In addition to the 69 that were killed, another 169 were poised by the beer. The country where this took place (Mozambique) has declared three days of national mourning (January 12, 13, and 14th). This from the website RT: Police investigation has discovered that the beer was likely poisoned with crocodile bile during the funeral. […]

The following post was originally a guest post on Michelle Van Loon’s blog, “Pilgrim’s Road Trip.” The author of the post, who wishes to remain anonymous, wrote the following message to me via facebook: Last June we accepted a foster placement of twin girls who were four months old. We’ve been foster parents for almost 7 years, but nothing […]

From PRN Films In this film we follow a group of people who donate their bodies to the University of Otago Medical School for students to dissect. We interviewed the donors while they were still alive; both the donors and students gave us permission to follow their amazing journey. We are there when the students meet […]

Memento mori’ means, in Latin, ‘remember you must die’. Under this sonorous title, from the Middle Ages onwards, philosophers and artists produced solemn invitations to reflect on mortality. This is our addition to the genre.

Via Unexplained Events:  The Medical Pathology Museum—Tokyo University Dr. Masaichi Fukushi, a pathologist, was interested in the art of Japanese tattooing. Fukushi would remove the tattooed skin off of donated bodies and preserve them and keep them stretched in a glass case. He would also offer to pay for people that couldn’t afford to get […]