Episode notes
Alex Schmidt is joined by comedy writer Joey Clift (Netflix, Cartoon Network) and comedian/podcaster Eli Yudin (‘What A Time To Be Alive’) for a look at why microwave ovens are secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR OUR GUESTS:
- Patreon page for the What A Time To Be Alive podcast
- Joey Clift on Twitter
- Joey Clift on Instagram
- “Antifa Garfield” meme
- Eli Yudin on Twitter
- Eli Yudin on Instagram
RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE’S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- The Amazing True Story of How the Microwave Was Invented by Accident (Popular Mechanics)
- The slow death of the microwave (Quartz)
- World’s most expensive TV dinner comes with champagne-soaked fish, edible gold (Thrillist)
- Microwave cooking and nutrition (Harvard Health)
- How does a microwave oven cook foods? Is it harmful if some of the microwave radiation leaks out and hits the skin? (Scientific American)
- Measure the Speed of Light – With Chocolate! (YouTube channel for the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Laboratory)
- Microwave Oven Radiation (U.S. Food & Drug Administration)
- Hot food, fast: The home microwave oven turns 50 (The Conversation)
- Strange Glow: The Story of Radiation by Timothy J. Jorgensen (Princeton University Press)
- Why Americans Just Can’t Quit Their Microwaves (The Atlantic)
- What’s Up With That: Metal in the Microwave Explodes—Or Does It? (Wired)
- How to Microwave Metal Safely (Good Housekeeping)
- This Month in Physics History: October 8, 1945: First Patent for the Microwave (APS News)
- “A Brief History of the Microwave Oven” by Evan Ackerman (IEEE Spectrum) — [this is the skeptical source for the Percy Spencer story]
- cover of The Radio Experimenter’s Magazine, November 1933 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Heinz Introduces World’s Smallest Microwave, and It’s USB-Powered (Serious Eats)
- “Microwave Build” from PCPartPicker.com
- Castoven: Microwave with built-in YouTube player (Techcrunch)
In this episode...
Guests
- Joey Clift
- Eli Yudin
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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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