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b-side Trump administration is drafting plans for corporate moon mining Thom Dunn

Business NASA picks Elon Musk's SpaceX, Jeff Bezos's Blue Origin, & Dynetics to build lunar landing systems for manned moon mission Xeni Jardin

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dogs Very long dog is adorable Xeni Jardin

floss Fridge0: an open source hardware solar fridge with no battery requirement Cory Doctorow

chicago Abandoned coyote pup gets the care it deserves Seamus Bellamy

furniture This pop art chair is a bunch of coat hangers on a frame Rusty Blazenhoff

Weird Australian man trades two cases of beer for real live unicorn David Pescovitz

happy mutants A free book of science fiction from around the world about climate change, introduced by Kim Stanley Robinson Cory Doctorow

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happy mutants Frankenbook: collective annotations on Mary Shelley's 200 year old novel "Frankenstein" Cory Doctorow

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