Episode notes
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why toilet paper is 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:
- Pipe Dreams: The Urgent Global Quest to Transform the Toilet by Chelsea Wald
- How to poop outdoors in a way that won’t harm the environment and other hikers (The Conversation)
- La Palma wildfire: Park ranger dies fighting blaze (BBC News)
- Forest Burns After Man Set Used Toilet Paper Ablaze (Atlas Obscura)
- Canary Islands fire ravages 7% of La Palma (The Guardian)
- Are bidets really better for the planet than toilet paper? (Popular Science)
- Ask NYT Climate: What’s Greenest and Cleanest When Nature Calls? (The New York Times)
- Rise of tubeless toilet paper a ‘complete catastrophe’, says Blue Peter star (The Guardian)
- My Tireless Quest for a Tubeless Wipe (The New York Times)
- Hoarding Toilet Paper and Hand Sanitizer Doesn’t Make Sense—and Here’s the Math to Prove It (Popular Mechanics)
- This is why everyone is hoarding toilet paper (Ars Technica)
- 99% Invisible: ‘Wipe Out’
- TP Ninja Hands Outs Toilet Paper During the Coronavirus Pandemic (Popular Mechanics)
- Remembering the great toilet paper shortage of 1973 (CBS Sunday Morning)
- BLOG: Is Johnny Carson to Blame for the 1973 Toilet Paper Shortage? How Could Baldrige Help Manufacturers Prepare for the Next Panic-purchases? (NIST)
- 2,000-year-old toilet paper gives us a whiff of life on the Silk Road in China (Ars Technica)
- A Brief History of TP, From Silk Road Hygiene to Pandemic Hoarding (Atlas Obscura)
- All the Ways We’ve Wiped: The History of Toilet Paper and What Came Before (History.com)
- Toilet Paper History: How America Convinced the World to Wipe (Mental Floss Magazine)
- A sanitary appliance (Smithsonian National Museum Of American History)
- The inside scoop on Charmin’s fake poop — and how it helps keep your butt clean (Popular Science)
- Charmin Bear Reads Kafka on the Toilet (TabletMag.com)
- Federal workers ordered back to office find shortages of desks, Wi-Fi and toilet paper (NPR)
- No Toilet Paper and No Privacy: Returning to the Office, Federal Workers Walk Into Chaos (The New York Times)
- “Toilet Paper Bears” by Joel Haver (YouTube)
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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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