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NEWS ABOUT: skull

skull stories: 9 news summaries
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 How Skulls 
 Took Over 
 Fashion 

Once scary, now stylish, skulls are trendy—and not just at Halloween

Oct 30, 09 11:08 AM CDT
(Newser) - Skulls, once seen as sinister symbols, are now used on everything from children's shirts to underwear. Sara Dickerman of Slate takes a look at how the trend developed:
  • In the 16th century, artists like Albrecht Dürer were still using skulls to remind people of their mortality.
  • French
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fashion • skull • Grateful Dead • pirates • Halloween • Vivienne Westwood • trend • Jay-ZTV • women's issues • trends • Alexander McQueen

 Skull Not 
 Hitler's; 
 Suicide 
 in Doubt 

Bullet-pierced skull fragment belongs to woman under 40, say scientists

Sep 28, 09 2:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - A portion of bullet-pierced skull believed to be Adolf Hitler's is actually from the head of a woman under 40, throwing into question how the Nazi dictator died, American scientists have revealed. The skull portion, seized by Russians after soldiers stormed Hitler's bunker, has the DNA, bone thickness and fusion... More »

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suicide • Adolf Hitler • skull • World War II • bunker buster • Eva Braun

Skull Find Shakes Up Theories on Early Humanity

Remains found in Georgia suggest mankind's evolution had Eurasian chapter

Sep 9, 09 6:06 AM CDT
(Newser) - Theories of human evolution have been thrown into disarray by ancient human remains found in Georgia, the Independent reports. The skulls, unearthed near Tbilisi, are from 1.8 million years ago, 800,000 years before modern humanity's ancestors were believed to have first moved out of Africa. The find, scientists... More »

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origins of humanity • Georgia • skull • human evolution • homo sapiens • hominids • Homo erectus

 Skull Hints 
 at Caveman 
 Compassion 

Skull suggests ancient humans cared for sick

Mar 31, 09 1:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Scientists have pieced together the skull of an ancient human who appears to have been deformed, but survived to at least age 5—suggesting he or she was cared for in spite of the handicap. That’s evidence for the existence of compassion in early humans, a trait other primates... More »

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skull • human behavior • human evolution • prehistoric • prehistoric mammals

Scientists Find 2,000-Year-Old Brain in Britain

Experts ask if head was severed by sacrifice
or ritual burial

Dec 12, 08 5:28 PM CST
(AP) - British archaeologists have unearthed an ancient skull carrying a startling surprise—an unusually well-preserved brain. Scientists said today that the mass of gray matter was more than 2,000 years old, making it the oldest ever discovered in Britain, the AP reports. One expert unconnected with the find called it... More »

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archaeology • brain • skull • Britain

 Ballesteros Has More Surgery 

Golf giant undergoes fourth brain operation

Dec 2, 08 4:13 PM CST
(Newser) - Seve Ballesteros is back in the hospital recovering from a fourth brain surgery, the BBC reports. The golf legend underwent a procedure in Madrid to drain fluid from his brain following the removal of a malignant tumor in October. The operation is an apparent medical setback for Ballesteros, 51, who... More »

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Spain • golf • skull • brain surgery • brain tumor • Seve Ballesteros

 Pianist's Skull 
 Steals Hamlet Scene 

Concert pianist left skull to theater

Nov 26, 08 9:24 AM CST
(Newser) - A concert pianist has appeared on stage in a 22-performance run of Hamlet—26 years after his death. André Tchaikowsky, a Polish Jew who was smuggled out of Warsaw as a child of 7, left his skull to the Royal Shakespeare Company upon his death in 1982. It was finally... More »

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theater • skull • William Shakespeare • Royal Shakespeare Company • Hamlet • André Tchaikowsky • Robert Andrzej Krauthammer

GLOSSIES

What's With all the Skulls?

Ancient death symbol becomes a favorite modern fashion accessory

Jul 5, 08 10:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - Heavy metal and Halloween, make room for haute couture. “What used to be a symbol for borderline-sociopathic tough guys with weird design fetishes—Hells Angels, pirates, Nazis—has become a trope de luxe,” writes Stephen Marche in Esquire. The skull, a symbol of death with deep religious significance,... More »

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fashion • Indiana Jones • Damien Hirst • pop culture • pop art • skull • Esquire

Diamonds
Are a Skull's Best Friend

Platinum cast +
8,601 jewels =
$100M price tag

Jun 2, 07 3:10 PM CDT
(Newser) - The priciest work of modern art ever created is on view at a London gallery, priced at just $100 million. Death-obsessed artist Damien Hirst cast a human skull in platinum and encrusted it with diamonds, creating a piece he calls "For the Love of God." He kept the... More »

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art • modern art • Damien Hirst • White Cube Gallery • skull • diamond

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