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Articles Written by: JOSIE GLAUSIUSZ
Rainer Wolter's award-winning gown features
a bustier boned with abandoned -umbrella spines and a skirt
adorned with reused brolly flowers. Even the
necklace is made of tossed umbrella hardware.
Image: Rainer Wolter
On September 7 the environmental ...
From JOSIE GLAUSIUSZ,
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5 Aug 2008
Ota Benga, a member of the Batwa people of the Congo, spent 12 years in tormenting exile: After being sold to an American missionary, he was put on display at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair, then exhibited in the monkey house at the Bronx Zoo, then ...
From JOSIE GLAUSIUSZ,
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30 Jul 2008
David Gracer lifts a giant water bug, places his thumbs in a pre-sliced slit in its underside, and flips off its head. “Smell the meat,” he says, sniffing the decapitated creature, and the people gathered around the table willingly oblige. Members of ...
From JOSIE GLAUSIUSZ,
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6 May 2008
After the 2004 tsunami smashed into South Asia, thousands of the dead awaited identification for weeks and even months. The more time passed, the harder it became to identify the victims, let alone determine their age.
In the wake of a similar ...
From JOSIE GLAUSIUSZ,
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2 May 2008
William Harvey sliced open a live snake and, while pinching its vena cava, or main vein, watched as the heart into which it pumped blood grew paler and smaller. He then pinched the reptile’s main artery and saw how obstructing the flow caused the heart ...
From JOSIE GLAUSIUSZ,
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20 Apr 2008
George Johnson's Santa Fe office is packed floor to ceiling with century-old electrical paraphernalia — cathode-ray tubes, high-voltage spark coils, glass cylinders of hydrogen and helium, cascades of wires. They're the relics of an eBay odyssey he ...
From JOSIE GLAUSIUSZ,
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14 Apr 2008
Green beans gently pop, like raindrops hitting a puddle. This succulent sound is the Vienna Vegetable Orchestra playing “Frkklz,” a tender piece the 11 musicians produce by blowing into carrot tubes, strumming a pumpkin harp, and snapping celery stalks. ...
From JOSIE GLAUSIUSZ,
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2 Apr 2008
The pros and cons of circumcision have fueled a heated debate. Now from the World Health Organization comes evidence that is difficult to ignore: Male circumcision could lower female-to-male HIV transmission rates by 50 to 60 percent, according to 2007 ...
From JOSIE GLAUSIUSZ,
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24 Mar 2008
Abandoned for half a century, the mining town of
Bodie, California, is now preserved in a state of
"arrested decay" by the park system.
Gaze into one of the ramshackle buildings in Bodie, California, and you might see dust-covered furniture, an old ...
From JOSIE GLAUSIUSZ AND JANE BOSVELD,
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17 Mar 2008
Extension cords and computer cables have an irritating tendency to tie themselves into knots without obvious outside influence. Yet despite more than a century of abstract mathematical knot theories, few have experimentally tested how these convoluted ...
From JOSIE GLAUSIUSZ,
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4 Feb 2008
