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music Listen to these new covers of classic fighting songs Elías Villoro

lawsuits Hot sauce maker Texas Pete being sued for not being Texan Jennifer Sandlin

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t-shirts When 8-year-olds redesign famous band tees Thom Dunn

art Degas-style studies of Tom Holland performing Rihanna's Umbrella John Struan

life on earth Lichens never looked more beautiful than they do in this short film about a curator of lichens at the University of California. Mark Frauenfelder

photography Photographs from the archives of the Stasi, East Germany's legendary, paranoid secret police Cory Doctorow

gender Idiocraski: the apocalyptic situation in Poland after a year of trumpism Cory Doctorow

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