Turns Out Smoking Hookah Will Kill You After All
Turns Out Smoking Hookah Will Kill You After All
View ArticlePissing Into A Strange Wind: Australia Abolishes the Carbon Tax
The reason you don’t piss into the wind is because the piss would immediately gust back onto your body. But what if the wind you were pissing into wouldn’t gust back all at once? What if instead the...
View ArticlePalestinian Farm-to-Table Cuisine Is Still Alive Under Occupation
Palestinian Farm-to-Table Cuisine Is Still Alive Under Occupation
View ArticleSilicon Valley Is Helping Imprison Hacktivists
Silicon Valley Is Helping Imprison Hacktivists
View ArticleWhy Are the Chinese Police Rounding Up and Destroying Matches?
Why Are the Chinese Police Rounding Up and Destroying Matches?
View ArticleAn Explanation from the Scientist Behind That Cat-Poop Cancer Treatment
In a scientific discovery at Dartmouth recently hailed as "highly shareable" by the internet, cat poop is being mentioned in connection with a newly discovered potential cancer treatment. Toxoplasma...
View ArticleMexicalia: Mexican Narco Music Is the Soundtrack to the War on Drugs - Part 3
Mexico's narcocorrido music genre and subculture openly celebrates the most extreme aspects of the country's drug war. The songs are filled with catchy, detailed narrations of beheadings, executions,...
View ArticleIs Your Phone On? Yes, There Is an App for That
Is Your Phone On? Yes, There Is an App for That
View ArticleThe VICE Reader: 'The Mystery Is in the Ordinary, Uncool Things' - An...
Photo courtesy of the author Like the narrator in Juliet Escoria’s story “The Other Kind Of Magic” flirts with her boss and then ends up in a hotel room with him despite having a boyfriend, I, after a...
View ArticleWe Are Not Men: Only Blog Can Judge Me
Photo via Flickr user R S I grew up in basements. Eating pepperoni Hot Pockets and playing SEGA Dreamcast. Staring at buddy lists and Kazaa progress bars. Waiting for nine-minute scenes of Jenna...
View ArticleI Played 'Kim Kardashian: Hollywood' and It Changed My Life
Kim Kardashian is a great life coach. Photo via Glu Mobile A friend of mine recently told me there was a cell phone game that I needed to try. He said it was more than a game—it was an addiction and a...
View ArticleThe KKK Is Using Candy to Lure New Recruits
Strangers with candy: Modern-day Klansmen are desperate for new recruits. Photo via Flickr user arete13 The Ku Klux Klan is having some trouble with recruitment. After all, competition is getting...
View ArticlePortland Bands Are Competing in a Basketball Tournament Using a Hoop Attached...
Photo courtesy of Bim Ditson Have you ever played basketball on a hoop attached to the back of a graffitied utility van? Probably not, because you aren't in a band. And even if you are in a band, you...
View ArticlePhotos of People Taking Selfies at the 9/11 Memorial
A sign indicating the “rules of conduct” for attendance greets you upon entry at the 9/11 Memorial and Museum. “Please be reminded that the 9/11 Memorial is a place of remembrance and quiet...
View ArticleBrain-Enhancing 'Smart Drugs' Are Going Commercial
Brain-Enhancing 'Smart Drugs' Are Going Commercial
View ArticleFuck the Dark Net: Here’s the Soft Net
Image via thejogging.tumblr.com Everybody knows and loves the fake Ghostface Killah blog where the author annually lists the “Top Ten Softest Rappers in the Game.” While the rap game is certainly...
View ArticleVICE News: The Sahara's Forgotten War - Part 3
If you ask the linguist and philosopher Noam Chomsky, the Arab Spring did not begin in Tunisia in 2011—it began with the October 2010 protests in the town of Gdeim Izik, in Western Sahara's occupied...
View ArticleAll Hail Kacy Catanzaro, the Greatest Athlete in Televised Obstacle Course...
All Hail Kacy Catanzaro, the Greatest Athlete in Televised Obstacle Course History
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