Episode 10
Nitpicking
Sat, 2017-May-13 02:28 UTC
Length - 1:30
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With 152,282 views on Friday, 12 May 2017 our article of the day is Nitpicking.
Nitpicking is the act of removing nits (the eggs of lice, generally head lice) from the host's hair. As the nits are cemented to individual hairs, they cannot be removed with most lice combs and, before modern chemical methods were invented, the only options were to shave all the host's hair or to pick them free one by one.
This is a slow and laborious process, as the root of each individual hair must be examined for infestation. It was largely abandoned as modern chemical methods became available; however, as lice populations can and do develop resistance, manual nitpicking is still often necessary.
This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 02:28 UTC on Saturday, 13 May 2017.
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