Sentences with phrase «eraser shavings»
From Tom Friedman's eraser shavings to Rob de Mar's minuscule waterfall to Adia Millett's tabletop dollhouses, intimately scaled sculptures are making a large impact.
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He has coaxed beautiful sculpture out of such things as eraser shavings, pillow stuffing, and plastic cups; once he carved his portrait into an aspirin tablet.
Parchment eraser shavings also yield DNA that can trace specific breeds and their use over time.
At the symposium, Matthew Teasdale, a postdoc in Dan Bradley's lab at Trinity College in Dublin, reported on the biology of another valuable text: the York Gospels, thought to have been written around 990 C.E. DNA from this book's eraser shavings showed that, aside from some sheep, its pages were mostly calfskin — mainly from female calves, which was unexpected because cows were usually allowed to grow up to bear offspring.
The York Gospels also offer a rare record of the people of the book: Almost 20 % of the DNA Teasdale extracted from its eraser shavings came from humans or microbes shed by humans, he announced at the symposium.
Fiddyment discovered that the eraser shavings captured proteins from the parchment, which she could isolate and analyze with a mass spectrometer.
Eraser shaving DNA might reveal that priest's hair and eye color, ailments, and ancestry.