Outtakes from Hank Green's visit to the Museum
Hank Green of the Vlogbrothers visited the museum to film a "Thoughts from Places" video about a month ago. A lot of the footage he took wasn't used, here's some that didn't make it to the...
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- Birds on sticks! - How do you keep them preserved?- You need to make an incision and remove the whole internal body cavity,which is all just one big enclosed unit.It's got this great connective tissue.It's like taking a sock off of your foot.'Cause you invert the whole skin up until the skull,crack the skull in half,remove the brain with a very sophisticated tool called a brain scoop,revert the skin,stuff it with cotton, put some wire in it,stick the stick in it, and um, that's about it.The ones dating before the 1960s were preserved with arsenic as well.- 78. So we're good.- You still might wanna wash your hands before you go to lunch.You know what this is?- That is a vertebrae...?- Yes.- Of a very large thing.Is it a cetacean?-...
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- Birds on sticks! - How do you keep them preserved?- You need to make an incision and remove the whole internal body cavity,which is all just one big enclosed unit.It's got this great connective tissue.It's like taking a sock off of your foot.'Cause you invert the whole skin up until the skull,crack the skull in half,remove the brain with a very sophisticated tool called a brain scoop,revert the skin,stuff it with cotton, put some wire in it,stick the stick in it, and um, that's about it.The ones dating before the 1960s were preserved with arsenic as well.- 78. So we're good.- You still might wanna wash your hands before you go to lunch.You know what this is?- That is a vertebrae...?- Yes.- Of a very large thing.Is it a cetacean?-...
