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I Was Thrown Into a Somali Jail for Interviewing a Rape Victim
Abdiaziz Abdinur Ibrahim. (Photo courtesy of Abdiaziz) Everyone’s talking about Somalia’s future. They’re talking up foreign business investment, they’re talking up the new government and they’re...
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Is Greece About to Start Persecuting Its LGBT Community?
Athens Pride 2013, photo by Paola Revenioti. They weren't the greatest circumstances in which to pay a homecoming visit to Mum and Dad, but the last time I was in Athens it was to hang out with...
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The US Government Is Retiring Hundreds of Chimps from Biomedical Research
Photos by Tanja M. Laden I hate to paint with a broad brush here, but primates in America have horrible lives. Sure, there are your One Percenters like Koko and Bubbles the Chimp, but by and large,...
View ArticleThe Public Is About to Get Its First Taste of Lab-Grown Hamburger
The Public Is About to Get Its First Taste of Lab-Grown Hamburger
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Question of the Day: Do You Agree with the Greenpeace Activists Climbing the...
Greenpeace activists at the beginning of their ascent up the Shard. (Photo courtesy of David Sandison/Greenpeace) Six women from Greenpeace are currently climbing their way up the Shard – all 87...
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The Vice Guide to Travel: Blood Sacrifice in Sumba - Part 1
TRAVEL BLOOD SACRIFICE IN SUMBA WHERE SHAMANS AND WARRIORS WORSHIP HOLY SEA WORMS By Milene Larsson, Photos by James Morgan A Pasola warrior about to throw his spear at a fighter from a rival clan....
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Four Days at Toddstock
Nottoway Plantation. Photos by Morgana King and Mike Hogan. DAY 1 By the time we get to White Castle, Louisiana – more than an hour’s drive outside of New Orleans, past swamps and daiquiri shops and...
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Cry-Baby of the Week
Cry-Baby #1: Adventure Oasis Water Park (screencap via KSHB/story via Reddit) The incident: A woman went to a water park in a bikini. The appropriate response: Nothing/surreptitiously staring if you...
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We Got Greenpeace to Respond to Rude Tweets About the Shard Protest
The black dot in the red circle is a human. Photo by Christine Jun. This morning, six women from Greenpeace started scaling the Shard. They figured that climbing the tallest building in western Europe...
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Afghanistan's Combat Sport Makes Peaceful Warriors
Members of the Kunduz Central Club and their director with Mohammad Anwar in the center. In a large, renovated warehouse in Afghanistan's Kunduz City, 24 young athletes are training like madmen. They...
View ArticleWerner Herzog and Errol Morris Talk About 'The Act of Killing'
Please enable Javascript to watch this video I saw The Act of Killing in a small theater, with about 20 other people. For some, the documentary was just too intense. More than a handful of viewers...
View ArticleThe VICE Podcast Show - Chris Soghoian on NSA Leaks and the Paradox of Privacy
Please enable Javascript to watch this video The VICE Podcast Show is a weekly discussion which delves inside the minds of some of the most interesting, creative and bizarre people within the VICE...
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An Open Letter to the Most Factually Incorrect Museum in America
Dear Guinness World Record Museum, I recently visited your Los Angeles location. As was the case with the Hollywood Wax Museum last month, I was not impressed by what I saw. It's not just that your...
View ArticleWhy Do We Let Jay-Z Get Away With Being a Douchebag?
Why Do We Let Jay-Z Get Away With Being a Douchebag?
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On the Hunt for 'Indigo Children': the Next Stage in Human Evolution
A Photoshop mock-up of what an indigo child might look like. (Images via and via) Sankar led me to a small stool that faced a black box the size of a biscuit tin. The box was fitted with a tiny lens...
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This Week in Racism: George Zimmerman Isn't White
Welcome to a special George Zimmerman trial edition of This Week in Racism. I’ll be ranking news stories on a scale of 1 to RACIST, with “1” being the least racist and “RACIST” being the most racist....
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MC Daleste Is the Seventh Baile Funk Artist Murdered in Sao Paulo
The Brazilian internet imploded last weekend when a video was posted online of MC Daleste getting shot and killed. MC Daleste, whose real name was Daniel Pellegrine, was a prominent 20-year-old singer...
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Video from the Trayvon Martin Protests in New York City
On Sunday evening thousands of demonstrators took to the streets of New York City in protest at the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the Trayvon Martin murder case. Zimmerman shot and killed the...
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