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This Week in Racism: Artists in Norway Built a Re-Creation of a Human Zoo...
Photo via Wikipedia Creative Commons Welcome to another edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of one to RACIST, with “one” being the least racist and “RACIST” being...
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African Refugees Are Having a Hard Time Living in a Dutch Prison
A few weeks ago, I went to Amsterdam to visit a community of African refugees who live in a former prison called the Vluchthaven. The group calls themselves "We Are Here" and are considered illegal...
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Everyone in Portland Is Gluten-Intolerant
Illustrations by Nick Nold When I was 17, I lived for a couple of weeks in the Dallas Greyhound bus station. Since I had only a few dollars with me, I rationed a dollar a day for two $0.49 McDonald’s...
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The Chaotic Fashion GIFs of Luca Mainini
I first discovered 31-year-old collagist Luca Mainini's art during a late night Tumblr binge. I'll admit, I was pretty stoned at the time. But no amount of weed would have generated the same potent...
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Can Nerd Culture and Sex Combine?
Elliot Rodger, the 22-year-old virgin who killed six people and wounded a dozen others, did so in what he called “The Day of Retribution”—a plan to terrorise and punish all women for making his life a...
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Kill Them with Fire
Photo by Tim Freccia By 1995 the Sudanese government could not guarantee the safety of the oil fields. Garang was going nuts, and Machar wasn’t much saner. Machar’s decision in 1991 to create his own...
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A Visit to One of Brazil's Largest Marketplaces Before The World Cup Raids
This was life at the open market Feira de São Joaquim (link in Portuguese) in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. It was a chaotic market where people from the slums bought their groceries, but it no longer...
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A Conversation with the Makers of 'Brave Miss World'
Poster and stills via the movie's official site The documentary Brave Miss World follows Linor Abargil, who, in 1998, at the age of 18, won the titles of Miss Israel and Miss World. Six weeks before...
View ArticleGlobal Drug Policy Is Still Deadly and Ineffective
Global Drug Policy Is Still Deadly and Ineffective
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Hey Gang, Let’s Explore the Ocean Floor with a Giant Submarine!
Photo courtesy of SeaOrbiter/Jacques Rougerie Since the advent of the Cold War, humanity has been turning its dream of space exploration into reality. We’ve walked on the moon, habitable space...
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Living Without Electricity
Please enable Javascript to watch this video When I got to Arnau and Marcel’s apartment in El Clot, Barcelona, I noticed something strange. There was an unusual silence that made me feel like I was...
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What Celebrity Do These Wax Statues Actually Look Like?
Our Italian office went for a stroll around Rome's Wax Museum recently and sent me back a bunch of snaps. I thought I'd pay it forward by translating their post for you guys, but quickly realized I...
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The Gezi Park Protests' First Birthday Party Was a Gas
Anti-government protesters use slingshots in the Okmeydani district of Istanbul. Photos by Barbaros Kayan This weekend, Turks celebrated the one-year anniversary of the Gezi Park protests with some...
View ArticleDyson's 'Google Glass' and Other Inventions That Never Quite Made It
Dyson's 'Google Glass' and Other Inventions That Never Quite Made It
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The Student Who Ate His Own Hip as an Art Project
To get your university art project featured on Time, the Huffington Post, the Independent, the Mirror, the Telegraph, and Die Welt in the same week isn't an easy feat. It takes talent, dedication,...
View ArticleVICE News: Jihad in Kenya
A series of bloody attacks has rocked Kenya since the September 2013 Westgate mall massacre in Nairobi, which left 67 people dead. Curiously, some recent victims in these murders have been Muslim...
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I Confronted Donald Trump in Dubai
Illustration by Molly Crabapple Donald Trump's hair should not be. It sits on his head like a soufflé, both airy and solid, as improbable as any building to which he’s given his name. In Dubai, I get...
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Meet the Nieratkos: Fancy Lad Is the Best Thing in Skateboarding Right Now
The modern skate video has never looked as polished as it does in 2014. Every dirtbag on a skateboard has an HD camera, and professional videographers are renting Reds and Phantoms, hoping to make the...
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