Good catch by Cocktail Party Physics...
Prof Blair Hedges applies genetic error clock techniques to date manuscripts and books!
Ok, so I don't read PSU Press Releases either...
"The discovery that the wood blocks and metal plates used for printmaking deteriorate at a clock-like rate means that we can now use the prints as a "print clock" for determining the date a work was printed," says Blair Hedges, professor of biology at Penn State and author of the paper describing the research, which will be published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical, and Engineering Sciences.
Cool. Another one of these "of course..." after someone else did it.
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Sometimes The Onion just nails it. I don't have to say how funny/happy/sad/conflicted/overjoyed/suicidal/smug/ your average librarian is going to find this one.
On the basis of this article about emissions from laser printers, our department administrator came by this week to take my HP 1200 series LaserJet away.
I said I wanted to keep it.
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