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77: Light Pollution & MistaeksWhat can we learn from the most modern - but overlooked form of pollution? And can mistakes in art be something actually... good? Images we Talk About: Navajo Rug Ch'ihónít’i Ramses II Statue Ecce Homo The Original Ecce Homo 3 Versions of Ecce Homo Lincoln Memorial Mistake Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:25) Light Pollution (00:48:06) Mistaeks (01:37:02) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Auctioning topics, the origins of pollution, pollution is old but light pollution is from the 1960s, the great stink, the biggest light polluter is the sun, old gas street lights used to be more like beacons than lights, the world’s getting 10% brighter each year, 80% of North American can’t see the milky way, Light Trespass, Sky Glow, light pollution makes telescopes worse, Tom’s parents hearing him scream WHY IS THERE BREAST MILK, the strange lights after the 1994 LA earthquake, amateur astronomers are vital to astronomy, light trapped moths, a 1917 study on lighthouses and bird migration, birds waking up 5 hours earlier, turtles also use moonlight navigation, just move your telescope and evolve your species it’s not our fault, “he glistens you philistine”, the big beautiful glow worm woman in the sky, street lights are like sugar light to plants, light pollution isn’t the biggest issue - but that can make it easy to ignore - and it has some easy wins! it’s solvable at the community level, Tom’s buoyancy broken hand mistake, oops I mixed up my therapy and podcast topic list, the beatles anomalies list, Michelangelo’s beautiful complaint letter poem, we are our own worst critic, the ASMR mistake was just an anomaly, Kintsugi, “it treats breakage as a part of the object’s history rather than an error or a failure to be covered up”, what’s the japanese word for mud covered boots, only god can make perfect fun facts, Ch'ihónít’i, releasing the thoughts from an object - a way out, the journey of Caroline’s darned jumper, how can you tell an old mistake was a mistake? hieroglyphic typos, oh shit control ankh control ankh, revealing an ancient mistake by mistake, Philadelphia isn’t real it can’t hurt you, the Jesus that was… made an anomaly by Gloria Gimenez, the misremembered story of Ecce Homo, art is this emotional roller coaster, wow don’t take Tom’s summary Caroline, Lincoln memorial myths, 1000 years from now a museum in Neo Egypt will carve out the lincoln memorial fix, I know a great art restoration person in spain if you need one, most mistakes are just forgotten, you need mistakes to learn, the mistake of starting this podcast, verbal kintsugi, anomalous jesus, we didn’t learn today that Ella was a contrarian. Sources: Britannica: Light Pollution 2020 Paper: A Chronology of Global Air Quality Wikipedia: The Great Stink NHM London: Increasing Light Pollution is Drowning out the Stars 2023 Paper: Light Pollution is Skyrocketing Scientific America: Light Pollution is Dimming Our View of the Sky 2009 Paper: Missing the Dark: Health Effects of Light Pollution National Parks Service: Connect with the Galaxy: A case for turning out the lights CAPE 2023: What are the Effects of Artifical Light on Human Health? An Evidence Brief 2019 Paper: Effects of Light at Night on Laboratory Animals and Research Outcomes 1918 Paper: The Destruction of Birds at the Lighthouses on the Coast of California 2021 Paper: Characteristics of Light Pollution – A case study of Warsaw (Poland) and Fukuoka (Japan) 1973 Paper: Light Pollution BBC: How light pollution disrupts plants' senses Dark Sky: Solutions to Light Pollution --- The Beatles Anomalies List Michelangelo's "Poem" Kintsugi Jill Ahlberg Yohe's Incredible Paper on Ch’ihónít’i Penn Museum's Ramses II Ancient Egyptian Literacy NYTimes on Ecce Homo The Guardian Ecce Homo Critique The Art History of Ecce Homo AP on Ecce Homo a Year Later

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81: Dinosaur Diet Detectives & Proto-PodcastsHow can scientist's unravel the mystery of what dinosaurs ate? Well the clues are right in front of our eyes, or should I say their teeth! And poop! And listener you may already know what a podcast is, but how did proto-podcasts in a chicken coop give us the DNA for what we love, and how did podcasts even happen? Images we Talk About: First Iguanadon Tooth Puffer Fish Teeth Fish Teeths Incisivosaurus Saurolophus Dinosaur Stomach Contents Fossil Ham Comic Sybil's Baby's Radio Rebut Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro (00:04:33) Dinosaur Diet Detectives (01:00:51) Support our Show! (01:04:27) Proto-Podcasts (02:02:49) Bonus Content! (02:07:24) Outro Support us with a Max Fun Membership! Join our Discord! We also learn about: Deep Dive Discovering Dino Diets, dinosaur time, imagining us discovering a new animal, well we know it doesn’t eat nerds, Ella describes teeth perfectly - “is that what you meant to say Tom?”, the mouth is the first stomach, we found the teeth of the first herbivorous dinosaur before the body - and before we had the word for dinosaur, cinderella/goldilocks teeth, dental microwear, food print, the topography of a grasshopper’s mandible, teeth can be more indicative than stomach content, maybe you just tried in and out for the first time when you got captured by aliens, dinosaur teeth are the old coins of ancient civilizations, egg eating oviraptors, it’s not just us but experts that are confused about oviraptaurs teeth, reconstructing the crime scene of a bit mark, this case has been closed for 70 million years! the tarbosaurus seems to have separated the chicken leg to make eating easier, a tyrannosaur leaving a tooth in the scene of the crime, they not only got bit but lived to tell the tale, this proves tyranosaurs hunted living animals - and weren’t just scavengers, hard foods stay in the stomach longer, some dinosaurs used Gastrolith rocks as stomach teeth, rocks natures teeth, Bromalite can be regurgitalite or coprolite, 580 million year old worm poop, we didn’t think grass was that old then we found it in dinosaur poop, we put dinosaur poop in a particle accelerator, we’re not looking at poop - we’re constructing the foodchain of dinosaurs, an ancient egyptian podcast, podcasting is NOT an oral tradition, the chicken coop boys, Sybil’s Little Ham Radio Show 20 years before a woman on proper radio, the Titanic sinking sped along radio restrictions, Tom skipped over the cassette before because its science impact was small but its misc impact was huge, explaining cassette tapes at a high frequency so it doesn’t hurt old people to hear, Lou Otten, the syrian cassette archive, mixtapes, Caroline’s family mix CDs, Tom’s custom Jack’s Mannequin Mix CDs, Pacific Horticulture Magazine being delighted that someone’s interested, Tom’s Magic Corner, I knew it was some journalist doing their thing, apple didn’t come up with podcasting - not even the name, journey back to 1999, the dream of RSS, what’s that facebook shaped cloud on the horizon? the dream of hosting your own feed, somehow podcast RSS survived, podcasts are the Horshoecrab of the internet, “wherever you get podcasts” is amazing, The Lab Rat Games! Sources: NHM London: Iguanodon Teeth NHM London: Beyond Jurassic World- What We Really Know About Dinosaurs and How NHM London: The Seven Greatest Dinosaur Discoveries of the Last 200 Years British Ecological Society: What do Grasshoppers Eat? Phys.Org: Cutting Edge Teeth Study NPR: Dental Detectives: What Fossil Teeth Reveal About Ancestral Human Diets University of Tokyo: Dinosaur Teeth Reveal What They Didn’t Eat BBC: Dinosaur Teeth Reveal Feeding Habits Incisivosaurus 2022 Paper: Incisivosaura Bite Force University of Pennsilvania: What Fossils Tell Us About the Dining Habits of Dinosaurs NHM London: Dinosaur Eating Habit Insights from Stegosaurus stenops 2010 Paper: New information on scavenging and selective feeding behaviour of tyrannosaurids Dave Hone's Archosaur Musings 2012 Paper: Physical evidence of predatory behavior in Tyrannosaurus rex Save Our Seas: What Tools do Biologists use to Tell What is on the Menu for Wild Animals? Scientific America: Tyrannosaur’s Stomach Contents Have Been Found for the First Time 2023 Paper: Exceptionally preserved stomach contents of a young tyrannosaurid reveal an ontogenetic dietary shift in an iconic extinct predator SN Explores: Fossil Stomach Reveals a Dinosaur’s Last Meal NHM London: Coprolite The Bristol Dinosaur Project: The Grass Divide NPR: Over 500 Fossilized Poops Show How Dinosaurs Came to Rule the Earth American Museum of Natural History: How Does Studying Dinosaurs Benefit Humanity? --- MET on Memory Boards and Luba Oral Traditions OED Broadcast Etymology The Chicken Coop Ham Radio Sybil's Little Hame Radio Program NYTimes on Titanic's Impact on Radio Law Library of Congress on Recorded Radio NPR On Lout Otten and the Cassette Tape Wired on Cassette History NPR on the Syrian Cassette Archive Berkeley Audio Tape Retrospective Carl Malamud on Asynchronous Internet Radio The Earliest Mention of Podcasts in the Guardian Two-Bit History on the History of RSS Kevin Werbach's Vision of the Future of RSS and the Internet TechCrunch: Rest in Peace RSS

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