Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Soda Cans

Episode notes

Alex Schmidt, Katie Goldin, and special guest Jordan Morris explore why soda cans are secretly incredibly fascinating.

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LINKS FOR JORDAN MORRIS:

• Youth Group by Jordan Morris, illustrated by Bowen McCurdy — pre-order now!
• “Jordan, Jesse, Go!” podcast (Maximum Fun)
• “Stache Rules Everything Around Me” podcast (Maximum Fun)
• Jordan’s website

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:

• The Things We Make: The Unknown History Of Invention From Cathedrals To Soda Cans by Bill Hammack
• How Popping Open a Can Became the Sound of Summer (Smithsonian Magazine)
• Does tapping a can of fizzy drink really stop it foaming over? (The Conversation)
• The Reason Soda Cans Keep Getting Slimmer (TastingTable.com)
• Why Your Soda Cans Keep Getting Smaller (FoodRepublic.com)
• What’s with all the tiny soda cans? And other grocery store mysteries, solved. (NPR “Planet Money”)
• The Secret Life of the Aluminum Can, a Feat of Engineering (Wired Magazine)
• How Are Aluminium Cans Recycled? | How Do They Do It? (DCODE by Discovery / YouTube)
• 7 Common Recycling Myths, Debunked (Popular Mechanics)
• Ball Corp’s unlikely journey from soda cans to satellites (Popular Science)
• Heavier cutlery makes food taste better (Wired Magazine)
• Coca-Cola Can, STS 51-F (Smithsonian National Air And Space Museum)
• Constitutional Amendments – Amendment 21 – “Repeal of Prohibition” (Ronald Reagan Presidential Library And Museum)
• This Was The First Canned Soft Drink (TastingTable.com)
• upload from Columbia University Libraries digital collections: “Choose Ye Your Drink and Future” advertisement for “Gold Water” and “Johnson Juice”
• Soda can, Barry Goldwater, 1964 (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)
• Advertising: ‘Gold Water’ for Republicans (The New York Times archives)