interviews
‘God Loves Uranus’: A Counterprotest of a Westboro Baptist Church NASA Protest
"Some folks say ignore them, but that's no fun."
Meet the Engineer Who Built James Cameron's Mariana Trench Submarine
Ron Allum has made a career developing submarines and exploring the deep ocean. It sounds like a pretty good gig.
This Guy Matched with Over 1,000 Women on Tinder by Pretending to Be a Bagel
Inside the weird world of people who pretend to be food on Tinder.
We Talked About Refrigerators with Vint Cerf, Father of the Internet
On encryption, digital divide, the internet of shit and more.
The High Priestesses of the Post-Internet on Dating Apps and the NSA
Holly Herndon and Jennifer Walshe think the internet is messy because people are messy.
Meet the Scientist Who Injected Himself with 3.5 Million-Year-Old Bacteria
Is Anatoli Brouchkov for real? Absolutely.
Oliver Sacks on the Kind of Hallucination He Would Have Liked to Have
Oliver Sacks spoke to Motherboard in 2012 about monsters, aliens, devils, and other creepy hallucinations.
How Beer Sparked Human Civilization, According to a Comic Book
Bottle or draft, lager or stout, beer is more influential than ever.
Vint Cerf: The Headline I Fear Is '100,000 Fridges Hack Bank of America'
But it's the only way we'll learn.
A Q&A; with the Woman Who Designed Her Own 'Hacker Heels'
SexyCyborg’s Wu Ying shoes combine femme fashion with some clever tech.