- Yellow Ant
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This is one of the best new shows I've seen in a while. I get anxious watching it - not even because of the supernatural threat, but just the horror of that voyage. I wouldn't want to do that trip even with modern equipment. The acting is also great.
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- Yellow Ant
- Feb 28, 2016
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Q&A and request for questions:
https://twitter.com/theterroramc/status/1001572640937652224
Celebrate the end of #TheTerror 's epic voyage with a Q&A! @JaredHarris and showrunners David Kajganich and @shugh100 will be chatting with @IndieWire's Steve Greene tomorrow at 7pm ET/4pm PT. Send us your questions and they could be answered live!
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May 30, 2018 03:22
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- Yellow Ant
- Feb 28, 2016
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Just saw this article: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/saskatoon-s-synchrotron-helps-debunk-franklin-expedition-lead-poisoning-theory-1.4800604
quote: Lead did not play a significant role in deaths of crew members
The two ships of the Franklin Expedition disappeared during an 1845 search for the Northwest Passage.
Although there were many factors stacked against the crew members of the ill-fated Franklin Expedition of 1845, one theory about what caused their demise has been dubunked by researchers at Saskatoon's synchrotron, the Canadian Light Source.
"In the synchrotron we are able to put these little fragments of bone into the beam," David Cooper, the Canada Research chair in synchrotron bone imaging, said in an interview with CBC Radio's Saskatoon Morning.
A close inspection of the crew's remains found high levels of lead, relative to modern populations. Those findings, combined with the discovery of lead-lined food tins found by archaeologists, created a foundation for speculation that lead poisoning may have compromised the sailor's decision making abilities, leading them to embark on a deadly march to Hudson Bay.
"The theory took hold from there," said Cooper.
Cooper and his colleagues were able to peer into small bone samples from the crew. While they did find evidence of exposure to lead, it did not happen in the short time period that the Franklin Expedition crew was stranded in the Arctic.
"Your bones replace themselves very slowly, a few per cent per year, so if they have lead distributed extensively through their bones, that suggests much of it went in well before the expedition."
In short, the work in Saskatoon debunks the theory that lead killed the crew.
Cooper said this should not come as a surprise.
"It's not a stretch of the imagination to understand how people die after two or three years in the Arctic. This was a desperate situation, food supplies are running low, and there is evidence of cannibalism later on in the expedition. I think what's remarkable is that they survived as long as they did."
Still, Cooper said, this is valuable work which will help scientists better understand how lead accumulates in the body.
"One of the big questions in lead poisoning in archeology is that bones passively take up lead from the environment, which further complicates things."
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Aug 28, 2018 05:05
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- Yellow Ant
- Feb 28, 2016
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And it’s on Amazon Prime in Canada, if other people are looking for it 👍
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Jul 27, 2019 19:43
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