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This ancient optical illusion is a 14,000-year-old puzzle
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The artist responsible for those gold-leafed Nobel portraits would like to paint something other than old white men, please
How humans created color for thousands of years
Make cufflinks from upcycled materials and look like a boss
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These 1,000-year-old, blue-specked teeth could rewrite medieval history
Every work of art has its own microbiome. Most could use a probiotic.
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