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Space Help Wanted: participants for a NASA social isolation experiment inside a Russian lab David Pescovitz

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science fiction Kim Stanley Robinson on how the coronavirus is rewiring our imaginations Gareth Branwyn

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cults Love Letters to Hitler Mike Shaughnessy

politics Passport and Nobels Jasmina Tesanovic

robots AI, machine learning, and other frothy tech subjects remained overhyped in 2019 Cory Doctorow

Business Genetic genealogy company Gedmatch acquired by company with ties to FBI & law enforcement—why you should be worried Jennifer Lynch

music Listen to Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's minimalist cover of David Bowie's "Life on Mars?" David Pescovitz

science fiction That time Charlton Comics published a trans sci-fi story in 1953 Thom Dunn

fire That time I blew up a power strip with a Marshall amp and a space heater Thom Dunn

Science The 2019 Halloween Candy Hierarchy David Ng and Ben Cohen

eu Relatives and cronies of Cambodia's dictator have bought "golden passports" from Cyprus and exfiltrated millions Cory Doctorow

high fashion NASA unveiled a new spacesuit that's flexible enough for dancing John Struan