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 On February 21st,1977 during a concert stop, KISS band members Gene Simmons, Ace Frehley, Paul Stanley and Peter Criss each donated blood to be collectively mixed with the red ink used in the printing of the first issue of the Marvel/KISS comics.
Authors wishing to add some of their own DNA to their work will be happy to know that
Tokyo-based Ko-sin Printing has developed a printing process that uses a special ink that includes DNA extracted from a hair or nail sample (from human or animal) provided by the author. Already Ko-sin has put the technology to use in some self-published autobiographies whose title pages are printed with ink that includes the author's DNA.
Per the company, mixing DNA in with the ink does not alter the appearance of the page and claims it is possible to extract genetic information from materials printed using this process.
Could this mean the cloning of authors in the not-to-distant future? Perhaps. When Ko-sin Printing sent a sample page to a DNA laboratory, the lab technicians were able to isolate and extract the DNA from the page. |
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 The Codex Gigas (Latin for "Giant Book") is interesting enough for being the largest extant medieval manuscript in the world, but the legend behind it makes it all the more intriguing for oddballs like myself!
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Anthropodermic bibliopegy is the practice of binding books in human skin. While not common today, there are believed to be hundreds of examples in libraries around the world, mainly from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries. One notable example is a text in the College of Physicians of Philadelphia which has a tattoo. |
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By Ellen Warren / Chicago Tribune
CHICAGO-Getting high on great literature is taking on a whole new meaning.
 It turns out that, if you spend enough time around old books and decaying manuscripts in dank archives, you can start to hallucinate. Really. We're not talking psychedelia, "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" stuff, here. But maybe only a step or two away from that. Experts on the various fungi that feed on the pages and on the covers of books are increasingly convinced that you can get high - or at least a little wacky-by sniffing old books.
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