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South Korea Doesn’t Do Breakfast
Breakfast time in South Korea. All photos by the author When you grow up in England, breakfast is an event. Not in the “Let’s do breakfast!” way that I imagine West Coast movie types emptily holler at...
View ArticleMatthew Power, 1974–2014
Matthew Power climbs through a tunnel beneath the catacombs in Paris. Years ago, an acquaintance of mine named Brad Will was murdered in Mexico, and the best and funniest and most humane tribute to...
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Romania's Health Care System Is So Broken, Doctors Are Fleeing the Country
Last summer, my dad was in the hospital while he was being treated for pancreatic cancer. Because this is Romania, that meant that a doctor gave me a list of supplies I would need to buy for him:...
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How the Web Needs to Change in the Next 25 Years
This story came from Motherboard, our tech website. Read more at Motherboard.tv. Image via Shutterstock / Moon Light PhotoStudio Shutterstock/Moon Light PhotoStudio Shutterstock/Moon Light...
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We Are Not Men: King of New Yawk: Mike Francesa and Loud Noises
Desperation is mostly inseparable from masculinity. Men strain for fame, for female attention, for sad, trivial triumphs over one another. We are a people perpetually trying to figure it all...
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Here Be Dragons: Cutting Through Even More Bullshit Surrounding Flight MH370
The last location of Flight MH370, as tracked by FlightRadar24.com (image via) This article is a follow-up to another published yesterday, debunking the myths perpetuated by the media in the wake of...
View ArticleVICE News: Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine - Part 6
In part six, VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky travels to the Kherson region of mainland Ukraine to both the Ukrainian and the Russian checkpoints. At the Ukrainian checkpoint, Simon goes inside...
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It Takes 100 Hours to Analyze a Human Genome for Disease
This story came from Motherboard, our tech website. Read more at Motherboard.tv. Photo via Wikimedia user Zephyris Despite the promise of the $1,000 genome sequence, personalized medicine is likely to...
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Greetings from Kokomo: A Conversation with Michael Marcelle
In his series Kokomo, New York–based photographer Michael Marcelle surrealizes his family and his hometown in coastal New Jersey. By abstracting his biography and mixing personal experience with a...
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I Visited LA's Museum of Velvet Paintings
The Velveteria, the world's largest repository of velvet paintings, became something of a counterculture tourist attraction when it opened in Portland in 2005. The museum, which has relocated to Los...
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Conservatives Have a Terrifying Vision of America's Future
Star Wars characters promoting a book about taxes at CPAC, naturally Another Conservative Political Action Conference has come again, leaving us another straw-poll win for Rand Paul and a fresh set of...
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SpaceX Wants to Send a Massive Rocket to Mars
This story came from Motherboard, our tech website. Read more at Motherboard.tv. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off. Image courtesy of NASA/Alan Ault The future of spaceflight will be powered by ion...
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There's an Ocean Deep Inside the Earth
This story came from Motherboard, our tech website. Read more at Motherboard.tv. Ringwoodite was found within this tiny brown diamond. Image: Richard Siemens/University of Alberta In what sounds like...
View ArticleI Met Rob Ford... and Wanted to Make Sweet Love to Him
Illustration by Kyle Norris Rain in Los Angeles means more than impending mudslides. People tend to view even minor showers either as biblical disasters or as an excuse to stay in, get high, and...
View ArticleVICE Meets: Paul Mooney
Paul Mooney is easily one of the most trenchant political satirists in the history of comedy. Best known as Richard Pryor's writing partner and best friend, and a regular guest on the iconic...
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A Christian Group Called 'Dead Raising Team' Wants to Resurrect You
Screencap via Deadraiser trailer An Evangelical group called the Dead Raising Team (DRT) wants to resurrect your dead. They claim responsibility for 11 successful resurrections through the power of...
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A UFO Pleasure Cult is Fixing Vaginas in Africa
If you’re the kind of person who keeps up with their UFO spiritualists, you’ll know Raëlians as the group who believe that earth was created by a vastly superior alien civilisation. According to its...
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Classic Max: Fifty Fifty
Image by Max Olijnyk I first spoke to my neighbour Roberto a week or so after we moved in. I saw him standing out on his porch surveying his immaculate front lawn, so I said hello and asked how he was...
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Australia’s Chair-Sniffing Politician Is Coming Back To Work
Image via Last week Greens senator Scott Ludlam gave Tony Abbott a dressing down that would have been more at home in the final moments of a feel good movie about good-guy politics than the floor of...
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How it may have felt to be on flight MH370
Image via Malaysian Airlines flight MH370 went missing Saturday morning and since then news agencies have simply confirmed and reconfirmed that we know nothing more. But we want to know. And, oddly...
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