The Pitfalls of Setting Up Poland's First Professional Wrestling Federation
I never would have thought that anything resembling American wrestling could exist in Poland – at least not in my lifetime. I was wrong. Do or Die Wrestling, is Poland's first professional wrestling...
View ArticleRussia is Accusing Activists in Crimea of Terrorism
Russia is Accusing Activists in Crimea of Terrorism
View ArticleMeet the Nieratkos: Fancy Lad Is the Best Thing in Skateboarding Right Now
The modern skate video has never looked as polished as it does in 2014. Every dirtbag on a skateboard has an HD camera, and professional videographers are renting Reds and Phantoms, hoping to make the...
View ArticleA Visit to the Turkish Clinic Where Students Are Fitting Syrians with New Legs
Al Masri poses with Saad and the technician who made his leg outside the clinic. (All photos courtesy of the author) Muhammad Hamidu was 15 years old when a bomb dropped through his roof near Idlib, a...
View ArticleGround Zero: The Destruction of Daraa - Part 1
In March of 2011, Syrian citizens began protesting oppressive government rule in the city of Daraa. Assad's government troops fired on the protesters, resulting in the beginning of the war in Syria....
View ArticleThings Men Have Said to My Face After Seeing My Naked Body
The author Since the dawn of time, with the exception of maybe a few weeks there at the beginning, nakedness and shame have gone together like snakes and planes. Ear hair and bassists. Milk and...
View ArticleI Asked the Discoverer of a New Fish Why Its Anus Is On Its Head
(Photo courtesy of Prosanta Chakrabarty) The other day, when Ben Richmond over at Motherboard filed a story on a new kind of cave fish with its anus just behind its head, I had to know more. Coverage...
View ArticleCould Pooping in a Box Save the Developing World?
A Loveable Loo. (Photo via Flickr user Max Baars) Joe Jenkins has been saving his shit for 37 years. The 61-year-old thinks that to do otherwise – to flush the toilet after you’ve finished defecating...
View ArticleLook at the Ridiculous Shit the UK’s Billionaires Spend Their Cash On
Photo from Bespoke Bureau via London is now home to a total of 104 billionaires. This makes London the city with the highest per-capita concentration of billionaires in the world, and together they're...
View ArticleThe Forensic Dentist Who's Reviving Mexico's Unidentified Corpses (NSFW)
The Forensic Dentist Who's Reviving Mexico's Unidentified Corpses (NSFW)
View ArticleOne for the Road: The Fisherman and the Lagoon
In the first episode of One for the Road, Pia makes from the beach to look for a tour guide who will help her when crossing the lagoon near Grado. After she meets the infamous Witige, who's lived on...
View ArticleRaiding an Online Archive of Weird Russian Photographs
Snooping around the back corridors of the web last month, I found myself in a Russian unsecured directory, where the residents of a region called Karelia back up all their files. The directory is...
View ArticleThe World Would Be So Much Worse Without Ecstasy
A young Sasha Shulgin in his lab (Photo via Flickr user Lorenzo Tlacaelel) Alexander "Sasha" Shulgin – a person who could perhaps claim to have influenced global youth culture more than any other in...
View ArticleThe Video for Teddybears'"Sunshine" Features a Woman Shooting Colourful...
The Video for Teddybears' "Sunshine" Features a Woman Shooting Colourful Lasers Out of Her Crotch
View ArticleThe Trashiest Beach In Athens
Standing at the entrance of 'Voula Beach B' in the Vari neighbourhood of Athens, I feel a part of my heart break. The words "Open Public Beach” have been sprayed across the gate in green paint, while...
View ArticleVICE News: PTSD from Gang Violence in LA
There's an epidemic of PTSD (post traumatic stress disorder) in American cities and it has nothing to do with the wars being fought abroad. Homegrown violence and a sense of impunity in America's...
View ArticleIceland Is About to Get Its First Mosque
Images courtesy of the Muslim Association of Iceland Last year, the Reykjavík City Council granted a plot for Iceland’s first mosque in the city center and the Muslim Association of Iceland said...
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