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Knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work
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#32A friend from the east once asked me:
"How do you take a shit, in Siberia?"
As I hesitated to answer, wondering if it was even possible during certain times of year, he said:
"With two sticks - one in each hand - one for the feral dogs and one for the turd."
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#33Some highlights:
“In order to procure the necessary raw materials for knife production, one of us (M.I.E.) went on a diet with high protein and fatty acids, which is consistent with an arctic diet, for eight days…”
“Raw material collection did not begin until day four, and then proceeded regularly for the next five days (Table S1). Fecal samples were formed into knives using ceramic molds, “knife molds” (Figs. S1–S2), or molded by hand, “hand-shaped knives””
“We repeated the experiment using the fecal samples of another team member (M.R.B.), whose diet was more traditionally Western (see supplementary online materials)”
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#34It will be interesting to see citations in years to come or if it will make it to "popular articles" in ScienceDirect's front page.
The article is from 2019 and it has 12 citations so far
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=17315...
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#35This seems a little too on the nose (pun intended) for even the Ig Nobel prize
The authors won the 2020 materials science ignobel.
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#36literal shitpost
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#37I’ve been unable to sleep at night thinking about whether or not this was possible - glad I can finally get some rest.
With this comment, I think HN has officially matured to the level of a 13-year old girl.
I'm proud of us.
Congrats on the sarcasm
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#38This was researched by academics and published in an academic journal. What kind of scholarship does society gain from this? Did no one in the chain take and objective look and consider this unworthy of study, or is the publish-or-perish paradigm so misguided (and worthwhile avenues of study so crowded) that we end up with a paper on frozen shit?
Re: Knives manufactured from frozen human feces do not work
#39It will be interesting to see citations in years to come or if it will make it to "popular articles" in ScienceDirect's front page.
The article is from 2019 and it has 12 citations so far https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=17315...
> Plains Paleoindian projectile point penetration potential
They had some fun with that one.