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Curio: History, Museums, and the Things We Put in Them - 005 - Oops, That's a Person

005 - Oops, That's a Person

06/08/18 • 48 min

Curio: History, Museums, and the Things We Put in Them

A lot of museum stuff is old. Including the displays. They hide... secrets. Shan regales Jaybee with four tales of human remains showing up in exhibits where they should not have been. 

Warning: this episode deals with death and desecration of human remains and some pretty awful racism so... take care of yourselves. Do what you gotta do. 

Be nice to each other. 

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A lot of museum stuff is old. Including the displays. They hide... secrets. Shan regales Jaybee with four tales of human remains showing up in exhibits where they should not have been. 

Warning: this episode deals with death and desecration of human remains and some pretty awful racism so... take care of yourselves. Do what you gotta do. 

Be nice to each other. 

Previous Episode

undefined - 004 - Doomtown Mannequins

004 - Doomtown Mannequins

It's da bomb. Shan and Jaybee launch into the nuclear age, learning all about the Nevada Test Site and the development of radioactive technology, and how it relates to a host of irradiated mannequins of the National Museum of Atomic Testing. Learn about all the weird ways people used to ingest radium! Atomize Vegans! Bleeding earballs! And the tragic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the powerful design of the Hiroshima Peace Pavilion. 

It's a party mix of laughter, deep, deep horror, and sadness, on this week's Curio.

 

Resources: 

http://www.westmuse.org/sites/westmuse.org/files/documents/WMA2014/Sessions/WMA2014_CollectionsThatKill-Notes.pdf

 

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/152-1411/features/2594-united-states-atomic-age-doom-town

 

http://time.com/3675016/nevada-a-bomb-test/

http://www.businessinsider.com/operation-doorstep-photos-2016-3#this-group-of-mannequins-is-hiding-under-the-stairs-in-a-basement-likely-to-test-if-this-was-an-effective-strategy-6

 

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/sep/21/building-the-atom-bomb-the-full-story-of-the-nevada-test-site

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nevada_Test_Site#Areas

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury,_Nevada

 

http://www.dark-tourism.com/index.php/15-countries/individual-chapters/758-nevada-nuclear-test-site

https://www.globalzero.org/blog/how-many-nukes-would-it-take-render-earth-uninhabitable

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_technology

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irradiated_mail

 

https://www.mirion.com/introduction-to-radiation-safety/the-history-of-radiation/

 

http://mentalfloss.com/article/12732/9-ways-people-used-radium-we-understood-risks

 

https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-08/healthy-glow-drink-radiation

 

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18940506

 

https://geoscience.ucalgary.ca/tamaratt-chair/files/tamaratt-chair/death-by-numbers_the-mysterious-illness-of-the-dial-painters.pdf

 

https://www.news-medical.net/health/Radiation-Poisoning-History.aspx

 

http://nationalatomictestingmuseum.org/

 

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/many-nukes-world-could-destroy/

 

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20170422/p2a/00m/0na/010000c

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undefined - 006 - The Kinect Heist

006 - The Kinect Heist

It's a heist!!! Shan talks about her favourite museum heist (so far): the "theft" of the bust of Nefertiti from the Neues Museum, Berlin. From the unearthing of the bust in the early 20th century to its theft via Kinect camera in 2016, it's a strange and winding road. 

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