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This Salt Lake City Day Care Has Become a Magnet for Conspiracy Theories
All photos by the authorVisit Salt Lake City in February, in inversion season, and you'll hardly see further than 50 yards. The rocky mountain ranges, the dozens of craft breweries, the looming Salt...
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The VICE Guide to Right Now: Australia Just Passed a Bill to Legalise Medical...
Australian-grown cannabis products will soon be available for medical treatment. Image viaThe Narcotic Drugs Amendment Bill 2016 was passed in both houses of parliament today, paving the way for...
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What It's Really Like to Be a Popular 'Weird Twitter' Personality
If Charlie Brooker is right and Twitter is the most significant video game ever made, then the people I spoke to for this succession of Q&As could be seen as democratically-elected final bosses....
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Obama Still Wants to Close the Prison in Guantanamo Bay, but Don't Hold Your...
Photo via Flickr user The US ArmyWhen he first started running for president nine years ago, Barack Obama, a former constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago, spoke frequently about...
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It's Not Over Yet: Remembering New Rave, 10 Years On
There are some stories that never stop being told. If you'd taken a huff through one of Altern8's gas masks at Fantasia, or spat at someone at the Sex Pistols 100 Club gig, if you managed to get past...
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This piece was published in partnership with The Human Toll of Jail, a storytelling project from the Vera Institute of Justice and Narratively that was supported by the John D. and Catherine T....
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Recruiting People to Jesus During O Week Was Lame and Humiliating
All illustrations by Michael DockeryIf you think starting university is hard, try doing it as a 17-year-old virgin going through a breakup, while spreading the word of God in a really pretentious,...
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What Hitler's Supposedly Tiny, Deformed Dick Tells Us About How We View Evil
Hitler with a phallic monument According to a book by the respected historians Jonathan Mayo and Emma Cragie, Adolf Hitler may have had a tiny, deformed penis and only one testicle. This has made the...
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The Ringling Bros Elephant Sanctuary Is Hardly a Paradise
An elephant calf trained with bullhooks and ropes at the Center for Elephant Conservation. Photo via PETABy most accounts, the life of a circus elephant isn't easy: There are long stretches of...
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What This Leaked Training Manual Tells Us About the UK's Counter-Terrorism...
"Neil"Since last year, various public sector bodies (schools, prisons, hospitals) have held a duty to have "due regard to the need to prevent people from being drawn into terrorism", under the...
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Celebrity Psychic Lisa Williams on the Importance of Not Screwing Up Her...
Lisa Williams looking like a celebrity. Image supplied.Lisa Williams was born in the UK but now lives in upstate New York, which is testament to her success as a TV-friendly psychic. Lisa has done...
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This German MMA Fighter Was Mistaken for a Refugee and Mistreated by Paramedics
Dib at the hospital on Monday. Photo courtesy of Dib AkilThis article was originally published on VICE GermanyAfter German MMA fighter Dib Akil returned home from his training session on Monday night,...
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Did Australia Just Legalise Marijuana to Avoid Embarrassment?
A still from the very weird NSW anti-weed ads. Image via.A few months ago, the New South Wales government was mocked for a series of ads in which teens were warned that excessive marijuana use could...
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Revisiting the First Virtual Reality Wedding
Hugh and Monika Jo after their wedding. Photo courtesy of Monika JoIn 1994, the news heralded the world's first "wedding in cyberspace," and my prepubescent imagination really went crazy. The future is...
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Remembering Peggy Guggenheim, the Sexually Liberated Socialite Who Shaped...
Peggy Guggenheim. Image courtesy of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Archives, Venice Two images define art collector, socialite, and muse Peggy Guggenheim for me: the headstone of the 14 beloved dogs...
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There's a New Way to Listen to Music and It Has Nothing to Do with Genres
(Photo by Jake Lewis) "It's like there's this warehouse of music, and we've all just been given the keys for the first time. And we can walk in, and there's just miles of music, heaps of it, going all...
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Meet the Sydney Accountant Who Wants Ageing Labeled a Disease
Peter Xing, founder of Transhumanist Australia. Image by author.If you've heard of transhumanism, you probably first think of the people putting LED lights in their skin, magnets in their fingertips,...
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A New Report Shows How Hard It Is to Keep Guns Away from Domestic Abusers
Photo via Flickr user lifesizepotatoVICE is tracking mass shootings in America in 2016, and comparing the numbers with their European counterparts. Read our rationale for the project and the metrics...
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Some Lessons From a Guy Who Writes Essays for Cheating Students
Image via Flickr User Rachel JohnsonIt's drilled into your head during O Week—don't cheat or plagiarise anything. If you do you'll be caught, expelled, and you'll end up working at McDonald's,...
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‘Far Cry Primal’ Is a Stone Age Setback for Open-World Gaming
Far Cry Primal isn't a game about rugged, back-to-basics combat. Far Cry Primal is a game about mystical supermen, equipped with the same extraordinary abilities and gadgets as Watch Dogs' Aiden...
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