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Bronze Age Brain Surgery: 3,500-Year-Old Skull Found With Square-Inch Hole
For 3,500 years, a curious medical case has been buried beneath the floor of a Bronze Age building in Israel. Now, a team of archaeologists has studied the remains of two wealthy brothers entombed there, finding that both likely struggled with chronic infectious disease in childhood. The two skeletons showed signs of porosity, lesions, and…
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The Last Of Us Just Had Its Most Terrifying, Zombie-Filled Episode Yet
Anyone complaining that The Last of Us doesn’t have enough zombies in it should shut up with the release of the season’s fifth episode, “Endure and Survive.” After a thrilling, tension-filled escape from Kansas City, Joel, Ellie, and some friends found themselves up again hundreds of zombies of all shapes and sizes. And even so,…
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In My Mother’s Skin Tells a Frightful Filipino Fairy Tale
The only non-English language film in the Midnight section of this year’s 2023 Sundance Film Festival, In My Mother’s Skin is a gut-wrenching horror story about a girl placed in a desperate situation who makes a choice she quickly regrets. It takes place in the Philippines near the end of World War II, but its…
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Musk Reportedly Reworks Twitter Employee Benefits: Coffee & Snacks Are In, Family Planning Is Out
Elon Musk is borderline obsessed with global birthrates, but the Twitter CEO is apparently less interested in supporting his own employees’ family planning goals. The father of (at least) 10 children, who had twins with an executive at one of his other companies in 2021, has cut Twitter staff’s fertility benefits in half, according to…