It's no secret that the American military is a fairly messed up institution. If it's not being exposed for failing to combat the high rates of sexual assault and rape of female officers in the Oscar-nominated documentary The Invisible War , it's being investigated for concealing the deaths of…

PHOTOGRAPH COURTESY THE DICE LAB Earlier this spring, at a mathematical circus of a conference in the basement ballroom of Atlanta’s Ritz-Carlton, two scientists from the Dice Lab, Robert Fathauer and Henry Segerman, débuted their newest specimen, fresh from the petri dish. They had invented—or,…

All Images: Sean Hollister/Gizmodo I bought the Apple Watch a year ago. I stopped wearing it two months ago, and I’m not sure if I’ll ever wear it again. That’s because it doesn’t really do anything that anyone needs, and even when it does, it doesn’t always work like it’s supposed to. I wanted to…

Netherlands Water board aims to provide model of sustainability by collecting byproduct when orange-clad revellers take the pils Jon Henley European affairs correspondent @jonhenley Last modified on Tue 28 Nov 2017 17.28 EST This article is over 2 years old People celebrate King’s Day on one of…

Illustration by Anna Parini Janicza Bravo makes short films about loneliness. In one, Michael Cera plays an abrasive paraplegic who can’t get lucky. In another, Gaby Hoffmann plays a phone stalker for whom the description “comes on too strong” is not strong enough. Bravo’s shorts employ the visual…

The New York primary is already rife with complaints of voter disenfranchisement in at least two different New York City boroughs. The Cooper Park House polling location in Brooklyn’s Greenpoint neighborhood was supposed to open at 6 a.m., but the site remained closed for hours, preventing early…

This article is part of PS2 Week, a full week celebrating the 2000 PlayStation 2 console. To see other articles, go here . /// On the US release of Dario Argento’s 1977 film Suspiria , New York film critic John Simon panned it as “a horror of a movie, where no one or nothing makes sense: not one…

Samantha Bee only has four episodes of her weekly late-night program — Full Frontal With Samantha Bee — under her belt, but the Canadian comedienne has already carved out a spot as the “ fierce, fiery ” feminist voice of late night. Those who followed her work on The Daily Show , where she spent 12…

A fight scene is a dance: not just between the characters in conflict, but between stunt people and the effects crew, between the cinematographer and choreographer, between the editor and sound designer, all of them moving together at once. The best fight scenes have a narrative arc, however slight…

Prince presented a living case study in the glorious freedom a world without stringent labels might offer. Above, at the 10th Anniversary Essence Music Festival in New Orleans. Chris Graythen/Getty Images The world has known few superstars whose personas could match the gender-fluid extravagance of…

J ordan wanted to build an unpredictable trap. An 11-year-old in dark horn-­rimmed glasses, Jordan is a devotee of Minecraft, the computer game in which you make things out of virtual blocks, from dizzying towers to entire cities. He recently read “The Maze Runner,” a sci-fi thriller in which…

Aretha Franklin, New York, October 14, 1968 (contact print). Photograph by Richard Avedon / © the Richard Avedon Foundation Late on a winter night, Aretha Franklin sat in the dressing room of Caesars Windsor Hotel and Casino, in Ontario. She did not wear the expression of someone who has just…

This article is part of PS2 Week, a full week celebrating the 2000 PlayStation 2 console. To see other articles, go here . /// Up until Grand Theft Auto III (2001), it was standard to classify videogames by their central mechanics. There were stealth games, platformers, shooters, racing games,…

Story highlights Police killed two people and seriously wounded four at Danziger Bridge Five officers, charged in 2010, received sentences that range from three to 12 years They were originally sentenced to six to 65 years, but convictions were overturned (CNN) Five former New Orleans police…

This article is part of PS2 Week, a full week celebrating the 2000 PlayStation 2 console. To see other articles, go here. /// In the men’s restroom of a New York diner, a dazed man stands over a corpse. He knows he killed the person but insists, to no one other than himself, that someone else was…

Elena Scotti/FUSION An hour's drive from Wichita, Kansas, in a little town called Potwin, there is a 360-acre piece of land with a very big problem . The plot has been owned by the Vogelman family for more than a hundred years, though the current owner, Joyce Taylor née Vogelman, 82, now rents it…

The that came out in 1997 isn’t the that’s remembered as so influential today. Today is known for its brooding, stoic antihero, its dark themes of industrialization and the end of the world, its archetypical characters and its iconic, badass villain. This is cited as helping to codify the “cool”…

________________ Dan Boeckner doesn’t stay in one place for very long these days. When I reach him on a Wednesday in the middle of March, the singer-songwriter has just crossed from one side of Canada to other – from Vancouver Island to Montreal, to be specific. The Quebec city is where he’s lived…

Melissa McCarthy in The Heat . Photo: Twentieth Century Fox Next month will mark the fifth anniversary of the release of Bridesmaids , the modestly budgeted smash that proved a comedy driven by women could hold its own in the summer marketplace — and, in the process, do wonders for the careers of…

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This article originally appeared on VICE UK Sex is great. Adding more partners into the mix should, on paper, make it even better. As someone already involved in the fetish world, I've watched the Tinder "dating apocalypse" and the " 50 Shades of Grey effect" collide as people younger than your…

​I learned very early on in my music career: never read the comment section. Or rather: only look at YouTube comments, Instagram comments, Twitter mentions, or blog comments with a discerning eye while wearing my toughest, full-body armor. While these can be places where fans say things like "Yaaas,…

This is Tom. He's a 26-year-old cocktail bartender and self-described writer from the City of Norwich, and he is asking you for £1,300 to help him find love. Yep, the beardy tattooed bloke is crowdfunding to pay for his dates. BUT WHY? Well apparently he's been unlucky in love, and with £1,300 he'll…

This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Spend too much time on the internet and you'll end up thinking young men today fall into one of two camps: hypersensitive puppy dogs trying to fund-raise their way to true love, or those guys who think flirting means getting shitfaced and screaming rape…

Eric Spitznagel | Old Records Never Die: One Man’s Quest for His Vinyl and His Past | Plume | April 2016 | 8 minutes (2,029 words) Motivated by a potent mix of seller’s regret and old-dude nostalgia, a journalist sets off in search of the vinyl of his youth. And not just copies of albums he…

Unlike Justin Trudeau last fall, the NDP couldn't get their escalator to work. The first thing anyone saw walking into the Shaw Centre this weekend was a broken escalator and a polite request to put up with the pains of "modernization." There was no better metaphor for the state of the NDP in 2016.…

When you're young and broke, society gives unwritten permission to live like a dirtbag for a while. You can sleep on a buddy's couch, stay a few extra years in mom and dad's basement, spend a couple more months living with your ex than you should have, or maybe even briefly engage in the…

Detroit's historic Masonic Temple reeked of pot, sweat, flat soda, and Speed Stick deodorant on the night of February 21. The funk of the juggalo had choked the air of the venue that—thanks to its gold ceilings and red carpets —looked like it should have been hosting a performance of Swan Lake ,…

Suzanne Tenner Zoe Saldana as Nina Simone in Nina . When writer-director Cynthia Mort spent a day with Nina Simone in the early '90s, she didn't dare imagine that the legendary singer would be the subject of her debut feature film...or that the film would become an agonizing, incendiary calamity.…

Then One/WIRED When Facebook News Feed guru Will Cathcart took the stage at F8 to talk about news, the audience was packed. Some followed along on Twitter. Others streamed the session online. Journalists, developers, and media types all clamored to catch a glimpse of “Creating Value for News…

I am in the strange position of knowing that I am on the ‘Kill List’. I know this because I have been told, and I know because I have been targeted for death over and over again. Four times missiles have been fired at me. I am extraordinarily fortunate to be alive. I don’t want to end up a…

Magdelena Tworkowska/Getty Images. When I was five, I watched a neighbourhood boy tear Lanette Ariana limb from limb. I didn’t scream or stop him. I just wept over my beloved, dismembered Cabbage Patch Kid. Once I calmed down, my dad told me not to take shit from any man and toughen up, lest I be…

Led Zeppelin, in 1968. Photograph by Dick Barnatt/Redferns/Getty Legal cases involving claims of musical plagiarism often lead to strange eruptions of musicological discourse in the halls of justice. Not long ago, the heirs of Marvin Gaye alleged that Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams’s song…

I used to joke that only men with depression were attracted to me. It was the only experience I'd had, every long-term boyfriend and even the short-term flings. I'd never dated anyone who hadn't been on antidepressants, or spent time in a psychiatrist's office. That dark, brooding, introspective…

Leon Bridges and Andra Day, photographed at Amoeba Music in Los Angeles. Photograph by Jason Bell. Despite what viewers may have thought after the 58th annual Grammy Awards, soloists Leon Bridges and Andra Day (who were both up for best R&B album) did not materialize out of nowhere. Since the…

Steve Miller, Dan Auerbach. Photo: Getty Images You haven’t made it in rock and roll until you’ve ticked off The Black Keys, so congratulations, Steve Miller; this, and not the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction you so despised, will be your legacy. Last Friday, Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney…

“It’s funny, I remember loading Zelda.com, and Zelda.com was definitely a porn website,” Merritt Kopas, author of Internet Murder Revenge Fantasy , recalled. “This was like, early 90’s, so I’m sure Nintendo bought it back, but [it used to be] a porn site. ” It’s different in 2016, of course.…