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Tech

How the Descriptive Camera Out Instagrams Instagram

05.05.12

By Michael Byrne
Tech

Tim Berners-Lee, CERN, and the Memo That Opened the Web

04.30.12

By Brian Anderson
Tech

Centron Corp. Explains Why Everyone is Laughing at You

04.27.12

By Ana Tiwathia
Tech

The Rise of Wikipedian Statecraft: How Azawad, Spurned by the U.N., Earned Its Recognition Online

04.24.12

By JONATHAN LIU
Tech

The Idea Con: At the $400 Mental Day Spa for Techno-Intellectuals

04.16.12

By Cole Stryker
Tech

The Genius of Old People on the Facebook Pages of Our Corporate Masters

04.12.12

By Michael Byrne
Tech

Want to Look Bigger and Stronger? Buy a Gun

04.11.12

By Michael Byrne
Tech

Free Will Can’t Possibly Exist, So Feel Free to Do Whatever You Want

04.11.12

By SAM MCDOUGLE
Tech

Crisis of Monotheism: Is Committing Acts of Yoga Heresy?

04.09.12

By JONATHAN LIU
Tech

People in Poor Countries Are More Interested in the Past Than the Future

04.05.12

By Michael Byrne
Tech

With Lo-Tech Pink Slime Gone, Where’s the Synthetic Beef?

04.04.12

By Miriam Simun
Tech

Hot Links: Robots Defeat Fire and Jungle, Groupon Fails, 90s Facebook

04.03.12

By Derek Mead

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Music

Remember When Rick Rubin Held a Surprisingly Star-Studded Fake Funeral Connected to His Pioneering Hip Hop Label?

From Reverend Al Sharpton officiating, to a New Orleans-style procession, to a repast at a bowling alley, no one holds a fake funeral like Rick Rubin.

05.19.26

By Lauren Boisvert
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Music

3 Psych-Rock Albums That Sound Just as Good Today as They Did in Their Prime

These wildly underrated psych-rock albums still hold up decades later.

05.19.26

By Lauren Boisvert
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Life

‘Uniboob’ Is an Actual Medical Condition. Here’s How It Happens.

Doctors call it “bread-loafing.” Make of that what you will.

05.19.26

By Ashley Fike
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Life

The 37% Rule Says This Is How Many People You Should Date Before Choosing One

Get enough experience to know what you actually want

05.19.26

By Ashley Fike
Photo: Francesco Carta fotografo / Getty Images

Life

If You Feel Guilty All the Time, You Probably Have a High IQ. Here’s Why.

Of course Freud is involved.

05.19.26

By Ashley Fike