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This Syrian Kid Is Making a DIY Metal Documentary
Monzer Darwish is a 23-year-old graphic designer and metal fan from Al Salamiyah, Syria, a district near Homs. For the last five months he’s been travelling around the country and visiting refugees in...
View ArticleMt. Gox, the Fallen Bitcoin Exchange, Now Has a Digital Gravesite
Mt. Gox, the Fallen Bitcoin Exchange, Now Has a Digital Gravesite
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'Microaggression' Is a Stupid Word You Should Take Seriously
An example of a microaggression from the I, Too, Am Harvard Tumblr, which highlights the bullshit black Harvard students have to put up with on a daily basis. “So where are you from?” It's innocent...
View ArticleChingy's Instagram Account Is the Resource You Need to #StayWoke
Chingy's Instagram Account Is the Resource You Need to #StayWoke
View ArticleMotherboard: Using Virtual Reality to Treat PTSD
Motherboard's latest documentary is about a clinic in Los Angeles that uses virtual reality simulations to treat war veterans who have PTSD. With host Jody Mitic, a former master sniper for the...
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A Phoenix Artist Is Giving Away His Work for Free, but You Have to Find It First
For a visual artist, getting a gallery show is usually the end goal after months or years of effort, but for the last decade, painter James B. Hunt has been giving the middle finger to art venues. He...
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I’m Fugly, and I Won’t Be Your Waiter Tonight
Do you need to have sex appeal to serve? Photo via Flickr user zoetnet When going out for a meal at a restaurant, do you really give a shit if your server is attractive or average-looking? Is it...
View ArticleThe Emaciated Children Who Successfully Sued Guatemala
The Emaciated Children Who Successfully Sued Guatemala
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How To Invent Cinema In The 21st Century
Today sees the Australian release of Wadjda, a film about an eleven-year-old Saudi Arabian girl who dreams of owning a bicycle she sees in a store. If you haven’t seen the film, that description has...
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The Hate Boat: Did Asylum Seekers Prevent Us From Finding MH370?
Image by Ben Thomson Asylum seekers—first they bothered you by causing traffic in Sydney, now they’re dashing your dreams of finding missing Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370. Australia’s ability to...
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It's Time to Rethink the Crime Genre
Everybody loves stories about crime, particularly murder, and the uncanny rituals and oddities that go along with any profane act. It’s so effective as source material that most books or shows don’t...
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Paris Lees: I Do Drugs Because Doing Drugs Is Fun
Image by Sam Taylor Like any good British girl, I can sit and down pills till the hallucinatory cows come home. But if I have to read one more nonsense story about some celebrity checking into rehab...
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Inside the Kafkaesque World of the US’s 'Little Guantánamos'
Illustrations by Love Gerard We sat together on her couch, her small, eight-year-old hands clutching a photo of her father, Yassin Aref. “My daddy only held me twice before I was five,” Dilnia told...
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Comics: Blobby Boys - Part 4
Keep your eyes peeled for new installments of Blobby Boys every Wednesday from here until the end of time. Or until Alex gets sick of working with us.
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The Wide World of Bookies
All illustrations by Skip Sterling Betting on sports is only legal in four states: Delaware, Montana, Nevada, and Oregon. The rest of the country has to make its bets illegally, through bookies. As...
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Sesame Street's Newest Muppet Is Obsessed with Pooping
Image from a press release UPDATE (3/20/14 12:22 PM EST): Sesame Workshop provided the following statement: 2.5 billion people currently do not have access to toilets. Children are adversely affected...
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Finding Happy Endings on the Yelp of Asian Massage Parlors
A strip-mall happy-ending spot in Phoenix, Arizona, one of nearly 5,000 Asian erotic massage parlors across America. Photo by Todd Huffman via Flickr From the outside, Oasis Spa looks like any drab...
View ArticleEpicly Later'd: Ed Templeton - Part 5
In part five, we take a look at Ed’s life as an artist. From being coaxed out of hoarding his early paintings in Huntington Beach to confronting the homophobia of the 90s New York skate scene and...
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'I Realized I'd Been Brainwashed': The North Korean Defector Living in London
Kim Joo Il Kim Joo Il, 39, served eight years in the North Korean army. In 2005, after realizing his country wasn't quite the paradise he'd been led to believe it was, he escaped the Hermit Kingdom by...
View ArticleVICE News: The Devil Tried to Divide Us - Part 1
The Central African Republic's capital of Bangui has seen its Muslim population drop from 130,000 to under 1,000 during the past few months. Over the past year, thousands across CAR have been killed,...
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