come out? really, i leave for three seconds, three seconds. seemed really like two. why are we doing this? we don t know who it is or how old it is but we seem deeply concerned with the process of preserving it. if we don t, they re going to just keep decaying and if we don t take care of them, we could lose them permanently. so what, how is the world worse off if the skull of a person whose identity is unknown to everyone in the room returns to the ashes from whence it came? because, keep in mind, every single one of these is valuable in its own right. this is first of all, a human being. we treat them with the upmost respect and these are very important study specimens. we don t know what research is going to walk through our door and see this particular skull. the heart of it is pretty simple. respect for the species, preservation for future research.
are putting meat by-products into their bottoms. please don t let this happen to you or your loved ones. yes, please, just say no. from eating the bottom. there s more stories here than we could tell you in ten episodes but the one story i haven t heard yet is anna s. you seem to have figured something out. did you get lucky? yes, i really think that i stumbled into this job. i came back from a stint in peru doing human rights work, totally burnt out and having absolutely no idea what i was going to do next. what happened in peru? my friend is an anthropologist, so i was teaching forensic anthropology to peruvian people to identify their own dead. i was doing the analysis as well. back in the 1990s, the terrorist group called the shining path did a lot of bad things to a lot of innocent people. anna had a front row seat. i kind of was like, do i want
into the bone room. to work with tovah in the bone room. no chance of double entendre there, huh? what does it look like? that s a penis? yes. can i touch it? you re wearing gloves, aren t you? that was listed as a horse penis but the funny thing is, we don t know what animal we came from. we think it s probably a large marine mammal but we re not entirely sure. this is our mystery penis. average. look, i have about a thousand things i could say, but i m just doing a quick gut check and none of them are usable. how did you come by it? it was in the collection when i got here ten were you on staff when this came to you?
died conjoined but it was interesting to note at the time of the autopsy, they found they had conjoined livers and that s the liver right here. i knew it. had they tried to get separated in life, it would not have been successful. they would have died. the liver is highly vascular. can t mess with the liver. you can die from blood loss and keep in mind, this is like late 1800s. they would have died. and honest, the sex. i just don t i that s where your imagination can take you because i m not taking you there. you can t show me this and say they have 21 kids and let s move on. i m not ready to move on. you realize you re in the fetal position right now. i am. i m a ball. you re curled up on the floor of the mutter museum. my work is done. peace out. you re so weird. show me something else. thank you. a drawer full of things taken out of people s throats. we re talking over 2,000 objects. every single object you re seeing here was taken out of somebody s thro
but please wait until the commercial break. pay close attention to the cappuccino skills of a man who won five regional barista competitions on his way to becoming the world barista champion. will you explain what you are doing here, this fancy, schmancy, you made a heart. they call it latte art. do they? yes, what it is called. white foam mixing in with the brown of the espresso. i see. pete s cappuccino is artistic and delicious. how hard can it be to make one? it is going to start grinding. feel it getting warmer. pour it down the center. that is something. yes! look at that. it is a mustang. a running pony. his head is down here. he is kicking his feet backwards there. why don t you have a sip of mine. tell me what you think. don t hold back. keep an open mind. a little grainy. i was going for grainy. it s not terribly sweet. i didn t want it terribly