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Beware of Clickbait About Drugs That Can Make You Kill

June 3, 2015 Backdoor Pharmacist

A Finnish-Swedish joint study of over 900 convicted homicides has found a link between use of drugs and violent crimes like homicide. The study notes that recent massacres around the world, such as neo-Nazi Anders Brevik, and sinister Ronald McDonald cosplayer James Holmes has drawn new attention on a link between mental illness, psychotropic drugs, […]

Today’s Pigeon

Bucky Turco

Fulton, Soho. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

Today’s Pigeon

June 2, 2015 Bucky Turco

Khalid, 1WTC. (Photo: Aymann Ismail/ANIMALNewYork) […]

Listen In: Emanuel and the Fear Made You a Playlist

June 1, 2015 Prachi Gupta

“Listen In” is a weekly feature in which we ask musicians to curate a mixtape-length YouTube playlist of songs they’re currently digging. Click the big play button above to hear the whole playlist or scroll down to see and hear individual tracks. The music of Emanuel and the Fear lies somewhere between chamber pop and […]

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Bucky Turco

Bumpy, Williamsburg. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]

The Ultimate Life-Hack: Let’s Just Give Everyone Adderall

May 29, 2015 Backdoor Pharmacist

IBISWorld, a market research firm, has released a report showing that Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) drug sales are booming, and by 2020, will rake in $17.5 billion. It’s not just a loosening of diagnostic criteria that is making it so profitable. Workers can’t survive on the meagre earnings of a single job, and students […]

Here’s a Mysterious Recording of a 2nd Avenue Train Announcement

Prachi Gupta

The 2nd Avenue subway station is 82% complete, meaning that we have a pretty good idea of what it’s going to look like. Now we have a preview of what it might sound like, too. A week after the MTA released photos of the construction’s progress, Untapped Cities has given us a a mysterious recording […]

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Bucky Turco

Jim, West Village. (Photo: Bucky Turco/ANIMALNewYork) […]

The First Silk Road Documentary Is a Dud

May 28, 2015 Peter Yeh

From a documentary with a title like Deep Web: The Untold Story of Bitcoin and Silk Road, one expects new details on how the Silk Road vendors and community operates, how bitcoin enables deep web markets, and a discussion that could bridge the gap for the average person between the anarchic cypherpunks and fear-mongering government […]