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The strange story of the binding of books in human skin | Science End-shutdown
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A 17th century book with an inscription by Dr. Ludovic Bouland stating that the book is bound in human skin. Welcome Library via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In 2015, Megan Rosenbloom traveled to the Houghton Library at Harvard University in search of a book called “Des destinées de l’âme” (“Destinations of the Soul”), […]
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Strange But Finally Positive Genetic Discovery Reveals Up To 1,000 Relatives Linked To Prolific Sperm Donor | Health End-shutdown
Jack Nunn was 21, his girlfriend a year younger, when she died suddenly while the couple were in England. Nunn had been studying literature, but that shocking tragedy in 2007 launched him on a new path that would end in a strange but unexpectedly positive discovery: that his grandfather was one of the world’s most […]