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welcome to the khaki ride home for t Tuesday, June 1st, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird.

500 years later, the Medici's continue to ruin Michelangelo's artworks,

but fortunately some bacteria are on the scene to restore his works to their former glory.

The new naming scheme for COVID-19 variants, and the story of Allendale, Texas,

once the only village in the entire world to be fully air-conditioned.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

It's not often that an art restoration done well makes the headlines. Restorations can

kind of be like cleaning the house. You know, people rarely notice when it's been done, but they

certainly notice when it hasn't. An art restoration likewise goes

viral when an unqualified person, say, turns a fresco of Jesus into a blurry monkey painting,

but doesn't usually garner attention when successfully undergone. Unless the successful restoration

was achieved by slathering statues with corpse juice eating bacteria.

That's what happened last year at the Medici Chapel in Florence, where they employed a few

types of bacteria to clean the Michelangelo designed statues and tombs of the Medici's mausoleum.

According to the New York Times, this all started

in 2016 when Marina Vincente, one of the restorers at the Medici Chapel, attended a conference

in which biologist Anna Rosa Spricade and her colleagues from the Italian National Agency for

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