Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and special guest Andrew Ti explore why human teeth are secretly incredibly fascinating.
Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week’s bonus episode.
LINKS FOR ANDREW TI:
- Sub-Optimal Podcasts — check out “Yo Is This Racist?” and “Starter Trek” and more!
- Andrew Ti on Instagram
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:
- Why do people have wisdom teeth? (The Conversation / University of Pittsburgh)
- Worldwide prevalence of natal and neonatal teeth: Systematic review and meta-analysis (Journal of the American Dental Association)
- Why do people have baby teeth and adult teeth? (The Conversation / University Of Illinois Chicago)
- Lab-grown teeth could be the future of dentistry (Popular Science)
- Scientists are racing to grow human teeth in the lab (CNN)
- Humans Have a Third Set of Teeth. New Medicine May Help Them Grow. (Popular Mechanics)
- Symptoms: Natal Teeth (Cleveland Clinic)
- Not a research source: Alex mentions the existence of the memoir Born With Teeth by actor Kate Mulgrew.
- Diseases & Conditions: Hyperdontia (Cleveland Clinic)
- Diseases & Conditions: Teratoma (Cleveland Clinic)
- Giant mature ovarian cystic teratoma including more than 300 teeth (Oral And Maxillofacial Pathology)
- Body Systems & Organs: Tooth Enamel (Cleveland Clinic)
- How Ancient Teeth Reveal the Roots of Humankind (Smithsonian Magazine)
- Sugars and dental caries: Key facts (World Health Organization)
- Fluoride in Tap Water Not Linked to Lower Child IQ, Massive Study Finds (Scientific American)
- RFK Jr.’s fluoride ban would ruin 25 million kids’ teeth, cost $9.8 billion (Ars Technica)
- The origin of vertebrate teeth and evolution of sensory exoskeletons (Nature)
- That zing in your teeth from a cold treat? Blame this ancient armored fish (NPR)
- 2015 lecture by Tanya M. Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, presented by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology and the Harvard Museum of Natural History
- Researchers Discover Fossilized Teeth That May Have Come From an Unknown Hominin Species (Smithsonian Magazine)
- These Fossil Teeth From an 11-Year-Old Reveal Clues to Why Humans Developed an Unusually Long Childhood (Smithsonian Magazine)
- The Tooth Fairy Science of Bite Mark Comparisons (McGill Office for Science and Society)
- About the Fossil Lucy: When and Where Lucy was Found (Arizona State University)
- Letter: The earliest unequivocally modern humans in southern China (Nature)
- Salmonella May Have Caused Massive Aztec Epidemic, Study Finds (NPR)
- What killed Napoleon’s army? Scientists find clues in DNA from fallen soldiers’ teeth (NPR)
- Do equine wolf teeth always need to be extracted? (Equus Magazine)
- Let’s All Go Down to the Bridge and Get Our Teeth Pulled (The Paris Review)
- News: 3000-year-old sawn-off tooth may be the earliest evidence of horse dentistry (Science)
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Toothpicks
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Spurs
In this episode...
Guests
- Andrew Ti
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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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