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Mon. 08/01 - Early Europeans Drank Milk Despite Lactose Intolerance; Ancient Humans, They're Just Like Us!


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The first major study of its kind sheds new light on the evolution of all you mutants who can digest dairy. Plus, engineers at MIT have developed a wearable sticker that can see inside your body. And, was George Jetson born over the weekend?

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How Humans’ Ability to Digest Milk Evolved from Famine and Disease (Scientific American)
  • Early Europeans Could Not Tolerate Milk but Drank It Anyway, Study Finds (NY Times)
  • MIT engineers develop stickers that can see inside the body (MIT News)
  • MIT Engineers Develop Ultrasound Stickers That Can See Inside the Body (SciTech Daily)
  • Fine, let's actually work out whether George Jetson will be born tomorrow (A/V Club)
  • Was George Jetson Born in 2022? (Snopes)
  • Wikipedia suspends edits to its 'recession' page (NPR)
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