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podcasts Writer David Moldawer's favorite tools Mark Frauenfelder

makers This guy made a cool 3D printed kite-string winder Mark Frauenfelder

music Watch Walter Cronkite and CBS News report from Woodstock (1969) David Pescovitz

makers My kids-and-grownups project book, Maker Dad, on sale for Kindle Mark Frauenfelder

spooks Undercover who targeted Citizen Lab over Israeli cyber-arms dealer is an ex-Israeli spook linked to black ops firm used by Harvey Weinstein Cory Doctorow

spooks Spies tried to infiltrate Citizen Lab and trick them into talking about their research on Israeli spytech company NSO Group Cory Doctorow

accidents Boy runs for kite and ends up, by sheer luck, breaking his friend's fall from a third floor balcony Carla Sinclair

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