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A place for majestic STEMLORD peacocking, as well as memes about the realities of working in a lab.
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He's rich from a long and successful multimedia art career. And I can't find any source that says he bought it, it seems to still be owned by James Zigras, the mineralogist friend. He just carved it.
Not sure about the racist bit. DEVO definitely utilized racial stereotypes, but the consensus seems to be that it was very clearly satirizing systemic racism. I dunno if Mothersbaugh has any other history of sincere racism, but I can't find anything.