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ADVERTISEMENT There’s something majestic about the very oldest of trees and how they witnessed the rise and fall of numerous civilizations. Who hasn’t heard about General Sherman – the largest known living single stem tree in the world – or Old Tjikko – the Earth’s oldest (9,550 years) living individual clonal tree? I find Julian [...]
Posted by Timeea on Friday, February 24, 2012 at 12:01 am
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The practice of binding books in human skin, also known as anthropodermic bibliopegy, is not just the stuff of dark legends and horror fiction. It was a real technique which, although frowned upon and considered ghastly by today’s standards, was officially practiced since the 17th century. The technique gained considerable popularity during the French Revolution and among [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Tuesday, August 2, 2011 at 12:01 am
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The world is full of unique objects, creatures, and world events. Many foods are naturally radioactive and bananas contain a particularly high dose of radiation. The banana equivalent dose is a scale used to measure radiation exposure. The scale is based on the radiation levels humans receive by eating a single banana. In fact, bananas [...]
Posted by Bryan Johnson on Friday, March 4, 2011 at 12:01 am
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