This episode has a little bit of everything: the French Revolution, haunted amulets, mummies (maybe??)... why, it's like a regular Night at the Museum! Have fun!
This episode has a little bit of everything: the French Revolution, haunted amulets, mummies (maybe??)... why, it's like a regular Night at the Museum! Have fun!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Da Vinci’s Faces
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100715090917.htm
First Museum:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-story-behind-the-worlds-oldest-museum-built-by-a-b-5805358
Woman Hit By Meteorite
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1995LPI....26.1133P/0001133.000.html?high=484678bbd531063
[Fact Off]
Blaschka glass scientific models
http://www.cmog.org/article/blaschkas-glass-models-invertebrate-animals-1863-1890
https://web.archive.org/web/20160411221330/http://www.journalofantiques.com/Feb04/featurefeb04.htm
These three links include info + pictures:
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/blaschka
http://hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers
https://hmnh.harvard.edu/fruits-decay
[Ask the Science Couch]
Painting restoration
https://www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care/conservation_meaning.html
https://www.invaluable.com/blog/the-science-behind-art-restoration/
Sculptures
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/modern-chemistry-techniques-save-ancient-art/
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/the-art-of-conservation/3009092.article
Bacteria
https://www.wired.com/2011/11/st-artrestoremicro/
[Butt One More Thing]
Coprolite inside another fossil