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...

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...

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...

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