Experimental replication: knives manufactured from frozen human feces don't work

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X19305371

by nkurz • 7 years ago

23 16 7 years ago

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ropiwqefjnpoa• 7 years ago

Good to know.

0x8BADF00D• 7 years ago

Sounds like it was a shitty knife.

aklemm• 7 years ago

If you ask this question, imagine what other questions it leads to? Not a good path.

otterley• 7 years ago

This sounds like a future nomination for an Ig Nobel Prize, joining other illustrious publications such as “Nocturnal penile tumescence monitoring with stamps” - http://ignobel.org

dmix2• 7 years ago

Fits well in the definition: "first make people laugh, and then make them think"

Lxr• 7 years ago

Don’t miss the supplementary material: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S2352409X193053...

foldingmoney• 7 years ago

I hope this knowledge never ends up being relevant to my life.

umvi• 7 years ago

How do we know the Intuit didn't have diarrea that day and created essentially a brown ice knife?

m463• 7 years ago

Yellowknife is a town pretty close to the artic (it is in canada anyhow).

dboreham• 7 years ago

All this while also developing Quicken..

new_realist• 7 years ago

Piece of shit research.

dmix2• 7 years ago

In his book, Shadows in the Sun, Davis (1998: 20) recounts what is now arguably one of the most popular ethnographic accounts of all time
Since publication, this story has been told and re-told in documentaries, books, and across internet websites and message boards (Davis, 2007, Davis, 2010; Gregg et al., 2000; Kokoris, 2012; Taete, 2015).

So it's not entirely without merit.

I'm sure beyond the ethnographic stuff it will fill many "well actually ..." type corrections you find by the know-it-alls on Reddit and elsewhere on the internet.

abakker• 7 years ago

Good publication for an elsiever journal.

masonic• 7 years ago

Monetization idea: new Copro-Lite brand lightweight knives with field-replacable blades. Coming soon to Amazon!

pazimzadeh• 7 years ago

They tried to cut cold, dead hide with the "3D printed" knife. Anyone else think the hide might be tougher than taut, live tissue? They also only went on the Inuit diet for four days before trying it. And they didn't say how long it was frozen for. They also pointed out that the knife started melting pretty quickly after being exposed to the hide - this wouldn't happen in the arctic.

kjofol• 7 years ago

Smells like new "Sokal affair".

Experimental replication: knives manufactured from frozen human feces don't work

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