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Science Star Trek's Nichelle "Uhura" Nichols checks out the Space Shuttle Enterprise (1977) David Pescovitz

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art The story of Traceroute, about a Leitnerd's quest Thomas Kaestle

obama President Obama's final State of the Union address Xeni Jardin

offworld Subversive games about waitresses and hairdressers Laura Hudson

drug policy Why animals eat psychoactive plants Johann Hari

Solitary Vices: Mikita Brottman on the Books in Her Life Mark Dery

Remembering Robin Williams, cinema's Rorschach test K.M. McFarland

William S. Burroughs and the Dead-End Horror of the Centipede God Mark Dery

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