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#clearfixheader { clear: both; width: 100%; height: 100%; margin-top: 0px; padding-top:0px; } .social_li ul li a:link, .social_li ul li a, .social_li a:link, .social_li li a, .social_li a { padding: .2rem .8rem !important /* this controls how tall & wide socialbuttons are ; remove !important when style.css is consolidated */ color:#1e3a4a } .social_li li{display:inline; margin-left:10px ;margin-left:1rem; margin-right:10px; margin-right:1rem;} .centerwrap ul {margin: 0px -1% 0px 0%} #navbar{ font-size: 1.6rem; _font-family: "Oswald", sans-serif !important; font-family:"Muli", sans-serif !important; font-weight: 400; _text-transform: uppercase; font-weight:bold; z-index:99; /*margin-top, margin-bottom: 0px !important; */ text-alignment:center; height:auto !important; text-align:justify; -ms-text-justify:distribute-all-lines; text-justify:distribute-all-lines; _letter-spacing:-.5px; color:#39AACF; margin-top: 0px; margin-left:0%; _margin-right:7% ; border-radius:0px; _background-color:rgba(118,154,172,.9); background-color:rgba(57, 170, 207, .85); min-width:245px; _width: 86%; width: 100%; } #navbar a{ _font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold; padding:0 12px; padding:0 1rem; padding-top: 2px; text-decoration:none; letter-spacing: .1px; color: white; _font-family: Helvetica; _font-family: "Oswald", sans-serif !important; font-family:"Muli", sans-serif font-weight: 600; font-size: 1.55rem; line-height: 2.2rem; padding-top: 3px; } .nav ul, .socmedia ul {text-align:center} /*#nav{list-style-type:none;} */ /* #nav li{display:inline;float:left;list-style-type:none} #nav .stretch { display: inline-block; width: 100%; *display: inline; zoom: 1 } */ /*icons by https://www.entypo.com/*/ .social_li ul li a:link, .social_li ul li a,.social a:link, .social_li li a, .social_li a { padding: 0 .8rem !important; /* this controls how tall & wide socialbuttons are ; remove !important when style.css is consolidated */ color: white; /*#1e3a4a */ } /* might work to space out items more nav li:before { margin-left: 3px} */ #search-old2{ display: inline-block!important; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 8px; float: none!important; width: 115px!important; font-family: font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif !important; background-color: #1497c2; text-align: left !important; font-weight: normal!important; } #search-old2 form{background:none!important; width:110px; height:100%; margin-top:2px !important; padding:0px} /* this indents widget */ .contentwrapper ul li li{ text-indent: -1.1rem; } .contentwrapper a, a:visited, a:hover{font-size: inherit; } /* 1.6rem; shouldnt this just inherit */ .middle_sidebar ul , .r_sidebar ul , .l_sidebar ul, .contentmiddle ul, .r_sidebar ul li { background:none; list-style-type:none; } /*shading boxes around ads + contact info*/ .r_sidebar .r_adbx_top, .r_sub_con,.r_about_ad{background: #f2f2f2; border-radius: 0rem; } /*#bdbec2 */ .r_adbx_top, .r_sub_con,.r_about_ad{text-align:left; padding: 10px 18px 10px 18px; margin:12px -4px 0px -4px;} .box { border: .2rem solid black; font-size: 4rem; border-radius:2px;} .lightbox {border: .1rem solid grey ;} _colorcontrast {background-color: rgb(224, 224, 224); margin: 0px; border-right: 9px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); border-left: 9px solid rgb(224, 224, 224); border-radius: 8px;} .tagline { text-align:left ; font-size:13px; font-size:1.3hw; line-height:100%; margin:0; margin-top: 6px; /* color:white !important; */ margin-left:6px; padding:2px; color:#4a7d96; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; } #tagline_container{ max-width:335px; width:100%; margin-top: 50px; margin-left: 21px; } _ad_logo_wrapper{margin-left:3.5%; margin-right:4.3%;} #ad_logo_wrapper{margin-left:7%; margin-right:4%; margin-top:3px;} #logocontainer{width:auto; float:left; margin-left:0px; margin-top: 0px; max-width:40%; } #big_logo { /* margin-left: 25%; max-width: 7%; transform: scale(8); float: left; width:100%; max-height: 10%; */ } #big_logo{ transform: scale(8); max-height:10%; max-width:325px; float: left !important; text-align: left; width: 100%; } #logo_container { width: 100%; float: left; z-index: -40; /* overflow: visible; */ max-width: 600px; max-height: 200px; min-width: 140px; margin-left: 20px; height: auto; min-height: 40px; margin-top: 0px; _background-image: url(/wp-content/themes/openculture_v3a/images/openculture_banner.png); background-size: contain; background-repeat: no-repeat; max-width:80vw;; /*css3 viewport setting */ } .left { /* border: 2px dashed #f0f; */ text-align:left; _min-height:40px; height:auto; _margin-top: 45px; margin-left: 0px; _background: url("https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/images/open-culture-stacked-logo.svg") no-repeat; _background: url("https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/images/open-culture-horizontal-logo.svg") no-repeat; _background: url("https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/images/open-culture-stacked-logo-with-stacked-tagline.svg") no-repeat; _background: url("https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/images/open-culture-horizontal-logo-with-tagline.svg") no-repeat; background-size: contain; max-width:600px; min-width:90px; overflow:hidden; _background-position-y:0px; _background-position-x:0px; background-position-x: center !important; background-position-y: center !important; z-index:200; } .right { float: right; _width: 740px; /*min-height: 25px;*/ margin-left: 2.5%; padding-left: 0px; margin-right: 20px ; padding-right:0px; /* border: 2px dashed #00f; */ position:relative; z-index:200; } .top{} .bottom{ background: url("https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/images/open-culture-horizontal-logo.svg") no-repeat; _background-size: contain; background-size: revert-layer; min-height:80px; /* border: 2px dashed green; */ clear:both; padding-top:8px; _margin: 4px 10px 0 10px; _background-position-y: 0px; /* min-height: 65px; */ clear: both; background-position-x: center; background-position-y:center; padding-top: 0px; margin: 2px 1rem 0px 1rem; /* height: 90px; */ _min-height: 110px; } #footerW{ right: 0; left: 0; position: relative; padding: 0; overflow:hidden;} .clear {clear:both;} .logo_clickable { position:absolute; width:100%; height:100%; top:0; left: 0; z-index: 50; _position:absolute; /* fixes overlap error in IE7/8, make sure you have an empty gif */ _background-image: url('empty.gif'); } .socialblock li {top: 2px;} .social-mail a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/mail.svg) no-repeat;} .social-twitter a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/twitter.svg) no-repeat;} .social-facebook a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/facebook.svg) no-repeat;} .social-rss a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/rss.svg) no-repeat;} .social-search a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/magnifying-glass.svg) no-repeat;} .sb-icon-search {background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/magnifying-glass.svg) no-repeat;} .social-mail-black a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/mail-black.svg) no-repeat;} .social-twitter-black a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/twitter-black.svg) no-repeat} .social-facebook-black a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/facebook-black.svg) no-repeat} .social-rss-black a{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/rss-black.svg) no-repeat} .social-mail a:hover{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/mail-hover.svg) no-repeat;} .social-twitter a:hover{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/twitter-hover.svg) no-repeat;} .social-facebook a:hover{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/facebook-hover.svg) no-repeat;} .social-rss a:hover { background: url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/rss-hover.svg) no-repeat;} .social-search a:hover{background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/magnifying-glass-hover.svg) no-repeat;} .sb-icon-search :hover {background:url(//www.openculture.com/wp-content/themes/openculture_v4a/icons/magnifying-glass.svg) no-repeat;} /* override images that we dont want to go to margin */ .contentmiddle img.noexpand, .contentmiddle p img.noexpand, .contentmiddle img[src$="feed-icon16x16139.png"],img[title|="noexpand"], .contentmiddle div.noexpand img, .contentmiddle div.noexpand p img , .begbox img, .ct_comment_info img, ct_this_is_spam img, ct_comment_info div{ width:initial !important; display: block !important; line-height: 100%; } .noexpand img {width:initial !important;} /*this seems to work more reliably than above */ .contentmiddle img.oneXone {width: 1px !important; height: 1px !important;} .contentmiddle img.noexpand.center{display:block !important; } #footer { color: white; width: 100%; /*margin:0 auto; */ margin-bottom:100px; padding:28px 0 0 0px; font-family:"Muli", sans-serif; font-weight:400; clear:both; display:inline-block; } .framearound_ad_in_post{margin: .6rem 0px 2.4rem 0px; height:auto;max-height:120px; width:100%;padding:0px; border: 2px solid #D3D3D3; border-radius:8px;min-height:3rem; } .advertisement_notice{text-align:center; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-variant:small caps; color: #0183b2;} .begbox{color:white;width:100%;display:inline-block; background: #36b0d8; margin-left: -4px; padding: 0; font-family: Lora, "Lora", Times, serif;font-style:normal} .begbox img { width:250px ; margin: 8px auto} .begbox p, .begbox div {margin: 1em 0px 0 12px} .da_bottom {line-height:10%} .no-framearound_ad_in_post {padding-bottom: 25px; padding-top:15px; width: 100%} img.no-framearound_ad_in_post {width:100%} .responsive_belowheadline_ad{ height: 100%; display:inline-block; width:98%; min-height:70px; max-height:200px; margin-right:4px; padding-bottom: 10px; } /*comment box */ div.cbInner {background: #eaebe8; border-radius:8px ;} div.cbInner h5 {color: #000;} .comments {color:#000:;} /*bullets*/ /*set chevrons on all widgets don't turn it on for ul li in sidebars*/ /*.contentwrapper ul li li, */ .r_sidebar a:link,.r_sidebar a:visited,.r_sidebar a:hover,.middle_sidebar a:link,.middle_sidebar a:visited,.middle_sidebar a:hover{ font-size: 1.4rem; line-height: inherit; } .contentmiddle a:link, .contentwrapper a {text-decoration:none; } .l_sidebar ul li a:hover, .middle_sidebar ul li a:hover, .r_sidebar ul li a:hover, .contentmiddle a:hover { text-decoration:underline} #footer ul li {line-height:130%; list-style:none;} #footer ul li a:link {color:white; font-size:1.6rem; text-decoration:none;} #footer ul li a:hover {text-decoration:underline;} .l_sidebar li a, .r_sidebar li a, .middle_sidebar li a{ /*display:block; */ /*OC-typography.png */ text-decoration:none; padding-left: 1em; /*font-style:italic;*/ font-family:"Muli", sans-serif; _font-style:bold; font-weight:400; color:#394244; } .widgettitle{ _border-top-width: 1px; _border-top-style: dotted; _border-top-color: gray; font-family:"Lora", sans-serif !important; font-weight: 600; _font-size: 1.6rem; line-height: 19px; font-weight: bold; padding: 3px ; margin: 8px 2px 2px 1px !important; /*color: #898477; */ letter-spacing: -.5px; } .widgetbox ul,.widget_categories ul, .widget_archive ul { border-bottom: 1px dotted #d1ccbc ; padding-bottom: 30px !important; display:block;} .widgetbox li a, .widget_categories li a, .widget_archive li a {display:block;} .recent_post{ border-bottom: 1px dotted #d1ccbc; padding: 0 0 30px 0px; margin-bottom: 30px; line-height:150%; overflow:hidden; } .noborder, .middle_sidebar.noborder:link, div.noborder a {border-top: 0px white !important;} .contentmiddle ul li a{} /*set chevrons on all widgets don't turn it on for ul li in sidebars* .contentwrapper ul li li,*/ .contentmiddle li, .r_sidebar li, .l_sidebar li, .middle_sidebar li { /* background:url(data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhBQAFALMJANTPvq2ok8rGs8C8qMXBrrKtmLeynufj0+Pezvby4wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACH5BAEAAAkALAAAAAAFAAUAQAQQcByCkqQpCQPCKYiBfCESAQA7) no-repeat 0 10px; */ list-style-type:none; zoom:1; margin-left: .8em; zoom: 1; padding-left: .2em; margin-bottom: .3em; line-height:1.9rem; } .contentmiddle ul li li :before , .r_sidebar ul li li :before, .middle_sidebar ul li li :before, .l_sidebar ul li li :before { /*content: "\25B8"; */ float:left; padding-right:1rem; font-style:normal;} .contentmiddle ul li li li :before {content:none;} .contentmiddle ul li {list-style-type: none; padding-right:.8rem; padding-bottom: .4rem; font-style:normal;} /*set general padding for Ul lists */ .contentwrapper ul { margin: 0; padding: 0 0 10px 0; background:none; } .middle_sidebar ul , .r_sidebar ul , .l_sidebar ul, .contentmiddle ul { background:none; list-style-type:none; } /*titles in widgets*/ .widgettitle, ul.l_sidebar li h2, ul.r_sidebar li h2, ul.middle_sidebar li h2, .middle_sidebar li h2 { font-weight:normal; padding:3px; margin:2px 2px 2px 1px; _font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-family:Lora; color:#fc621f letter-spacing:-.5px; list-style-type:none; background: none !important; font-size: 1.9rem; } .r_sidebar ul {margin-left:-.6rem;} .middle_sidebar ul{ margin-top:1.2rem; margin-left:-1.1rem;} .middle_sidebar ul li {background:none } .contentmiddle li {background: none no-repeat 0 10px; list-style-type:none; zoom:1; /*margin-left: .8rem; */ zoom: 1; padding-left: .2rem; margin-bottom: 0rem; } /* turn off bullets on headers */ .contentwrapper ul {background:none;} /*lists inside lists */ .contentmiddle ul li li {margin-bottom:0rem; margin-left:5rem; list-style-type: none; } .contentwrapper ul {content:"";} .contentmiddle ul li li:before, .contentmiddle ul li:before, .middle_sidebar ul li li :before, /*put right triangle before bullets */ .middle_sidebar ul li li, .r_sidebar ul li li, .l_sidebar ul li li {line-height:inherit;} // Variables @colorBase: #394244; .transition (@prop: all, @time: 1s, @ease: linear) { -webkit-transition: @prop @time @ease; -moz-transition: @prop @time @ease; -o-transition: @prop @time @ease; -ms-transition: @prop @time @ease; transition: @prop @time @ease; } .universal-inline-block { display: inline-block; zoom: 1; *display: inline; } /* horizontal buttons */ div .social-icons2 { text-align: center; font-family: "Open Sans"; font-weight: 300; font-size: 1.5em; color: @colorBase; _margin: -2% -8% -2% -14%; } .social-icons2 ul { margin: 0; _padding: 0; list-style-type: none; text-align: center; } .social-icons2 ul li { _padding: 0px 8px 0px 6px; display:inline-block; text-indent:0; margin: 0px -4px 0px -4px;} .social-icons2 ul li a { text-decoration: none; _padding: .1rem .8rem; color: #fff; } .social-icons2-altmargin ul li {padding: 0 20px;} .social-icons2 ul li a:hover{ color: #1497c2; } .margin_left_10 {margin-left:-10px;} .white_background {background-color:white;} .oc-center, .oc-center img { width:100% ; max-width:100% !important; margin:0 auto; display:block; text-align:center;} .oc-center-da, .oc-center-da img, .oc-center-da object, .oc-center-da img { max-width: 100% !important; width: 100% !important; margin:0 auto; display: block; text-align:center;} /*fix expanding captcha refresh */ #fscf_captcha_refresh1 {width: 24px;height: 24px;} .oc-video-container { position: relative; _padding-bottom: 63.25%; padding-bottom:54%; padding-top: 10px; height: 0; } a.mashicon-reddit{background-color: darkred;} /* allow for override of img resizer */ .contentmiddle div.oc-no-resize-center img{ width: inherit !important; margin 0 auto; float:left} /*#footer img{width:inherit!important ;} */ /*footer stuff */ #flexcanvas{ width: 100%; max-width:100%; _height: 600px !important; margin-left: 3px; } .rowParent, .columnParent{ display: -webkit-box; display: -ms-flexbox; display: -webkit-flex; display: flex; -webkit-box-direction: normal; -webkit-box-orient: horizontal; -webkit-flex-direction: row; -ms-flex-direction: row; flex-direction: row; -webkit-flex-wrap: nowrap; -ms-flex-wrap: nowrap; flex-wrap: nowrap; -webkit-box-pack: start; -webkit-justify-content: flex-start; -ms-flex-pack: start; justify-content: flex-start; -webkit-align-content: stretch; -ms-flex-line-pack: stretch; align-content: stretch; -webkit-box-align: stretch; -webkit-align-items: stretch; -ms-flex-align: stretch; align-items: stretch; } .columnParent{ -webkit-box-orient: vertical; -webkit-flex-direction: column; -ms-flex-direction: column; flex-direction: column; } .flexChild{ -webkit-box-flex: 1; -webkit-flex: 1; -ms-flex: 1; flex: 1; -webkit-align-self: auto; -ms-flex-item-align: auto; align-self: auto; margin:1px; font-size:1.3rem; /*border: 1px dotted #d1ccbc */ } .flexChild ul, .flexChild ul li {margin-left:-1.2rem;} .rowChild85696 {padding:1.8rem; margin-bottom:1.4rem} .rowChild9255 {margin:0px;} .minustopbottommargin20{margin-top:-20px !important; margin-bottom:-20px !important;} .minustopbottommargin40{margin-top:-40px !important; margin-bottom:-40px !important;} .minustopmargin20{margin-top:-20px !important;} .minustopmargin40{margin-top:-40px !important;} .curatedcategory ul li { text-decoration: none; list-style-type: none; padding: 0px; margin-left:1.0rem; line-height: 140%;} .curatedcategory ul {margin-left: 1.2rem;} .curatedcategory h2 {margin-left:1.0rem;} .curatedcategory h2 a {font-variant:small-caps;} .contentmiddle ol {list-style-type:decimal; font-size:inherit;} .contentmiddle ol li {list-style-type:decimal; font-size:inherit;line-spacing:120%;margin-bottom:.8rem;} input[type=search] { -moz-appearance:none; -webkit-appearance:none; } .sb-search { position: relative; color:#fff; border:none; width: 20px; width: 0%; min-width: 24px; min-height: 2.4rem; float: right; height:100%; overflow: hidden; -webkit-transition: width 0.3s; -moz-transition: width 0.3s; transition: width 0.6s; -webkit-backface-visibility: hidden; } .sb-search-input, input[type="search"] { position: absolute; top: -6px; right: 0px; border: none; outline: none; margin-right:24px; width: 100%; height: 88%; min-height:2.5rem; _margin: 8px 2px 8px 2px; z-index: 25; _padding: 4px 65px 4px 20px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 1.8rem; color: white; background-color:#1497c2; } input[type="search"] {background-color:#1497c2;} .sb-icon-search, .sb-search-submit { display:block; position: absolute; border:none; right: 0; top: 0; float: right; padding: 0; _margin: 0; _line-height: 24px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; background-color:#fff; _background-color:#1497c2; _height:1.9rem; 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tag">Chemistry</a>, <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/food_drink" rel="category tag">Food & Drink</a> </em> | December 29th, 2023 </p> <div id="framearound_ad_in_post" style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 0px;"> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display: block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1184791463292965" data-ad-slot="4261585863" data-ad-format="link"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> <div class="recent_post_text"> <div id="post-1111514" class="post-1111514 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-chemistry category-food_drink"> <div class="oc-video-wrapper"> <div class="oc-video-container"> <span class="youtube"><iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="505" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/m6iMmeFLvhg?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen loading="lazy"></iframe></span> </div> <p>  </p></div> <p></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 40px;"><em><span class="s1">But when from a long-distant past nothing subsists, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered, still, alone, more fragile, but with more vitality, more unsubstantial, more persistent, more faithful, the smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls, ready to remind us, waiting and hoping for their moment, amid the ruins of all the rest; and bear unfaltering, in the tiny and almost impalpable drop of their essence, the vast structure of recollection. — Marcel Proust, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Swanns-Way-Search-Penguin-Classics/dp/0142437964"><span class="s2">Swann’s Way</span></a></span></em></p> <p>History favors the eyes.</p> <p>Visual art can tell us what individuals who died long before the advent of photography looked like, as well as the sort of fashions, food and decor one might encounter in households both opulent and humble.</p> <p>Our ears are also privileged in this regard, whether we’re listening to a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9iUGquoNgY&ab_channel=RichardMcVeigh%7CBEAUTYINSOUND">Gregorian chant performed in a cathedral</a> or an ace sound designer’s <a href="https://youtu.be/4UqJrfmDlJ0?si=wXl4fHK3iN7e9_D7&t=371">cinematic recreation of the D‑Day landings</a>.</p> <p>With a few judicious ingredient substitutions, we can even get a sense of what <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/11/cook-real-recipes-from-ancient-rome.html">an Ancient Roman salad</a>, a <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2018/06/a-4000-year-old-babylonian-recipe-for-stew-found-on-a-cuneiform-tablet-gets-cooked.html">4000-year-old Babylonian stew</a>, and a <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2017/02/5000-year-old-chinese-beer-recipe-gets-recreated-by-stanford-students.html">5000-year-old Chinese beer</a> tasted like.</p> <div class="oc-center-da"> <div data-fuse="22871471544"></div> </div> <p>Pity the poor neglected nose. Scents are ephemeral! How often have we wondered what <a href="https://www.history.com/news/royal-palace-life-hygiene-henry-viii">Versailles really smelled</a> back in the 17th century, when unbathed aristocrats in unlaundered finery packed into high society’s unventilated salons?</p> <p>On the other hand, given the opportunity, do we really want to know?</p> <p><a href="https://odeuropa.eu/">Odeuropa</a>, the European olfactory heritage project, answers with a resounding yes.</p> <p><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1111756 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="1288" height="893" loading="lazy" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182744/odeuropa-S.png" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182744/odeuropa-S.png 1288w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182744/odeuropa-S-360x250.png 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182744/odeuropa-S-1024x710.png 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182744/odeuropa-S-240x166.png 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182744/odeuropa-S-768x532.png 768w" data-sizes="(max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1111756" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182744/odeuropa-S.png" alt width="1288" height="893" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182744/odeuropa-S.png 1288w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182744/odeuropa-S-360x250.png 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182744/odeuropa-S-1024x710.png 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182744/odeuropa-S-240x166.png 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182744/odeuropa-S-768x532.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1288px) 100vw, 1288px"></noscript></p> <p>Among its initiatives is an interactive <a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/">Smell Explorer </a>that invites visitors to dive deep into smells as  cultural phenomena.</p> <p>Developed by an international team of computer scientists, AI experts and humanities scholars, the <a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/">Smell Explorer</a> is a vast compendium of smells as represented in 23,000 images and 62,000 public domain texts, including novels, theatrical scripts, travelogues, botanical textbooks, court records, sanitary reports, sermons, and medical handbooks.</p> <p>This resource offers a fresh lens for considering the past through our noses, an unflinching look at various olfactory realities of life in Europe from the 15th through early 20th centuries.</p> <p>Survivors of earlier plagues and pandemics might have associated their trials with the purifying aromas of burning rosemary and hot tar, just as the scents of sourdough and the way a handsewn cotton face mask’s interior smelled after several hours of wear conjure the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic for many of us.</p> <p>There are a number of interesting ways to explore this scent-rich <a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/smells?page=1">database</a> — by geographic location, time period, associated emotion, or aromatic quality.</p> <p>Of course, you could go straight to a smell source.</p> <p>“<a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/smells?q=chamber+pot&in=content&sort=">Chamber pot</a>” returns 18,152 results, “<a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/smells?q=cadaver&in=content&sort=">cadaver</a>“266…</p> <p><img decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1111755 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="1289" height="856" loading="lazy" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182741/Odeuropa-BC.png" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182741/Odeuropa-BC.png 1289w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182741/Odeuropa-BC-360x239.png 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182741/Odeuropa-BC-1024x680.png 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182741/Odeuropa-BC-240x159.png 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182741/Odeuropa-BC-768x510.png 768w" data-sizes="(max-width: 1289px) 100vw, 1289px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1111755" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182741/Odeuropa-BC.png" alt width="1289" height="856" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182741/Odeuropa-BC.png 1289w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182741/Odeuropa-BC-360x239.png 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182741/Odeuropa-BC-1024x680.png 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182741/Odeuropa-BC-240x159.png 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182741/Odeuropa-BC-768x510.png 768w" sizes="(max-width: 1289px) 100vw, 1289px"></noscript></p> <p>The squeamish are advised to steer clear of <a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/smell-sources/166">vomit</a> (421 results) in favor of the Smell Explorer’s  pleasurable and abundant <a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/smell-sources/405">food-</a>related entries — <a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/smell-sources/21">bread</a>, <a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/smell-sources/36">chocolate</a>, <a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/smell-sources/50">coffee</a>, <a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/smell-sources/498">pomegranate</a>, <a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/smell-sources/112">pastry</a>, and <a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/smell-sources/169">wine</a>, to name but a few.</p> <p>Each scent is built as a collection of cards or “nose witness reports” with information as to the title of the work cited, its author or artist, year of creation and characterization (“good”, “rank”, “peculiarly unpleasant and permanent”…)</p> <p>Even more ambitiously, Odeuropa aims to give 21st-century noses an actual whiff of Europe’s olfactory heritage by enlisting perfumers and scent designers to <a href="http://www.smellofheritage.org/preserving.html">recreate</a> over a hundred historic odors and aromas.</p> <p>Odeuropa has also created a downloadable <a href="https://odeuropa.eu/the-olfactory-storytelling-toolkit/">Olfactory Storytelling Toolkit</a> to give museum curators ideas for integrating culturally significant odors into exhibits, a <a href="https://blooloop.com/museum/in-depth/museum-scents/">trend that is gaining traction</a> worldwide.</p> <p>While everyone stands to benefit from the added olfactory dimension of such exhibits, this initiative is of particular service to blind and visually-impaired visitors. Expertise is no doubt required to get it right.</p> <p>We’re reminded of satirist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/global/2010/oct/30/pj-orourke-john-harris-interview">PJ O’Rourke</a> early-80’s visit to the Exxon-sponsored <a href="https://waltdatedworld.com/id182.htm">Universe of Energy</a> Pavilion in Walt Disney World’s EPCOT center, where animatronic dinosaurs were “depicted without accuracy and much too close to your face:”</p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 40px;"><span class="s1"><i>One of the few real novelties at Epcot is the use of smell to aggravate illusions. Of course, no one knows what dinosaurs smelled like, but Exxon has decided they smelled bad.</i></span></p> <p class="p1"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1111754 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="1301" height="873" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182737/Odeuropa-H.png" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182737/Odeuropa-H.png 1301w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182737/Odeuropa-H-360x242.png 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182737/Odeuropa-H-1024x687.png 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182737/Odeuropa-H-240x161.png 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182737/Odeuropa-H-768x515.png 768w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 1301px) 100vw, 1301px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1111754" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182737/Odeuropa-H.png" alt width="1301" height="873" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182737/Odeuropa-H.png 1301w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182737/Odeuropa-H-360x242.png 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182737/Odeuropa-H-1024x687.png 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182737/Odeuropa-H-240x161.png 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/12/28182737/Odeuropa-H-768x515.png 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1301px) 100vw, 1301px"></noscript></p> <p>Enter the Odeuropa Smell Explorer <a href="https://explorer.odeuropa.eu/">here</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/a-new-encyclopedia-explores-europes-smelly-history-180983417/" rel="nofollow">via Smithsonian</a></p> <p><strong>Related Content</strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2014/10/the-chemistry-behind-the-smell-of-old-books-explained-with-a-free-infographic.html">The Chemistry Behind the Smell of Old Books: Explained with a Free Infographic</a></p> <p><a title="Permanent Link to The Disgusting Food Museum Curates 80 of the World’s Most Repulsive Dishes: Maggot-Infested Cheese, Putrid Shark & More" href="https://www.openculture.com/2018/11/disgusting-food-museum-curates-80-worlds-repulsive-dishes-maggot-infested-cheese-putrid-shark.html" rel="bookmark">The Disgusting Food Museum Curates 80 of the World’s Most Repulsive Dishes: Maggot-Infested Cheese, Putrid Shark & More</a></p> <p><a title="Permanent Link to Does Playing Music for Cheese During the Aging Process Change Its Flavor? 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Researchers Find That Hip Hop Makes It Smellier, and Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven” Makes It Milder</a></p> <p class="p6"><span class="s7"><i>– </i><a href="http://ayunhalliday.com/"><span class="s8"><i>Ayun Halliday</i></span></a><i> is the Chief Primatologist of </i><a href="http://ayunhalliday.com/the-east-village-inky/" rel="nofollow"><span class="s8"><i>the East Village Inky</i></span></a><i> zine and author, most recently, of </i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Creative-Not-Famous-Potato-Manifesto/dp/1648410596/"><span class="s8"><i>Creative, Not Famous: The Small Potato Manifesto</i></span></a><i> and </i><a href="https://ayunhalliday.com/small-potato-manifesto/creative-not-famous-activity-book/" rel="nofollow"><span class="s8"><i>Creative, Not Famous Activity Book</i></span></a><i>. Follow her </i><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ayun_halliday/"><span class="s8"><i>@AyunHalliday</i></span></a><i>.</i></span></p> <div class="alignleft"> <p class="author"> by <a href="https://www.openculture.com/author/ayunh" title="Posts by Ayun Halliday" rel="author">Ayun Halliday</a> | <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/a-new-database-captures-the-smells-of-european-history.html" title="Permalink">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/a-new-database-captures-the-smells-of-european-history.html#respond" title="Make a comment">Make a Comment</a> ( <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2023/12/a-new-database-captures-the-smells-of-european-history.html#comments">1</a> ) | </p>   </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="recent_post"> <h1 id="post-1110384" ><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2023/09/art-conservator-restores-a-painting-of-the-doomed-party-girl-isabella-de-medici.html" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to A Determined Art Conservator Restores a Painting of the Doomed Party Girl Isabella de’ Medici: See the Before and After"> A Determined Art Conservator Restores a Painting of the Doomed Party Girl Isabella de’ Medici: See the Before and After </a></h1> <p class="byline">in <em class="postcategory"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/art" rel="category tag">Art</a>, <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/chemistry" rel="category tag">Chemistry</a>, <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/history" rel="category tag">History</a> </em> | September 28th, 2023 </p> <div id="framearound_ad_in_post" style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 0px;"> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display: block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1184791463292965" data-ad-slot="4261585863" data-ad-format="link"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> <div class="recent_post_text"> <div id="post-1110384" class="post-1110384 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-art category-chemistry category-history"> <div class="oc-video-wrapper"> <div class="oc-video-container"> <span class="youtube"><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="505" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/TFhKZv-fgXs?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span> </div> <p>  </p></div> <p></p> <p>Some people talk to plants.</p> <p>The <a href="http://cmoa.org"><span class="s2">Carnegie Museum of Art</span></a>’s chief conservator <a href="https://carnegiemuseums.org/expert/ellen-baxter/" rel="nofollow"><span class="s2">Ellen Baxter</span></a> talks to the paintings she’s restoring.</p> <p>“You have to …tell her she’s going to look lovely,” she says, above, spreading varnish over a 16th-century portrait of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_de'_Medici"><span class="s2">Isabella de’ Medici</span></a> prior to starting the laborious process of restoring years of wear and tear by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inpainting"><span class="s2">inpainting</span></a> with tiny brushes, aided with pipettes of varnish and solvent.</p> <p>Isabella had been waiting a long time for such tender attention, concealed beneath a 19<span class="s3"><sup>th</sup></span><span class="s1">-century overpainting depicting a daintier featured woman reputed to be <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Toledo"><span class="s2">Eleanor of Toledo</span></a>, wife of Cosimo I de’ Medici, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosimo_I_de'_Medici,_Grand_Duke_of_Tuscany"><span class="s2">the second Duke of Florence</span></a>.</span></p> <div class="oc-center-da"> <div data-fuse="22871471544"></div> </div> <p><a href="https://carnegiemuseums.org/carnegie-magazine/summer-2018/the-fine-art-of-louise-lippincott/"><span class="s2">Louise Lippincott</span></a>, the CMA’s former curator of fine arts, ran across the work in the museum’s basement storage. Record named the artist as Bronzino, court painter to Cosimo I, but Lippincott, who thought the painting “awful”, brought it to Ellen Baxter for a second opinion.</p> <p>As <a href="https://www.cristinarouvalis.com/about-me"><span class="s2">Cristina Rouvalis</span></a> writes in<em><a href="https://carnegiemuseums.org/magazine-archive/2014/spring/feature-428.html"><span class="s2"> Carnegie Magazine</span></a></em>, Baxter is a “rare mix of left- and right-brained talent”, a painter with a bachelor’s degree in art history, minors in chemistry and physics, and a master’s degree in art conservation:</p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><i><br> (She) looks at paintings differently than other people, too—not as flat, static objects, but as three-dimensional compositions layered like lasagna.</i></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 40px;"><span class="s1"><i>The minute she saw the oil painting purported to be of Eleanor of Toledo… Baxter knew something wasn’t quite right. The face was too blandly pretty, “like a Victorian cookie tin box lid,” she says. Upon examining the back of the painting, she identified—thanks to a trusty Google search—the stamp of </i><a href="https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Leedham-213"><span class="s2"><i>Francis Leedham</i></span></a><i>, who worked at the </i><a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/" rel="nofollow"><span class="s2"><i>National Portrait Gallery</i></span></a><i> in London in the mid-1800s as a “reliner,” transferring paintings from a wood panel to canvas mount. The painstaking process involves scraping and sanding away the panel from back to front and then gluing the painted surface layer to a new canvas.</i></span></p> <p>An X‑Ray confirmed her hunch, revealing extra layers of paint in this “lasagna”.</p> <p>Careful stripping of dirty varnish and Victorian paint in the areas of the portrait’s face and hands began to reveal the much stronger features of the woman who posed for the artist. (The Carnegie is banking on Bronzino’s student, <a href="https://www.virtualuffizi.com/alessandro-allori.html"><span class="s2">Alessandro Allori</span></a>, or someone in his circle.)</p> <p class="p1"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1110389 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="1280" height="720" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/09/27210813/Behind-the-Scenes-The-Restoration-of-Isabella-de-Medici-.jpeg" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/09/27210813/Behind-the-Scenes-The-Restoration-of-Isabella-de-Medici-.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/09/27210813/Behind-the-Scenes-The-Restoration-of-Isabella-de-Medici--360x203.jpeg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/09/27210813/Behind-the-Scenes-The-Restoration-of-Isabella-de-Medici--1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/09/27210813/Behind-the-Scenes-The-Restoration-of-Isabella-de-Medici--240x135.jpeg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/09/27210813/Behind-the-Scenes-The-Restoration-of-Isabella-de-Medici--768x432.jpeg 768w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1110389" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/09/27210813/Behind-the-Scenes-The-Restoration-of-Isabella-de-Medici-.jpeg" alt width="1280" height="720" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/09/27210813/Behind-the-Scenes-The-Restoration-of-Isabella-de-Medici-.jpeg 1280w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/09/27210813/Behind-the-Scenes-The-Restoration-of-Isabella-de-Medici--360x203.jpeg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/09/27210813/Behind-the-Scenes-The-Restoration-of-Isabella-de-Medici--1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/09/27210813/Behind-the-Scenes-The-Restoration-of-Isabella-de-Medici--240x135.jpeg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2023/09/27210813/Behind-the-Scenes-The-Restoration-of-Isabella-de-Medici--768x432.jpeg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px"></noscript></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s1">Lippincott was also busily sleuthing, finding a Medici-commissioned copy of the painting in Vienna that matched the dress and hair exactly. Thusly did she learn that the subject was Eleanor of Toledo’s daughter, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isabella_de%27_Medici">Isabella de’ Medici</a>, the apple of her father’s eye and a notorious, ultimately ill-fated party girl.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></p> <p class="p1"><span class="s2"><a href="http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/31197">The History Blog</a></span><span class="s1"> paints an irresistible portrait of this maverick princess:</span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 40px;"><span class="s1"><i>Cosimo gave her an exceptional amount of freedom for a noblewoman of her time. She ran her own household, and after Eleanor’s death in 1562, Isabella ran her father’s too. She threw famously raucous parties and spent lavishly. Her father always covered her debts and protected her from scrutiny even as rumors of her lovers and excesses that would have doomed other society women spread far and wide. Her favorite lover was said to be Troilo Orsini, her husband Paolo’s cousin.</i></span></p> <p class="p1" style="padding-left: 40px;"><span class="s1"><i>Things went downhill fast for Isabella after her father’s death in 1574. Her brother Francesco was now the Grand Duke, and he had no interest in indulging his sister’s peccadilloes. We don’t know what happened exactly, but in 1576 Isabella died at the Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi near Empoli. The official story released by Francesco was that his 34-year-old sister dropped dead suddenly while washing her hair. The unofficial story is that she was strangled by her husband out of revenge for her adultery and/or to clear the way for him to marry his own mistress Vittoria Accoramboni.</i></span></p> <p>Baxter noted that the urn Isabella holds was not part of the painting to begin with, though neither was it one of Leedham’s revisions. Its resemblance to the urn that Mary Magdalene is often depicted using as she annoints Jesus’ feet led her and Lippincott to speculate that it was added at Isabella’s request, in an attempt to redeem her image.</p> <p>“This is literally the bad girl seeing the light,” Lippincott told Rouvalis.</p> <p><span class="s1">Despite her fondness for the subject of the liberated painting, and her considerable skill as an artist, Baxter resisted the temptation to embellish beyond what she found:</span></p> <p style="padding-left: 40px;"><i>I’m not the artist. I’m the conservator. 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</script> </div> <div class="recent_post_text"> <div id="post-1097833" class="post-1097833 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-animation-2 category-chemistry category-history category-life category-music category-science"> <div class="oc-video-wrapper"> <div class="oc-video-container"> <span class="youtube"><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="505" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/e160i17sWuk?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span> </div> <p>  </p></div> <p></p> <p>After several years of writing and performing songs influenced by such sources as authors <a href="https://edwardgoreyhouse.org/pages/edward-gorey-biography">Edward Gorey</a> and <a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Raymond-Chandler">Raymond Chandler</a>, filmmaker <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2011/10/tim_burton_a_look_inside_his_visual_imagination.html">Tim Burton</a>, and murder ballads in the American folk tradition, Ellia Bisker and Jeffrey Morris, known collectively as <a href="https://www.charmingdisaster.com/#bio-section">Charming Disaster</a>, began casting around for a single, existing narrative that could sustain an album’s worth of original tunes.</p> <p>An encounter with Lauren Redniss’s graphic novel <a href="https://amzn.to/33UGS0S"><em>Radioactive: Marie & Pierre Curie: A Tale of Love and Fallout</em></a> spurred them to look more deeply at the <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/womenwhochangedscience/stories/marie-curie">Nobel Prize-winning scientist</a> and her pioneering discoveries.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1097847 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="2100" height="2100" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER.jpeg" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER.jpeg 2100w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-360x360.jpeg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-240x240.jpeg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-300x300.jpeg 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 2100px) 100vw, 2100px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1097847" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER.jpeg" alt width="2100" height="2100" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER.jpeg 2100w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-360x360.jpeg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-1024x1024.jpeg 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-240x240.jpeg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-768x768.jpeg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-1536x1536.jpeg 1536w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-2048x2048.jpeg 2048w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-150x150.jpeg 150w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204232/Our_Lady_of_Radium_FRONT_COVER-300x300.jpeg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2100px) 100vw, 2100px"></noscript></p> <p>The result is <em><a href="https://www.charmingdisaster.com/ourladyofradium">Our Lady of Radium</a></em>, a nine song exploration of Curie’s life and work.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/charmingdisaster/charming-disaster-our-lady-of-radium" rel="nofollow">crowdfunded album</a>, recorded during the pandemic, is so exhaustively researched that the accompanying illustrated booklet includes a bibliography with titles ranging from David I. Harvie’s technically dense <a href="https://amzn.to/3fKbnth"><em>Deadly Sunshine: The History and Fatal Legacy of Radium</em></a> to Deborah Blum’s <a href="https://amzn.to/3tNvPBI"><em>The Poisoner’s Handbook,</em></a> described by <em>The New York Observer as </em>“a vicious, page-turning story that reads more like Raymond Chandler than Madame Curie.”</p> <p>A chapter in the <a href="https://amzn.to/3tNvPBI"><em>The Poisoner’s Handbook</em></a> introduced Bisker and Morris to the <a href="https://www.britannica.com/story/radium-girls-the-women-who-fought-for-their-lives-in-a-killer-workplace">Radium Girls</a>, young workers whose prolonged exposure to radium-based paint in early 20th-century clock factories had horrific consequences.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1097848 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="821" height="650" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204429/All_women_or_girls_using_radium_paint_with_no_protection_or_warnings_in_1922_from-_USRadiumGirls-Argonne1ca1922-23-150dpi_cropped.jpg" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204429/All_women_or_girls_using_radium_paint_with_no_protection_or_warnings_in_1922_from-_USRadiumGirls-Argonne1ca1922-23-150dpi_cropped.jpg 821w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204429/All_women_or_girls_using_radium_paint_with_no_protection_or_warnings_in_1922_from-_USRadiumGirls-Argonne1ca1922-23-150dpi_cropped-360x285.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204429/All_women_or_girls_using_radium_paint_with_no_protection_or_warnings_in_1922_from-_USRadiumGirls-Argonne1ca1922-23-150dpi_cropped-240x190.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204429/All_women_or_girls_using_radium_paint_with_no_protection_or_warnings_in_1922_from-_USRadiumGirls-Argonne1ca1922-23-150dpi_cropped-768x608.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204429/All_women_or_girls_using_radium_paint_with_no_protection_or_warnings_in_1922_from-_USRadiumGirls-Argonne1ca1922-23-150dpi_cropped-300x238.jpg 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1097848" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204429/All_women_or_girls_using_radium_paint_with_no_protection_or_warnings_in_1922_from-_USRadiumGirls-Argonne1ca1922-23-150dpi_cropped.jpg" alt width="821" height="650" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204429/All_women_or_girls_using_radium_paint_with_no_protection_or_warnings_in_1922_from-_USRadiumGirls-Argonne1ca1922-23-150dpi_cropped.jpg 821w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204429/All_women_or_girls_using_radium_paint_with_no_protection_or_warnings_in_1922_from-_USRadiumGirls-Argonne1ca1922-23-150dpi_cropped-360x285.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204429/All_women_or_girls_using_radium_paint_with_no_protection_or_warnings_in_1922_from-_USRadiumGirls-Argonne1ca1922-23-150dpi_cropped-240x190.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204429/All_women_or_girls_using_radium_paint_with_no_protection_or_warnings_in_1922_from-_USRadiumGirls-Argonne1ca1922-23-150dpi_cropped-768x608.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204429/All_women_or_girls_using_radium_paint_with_no_protection_or_warnings_in_1922_from-_USRadiumGirls-Argonne1ca1922-23-150dpi_cropped-300x238.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px"></noscript></p> <p>In <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/FSupp/13/263/2096834/">La Porte v. United States Radium Corporation</a> (1935) prosecutors detailed the conditions under which the luminous dials of inexpensive watch faces were produced:</p> <blockquote><p><em>Each girl procured a tray containing twenty-four watch dials and the material to be used to paint the numerals upon them so that they would appear luminous. The material was a powder, of about the consistency of cosmetic powder, and consisted of phosphorescent zinc sulphide mixed with radium sulphate…The powder was poured from the vial into a small porcelain crucible, about the size of a thimble. A quantity of gum arabic, as an adhesive, and a thinner of water were then added, and this was stirred with a small glass rod until a paintlike substance resulted. In the course of a working week each girl painted the dials contained on twenty-two to forty-four such trays, depending upon the speed with which she worked, and used a vial of powder for each tray. When the paint-like substance was produced a girl would employ it in painting the figures on a watch dial. There were fourteen numerals, the figure six being omitted. In the painting each girl used a very fine brush of camel’s hair containing about thirty hairs. In order to obtain the fine lines which the work required, a girl would place the bristles in her mouth, and by the action of her tongue and lips bring the bristles to a fine point. The brush was then dipped into the paint, the figures painted upon the dial until more paint was required or until the paint on the brush dried and hardened, when the brush was dipped into a small crucible of water. This water remained in the crucible without change for a day or perhaps two days. The brush would then be repointed in the mouth and dipped into the paint or even repointed in such manner after being dipped into the paint itself, in a continuous process.</em></p></blockquote> <p>The band found themselves haunted by the Radium Girls’ story:</p> <blockquote><p><em>Partly it’s that it seemed like a really good job — it was clean work, it was less physically taxing and paid better than factory or mill jobs, the working environment was nice — and the workers were all young women. They were excited about this sweet gig, and then it betrayed them, poisoning them and cutting their lives short in a horrible way. </em></p> <p><em>There were all these details we learned that we couldn’t stop thinking about. Like the fact that radium gets taken up by bone, which then starts to disintegrate because radium isn’t as hard as calcium. The Radium Girls’ </em><a href="https://www.cultofweird.com/medical/radium-girls/"><em>jaw bones</em></a> <em>were crumbling away, because they (were instructed) to use their lips to point the brushes when painting watch faces with radium-based paint. </em></p> <p><em>The radium they absorbed was irradiating them from inside, from within their own bones. </em></p> <p><em>Radium decays into radon, and it was eventually discovered that the radium girls were exhaling radon gas. They could expose a photographic plate by breathing on it. Those images—the bones and the breath—stuck with us in particular.</em></p></blockquote> <p>Fellow musician, <a href="https://omergal.com/">Omer Gal</a>, of the “theatrical freak folk musical menagerie” <a href="https://omergal.com/Cookie-Tongue">Cookie Tongue</a>, heightens the sense of dread in his chilling stop-motion animation for Our Lady of Radium’s first music video, above. There’s no question that a tragic fate awaits the crumbling, uncomprehending little worker.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1097850 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="2048" height="1153" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal.png" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal.png 2048w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal-360x203.png 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal-1024x577.png 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal-240x135.png 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal-768x432.png 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal-1536x865.png 1536w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal-300x169.png 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1097850" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal.png" alt width="2048" height="1153" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal.png 2048w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal-360x203.png 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal-1024x577.png 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal-240x135.png 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal-768x432.png 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal-1536x865.png 1536w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204518/omer-gal-300x169.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px"></noscript></p> <p>Before their physical symptoms started to manifest, the Radium Girls believed what they had been told — that the radium-based paint they used on the timepieces’ faces and hands posed no threat to their well being.</p> <p>Compounding the problem, the paint’s glow-in-the-dark properties proved irresistible to high-spirited teens, as the niece of Margaret “Peg” Looney — 17 when she started work at the <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/notes/2017/03/radium-superfund-legacy/519408/">Illinois Radium Dial Company</a> (now a <a href="https://cumulis.epa.gov/supercpad/SiteProfiles/index.cfm?fuseaction=second.Cleanup&id=0500634#bkground">Superfund Site</a>) — <a href="https://www.nprillinois.org/equity-justice/2018-01-25/the-radium-girls-an-illinois-tragedy">recounted to NPR</a>:</p> <blockquote><p><em>I can remember my family talking about my aunt bringing home the little vials (of radium paint.) They would go into their bedroom with the lights off and paint their fingernails, their eyelids, their lips and then they’d laugh at each other because they glowed in the dark.</em></p></blockquote> <p>Looney died at 24, having suffered from anemia, debilitating hip pain, and the loss of teeth and bits of her jaw. Although her family harbored suspicions as to the cause of her bewildering decline, no attorney would take their case. They later learned that the Illinois Radium Dial Company had arranged for medical tests to be performed on workers, without truthfully advising them of the results.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1097852 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="517" height="648" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204623/The-World-NY-May-10-1928-p-14-1.jpg" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204623/The-World-NY-May-10-1928-p-14-1.jpg 517w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204623/The-World-NY-May-10-1928-p-14-1-287x360.jpg 287w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204623/The-World-NY-May-10-1928-p-14-1-191x240.jpg 191w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204623/The-World-NY-May-10-1928-p-14-1-300x376.jpg 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1097852" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204623/The-World-NY-May-10-1928-p-14-1.jpg" alt width="517" height="648" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204623/The-World-NY-May-10-1928-p-14-1.jpg 517w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204623/The-World-NY-May-10-1928-p-14-1-287x360.jpg 287w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204623/The-World-NY-May-10-1928-p-14-1-191x240.jpg 191w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204623/The-World-NY-May-10-1928-p-14-1-300x376.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px"></noscript></p> <p>Eventually, the mounting death toll made the connection between workers’ health and the workplace impossible to ignore. Lawsuits such as La Porte v. United States Radium Corporation led to improved industrial safety regulations and other labor reforms.</p> <p>Too late, Charming Disaster notes, for the Radium Girls themselves:</p> <blockquote><p><em>(Our song) Radium Girls is dedicated to the young women who were unwittingly poisoned by their work and who were ignored and maligned in seeking justice. Their plight led to laws and safeguards that eventually became the occupational safety protections we have today. Of course that is still a battle that’s being fought, but it started with them. We wanted to pay tribute to these young women, honor their memory, and give them a voice.  </em></p></blockquote> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1097853 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="626" height="785" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204654/LYRICS-Radium-Girls-Charming-disaster.png" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204654/LYRICS-Radium-Girls-Charming-disaster.png 626w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204654/LYRICS-Radium-Girls-Charming-disaster-287x360.png 287w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204654/LYRICS-Radium-Girls-Charming-disaster-191x240.png 191w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2022/01/20204654/LYRICS-Radium-Girls-Charming-disaster-300x376.png 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 626px) 100vw, 626px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone 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href="https://www.openculture.com/category/history" rel="category tag">History</a>, <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/museums" rel="category tag">Museums</a>, <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/random" rel="category tag">Random</a> </em> | August 16th, 2021 </p> <div id="framearound_ad_in_post" style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 0px;"> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display: block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1184791463292965" data-ad-slot="4261585863" data-ad-format="link"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> <div class="recent_post_text"> <div id="post-1093644" class="post-1093644 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-art category-chemistry category-history category-museums category-random"> <div class="oc-video-wrapper"> <div class="oc-video-container"> <span class="youtube"><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="505" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/m1mr1k7eztg?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span> </div> <p>  </p></div> <p></p> <p>When Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters kicked off Haight-Ashbury’s counterculture in the 1960s, LSD was the key ingredient in their potent mix of drugs, the Hell’s Angels, the Beat poets, and their local band The Warlocks (soon to become The Grateful Dead). Kesey <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/01/ken_kesey_talks_about_the_meaning_of_the_acid_tests_in_a_classic_interview.html">administered the drug in “Acid Tests”</a> to find out who could handle it (and who couldn’t) after he stole the substance from Army doctors, who themselves administered it as part of the CIA’s MKUltra experiments. Not long afterward, Grateful Dead soundman Owsley “Bear” Stanley synthesized “the purest form of LSD ever to hit the street,” <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/owsley-stanley-the-king-of-lsd-82181/">writes <em>Rolling Stone</em></a>, and became the country’s biggest supplier, the “king of acid.”</p> <p>Whatever uses it might have had in psychiatric settings — and there were many known at the time — LSD was made illegal in 1968 by the U.S. government, repressing what the government had itself helped bring into being. But it has since returned with newfound respectability. “Once dismissed as the dangerous dalliances of the counterculture,” writes <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00187-9"><em>Nature</em></a>, psychedelic drugs are “gaining mainstream acceptance” in clinical treatment. Psilocybin, MDMA, and LSD “have been steadily making their way back into the lab,” notes <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/johns-hopkins-scientists-give-psychedelics-the-serious-treatment/"><em>Scientific American</em></a>. “Scientists are rediscovering what many see as the substances’ astonishing therapeutic potential.”</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1093645 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="800" height="946" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112821/hofmannblock_sm.jpg" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112821/hofmannblock_sm.jpg 800w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112821/hofmannblock_sm-304x360.jpg 304w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112821/hofmannblock_sm-203x240.jpg 203w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112821/hofmannblock_sm-768x908.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112821/hofmannblock_sm-300x355.jpg 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1093645" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112821/hofmannblock_sm.jpg" alt width="800" height="946" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112821/hofmannblock_sm.jpg 800w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112821/hofmannblock_sm-304x360.jpg 304w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112821/hofmannblock_sm-203x240.jpg 203w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112821/hofmannblock_sm-768x908.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112821/hofmannblock_sm-300x355.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px"></noscript></p> <p>None of this comes as news to San Francisco fixture Mark McCloud. “In the same moralistic manner many San Franciscans pontificate on the health benefits of marijuana,” writes Gregory Thomas at <a href="https://missionlocal.org/2010/11/lsd-museum-or-institute-of-illegal-images/">Mission Local</a>, “McCloud and his friends tout the merits of acid.” Next to curing “anxiety, depression and ‘marital problems,’” it is also an important source  of folk art, says McCloud, the owner and sole proprietor of the informally-named “LSD Museum” housed in his three-story Victorian home in San Francisco.</p> <div class="oc-video-wrapper"> <div class="oc-video-container"> <span class="youtube"><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="505" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/cpSOqf_8Guw?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span> </div> <p>  </p></div> <p></p> <p>His mission in creating and maintaining the museum formally called <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/institute-illegal-images">the Institute of Illegal Images</a>, he says, is to “preserve a ‘skeletal’ remnant of San Francisco’s drug-induced 1960s legacy, ‘so maybe our children can better understand us.’”</p> <p>Specifically, as <a href="https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/california/articles/get-to-know-san-franciscos-unofficial-lsd-museum/">Culture Trip explains</a>, McCloud preserves the art on sheets of blotter acid. As is clear from the many pop cultural references on blotter art — like Beavis and Butthead and techno artist Plastikman (who <a href="https://www.musicradar.com/news/tech/classic-album-richie-hawtin-on-plastikmans-sheet-one-633433">named his debut album <em>Sheet One</em></a>) — the 60s blotter acid legacy extended far beyond its founders’ vision in underground scenes throughout the 70s, 80s, 90s, and oughts.</p> <blockquote><p><em>Also known as the Blotter Barn or the Institute of Illegal Images, McCloud’s house is located on 20th Street between Mission and Capp. The house preserves over 33,000 sheets of LSD blotter, treating them like tiny little works of art. Most of the sheets are framed and hanging on McCloud’s walls, decorating the home with vibrant colors and patterns, and the rest are kept safe in binders. The house also features a perforation board, allowing McCloud to turn any work of art sized 7.5 by 7.5 inches into 900 pieces, as is typical for LSD blotter sheets.</em></p></blockquote> <p>McCloud has faced intense scrutiny from the FBI, and on a couple of occasions — in 1992 and again in 2001 — arrest and trial by “not very sympathetic” juries, who nonetheless acquitted him both times. Despite the fact that he has a larger collection of blotter acid sheets than the DEA, he and his museum have withstood prosecution and attempts to shut them down, since all the sheets in his possession have either never been dipped in LSD or have become chemically inactive over time. (The museum’s <a href="https://blotterbarn.com">website</a> explains the origins of “blotter” paper as a means of preparing LSD doses after the drug was criminalized in California in 1966.)</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1093646 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="800" height="828" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112843/gorby_sm.jpg" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112843/gorby_sm.jpg 800w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112843/gorby_sm-348x360.jpg 348w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112843/gorby_sm-232x240.jpg 232w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112843/gorby_sm-768x795.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112843/gorby_sm-300x311.jpg 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1093646" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112843/gorby_sm.jpg" alt width="800" height="828" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112843/gorby_sm.jpg 800w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112843/gorby_sm-348x360.jpg 348w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112843/gorby_sm-232x240.jpg 232w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112843/gorby_sm-768x795.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/08/13112843/gorby_sm-300x311.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px"></noscript></p> <p>“What fascinates me about blotter is what fascinates me about all art. It changes your <em>mind</em>,” says McCloud in the <em>Wired</em> video at the top of the post. None of his museum’s artwork will change your mind in quite the way it was intended, but the mere association with hallucinogenic experiences is enough to inspire the artists “to build the myriad of subject matter appearing on the blotters,” <a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/institute-illegal-images">Atlas Obscura writes</a>, “ranging from the spiritual (Hindu gods, lotus flowers) to whimsical (cartoon characters), as well as cultural commentary (Gorbachev) and the just plain demented (Ozzy Osbourne).”</p> <p><iframe loading="lazy" frameborder="0" height="180px" src="https://omny.fm/shows/the-atlas-obscura-podcast/the-institute-of-illegal-images/embed" width="100%"></iframe></p> <p>The museum does not keep regular hours and was only open by appointment before COVID-19. 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</script> </div> <div class="recent_post_text"> <div id="post-1086781" class="post-1086781 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-chemistry category-fashion category-history category-science category-ted_talks"> <div class="oc-video-wrapper"> <div class="oc-video-container"> <span class="youtube"><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="505" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/gKfjHTk8KrY?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span> </div> <p>  </p></div> <p></p> <blockquote><p><em>“Either the wallpaper goes, or I do.” —Oscar Wilde</em></p></blockquote> <p>Looking to repel bed bugs and rats?</p> <p>Decorate your bedroom à la <a href="https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Napoleons-Exile-on-St-Helena/#:~:text=Napoleon%20arrived%20in%20St%20Helena,first%20arrived%20on%20the%20island.">Napoleon’s final home</a> on the damp island of <a href="http://sthelena.se/">Saint Helena</a>.</p> <p><a href="https://www.orkin.com/other/bed-bugs/colors-attracted-to#:~:text=Yellow%20&%20Green:%20Yellow%20and%20green,than%20darker%20reds%20and%20blacks.">Those in a position to know</a> suggest that vermin shy away from yellowish-greens such as that favored by the Emperor because they “resemble areas of intense lighting.”</p> <p>We’d like to offer an alternate theory.</p> <p>Could it be that the critters’ ancestors passed down a cellular memory of the perils of arsenic?</p> <p>Napoleon, like thousands of others, was smitten with a hue known as <a href="https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/05/02/scheeles-green-the-color-of-fake-foliage-and-death/">Scheele’s Green</a>, named for <a href="https://www.beautifulchemistry.net/scheele">Carl Wilhelm Scheele</a>, the German-Swedish pharmaceutical chemist who discovered oxygen, chlorine, and unfortunately, a gorgeous, toxic green pigment that’s also a cupric hydrogen arsenite.</p> <div class="oc-center-da"> <div data-fuse="22871471544"></div> </div> <p>Scheele’s Green, <em>aka</em> Schloss Green, was cheap and easy to produce, and quickly replaced the less vivid copper carbonate based green dyes that had been in use prior to the mid 1770s.</p> <p>The color was an immediate hit when it made its appearance, showing up in <a href="https://theattic.jezebel.com/the-arsenic-dress-how-poisonous-green-pigments-terrori-1738374597" rel="nofollow">artificial flowers,</a> candles, toys, fashionable ladies’ clothing, soap, beauty products, confections, and wallpaper.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1086807 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="1600" height="1026" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green.jpg" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green.jpg 1600w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green-360x231.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green-1024x657.jpg 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green-240x154.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green-768x492.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green-1536x985.jpg 1536w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green-300x192.jpg 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1086807" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green.jpg" alt width="1600" height="1026" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green.jpg 1600w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green-360x231.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green-1024x657.jpg 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green-240x154.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green-768x492.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green-1536x985.jpg 1536w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14224111/pg_178-79_green-300x192.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px"></noscript></p> <p>A month before Napoleon died, he included the following phrase in his will: <em>My death is premature. I have been assassinated by the English oligopoly and their hired murderer…”</em></p> <p>His exit at 51 was indeed untimely, but perhaps the wallpaper, and not the English oligopoly, is the greater culprit, especially if it was hung with arsenic-laced paste, to further deter rats.</p> <p>When Scheele’s Green wallpaper, like the striped pattern in Napoleon’s bathroom, became damp or moldy, the pigment in it metabolized, releasing poisonous arsenic-laden vapors.</p> <div class="oc-video-wrapper"> <div class="oc-video-container"> <span class="youtube"><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="505" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MvxnXOoFl20?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span> </div> <p>  </p></div> <p></p> <p>Napoleon’s First Valet <a href="https://shannonselin.com/2014/01/louis-joseph-marchand-napoleons-valet-friend/">Louis-Joseph Marchand</a> recalled the “childish joy” with which the emperor jumped into the tub where he relished soaking for long spells:</p> <blockquote><p><em>The bathtub was a tremendous oak chest lined with lead. It required an exceptional quantity of water, and one had to go a half mile away and transport it in a barrel.</em></p></blockquote> <p>Baths also figured in Second Valet <a href="https://shannonselin.com/2013/12/louis-etienne-saint-denis-napoleons-french-mameluke/">Louis Étienne Saint-Denis</a>’ recollections of his master’s illness:</p> <blockquote><p><em>His remedies consisted only of warm napkins applied to his side, to baths, which he took frequently, and to a diet which he observed from time to time.</em></p></blockquote> <p>Saint-Denis’s recall seems to have had some lacunae. According to a post in conjunction with the <a href="https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/on-exhibit-posts/was-napoleon-poisoned" rel="nofollow">American Museum of Natural History’s Power of Poison</a> exhibit:</p> <blockquote><p><em>In Napoleon’s case, arsenic was likely just one of many compounds taxing an already troubled system. In the course of treatments for a variety of symptoms—swollen legs, abdominal pain, jaundice, vomiting, weakness—Napoleon was subjected to a smorgasbord of other toxic substances. He was said to consume large amounts of a sweet apricot-based drink containing hydrocyanic acid. He had been given tarter emetic, an antimonal compound, by a Corsican doctor. (Like arsenic, antimony would also help explain the preserved state of his body at exhumation.) Two days before his death, his British doctors gave him a dose of calomel, or mercurous chloride, after which he collapsed into a stupor and never recovered. </em></p></blockquote> <p>As Napoleon was vomiting a blackish liquid and expiring, factory and garment workers who handled Scheele’s Green dye and its close cousin, <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/paris-green">Paris Green</a>, were suffering untold mortifications of the flesh, from hideous <a href="https://laafa.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/4.-accidents_caused_by_the_use_of_green_arsenic_1859_wellcome_l0075299.jpg">lesions, ulcers</a> and extreme gastric distress to heart disease and cancer.</p> <p>Fashion-first women who spent the day corseted in voluminous green dresses were keeling over from skin-to-arsenic contact. Their seamstresses’ green fingers were in <a href="https://talesfromthebraziersgrotto.files.wordpress.com/2020/04/accidents-in-hands.jpg">wretched condition</a>.</p> <p>In 2008, an Italian team tested strands of Napoleon’s hair from four points in his life—childhood, exile, his death, and the day thereafter. They determined that all the samples contained roughly 100 times the arsenic levels of contemporary people in a control group.</p> <p>Napoleon’s son and wife, Empress Josephine, also had noticeably elevated arsenic levels.</p> <p>Had we been alive and living in Europe back then, ours likely would have been too.</p> <p>All that green!</p> <p>But what about the wallpaper?</p> <p><a href="https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/the-last-retort/3005618.article#/">A scrap purportedly from the dining room</a>, where Napoleon was relocated shortly before death, was found by a woman in Norfolk, England, pasted into a family scrapbook above the handwritten caption, <em>This small piece of paper was taken off the wall of the </em>room <em>in which the spirit of Napoleon returned to God who gave it.</em></p> <p>In 1980, she contacted chemist <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/18/david-jones-obituary">David Jones</a>, whom she had recently heard on BBC Radio discussing vaporous biochemistry and Victorian wallpaper. She agreed to let him test the scrap using non-destructive x‑ray fluorescence spectroscopy. The result?</p> <p>.12 grams of arsenic per square meter. (Wallpapers containing 0.6 to 0.015 grams per square meter were determined to be hazardous.)</p> <p>Dr. Jones described watching the arsenic levels peaking on the lab’s print out as “a crazy, wonderful moment.” He reiterated that the house in which Napoleon was imprisoned was “notoriously damp,” making it easy for a 19th century fan to peel off a souvenir in “an inspired act of vandalism.”</p> <p>Death by wallpaper and other environmental factors is definitely less cloak and dagger than assassination by the English oligopoly, hired murderer, and other conspiracy theories that had thrived on the presence of arsenic in samples of Napoleon’s hair.</p> <p>As Dr. Jones recalled:</p> <blockquote><p><em>…several historians were upset by my claim that it was all an accident of decor…Napoleon himself feared he was dying of stomach cancer, the disease which had killed his father; and indeed his autopsy revealed that his stomach was very damaged. It had at least one big ulcer…My feeling is that Napoleon would have died in any case. His arsenical wallpaper might merely have hastened the event by a day or so. Murder conspiracy theorists will have to find new evidence! </em></p></blockquote> <p>We can’t resist mentioning that when the emperor was exhumed and shipped back to France, 19 years after his death, his corpse showed little or no decomposition.</p> <p>Green continues to be a noxious color when humans attempt to reproduce it in the physical realm. As Alice Rawthorn observed <em><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/arts/05iht-design5.html">The New York Times</a></em>:</p> <blockquote><p><em>The cruel truth is that most forms of the color green, the most powerful symbol of sustainable design, aren’t ecologically responsible, and can be damaging to the environment.</em></p></blockquote> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-1086791 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="640" height="507" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14211527/6.-fashionvictims12.jpg" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14211527/6.-fashionvictims12.jpg 640w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14211527/6.-fashionvictims12-360x285.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14211527/6.-fashionvictims12-240x190.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14211527/6.-fashionvictims12-300x238.jpg 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="size-full wp-image-1086791" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14211527/6.-fashionvictims12.jpg" alt width="640" height="507" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14211527/6.-fashionvictims12.jpg 640w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14211527/6.-fashionvictims12-360x285.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14211527/6.-fashionvictims12-240x190.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/02/14211527/6.-fashionvictims12-300x238.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px"></noscript></p> <p>Take a deeper dive into Napoleon’s wallpaper with an <a href="https://studylib.net/doc/9658623/napoleon-s-wallpaper---high-school-chemistry-teacher-support">educational packet for educators</a> prepared by chemist David Jones and <a href="https://www.grand-illusions.com/PBFAQ.asp?Question=Who+are+Grand+Illusions?&ItmID=337209" rel="nofollow">Hendrik Ball.</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.messynessychic.com/2021/02/08/13-things-i-found-on-the-internet-today-vol-dxli/">via Messy Nessy</a></p> <p><strong>Related Content: </strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2020/12/why-we-imagine-napoleon-with-a-hand-in-his-waistcoat.html">Why Is Napoleon’s Hand Always in His Waistcoat?: The Origins of This Distinctive Pose Explained</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2018/12/napoleons-english-lessons.html">Napoleon’s English Lessons: How the Military Leader Studied English to Escape the Boredom of Life in Exile</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2019/07/napoleons-disastrous-invasion-of-russia-explained-in-an-1869-data-visualization.html">Napoleon’s Disastrous Invasion of Russia Detailed in an 1869 Data Visualization: It’s Been Called “the Best Statistical Graphic Ever Drawn”</a></p> <p><em><a href="http://ayunhalliday.com/">Ayun Halliday </a>is an author, illustrator, theater maker and Chief Primatologist of <a href="http://ayunhalliday.com/the-east-village-inky/" rel="nofollow">the East Village Inky</a> zine. She most recently appeared as a French Canadian bear who travels to New York City in search of food and meaning in Greg Kotis’ short film, <a href="https://youtu.be/sG1ujtJX_ao">L’Ourse</a>.  Follow her <a href="https://www.instagram.com/ayun_halliday/">@AyunHalliday</a>.</em></p> <div class="alignleft"> <p class="author"> by <a href="https://www.openculture.com/author/ayunh" title="Posts by Ayun Halliday" rel="author">Ayun Halliday</a> | <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/discover-scheeles-green-the-arsenic-laden-color-that-may-have-contributed-to-napoleons-death.html" title="Permalink">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/discover-scheeles-green-the-arsenic-laden-color-that-may-have-contributed-to-napoleons-death.html#respond" title="Make a comment">Make a Comment</a> ( <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/02/discover-scheeles-green-the-arsenic-laden-color-that-may-have-contributed-to-napoleons-death.html#respond">None</a> ) | </p>   </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="recent_post"> <h1 id="post-1086274" ><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/yinmn-blue-the-first-shade-of-blue-discovered-in-200-years-now-available-for-artists.html" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to YInMn Blue, the First Shade of Blue Discovered in 200 Years, Is Now Available for Artists"> YInMn Blue, the First Shade of Blue Discovered in 200 Years, Is Now Available for Artists </a></h1> <p class="byline">in <em class="postcategory"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/art" rel="category tag">Art</a>, <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/chemistry" rel="category tag">Chemistry</a>, <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/science" rel="category tag">Science</a> </em> | January 29th, 2021 </p> <div id="framearound_ad_in_post" style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 0px;"> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display: block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1184791463292965" data-ad-slot="4261585863" data-ad-format="link"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> <div class="recent_post_text"> <div id="post-1086274" class="post-1086274 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-art category-chemistry category-science"> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1086275 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="1149" height="960" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped.jpg" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped.jpg 1149w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped-360x301.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped-1024x856.jpg 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped-240x201.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped-768x642.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped-300x251.jpg 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 1149px) 100vw, 1149px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1086275" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped.jpg" alt width="1149" height="960" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped.jpg 1149w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped-360x301.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped-1024x856.jpg 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped-240x201.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped-768x642.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082336/YInMn_Blue_-_cropped-300x251.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1149px) 100vw, 1149px"></noscript></p> <p align="right"><small><em>Photo via Oregon State University</em></small></p> <p>“Color is part of a spectrum, so you can’t discover a color,” says <a href="https://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/content/mas-subramanian">Professor Mas Subramanian</a>, a solid-state chemist at Oregon State University. “You can only discover a material that is a particular color”—or, more precisely, a material that reflects light in such a way that we perceive it as a color. Scientific modesty aside, Subramanian actually has been credited with discovering a color—the first inorganic shade of blue in 200 years.</p> <p>Named “YInMn blue” —and affectionately called “MasBlue” at Oregon State—the pigment’s unwieldy name derives from its chemical makeup of yttrium, indium, and manganese oxides, which together “absorbed red and green wavelengths and reflected blue wavelengths in such a way that it came off looking a very bright blue,” <a href="https://www.npr.org/2016/07/16/485696248/a-chemist-accidentally-creates-a-new-blue-then-what">Gabriel Rosenberg notes at NPR</a>. It is a blue, in fact, never before seen, since it is not a naturally occurring pigment, but one literally cooked in a laboratory, and by accident at that.</p> <div class="oc-center-da"> <div data-fuse="22871471544"></div> </div> <p>The discovery, if we can use the word, should justly be credited to Subramanian’s grad student Andrew E. Smith who, during a 2009 attempt to “manufacture new materials that could be used in electronics,” heated the particular mix of chemicals to over 2000 degrees Fahrenheit. Smith noticed “it had turned a surprising, bright blue color [and] Subramanian knew immediately it was a big deal.” Why? Because the color blue is a big deal.</p> <div class="oc-video-wrapper"> <div class="oc-video-container"> <span class="youtube"><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="505" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/EdNXytuJpxA?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span> </div> <p>  </p></div> <p></p> <p>In an important sense, color is something humans discovered over long periods of time in which we learned to see the world in shades and hues our ancestors could not perceive. “Some scientists believe that the earliest humans were actually colorblind,” <a href="https://mymodernmet.com/shades-of-blue-color-history/">Emma Taggart writes at My Modern Met</a>, “and could only recognize black, white, red, and only later yellow and green.” Blue, that is to say, didn’t exist for early humans. “With no concept of the color blue,” Taggart writes, “they simply had no words to describe it. This is even reflected in ancient literature, such as Homer’s <em>Odyssey</em>,” with its “wine-dark sea.”</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1086306 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="1568" height="708" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o.jpg" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o.jpg 1568w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o-360x163.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o-1024x462.jpg 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o-240x108.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o-768x347.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o-1536x694.jpg 1536w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o-300x135.jpg 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-1086306" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o.jpg" alt width="1568" height="708" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o.jpg 1568w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o-360x163.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o-1024x462.jpg 1024w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o-240x108.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o-768x347.jpg 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o-1536x694.jpg 1536w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28205825/36809225724_ce071f45b7_o-300x135.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1568px) 100vw, 1568px"></noscript></p> <p align="right"><small><em>Photo via Oregon State University</em></small></p> <p>Sea and sky only begin to assume their current colors some 6,000 years ago when ancient Egyptians began to produce blue pigment. The first known color to be synthetically produced is thus called <em>Egyptian blue</em>, created using “ground limestone mixed with sand and a copper-containing mineral, such as azurite or malachite.” Blue holds a special place in our color lexicography. It is the <a href="https://apps.npr.org/lookatthis/posts/colors/">last color word that develops across cultures</a> and one of the most difficult colors to manufacture. “People have been looking for a good, durable blue color for a couple of centuries,” Subramanian told NPR.</p> <p>And so, YInMn blue has become a sensation among industrial manufacturers and artists. Patented in 2012 by OSU, it received approval for industrial use in 2017. That same year, <a href="https://science.oregonstate.edu/IMPACT/2017/10/yinmn-blue-now-available-artists">Australian paint supplier Derivan released it as an acrylic paint called “Oregon Blue.”</a> It has taken a few more years for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to come around, but they’ve finally approved YlnMn blue for commercial use, “making it available to all,” <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-blue-pigment-discovered-200-years-finally-sale-180976769/" rel="nofollow">Isis Davis-Marks writes at Smithsonian</a>. “Now the authenticated pigment is <a href="https://science.oregonstate.edu/IMPACT/2017/10/yinmn-blue-now-available-artists">available for sale</a> in paint retailers like Golden in the US.”</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1086276 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="750" height="669" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082407/new-colors.jpg" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082407/new-colors.jpg 750w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082407/new-colors-360x321.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082407/new-colors-240x214.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082407/new-colors-300x268.jpg 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1086276" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082407/new-colors.jpg" alt width="750" height="669" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082407/new-colors.jpg 750w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082407/new-colors-360x321.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082407/new-colors-240x214.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2021/01/28082407/new-colors-300x268.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px"></noscript></p> <p align="right"><small><em>Photo via Oregon State University</em></small></p> <p>The new blue solves a number of problems with other blue pigments. It is nontoxic and not prone to fading, since it “reflects heat and absorbs UV radiation.” YInMn blue is “extremely stable, a property long sought in a blue pigment,” says Subramanian. It also fills “a gap in the range of colors,” says art supply manufacturer Georg Kremer, adding, “The pureness of YInBlue is really perfect.”</p> <p>Since their first, accidental color discovery, “Subramanian and his team have expanded their research and have made a range of new pigments to include almost every color, from bright oranges to shades of purple, turquoise and green,” <a href="https://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/content/story-yinmn-blue">notes the Oregon State University Department of Chemistry</a>. None have yet had the impact of the new blue. Learn much more about the unique chemical properties of YInMn blue <a href="https://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/content/story-yinmn-blue">here</a> and see Professor Subramanian discuss its discovery in his TED talk further up.</p> <p><a href="https://hyperallergic.com/615971/meet-yinmn-the-first-new-shade-of-blue-in-two-centuries/">via Hyperallergic</a></p> <p><strong>Related Content: </strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2020/11/one-of-the-earliest-known-color-charts.html">Behold One of the Earliest Known Color Charts: The Table of Physiological Colors (1686)</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2019/10/a-900-page-pre-pantone-guide-to-color-from-1692-a-complete-digital-scan.html">A 900-Page Pre-Pantone Guide to Color from 1692: A Complete Digital Scan</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2018/02/werners-nomenclature-of-colour-the-19th-century-color-dictionary-used-by-charles-darwin-1814.html">Werner’s Nomenclature of Colour, the 19th-Century “Color Dictionary” Used by Charles Darwin (1814)</a></p> <p><a href="http://about.me/jonesjoshua">Josh Jones</a> is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/jdmagness">@jdmagness</a></p> <div class="alignleft"> <p class="author"> by <a href="https://www.openculture.com/author/jdavidjones" title="Posts by Josh Jones" rel="author">Josh Jones</a> | <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/yinmn-blue-the-first-shade-of-blue-discovered-in-200-years-now-available-for-artists.html" title="Permalink">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/yinmn-blue-the-first-shade-of-blue-discovered-in-200-years-now-available-for-artists.html#respond" title="Make a comment">Make a Comment</a> ( <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/yinmn-blue-the-first-shade-of-blue-discovered-in-200-years-now-available-for-artists.html#comments">3</a> ) | </p>   </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="recent_post"> <h1 id="post-1086243" ><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/watch-the-pilot-of-breaking-bad-with-a-chemistry-professor.html" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Watch the Pilot of <i>Breaking Bad</i> with a Chemistry Professor: How Sound Was the Science?"> Watch the Pilot of <i>Breaking Bad</i> with a Chemistry Professor: How Sound Was the Science? </a></h1> <p class="byline">in <em class="postcategory"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/chemistry" rel="category tag">Chemistry</a>, <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/television" rel="category tag">Television</a> </em> | January 28th, 2021 </p> <div id="framearound_ad_in_post" style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 0px;"> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display: block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1184791463292965" data-ad-slot="4261585863" data-ad-format="link"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> <div class="recent_post_text"> <div id="post-1086243" class="post-1086243 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-chemistry category-television"> <div class="oc-video-wrapper"> <div class="oc-video-container"> <span class="youtube"><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="505" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/89PCYdMRtjQ?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span> </div> <p>  </p></div> <p></p> <p>Even the grittiest, hardest-hitting TV dramas require willing suspension of disbelief to enjoy. This is especially true if you, the viewer, happen to be an expert on such subjects as emergency medicine, police procedures, criminal law, FBI profiling, crime scene investigation, etcetera. Those of us who don’t know anything about these fields may have an easier time of it, provided the writers do their diligence and make the actors sound convincing. I never much questioned the science of <em>Breaking Bad</em>, for example. Surely, the hit show accurately depicted how a desperate high school chemistry teacher would build a meth lab in the desert? How should I know otherwise?</p> <p>I might watch the show with a chemist, for one thing, like <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/09/the-science-of-breaking-bad.html">Professor Donna Nelson</a> or the University of Nottingham’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyn_Poliakoff">Sir Martyn Poliakoff</a>, who had himself refused to watch <em>Breaking Bad</em> until “one day when I’m old.” That day has come at last: he finally sat down with the pilot and discussed his impressions on <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtESv1e7ntJaLJYKIO1FoYw">YouTube channel Periodic Videos</a>. Poliakoff approached the experiment with almost no preconceptions. He knew the show was about a chemistry teacher who made “some sort of drug, I didn’t know which one,” and that “there were a lot of episodes.”</p> <div class="oc-center-da">  <div data-fuse="22871471544"></div> </div> <p>He also knew that “at some point, HF, hydrogen fluoride, played a part.” But before the chemistry critique begins, Poliakoff notices that Walter White’s pants floating through the desert air in the <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2018/09/breaking-bad-crafted-perfect-tv-pilot-video-essay.html">pilot’s iconic opening</a> are a physical impossibility given their origination. Bummer. He loved the opening sequence spelling out the show’s title with elements from the periodic table, and even imagined how his own name (including “Sir”) might be spelled the same way.</p> <p>As you might expect, Poliakoff has some nits to pick with the lesson White gives his students in the first few minutes. For one, White—who shows himself to be very safety-conscious, if not risk-averse, later in the episode—wears no safety gear while spraying chemicals into an open flame. The director can be forgiven for not wanting to obscure Bryan Cranston’s expressive face in this crucial scene of character development. But what of the lesson itself? Overall, he says, it’s “quite good.” He likes White’s definition of chemistry as “the study of change,” but thinks it should more fully be “the way that matter changes.”</p> <div class="oc-video-wrapper"> <div class="oc-video-container"> <span class="youtube"><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="505" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/d49TzVF1gmY?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span> </div> <p>  </p></div> <p></p> <p>The discussion prompts Poliakoff to reflect that no one’s ever asked him to define chemistry before. (When asked to define “inorganic chemistry” in high school, his son answered, “it’s what my dad does.”) We quickly begin to see the benefits of watching a well-crafted show like <em>Breaking Bad</em> with an expert. The drama of the show, and its unusual approach to what we normally consider a dry subject, draws out our chemist’s enthusiasm and helps us make connections we might not otherwise make, such as Walter White’s resemblance to <a href="https://www.robertwinston.org.uk/">well-known British scientist and science communicator Robert Winston</a>.</p> <div class="oc-video-wrapper"> <div class="oc-video-container"> <span class="youtube"><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="505" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/Slt3_5upuSs?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span> </div> <p>  </p></div> <p></p> <p>Hearing Poliakoff discuss the <em>Breaking Bad</em> pilot turns out to be so entertaining that TV executives should take note—this could become a new, easy-to-produce genre when we <a href="https://www.theringer.com/tv/2020/7/7/21315197/pandemic-tv-coronavirus-effects-2020">finally run out of shows</a>, provided there are enough eminent professors willing to offer commentary on hit series of the past. But as we can surmise from Professor Poliakoff’s general lack of interest in TV, and from his thriving career as a chemistry professor, he’s probably busy. He’s already done more than enough to make chemistry interesting to us layfolk by contributing to <a href="http://www.periodicvideos.com/">Periodic Videos</a> for over a decade now.</p> <p>Further up, see a fun demonstration of exploding hydrogen bubbles (“the title pretty much says it”). Just above and below, see Professor Poliakoff enlighten us on the properties of elements 35 and 56, Bromine and Barium, and watch Periodic Videos full series on the periodic table <a href="https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7A1F4CF36C085DE1">here</a>.</p> <div class="oc-video-wrapper"> <div class="oc-video-container"> <span class="youtube"><iframe loading="lazy" title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640" height="505" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/9srJdQU3NOo?wmode=transparent&fs=1&hl=en&showsearch=0&rel=0&theme=dark" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe></span> </div> <p>  </p></div> <p></p> <p><strong>Related Content: </strong></p> <p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/09/the-science-of-breaking-bad.html">The Science of Breaking Bad: Professor Donna Nelson Explains How the Show Gets it Right</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2013/08/the-breaking-bad-theme-played-with-meth-lab-equipment.html">The Breaking Bad Theme Played with Meth Lab Equipment</a></p> <p><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2018/09/breaking-bad-crafted-perfect-tv-pilot-video-essay.html">How Breaking Bad Crafted the Perfect TV Pilot: A Video Essay</a></p> <p><a href="http://about.me/jonesjoshua">Josh Jones</a> is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/jdmagness">@jdmagness</a></p> <div class="alignleft"> <p class="author"> by <a href="https://www.openculture.com/author/jdavidjones" title="Posts by Josh Jones" rel="author">Josh Jones</a> | <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/watch-the-pilot-of-breaking-bad-with-a-chemistry-professor.html" title="Permalink">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/watch-the-pilot-of-breaking-bad-with-a-chemistry-professor.html#respond" title="Make a comment">Make a Comment</a> ( <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2021/01/watch-the-pilot-of-breaking-bad-with-a-chemistry-professor.html#respond">None</a> ) | </p>   </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="recent_post"> <h1 id="post-1071507" ><a href="https://www.openculture.com/2019/12/interactive-periodic-table-of-elements.html" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to Interactive Periodic Table of Elements Shows How the Elements Get Used in Making Everyday Things"> Interactive Periodic Table of Elements Shows How the Elements Get Used in Making Everyday Things </a></h1> <p class="byline">in <em class="postcategory"> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/chemistry" rel="category tag">Chemistry</a>, <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/k-12" rel="category tag">K-12</a> </em> | December 4th, 2019 </p> <div id="framearound_ad_in_post" style="margin: 8px 0px 8px 0px;"> <script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>  <ins class="adsbygoogle" style="display: block;" data-ad-client="ca-pub-1184791463292965" data-ad-slot="4261585863" data-ad-format="link"></ins> <script> (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); </script> </div> <div class="recent_post_text"> <div id="post-1071507" class="post-1071507 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-chemistry category-k-12"> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1071508 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="876" height="626" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224431/Periodic_Table_In_Pictures.png" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224431/Periodic_Table_In_Pictures.png 876w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224431/Periodic_Table_In_Pictures-360x257.png 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224431/Periodic_Table_In_Pictures-240x172.png 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224431/Periodic_Table_In_Pictures-768x549.png 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224431/Periodic_Table_In_Pictures-300x214.png 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1071508" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224431/Periodic_Table_In_Pictures.png" alt width="876" height="626" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224431/Periodic_Table_In_Pictures.png 876w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224431/Periodic_Table_In_Pictures-360x257.png 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224431/Periodic_Table_In_Pictures-240x172.png 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224431/Periodic_Table_In_Pictures-768x549.png 768w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224431/Periodic_Table_In_Pictures-300x214.png 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px"></noscript></p> <p>“The discovery of the periodic system for classifying the elements represents the culmination of a number of scientific developments, rather than a sudden brainstorm on the part of one individual,” writes <a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-evolution-of-the-periodic-system/">Eric Scerri at <em>Scientific American</em></a>. And yet, while several scientists over the course of the nineteenth century invented systems for classifying the elements, “ask most chemists who discovered the periodic table and you will almost certainly get the answer Dmitri Mendeleev,” notes the <a href="https://www.rsc.org/periodic-table/history/about">Royal Society of Chemistry</a>.  That’s for good reason, since the basis of the table we know today came from the design Mendeleev created in 1869.</p> <p>This past March saw the <a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/periodic-table-history-chemical-elements-150-anniversary">150th anniversary of his achievement</a>, which has hardly remained a historical artifact. Every generation has its table. Mendeleev’s rudimentary beginnings have taken on new shape and have been supplemented with annotations and illustrations in eye-catching color in textbooks and on classroom walls around the world. It’s only fitting, then, that the 21st century has its digital versions of the table, like <a href="https://elements.wlonk.com/index.htm">the interactive design</a> by Boeing software engineer Keith Enevoldsen.</p> <div class="oc-center-da"> <div data-fuse="22871471544"></div> </div> <p>The <a href="https://elements.wlonk.com/index.htm">Interactive Periodic Table of the Elements, in Pictures and Words</a>, adapts itself to different learning styles while providing students of chemistry, of all ages and levels, instant facts about each of the elements it illustrates. Click on Palladium, for example, and you’ll learn about its role in pollution control. The non-corroding hard metal absorbs hydrogen and is used in labware, electric contacts, and dentistry. Rhenium, we learn, is a dense metal used in rocket engines, heater coils, and electric contacts, among other things.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1071510 native-lazyload-js-fallback" src="https://www.openculture.com/wp-content/plugins/native-lazyload/assets/images/placeholder.svg" alt width="660" height="507" data-src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224545/Interactive-Periodic-Table-of-Elements-660x507.jpg" data-srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224545/Interactive-Periodic-Table-of-Elements-660x507.jpg 660w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224545/Interactive-Periodic-Table-of-Elements-660x507-360x277.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224545/Interactive-Periodic-Table-of-Elements-660x507-240x184.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224545/Interactive-Periodic-Table-of-Elements-660x507-300x230.jpg 300w" data-sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px"><noscript><img loading="lazy" loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1071510" src="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224545/Interactive-Periodic-Table-of-Elements-660x507.jpg" alt width="660" height="507" srcset="https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224545/Interactive-Periodic-Table-of-Elements-660x507.jpg 660w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224545/Interactive-Periodic-Table-of-Elements-660x507-360x277.jpg 360w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224545/Interactive-Periodic-Table-of-Elements-660x507-240x184.jpg 240w, https://cdn8.openculture.com/2019/12/03224545/Interactive-Periodic-Table-of-Elements-660x507-300x230.jpg 300w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px"></noscript></p> <p>Other “seemingly obscure” elements we may never have heard of, like Gallium and Tantalum, influence our daily lives “quite a bit, it turns out,” as <a href="https://inhabitat.com/new-interactive-periodic-table-shows-how-each-element-influences-daily-life/" rel="nofollow">Lacy Cooke writes at Inhabit</a>, serving as components in LEDs and mobile phones. We gather such facts at a glance, as well as the other endlessly useful functions of the table. Enevoldsen further adapts his designs for home or classroom use with printable PDFs, including a version with only words and a simplified table with only pictures. Beginning students may be thrilled to find print-your-own elements cards, as well as other periodic-table-related visual aids like Atomic Orbitals, a color-coded chart that “shows what atoms look like.”</p> <p>The groupings on the periodic chart so familiar to us today came about when Mendeleev “realized that, by putting [the elements] in order of increasing atomic weight, certain types of element regularly occurred,” the Royal Society points out. But his “real genius… was to leave gaps for undiscovered elements. He even predicted the properties of five of these elements and their compounds.” Enevoldsen’s interactive table makes for an easy format to update. When new elements are named, he adds them to his charts immediately.</p> <p>Periodic tables like Enevoldsen’s may only barely resemble Mendeleev’s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Periodic_table#/media/File:D._Mendeleev's_Periodic_table_from_his_book.JPG">spare original</a>, but the Russian chemist’s classification system still provides the organizing principles by which we understand the fundamental elements that make up the material world. <a href="https://elements.wlonk.com/index.htm">View and download PDF copies of all of these highly informative, and up-to-date periodic tables here</a>. Or <a href="https://elements.wlonk.com/ElementsBuy.htm">purchase posters/prints here</a>.</p> <p>via <a href="https://inhabitat.com/new-interactive-periodic-table-shows-how-each-element-influences-daily-life/" rel="nofollow"> Inhabit</a></p> <p><strong>Related Content: </strong></p> <p><a href="http://www.openculture.com/2017/05/the-map-of-chemistry-new-animation-summarizes-the-entire-field-of-chemistry-in-12-minutes.html">The Map of Chemistry: New Animation Summarizes the Entire Field of Chemistry in 12 Minutes</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.openculture.com/2018/03/a-periodic-table-visualizing-the-year-country-in-which-each-element-was-discovered.html">A Periodic Table Visualizing the Year & Country in Which Each Element Was Discovered</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.openculture.com/2017/08/the-periodic-table-of-elements-presented-as-interactive-haikus.html">The Periodic Table of Elements Presented as Interactive Haikus</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.openculture.com/2017/12/the-periodic-table-of-endangered-elements.html">The Periodic Table of Endangered Elements: Visualizing the Chemical Elements That Could Vanish Before You Know It</a></p> <p><a href="http://about.me/jonesjoshua"><em>Josh Jones</em></a><em> is a writer and musician based in Durham, NC. Follow him at <a href="https://twitter.com/jdmagness">@jdmagness</a></em></p> <div class="alignleft"> <p class="author"> by <a href="https://www.openculture.com/author/jdavidjones" title="Posts by Josh Jones" rel="author">Josh Jones</a> | <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2019/12/interactive-periodic-table-of-elements.html" title="Permalink">Permalink</a> | <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2019/12/interactive-periodic-table-of-elements.html#respond" title="Make a comment">Make a Comment</a> ( <a href="https://www.openculture.com/2019/12/interactive-periodic-table-of-elements.html#respond">None</a> ) | </p>   </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="cleared"></div> <a href="https://www.openculture.com/category/chemistry/page/2" >More in this category... »</a> </div>  <div class="middle_sidebar"> <ul id="middle_sidebarwidgeted"> <li id="execphp-431254483" class="widget widget_execphp"><h2 class="widgettitle">Essentials</h2> <div class="execphpwidget"><div class="widgetbox"> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses">1,700 Free Online Courses</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.openculture.com/online-certificate-programs">200 Online Certificate Programs</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.openculture.com/online-degrees">100+ Online Degree & Mini-Degree Programs</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.openculture.com/freemoviesonline">1,150 Free Movies</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.openculture.com/freeaudiobooks">1,000 Free Audio Books</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.openculture.com/great-podcasts">150+ Best Podcasts</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.openculture.com/free_ebooks">800 Free eBooks</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks">200 Free Textbooks</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.openculture.com/freelanguagelessons">300 Free Language Lessons</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.openculture.com/business_free_courses">150 Free Business Courses</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.openculture.com/free_k-12_educational_resources">Free K-12 Education</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.openculture.com/dailyemail">Get Our Daily Email</a></li> </ul> </div></div> </li><li id="execphp-431254506" class="widget widget_execphp"><h2 class="widgettitle">Support Us</h2> <div class="execphpwidget"><div class="widgetbox noborder"> <br> We're hoping to rely on loyal readers, rather than erratic ads. 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