The VICE Podcast - How Genes Affect Athletic Performance
Please enable Javascript to watch this video This week on the VICE Podcast, Reihan Salam sits down with David Epstein, former senior writer at Sports Illustrated, reporter at ProPublica and author...
View ArticleA Roving View of Putin's Olympics
All photos by Arthur Bondar and Oksana Yushko Flying over Sochi, we saw a beautiful panorama of the region. The Olympic Games here have been a pet project of Vladimir Putin’s since their proposal, and...
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Talking to Two Gay Nigerian Men About the Anti-Gay Law
Last month, the Nigerian government passed the Same Sex Marriage Prohibition Act, which criminalised gay clubs and meetings, and made it an offence to not report known homosexuals. It also banned...
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A Colorado Woman Let a Puppy Drink Milk from Her Breast
Screencap via Last week, a woman in Colorado posted a Facebook photo of a puppy drinking milk from her breast. The picture sparked an internet backlash, and she soon became a flavour-of-the-week...
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How Not to Be a Dick On Valentine's Day
The culture of being super into Valentine's Day might be slightly on the wane, but it's still got more cachet that a lot of other Christian festivals. (Do you even remember what a Palm Sunday is for?)...
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The Arson Might Have Stopped, But Bosnians Still Want Change
Government buildings were torched during last weekend's violent unrest. Despite now being empty, they remain a focus for protesters' anger. Sarajevo is a tinderbox waiting for a spark. The crowd may...
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Kratom Tea Is the Beverage of Recovering Heroin Addicts
Above, a cup of kratom tea. (All photos courtesy of the author) Someone told me about a place in Wilmington, North Carolina that sells tea brewed from “some weird drug called kratom that’s illegal in...
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Kuba Dabrowski Wants to Document the Reality of Lipstick Adverts
Initially, Kuba Dabrowski picked 2,000 photos for his exhibition at Warsaw's National Gallery. Before long, he'd knocked that number down to 160, because putting thousands of photos in one show is...
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Dogging For Valentines
What did you do for Valentine's Day? I couldn't afford to eat in a restaurant surrounded by lustless couples trying to remember a time when all their conversations weren't about furniture, and I...
View ArticleFringes: Stories from the Edge: Atlanta: Strip City
Until last year, twerking was the preserve of strip clubs and south London dancehall nights. Now, it's a word that your great-aunt has probably said out loud, thanks to Miley Cyrus dry-humping that...
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Happy Valentimes from VICE
Hello, young lovers, Valentine's Day is a cruel and false holiday popularised by greeting-card companies to peddle more paper goods. Valentine's Day is also the final of the four miserable winter...
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NYFW Reviews: Telfar. Telfar? TELFAR!
Fashion Week has hit New York City again and big, fancy designers are showing their latest collections for fall/winter 2014. So we went to a few shows to figure out what all the Tumblr goofballs,...
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Life As a Gay Imam Isn't As Bad As It Sounds
A float for gay Muslims at London gay pride (Photo via) Pretty much every predominantly Muslim country forbids homosexuality. In nine of those countries, homosexual activity carries the death penalty....
View ArticleVICE News: Jihad Olympics: Sochi's Terror Problem
Islamic extremists in Russia want to blow up the Sochi Winter Olympics. They've already succeeded in terrorising a city 600 miles away with three separate suicide attacks, and more than 40 people have...
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The Man Who Wants to Cure Your Internet Addiction
Photo by Nicolas Nova Sweden's first ever internet emergency room opened up its doors in Stockholm last month. I guess it's about time considering that Sweden is one of the most connected countries in...
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George Clooney and the Golden Dawn Hate Me
Greek schoolchildren protesting in front of the Elgin marbles (photo courtesy of the Deutero Gymnasio Corinthou High School) I discovered that other, horrible, inbox for strangers on my Facebook...
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Full Nelson Ferretry: Inside the 2014 Ferret Fandango
“Ferrets are like Pringles,” says Dr Ruth Heller, a judge at the Winter Ferret Fandango. “You can’t just have one.” After my hours spent in Gilbertsville, PA, a small town located on the outskirts...
View ArticleHere Are Some Photos of People Eating By Themselves
Yesterday is Valentine's Day, and many of you spent it alone. Which is fine, being by yourself can be awesome. To make you feel a little less alone in the world, here are some shots from Jerry Hsu's...
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The Syrian Regime Is Using DIY Barrel Bombs Against Its Citizens
A bomb being dropped in Darayya, Syria The Syrian civil war is now in its third year, and the country's citizens continue to suffer. The warring sides are stuck in a stalemate, millions of Syrians are...
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Venezuela's 'Youth Day' Was Spoiled by Deadly Riots
The 12th of February is a public holiday in Venezuela, created to commemorate the teenagers who fell in the Battle of La Victoria. This year's Youth Day, as the anniversary has been dubbed, bore a few...
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