Active repatriation of indigenous remains in museums only gathered serious momentum in the 1980s. That is why Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s demand in August that London’s Natural History Museum return skulls of men believed to have been killed fighting against 19th-century British colonizers is important.

Source: Skeletons on the Shelves: Museums’ Slow Return of Indigenous Remains

Opened this week at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Fashion Victims: The Pleasures and Perils of Dress in the 19th Century explores the dangers of style not just for the wearers, but for the peopl…

Source: Fatal Victorian Fashion and the Allure of the Poison Garment

Rossum’s Universal Robots is not a particularly good play, but it’s important for one very simple reason: it introduced the word “robot” to the world.

Source: Rossum’s Universal Robots | The Writer’s Pulse

A lost hour when we woke up for praying, thinking, and sex.

Source: Sleeping In Two Segments – Business Insider

People in ancient Greece used snakes as projectile weapons during sea battles, explains Gianni Insacco, a zoologist/paleontologist at Italy’s Insacco Museo Civico di Storia Naturale. Insacco&…

Source: Ancient Greeks used snakes as projectile weapons / Boing Boing

The woman tax (or pink tax) is the increased cost women pay, not for makeup, but rather simply purchasing items to meet very basic needs. The woman tax (or pink tax) refers to the extra money tacked on to the products and services targeted toward women. Besides the ridiculous notion that an item could be “gendered”, the woman tax is a real, measurable manifestation of the capitalist patriarchy.

For the love of animals. Pass it on.

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