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science fiction Review: Paul Di Filippo trips the multiverse fantastic in "Vangie's Ghosts" Gareth Branwyn
drugs YouTube star arrested for allegedly supplying ravers with snake venom to get high David Pescovitz
biology Iron Maiden is popular among biologists and taxonomists, so they just named a new lizard species after frontman Bruce Dickinson Jennifer Sandlin
music Forget fart sounds—Cecil Dill's masterfully squeezed his hands together to make beautiful music (video) David Pescovitz
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sports Hundreds sick with pustules, fever, and more after participating in Tough Mudder Sonoma Jennifer Sandlin
design The No CSS Club celebrates websites with no stylesheets, let alone javascript. There should be a No HTML Club for websites that are pure text Rob Beschizza