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interviews Talking Comics with Ignatz Award-Winning Cartoonist Noah Van Sciver Jeffery Klaehn

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books The best 250 adventure novels of the 20th century Mark Frauenfelder

nihilism Two great deep-dives mine the endless hole at the bottom of Mitch McConnell's inhumanity Thom Dunn

science fiction Max Barry on how science fiction prepares us for the apocalypse Mark Frauenfelder

music Douglas Rushkoff on Genesis Breyer P-Orridge (1950-2020) Douglas Rushkoff

tabloids Prince Harry begs forgiveness, the Queen shops Prince Andrew to the Feds, and Kirstie Alley’s secret life, in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

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novels Review: "The Nobody People" is like a literary X-Men novel for the Trump era Thom Dunn

tabloids Royal brawl in palace, Brad & Jen’s reunion, and 2020 predictions in this week’s dubious tabloids Peter Sheridan

Business Frustrated game devs automated the production of 1,500 terrible slot machine apps and actually made money Cory Doctorow

Science Randall "XKCD" Munroe has a New York Times column where he answers weird science questions Cory Doctorow

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NASA I didn't know chipmunks could attend Space Mission Bible Camp! Thom Dunn

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