I Survived the Isla Vista Shooting
Photos courtesy of the author It’s all very numbing to be a part of an experience like the one that happened in Isla Vista on May 23. I would always hear about tragedies like this in other parts of...
View ArticleDisguising a Corpse as a Sex Doll Is a (Nearly) Perfect Crime in Japan
Disguising a Corpse as a Sex Doll Is a (Nearly) Perfect Crime in Japan
View ArticleMexico City’s Male Hustlers: Inside the Rough Lives of the ‘Good Vibe Guys’
Mexico City’s Male Hustlers: Inside the Rough Lives of the ‘Good Vibe Guys’
View ArticleThe Cold War of Porn
Photo courtesy of USA George This could be the last summer. Bees are dying, ice caps are melting, there’s a Dunkin Donuts in Williamsburg. Oh, and the US and Russia might start the second Cold War....
View ArticleWeediquette: Illiterate John
Photo courtesy of Flickr user Tulsa City-County Library Around this time of the year, I remember summer represented freedom to me when I was a kid. When school became arduous, I always reminded myself...
View ArticleA Visit to Brazil's Largest Marketplace Before World Cup Raids Shut It Down
This was life at the open market Feira de São Joaquim (link in Portuguese) in Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. It was a chaotic market where people from the slums bought their groceries, but it no longer...
View ArticleDyson's 'Google Glass' and Other Inventions That Never Quite Made It
Dyson's 'Google Glass' and Other Inventions That Never Quite Made It
View ArticleLiving Without Electricity
Please enable Javascript to watch this video When I got to Arnau and Marcel’s apartment in El Clot, Barcelona, I noticed something strange. There was an unusual silence that made me feel like I was...
View ArticleKill Them with Fire
Photo by Tim Freccia By 1995 the Sudanese government could not guarantee the safety of the oil fields. Garang was going nuts, and Machar wasn’t much saner. Machar’s decision in 1991 to create his own...
View ArticleHey Gang, Let’s Explore the Ocean Floor with a Giant Submarine!
Photo courtesy of SeaOrbiter/Jacques Rougerie Since the advent of the Cold War, humanity has been turning its dream of space exploration into reality. We’ve walked on the moon, habitable space...
View ArticleRecent Immigrants to Canada In Abusive Relationships Must Choose Between...
Screenshot via YouTube. A new type of conditional permanent residency is making it easier for abusive spouses to get away with what they do. At the end of 2012, Citizenship and Immigration Canada...
View ArticleThe Student Who Ate His Own Hip as an Art Project
To get your university art project featured on Time, the Huffington Post, the Independent, the Mirror, the Telegraph, and Die Welt in the same week isn't an easy feat. It takes talent, dedication,...
View ArticleWhat Celebrity Do These Wax Statues Actually Look Like?
Our Italian office went for a stroll around Rome's Wax Museum recently and sent me back a bunch of snaps. I thought I'd pay it forward by translating their post for you guys, but quickly realized I...
View ArticleSyria Is Obama's Rwanda
Qusai on the streets of Moadamiya, which has been attacked nearly daily by the regime by shelling and aircraft bombings Twenty seven-year-old Qusai Zakarya woke up at about 4:30 AM on Aug. 21, 2013....
View ArticleI Confronted Donald Trump in Dubai
Illustration by Molly Crabapple Donald Trump's hair should not be. It sits on his head like a soufflé, both airy and solid, as improbable as any building to which he’s given his name. In Dubai, I get...
View ArticleVICE News: Jihad in Kenya
A series of bloody attacks has rocked Kenya since the September 2013 Westgate mall massacre in Nairobi, which left 67 people dead. Curiously, some recent victims in these murders have been Muslim...
View ArticleInside the 2014 International Mr. Leather Conference
This year's 36th annual International Mr. Leather conference drew a diverse contingency of leathermen and leatherwomen to the city of Chicago. An estimated 20,000 visitors participated in the annual...
View ArticleThis Grassroots Prosthetics Clinic in Turkey Is Giving Hope to Syria's Lost...
Al Masri poses with Saad and the technician who made his leg outside the clinic. It's supported by four organizations: Every Syrian, Syrian Relief, Syrian-British Medical Society, and the Syrian...
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