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We Interviewed Ben Folds on His Way to Play for Obama, You Should See His...
This past September, the piano, bass, and drum trio Ben Folds Five returned with The Sound of The Life of The Mind, their first studio album in thirteen years. Folds’ snug, idiosyncratic vocals, the...
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The Woman Who Wrestled Bears
Queen Kong (right) torturing some poor girl in the ring. Deanna Booher has lived enough for five lives and had just as many aliases. Queen Adrena, Juicy Joy, Matilda The Hun, and Queen Kong are just...
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Question of the Day: What Would MLK Say About Today's America?
Yesterday, the birthday of a famous black Civil Rights leader and the inauguration of a black president collided for the first time. But while some might want to drink the Kool-Aid and believe that...
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Obama's Got a New Drone Playbook That the CIA Can Ignore
Obama and John Brennan, the president's top counterterrorism adviser and nominee for CIA chief (via) Not like the spy agency's hunter-killer drones weren't already stalking Pakistan with near total...
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North Korea's Rocket Was Mostly Homemade
(via) You didn't think the North Korean rocket story would go away, did you? Last time we checked in, it looked like North Korea had help from Iran, which was worrisome because Iran has more resources...
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Five Existential Threats That Global Leaders Are Discussing at the World...
Klaus Schwab, founder and president of the World Economic Forum (via) How we choose to address such philosophical quandaries as "What will happen when we discover alien life?" and "What morality...
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Should the Internet Be Taxed?
(via) A lot of things on the Internet are free, and it's awesome. Log in to Facebook, stalk some friends, post some inane updates, and you don't have to pay a penny. Head over to Gmail, send some...
View ArticleVICE News: Resistance in the West Bank - Part 2
We visit a town that’s run by the Israeli army and besieged by settlers, and meet a man whose life is dominated by the armed Israeli soldiers who are practically stationed in his back garden. Then we...
View ArticleVICE News: Resistance in the West Bank - Part 3
Protests are taking place all across the West Bank, with settlements outside Ramallah being stormed and prominent Palestinian politicians getting gassed in the Jericho desert. We go on the road with a...
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Ripple, a Peer-to-Peer Financing Network, Could Make Bitcoin Great (or...
Until now, one of main flaws of bitcoin is that still relies on centralized exchanges. For starters, it’s a philosophical dilemma for currency that is inherently decentralized, leaving bitcoin...
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Is the Economy Making You Fat?
Many of us know the feeling: We get depressed or anxious and the first thing we want to do is pig out. As noted on Motherboard a few weeks ago with regard to sugary drinks (and drinks with synthetic...
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What the Czech Play That Coined the Term 'Robot' Tells Us About Today's...
We’ve been afraid of the robot uprising as long as we’ve had the word “robot,” a word that made its way into English from Czech in the 1920s. A robotnik is a slave; robota, forced labor. But it was by...
View ArticleVICE Premiere: Forces'"Overland" Video
Melbourne makers of industrial pop Forces can make you feel like your teeth are falling out, in a good way. Mixed by Kim Moyes of the Presets, "Overland (In My Mind)" is the first single off their...
View ArticleEpicly Later'd: Eric Dressen - Part 2
In part two of the Eric Dressen Epicly series, Eric makes a return to skating, and this time he hits up Venice and gets a pass into the scene that was ground zero for modern street skating. Enjoy.
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In Search of Great Men
When I met Flem Flam, our train was already 12 hours late. Headed west, we killed an engine in Nebraska, picked up a freight engine south of Denver that burned out east of Santa Fe, and then coasted...
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Steven Seagal Is the Lamest Guy Ever
About a year ago I wrote a thing about how Johnny Depp just might be the lamest guy on Earth. For some reason, a lot of people remember that post, and it's frequently brought up to me by fucking...
View ArticleVICE News: Resistance in the West Bank - Part 1
We quickly learned that Palestinian Youth Week was all about going to conferences and speeches. So, we dumped the schedule and headed off to see what the West Bank’s youth were really up to. We...
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Simon Mann Says He Was Asked to Help Start the Iraq War
Simon Mann is a British mercenary, most famous for his failed 2004 coup attempt against Teodoro Obiang, president of Equatorial Guinea. An ex-Special Forces soldier, Simon cofounded the private...
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Your Dog Is Full of Dirty Diseases
Illustration by Mimi Leung Recent research has shown that sharing an ice cream cone with your dog or letting your cat nap on your face isn’t just unhygienic, it could kill you, shit-for-brains, so cut...
View ArticleFringes: Venom Superman Responds to YouTube Comments
Last week we premiered a documentary about Steve Ludwin, a nutty guy who injects himself with snake venom as a means to becoming immortal. It was a YouTube hit, and received thousands of comments,...
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