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Oct 23, 2026
From lead paint to DNA tests: surprising discoveries from America’s national parks
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Kate GroetzingerHOST
And I actually, maybe because of my age, I grew up always with unleaded gasoline, but say more about how that science that was conducted in the park impacted, you know, lead exposure and pollution.
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13:51Robert LullGUEST
It has everything because you start with Patterson being one of the scientists who worked on the atomic bomb.
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13:58Robert LullGUEST
And, you know, virtually everyone who did that work wanted to get back to basic science.
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14:07Robert LullGUEST
And so his advisor, Harrison Brown, who was a pretty famous scientist in his own right, he said, well, why don't you figure out the age of the Earth? You're really good with the mass spectrometer.
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Kate GroetzingerHOST
And I guess parks are important for archaeology because they just sort of preserve things as they are so parks really provide a great natural lab for archaeologists as well and you tell an interesting story about maybe one of the most important archaeological findings in the channel islands national park will you tell us a little bit about that