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Robert J. White is the groundbreaking surgeon who in the mid-1970s- against all odds- pioneered the monkey head transplant, forever changing the face of monkey ownership as we know it. Wait, what's that? Your monkey still has its original head? Wow. Get with the program, choch.

But Dr. White's work isn't merely limited to lopping the heads of macaques. He's also performed head transplants on dogs. Even more, also, however, he's spent the past half a century exploring the way the brain functions and trying to figure out a way to preserve neurological consciousness when the rest of the body craps out. He is pretty much our favorite real-life mad scientist, and may know more about the rough mechanics of the nervous system than anybody else in his field, AND he was the Pope's personal adviser on bioethics. The Pope! So we decided to visit him at his suburban McDonalds he works out of to pick his brain about picking other people's brains. And monkeys'.

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Paul Hellyer recently stirred up global controversy when he testified before a half-dozen former US representatives that aliens exist. As Canada's former Minister of Defence, Hellyer is the first and only cabinet-ranking official from a G8 nation to publicly state a belief in extraterrestrials.

MOTHERBOARD visits Paul Hellyer at his cottage in the sleepy and scenic woods of Ontario to find out more about his extraterrestrial claims. This is Paul Hellyer in real life.

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Mark Pauline is the founder of Survival Research Laboratories, a mythical moniker among weird-techies, art-punks and general violence seekers across the globe. Pauline began his work in the 80s in the San Francisco punk and art scene defacing billboards and organizing public pranks. Through the decades, he has become a pioneer in technological and performance arts. His vaguely anthropomorphic creations are some of the most dangerous machines ever made, rivaling the military, but instead of turning their threats on us, the machines blow each other up and let us watch.

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When he was a senior in high school, Richard Garriott sold video game he'd designed to a distributor. The video game creator has one foot in the real world, another in the virtual world.

Garriott, also known as Lord British, now resides in a castle-like mansion outside of Austin, Texas, that's the dream home of any grown-up kid. But his favorite place to live is a five-bedroom fixer-upper 250 miles above Earth. In 2008, Garriott parlayed his success in the videogame industry into a lifelong dream: Fly to the International Space Station.

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Oscar Niemeyer is the man who created Brazil's crazy space-age moon-capital. In the 1950s, Brazil decided it would be a perfectly reasonable idea to move the capital to the center of the country's interior plateau (read: nowhere). To facilitate this sensible endeavor they enlisted Oscar Niemeyer -- an ardent communist and proponent of modern architecture who, alongside his buddy Le Corbusier, had co-designed the UN building in New York -- to build a crazy spacepod city in the middle of the planalto. Brasilia provided Niemeyer the perfect template to test out all the theoretical business he and his modernist colleagues had been cooking up for the past two decades. Together with urban planner Luis Costa, he designed a functionally integrated city full of massive concrete mushroom buildings and swooping aluminum spires and twisty overpasses and skyways and symbolic edifices and designated "sectors" where no one would ever have to watch out for traffic or wait at a stoplight. It's basically the bastard child of Alphaville and Albany, NY, and to this day remains a benchmark in what we really hope the future is going to look like. It also sealed his reputation as one of the century's most influential architects and certainly its most inlfuential Brazilian. Then an anti-communist military junta seized control of the country and kicked him out.

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Colombian drug traffickers up the ante with homemade coke-smuggling submarines.

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It was 3 PM when we got word that Dan Deacon wanted to hang out with Motherboard for the first episode of our series, Experimental Music. Oh, and we wanted to make some slime with him.

We arrived at 11 PM and started setting up in Dan's space. Then we opened some brews, unpackaged our slime materials, and did science with him while he chatted about his quest to balance being a serious composer with being an electro-pop genius. It's two parts Bill Nye, 1.5 parts "Meet the Band," and 100 percent awesome.

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If there is anybody working in the field of robotics whose success we are equally amazed by and terrified of, it is Professor Yoshiyuki Sankai. While his colleagues are taking their cues from the more "sophisticated" side of sci-fi like Phillip K. Dick and THX-1138, Sankai has thrown out any pretense of goodwill, naming his company after the fictional cyborg firm responsible for the Terminator and trying to develop his own version of the exoskeleton from Aliens (which he's named HAL, no less).

And yet for all the red flags, Professor Sankai's CyberDyne seems poised to contribute more to humanity than any of its competitors. Their HAL (or Hybrid Assistive Limb) exoskeleton has the ability to augment the wearer's strength by 80% and could drastically improve the lives and mobility of the old and disabled. Thanks to Sankai, we could be living on the cusp of a brighter and much awesomer world in which the lines separating man and machine are blurred to the benefit of all. Of course, that's what they said about SkyNet.

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Juan Manuel Gallegos has a full stable of rocket-powered conveyances in the backyard of his Morelos home/laboratory.

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In 2009, Motherboard's then editor, Sean Yeaton, did the world a small service and dusted off Mark David's Box of Tapes. The tapes are a hastily edited set of clips gleaned from old cable access shows recorded by the deceased Mark David. The first stack of plastic from the dingy box we've got the luxury of feasting our cold, glassy eyes on is 'Tech Talk.' Brought to you in five short parts, 'Tech Talk' explores the most cutting-edge technology from the year 1980. In episode one, guest Monsignor Ron Duffy of the Vatican's Robotics

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Edward Teller, the father of the hydrogen bomb, had a thing for nuclear bombs. He wanted them bigger, smaller, faster, used in ways that no one had thought of before or since, and always more of them. He suffered no fools, and though he would be more villified than any other American scientist in the 20th century, he always dismissed his critics as lacking in common sense or patriotism. Amid Cold War paranoia and fears of the Soviet nuclear program, the stakes were simply too high: for the free world, building the most powerful weapon in history was a matter of life and horrible death.

To make his point, Teller pointed to his first-hand experience with tyranny, first under the Communists and then the Fascists, who raised hell across Hungary before he fled in the 1930s for America. His scars weren't just psychic: a streetcar ran over Teller's foot during his early years, leaving him hobbling for the rest of his life.

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Travel with Vice comics editor Nick Gazin to Atlanta for Dragon Con, a two-day bacchanalian orgy of sci-fi and comic book fans going bananas in the city's hotel rooms. We dive deep into the chaos with hundreds of cos-play and sci-fi fans, and then almost get arrested for talking to Carrie Fisher from Star Wars.

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Matthew Deutsch is a singular teenager. He is not only afraid of dying, but he's made plans to put his brain on ice after he does so that he might be revived in the future. At 17, he is very likely the youngest cryonics candidate in the world.

I met the Maryland high schooler in his element, last October at the Singularity Summit at New York's 92nd St. Y. There, he and hundreds of other expert and amateur technologists rubbed elbows with futurist luminaries like Ray Kurzweil, investor Peter Thiel, techno talker Jason Silva, and Aubrey de Grey, the biologist-philosopher who calls aging a disease. Deutsch says it was de Gray, in the documentary Do You Want to Live Forever, who inspired him to sign up with a neuro contract at Alcor Life Extension Foundation — or rather, to ask his parents to sign him up.

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Vanessa Harden is like the 'Q' of the guerrilla gardening world. Her designs range from modified shoes that plant seeds to specialized flowerpot-dropping handbags. Surprisingly, those who run our cities don't look kindly on those seeking to alter the landscape without permission, so Vanessa has integrated clever gardening kit into everyday attire of the urban professional to disguise clandestine gardening activities.

In 2011, Motherboard met Vanessa in her South London studio to find out how she got involved in this "underground" scene, and why she feels her own unique brand of eco-technology may help make the metropolises of the world greener places. She showed us firsthand the different techniques and technologies she employs in her designs and what other innovations she has pioneered.

Then we headed out into the city to meet guerilla gardener guru Richard Reynolds to discover the fruits of his labor blossoming in grass verges and central conservations throughout London. The two put Vanessa's designs to use, and discussed how they have been received in the guerilla gardening community.

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Despite the fact that the city is mostly surrounded by water, you won't find anyone swimming off the shores of New York. That'd be nasty. Nearby rivers suffer from ongoing pollution issues caused by PCB contamination, accidental and non-accidental sewage discharges, urban runoff, heavy metals, furans, dioxin, pesticides, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. You know, shit that makes mutant fish and whatnot.

I'm not saying people should ever swim in the toxic rivers, but wouldn't it be nice? A few dudes in Brooklyn think it's a cool idea, so they're planning to build a plus sign-shaped pool, appropriately named Plus Pool, that will float in New York's surrounding waters. What's nuts is the thing will actually be filled with river water that it'll have cleaned because the pool is a huge filter, too.

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A hovel of MIT grads slam energy drinks and chain cigarettes in a marathon robotics session.

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Stelarc is not interested in explaining what he is. In 2011 Motherboard met Stelarc, a Greek weirdo who lives in Australia and has been screwing with his body in the furtherance of art, technology, and cyborg rights.

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If you think that the Northern Lights are a light show from some crazy wizard who lives in an ice cave in the North Pole then you'd better watch this and learn what's what.

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THUMP is VICE's channel devoted to electronic music and culture. THUMP celebrates the spectrum of dance music, going backstage and behind-the-scenes with your favorite artists, from the world's DJ superstars to the most cutting-edge underground producers. THUMP is the premiere destination for exciting new shows, music videos, and one-of-a-kind stories about electronic music around the world, with the personality and depth you've come to expect from VICE.

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Motherboard's initial online impression of fringe presidential candidate, Vermin Supreme, was that he was dead serious, terrifying, and a weird guy that was going to enslave us all.

Supreme is recognizable by his elaborate wardrobe and ludicrous political platforms. He has run in many local, state, and national elections in the U.S. since the 80s, but in 2012, during his attempt at claiming the White House, he became full-on Internet famous thanks to the proliferation of kitschy fan art and YouTube videos.

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Michael Davidson takes pictures of teeny, tiny living and non-living cells through a high-powered microscope.

Davidson is also the discoverer and curator of the "Silicon Zoo," a collection of infinitesimal drawings etched directly into the circuitry of mass-manufactured microprocessors by their designers, and running the gamut in shape and style from a 2mm-long Crayola crayon to a Waldo one-third the width of a human hair. It's like tiny graffiti for nerds (regular nerds, not graffiti nerds).

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Robert J. White is the groundbreaking surgeon who in the mid-1970s- against all odds- pioneered the monkey head transplant, forever changing the face of monkey ownership as we know it. Wait, what's that? Your monkey still has its original head? Wow. Get with the program, choch.

But Dr. White's work isn't merely limited to lopping the heads of macaques. He's also performed head transplants on dogs. Even more, also, however, he's spent the past half a century exploring the way the brain functions and trying to figure out a way to preserve neurological consciousness when the rest of the body craps out. He is pretty much our favorite real-life mad scientist, and may know more about the rough mechanics of the nervous system than anybody else in his field, AND he was the Pope's personal adviser on bioethics. The Pope! So we decided to visit him at his suburban McDonalds he works out of to pick his brain about picking other people's brains. And monkeys'.

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We went to Miguel's studio, aka the local cantina, to talk about everything from fine art to the raunchy videos that he produced and MTV refused to air.

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Mexicans conquer the last bastion of US/Japanese superiority: competitive robotics.

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In 2009, Motherboard traveled to Tokyo to learn about how Tatsuya Matsui wants to make his robotic children part of your everday life. Aiming to use functionality as a form of expression, Matsui has a successful line of full body and upper torso mannequins that display clothing and jewelry in a dynamic way. These mannequins, especially the robot "Pallete," strike a variety of poses, and learn how to act by taking note of what poses consumers smile at and respond well to. Matsui's charismatic creations have been used by Louis Vuitton, Marc Jacobs, and the MOMA.

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In 1991, Cuba's economy began to implode. "The Special Period in the Time of Peace" was the government's euphemism for what was a culmination of 30 years worth of isolation. It began in the 60s, with engineers leaving Cuba for America. Ernesto Oroza, a designer and artist, studied the innovations created during this period. He found that the general population had created homespun, Frankenstein-like machines for their survival, made from everyday objects. Oroza began to collect these machines, and would later contextualize it as "art" in a movement he dubbed "Technological Disobedience."

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You may have heard that Napoleon Bonaparte, the Emperor of France, was a short man. But that's all wrong. Learn where this longstanding discrepancy came from.

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