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The Most Beautiful Slideshow of the Ugliest Buildings in the World

Every now and then, photo sections really go for the jugular, and ""Are these the ugliest buildings in the world?":http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/propertypicturegalleries/9126031/Are-these-the-ugliest-buildings-in-the-world.html" is a case in...
Derek Mead
4.3.12
Motherboard Blog

What Does the Internet Look Like?

In 2007, _Popular Science_ broke important ground in Internet visualization theory—an ongoing effort to describe what happens behind our computer screens, or, more accurately, beyond them, inside Ethernet cables and satellites lying around in the upper...
Christine Smallwood
4.3.12
Tech

Burger Bummer

Junk food makes you obese and diabetic. Now we know it makes you sad, too.
Kelly Bourdet
4.3.12
Design

Interactive Plants That Convey Emotions

Plants become puppets in research conducted by Keio University.
Kevin Holmes
4.3.12
Features

Wrapping Roy Orbison In Clingfilm, And More!

Interviewing weirdos on how to be a better weirdo.
A. Wolfe
4.3.12
Film

Luminaris: A Gorgeous Stop-Motion Film About Light

Argentinian director Juan Pablo Zaramella’s illuminating stop motion is one of our favorites in recent history.
Emerson Rosenthal
4.3.12
Photo

Nottingham Issue Launch: March 2012

This guy was hiiiiilarious.
John Stanley
4.3.12
Photo

Leeds Issue Launch - March 2012

The Jonas Brothers turned up!
Hannah Cordingley
4.3.12
Tech

Sheppard's Video Game Pie - Mass Effect 3

'Mass Effect 3' is pretty good. By that I mean 'Mass Effect 3' is astonishingly excellent, except for one bit that's controversial and unsatisfying for many.
Stephen Lea Sheppard
4.3.12
Music

Brainfeeder's 3D Animator Beeple Debuts His New Audiovisual Masterpiece

Plus Q&A about his work with Flying Lotus, his thesis of audiovisual correspondence, and his hundreds of free Creative Commons video clips.
Abdullah Saeed
4.3.12
Motherboard Blog

The First Cell Phone Call Almost Got Bloody

On April 3, 1973, Motorola researcher Martin Cooper was perched on a New York City street corner on his way to a press conference, when he pulled out an enormous prototype phone in front of a few reporters and placed the first ever cell phone call, to...
ALEX PASTERNACK
4.3.12
Design

MIT's "Smart Sand" Could Potentially Replicate Any Object

A new form of robotic sand could clone any shape, duplicating tools and broken parts.
Kevin Holmes
4.3.12
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