The book arrived at Harvard in 1934, via the American diplomat John B. Stetson, an heir to the hat fortune. It had been bound by its first owner, Dr. Ludovic Bouland, a French doctor, who inserted a handwritten note saying that “a book about the human soul deserved to have
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The ultimate green burial? Human composting lets you replenish the earth after death
At Recompose in Seattle, families can hold a funeral ceremony known as a laying-in before the body is prepared for human composting. In this photo, a demonstration mannequin stands in for the body. Afterwards, the body is moved into a composting vessel in the adjacent building and surrounded with wood
First human transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney performed
Surgeons perform the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a living human at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Michelle Rose/Massachusetts General Hospital hide caption toggle caption Michelle Rose/Massachusetts General Hospital Surgeons perform the first transplant of a genetically modified pig kidney into a living human at Massachusetts
Why NASA wants human guinea pigs to test out Martian living
Inside a simulated Mars exterior portion of the CHAPEA’s Mars Dune Alpha at the Johnson Space center in Houston, Texas in April 2023. Mark Felix/AFP /AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Mark Felix/AFP /AFP via Getty Images Inside a simulated Mars exterior portion of the CHAPEA’s Mars Dune
‘Corruption’ Review: Onstage, a Scandal’s Human Drama Is Muffled
“Corruption,” J.T. Rogers’s tantalizing new phone-hacking play, starts on Rebekah Brooks’s wedding weekend. In a village in the English countryside, the flame-haired power broker, one of Rupert Murdoch’s favorite tabloid editors, has drawn the cream of Britain’s political class to her celebration. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is there, and so
The human cost of climate-related disasters is acutely undercounted, new study says
Hurricane Irene caused enormous damage in New York state, flooding homes like this one in Prattsville, NY, in 2011. Major weather events like Irene send people to the hospital and can even contribute to deaths for weeks after the storms. Monika Graff/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Monika Graff/Getty Images
Tom Brady proves he's human with nightmare tee shot at Pebble Beach Pro-Am
Turns out Tom Brady is one of us. We’ve all been there. You’re lining up to hit a drive deep into the fairway, and the ball goes almost nowhere. Brady, despite being a single-digit handicap, had that moment Friday. CLICK HERE FOR MORE SPORTS COVERAGE ON FOXNEWS.COM Former NFL quarterback
For Thomas Hirschhorn, Handmade Art Keeps Us Human
Gladstone Gallery looks like a war zone, the aftermath of a Call of Duty gaming session gone bad, the virtual gunmen downing Red Bull and chain smoking over their keyboards, until a bomb came through the roof. This is the tragicomic scene summoned in cardboard and packing tape by Thomas
What to know about Elon Musk's Neuralink, which put an implant into a human brain
Neuralink has conducted its first surgical test of a brain implant, Elon Musk says. An example of the device, whose size has been compared to a coin and which has “threads” that connect to the brain, is seen here in a photo from the company’s brochure. Neuralink / Screenshot by
Navajo Nation objects to a plan to send human remains to the moon
This photograph taken on December 27, 2023, shows the last full moon of the year, also known as the “Cold Moon,” behind New Year’s decorations in Skopje, the capital of the Republic of Macedonia. Robert Atanasovski/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Robert Atanasovski/AFP via Getty Images This photograph