Here’s a nice reminder that an expert is only “an expert” in their specific, narrow field, and (more importantly) everybody in an expert in something. A Baltimore hair stylist has helped archaeologists better understand how Roman and Greek women achieved some of the complicated, towering hairdos depicted in sculpture and paintings. How? She experimentally demonstrated that the word most scientists had been translating as “hairpin” probably should be translated as “needle and thread”.
via Boing Boing