Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why baby bottles 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 Bluesky
- @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
- ‘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:
- Newborn Reflexes: What reflexes should be present in a newborn? (Stanford Medicine Children’s Health)
- Feeding Your Baby: The First Year (Cleveland Clinic)
- Baby Bottles 101: Here’s How Many (and What Kind) You Need (Cleveland Clinic)
- How the Newborn Sucking Reflex Helps Baby (TheBump.com)
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Echidnas
- Google Patents upload of US4131A, Elijah Pratt, 1845
- Patent model for Charles M. Windship, “Breast Nipple or Lacteal or Artificial Breast,” U.S. Patent 1,985 — Feb 18, 1841 (Smithsonian National Museum Of American History)
- Exhibits: Infant Feeder Collection (University Of Nebraska Medical Center)
- “The History of Infant Feeding” by Karen McEvoy (Milwaukee Antique Bottle & Advertising Club)
- Baby Bottles Banned In Chicago (NPR)
- BPA To Be Banned In Calif. Baby Bottles, Sippy Cups (NPR)
- Announcement: Commission adopts ban of Bisphenol A in food contact materials (European Commission)
- FDA Bans Chemical BPA From Sippy Cups And Baby Bottles (NPR)
- The ‘safer’ plastics designed to replace BPA may be just as bad for you (Popular Science)
- The problem with BPA-free: Alternatives are just as troubling (Ars Technica)
- Baby Bottles With No Detected BPA, Lead, or Phthalates — We didn’t find the dangerous chemicals in any of the nine bottles we tested. Still, some concerns remain. Here’s how to keep your baby safe. (Consumer Reports)
- Study: Plastic Baby Bottles Shed Microplastics When Heated. Should You Be Worried? (NPR “Goats And Soda”)
- What is BPA, and what are the concerns about BPA? (Mayo Clinic)
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Soda Cans
- Milk of ruminants in ceramic baby bottles from prehistoric child graves (Nature)
- Bronze Age Baby Bottles Reveal How Some Ancient Infants Were Fed (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Baby bottles from Roman London (London Museum)
- Discovery of prehistoric baby bottles shows infants were fed cow’s milk 5,000 years ago (The Conversation)
- New insights into Neolithic milk consumption through proteomic analysis of dental calculus (Archeaological And Anthropological Sciences)
- The Sucky History of the Breast Pump (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Yale Medicine Magazine: A bottle for baby (Yale School Of Medicine)
- Digital Collections: Glass infant feeding bottle (East Carolina University)
- Nurses and Midwives — baby feeding bottles (Worcester Medical Museums)
- Happy Mother’s Day: Kids’ Screen Time is a Feminist Issue (JStor Daily)
- Breast Milk as Medicine (JStor Daily)
- When Breastfeeding Was a Civic Duty (JStor Daily)
- This Octopus Is Using a Beer Bottle as a Nursery (Atlas Obscura)
- Ocean coral take decades to reproduce, but Mote’s lab-grown coral reaches maturity in 5 years (Fox 13 Tampa Bay)
- The Pigmy Octopus (Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum & Aquarium)
- The Monterey Bay Aquarium on Tumblr: “A Better Bubbler”
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