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Sawbones

- Sawbones: Tesla Medbed: 2024 Nov 26

- Sawbones: Project 2025: 2024 Nov 19

- Sawbones Classic: History of Abortion: 2024 Nov 5

NOV 26, 2024, 12:00 PM EST | PODCAST | EPISODE PAGE

Sawbones: Tesla Medbed

Somehow the Tesla medical bed, or Tesla Biohealing Wellness Hotel and Resort is not related to Elon Musk. It is also not really related to actual medical care. Dr. Sydnee and Justin talk about another wellness product and what this harnesser of biphoton energy is supposed to do.

Music: “Medicines” by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

This article was downloaded on Dec 9, 2024 at 6:20 PM EST.

NOV 19, 2024, 2:19 PM EST | PODCAST | EPISODE PAGE

Sawbones: Project 2025

Needless to say it’s going to be a long four years for the United States. This week’s episode of Sawbones offers some guidance on what we might expect for medicine and health care going forward and what pro-active steps you may want to consider.

Music: “Medicines” by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com/

This article was downloaded on Dec 9, 2024 at 6:20 PM EST.

NOV 5, 2024, 12:00 PM EST | PODCAST | EPISODE PAGE

Sawbones Classic: History of Abortion

It’s Election Day in the United States of America, and so we present this Sawbones episode on the history of abortion from May 2022. Go vote!

With the recent news about Roe v. Wade, it’s important to talk about the history of abortion in the United States. The right to autonomy over one’s own body in regard to medical care is one of the basic tenets of medical ethics; but no matter what anyone personally believes, banning abortion doesn’t stop abortion. It just makes it unsafe.

Music: “Medicines” by The Taxpayers https://taxpayers.bandcamp.com

This article was downloaded on Dec 9, 2024 at 6:20 PM EST.

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Limes: 2024 Dec 9

- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Sign Languages: 2024 Dec 2

- presenting “The Inspectors Inspectors” Episodes 1-3: 2024 Nov 25

- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Turkeys: 2024 Nov 18

- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: “O.K.”: 2024 Nov 11

- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Apollo 17: 2024 Nov 4

DEC 9, 2024, 4:05 AM EST | PODCAST | EPISODE PAGE

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Limes

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why limes are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.

LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:

- Katie Goldin on Twitter

- @ProBirdRights

- 'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)

- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

- native-land.ca

- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture

- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)

- "Finding Lenapehoking" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)

- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)

- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

- We Finally Know Where Oranges and Lemons Come From (Scientific American)

- Taking a sexy look at citrus (The Washington Post)

- In Ancient Rome, Citrus Fruits Were Status Symbols (Gastro Obscura)

- Lemons vs. Limes: What’s the Difference? (Healthline.com)

- Bittersweet: The Rise and Fall of the Citrus Industry in Florida (Florida Memory)

- Memorial Web Page for the 1926 Great Miami Hurricane (National Weather Service)

- Local history: Historic freezes caused havoc and changed Florida’s agriculture (Treasure Coast Palm)

- 11 Types Of Limes And What Makes Them Unique (FoodRepublic.com)

- In Mexico And U.S., Lime Lovers Feel Squeezed By High Prices (NPR's "The Salt")

- Mexican cartel extortion prompts Michoacán's lime producers to shut down, demand protection (Texas Public Radio)

- Mexico lime inflation leaves sour taste as cartels gouge prices for cuisine staple (The Guardian)

- Mexico sends troops to protect lime growers amid cartel extortion demands (Los Angeles Times)

- A decade after vigilante uprising, extortion and threats against lime growers return to west Mexico (The Associated Press)

- Health Essentials: The Science Behind Margarita Burns (Cleveland Clinic)

- Bartenders beware of "margarita burn" caused by squeezing limes (CBS News)

- Link to one skin care website, describing problems with lemon juice as skin treatment

- Division Of Disease Surveillance: About Lyme Disease (Maine.gov)

- Before Key Lime Pie, Florida Loved This Sweet-Tart Treat (Gastro Obscura)

- The Mysterious Origin Of Key Lime Pie (Southern Living)

- Key Lime Pie, The State Pie Of Florida, May Have Originated In NYC (Gothamist)

- Why Are These Italians Massacring Each Other With Oranges? (The New York Times Magazine)

- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Lemons

- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Grapefruit

This article was downloaded on Dec 9, 2024 at 6:20 PM EST.

DEC 2, 2024, 4:05 AM EST | PODCAST | EPISODE PAGE

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Sign Languages

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why sign languages are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.

LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:

- Katie Goldin on Twitter

- @ProBirdRights

- 'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)

- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

- native-land.ca

- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture

- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)

- "Finding Lenapehoking" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)

- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)

- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

- Forbidden Signs: American Culture and the Campaign against Sign Language by Douglas C. Baynton

- 1,000 Signs of Life: Basic ASL for Everyday Conversation by The Editors of Gallaudet University Press

- Seeing Voices by Oliver Sacks

- How a Visual Language Evolves as Our World Does (The New York Times)

- This Is How New Words Enter the Vernacular of ASL (Smithsonian SmartNews)

- United States Census Bureau: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) About Language Use -- "The three questions used on the American Community Survey (ACS) to capture languages spoken and English-speaking ability are not designed to identify American Sign Language (ASL) users. The current question design supports the 1975 amendment to the Voting Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination against specific language minorities when voting. The enforcement of the Voting Rights Act is focused on non-English, non-ASL languages that are used by members of racial and ethnic minority groups. Due to the way data are currently collected, we are not able to provide separate data about ASL use."

- To Young Brains, Language Is Language, Whether Signed or Spoken (UConn Today)

- YouTube upload of examples of "sign babbling"

- Scientists discover wild baby parrots babble like human babies (CBC Radio "Quirks and Quarks")

- The Hidden History of Martha’s Vineyard Sign Language (Atlas Obscura)

- How Deaf Children in Nicaragua Created a New Language (Atlas Obscura)

- There’s a Philly Sign Language Accent (Smithsonian SmartNews)

- How 'water' became 'wooder', the evolution of the Philly accent (The Philadelphia Inquirer / YouTube)

- The Lost Secret Sign Language of Sawmill Workers (Atlas Obscura)

- The Power of Storytelling: Reflections on Deaf Culture and American Sign Language (Folklife Magazine)

- From inventing the huddle to trying a new helmet, Gallaudet is home to a proud football tradition (The Associated Press)

- Harvard-Yale football: Memorable moments, all-time history (NCAA)

- History of the Forward Pass (The Biletnikoff Award)

- CT State Library: "Connecticut's Nicknames"

This article was downloaded on Dec 9, 2024 at 6:20 PM EST.

NOV 25, 2024, 4:05 AM EST | PODCAST | EPISODE PAGE

presenting “The Inspectors Inspectors” Episodes 1-3

Hello and happy U.S. Thanksgiving Week! We are thrilled to share the first 3 episodes of "The Inspectors Inspectors", our unique bizarre recap podcast for the TV show funded and produced by the U.S. Postal Service. Hear the show by supporting SIF at https://maximumfun.org/join. SIFpod and "The Inspectors Inspectors" exist because of the generosity of Maximum Fun members. THANK YOU to everyone who does that wonderful thing. Once you're a member, grab "The Inspectors Inspectors" and all your other BoCo by using this how-to: https://maximumfun.org/howtoboco/

This article was downloaded on Dec 9, 2024 at 6:20 PM EST.

NOV 18, 2024, 4:05 AM EST | PODCAST | EPISODE PAGE

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Turkeys

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why turkeys are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.

LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:

- Katie Goldin on Twitter

- @ProBirdRights

- 'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)

- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

- native-land.ca

- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture

- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)

- "Finding Lenapehoking" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)

- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)

- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

- National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America, 7th Edition by Jon L. Dunn and Jonathan Alderfer

- 100 Birds and How They Got Their Names by Diana Wells

- Turkey -- Meleagris gallopavo (Smithsonian's National Zoo)

- Wild Turkey: Sounds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

- A Brief History of the Turkey (OhioHistory.org)

- Birds Of The World: Numididae Guineafowl (Cornell Lab of Ornithology)

- A Farewell to Arms: Ending the War and Negotiating the Treaty of Lausanne, 1922-1923 (University of Michigan Library)

- This is one video example of Turkish people saying and pronouncing the name "Türkiye".

- Turkey changes its official name to Türkiye (NPR Morning Edition)

- How many turkey feathers does it take to make an ancient blanket? 11,500 (Ars Technica)

- DCA archeologist weaves a blanket made of 17,000 turkey feathers (New Mexico Wildlife Magazine)

- Researchers Dig Into the Juicy History of Taming the Turkey (Smithsonian SmartNews)

- An arrow to the chest? This wild turkey is unruffled (The Guardian)

- Calif. neighborhood obsessed with turkey who survived arrow impaling (The San Francisco Chronicle)

- Can Staten Island learn to love its ‘nuisance’ wild turkeys? (The Guardian)

- Turkeys can swim and other fun facts (National Geographic)

- Why Do Birds Have White And Dark Meat? And Do We? (SciShow on YouTube)

- TV Legends: Was WKRP's Famous Turkey Drop Based in Reality? (CBR.com)

- Benjamin Franklin and the Kite Experiment (The Franklin Institute)

- Did Benjamin Franklin Want the National Bird To Be A Turkey? (The Franklin Institute)

- When Benjamin Franklin Shocked Himself While Attempting to Electrocute a Turkey -- book excerpt from Spark by Timothy J. Jorgensen (Smithsonian Magazine)

- Bald Eagle -- Channel Islands National Park (U.S. National Park Service)

- Viewing Bald Eagles In New York State (NY State Department Of Environmental Conservation)

This article was downloaded on Dec 9, 2024 at 6:20 PM EST.

NOV 11, 2024, 4:05 AM EST | PODCAST | EPISODE PAGE

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: “O.K.”

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why "O.K." is secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.

LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:

- Katie Goldin on Twitter

- @ProBirdRights

- 'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)

- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

- native-land.ca

- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture

- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)

- "Finding Lenapehoking" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)

- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)

- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

- OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word by Allan Metcalf

- The Vulgar Tongue: Green's History Of Slang by Jonathon Green

- How One Man Discovered the Obscure Origins of the Word ‘OK’ (Smithsonian SmartNews)

- Are You Okay? (The Paris Review)

- How 'OK' took over the world (BBC News)

- OK vs. Okay vs. O.K. (Writer's Digest)

- Tweet by @APStylebook demonstrating their approach to "OK"

- Chicago Manual Of Style blog post about their approach to "okay"

- Variety Slanguage Dictionary (Variety.com)

- Martin van Buren and the American Political System by Donald B. Cole

- Biographies of the Secretaries of State: Martin Van Buren, 1782–1862 (U.S. State Department Office Of The Historian)

- Photo, Print, Drawing: "The little magician invoked" (The Library Of Congress)

- Collection: Martin Van Buren Papers, 1787 to 1910 (The Library Of Congress)

- State Abbreviations (U.S. Postal Service)

- Oklahoma: State Resource Guide (The Library Of Congress)

- No, “Oklahoma” doesn’t mean “red people” ("Kahalin" on Medium.com)

- song page and lyrics for "Oklahoma" (RodgersAndHammerstein.com)

- Wikimedia image upload of a 1971 Oklahoma license plate, reading "OKLAHOMA IS OK"

- Oklahoma to get new license plates, logo, slogan through rebranding effort (The Oklahoman)

- Photo, Print, Drawing: Historic re-enactors head to the showdown at the site of the 1881 Gunfight at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona, that became the subject of numerous Hollywood movies. The O.K. Corral (O.K. was short for Old Kindersley) was a livery and horse corral from 1879 to about 1888 in the mining boomtown in what was then Arizona Territory, near the border with Mexico. The 30-second shootout pitted lawmen, including the legendary Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday, against a group of outlaws. (The Library Of Congress)

- Radiohead reveal where ‘OK Computer’ title came from (NME)

- Thom Yorke Confirms Radiohead’s ‘OK Computer’ Is Nerdy As Shit (Vice)

- YouTube upload of Larry David stare interrogations from 'Curb Your Enthusiasm'

- The Creation of the Alexander Cartwright Myth (Society For American Baseball Research)

- The Perry Bible Fellowship: "You'll Be OK"

This article was downloaded on Dec 9, 2024 at 6:20 PM EST.

NOV 4, 2024, 4:05 AM EST | PODCAST | EPISODE PAGE

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Apollo 17

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why Apollo 17 is secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.

LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:

- Katie Goldin on Twitter

- @ProBirdRights

- 'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)

- When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

- native-land.ca

- U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture

- The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)

- "Finding Lenapehoking" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)

- Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)

- Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

- Apollo 17: Mission Details (NASA)

- At The Smithsonian: Apollo 17 Was the Swan Song of Manned Space Exploration (Smithsonian Magazine)

- 50 Years Ago: Apollo 17 Post Mission Activities (NASA)

- Plaque, Lunar Module, Apollo 17 (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)

- From Apollo to Artemis: 50 years on, is it time to go back to the moon? (The Guardian)

- 50 Years Ago: Apollo 16 Launches to the Moon (NASA)

- Camera, Television, Apollo 17 (Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum)

- "A New Blue Marble" by Scott Kelly, NASA Astronaut (Medium.com)

- The first photograph of the entire globe: 50 years on, Blue Marble still inspires (The Conversation)

- Apollo 17 orange soil (The Planetary Society)

- Lunar Orange Glass Beads (The University Of Hawaii "CosmoSparks" blog)

- Apollo 8: Earthrise (NASA)

- How long does it take to get to the moon? (Space.com)

- Water Vapor Reported Found on Moon (The New York Times)

- NASA's chief is worried about China getting back to the moon first. Here's why (NPR)

- Mysterious magnetism in Apollo moon rocks is natural in origin, new study finds (Space.com)

- Apollo 17 mission helps Oxford research the shape of the Moons magnetic field (University Of Oxford)

- This Rocket Stage Did More Than Get Us to the Moon (SciShow / YouTube)

- Earth and Moon Once Shared a Magnetic Shield, Protecting Their Atmospheres (NASA)

- Helium Spotted in Moon's Wispy Atmosphere (Space.com)

- Mysterious moonquake traced to Apollo 17 lunar lander base (Space.com)

- Apollo 11 Seismic Experiment (NASA)

- The toxic side of the Moon (The European Space Agency)

- report from NASA Johnson Space Center: "Risk of Adverse Health Effects from Lunar Dust Exposure"

- Apollo astronauts left their poop on the moon. We gotta go back for that shit. (Vox.com)

- How do astronauts use the bathroom in space? (Space.com)

- YouTube upload of Norm MacDonald talking about Harrison Schmitt

This article was downloaded on Dec 9, 2024 at 6:20 PM EST.

Table of Contents

MaximumFun Podcasts: 2024 Dec 9

Sawbones

Sawbones: Tesla Medbed: 2024 Nov 26

Sawbones: Project 2025: 2024 Nov 19

Sawbones Classic: History of Abortion: 2024 Nov 5

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Limes: 2024 Dec 9

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Sign Languages: 2024 Dec 2

presenting “The Inspectors Inspectors” Episodes 1-3: 2024 Nov 25

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Turkeys: 2024 Nov 18

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: “O.K.”: 2024 Nov 11

Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Apollo 17: 2024 Nov 4