Our E-Cigarettes Are Going to Melt Our Faces and Burn Our Houses Down
Why sugarcoat it? Judging from the heavily trafficked articles on the Daily Mail and Huffington Post, it looks like e-cigarettes aren't going to stop at poisoning children. They're coming after our...
View ArticleBoston Bombing Hoaxer, You Have My Attention
(Screenshot via Kevin Edson's Youtube channel) Dear Kevin "Kayvon" Edson, Nice to meet you. I regret that our introduction had to happen while you're locked up in a mental institution, but I'm sure...
View ArticleVICE News: Life As an Illegal Immigrant in Greece
Greece has always been a gateway for immigrants searching for what they assumed would be a better life in Europe. But many of those who have crossed illegally into Greece have found that they have...
View ArticleThe Mob Justice of Kenya's Somali Stop-and-Frisk
Police check IDs of ethnic Somalis in Eastleigh Eastleigh, a bustling business district in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, is home to thousands of ethnic Somalis – both Kenyan citizens as well as refugees...
View ArticleOwning Porno Used to Mean Something, Damnit
(Photo courtesy of the author's personal collection) 1. When I was in high school I kept my porn in a white box. Inside the box was a stack of magazines – almost entirely Playboys, because I liked the...
View ArticleHere Be Dragons: Sorry Everyone, Making Fuel Out of Seawater Isn't Gonna Save Us
Navy experts trying to power a tiny aircraft with a liquid hydrocarbon fuel (Photo: US Naval Research Laboratory) Last week, some people at the US Naval Research Laboratory’s Materials Science and...
View ArticleGreece's Muslim Immigrants Are Ashamed of Their Prison Tattoos
Hamid from Iran has been in Greece for 2,5 years. He has a knife tattoooed on his chest and two flames on his arms – the flames are symbols of Zoroastrianism. The appointment had been arranged several...
View ArticlePeople Actually Gave a Shit About This Year's Kyiv Security Forum
Ukrainian Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk speaks at this year's Kyiv Security Forum (Image via) In 2005, Vladimir Putin referred to the collapse of the Soviet Union as “the greatest geopolitical...
View ArticleWhen Trolling Gets Teens Thrown in Jail
On Sunday morning, a Dutch teenager named Sarah made one of the most disastrous attempts to be funny on Twitter in history. The 14-year-old girl, whose now-suspended handle was @QueenDemetriax_,...
View ArticleVICE News: Russian Roulette: The Invasion of Ukraine - Part 26
On Monday, pro-Russia protesters stormed a police station in the eastern Ukrainian city of Horlivka. VICE News correspondent Simon Ostrovsky joined them as they seized the building. Inside, the...
View ArticleNew Zealand Students Can Buy Beers with Rats
Jonathan with a future beer For centuries New Zealand flightless birds and slow-moving reptiles lived without fear of native predators. This golden era ended when the British showed up on rat-infested...
View ArticleWeediquette: The Cannabis Republic of Uruguay - Part 1
At the end of 2013, Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalise marijuana. VICE correspondent Krishna Andavolu headed over to Uruguay to check out how the country is adjusting to a...
View ArticleCry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: Mike Amess (Screencap via the Daily Mail) The incident: Kim Kardashian existed. The apropriate response: Apathy. Maybe mild disgust. The actual response: A man took his story to a...
View ArticleAmerican Cops Raided My Friend's House Over a Parody Twitter Account
Jon Daniel, the creator of the parody Twitter account that caused all the commotion Jon Daniel woke up on Thursday morning to a news crew in his living room, which was a welcome change from the...
View ArticleWe Asked Some Successful Stoners If Weed Affects Their Motivation
A medical marijuana grower smoking some weed. (Photo by Ben Makuch) We all know there's no drug more dangerous than weed. Smoke one stick of the Devil's lettuce and it's effectively just a waiting...
View ArticleWeediquette: The Cannabis Republic of Uruguay - Part 2
At the end of 2013 Uruguay became the first country in the world to fully legalise marijuana. VICE correspondent Krishna Andavolu headed over to Uruguay to check out how the country is adjusting to a...
View ArticleThe Greatest Hits from Vladimir Putin’s Q&A
The Greatest Hits from Vladimir Putin’s Q&A
View ArticleThe Passion of Kim Kardashian
I discovered Hannah Kunkle's strange series of religious-themed graphic collages of Kim Kardashian on Instagram. They perplexed and excited me, so I asked her to create a slew of exclusive new ones in...
View ArticleWill Ukraine Be Stable Enough to Hold Elections Next Month?
On the 9th of March, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once one of Russia's richest and most influential men and later its most famous prisoner, came to Kiev's Independence Square – the site of the protests that...
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