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Giraffe Killed During Intifada Travels to Art Fair as Found Object

Berlin-based conceptual artist Peter Friedl has been garnering a huge amount of attention at Documenta 12, in Kassel Germany, for his artwork The Zoo Story. The piece is a taxidermied giraffe from the...

created by kate | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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Sex and Soccer: A Wave of World Cup Babies

Screw fertility drugs (pun completely intended)--all it takes to get pregnant is "positive vibes" and some national pride.I also love the creative manner in which the writer addresses those people who found...

created by Kaitlin | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago
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First They Came for the Trash Cans: Nazi Raccoons in Europe

"The story begins in 1934, when a breeder asked the Reich Forestry Office, then led by future top Hitler aide Hermann Göring, for permission to release the masked-faced mammals to "enrich the local fauna" outside Kassel, a small city north of Frankfurt. "Raccoon pelts were a...