The sealant used for gem-crusted ancient Maya teeth had medicinal properties that prevent tooth infections and decay, according to a new study.
Sarah Rose Sharp
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, and multimedia artist. She has shown work in New York, Seattle, Columbus and Toledo, OH, and Detroit — including at the Detroit Institute of Arts. She is primarily concerned with artist and viewer experiences of making and engaging with art, and conducts ongoing research in the state of contemporary art in postindustrial and redeveloping cities.
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12,000-Year-Old Human Footprints Found in Utah Desert
The footprints, discovered on the salt flats of a US Air Force training site, are believed to date back to the last Ice Age.
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These AI-Generated Travel Posters Are Actually Not Bad
Until you’ve seen a place for yourself, it’s a bit of an abstract idea. So why not ask Artificial Intelligence to create your travel poster?
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Sharif Bey’s Fractured and Beautiful Ceramic Figures
Bey’s ceramics weave in cultural and familial themes, and reexamine, shatter, and incorporate older works to create layers of change in both form and meaning.
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Archaeologists Discover England’s Oldest Surviving Shipwreck
The 750-year-old medieval ship sank off the coast of Dorset during the 13th century, leaving behind remarkably preserved artifacts.
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BeReal App Gets Real Roasted With Memes
The popular BeReal app, which prompts users to post within a two-minute window at a random time every day, has become prime fodder for memes.
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The Rare Leica Camera That Smashed Auction Records
Earlier this summer, one of only 22 models of the Leica prototype “0-Series” quietly sold for over $15 million — five times the previous record for a camera.
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Frida, The Musical Is Coming to Broadway in 2024
The musical is the first such telling of Kahlo’s life that has been sanctioned by her family, and draws in part on details from Intimate Frida, a book by her niece Isolda P. Kahlo.
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A New VR Experience Takes You Into a Museum of Stolen Masterpieces
The “Stolen Art Gallery” features five works by Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Manet, Cézanne, and van Gogh, long lost to public view but fully visible in the metaverse.
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Reddit Users Share Their Most “Blursed” Images
Some things in life are more than just “blessed” or “cursed” — they are “blursed,” which is to say, both.
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Following Outcry, GameStop Pulls Tasteless “Falling Man” NFT Evoking 9/11 Attacks
The artwork emulated photographer Richard Drew’s well-known image of a person leaping from one of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11, 2001.
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God Just Wants Us to Love Her Back
In a new graphic novel, author and cartoonist Liana Finck recasts the famously vengeful and masculine biblical God as an insecure and emotional female deity.