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Babes and Dated Machine Guns at the 'Black Sea Defence' Convention
All photos by Mugur Vărzariu Black Sea Defence is a bi-annual arms fair taking place in Bucharest. Over the span of three days, Romania's army (that includes the navy, the air force and the secret...
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Texas Republicans Are in a War Over Weed
Republicans in Texas battled over whether to support medical marijuana at the state GOP convention this past weekend. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Texas conservatives descended on Fort Worth last week...
View ArticleReno Is a Paradise
Reno is a glitter gulch – a neon city hidden deep within Nevada’s vast mountainous desert. Once the gambling capital of the United States, bursting with glitz and glamour that assured its prosperity...
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The VICE Guide to Self-Esteem
Self-esteem: Everyone wants it. Industries are built around getting it and keeping it. Wars are started by people who don’t have it (or have too much of it). The secret to having self-esteem is...
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Here Be Dragons: Sorry Internet, a Machine Didn't Actually 'Pass' the Turing...
If you believe the Press Association, a major milestone in the rise of the machines was passed this weekend. The basic gist: “A ‘super computer’ has duped humans into thinking it was a 13-year-old boy...
View ArticleI Don't Care How Many People Watch 'Orange Is the New Black'
After a hefty helping of anticipation, Orange Is the New Black season two dropped last week. Despite my standing as an unapologetic contrarian who successfully avoided season one, I watched the first...
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Should France Go Back to Being a Monarchy?
Illustration by Zelda Mauger. According to a poll published in January 2014, 78 percent of French voters believe our political system doesn't work well. Which I guess sort of explains the recent...
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Why Are So Many Aboriginal Women Being Murdered in Canada?
Photo by Nicky Young In February, the frozen body of 26-year-old Loretta Saunders, a pregnant Inuit woman from Labrador, Canada, was found dumped onto a highway median in New Brunswick. Saunders, a...
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Desperately Seeking CBD
Charlotte Figi at six years old. Photo courtesy of Realm of Caring. Hundreds of families have already relocated to Colorado in search of non-psychoactive cannabis-derived medicine for their severely...
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Rik Mayall Had the Power to Make Depressing Stuff Hilarious
Rik Mayall (right), who passed away yesterday aged 56, with comedy partner, Ade Edmonson in Bottom Watching Rik Mayall was like watching a man explode out of himself, like his skin couldn’t quite...
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You Need to Get Out of Your Small Town This Summer
Photo courtesy of the author In the small town where I grew up, summer began the day my dad took the paper out onto the front step and ended when he put his shirt back on, three months later, and...
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Today, for most, the twelve gods of Olympus are merely figures of Greek mythology or old statues you look at when you go on a family holiday to Athens. In Greece however, there are still a few...
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I Went to a Promise Ring Show and Took an Abstinence Pledge
Last month, I found myself among hundreds of awkward teenagers in a large auditorium in Cincinnati, Ohio. If all were to go as planned, not a single soul in attendance would end up having sex before...
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From the Trenches in the Battle Against Sex Trafficking
Illustrations by Jonny Ruzzo Note: Jane Doe is the alias used in court for victims of sexual abuse. Jane Doe sat on a bed in a cheap motel room in Scottsdale, Arizona, cigarette in one hand, Four Loko...
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This Ex-Drug Trafficker Started the Cocaine Tours of La Paz Prison
The San Martin section of San Pedro prison (Photo by Niels Van Iperen) Being imprisoned for drug smuggling usually means taking a little break from being a criminal. However, for Thomas McFadden – who...
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Ukraine put an end to months of political chaos by swearing in a new president who vowed to restore the country's territorial integrity. Petro Poroshenko, a powerful oligarch before his election, will...
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