tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post6769761190641081581..comments2024-03-28T02:11:49.069-07:00Comments on eScienceCommons: Ancient brewers tapped antibiotic secretseScienceCommonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07669694248203452186noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-88829757026617473902012-08-17T09:04:19.894-07:002012-08-17T09:04:19.894-07:00Gee dartigen...so you're saying the smartest a...Gee dartigen...so you're saying the smartest and most advanced civilizations are only the ones that exist now? Who do you think the Greeks and Romans learned from...let me guess?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-72281795641296077512011-03-08T20:00:18.750-08:002011-03-08T20:00:18.750-08:00I don't think it was intentional somehow. At b...I don't think it was intentional somehow. At best they might have discovered 'hey, when the beer has this yellow stuff on it, it makes people get better somehow!'. It's very likely that they didn't know what they were doing or how it worked - just that this particular way of making beer produced beer that made people somehow get better when they were sick. <br />But like the best discoveries, it was probably a complete accident the first time...::dartigen::..https://www.blogger.com/profile/03124886352024279482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-18222263860684092462010-09-02T04:52:50.142-07:002010-09-02T04:52:50.142-07:00Out of Africa always something new...... (to us)Out of Africa always something new...... (to us)Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12861193684410429450noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-4339801955170863492010-09-01T18:10:53.602-07:002010-09-01T18:10:53.602-07:00The A.D. 350 to 550 Nubian populations studied lef...The A.D. 350 to 550 Nubian populations studied left no written record and are prehistoric, although writing existed in other areas at the time.eScienceCommonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07669694248203452186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-82628344599259055402010-09-01T14:09:07.949-07:002010-09-01T14:09:07.949-07:00A.D. 350 and 550 is prehistoric??A.D. 350 and 550 is prehistoric??Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-52108460915413286372010-09-01T11:13:37.106-07:002010-09-01T11:13:37.106-07:00Yes. Don't forget that there actually were rea...Yes. Don't forget that there actually were reasonable, smart people in ancient times as well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-92148247160453443692010-09-01T08:56:39.795-07:002010-09-01T08:56:39.795-07:00This is very interesting, but not really surprisin...This is very interesting, but not really surprising. Many ancient practices that seem at first to be purely superstitious had some basis in fact.bloggerhttp://blogstalk.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-31152666215259816482010-09-01T08:14:09.525-07:002010-09-01T08:14:09.525-07:00Let's just call it "olds" ...but let...Let's just call it "olds" ...but let us not be done with it.Leohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11412519921543447236noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-55132049738788271072010-09-01T07:37:54.568-07:002010-09-01T07:37:54.568-07:00This is "old" news in the sense that it&...This is "old" news in the sense that it's incremental science that's been developing over decades. The new element is the chemical analysis, revealing the large amount of tetracycline in the bones, indicating that the Nubians were deliberately brewing the stuff.eScienceCommonshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07669694248203452186noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4004592252895499792.post-3569746739951451962010-09-01T04:22:39.297-07:002010-09-01T04:22:39.297-07:00Really old news.. http://news.nationalgeographic.c...Really old news.. http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/05/0516_050516_ancientbeer.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com