Episode notes
Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, and special guests Adam Tod Brown and Jeff May explore why cursive is secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR THE GUESTS:
- Unpopular Opinion podcast network
- ‘You Don’t Even Like This Show’ podcast
- Unpopular Opinion on Patreon
- ‘Jeff Has Cool Friends’ podcast
- Jeff May on Patreon
- ‘Tom and Jeff Watch Batman’ podcast (Gamefully Unemployed)
- Bullsh*t The Game Show (Netflix)
LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:
- Katie Goldin on TikTok
- Katie Goldin on Twitter
- @ProBirdRights
- ‘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:
- Palimpsest: A History of the Written Word by Matthew Battles
- The Golden Thread: The Story Of Writing by Ewan Clayton
- The Common Core, explained (Vox.com)
- More States Require Schools to Teach Cursive Writing. Why? (Education Week)
- Learning cursive in school, long scorned as obsolete, is now the law in California (The Los Angeles Times)
- California is mandating cursive handwriting instruction in elementary schools (NPR)
- Cursive makes a comeback — by law — in public schools (The Michigan Advance)
- After 10 Years of Hopes and Setbacks, What Happened to the Common Core? (The New York Times)
- A Defense of Cursive, From a 10-Year-Old National Champion (The New York Times)
- Students Compete To See Who Has The Best Cursive Writing (NPR)
- Cursive Handwriting and Other Education Myths (Nautilus)
- How the Ballpoint Pen Killed Cursive (The Atlantic)
- What Is Killing Cursive? Ballpoints. Probably. (Hackaday.com)
- Lewis Edson Waterman (National Inventors Hall Of Fame)
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Ball Bearings
- YouTube upload of Erik Larsen drawing Spider-Man
- Don’t write off cursive yet (Smithsonian National Museum Of American History)
- Cursive script 草書 (Smithsonian National Museum Of Asian Art)
- Ancient Scripts: Rustic Capitals, Old and New Roman Cursive (Dartmouth Ancient Books Lab)
- How to Write Carolingian Minuscule (Dartmouth Ancient Books Lab)
- The Distinctive ‘Habsburg Jaw’ Was Likely the Result of the Royal Family’s Inbreeding (Smithsonian Magazine)
In this episode...
Guests
- Adam Tod Brown
- Jeff May
About the show
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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