What These Biology Students Do With Dead Cats Is Absolutely Sickening

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In high school biology classes, it’s common to dissect animals. I remember having to dissect worms and frogs, while some of my peers had to perform experiments with fetal pigs and fully grown cats. Some argue that students learn better when they use software and other non-animal methods, but unfortunately, in-class dissection are still a […]

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How They Maintain Lenin’s Mummified Corpse Is Bizarre But Totally Fascinating

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For those who might not be familiar with world history, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov — better known as Vladimir Lenin — changed the world in 1917. That year, his own intervention and the intervention of his supporters caused the collapse of Tsarist Russia and ushered in the era of the Soviet Union. Despite his death during […]

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These 21 Victoria Era Post-Mortem Photographs Are Unsettling. How Was This a Thing?

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The Victorian Era was a pretty morbid time in human history. One of the most unsettling traditions of the era was the practice of post-mortem photography (that is, photographing the dead). By today’s standards, this is would be pretty taboo, but at the time it was seen as quite normal. That doesn’t mean that seeing those pictures now makes them […]

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