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3D Printing Helps 3,000-year-old Mummy 'Speak'
A 3,000-year-old Egyptian priest has spoken again, sort of. Scientists in the United Kingdom have used 3D printing to recreate the vocal tract of a mummified Egyptian priest and, further, to reproduce a sound that the priest would have made while he was alive. The priest, Nesyamun, was a priest of the god Amun-Ra at the Temple of Amun at the Karnak temple complex. He also served as a scribe and an incense-bearer. He died about 1100 B.C. -
the new coronavirus zoo
Editorial cartoonists often use humor to make light of serious situations. One of the types of humor an editorial cartoonist uses is irony. Irony is defined as when the opposite of what you expect to happen occurs. Describe the irony in Gary Varvel’s cartoon. -
SOCIAL DISTANCING
Editorial cartoonists often use humor to make light of serious situations. Which comic device does the cartoonist use to take a facetious approach to the necessity of social distancing?
a) caricature
b) parody
c) understatement
d) onomatopoeia
e) anthropomorphism
