by | Jun 29, 2014 | Weirdness
from WAOW Wisconsin Diamond dog returns missing wedding ring By Rose Heaphy STEVENS POINT (WAOW) – A Stevens Point woman found a special surprise in an unlikely place. Five years ago, Lois Matykowski lost her wedding ring. Matykowski had given up all hope...
by | Jun 23, 2014 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Guardian US student is rescued from giant vagina sculpture in Germany More than 20 firefighters free exchange student from the artwork Chacán-Pi (Making Love) by Fernando de la Jara in Tübingen by Philip Oltermann in Berlin The student waits to be rescued....
by | Jun 16, 2014 | Weirdness
from The Telegraph UK Poachers kill one of the world’s largest elephants in Kenya Poachers hack the face and tusks off Satao, one of Kenya’s most famous elephants, as conservationists warn elephant poaching “is at least 10 times the official figures”...
by | Jun 9, 2014 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from artnet Artist Enacts Origin of the World at Musée d’Orsay—And, Yes, That Means What You Think Benjamin Sutton On May 29 the Luxembourgian performance artist Deborah de Robertis visited Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, sat down in front of Gustave Courbet’s infamous 1866...
by | Jun 7, 2014 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Financial Times Dawn of a robot revolution as army of machines escape the factory By Chris Bryant in Frankfurt Cleaning the Sydney Harbour Bridge used to be a dangerous, dirty and laborious job. As soon as a team of workers, operating a sandblaster, reached...
by | Jun 5, 2014 | Culture Music Art, Weirdness
from The Atlantic Science Confirms: Yup, This Book Really Is Bound in Human Skin ALEXIS C. MADRIGAL Surely, you’ve seen our recent work on anthropodermic bibliopegy, the early modern practice of binding books in human skin? No? Well, a quick refresher: some...
