Hollaback and the War Against Street Harassment
Photos courtesy of SPIN magazine and Elizabeth Rapport/Ms. Foundation for Women Despite the insistence that cat calling is a form of flattery, it’s actually sexual harassment and most women wish it...
View ArticleHunting Rhino Horns in the Deep Web
Last fall, I logged into an underground message board in the anonymized recesses of the internet called the deep web in search of rhinoceros horn. Once thought to posess magical abilities, and now...
View ArticleAll Welcome the Bomb-Sniffing Mice Infestation
The mice in this detection unit have been trained to run into a certain area inside the container if they smell illicit substances. An Israeli biologist named Eran Lumbroso wants to make mice the...
View ArticleI Dare North Korea to Nuke America
As the entire world knows by now, North Korea is thinking about nuking America. It's been nice knowing you guys, but we are all going down in a righteous blaze. Late Wednesday evening Kim Jong Un's...
View ArticleThe Creators Project: Shapeways and the 3D Printing Revolution
While it’s been used by industrial designers to create prototypes for decades, the process of rapid prototyping has only recently begun to benefit the masses, and Shapeways has been leading the way...
View ArticleCoal Spills Can Ruin Everything, Too
Oil spills and nuclear meltdowns hog the spotlight when we're talking energy disasters, but let's not forget about black, old coal here. Sure, coal does its worst over the long term: The dirty...
View ArticleBrewing Killer Cocktails in Vietnam
Lethal doses of sodium thiopental at a US execution chamber (via) The syringes sit empty, ready for filling. The staff have all been trained, and are standing by. On Vietnam's death row, everything is...
View ArticleA Poem Leads to a Life Sentence in Qatar
The Arab Spring has mostly faded from headlines in the West, but that doesn’t mean activists in the Middle East have stopped speaking out against the countless injustices they experienced before and...
View ArticleKarl-Theodor zu Guttenberg and the Infinite Sadness
I know that I shouldn’t feel sorry for Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, the former German minister of defense, whose scheduled lecture at Dartmouth College was cancelled Tuesday, after a petition...
View ArticleHey Ron!: Hey Ron! Will the Flu Kill Me?
Hey Ron! I picked up a newspaper yesterday and read all about the flu epidemic that’s going around. We’ve had swine flu, pig flu, bird flu, mad cow disease, and now this. Were the Mayans a few months...
View ArticleCombover: What Means What Now?
Photos by Janicza Bravo, featuring Johanna Parker Did you know I was married? Of course you don’t. I didn’t tell you. I don’t really talk about her very often. To me, a wife is pretty much a backup...
View ArticleGet Out of Sorts at Lit Lounge Tonight with The Young Things and Har Mar...
Yes, it is in fact colder than an Alaskan vagina lip in NY right now, but that's no excuse to give up on life. Whatever you're planning on doing tonight probably involves a television and farting, so...
View ArticleThe Mercy Rule: The Lakers' Unreality Show
It’s tempting, and maybe not even wrong, to think of the Los Angeles Lakers as a microcosm of Los Angeles. I’ve done it myself, and it makes sense, given the slapstick constellation of Angeleno types...
View ArticleQuestion of the Day: Have You Ever Pretended to Be Someone Else Online?
As the Manti Te'o case has reminded us, people aren't what they appear to be online. For instance, how many 14-year-olds have learned about sex from dirty chatting with 28-year-old guys in Des Moines...
View ArticleThe VICE Music Nerds Got Free Lil Wayne Beats Headphones and You Didn't
This is a short and sweet little thing to tell you all that the nice people who head up Beats sent me (Music Editor for VICE) and the entire staff of Noisey these amazing and wonderful Lil Wayne Beats...
View ArticleObseshes: Obseshes ≠ Endorsements
My actual obsesh this week was rolling out of bed and onto the hard floor before the clock striked (Stroked? Struck? Struck!) six, because I was bizzzeeeee and sick and am doing this thing where I am...
View ArticleVICE News: Resistance in the West Bank - Full Length
In November 2012, we were invited to attend the first Palestinian National Youth Week, an elaborate PR event put on by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to celebrate the fighting spirit of the...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: Mount Carmel Area School District (via) The incident: A five-year-old girl threatened to shoot another girl with a Hello Kitty bubble-gun. The appropriate response: Nothing. The actual...
View ArticleRob Ford, the World's Greatest Mayor, Has Conquered His Adversaries
Despite the grand conspiracy pushed forth by Toronto’s anti-high school football illuminati, Rob Ford, the World’s Greatest Mayor, is keeping his job. Just in case you haven’t been keeping up with the...
View ArticleMy New Favorite Website on the Internet About the Internet
This will tell you everything you need to know about the internet. To summarize, it’s a Tumblr somebody set up for capturing ignorant Twitter responses to the announcement of this year’s Coachella...
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