Strontium: It Knows Where You've Been
Your teeth contain traces of strontium isotopes that can reveal where you lived while they were forming. Hosted by: Michael Aranda ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporter...
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What if I told you there’s a simple way for me to figure out every place you lived for the first, say, twenty years of your life? Because there is one. All you’d need to do is let me borrow a couple of teeth, so I could measure how much of the element strontium is in them. If we actually tried this, the tooth-extraction part probably wouldn’t be too much fun for you. And there are also plenty of easier ways to get the same information … like by checking social media, or just asking you. However, the technique is super helpful for anthropologists who study ancient humans, because it’s not like skeletons can just tell us what their lives were like. And knowing where a person lived can tell you a lot about them. For example, if someone grew up...
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What if I told you there’s a simple way for me to figure out every place you lived for the first, say, twenty years of your life? Because there is one. All you’d need to do is let me borrow a couple of teeth, so I could measure how much of the element strontium is in them. If we actually tried this, the tooth-extraction part probably wouldn’t be too much fun for you. And there are also plenty of easier ways to get the same information … like by checking social media, or just asking you. However, the technique is super helpful for anthropologists who study ancient humans, because it’s not like skeletons can just tell us what their lives were like. And knowing where a person lived can tell you a lot about them. For example, if someone grew up...
