The argument between the eminent Egyptologists that opens the article is frustratingly naive to anyone who has real experience in drilling and shaping hard materials. A dentist is, oddly enough, exactly the person I'd expect to write this article - academic enough to bother writing it, but practical enough to see the tool marks and have an insight into how they were made.
The whole thing reads like great literature. There should be a scientific magazine for papers that can be understood by the motivated layman. I accidentally read the whole thing in one sitting.
For more of excellent writing read Derek Lowe's https://www.science.org/blogs/pipeline His "Things I Won't Work With" series is particularly entertaining whilst remaining firmly scientific.
You misspelled “terrifying” there. I’ve never practiced chemistry, just got my B.S. and went to med school, but simply reading the names of most of those compounds made my blood run cold.
Gorelik or Gorelick (Russian: Горелик; Belarusian: Гарэлік: Harelik) is a Jewish occupational surname historically denoting a vodka distiller or trader. Its etymology is Slavic, from Belarusian harelka (гарэлка), a calque from Polish gorzałka, itself from German geprant Wein 'burnt wine'.
