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Professor Alice Roberts shows her love for calcium and how efficient the human skeleton can be. Did you know that the calcium in our bones are replaced every 5 to 10 years?
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Ahhhhhhhhhh calcium how much I love to drink you
Are you saying you have an appetite for apatite?
HA!
Alas, poor Yorick. I knew him, Horatio. I kept expecting her to break out in this soliloquy at any moment. If I ever play Hamlet, I definitely want to get a cast of my own skull like this. Not only would it be just really cool, it should also create a mirror effect that the audience would pick up on subconsciously.
Something I have always wondered is how accurate the facial reconstructions that are done of ancient skulls in museums/history shows are. I think a cool thing if you cared to do, would be to send out your skull model to 5 or more different 'reconstruction' artists and see how close they get to your likeness (of course they shouldn't know that the skull is yours). Cheers!