DNA From Beethoven's Hair Reveals Surprise Some 200 Years Later

Science Alert ^ | 18 February 2024 | MIKE MCRAE

[lurk]

All that from a hair sample. Amazing.

[Rennes Templar]

Portraits show he definitely did not have cleft palate. He was a sharp guy.

[Ezekiel]

That’s the treble with conjecture. Evidence is key.

They ruled out a staff infection because there would have been a signature for that.

[Rennes Templar]

True, their conjecture sounded like an organ recital.

I’m not going to make a major issue of it, the tone has been set. I’ll make my own pitch, and say whatever he died of, his passing struck a chord in everyone.

[Ezekiel]

You know it's a bad hair day when it all falls flat.

exacerbated by his drinking...

because measure for measure,

the circle of fifths is a death trap.

He should have stayed out of the bars.

[Texan5]

And of course those of the male sex always keep the goodies behind the zipper? This latina says BS-we are taught by mom the signs of the guy who likes having a woman on the side-he is not to be considered as a permanent partner. That is not true of most women...

[Texan5]

He could have had severe food allergies, too-and it isn’t like there was any way to know about gluten intolerance, IBS, etc. the food choices were pretty limited for anyone who wasn’t a rich noble who could have food grown in a glass/green house or literally-shipped from someplace else...

[Salamander]

Your reference made me ultra happy.

[Salamander]

Thank God I am not alone in my bizarre associations.

:D

[bwest]

How’s the wifi at the moloko bar?

[Salamander]

Bezoomny dobby!

[Salamander]

Read it as a teenager and drove people crazy speaking Nadsat all summer.

Still use horrorshow, yarbles. Ultra violence,old in out in out, glazzies, gulliver, and tolchock in conversation just because.

:D