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How to Turn a Terrorist Bombing Into a Web Hit
Photo via From ViCE— Yesterday, as you know, two bombs were detonated at the finishing line of the Boston Marathon. Across the country, while people were trying to make sense of what had happened and...
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What the Pressure Cooker Bombs Tell Us About the Bombers in Boston
The pieces of a pressure cooker bomb, utilized in Marine Corps training in Afghanistan. A little less than 24 hours after the explosions, details about the bombs that turned the Boston Marathon into...
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Professional iPhone Photographer Kevin Russ Documents the World an Instagram...
Kevin Russ in his natural environment. Right now Kevin Russ is sleeping in his car somewhere in central New Mexico, but by dawn tomorrow he’ll have hiked to the top of a nearby mountain where he’ll...
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Antarctica Is Melting Faster Than It Has in a Millennium
Image: Fotopedia Right now, our seventh continent is disappearing more quickly than it has in the last 1,000 years. That's because Antarctica is covered in lots of ice, and that ice is now melting...
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Movies Have It All Wrong: This Is What Falling Snow Really Looks Like
Images via University of Utah It's springtime, and no one wants to be reminded of snow. But University of Utah researchers just unveiled a new high-speed camera called the Multi-Angle Snowflake Camera...
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A Hint of Dark Matter Lies Deep Underground in Minnesota
If you thought discovering (or likely discovering) the Higgs boson was a long slog of rumors, data sifting, "hints," and more waiting, the hunt for dark matter is likely to send you over the edge....
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Greece Is Trying to Kill Its Biggest Anti-Government Website and Radio Stations
Photo of police from a February protest in Athens via Via VICE — The Athens branch of Indymedia, an independent open network of journalists who report on political and social issues, was shut down...
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In Mars's Robot Graveyard, the First Soviet Rover May Finally Have Been Found
The Mars 3 lander. via Wikimedia Mars is a bit of a robotic graveyard. Between successful missions that died naturally on the surface and failed missions that crashed, there’s a lot of debris...
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Air Pollution Kills More People Than AIDS and Malaria Combined
Photo: Michael Davis-Burchat/Flickr Last week the World Health Organization came out with a study, published in The Lancet, that comes to the sobering conclusion that air pollution kills more people...
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Can the 2D Sequel to 'A Link to the Past' Revive an Ailing Genre?
Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past is finally getting a proper sequel. On the Nintendo Direct video broadcast, the gaming giant just announced that the follow-up for the most universally beloved...
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4Chan Users (and Half the Internet) Think They've Found the Boston Bomber
4Chan thinks that it's found the men behind the Boston Marathon bombings. While the FBI and local authorities are declaring that the case is "wide open," that there are currently no suspects, the...
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The ESA's Proba-3 Satellites Will Fly in Tandem to Block Out the Sun
Along with the Gemini constellations, the Piccard twins ballooning their way into the stratosphere, and Mars’s pair of moons, outer space is going to get another cosmic duo. The European Space Agency,...
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CISPA's Author Apparently Thinks President Obama Is a 14-Year-Old Twitter Nerd
It's game time, folks. All you friends of liberty that fought hard to keep the government from censoring the web with the sweeping provisions of SOPA and PIPA, it's time to join the picket line, time...
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The Nation's Top Climate Scientist Predicts an "Ice-Free, Human-Free" Planet
Image: Wikimedia "Burning all fossil fuels could result in the planet being not only ice-free but human-free." That's a direct quote from our nation's top climate scientist, Dr. James Hansen. The good...
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PSA: Meet THUMP, VICE's New Electronic Music Channel
Motherboard has always had a nice relationship with music made with electronics, as synths are like guitars for robots and Giorgio Moroder and Robert Moog have long provided the soundtrack for our...
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Half of England's Tamiflu Prescriptions Were Wasted in the 2009 Swine Flu...
Photo: Andrew Wales/Flickr This is pretty crazy, both in conclusion and methodology: New research, published in PLoS ONE, has determined that during the 2009-2010 swine flu pandemic, roughly half of...
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The True Hollywood Story of How I Took the Greatest Photograph of Ron Jeremy
They say you shouldn’t meet your heroes. I couldn’t agree more. Having lived in Hollywood for the better part of a year, I’ve had run-ins with celebrities galore. Seth Rogen at the beach. Joseph...
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The Rocky Mountain Wolf Population Declined After Losing Endangered Species...
A gray wolf chilling in the snow, by Tracy Brooks/Mission Wolf/USFWS In 2012, after an incredible recovery, gray wolves in the Rocky Mountain region were taken off of the US Endangered Species Act,...
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The Man Who Lost Everything with Bitcoin
Image: Flickr Over the last couple of months, bitcoin has blown up. The untraceable cryto-currency caught the attention of curious economists, Europeans fearing a government crackdown, salivating...
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The Misreporting of Breaking News Is Driving Me Crazy
If you tuned into the news on Wednesday afternoon, you were greeted by a melange of reports, tacit confirmations and total confusion over the police investigation into the Boston bombing. The...
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