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Crafting Hyperbolic Hats for Sly and the Family Stone

A true story of insane beauty

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Margaret Wertheim
Jul 02, 2025
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Everyone looks better in a hyperbolic hat. Me in 2007.

Of the several rock-star greats who passed away last month, surely the most enigmatic is Sly Stone, he of the “Family Stone," a tribe to which we might all want to belong.

Though I was a tad too young to experience the rise, and Rise, of Sly, I well remember his fall, and Fall. Thus it was to my asto…

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