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books Philip K. Dick's dystopian AI novel "Vulcan's Hammer" headed to the big screen David Pescovitz

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music "Failed second album" is a myth. Blame music critics. Rob Beschizza

experimental music How to make extra-long, strange, and trippy tape loops inside a standard cassette Lux Sparks-Pescovitz

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History "Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States" in graphic novel form Thom Dunn

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books New online class about mind-bending science fiction writer Philip K. Dick taught by the stars of PKD scholarship David Pescovitz

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Science The Anthropocene Working Group has chosen Crawford Lake as a "golden spike" that can help scientists understand this new geological epoch Jennifer Sandlin

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