The Sardonic Protest Art of the Ukrainian Revolution
The media and medical reports aren't the only documentations of the revolutionary events in Ukraine these past four months. Local visual artists, both professional and amateur, have also been trying...
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'Dude Chilling Park' Is Now a Real Place in Vancouver
Photo via After thousands of Vancouver residents basically told their municipal government to chill the fuck out, a city park will now permanently be sporting a sign that reads: “Dude Chilling Park.”...
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Eating Meat Might Kill Me
BBQ brisket from Mueller's BBQ, in Texas. Few people would consider my job as a food writer to be a dangerous one, but I just found out that I might have a deadly meat allergy. Here are a few meals...
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Abolish Prison!
Illustration via Flickr user DonkeyHotey Prisons are terrible, torturous places where people—who are usually poor and disproportionately of color—are subjected daily to crimes more horrific than the...
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American Art Needs More Holes
The biggest hindrance to American art is the inability to see anything outside our own walls. We’re proud of being a “melting pot,” but when it comes to culture not inherently American (Wendy’s,...
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LA Banned Smoking E-Cigarettes in Public Places
Screencap via CNN on YouTube. Last month in a piece about third-hand smoke being potentially deadly, I said banning e-cigarettes "would be a fucking stupid thing to do." Well the Los Angeles City...
View ArticleImagining 'Game of Thrones' Characters as Rappers
Imagining 'Game of Thrones' Characters as Rappers
View ArticleWhy Putin Will Get Everything He Wants in Crimea
This story is from VICE News, our new news website. See more and sign up now at vicenews.com. Even before the Crimean parliament voted unanimously today to ask Moscow for permission to become a part...
View ArticleWhy More People Are Murdered in Caracas than in Baghdad
Why More People Are Murdered in Caracas than in Baghdad
View ArticleScientists Are (Finally) Studying LSD Again
Scientists Are (Finally) Studying LSD Again
View ArticleExamining the Pull of Group Masturbation Parties
Of the various group masturbation parties 30-year-old nudist Kyle Rudd has attended over the years, the biggest one drew a dozen-odd men, predominantly over 50. He was the third to arrive that night,...
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We Called Ordinary Russians and Tried to Broker World Peace
Been speaking to ordinary Russians about the situation in Ukraine. We are united in confusion http://t.co/Oc8n145SJo pic.twitter.com/MYNt7JUEda — Gavin Haynes (@gavhaynes) March 6, 2014 In case you...
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A Canadian Journalist is Still Imprisoned in Egypt and His Colleagues Want...
All photos via the author. On December 29th, 2013, Egypt’s military-backed government arrested a trio of Al Jazeera journalists, accusing them of operating a “terrorist media network." Mohamed Fahmy,...
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Britain's King of Adultery Helps Married People Cheat
Photo via Flickr user Harsh Agrawal Are you bored of monogamy? Do you just have an uncontrollable urge to have sex with someone other than the person you sleep next to every night? If so, I have some...
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Kiev's Elite Vigilante Group Is Still Ready to Fight
The Iron Hundred pay tribute to fallen fellow protesters. All photos by the author The protesters who occcupied Kiev's Independence Square may have deposed hated president Viktor Yanukovych, but they...
View ArticleDid Satoshi Nakamoto, Bitcoin's Elusive Creator, Just Get Unmasked?
Nakamoto’s identity has been a mystery since the beginning of Bitcoin, with plenty of wild theories fuelling the puzzle’s fire. Was he a Japanese mathematician? A cryptography student? A government...
View ArticleNASA's Going to Try to Lasso an Asteroid Before Congress Can Stop It
NASA’s new budget calls for an acceleration of its plan to capture an asteroid and bring it into lunar orbit, making the controversial idea more likely to happen.
View ArticleEpicly Later'd - Season 1: Ed Templeton - Part 3
In part three of Ed's Epicly Later'd, Ed looks back what was arguably the peak of his skate career—when he dropped out of high school to conquer Europe in 1990, landing the covers of Thrasher and...
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Meet the Nieratkos: Pro Skater Leo Romero Is the Mexican Johnny Cash
Professional skateboarding has a lot of downtime. Injury, rainy days, hangovers—all are valid reasons for a skater not to do his or her job on a given day. So most people in this profession have...
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Would Free Public Transport Improve a Country's Economy?
Barcelona Metro photo courtesy of Wiki Commons Over the past few weeks, protesters in Barcelona have united against yet another public-transport fare increase. Using the slogan "Stop Pujades" (Stop...
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