Medium Dives

Really, it's not about Baba Yaga. Alicia talks about doodles found on microchips, and Tyler tells us about the Four Pests Campaign in China that resulted in a horrific famine.

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Intro/Outro Music Credit:

"The Show Must Be Go" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Sources:

Microchip Art

Visual story: https://ig.ft.com/microchips/

Silicon Zoo Website: https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/index.html 

https://web.archive.org/web/20150305182626/http://www.chipworks.com/newsroom/silicon-art-library 

https://www.asml.com/en/technology/all-about-microchips 

https://www.npr.org/2024/04/16/1242941475/new-generation-chip-art-silicon-doodles-engineers-microchip

https://spectrum.ieee.org/the-secret-art-of-chip-graffiti

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2015/12/25/fsu-groundbreaking-researcher-davidson-dies/77910748/ 

https://www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/references/newsletters-and-journals/bioprobes-journal-of-cell-biology-applications/bioprobes-73/bioprobes-73-mike-davidson-tribute.html

Four Pests Campaign

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0306422018800259

https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/01/chinas-misguided-war-against-sparrows.html 

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-four-pests-campaign-objectives-execution-failure-and-consequences.html 

https://www.orkin.com/pests/locusts/what-do-locusts-eat 

https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Leap-Forward 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Chinese_Famine

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Let's pretend like this almost 4 month long break was intentional, shall we? This episode, Alicia talks about several legal cases involving animals, including one involving copyright disputes over a selfie taken by a monkey. Then we get into a discussion about animal rights activism and whether it's ethical to own pets. Tyler follows up on cheese caves, mentioned in Episode 4! A surplus in dairy products led to the U.S. government owning a bunch of cheese and a nationwide promotion of milk.

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Intro/Outro Music Credit:

"The Show Must Be Go" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Sources:

Monkey Selfie/Animal Rights:

The Animal Turn Podcast S6E5 - https://youtu.be/yfnBnnLKvWQ?si=MXO3fC4jYaynu608

https://technology.ie/monkey-selfie-photographer-david-slater-tells-story-audio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_large.jpg

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/09/12/550417823/-animal-rights-advocates-photographer-compromise-over-ownership-of-monkey-selfie

https://ecojurisprudence.org/initiatives/cetacean-community-v-bush/

https://www.mass.gov/news/do-animals-have-standing-to-sue-part-2-animals-filing-as-individuals

https://animalfreedom.org/english/column/francione.html

https://www.projetogap.org/en/the-project/

https://www.nonhumanrights.org/litigation/

Cheese Caves/Big Milk:

https://www.sfhscollegeprep.org/news-detail?pk=1237113#

https://dairymarkets.org/pubPod/pubs/EB9505.pdf

https://www.tennessean.com/picture-gallery/insider/extras/2017/03/02/looking-back-milk-shortage-caused-by-protesting-dairy-farmers-in-1967/98640658

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dominos-pizza-and-the-usd_b_780868

https://plantbasednews.org/opinion/twisted-history-milk-america

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Alicia talks about the origins of Groundhog Day, going all the way back to Imbolc, then Candlemas, then finally to Pennsylvania Dutch culture. We also have a lot of fun talking about the lore surrounding Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous weather-predicting groundhog. Tyler explains iron lungs and answers some questions that have kept him up at night, like how do people scratch an itch or prevent bed sores when in an iron lung? We also talk about Paul Alexandar, a man who achieved amazing things while in an iron lung.

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Intro/Outro Music Credit:

"The Show Must Be Go" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Sources:

Groundhog Day

https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2022/02/groundhog-day-ancient-origins-of-a-modern-celebration/

https://www.groundhog.org/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/express/wp/2018/02/01/a-groundhog-day-scandal-potomac-phil-denies-rumors-of-collusion/

https://wtop.com/dc/2019/02/potomac-phil-defies-punxsutawney-with-prediction-of-his-own/

https://archive.org/details/yearinireland00kevi/page/14/mode/1up

https://web.archive.org/web/20141129095147/http://www.stormfax.com/ghogday.htm

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/groundhog-day-forecasts-and-climate-history

Iron Lungs/Paul Alexander

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20240315-iron-lung-led-to-creation-of-modern-day-intensive-care-unit

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/us/paul-alexander-iron-lung-dead.html 

https://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects-and-stories/medicine/iron-lung

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This week, Alicia talks about four different non-water floods. We've got whiskey, molassess, chocolate, and butter, y'all. Tyler tells the history of the Kowloon Walled City and reminds us of the resiliency of the human spirit.

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Intro/Outro Music Credit:

"The Show Must Be Go" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Sources:

mashed.com/493134/the-shocking-story-behind-the-great-whiskey-fire-of-dublin

irishtimes.com/news/offbeat/the-night-a-river-of-whiskey-ran-through-the-streets-of-dublin

history.com/news/great-molasses-flood-science 

edp.org/molpark.htm 

newspapers.com/article/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle-rockwood-chocol

newspapers.com/article/the-standard-union-rockwood-plant-fire

wisfarmer.com/story/opinion/columnists/2022/05/11/over-20-m-lbs-commodities-lost-great-butter-fire-1991

upi.com/Archives/1991/05/04/Dairy-warehouse-fire-melts-butter-lots-of-it

tonemadison.com/articles/butter-where-butter-shouldnt-be

mediakron.bc.edu/edges/a-history-for-hong-kong/the-yamen-an-inquiry-into-identity-and-place-in-the-kowloon-walled-city/the-magistrate-and-the-suburbs-1843-1899

thetravelclub.org/articles/travelogues/664-kowloon-walled-city-life-in-the-city-of-darkness

history.howstuffworks.com/world-history/kowloon-walled-city

atlasobscura.com/articles/kowloon-walled-city

archdaily.com/800698/heres-what-western-accounts-of-the-kowloon-walled-city-dont-tell-you

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Apologies for our impromptu month-long break!

In episode 3, Alicia talks about the Third Man Syndrome, a phenomenon where people feel/see a helpful presence in life-threatening scenarios. Tyler talks about cicadas, primarily the periodical ones that emerge every 13 or 17 years and ruin everyone's lives for a couple weeks - it turns out they are quite mysterious.

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Intro/Outro Music Credit:

"The Show Must Be Go" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Sorry for the delay in posting Episode 2! (But not that sorry because we have full-time jobs)

This week Alicia talks about how our memory is worse than we think it is. Tyler explores the origin of the Boogeyman and Banshees, and discusses an under-trained veneer tech.

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Intro/Outro Music Credit:

"The Show Must Be Go" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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Alicia talks about how trees use fungi to communicate with each other (the “wood wide web”), and Tyler explains Disney’s no-dying-on-grounds policy and how New York water is superior.

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Intro Music Credit:

"The Show Must Be Go" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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