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From sports to catwalks to burlesque, inside the ‘creative’ 150-year history of the jockstrap: ‘They reveal, they conceal’

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From sports to catwalks to burlesque, inside the ‘creative’ 150-year history of the jockstrap: ‘They reveal, they conceal’

NEW YORK — Happy 150th birthday, dear jockstrap. How far you’ve come from your modest but mighty days of protecting the precious parts of bicycle messengers as they navigated the bumpy cobblestones of Boston. Invented for that purpose in 1874 by C.F. Bennett, who worked for a company now known as Bike Athletic, the strappy little … Read more

The over 150-year mystery of why urine is yellow has finally been cracked: study

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The over 150-year mystery of why urine is yellow has finally been cracked: study

Scientists have some whiz-dom to share with those who have wondered what gives urine its distinct color. For over 150 years, it has been a mystery why urine from the human body comes out as yellow. But a new study published Wednesday in the journal Nature Microbiology has cracked the yellow code. Researchers from the University of Maryland … Read more