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Hurricane-Ravaged Lizard Populations Provide Rare Glimpse at Evolution in Action
We're often told to think of the lack of genetic variation in small populations as a bad thing. Think of problems like hip dysplasia in dogs due to very narrow breeding regimens that limit genetic diversity over time. But small populations have also...
Derek Mead
2.2.12
Design

Furniture Designer Seung Yong Song Creates Your Perfect Hideaway
This designer marries fun and functional in his whimsical furniture designs.
Moon Lee
2.2.12
Tech

Why Are Unboxers So Weird and Stupid?
People who love to film themselves opening video games really freak me out.
Christian Donlan
2.2.12
Music

Preview Björk's Biophillia NYC Residency [Photo Gallery]
Her New York City residency and music education series starts tomorrow.
The Creators Project Staff
2.2.12
Chunklet to Go Go

Record Store Clerk Therapy: It's Not Just a Snob, It's an Adventure
Despite needing us (people who still pay for music) more now than ever, record store clerks still manage to treat us like something they found scuttling out of an ancient box of cassingles.
Leonard Pierce with Henry H. Owings
2.2.12
Music

Internet Iconography Gets Remixed In This WTF Music Video
Do not adjust your internet, it’s supposed to look this way.
Kevin Holmes
2.2.12
Scott Snibbe

Byte The App: Our Must See Apps Of The Week 2/2
Longform curates tablet-friendly longform journalism from around the web, Scott Snibbe has a new animation app out, Pocketstock lets you monetize newsworthy pics, Orphion is a gestural-based string/percussion instrument and Namco want to take you...
Kevin Holmes
2.2.12
Motherboard Blog

A Brief Trip Over the Dark Side of the Moon
We spend a lot of time probing" very far away":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/2/2/twenty-two-light-years-away-a-slim-hope-for-life parts of space, but NASA's "GRAIL mission":http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/grail/main/index.html is only interested...
Michael Byrne
2.2.12
Stuff

Why Uni Lad Is Bigger than a Rape Joke
In the rush to condemn Uni Lad's rape banter, we all risk missing out on their other jokes - and that would be the real rape.
Alex Miller
2.2.12
News

Slick Willard: Is Mitt Romney the GOP's Bill Clinton?
They call him Dole. They call him Kerry. They call him Hillary. They call him McCain. That's not his name.
James Poulos
2.2.12
Photo

Brighton Issue Launch - January 2012
Someone had a little too much fun.
Sam Hiscox
2.2.12
Motherboard Blog

Twenty-Two Light Years Away, a Slim Hope for Life
Meet GJ 667Cc. GJ 667Cc is what's known as a "Super-Earth," a planet outside of our solar system (extrasolar) with a mass larger than Earth's, but smaller than our solar system's neighborhood gas giants. GJ 667Cc orbits a red dwarf star known as GJ...
Michael Byrne
2.2.12
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