Episode notes
Alex Schmidt is joined by bestselling author Jason Pargin (‘John Dies At The End’ series, ‘Zoey Ashe’ series) for a look at why air conditioning is secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
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RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- U.S. Energy Information Administration Residential Energy Consumption Survey
- 8 Charts on How Americans Use Air Conditioning (Bloomberg CityLab)
- U.S. Housing Market Is Nearly 4 Million Homes Short of Buyer Demand (The Wall Street Journal)
- 99% Invisible Episode 291: “Thermal Delight”
- Summertime control of temperature in Canadian homes: How Canadians keep their cool (Statistics Canada)
- The air conditioning paradox (Canada’s National Observer)
- U.S. Census Population Clock
- How America became addicted to air conditioning (The Guardian)
- The Moral History of Air-Conditioning (The Atlantic)
- The Unexpected History of the Air Conditioner (Smithsonian)
- An Apparatus for Treating Air: The Modern Air Conditioner (The New Yorker)
- 50 Inventions That Shaped The Modern Economy by Tim Harford
- the Wikipedia page for “Judge (magazine)”, featuring the racist Spanish-American War era main image we talk about
- Technology Connections: “Heat Pumps: the Future of Home Heating” (YouTube)
- Keepin’ It Cool: How the Air Conditioner Made Modern America (The Atlantic)
- 99% Invisible Episode 385: “Shade”
- Las Vegas history timeline (The Las Vegas Sun)
- How air conditioning got Ronald Reagan elected president (PRI’s “The World)
- The Trailer: Big Census, small changes: The next decade’s political map explained (The Washington Post)
- 26 Years of Growth: Shanghai Then and Now (The Atlantic)
- WeatherSpark.com’s average year-round weather data for Shanghai, China and for Savannah, Georgia, USA
- No sweat (The Economist)
- The Cost of Staying Cool When Incomes Heat Up (UC Berkeley Haas School Of Business)
- India’s Air-Conditioning and Climate Change Quandary (New York Times The Upshot)
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- Jason Pargin
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A weekly podcast about the history, science, lore and surprises that make everyday things secretly incredibly fascinating. Hosted by comedy writer, emoji creator, and ‘Jeopardy!‘ champion Alex Schmidt. Join Alex & his co-host Katie Goldin for a joyful deep dive into seeing the world a whole new way!
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