Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why push-buttons 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:
- Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing by Rachel Plotnick
- An Ode To Insignificance: Buttons, Touchscreens, And Other Dangerous Technologies (NPR)
- transcript of Steve Jobs’ iPhone Keynote 2007 (Genius.com)
- If Android is a “stolen product,” then so was the iPhone (Ars Technica)
- Touching: All Rumors Point To The End Of Keys/Buttons (TechCrunch.com)
- Is 2026 the year buttons come back to cars? Crash testers say yes. (Ars Technica)
- The push-button ignition was a luxurious way to start your car until it wasn’t (The Verge)
- Germany outlaws Amazon’s one-click Dash buttons (Engadget.com)
- Amazon’s press-to-order Dash buttons are officially discontinued (The Verge)
- 2024 Reddit post where users are astounded by Amazon Dash program’s past existence
- Amazon has invented the world’s least necessary podcast (Business Insider)
- Push Button Promises (Paleofuture)
- Press me! The buttons that lie to you (BBC Future)
- For Exercise in New York Futility, Push Button (The New York Times)
- Pushing That Crosswalk Button May Make You Feel Better, but … (The New York Times)
- 5 facts about button-pushing, from a true expert (Popular Science)
- Of War and Electric Death: A Brief History of Push-Button Anxiety (The MIT Press Reader)
- When the Push Button Was New, People Were Freaked (JStor Daily)
- Revisiting Milgram’s shocking obedience experiments (The Conversation)
- Dogs really are communicating via button boards, new research suggests (Popular Science)
- Can dogs actually talk to humans? Researchers put these clever canines to the test (CBC News)
- TikTok of Bunny the dog
- Instagram Reel of Puppy Parker Posey
- TikTok of Stella the dog
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Keyboards
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Computer Mice
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Emergency Phone Numbers
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Refrigerators
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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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