Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why tally marks 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 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 Math Book: From Pythagoras to the 57th Dimension, 250 Milestones in the History of Mathematics by Clifford A. Pickover
- Empire of the Sum: The Rise and Reign of the Pocket Calculator by Keith Houston
- How Mathematics Happened: The First 50,000 Years by Peter S. Rudman
- Many Animals Can Count, Some Better Than You (The New York Times)
- Neanderthals too may have Developed a System of Numerical Notation (ArkeoNews.net)
- The deep history of the number words (The Royal Society: Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B)
- Reflections On Chinese Numeration Systems: What Are Rod Numerals? (Mathematical Association Of America)
- Reddit post from r/French, affirming French people use the square-shaped tally marks and are familiar with the U.S./U.K. style
- Unicode proposal to encode tally marks, by Dr. Ken Lunde & Daisuke Miura
- “正”, the Chinese Tally Mark And Other Kinds of Tally Marks from Around the World (DigMandarin.com)
- Medieval Exchequer Tally Sticks, made circa 1440 in London (London Science Museum)
- 4 eighteenth century tally sticks (Senate House Library, University Of London / YouTube)
- The Tally Stick: The First Internal Control? (The Forensic Examiner)
- What tally sticks tell us about how money works (BBC News / 50 Things That Made The Modern Economy)
- The Great Fire of 1834 (UK Parliament)
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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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