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Meet the Living People Who Collect Dead Human Remains
Skeleton collections aren't just for museums and science labs. We talked to a few private collectors in the business of gathering human remains.
This Animation Distorts 3D-Scanned Humans into a Work of Geometric Art
Mike Pelletier's 'Time to Flight' reimagines the human form as Rorschach Test-like, polygonal blobs.
We Talked Refugees with Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young in Cambodia
We followed the Greens Senator around a Phnom Penh slum, where she looked at the conditions awaiting Nauru's refugees.
We Need to Rethink Our Approach to Seafood Altogether
I firmly believe that we need to change our mindset for a more ethical approach to how we farm, catch, kill, handle, and consume seafood. It's not just that we're overfishing species out of season, but we're letting them die in a way that benefits no...
Bio-Hackers Are Using Human DNA To Make Vegan Cheese
The process of making dairy cheese isn't always ethically rosy. One San Francisco-based bio-hacker group is currently working on synthesizing a cheese product from bovine and human caseins. We spoke to them to find out what the hell is going on here.
Max Cooper's 'Seething' Is A Freaky Teaser For His Forthcoming Debut
Not quite dream, not quite nightmare, but very Max Cooper.
Wikipedia's 'Human' Entry Is Charmingly Alien
Sobering, too. Choice excerpts from the one Wiki article most assuredly written by either extraterrestrials or our reptilian, shape-shifting overlords. Or both.
How the Aquatic Ape Theory Keeps Floating On
A rumor gets halfway around the world, while the truth is still in peer review.
Monkeys Unconsciously Synchronize Their Behavior, Just Like Humans
You know that thing where an audience is clapping then they wind up clapping at the same time? Apparently monkeys do that sort of thing, too.
Is Drone Maintenance Our Last Stand Against Going Off 'the Loop'?
As cold, unfeeling and rogue a Predator or Reaper may come off, drone upkeep is markedly human.
We Sent Sam the Human Cat to Woofstock
We dressed our intern up like a cat and sent him into a room full of dogs. The results were wildly cute and mildly uncomfortable at the same time..
Conspicuously Missing During Sandy: Oysters
In New York and New England, we'll see the loss of historically-massive populations of oysters.