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On Monday artist and museum curator Antonio Manfredi burned a painting as the artist watched via Skype. Manfredi has stated that he intends to burn three paintings a week in protest of the harsh cuts the austerity measures have imposed on cultur…
The Swedish Minister of Culture, Lena Adelsohn Lijeroth, has become the focal point of a controversy in which she has been accused of racism. There have been calls for her resignation. It all began when the Minister participated in an art…
When the Polish composed Andre’ Tchaikowski died in 1982, he donated his body to science, but had left instructions requesting that his head, or rather his skull, be donated to the Royal Shakespeare Company in the hope that he might have t…
By Tim Mollen Journal entry: March 21, 2002 (age 32) If helping someone move is socially challenging for the best of friends, it is colossally awkward for complete … Read more
“The way to Hell is easy:
Night and day the gates of black Ditis stand open.” Virgil
While drilling in 1971, Soviet geologists tapped into a cavern filled with natural gas. The gro…
Thanks to Will Shetterly for finding this wonderful parable that is as valid today as ever.
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In the late 1990s a perfectly preserved victim of the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed millions was discovered and exhumed:
From science daily:
n a mass grave in a remote Inuit village near the town of Brevig Mission, a large Inuit woman lay …
Evidently when Albert Einstein died at the age of 76 in 1955 sections of his brain were sliced and mounted on glass for further study. The now are part of a traveling exhibit which is currently on loan to the United Kingdom.
From the Guardian:
“Einste…
For more than forty years the Danish free city of Christiania has been a refuge for artists, iconoclasts, anarchists, hippies and the generally unconventional. In 1971 a bunch of free spirits playfully occupied an abandoned military barracks in the ol…
