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Living Alone in the Fukushima Evacuation Zone
Interview and photos by Ivan Kovac and Jeffrey Jousan Article translated from the Japanese by Luke Baker Last week marked the second anniversary of the earthquake that devastated Japan and caused one...
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Abu Dhabi Built the World's Biggest Solar Power Plant With Oil and Mirrors
Image: Ryan Carter/Crown Prince Court - Abu Dhabi One of the world's oiliest countries is now operating one of the most advanced clean energy power plants. The Shams 1, a 100-megawatt concentrated...
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A VICE Documentary about an Internet Cat Will Premiere at the Tribeca Film...
The phenomenon of Lil Bub, the Internet-famous cat with the strangely adorable face, is the subject of a new documentary by our colleagues Andy Capper and Juliette Eisner. As you should have expected...
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North Korea's Killer New Music Video Fantasizes the Nuclear Annihilation of...
What exactly is North Korea getting at with its most recent YouTube upload, “Firestorms Will Rain on the Headquarters of War”? Continuing the chest-beating destruction fantasy that we first...
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From Hitler's Easter to Grumpy Cat, We've Been Putting Art on Weapons Forever
A soldier stenciled Grumpy Cat on a bomb, and it almost ripped the Internet apart yesterday. Viewed more than 750,000 times in less than 24 hours, the image of the beloved cat on a weapon is...
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Take Two Poop Worms and Call Me in the Morning
Via Vice Canada: Jasper Lawrence doesn't bother with business cards. But if he did, he says, they would say that he's a helminthic therapist. A helminthic therapist harvests intestinal parasites from...
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Google's Brought Us Closer to Peak GIF
As the search giant prepares to bury every journalist's best friend, Google Reader, it's releasing a new way for people to find GIFs, the undead image format of the 1990s, thanks to new filters in its...
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North Korea Is Testing a Fleet of Killer Drones
Pyongyang is believed to have a couple of these MQM Streakers, 70s-era US target drones (via) They may not rear their bulbous warheads anywhere in that nuke-y new music video, but killer drones are...
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From a Study on the Televised Fall of Saddam Hussein's Statue
The toppling of a statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad’s Firdos Square in April 2003, shortly after the American invasion of Iraq began, had profound effects on the world’s perception of the war, even...
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Trailer: Click. Print. Gun.
Cody R. Wilson may not be 3D printing bongs and grinders, but his reimagining of arms manufacturing poses an equally, if not more disruptive blow to social interactions on both the so-called Dark Web...
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Google's Super Fast Broadband Service Is Growing, But Not Everyone is Happy
Image: Google Fiber Google just announced that it plans on expanding its high-speed fiber-optic service beyond Kansas City, and into another fast-growing nearby city, Olathe, Kansas, home to some...
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This Tiny Computer Tells You When You're About to Have a Heart Attack
Imagine this. You're in your mid-40s, slightly overweight and really stressed out at work as your oldest child starts applying to obnoxiously overpriced liberal arts colleges in New England — lookin'...
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Transcript from an e-Chat with Online Mormon Missionaries
Online Mormon missionaries. Image: MormonWiki I don't remember why I decided to spend the better part of one summer afternoon on Mormon.org. Maybe it had something to do with Mitt Romney; back then,...
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To Save Nature, We Need to Build Better Roads
It is very difficult to be "nowhere" in the United States. Some of the most nowhere places I can think of are in southern Utah, the vast sandstone labyrinths of the Maze or the no-man's land of Beef...
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The Long Eyeball of the Law: Are We Ready for a 'Minority Report'-Style Future?
Police interrogators, like professional poker players, don’t depend on luck for their success. They depend on the ability to read their opponents’ “tells”. Most of us don’t stand a chance against the...
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The UN Wants to Quantify Global Happiness
Image: UN Today is the UN's first International Day of Happiness. It's an attempt to recognize that measuring progress in monetary terms alone isn't up to the 21st century task of adequately balancing...
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This Is the Most Detailed Picture of the Internet Ever (and Making it Was...
Why would you need a map of the Internet? The Internet is not like the Grand Canyon. It is not a destination in a voyage that requires so many right turns and so many left turns. The Internet, as the...
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Cops Want Cell Phone Providers to Store Your Texts
Image: Arlen, Flickr Yesterday in a congressional hearing to discuss updates to the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, cops lobbied to force cell phone providers to keep records of everyone’s text...
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Five Things You Can Do On the Internet to Make Yourself Feel Better About Iraq
Just look how happy that kid is. Image: Anti-War Yesterday was the 10 year anniversary of the Iraq war, and being on the internet during it was a downer. Every link you clicked produced some...
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Why Bitcoins Are Just Like Gold
King Tut's golden burial mask, via Bjørn Christian Tørrissen Plenty of people still have a difficult time wrapping their heads around what bitcoin is or why it even has value, especially as the...
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