Carbon Dating Is Changing the Art of the Art World

Tune in to understand how new tech to find fake paintings, the mysterious reason a viking colony collapsed, and how doing chores might make kids smarter!

Goodbye forgaries.

• Police Rely on Radiocarbon Dating to Identify Forged Paintings by Carolyn Wilke
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-00582-w
• Detecting Recent Forgeries of Impressionist and Pointillist Paintings with High-Precision Radiocarbon Dating by Lucille Beck, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111214
• Discovering Forgeries of Modern Art by the 14C Bomb Peak by L. Caforio, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/i2014-14006-6
• Uncovering Modern Paint Forgeries by Radiocarbon Dating by Laura Hendricks, et al.
  • https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1901540116

Water: the life force.

• Greenland’s Vikings May Have Vanished Because They Ran Out of Water by Colin Barras
  • https://www.science.org/content/article/greenland-s-vikings-may-have-vanished-because-they-ran-out-water
• Prolonged Drying Trend Coincident with the Demise of Norse Settlement in Southern Greenland by Boyang Zhao, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abm4346
• Development of an In Situ Branched GDGT Calibration in Lake 578, Southern Greenland by Boyang Zhao, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.orggeochem.2020.104168
• Why Did Greenland’s Vikings Vanish? by Tim Folger
  • https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/why-greenland-vikings-vanished-180962119/
• Glacier Maxima in Baffin Bay During the Medieval Warm Period Coeval with Norse Settlement by Nicolás E. Young, et al.
  • https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.1500806
• What Happened to the Viking Settlement of Greenland? New Research Shows Cooling Weather Not a Factor by Magnús Sveinn Helgason
  • https://icelandmag.is/article/what-happened-viking-settlement-greenland-new-research-shows-cooling-weather-not-a-factor

Chores for thinking.

• “Children's chores improve brain function” by La Trobe University
  • https://www.latrobe.edu.au/news/articles/2022/release/childrens-chores-improve-brain-function
• “Executive functions and household chores: Does engagement in chores predict children's cognition?” by Deanna L Tepper, Tiffani J Howell, and Pauleen C Bennett
  • https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35640882/

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