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1. Track the Movement of the Milky Way With This DIY Radio Telescope

   Detect galactic hydrogen using roof flashing, a paint-thinner can, and a software-defined radio

2. Q&A: XKCD Comic Strip Creator Randall Munroe on His New Book and Drawing Humor From STEM's Absurdist Extremes

   Cartoonist and best-selling author Randall Munroe offers up absurd but well-sourced scientific advice

3. Q&A: This Autocompletion Tool Aims to Supercharge Your Coding

   Deep TabNine uses natural-language processing to auto-generate code in 22 programming languages

4. How to Program Electronic Music That Plays as You Code It


   Live coders create musical algorithms on stage. Here’s how to become one

5. Does the Repurposing of Sun Microsystems' Slogan Honor History, or Step on It?

   “The Network is the Computer” catchphrase has a proud new parent: Cloudflare