text The Idiomatic generates random idioms to annoy and confuse your friends Rob Beschizza

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books How Ken Liu went from engineer to lawyer to SF writer to the foremost translator of Chinese sf into English Cory Doctorow

books 92-year-old's memoir tells the forgotten story of a German official who sabotaged Nazi deportations and saved more Jews than Schindler Cory Doctorow

language AP's how-to-use-hyphens-wisely guide causes consternation among pedants Cory Doctorow

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animals Library loans taxidermy animals for science, education, and Harry Potter parties David Pescovitz

happy mutants Jay Rosen's "Letter to My Network: Join The Correspondent" Jay Rosen

Audio Welcome to Hollow Falls – and Lethal Lit, a New Scripted Crime Podcast Alex Segura

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