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CYBERPUNK ISN'T DEAD YET

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Just as the utopian space-age future of the West in the 1950s passed unthinkably into the past with space shuttles entering museums, so too is the largely dystopian cyberpunk vision, at least aesthetically, becoming outmoded.
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The Best Way To Learn About Wine Is To Drink Lots Of It

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Here’s the thing, good wine is the kind of wine you think is good. So get more good wine with Club W’s custom picks tailored to your taste buds. Get $20 off your first order, plus complimentary shipping on an order of 4+ bottles.
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CLOSER THAN EVER

23 diggs BuzzFeed
In 2016, the mainstream looks and sounds like this boundary-pushing Canadian sister act. Now that the former outsiders have survived misogynist critics, a fickle industry, and each other, the stars are aligned for them to become two of the biggest names in pop.
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WRAPPED IN RED, WHITE, AND BLUE

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“American Idol” was “born” exactly nine months after 9/11. The timing was significant, because since its premiere on June 11, 2002, the show has become an integral part of the country’s coping strategy — a kind of guidebook for our difficult entry into the 21st century.
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STEAMPUNK TIME MACHINE

16 diggs Vimeo Video
Visual effects artist seccovan turned a handful of old photos from pre-war New York (and a few from Washington D.C.) and turned them into stunning animated works of art. The final product is so flawless that if you told us we were looking out a window at 1930's New York we would just smile and nod.
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PLOT TWIST: IT'S FULL OF ACTUAL SPIDERS...

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NASA's New Horizons observational craft flew by Pluto in July, but the New Horizons team has saved some amazing close-ups of the planet to keep us going. Today, NASA released a close-up of a geological formation that they've dubbed the "spider."
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AND HERE ARE THEIR STORIES

6 diggs The New York Times
Las Vegas in the 1950s and ’60s had the Rat Pack. In Los Angeles in the ’80s there was the Brat Pack. Now, New York has become home base to a young, wealthy and itinerant group that one may think of as the Snap Pack.
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CRASH COURSE FOR BANDICOOTS

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In the Australian outback, researchers are pitting small endangered marsupials against feral cats to see if they can force evolution’s hand.
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