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robotics Tinker the Robot (1966) Popkin

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movies Netflix is getting ready to revive Gamera Devin Nealy

performance art Bizarre street theater with performers wearing glass helmets containing live fish swimming around their heads David Pescovitz

books Toil and Trouble: a brief history of women using the occult as a form of resistance Thom Dunn