Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why insulin in 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 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:
- Insulin (Cleveland Clinic)
- Glucagon (Cleveland Clinic)
- Diabetes (World Health Organization)
- Insulin Development and Commercialization: A National Historic Chemical Landmark (American Chemical Society)
- The Nobel Pancreas: A Historical Perspective (Gastroenterology Journal)
- History of the pancreas (National Institutes Of Health National Library Of Medicine)
- Johann Georg Wirsüng (1589-1643) and the pancreatic duct: the prosector of Padua, Italy (National Institutes Of Health National Library Of Medicine)
- Oscar (Oskar) Minkowski: Discovery of the Pancreatic Origin of Diabetes (Mayo Clinic Proceedings)
- Insulin and Diabetes Management: Insulin (Smithsonian)
- Insulin and Diabetes Management: Diabetes Remedies Before Insulin (Smithsonian)
- Sir Frederick Banting (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1923
- How did they make insulin from recombinant DNA? (National Institutes Of Health National Library Of Medicine)
- 100 Years of Insulin: Diabetes And Its Treatment Before 1920 (U.S. Food & Drug Administration)
- Insulin Inhaled Powder (Cleveland Clinic)
- Biden Pushes Lower Health Care Costs and Takes a Dig at Trump (The New York Times)
- Insulin prices were capped for millions. But many still struggle to afford to life-saving medication (CBS Evening News)
- Insulin prices were capped for millions. But many still struggle to afford to life-saving medication (PBS News Hour)
- More Americans can now get insulin for $35 (CNN)
- Trump wants to unravel Biden’s landmark climate law. Here is what’s most at risk. (MIT Technology Review)
- The absurdly high cost of insulin, explained (Vox.com)
- A fake tweet sparked panic at Eli Lilly and may have cost Twitter millions (The Washington Post)
- Did Shane Patrick Boyle Die After Fundraising to Pay for Insulin? — TRUE (Snopes.com)
- Hacking diabetes: People break into insulin pumps as an alternative to delayed innovations (USA Today)
- People Are Clamoring to Buy Old Insulin Pumps (The Atlantic)
- Medtronic issues ‘urgent’ recall of insulin pump controller vulnerable to hacks (The Verge)
- Hibernating bears could hold a clue to treating diabetes (National Geographic)
- The Diabetes Drug That Could Overshadow Ozempic (The New York Times)
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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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