and it's one of my favorites. In it, Mulder and Scully must pursue a killer computer that lives in an RV and drives around killing people...
ALEX PASTERNACK
4.4.12
Photo

Photos from Butterz' Second Birthday

A jovial event celebrated by loads of smokers, dark-corner lurkers and hot-pant wearers.
Paul Bence
4.4.12
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