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music Pass the Sault Elías Villoro

science fiction Octavia Butler's Kindred to premiere on Hulu on December 13 Elías Villoro

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explainer videos Almost everything you want to know about wheels is in this 1966 explainer movie Mark Frauenfelder

afrofuturism Mark Dery on the "everything, all at once" art and life of Jean-Michel Basquiat Gareth Branwyn

psychology Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi dies at 87 Ferdinando Buscema

Isaac Newton Isaac Newton's attempts to unlock secret code of pyramids Miss Cellania

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books A profile of Cliff "Cuckoo's Egg" Stoll, a pioneering "hacker hunter" Cory Doctorow

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art Magnificent photos from a psychedelic family's California trip David Pescovitz

music Jack Black YouTube announcement now accompanied by piano Rob Beschizza

biographies Edward Gorey's macabre tarot deck from 1966 Mark Dery

happy mutants Tomorrow: come to our University of Chicago seminar on Renaissance censorship and internet censorship Cory Doctorow