Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Bismuth

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why bismuth 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:

• The deadly, life‑giving and transient elements that make up group 15 of the periodic table (The Conversation)
• The bismuth crystal: why it looks so amazingly trippy and why it’s actually a big deal for science (ZME Science)
• Fact Box: Bismuth (Royal Society Of Chemistry)
• Opinion: Oliver Sacks: My Periodic Table (The New York Times)
• Molecule Of The Week: Bismuth subsalicylate (American Chemical Society)
• About Pepto-Bismol (UK National Health Service)
• GrrlScientist: Element of the week: bismuth (The Guardian)
• Pepto's in the Pink for a Reason (Los Angeles Times)
• Greenville once had bragging rights to Pepto-Bismol (Greenville News)
• An Entirely Unnecessary Chemistry Lesson About Bismuth. Please Stay Awake. (American Council On Science And Health)
• Effect of bismuth nitrate given in combination with cis-diamminedichloroplatinum(II) on the antitumor activity and renal toxicity of the latter in nude mice inoculated with human bladder tumor (Cancer Chemotherapy Pharmacology)
• Diseases and conditions: Lead poisoning (Mayo Clinic)
• Newsroom: Ultra-thin bismuth holds unexpected promise for green electronics (McGill University)
• SciShow on YouTube: "Is Bismuth The Future Of Tech?"
• SNAPSHOT: This Element's Weird Behavior Could Lead to Faster Electronics (Discover Magazine)
• Not Just ‘Rare Earths’: U.S. Gets Many Critical Minerals From China (The New York Times)
• How China came to rule the world of rare earth elements (NPR)
• Japan's shifting strategy on rare earths could be a model for the U.S. (NPR)
• Fact or Fiction?: Lead Can Be Turned Into Gold (Scientific American)
• Alchemy Is Possible—If You Have a Nuclear Reactor (Mental Floss)
• Reflections on the Legacy of a Legend: Glenn T. Seaborg, 1912-1999 (Los Alamos Science)
• Glenn T. Seaborg -- Director of Plutonium Research, Met Lab, 1942-1945 (U.S. Department of Energy)
• Glenn Seaborg -- Nuclear Chemist -- University of California, Berkeley (Atomic Heritage Foundation)
• The Princes of Saxony Collected These Kitschy Miniature Mountains (JStor Daily)
• South American ice chemistry records rise of Incas, arrival of Spanish (Ars Technica)
• Family Name BISMUT (ANU Museum Of The Jewish People)
• Ten years of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Dazed Magazine)
• Pierre Bismuth -- Molly Warnock (ArtForum)
• News: Oscar-Winning Artist Pierre Bismuth on Why He Developed His Own Chocolate Bars to Poke Fun at the Art Industry (Artnet.com)