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The Death of a Romanian Kangaroo
Photo courtesy of iStock It sounds like the start of a heartstring-tugging kids’ film: On January 14, in the western Romanian city of Arad, the cops received a series of calls reporting that children...
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'Porn Studies' Is a Serious Academic Journal for Serious Academics
Screencap via YouTube uploader sameesha1000 Porn Studies, "The first dedicated, international, peer-reviewed journal to critically explore those cultural products and services designated as...
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Theater of Justice
Illustration by Molly Crabapple Last week, I sketched an evidentiary hearing for a woman named Cecily McMillan. Two years ago, I'd seen Cecily convulse in handcuffs as the police shut down an Occupy...
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The RCMP Is Spending Nearly $100 Million to Spy on the Mohawks’ Black Market...
Photo of the police presence at the Mohawk blockade at Tyendinaga, near Belleville. Via Nicky Young. The same Conservative government that dismissed a federal inquiry into missing and murdered...
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Comics: Blobby Boys - Part 5
Keep your eyes peeled for new installments of Blobby Boys every Wednesday from here until the end of time. Or until Alex gets sick of working with us.
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Sex, Snow, and Cocaine: My Life As a Ski Resort 'Chalet Bitch'
Belle de Neige (“Beautiful Snow”, if you didn’t take French) is a blog about what people who work at ski resorts get up to when they’re not fixing snow blades, or delivering après-ski drinks to Jemima...
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Milf Teeth: For Once, We Shouldn't Laugh at Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin
Within minutes of its hitting the internet, the jokes started coming. Had Chris finally found out that Gwyneth wasn’t actually British? Had she finally listened to a Coldplay album? Who would get...
View ArticleThe Awkward, Colourful World of Maya Fuhr
Maya Fuhr is one of those photographers who is constantly documenting her weird, wonderful life. If she's not shooting editorials fo Topshop or documenting her friends and their art, she's just snap,...
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This Death Row Inmate Is Dying to Donate His Organs
In 2001 Christian Longo killed his wife and his three young children and fled to Mexico. Once he was brought back to the US, he was convicted of those murders and placed on Oregon’s Death Row, where...
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Meet the 'Water Witch' Who Is Helping California Farmers Deal with Drought
Sharron, the water witch in the field. Photo courtesy of Sharron Hope I live in a city and I’ve never seen a water well. It sounds exotic, or even fictional. I just turn on my faucet, water comes out,...
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An Interview with Fred Phelps' Son, Nathan
Nathan Phelps (photo via) Westboro Baptist Church founder and world-famous bastard Fred Phelps died last week — and it doesn't look like he'll be missed even by a large part of his large family (he...
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What Really Happened During Mexico City's Airport Shootout?
Screen shot of Deputy Chief Luis Cardenas Palomino from his original press conference. At 8:33 in the morning on Monday, June 25, 2012, the sound of gunfire erupted in Terminal 2 of the Mexico City...
View ArticlePeru's DVD Pirates Have Exquisite Taste
In Pasaje 18 of Lima's Polvos Azules shopping mall, you'll find racks of DVD burners humming away while fluorescent lights cast their glare across the glitter of thousands of bootleg movies in...
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Crude Journalism
A fire at the Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, California, force 15,000 people to seek medical attentiion. Photo courtesy of Ella Baker Center for Human Rights. Richmond is tucked into California's...
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Italy's Newest Tabloid Is Devoted Entirely to the Pope
Ever since Pope Francis became the leader of the Catholic Church last year, the mainstream press has gone nuts. Since his ascension to the top of the Vatican, Jorge Mario Bergoglio (his pre-pope name)...
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Mining Conflicts in Guatemala Are Erupting in Violence
An anti-mining banner at the roadblock reads: “Defend our Mother Earth from the rats.” In 2000, engineers from Radius Gold, a Vancouver-based mining company, discovered a belt of gold deep inside the...
View ArticleStoners Now Have Their Own Cryptocurrency: PotCoin
Stoners Now Have Their Own Cryptocurrency: PotCoin
View ArticleCreating Sand Castles with a Single Grain of Sand
Creating Sand Castles with a Single Grain of Sand
View ArticleEpicly Later'd - Season 1: Ed Templeton - Part 6
In the final part of Ed's episode, he discusses the many highs and lows that Toy Machine has faced since he began the company. And when a leg injury sidelines Ed from skating, he and Deanna confront...
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Syrian Children Are Drawing to Heal the Trauma from War
In an upscale district of Downtown Beirut, two pre-teen boys rapped in Arabic during an exhibit showcasing the artwork of Syrian refugee children. Ramzi, a 12-year-old originally from Daraa, Syria,...
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