Episode notes
Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, and special guest Janet Varney explore why copper is secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR JANET VARNEY:
- ‘The JV Club With Janet Varnet’ podcast (Maximum Fun)
- Katie Goldin guesting on ‘The JV Club’, part 1 and part 2
- ‘E Pluribus Motto’ podcast (Maximum Fun)
- Janet Varney’s IMDb page
- Janet Varney on Instagram
- Arizona’s Best Ghost Towns: A Practical Guide by Phillip Varney and G.E. Wolfe
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:
- Periodic Tales: A Cultural History of the Elements, from Arsenic to Zinc by Hugh Aldersey-Williams
- State Metal: Copper (Arizona Secretary Of State)
- 4 men wanted for theft of copper wire from “The Portal” in Philadelphia (CBS News)
- Metal Thieves Are Stripping America’s Cities (The New York Times)
- Copper is the ultimate tool for innovation (Popular Science)
- United States Mint digital resources about the U.S. penny
- Etymonline.com listing for “penny”
- ‘World’s oldest’ coin factory discovered in China (National Geographic)
- Ancient Coins: Make Your Own Money! (Wake Forest University / Timothy S. Y. Lam Museum of Anthropology)
- Wado Ruins — The birthplace of Japanese coinage. (Atlas Obscura)
- Money: The True Story of a Made-Up Thing by Jacob Goldstein
- Can this MIT metallurgist clean up copper production? (Popular Science)
- How can we decarbonize copper and nickel mining? (Popular Science)
- Scientists accidentally capture metals ‘healing’ themselves (Popular Science)
- Archaeologists Just Uncovered the World’s First Furnace from 6,500 Years Ago (Popular Mechanics)
- Once Considered ‘Simple,’ the Ancient Edomites Were Actually Tech Geniuses (Popular Mechanics)
- Mine copper without destroying the planet? London-based project gives scientists hope (The Guardian)
- In the Time of the Copper Kings (Archaeology Magazine)
- Ancient Native Americans were among the world’s first coppersmiths (Science)
- Abandoned Mitsero Mines — Rusted structures stand like ghosts of Cyprus’ 6,000-year-old copper industry. (Atlas Obscura)
- Verdigris: The Color of Oxidation, Statues, and Impermanence (The Paris Review)
- The Edwin Smith Surgical Papyrus, Volume 1: Hieroglyphic Transliteration, Translation, and Commentary (The University Of Chicago / Institute For The Study Of Ancient Cultures, West Asia & North Africa)
- SciShow: “Metal vs. Bacteria” (YouTube)
- Britons urged to dig out unwanted electricals to tackle copper shortage (The Guardian)
- A.I. Needs Copper. It Just Helped to Find Millions of Tons of It. (The New York Times)
- “Native Copper”: Exhibiting Anishinaabe Wealth at the U.S. National Museum – Gustave Lester, 2023 Murrin Prize Honorable Mention (University Of Pennsylvania)
- From the Ontonagon Boulder to the Circular Economy (Environmental Science & Technology)
- “Unpronounceable Michigan” (MLive / YouTube)
- Reflections on the Legacy of a Legend: Glenn T. Seaborg, 1912-1999 (Los Alamos Science)
- On The Front Lines: Plutonium workers past and present share their experiences (Los Alamos Science)
- Glenn T. Seaborg — Biography (NobelPrize.org)
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Guests
- Janet Varney
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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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