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Beastie Boys' cover art, 1927 London on film, the $325,000 burger and more in our weekly look at the web Researchers in the Netherlands have been working tirelessly to create an entire hamburger's worth of beef muscle tissue from laboratory incubators.

Throughout his career, whether in his early collaborative work with fellow Brooklynite Mos Def in Black Star or with the Cincinnati producer-rapper Hi-Tek, Talib Kweli consistently combined his conscious approach to writing with a verbal dexterity marked by a dazzling rapid-fire delivery.

In a genre focused on youth, Talib Kweli has managed to find longevity in rap. Kweli's first major label appearance came 15 years ago on his acclaimed "Black Star" album with Mos Def.

Literature lovers will swoon over the Celebration of Black Writing, one of the oldest African-American literary events in the nation.

Talib Kweli has been writing and performing for almost 20 years now - as a solo act and as half of well-received duos that reached a broad audience - and for much of that time he's been pinned with a label that's a relic of a 1990s understanding of hip-hop: "conscious rap." The albums he released with Mos Def as Black Star and with Hi-Tek as ... (more)