The Jellyfish That Holds a Key to Immortality
By reversing its aging process when it gets sick or injured, Japan's tiny Turritopsis dohrnii jellyfish is one of the only known animals that has figured out how to defeat death. Motherboard paid a...
View ArticleThe Australian Golden Dawn's Rally in Brisbane Was an Embarrassing Failure
Golden Dawn supporters protesting in Brisbane. All photos by Pak Yiu I had never heard of the Australia First Party until they held a rally in support of Greek neo-Nazis Golden Dawn in Brisbane last...
View ArticleThe Cat Circus Proves Humans Are Obsessed With Watching Cats Do Dumb Shit
Photos by Maggie West The Cat Circus is a one-hour stage show where cats romp around across some stools and cat trees draped in velvet and glitter. If the set design resembles ordinary living room...
View ArticleOntario Community Groups Are Still Fighting Suncor Over Wind Turbines
Photo via Creative Commons While the controversy swirling around wind turbines in Ontario may be a ticking time-bomb in the just-begun election campaign, Toronto human-rights lawyer Julian Falconer...
View ArticleSeattle's $15 Minimum Wage Plan Is Probably Not Going to Crash Its Economy
Seattle activists marching in favor of a $15 minimum wage this January. Photo via Flickr user pnwbot Wherever there are fresh ideas about how to create balance in our dystopian society and reduce...
View ArticleWhy the Netherlands Weed Industry Has Gone Underground
Why the Netherlands Weed Industry Has Gone Underground
View ArticleDuplicating Jesse Eisenberg in a Dystopian World
Duplicating Jesse Eisenberg in a Dystopian World
View ArticleThere's a Plan to Tax You for the Ability to Use Roads
Image via Flickr user upupa4me Southern California is hatching a plan to restructure the way all of America pays taxes for using gas, essentially reframing the whole thing as a tax on use of roads...
View ArticleIn Our Google Searches, Researchers See a Post-Snowden Chilling Effect
In Our Google Searches, Researchers See a Post-Snowden Chilling Effect
View ArticleNo, Navy SEALs Are Not About to Parachute In to Rescue the Kidnapped Nigerian...
No, Navy SEALs Are Not About to Parachute In to Rescue the Kidnapped Nigerian Girls
View Article'Splooshing' Is for Couples Who Love to Play with Their Food
'Splooshing' Is for Couples Who Love to Play with Their Food
View ArticleThe VICE Reader: Behind the Big Eyes
Christopher (Coop) Cooper, Walter Keane, and Adam Parfrey in front of Keane’s La Jolla bungalow in 1991. Photo by Scott Lindgren Editor's note: Adam Parfrey runs perhaps our favorite small press,...
View ArticleComics: Blobby Boys - Part 10
Check back next Wednesday for another episode of Blobby Boys!
View ArticleVICE Canada Conversations: Ronald Deibert
VICE Canada's Managing Editor Patrick McGuire sat down with Ronald Deibert, Canada's foremost cybersurveillance expert. They talked about CSEC, why many Canadians don't appear to be concerned by CSEC,...
View ArticleHow to Avoid Self-Incrimination via Smartphone
This guy is having way too much fun on what is probably not his smartphone. Photo via Flickr user Steve Baker David Riley was pulled over for driving with expired license plates, in 2009, when he got...
View ArticleThis New Deadly STI Makes Crickets Horny Before Killing Them
The virus IIV-6/CrIV up close. Photo courtesy Don Stoltz. A Canadian researcher has found a new sexually transmitted infection that uses mind control to spread to as many unsuspecting victims as...
View ArticleUkraine Is on the Verge of War, and a Presidential Election
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View ArticleA Choice Between Warlords: Lebanon Can’t Elect a New President
A portrait of Michel Aoun, a candidate for Lebanon's presidency. Photo by Flickr user Thierry Ehrmann Lebanon is a country with a long and bloody history of political ineptitude. But this year, the...
View ArticleHow the Sunset Strip Went to Shit
The unveiling of a new billboard in West Hollywood. Photo by the author Bleach-blond women on stilts waving oversized fans waved me up the stairs to the second-floor balcony above the burger joint so...
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