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A Profanity Filter Banned the Word 'Bone' at a Paleontology Conference
“Words like ‘bone,’ ‘pubic,’ and ‘stream’ are frankly ridiculous to ban in a field where we regularly find pubic bones in streams,” one participant said of the filter, which organizers had to thwart.
DNA From Ancient Skeletons Is Changing What We Know About Our Ancestors
"We should be humble, and not think that our gut impressions of the world around us are reliable."
How-To: Make Brick Chicken
Liza Queen, chef/owner of a bunch of now-closed cult restaurants, teaches us how to make brick chicken. The secret ingredients: butter, salt, butter, and more butter.
Future Martians May Be Living in Houses Made of Mushrooms, Bone, and Dust
This little Martian made a house out of regolith, this little Martian made a house out of biomass.
Alice Waese's Jewelry Looks Like Rugged, Wearable Sculptures
Through the looking glass with the beloved Brooklyn designer.
Gory Anatomical Portraits Show Beloved Icons' Blood and Guts
Street artist Nychos dissects pop culture icons in anatomical portraits at the Jonathan LeVine Gallery.
An Artist Is Growing a Real Human Hand
3D scaffolds, seeded with stem cells, become art in Amy Karle's 'Regenerative Reliquary.'
The Secret to Conquering Space Without it Killing Us First May Lie in Our Bones
A new Canadian study on the effects of microgravity is heading to the International Space Station this week.
I Milked a Trout
Typical caviar production involves catching fish, killing and gutting the creatures to access thousands of deliciously salty eggs. But at the Yarra Valley Caviar Farm in Australia, their methods are more humane and weird when it comes to extracting...
Meet the Artist Making Giant Sculptures Out of Animal Bones
John Paul Azzopardi's works are as haunting as they are beautiful.
Bone Marrow Cocktail Recipe
We combined gelatin with whisky, licorice, and porcini mushrooms, and put it in the fridge to gellify so that it has a very marrow-like consistency.
Cooking with Sylvia Plath Was Exhausting
I left the butcher store with a $93 leg of lamb that weighed in at 7.1 pounds—the exact weight of my son at birth!—and set home to cook my Plath-inspired dinner so I could blog about it. After devouring the meal, the only remnants of the night included...