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The idea of a new Olivia Tremor Control was basically unthinkable, but it's happening anyway. The lo-fi psychedelic pop band was a key driving force in Athens, Georgia's Elephant 6 collective in the '90s, but they only released two cult-beloved albums, 1996's Dusk At Cubist Castle and 1999's Black Foliage: Animation Music Volume One , before breaking up. Years later, the band got together to play reunion shows, and co-leaders Bill Doss and Will Cullen Hart both passed away — Doss in 2012 , Hart in 2024 . But Doss and Hart's bandmates have finished work on the massive double album that the two of them started work on 20 years ago, and now it's coming out.

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Award-winning entomologist Dino Martins, known for his work on pollinators, shows in his latest book that even the most gruesome creatures have vital roles to play

Dino J Martins has never been able to resist the small things. The renowned entomologist and evolutionary biologist spent his formative years in biodiversity-rich western Kenya with his foster parents, Joe and Sarah Ellen, looking at birds, flowers and insects on Mt Elgon, and in Kakamega forest and Kerio valley.

He was especially transfixed by the miniature world beneath his feet – dung beetles rolling mounds of cattle dung; safari ants’ migrations across the plains; male butterflies that suck salt and other nutrients from the mud to produce “nuptial gifts” during mating; and bees pollinating the critically endangered African violet alongside crops in a farmer’s field.

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