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Body as masterpiece: nipples, skeletons and tattoos dominate at record-breaking Met Gala | Met Gala

Body as masterpiece: nipples, skeletons and tattoos dominate at record-breaking Met Gala | Met Gala

Published by Sam Flores

Two assets the modern 1% love to show off are their designer wardrobes … and their expensive bodies. The Met Gala opening of an exhibition about “the dressed body” presented an opportunity to do both, and it proved irresistible. The evening raised a record-breaking $42m (£31m) for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the lead sponsors Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez Bezos thought to have contributed $10m, and individual guests writing cheques for up to $1m in order to make the Anna Wintour-approved final cut. The official dress code was “Fashion Is Art”. But the golden rule in fashion, as in life, is that those with the gold make the rules, and this elite crowd bent Wintour’s diktat according to their will. The red carpet was divided between looks that paid tribute to famous fashion moments in art history, and others that celebrated the body itself as a very modern masterpiece. No prizes for guessing which half made the biggest splash. Just as the Costume Institute’s annual opening party red carpet always attracts far more …

Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It’s Weakening Human Skeletons

Atmospheric CO2 Getting So High That It’s Weakening Human Skeletons

Published by José Betancourt

Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Though talks of climate change typically conjure up images of dripping glaciers and rising tides, it turns out the rapid destruction of our planet is also affecting our bodies in profound ways. According to new research published in the journal Air Quality, Atmosphere & Health, the rising concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere is weakening human skeletons at an alarming rate. Australian researchers Alexander Larcombe of The Kids Research Institute Australia and Phil Bierwirth of the Australian National University analyzed the level of HCO3 — bicarbonate, a byproduct of CO2 found in human blood — in the blood of US adults between 1999 and 2020. Since the last year of the 20th century, they found, the amount of HCO3 in human blood rose about 7 percent, which corresponded to a similar rise in CO2 concentrated in the atmosphere. At the same time, Larcombe and Bierwirth examined calcium and phosphorus levels in US adults, both of which fell over …

Celebrities with the weirdest home collections — including Johnny Depp’s pigeon skeletons

Celebrities with the weirdest home collections — including Johnny Depp’s pigeon skeletons

Published by Daniella Wilson

We all have our own niche obsessions, like Victorian kitsch or vintage plates (guilty), but how extreme and downright strange could these obsessions become if you had millions to spend on them?  We’re taking a look behind the shutters and inside the locked cupboards of celebrity homes to bring you the curious collections these famous faces have built. Johnny Depp has a collection of bugs and animal skeletons Johnny Depp – Bugs and Skeletons For Johnny Depp, a pigeon skeleton was just the start. His collection of animal bones expanded to bats and bugs – he even has a favourite bug shop in Paris. But it’s not just macabre memorabilia the actor spends his cash on as within his strange collectables, Johnny used to count a painting by serial killer and party entertainer John Gacy of his alter-ego Pogo the Clown, as well. He also has an old raincoat belonging to Jack Kerouac and a collection of Arts and Crafts lamps. The Pirates of the Caribbean star also even reportedly spent $7000 on a sofa …

Skeletons reveal Stone Age mother and daughter had a rare genetic condition

Skeletons reveal Stone Age mother and daughter had a rare genetic condition

Published by Jenni Sidey

Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent six days a week. In 1963, paleoarchaeologists working in southern Italy discovered a unique and puzzling burial scene within an ancient cave known as Grotta del Romito. Inside the cavern, researchers excavated the bodies of two Paleolithic individuals buried in an embrace over 12,000 years ago with no signs of outward trauma. Designated Romito 1 and Romito 2, both subjects had clearly shortened limbs, each with a respective height of around 4.75 and 3.6 feet tall.  In the six decades since, experts have argued at length about the pair’s relationship, sex, as well as an explanation for their unique physical features. Many have posited that the two exhibited some form of dwarfism, but direct evidence has eluded them. Now, researchers believe they have definitive answers. According to a study recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine, Romito 1 and 2 were most likely a parent and child born with a rare genetic disorder called acromesomelic dysplasia. AMD is one of the …