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Frida Kahlo’s record-breaking painting El Sueño positions death as a roommate

Frida Kahlo’s 1940 self-portrait, El Sueño (La Cama), or The Dream (The Bed), has sold for US$54.7 million (£41.4m) at ...
Artnet

Archaeologists in Denmark Have Unearthed a 5,000-Year-Old ‘Bog Body,’ a Neolithic Skeleton Bearing Traces of Ritual Sacrifice

While examining land earmarked for a housing development northwest of Copenhagen, the Danish capital, archeologists have discovered the remains of a skeleton along with a flint axe and animal bones ...
Gizmodo

This Life-Sized Skeleton Pencil Will Literally Draw Itself to Death

From a strictly mineral standpoint, life on Earth is pretty ridiculous. Some carbon is organized, moves around a little and then falls back apart. Not so coincidentally, that’s also the basic premise ...
The New York Times

Why Skeleton Racing Is So Brutal on the Body

When you’re sledding down an ice track face-first, faster than it’s legal to drive a car, you know your are dealing with some serious physics. By CLIVE THOMPSON Illustrations by TATSURO KIUCHI MARCH 6 ...