The Real: The Real 'True Detective'
Ten years ago, the town of Ponchatoula, Louisiana was traumatised when a local church's secret Satan worship, ritualised child molestation and animal sacrifices came to light. Rust Cohle may be a...
View ArticleHow Zapping the Brain With Electricity Can Help Fight Disease
How Zapping the Brain With Electricity Can Help Fight Disease
View ArticleWe Asked Three Doctors How Illegal Drugs Affect Your Sperm
Photo via Flickr User Imagens Evangelicas Life is full of hard truths. One of the hardest is that you can only party for so long before your body starts asking you nicely to please chill out, or you...
View ArticleThe Teenage Egyptian Artist Behind Pink Floyd’s New Album Art
Cover art for The Endless River, Pink Floyd's new album out on November 10. Photos courtesy of the artist. While Pink Floyd’s music is inescapable, ubiquitous, a soundtrack, even, for a certain...
View ArticleThe Smartphone App Fuelling Protests in Hong Kong
Protesters marching towards the home of Hong Kong Chief Executive CY Leung (Photo by Jeff Cheng) For whatever reason, mobile networks just can’t hack it when more than 5,000 people congregate in one...
View ArticleI Went on a Strange, Propaganda-Filled Press Junket to Moscow
St Basil's Cathedral, Moscow (All photos were taken on a phone, so apologies about the Instagram filter thing they've got going on) It’s hard to get a Big Mac in Moscow these days. The McDonalds...
View ArticleIt's Too Easy to Laugh at Kim Jong-un's Weight
Kim Jong-un (photo by petersnoopy) Until yesterday, nobody outside of Pyongyang’s political and military elite had seen or heard from Kim Jong-un for the best part of a month. Such is the occluded...
View ArticleMilitant French Eco-Activists Protest Deforestation
Militant French Eco-Activists Protest Deforestation
View ArticleDigital Tattoo Implants Could Exchange Data, Open Doors With A Flick Of The...
Digital Tattoo Implants Could Exchange Data, Open Doors With A Flick Of The Wrist
View ArticleVICE News: The Fight Against Ebola - Part 1
The current Ebola outbreak in West Africa began in Guinea in December of 2013. From there, it quickly spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone. Cases also appeared in Senegal and Nigeria, and a separate...
View ArticleThe Dad Trying to Legalise Medical Weed in Sweden
Jens Waldmann is a dad, husband, and tattoo-artist. He's also a recently convicted felon. You see, Waldmann suffers from anxiety, insomnia and depression, which he's had a hard time dealing with....
View ArticleA Few Impressions: Jimi Hendrix, Behind the Music
André 3000 as Jimi Hendrix. Photo courtesy of Darko Entertainment There’s a new film out about Jimi Hendrix, written by the guy who adapted Twelve Years a Slave from the Solomon Northup memoir. But...
View ArticleBill Nye Talks About Canadian Oil and the Certainty of Climate Change
Bill Nye, still a science guy. Photo via BillNye.com Yesterday, Bill Nye touched down in Toronto to attend the International Astronautical Congress, an annual gathering where space enthusiasts share...
View ArticleMeet Denmark's Latest Batch of Extremist Groups
Photo via Wikicommons. The other week the SFI, Denmark's National Research Centre for Welfare, published a report naming 15 groups they consider extremist and anti-democratic. Of the 15 groups, six...
View ArticleSeaside Heights, NJ Is a Paradise
Over the last couple of years, the resort town of Seaside Heights, New Jersey has managed to survive the brunt of Hurricane Sandy and a devastating fire that claimed nearly half of its boardwalk. Yet,...
View ArticleYour Password Is Not Secure and It's Not Your Fault
Image via Flickr user Christian Ditaputratama When it comes to passwords, we're all tolerating a broken system. The problems range from the irritating – it's strange needing to remember some obscure...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of Britain's Most Famous Racist Politician
(Collage by Marta Parszeniew) All political careers end in failure, goes the saying. But some end in more failure than others. Lost his seat in the European Parliament. Declared bankrupt. Replaced as...
View ArticleItaly Is About to Shut Down the Sea Rescue Operation That Saved More Than...
Italy Is About to Shut Down the Sea Rescue Operation That Saved More Than 90,000 Migrants This Year
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