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Reworking a classic '90s jam by Whitney Houston, new music by The Go! Team, Field Music and more

The Go! Team: Mayday With Morse Code leading into percussion and Detroit Youth Choir choral work, “Mayday” finds The Go! Team up to their old tricks. It’s an exceptionally enjoyable track that moves forward with fury and force on pop-powered harmonies. The song will appear on their forthcoming LP Semicircle, our 19 January. Jadu Heart + Mura Masa: U Never Call Me Now with an …

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Colette's swan song, mining in space, the worst sex scenes in literature and more

1. Classes on Mining in Space At the Colorado School of Mines’ Center for Space Resources, a new class called Space Resources Fundamentals is underway, the first-ever academic program specializing in space mining. Christopher Dreyer teaches the course, which is presently in a test run, though potentially slated again for summer 2018. The class covers things like the Outer Space Treaty, which was developed by …

Klemens Schillinger’s Objects Aim to Combat Smartphone Addiction

Designer Klemens Schillinger has created a collection of objects that are essentially substitute phones, with the goal to combat smartphone addiction. Around the same size as most phones, the objects contain stone beads in ways that—when interacted with—imitate the motions we have grown so accustomed to: scrolling, swiping and more. Schillinger says, “More and more often one feels the urge to check their phone, even …