2020-10-16
44 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from four undisclosed locations in the UK.
My name is Dan Shriver, I am sitting here with James Harkin,
Andrew Hunter Murray and Anna Tachinsky and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite facts from the last seven days and in no particular order,
here we go.
Starting with you, Anna.
My fact this week is that during out of hours periods, hospital CT scanners are sometimes used to scan Egyptian mummies.
Wow, so cool.
It's so weird.
This is because mummies need scanning sometimes to find out what's inside them so it's much less invasive
as you can imagine than actually unwrapping a mummy which can sort of cause the mummies to disintegrate
as you do it and you want to know what jewels they've got in them or what state their bones are in,
stuff like that and about well actually almost
since the dawn of X-rays they realised this would be really useful for scanning mummies and
since the year 2000 apparently it's been a routine use for hospital CT scanners is to use them on mummies.
There are various hospitals in the UK that do it.
I think Manchester Children's Hospital does a very strong line in loaning its CT scanners out.
I think it was Leeds Hospital,
I can't remember exactly but I read one of them saying that they did it in the night or out of hours
because they didn't want to scare the patients which I think makes sense,