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podcasts A new podcast explores the CIA's involvement with writing a hit song for the Scorpions Thom Dunn

law How to steal money at an ATM if you don't have a skimmer Rob Beschizza

music David Bowie's 11th studio album, "Low," is 42 today Gareth Branwyn

Copyfight Happy Public Domain day: for real, for the first time in 20 years! Cory Doctorow

generative art Reshuffling the epigrammatic phrases of Eno/Schmidt's Oblique Strategies into Grotesque Tables Gareth Branwyn

cia torture CIA nominee ran a secret torture prison and destroyed evidence of it Mark Frauenfelder

uk Berlin regulates Airbnb and safely deflates its housing bubble while returning 8,000 rentals to the market Cory Doctorow

podcasts Is progress inevitable? David McRaney

science fiction Mary Shelley's Frankenstein shows us how science fiction predicts the present and shapes the future Cory Doctorow

photography Photographs from the archives of the Stasi, East Germany's legendary, paranoid secret police Cory Doctorow

music Trip out on Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" concert screen projections David Pescovitz

Business Companies that help build Trump's wall could lose pension fund investments and California state contracts Cory Doctorow

A Couple Of Swells Two New York actors took to Fifth Avenue to film a tribute to Judy Garland and Fred Astaire Caroline Siede

uk Brexit, by a Serbian "fake Briton" Jasmina Tesanovic

world government Arthur C. Clarke and his vision of world government Stephen Baxter

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