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Enjoy this Star Trek fan's delightful "Ode to Spock" recorded after the Vulcan's film death in 1982 David Pescovitz

Science First asteroid found inside orbit of Venus: Caltech Xeni Jardin

authoritarianism Political journalist Omoyele Sowore arrested and tortured under Nigeria's overbroad "cyberstalking" law Cindy Cohn

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religion Full story of the missionary killed when trying to convert an "uncontacted" tribe David Pescovitz

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art Lucy Sparrow's all-felt supermarket now open in LA Rusty Blazenhoff

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

Kids Cool satellite view of dozens of oxbow lakes formed when a river changed course Andrea James

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