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Scott Snibbe

Byte The App: Must See Apps Of The Week 12/1

The app stores are teeming with new releases, but who has time to go through them all? We do. Bringing you a selection of the most interesting, creative, and innovative apps each week.
Kevin Holmes
12.1.11
Motherboard Blog

A Different Kind of Mushroom Cloud: Fighting the Drug War With Killer Fungi

Whether you support it or not, there's no denying that the War on Drugs has been absurdly costly. With people freaking out over budget minutiae and border cities like Ciudad Juarez looking like straight-up war zones (and, with heads being rolled around...
Derek Mead
12.1.11
Motherboard Blog

Hot Links: Google is the Most Important Learning Tool Ever

Edu-futurist Tom Vander Ark, in an interview with Fast Company, calls Google the "most important learning tool":http://www.fastcompany.com/1791620/why-google-is-the-most-important-learning-tool-ever-invented in human history. NASA sets stuff on fire...
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
12.1.11
Wasted Life

Cat Stevens

Things got kooky when Cat converted to Islam in 1977--he grew out his beard, added "Islam" to his name, and supported Ayatollah Khomeini's death sentence on Salman Rushdie.
Moe Bishop
12.1.11
News

An Obligatory and Pointless Debate About The Strikes

Who's right, who's wrong? It's a hot potato of political opinions.
Bob Johnson & Boris Crow
12.1.11
Photos

Wax:on and Metropolis Present Trilogy - Part Three

Students are gross.
Jake Krushell
12.1.11
Motherboard Blog

Carrier IQ, Big Brother's Hidden Tracker App, Must Be Stopped

Mobile phone carriers and manufacturers have been adamantly insisting that nothing on a mobile phone is logging or sending sensitive data without the consent of the user.
Janus Rose
12.1.11
Powder and Rails

Standard Films

In celebration of 20 years of Standard Films, we head out to Red Rocks, Colorado to see the release of TB20 (Totally Board 20). The first of its kind to join together big mountain back country boarding with freestyle hi-jinks, Standard Films' Travis...
VICE Staff
12.1.11
Upgrade U

Solar Plane

If we trust Bertrand Piccard's Solar Impulse, soon we'll be flying around the world in airplanes powered by the Sun.
VICE Staff
12.1.11
Tech

Say Hello to Big Brother's Hidden Tracking App

You are being watched.
Janus Rose
12.1.11
News

Pirate Patrolling in Coastal Kenya

Tourists come here for spectacular white sand beaches and "Old World charm," but you won't see a lot of them here these days because this is the frontline of a new war.
Paige Aarhus
12.1.11
The Moral Compass Issue

Falling in Love with Occupy

On November 17, a day after the NYPD evicted Occupiers from Zuccotti, protesters turned Lower Manhattan into a Pennywise music video. It was pretty awesome.
Taji Ameen
12.1.11
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