folk music Folk Legend Martin Carthy wants to play in your living room Séamus Bellamy

music Tuesday Tunes: Planxty — Little Musgrave Séamus Bellamy

Heavy Metal Mongolian band, The HU, mix metal and traditional Mongolia folk Gareth Branwyn

haunted mansion A touring Bolivian orchestra is stranded in a German castle surrounded by 23 packs of wolves Thom Dunn

ireland The traditional music of the world would die without risk-takers like Martin Hayes Séamus Bellamy

music Ireland lost a musical giant this week Séamus Bellamy

politics Right-wing reggae is about as terrible as you'd expect Grant St. Clair

lego Lego xylophone made entirely with bricks–and works beautifully Jennifer Sandlin

Japan A fascinating look at the Nambu-tekki cast iron process Thom Dunn

music Try using Youtube as a drum sequencer Rob Beschizza

dogs Robot dog entered in dog competition Gail Sherman

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Space First "artisanal" satellite made from wood launched into space Allan Rose Hill

drugs A magician-psychologist designed a study to trick sober participants into thinking they were tripping on psychedelics Allan Rose Hill

History Enjoy two different looks at the impossibly-instant Polaroid camera Bob Knetzger

music Get into the SKAlloween spirit Thom Dunn

art Surreal stratacut animation by Ellard Devane Popkin

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Guided by Voices interviewed on their 30-year-old EP that became a cult classic  Lee Keeler

canada Pop singer Avril Lavigne knighted in the Order of Canada Thom Dunn