Life and Science in an Absolute Monarchy

What is the day-to-day life like in the Vatican? And how does that compare to the ways that such places are depicted in some of your favorite (and not-so-favorite) fantasy novels? What is it really like to live in a five hundred year old palace, to work in an absolute monarchy, to do science in a structure far older than NASA?

Speaker: Dr Guy Consolmagno, Director, Vatican Observatory