Dieses Video des Projekts „Divine Creatures“ des British Museum dokumentiert, wie Forscher und Museumsspezialisten die Mumien ins Royal Brompton Hospital brachten, wo Röntgengeräte und CT-Scanner durch die fragilen Verpackungen hindurch sehen, ohne sie zu berühren.

Join Marie Vandenbeusch, Emma Phillips, and others in the British Museum as they embark on an exciting new research project aimed at better understanding the meaning and the evolution of animal mummification in ancient Egypt. We’ll show you how we scan the mummies using X-rays in the museum, revealing what’s inside these animal mummies, how we transport and CT scan them at a hospital, and then Marie and Emma breakdown the scan results, and explain how they add to our knowledge of the ancient Egyptian embalming practice.

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One of my favorite things about pediatrics is looking at imaging. Like have you ever seen a baby's hand x ray? That shit is adorable. pic.twitter.com/aS7uIouKxI

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A remarkable journey into the secret world of one of the most endangered and least understood animals on earth – bats. With cutting-edge night-vision cameras and ultrasonic detectors, this programme follows a greater horseshoe bat roost for four months during the summer of 2019, capturing the hidden life of the colony as never before. Witness the birth of a new generation of pups and follow their progress towards their perilous maiden flight outside the roost.

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Rodrigues flying fox pic.twitter.com/gTZbTnG68s

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Ball python pic.twitter.com/ntUxMKzurh

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A beaver's tail pic.twitter.com/cpuhPvlGxD

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Toco toucan pic.twitter.com/GNxcufCaRW

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Rad radiography from health checks at our veterinary center: another thread pic.twitter.com/kScVui2sVv

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Fat-tailed gecko pic.twitter.com/bxo3ydamOG

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Dwarf mongoose pic.twitter.com/iVl49RR8Lg

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Screech owl pic.twitter.com/JtLPLJHSSx

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A tiger's paw pic.twitter.com/6xV7OFPzoh

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Wolf eel pic.twitter.com/bQsIBaBf77

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Hedgehog (dark spot is gas in the stomach) pic.twitter.com/EXdszLGopN

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Three-banded armadillo pic.twitter.com/67i2ENJBz8

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Im nordchinesischen Dongguan ist eine Frau auf dem Bahnhof in einem Gepäckscanner gestiegen, weil sie ihre Taschen da nicht alleine durchfahren lassen wollte. Sie hatte wohl Angst, dass diese dabei wegkommen könnten. So stieg sie mit auf das Band, das durch den Scanner fährt und holte sich eine Portion Strahlung ab.

In the cold war era, the Soviet recording industry and permissible musical repertoire were ruthlessly controlled by the State. But a secret and risky subculture of bootleg recordings arose. Incredibly, bootleggers built homemade recording machines and found an extraordinary way to copy banned gramophone records – they used X-Rays clandestinely obtained from hospitals
X-Ray Audio: The Strange Story of Soviet Music on the Bone tells the secret history of these ghostly records and of the people who made, bought and sold them. Lavishly illustrated with images of discs collected in Russia, it is a unique story of forbidden culture, bootleg technology and human endeavour.

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In den 1950er Jahren in der UdSSR, noch bevor die Kassettenrekorder aufkamen, kopierten sich einige Russen staatlich verbotenes Liedgut mit einer ganz eigene Technik. Dafür benutzen sie alte Röntgenaufnahmen, auf die sie irgendwie die Rillen der Originale übertrugen. Dabei kamen einige Exemplare zusammen. József Hajdú hat die Geschichte dazu und jede Menge Aufnahmen der raubkopierten Röntgenschallplatten.

Before the availability of the tape recorder and during the 1950s, when vinyl was scarce, people in the Soviet Union began making records of banned Western music on discarded x-rays. With the help of a special device, banned bootlegged jazz and rock ‘n’ roll records were “pressed” on thick radiographs salvaged from hospital waste bins and then cut into discs of 23-25 centimeters in diameter. “They would cut the X-ray into a crude circle with manicure scissors and use a cigarette to burn a hole,” says author Anya von Bremzen. “You’d have Elvis on the lungs, Duke Ellington on Aunt Masha’s brain scan — forbidden Western music captured on the interiors of Soviet citizens.”

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