Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why closed captioning is 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:
- The Curb Cut Effect: “How Captions Went from Niche to Necessity” (WGBH Boston)
- MEDIA; The Art of Reading Television (The New York Times)
- The ADA isn’t just about ramps – over 30 years, it has profoundly changed the deaf community (The Conversation)
- Senator Harkin’s deaf brother dies (Radio Iowa)
- A Brief History of Closed Captioning (Mental Floss)
- THE CITY; CBS Captioning Urged by the Deaf (The New York Times)
- Archives: Deaf picket CBS stations over captioning (UPI)
- Faculty Viewpoints: The Last Disgrace Of The ‘Tiffany Network’ (Yale Insights)
- Mumbling actors, bad speakers or lazy listeners? Why everyone is watching TV with subtitles on (The Guardian)
- Read all about it: The popularity of turning captions on (CBS News)
- From the Bottom Up: Mostly About Subtitles (Chicago Film Society)
- Christopher Nolan Breaks Silence on ‘Interstellar’ Sound (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Subtitling for Cinema: A Brief History (The-Artifice.com)
- ‘Tentacles squelching wetly’: the human subtitle writers under threat from AI (The Guardian)
- Netflix introduces a new kind of subtitles for the non-hearing impaired (Ars Technica)
- Language Log: “Blame Miles Bartholomew, Ward Stone Ireland and IBM” (University Of Pennsylvania)
- Facebook video upload of Italian dubbing in ‘Zoolander’
- Will Ferrell Says He Was Once Mistaken for ‘The Zoolander’ While Vacationing in Italy (People Magazine)
- Speaking “Star Trek”: Meet the Man Who Made Up the Klingon Language (Popular Mechanics)
- Speaking of Klingons: The Klingon language remains relevant to today’s culture and continues to evolve in surprising ways. (Tedium.co)
- Memory Alpha fandom wikia page for Universal translator
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Cathode Ray Tubes
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Jimmy Carter
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Sign Languages
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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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