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UFOs Pentagon releases UFO footage Thom Dunn

Book Astonish Yourself: 101 Experiments in the Philosophy of Everyday Life Mark Frauenfelder

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puzzles This is what 'going viral' looks like Rusty Blazenhoff

art The Weird of Wendy Pini Rob Beschizza

movies Review: Bright (2017) Rob Beschizza

happy mutants Tim O'Reilly's WTF? A book that tells us how to keep the technology baby and throw out the Big Tech bathwater Cory Doctorow

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NASA How to decode the images on the Voyager Golden Record Ron Barry

Science Ann Druyan on the new Carl Sagan-narrated Apple commercial David Pescovitz

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music 'Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliché' – Last chance to back biopic on '70s female punk icon of X-Ray Spex fame Xeni Jardin

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media Trump’s wild imaginings promulgated in tabloids alongside equally fact-challenged celebrity “news” Peter Sheridan

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privacy A madman has been given the keys to the surveillance state Cory Doctorow

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