Amputee Soccer Teams Are Popping Up All over Europe
In June 2013, the first-ever amputee soccer match between Holland and Belgium took place in Antwerp. The game was supposed to be friendly, but it turned out to be the exact opposite after one player...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Girls
Photo via Wikimedia Being a girl sucks—according to the media at least. There’s the thigh gap, Miley Cyrus, the hounding, the grooming, and the online abuse. Even Germaine Greer claimed recently...
View ArticleThe GMO Scientist Who Plays God with Your Corn
The GMO Scientist Who Plays God with Your Corn
View ArticleLorenzo Vitturi's Ephemeral Images of a Street Market in Rapidly Gentrifying...
Pink #1 and #2, Dalston Anatomy series, 2013 © Lorenzo Vitturi This year's Photography Prize at the Hyères International Festival of Fashion and Photography went to Lorenzo Vitturi's Dalston Anatomy...
View ArticleHow Tunisians Are Fighting Free-Speech Limitations with Slam Poetry
Photos by Mat Nashed Amine Gharbi is a bald 30-year-old man with glasses. The Tunisian hip-hop producer was born and raised in a low-income district in Tunis during a time when any explicit criticism...
View ArticleVICE News: The Battle for Iraq - Part 4
The Kurds have been moving further into Iraq's disputed territories, and not everyone is thrilled. In towns closer to Baghdad with higher Arab populations, like Jalawla and Sadiya, they have...
View ArticleHere Be Dragons: Has Smart Tech Forgotten That It's Built for Humans?
Photo via Wikimedia Commons Nothing makes you ignore what’s in front of you like Google Glass. The world fades into blacks and whites as you move your head around in search of the best contrast,...
View ArticleVICE News: Liberia's New Ebola Outbreak
West Africa is being plagued by a new outbreak of Ebola—a terrifying disease that causes its victims to bleed to death from the inside out. Ebola has no cure, and the latest epidemic is spreading...
View ArticleAnother Attempt to Smuggle Drugs into Prison by Drone, Thwarted
Another Attempt to Smuggle Drugs into Prison by Drone, Thwarted
View ArticleHipster Baby Names Aren't Hip Enough, so Here Are Some Suggestions
Photo via Flickr user Sharon FitPregnancy.com released a list of the hottest hipster baby names of 2014, and it was, as expected, a big, steamy crockpot full of crazy. A baby is a blank canvas with...
View ArticlePoland's Foreign Minister Said His Country's Relationship with the US Is...
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski with US Secretary of State John Kerry. Image via Flickr The kind of stilted, media-friendly conversations politicians have when they know they're on camera...
View ArticleReasons Why Austin Is the Worst Place Ever
Photo by Stephen Gray I am a resident of Austin, Texas. Perhaps you’ve heard of us. We seem to be on the tip of everyone’s tongue lately. Everyone's investing in Austin; everyone's excited about...
View ArticleThis British Engineer Claims He's Discovered the Secret to Unlimited Clean...
John Collins' workshop, with a poster of Johann Bessler stuck up on the wall Humans have been fascinated with perpetual motion machines since the Middles Ages. In theory, a machine that could run...
View ArticleCaught Between ISIS and Assad
Illustrations by Molly Crabapple “ISIS are good fighters, but we fucked them,” Yusuf Halap said in fluent English. Journalist Patrick Hilsman and I were sitting with Yusuf and two other young media...
View ArticleHow to Be a Touring Stand-Up Comic
Photos by the author Stand-up comedy is not an artistic pursuit, nor is it an altruistic one, in spite of what that thought-provoking meme of Louis C.K. you just shared on your Facebook wall might...
View ArticleAnonymous Is Taking on 'The Islamic State' (ISIS)
Anonymous Is Taking on 'The Islamic State' (ISIS)
View ArticleWashington State Is About to Face a Serious Weed Shortage
Washington State Is About to Face a Serious Weed Shortage
View ArticleRule Britannia: Bare-Knuckle Boxing in the UK
Once regarded as something that happens exclusively in Guy Ritchie films and on Gypsy sites, bare-knuckle boxing is fast becoming a thriving scene in the UK—the ultimate British bloodsport. When Clive...
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