Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why speed bumps 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:
- Federal Highway Administration: Module 3: Toolbox of Individual Traffic Calming Measures (U.S. Department of Transportation)
- All Hail the Humble Speed Hump (Bloomberg City Lab)
- Boston to remove some of its new humps on Allandale Street in Jamaica Plain (UniversalHub.com)
- Speed Lump Optical Illusion Designed to Reduce Need for Bumps & Humps (99% Invisible website article by Kurt Kohlstedt)
- Sacramento Traffic ‘Calming’ Takes Many Forms (CapRadio.org)
- Oppenheimer and the Speed Bump Are Unexpectedly Linked (Car And Driver)
- Libraries: Ask Us!: Q. What are the Compton Speed Bumps? (Washington University in St. Louis)
- Washington University in St. Louis Magazine: ‘Compton effect’ (Washington University in St. Louis)
- Nobel Prize biographical page for Arthur H. Compton
- The Decision to Risk the Future: Harry Truman, the Atomic Bomb, and the Apocalyptic Narrative (Nuclear Age Peace Foundation)
- America’s First Speed Bump: Main Street — Chatam NJ, Est. 1906 (Historic Towns Of America)
- Pain over speed bumps in diagnosis of acute appendicitis: diagnostic accuracy study (TheBMJ)
- Scale-free urination and speed bump diagnostics take home Ig Nobels (Ars Technica)
- Speed bumps could help doctors diagnose appendicitis (University Of Oxford)
- The Ig Nobels are science’s most lighthearted event. This year is ‘not typical’ (Science.org)
- Penguins’ pooping power scoops Ig Nobel prize (New Scientist)
- Optical Illusion Tricks Iceland’s Drivers Into Slowing Down (Popular Mechanics)
- India Is Trying Out 3D Crosswalk Optical Illusions to Slow Drivers (Popular Mechanics)
- A Car Driving Over 100 Straight Speed Bumps Until It Flies Apart Is Magic (Popular Mechanics)
- 10 Car Performance Fads That Need to Go Away (Popular Mechanics)
- How fast can you hit a speed bump while driving and live? (Randall Munroe / ‘What If?’)
- Fifth Gear: “Best Speed To Go Over Speed Bumps” (YouTube)
- World’s lowest car is Fiat panda sliced in half (DesignBoom.com)
- “11Foot8” — The Durham N.C. ‘Can Opener’ Bridge
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Stop Signs
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Car Horns
- Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Road Atlases
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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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