[HN Gopher] Eating Fossils
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       Eating Fossils
        
       Author : bookofjoe
       Score  : 15 points
       Date   : 2023-09-17 11:29 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
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       | fudged71 wrote:
       | My dad was a geologist. We would go fossil hunting all the time
       | and lick rocks. I've tried explaining it to many people over the
       | years and it sounds silly to them. With the 'end grain' of a
       | fractured bone, the porosity of real bone sticks to your tongue
       | unlike other rocks, it's pretty cool!
        
       | sohkamyung wrote:
       | I presume this is / was trending as the paper won a 2023 Ig Nobel
       | prize [ https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2023 ]
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       | "CHEMISTRY and GEOLOGY PRIZE [POLAND, UK]
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       | Jan Zalasiewicz, for explaining why many scientists like to lick
       | rocks.
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       | REFERENCE: "Eating Fossils," Jan Zalasiewicz, The Paleontological
       | Association Newsletter, no. 96, November 2017. Eating fossils |
       | The Palaeontological Association (palass.org)
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       | WHO TOOK PART IN THE CEREMONY: Jan Zalasiewicz"
        
       | _a_a_a_ wrote:
       | Skimmed it. Weird read. I'll come back for a proper read later.
       | Intriguing.
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       | Nummulites are (were? Thought they were extinct?) single celled :
       | "A nummulite is a large lenticular fossil, characterised by its
       | numerous coils,[1] subdivided by septa into chambers. They are
       | the shells of the fossil and present-day marine protozoan
       | Nummulites, a type of foraminiferan. Nummulites commonly vary in
       | diameter from 1.3 cm (0.5 inches) to 5 cm (2 inches)[2] ...
       | Fossils up to six inches wide are found in the Middle Eocene
       | rocks of Turkey"
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nummulite
        
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