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American Kisses Spacecraft Monogamy Goodbye

In April 2010, President Obama said, "nobody is more committed to manned space flight, to human exploration of space, than I am." He called for more robotic exploration, extending the life of the ISS, and bringing in private contractors to create the...
JORDAN KEENAN
7.27.11
Motherboard Blog

Mob Trafficking Is Killing Off Our Favorite Wildlife

With species of plants and animals going extinct at a rate of around one every "twenty minutes":http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/01/020109074801.htm, you'd think that at least the most famous animals – lions, tigers, rhinos and the like...
Derek Mead
7.27.11
Motherboard Blog

The Surveillance Pigeon

To spy on the landscape of his hometown of Delft for a new exhibition, photographer "Gerco de Ruijter":http://www.gercoderuijter.nl/gerco.htm sent a pigeon aloft with a small video camera attached to its body. For the exhibit he asked Michel Banabila...
ALEX PASTERNACK
7.27.11
News

We Found A Mole At Murdoch's Evil Empire

The mole was real, but prone to flights of whimsy.
Adrian Mole
7.27.11
Motherboard Blog

Ones and Zeros: South Korea's Glowing Dogs

_Hopefully this time around airships won't go down like a lead zeppelin._ h3. ONE: "The future of airships":http://www.txchnologist.com/volumes/aviation/lead-zeppelin-can-airships-overcome-past-disasters-and-rise-again (Txchnologist) h3. ZERO...
Ones Zeros
7.27.11
Motherboard Blog

Math Rules Everything Around Me

You probably already know that everything from buildings to films to food is now prescribed by carefully-constructed efficiency-producing calculations, but our algorithms indicated that now was a good time to.hear it again, from ad-man-turned-video...
ALEX PASTERNACK
7.27.11
Motherboard Blog

The Great Julian Assange / Slavoj Zizek Apocalyptic Love-In: Video

In case you missed your chance "to win a date":http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/julian-assange-slavoj-zizek-auction-lunch-date_b32452 with them to watch the new Transformers movie, see this video of a public conversation between Julian Assange and...
Videodrome
7.27.11
Noisey

Birthday Suits

Twin Cities punk rock duo Birthday Suits take us cruising around town before bringing their high voltage live show to a legendary Minneapolis venue.
Ezra Morris
7.27.11
Motherboard

Motherboard Meets Errol Morris

Errol Morris' stranger-than-fiction movies aren't just examinations of fascinating people but the strange ways that the facts circulate around them.
MOTHERBOARD STAFF
7.27.11
Stuff

You Have Been Chosen to Receive an Erotic Prize: An Interview with Jonny Negron

Jonny Negron is one of the hottest new guys in the circles of comics and drawing, but nobody seems to know too much about his personal life. Turns out he's kind of tight-lipped as an interview subject.
Nick Gazin
7.27.11
Music

Meeting Amy Winehouse's Mourners

On Saturday afternoon, Amy Winehouse was found dead at her home in Camden.
Elektra Kotsoni
7.27.11
Noisey

Marvin

To get a good sense of Marvin, try reorienting your thinking to the early 60s, when vocal-less outfits like the Ventures privileged high-energy fun over experimentation.
Hank Shteamer
7.27.11
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