Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why roundabouts are 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:
- Reddit upload of four buses filling a roundabout in Oslo, Norway
- Worried about roundabouts? Waze wants to help (Ars Technica)
- Waze update: 6 new features added to make driving safer, easier (Mashable)
- 10 biggest roundabouts in the world (Re-ThinkingTheFuture.com)
- Cementerio del Cristo (Cemetery of Christ) — Villanueva de la Cañada, Spain (Atlas Obscura)
- The man who created Paris (BBC)
- The Evolution Of The Roundabout And How It Came To America (Jalopnik)
- Reddit and X.com uploads of pictures of Mingzhu Roundabout, Shanghai
- St. George’s Circus — London, England (Atlas Obscura)
- This Insane 6-in-1 Roundabout Would Cause So Many Crashes in America (TheDrive.com)
- 7 of the World’s Strangest Streets (Popular Mechanics)
- IMDb listing for ‘The Magic Roundabout’, 1966-1995
- Dock Ellis (Society for American Baseball Research)
- “Swings and Roundabouts” (blog ‘Not One-Off Britishisms’)
- Magical Roundabouts and the Language of Signs (The Atlantic)
- How Y’all, Youse and You Guys Talk (The New York Times)
- Eysturoyartunnilin (Eysturoy Tunnel) — Hoyvík, Faroe Islands (Atlas Obscura)
- Giant underwater ‘jellyfish’ roundabout becomes latest Faroe Islands tourist attraction (The Guardian)
- Collins Dictionary entry for Tórshavn
- Facts about the Faroe Islands (Nordic Co-operation)
- The Faroe Islands: Independence dreams, globalist separatism and the Europeanization of postcolonial home rule (the journal Cooperation And Conflict / JStor)
- Dispatch: Faroe Islanders eye independence but Greenland row looms large (The Times of London)
- Pennsylvania man says car roundabouts are to blame for ‘tornaders’ (ABC News Channel 5 Cleveland)
- Let’s Actually Ask An Expert If Traffic Circles Could Make Tornadoes (Jalopnik)
- All About Roundabouts (The New York Times)
- Cutting Emissions, the Roundabout Way, in New Hampshire (The New York Times)
- These Americans Are Just Going Around in Circles. It Helps the Climate. (The New York Times)
- Paris Is Converting Its Roundabouts Into Pedestrian Spaces (Mental Floss)
- Grand Army Plaza – Brooklyn (The Cultural Landscape Foundation)
- How Mamdani Would Change Grand Army Plaza for Walkers, Bikers and Drivers (The New York Times)
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Maps
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Speed Bumps
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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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