The Sweet Taste of Heavy Metal: The History of Lead
Channel: The Rat Man Bob
Date: 2024-01-22

Today I am here to tell you about the metal Lead. We are going to go over what it is, why it is toxic, and its uses through history from lead paint to lead batteries to lead bullets. 

I tried doing a little bit of acting to spice things up. the changes in tone in the video are supposed to be like the progression of lead poisoning. tell me if it worked.

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Additional Reading

Superfund lookup site
https://www.epa.gov/superfund/search-superfund-sites-where-you-live 

Heavy metals in european soil
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412015301203#f0010 

Study on the effect of lead exposure on crime
https://jwreyes.people.amherst.edu/papers/LeadCrimeBEJEAP.pdf 

Deeper explanation of how lead affects proteins
https://sites.tufts.edu/leadpoisoning/pathways/lead-and-calcium/

Percentage of deaths in the us cause by homicide
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1386331/us-share-deaths-homicide-historical/ 

Lead in soil in london
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016706113002048 

Lead exposure at firing ranges
https://ehjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12940-017-0246-0 

Test scores in london
https://www.bbc.com/news/education-16730017 

Lead in inner cities 
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8812512/ 

Benjamin Franklin's letter concerning lead 
https://www.environmentaleducation.com/documents/Lead%20Resources/Ben%20Franklin%20Letter%20on%20Lead.pdf 

Industrial jobs density in london
https://citiesofmaking.com/mapping-londons-makers/#:~:text=Located%20on%20the%20border%20of,today%20have%20over%20700%20employees. 

Early lead object found
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4667931/#:~:text=Thus%2C%20it%20appears%20that%20the,Late%205th%20millennium%20BCE. 

Song List

What Did They Put In My Coffee - @RatManBobMusic 
Etude Op. 10, no. 1 in C major - 'Waterfall'
Arabesque no. 1 (bass guitar arr.)
Symphony no. 5 in Cm, Op. 67 - I. Allegro con brio
Night on Bald Mountain 
Funkin Out of Your Gourd @RatManBobMusic

#lead #history #trivia