{"id":14604,"date":"2018-03-06T10:56:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-06T16:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=14604"},"modified":"2018-03-06T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2018-03-06T16:56:53","slug":"getting-the-lead-out-ctd-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/03\/06\/getting-the-lead-out-ctd-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting The Lead Out, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

For long time readers who remember Kevin Drum’s fascination<\/a> with lead in the environment and how it correlates with crime, he’s popped up with some more<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Got it? Good. The upshot is that the researchers could determine lead concentration levels in Europe down to the individual year. Here they are:<\/p>\n

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Source: AGU Publications<\/strong><\/a><\/p><\/div>\n

It turns out that lead has been poisoning Europe for at least 2,000 years, with one notable exception: the few years during and after the Black Death. Apparently the plague killed off all the lead miners, and for a period of a decade or two ambient lead levels plummeted to low levels. …<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s my theory: Lead levels plummeted from about 1350-1370, and children born during those years entered adulthood around 1370-1390. I propose that they were smarter and more focused than your average medieval scholar, and this extra IQ boost from the plague is the real origin of the Renaissance. Generation P gave it enough of a kickstart that it then kept going of its own accord even after lead concentrations returned to their previous levels.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fun! We have a Renaissance because all the lead miners died!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For long time readers who remember Kevin Drum’s fascination with lead in the environment and how it correlates with crime, he’s popped up with some more: Got it? Good. The upshot is that the researchers could determine lead concentration levels in Europe down to the individual year. Here they are: \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14604"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14614,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14604\/revisions\/14614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}