The British museum make their own youtube video's perhaps you could do a collaboration, they have 8 million items in their collection though so it might be hard to find :)
the year is 2022 and I've spent a good amount of this year, thus far, diving into the treasure trove that is Objectivity videos. An incredible find of a channel that I hope many more happen upon for many years to come.
These videos are really wonderful and very enjoyable. In any decently run universe, Brady and Keith would have a series of science fiction murder-mystery books written about them.
I keep forgetting to "like" your videos. Forgive me, they're so interesting I get on to the next one ASAP and forget to "like". I just want to say that Keith is amazing. He knows so much about all this stuff, and has such a listenable voice and manner about him, I could never get tired of just listening to him talk about stuff. Love it.
Kind of a sad episode towards the end. How do Keith and his colleagues maintain records today? Are they all computerized? Does he already have records on magnetic tape from the 70s that can no longer be read? Do they maintain hard copies? He doesn't sound too judgmental about these lost objects and connections; is it just the natural way of things over such a long term?
@@penguinkothe8323 Digital systems are almost as worrisome. It's all to easy to lose the machines that read certain formats, or the information on how to read them. This missing episodes of Dr Who, taped over by the BBC, the missing moon landing footage, the guys working (in a closed mcdonalds building!) to find and repair the machines to read early nasa digital magnetic tape. My grandparents pile of home movies on beta.
This so reminds me of my childhood days. I would scour the wastelands and construction sites in my rural neighbourhood and collect all sorts of curiosities and stash my collection in my wardrobe drawer. I have rare and curious looking rocks, parts which fell of machinery (large bolts, etc), but the best was part of a dog's skull with most of its teeth still intact. Ah... the wonder years.
The "monstrous calf" still exists, it is preserved in Beamish Museum in Barnard Castle in County Durham, where it's been exhibited for over a hundred years.
+Mr Schrödinger - I am the one who reviews. The difference is that the one on The Brain Scoop was two-faced, which is caused by a protein defect, while the one mentioned in the RS catalogue was tow-headed, and actually a pair of conjoined twins.
I think they explained in an earlier episode that wearing gloves increases the chance of accidentally ripping the pages. But there's an equal chance that I just made that up xP
I love these videos so much, but some of them (like this one) makes my chest ache. I really need to be born rich if I get another life so I can spend that money on equipment to digitise and catalogue all these things so everyone can see them. Just... that last bit about the loss of provenance... I can't even. I get that not everyone's a meticulous record keeper, and some things would have seemed common and beneath notice, but... *sigh* So much love for the learnings.
at 4:46 there are a lot of shoes. Is there anything special about them, such as owned by someone famous or some kind of early patent preservation, or is it a way of people getting rid of junk or giving it away to the poor through the royal society?
7:17 it wouldn't be a difficult thing for the museums to communicate in this day and age of technology to search their inventories for unidentified wax models, submit them to an age test (if possible, maybe) and narrow the pool, maybe even with documentation on the other "side of the fence". Now would it?
I know that in english you would follow latin rules for plural for latin words, especially for words ending by "us", but in this case wouldn't such rule make terella become terellae instead of terelli. Or is the Italian plural used in this case? I'm not from english mothertongue but I'm always curious about exceptions like these.
I wonder how intelligent and qualified Keith really is? Does he just memorise all the facts on this or have a deeper understanding? Don't take this as me doubting him, I am just curious.
why are you taking off your gloves when you touch paper? would it not be better to actually keep them on so your the fat on your skin doesn't get on the paper?
I really don't want to sound like a hater but, I just want to break the ice a little bit, while I am subscribed to my channel, I deferentially don't like it as much as everyone here seem to, and I never understood the thing with Keith, like, is this some kind of fetish? He's just a regular guy...
