Bacteria test - the results
Your name:
Jack Ashby
Entry:
The Petri dishes inocullated from swabs of the car have been incubating since Thursday, and we now have the results. Lots of bacteria of several forms were grown.
Red: The Colour Currency of Nature
Your name:
Katy Beinart
Entry:
The Colour Currency of Nature, an article by Nicholas Humphrey, was first published in Colour for Architecture, ed. Tom Porter and Byron Mikellides, pp. 95-98, Studio-Vista, London, 1976.
Eating Molten Lead
Entry:
Martial arts footage from Mount Dobong, South Korea - where a man eats molten lead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q40v8qeUJZQ
metal tolerant plants
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Around lead mines in the peak district, where for two hundred years up to 1780, the Peak was the most important lead mining area in the world, only plants that can tolerate lead managed to survive
1/50 scaled up- now we need a stand in
Entry:
Now that the real car has been scaled up to be 2.1 metres wide and 5.25 metres long we need to have a scaled up consumer of the car that stands in for the boy. I propose King Kong!
Electromagnetic Sensitivity
Entry:
An artist colleague came in this evening and struck upon a new subject altogether. I was explaining the story of the object to her and while I was talking she was doing two things.
Phonetic research using lead chains in the vocal tract
Your name:
Volker Dellwo
Entry:
This story reminds me of early phonetic research on speech production from the 1920s.
Colour
Your name:
Marcus Pearce
Entry:
Interesting that the red paint rather than the white contained lead as historically lead was associated with white paint.
Lead in the Roman atmosphere
Your name:
Desmond Campbell
Entry:
Scientists found in Greenland ice cores a peak in lead in the atmosphere in Roman times which they think was due to Roman industrial activity.
Alas Poor Merrick
Entry:
These articles were sent to us by Sally MacDonald, Director of UCL Museums, Collections and Public Engagement.
