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Saving The Planet With Fart Gas

Sulfur dioxide, the stinkiest part of a fart, has the power to reflect light from the sun.
Mclean Gordon
11.15.11
Tech

The U.S. Army's Creepy Depleted Uranium Training Videos

It's doubtful that there will ever be any strict consensus as to the root causes of Gulf War Syndrome.
Derek Mead
11.15.11
Motherboard Blog

No Kidding: The Internet Is Isolating You From "Real" Friends

Who'd a thunk that a vast, consuming network of virtual relationships mediated by a clumsy Facebook interface would decrease rich, meaningful personal relationships in the "real" world? Crazy talk I say. A new study in the _American Sociological...
Michael Byrne
11.15.11
Motherboard Blog

Obama's Greenish Moment: Delaying Keystone XL

Before generating headlines for sexual harassment allegations and confounding campaign videos, Herman Cain was primarily known as the candidate who said this about the OWS protests: “If you don’t have a job and you’re not rich, blame yourself...
Michael Arria
11.15.11
Stuff

The Brutality Report - Opportunity Cost

What does opportunity cost mean for you? Well, first off, you could've been a veterinarian. So you blew that one.
Sam McPheeters
11.15.11
News

Occupy Canal Street

After last night's tear gas bath, Occupy Wall Street migrated to an open plaza at Sixth Avenue and Canal Street. Here's what it was like.
Taji Ameen
11.15.11
Motherboard Blog

NASA and Oil Companies, Splashing In A Pool

Is NASA all buddy-buddy with the oil industry? Or is the agency so strapped for cash that it's willing to rent out its facilities to non-space people? Take your pick of conspiracy theories because NASA's now offered up "underwater training facilities...
Derek Mead
11.15.11
Motherboard Blog

Watch This Trailer: Takeshi 'Beat' Kitano's "Outrage"

I admit: I've seen very few Takeshi "Beat" Kitano movies. So when I say that I'm genuinely excited to see his name attached to anything, or that I stand up and cheer when he pops up surprisingly in a small role (his turn as a sadistic gym teacher in...
Chris O'Coin
11.15.11
The Mercy Rule

The No Basketball Association

If fuming about some bullshit abstraction is what gets you through your commute, then by all means fume. But please, please do not buy a NBA basketball team.
David Roth
11.15.11
Photo

Photographic Moratorium - Animal Masks

This week, our blog of petty photographic grievances is dedicated to the animal mask.
Holly Lucas
11.15.11
Motherboard Blog

Horny Dude Spiders Give Crappy Gifts To Lady Spiders for Sex

And then play dead when the lady spider says "no way." From the field of science you might call "gross things spiders and insects do to each other that can be easily anthropomorphized in even more gross ways" we have this: in order to "woo" female...
Michael Byrne
11.15.11
Fashion

Feminable Fashionism

Hairy armpits are back.
Anna Ryon
11.15.11
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