Saturday, October 10, 2009

Error!

I was reading through my book the other day to check on some info I wrote, and while reading through the section on cleaning skulls I noticed an error. It's kind of an embarassing one, actually - on Page 89 and then twice on Page 90 I use a word that has a very different meaning than the one I meant to use. When you clean a skull by immersing it in water and allowing the natural bacteria to separate meat from the bone, it's called "maceration". The process of chewing your food is called "mastication". Any guesses which one I chose? Yep, not just once but thrice I used the term "mastication" instead of "maceration". The upside? If you really wanted to, though, I suppose you could use mastication to clean your skulls!

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