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In the Whistleblower Chalet
I met the whistleblowers in a peculiar location, an unassuming, identikit cluster of Dutch holiday chalets, contoured by optimistic spectrums of tulips and bursts of water fountains, thirty kilometers...
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Disturbance Was Accomplished: An Interview with Droneologist and Hacktivist...
Ricardo Dominguez in 2008, performing a reenactment of a speech given by Chicano labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez at a Vietnam veterans memorial rally at Exposition Park in Los...
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How a Technological Arms Race Birthed Rallying's Most Dangerous Cars
Safety took a distant back seat to outright speed for much of auto racing's history. But by combining overpowered cars with narrow, dangerous rally courses, Group B racing in the 80s stands out as...
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The "Fryscaper" Death Ray Shows that Science Gets the Last Laugh
Any duly mischievous kid knows that you can fry an ant with a magnifying glass angled under the sun just so. It turns out that same phenomenon works exceptionally well if you replace the magnifying...
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'Endtrip' Is an Animated Psychedelic Death Fantasia
Screenshot of a scene from Endtrip Enter the Void stands alone as perhaps the trippiest, sleaziest, most surreal death trip in cinema. The main character, flush in a DMT trip, has one heck of a vision....
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Can Man Ultimately Take on 'The Machine' in Chess, or Anywhere?
From The Machine, performed at Park Avenue Armory, via Joel Chester Fildes At one point during the play, The Machine, a character asks why we pit computers against humans in chess, and the explanation...
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Earth Is Getting a New Moon with Some Help From Air Freight
Tomorrow at 2 pm artist Katie Paterson will launch a fragment of the Moon around the earth for her artwork Second Moon. But rather than travelling in space, this moon will orbit the earth via an air...
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The Global Helium Crisis Is About To Get A Lot Worse
The second-lightest element in the universe, helium is a relative rarity on earth, and supplies are running low. Image: Wikimedia It may be the second-most abundant element in the universe, but here on...
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Study Finds Hookah Tobacco Less Toxic Than Cigarette Tobacco
1997 was the last big year for cigarettes in the United States. While adults were largely casting them aside, more than a third of high school seniors considered themselves smokers. The following year...
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How the Rim Fire Raged Through Yosemite
Four weeks in, and the Rim Fire is the third largest wildfire in modern California state history. It has consumed nearly 400 square miles, or a quarter of a million acres of meadows, timber, and other...
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Welcome To the United Skunks of America
Image via Allstate Animal Control The closest I’ve ever been to being a Disney Princess happened last summer, when two baby skunks along with their mother and five kittens (and their mother) all...
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GIF Comic Books Are Kind of a Perfect Idea
Illustration Vuillemin did for the New York Times The next chapter of digital graphic novels may look a lot like those by French animator and illustrator, Stephen Vuillemin. His comic, Schoolgirls,...
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The Idiocy of TechCrunch Disrupt's 'Titstare' App
It was a quiet Sunday night in my apartment, relaxing even, until my newsfeed suddenly erupted in a deluge of reactions to this idiotic “Titstare” app presentation at TechCrunch Disrupt. In an...
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The People Waiting in Line for a New iPhone Don't Know What They're Waiting...
From left: Brian Ceballo, Joseph Cruz, Jon Murphy, and Justin Lockhart. Image by the author It's been almost a year since I talked to the occupiers, urban campers, and pro line-sitters outside Apple's...
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The Shape of Sex Toys to Come
Image via LELO. Sex toys: they get you off, and you're not supposed to discuss them in mixed company—or sometimes any company at all. Those are the main societal rules that dictate how we talk about...
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Instagram Hit 150 Million Users, Plans on Bringing Ads
Via Instagram As it nears its third birthday, Instagram is showing no signs of slowing down. In fact, based on new user numbers released by the company, the photo service is growing faster than it ever...
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Climate Change Is Transforming the Chemical Properties of Plankton,...
Image: Wikimedia Climate change is leaving no stone untouched in its never-ending quest to screw everything up. Not content with its marquee disasters—the heat waves, the drought, the floods—global...
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Your Parents' Music Shaped Your Tastes More Than You Think
Photo via Wikimedia Commons The songs you’re into in your early 20s have the greatest lasting emotional impact, but according to a new study in the journal Psychological Science, your childhood and...
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Vintage British Robot Annihilates Auction Estimates, Earns £17,500
Imagine waking up every morning and being greeted in your living room by a eight-foot tall aluminum 60-year-old with a neon green mohawk. For one collecter that common dream is now reality, following...
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What Defines Psychopathology in the Age of Artificial Intelligence?
Photo via Flickr / CC. Sometimes I find myself feeling deceived by the sheer possibility that perhaps I've been retarded for all my life and I've only ever failed to notice it. I begin manically...
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