Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Buttons (For Pushing)

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why push-buttons 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:

• Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing by Rachel Plotnick
• An Ode To Insignificance: Buttons, Touchscreens, And Other Dangerous Technologies (NPR)
• transcript of Steve Jobs' iPhone Keynote 2007 (Genius.com)
• If Android is a “stolen product,” then so was the iPhone (Ars Technica)
• Touching: All Rumors Point To The End Of Keys/Buttons (TechCrunch.com)
• Is 2026 the year buttons come back to cars? Crash testers say yes. (Ars Technica)
• The push-button ignition was a luxurious way to start your car until it wasn’t (The Verge)
• Germany outlaws Amazon's one-click Dash buttons (Engadget.com)
• Amazon’s press-to-order Dash buttons are officially discontinued (The Verge)
• 2024 Reddit post where users are astounded by Amazon Dash program's past existence
• Amazon has invented the world's least necessary podcast (Business Insider)
• Push Button Promises (Paleofuture)
• Press me! The buttons that lie to you (BBC Future)
• For Exercise in New York Futility, Push Button (The New York Times)
• Pushing That Crosswalk Button May Make You Feel Better, but … (The New York Times)
• 5 facts about button-pushing, from a true expert (Popular Science)
• Of War and Electric Death: A Brief History of Push-Button Anxiety (The MIT Press Reader)
• When the Push Button Was New, People Were Freaked (JStor Daily)
• Revisiting Milgram's shocking obedience experiments (The Conversation)
• Dogs really are communicating via button boards, new research suggests (Popular Science)
• Can dogs actually talk to humans? Researchers put these clever canines to the test (CBC News)
• TikTok of Bunny the dog
• Instagram Reel of Puppy Parker Posey
• TikTok of Stella the dog
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• Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Computer Mice
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