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The best part is the very end, where it is revealed that the study was done by two dentists.
by et1337 2y ago
The best part is the very end, where it is revealed that the study was done by two dentists.
- trwm 2y agoThe whole thing reads like great literature. There should be a scientific magazine for papers that can be understood by the motivated layman. I accidentally read the whole thing in one sitting.
- surfingdino 2y agoFor more of excellent writing read Derek Lowe's https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline His "Things I Won't Work With" series is particularly entertaining whilst remaining firmly scientific.
- devilbunny 2y agoYou misspelled “terrifying” there. I’ve never practiced chemistry, just got my B.S. and went to med school, but simply reading the names of most of those compounds made my blood run cold.
- jdietrich 2y agoThe argument between the eminent Egyptologists that opens the article is frustratingly naive to anyone who has real experience in drilling and shaping hard materials. A dentist is, oddly enough, exactly the person I'd expect to write this article - academic enough to bother writing it, but practical enough to see the tool marks and have an insight into how they were made.
- unwind 2y ago... and one of them has the last name "Gorelick" [1?]. Impressive study, happy I'm not a patient of his. 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym
- rrr_oh_man 2y agoGorelik or Gorelick (Russian: Горелик; Belarusian: Гарэлік: Harelik) is a Jewish occupational surname historically denoting a vodka distiller or trader. Its etymology is Slavic, from Belarusian harelka (гарэлка), a calque from Polish gorzałka, itself from German geprant Wein 'burnt wine'. So what?