Category: podcast

• July 31, 2023

  Episode 57: Do Insects Dream of Electric Bugs?

  Let’s begin with an article just talking about human dreams from the Sleep Foundation. What are they and why do we have them? And then we can look at the connection between animal and human sleep and dreams. What do we know about how other animals sleep and dream? This is largely going to talk…
• July 24, 2023

  Episode 56: Two Steam Engines, Zero Feet Apart

  Let’s start with this article with pictures from Buckeye about the initial train demolition from Ohio. The pictures are amazing. This is just the historical marker site where you can see the marker and some of the locations of significance to the Crash at Crush. M said they took plenty of information from the Texas…
• July 24, 2023

  Episode 55: Barbara Millicent Roberts: Dirty Little Secrets pt 2

  So we started this episode off by talking about the Barbie Liberation Organization’s efforts to ‘liberate’ Barbie’s voice when she was Teen Talk Barbie. This was a huge effort at something called Culture Jamming, something activists do to alter a brand in an effort to make a subversive political statement, among other tactics. We played…
• July 22, 2023

  Episode 54: Barbara Millicent Roberts: Dirty Little Secrets

  Here’s a timeline of the Barbie with information about the original inspiration for her look and then some key release dates with images. Here is some history about the Lilli doll that Barbie’s appearance was based on, and it includes a comic strip in here as well as images of both Barbie and Lilli. Let’s…
• July 21, 2023

  Episode 53: Queer Resistance: Before Stonewall

  Let’s just begin with some further reading about LGBTQIA+ actions in the U.S. before Stonewall ever happened. Also some further reading is this list of defining moments in the history of Pride. And this article just touches on the intersectionality of being Black and Queer during June when both Juneteenth and Pride month are both…
• July 21, 2023

  Episode 52: Come one, Come all: Babies

  This first link is an extensive look at Martin Couney and his whole incubator project from the first idea to the end of it. This one is shorter than the last one but still contains most of the same information from the beginning of the incubator idea to the end of the sideshow. And this…
• July 20, 2023

  Episode 51: Juneteenth: It’s About Damn Time

  Let’s just start out by meeting Opal Lee who i in her 90s and has pent her entire life working to make Juneteenth a national holiday! Now this article is local to Philadelphia, but has a good bit of info in there related to the importance of oral storytelling in the Black community (and really,…
• July 20, 2023

  Episode 50: Nathan and the No Good Very Bad Day

  Before we even start on Nathan’s Hot Dogs, let’s look at the hot dog itself and the history of the food item. Starting from ancient roots and going until now, there’s an extra long history there. And this is a history of Coney Island itself as it grew to be the attraction that it was…
• July 19, 2023

  Bonus: Morgana Le Fay: Still Here Today

  This link will take you to a quick description of what exactly a Fata Morgana is with an example image. This one goes into much more detail about not only what it is but the conditions that can cause it and some various historic events that have been attributed to the Fata Morgana. This one…
• July 19, 2023

  Episode 49: Toxicity in You: Part 2

  In this episode, we’re mainly talking about the genetics of people with red hair and how they differ a little from people who don’t have red hair. This is just a follow-up to the last one. There’s 10 scientific facts in here about the genetics of the redhead and what’s going on with their bodies.…