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"technology",
"Katie Goldin",
"Alex Schmidt",
"1800s",
"Katie Goldin on Bluesky",
"@ProBirdRights on Bluesky",
"'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)",
"When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)",
"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)",
"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",
"Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Keyboards",
"Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Computer Mice",
"Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Emergency Phone Numbers",
"Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Refrigerators"
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"textContent": "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.\n\n**LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:**\n\n * Katie Goldin on Bluesky\n * @ProBirdRights on Bluesky\n * 'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)\n * When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)\n\n**RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:**\n\n * native-land.ca\n * U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture\n * The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)\n * \"Finding Lenapehoking\" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)\n * Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)\n * Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)\n\n**RESEARCH SOURCES:**\n\n * Power Button: A History of Pleasure, Panic, and the Politics of Pushing by Rachel Plotnick\n * An Ode To Insignificance: Buttons, Touchscreens, And Other Dangerous Technologies (NPR)\n * transcript of Steve Jobs' iPhone Keynote 2007 (Genius.com)\n * If Android is a “stolen product,” then so was the iPhone (Ars Technica)\n * Touching: All Rumors Point To The End Of Keys/Buttons (TechCrunch.com)\n * Is 2026 the year buttons come back to cars? Crash testers say yes. (Ars Technica)\n * The push-button ignition was a luxurious way to start your car until it wasn’t (The Verge)\n * Germany outlaws Amazon's one-click Dash buttons (Engadget.com)\n * Amazon’s press-to-order Dash buttons are officially discontinued (The Verge)\n * 2024 Reddit post where users are astounded by Amazon Dash program's past existence\n * Amazon has invented the world's least necessary podcast (Business Insider)\n * Push Button Promises (Paleofuture)\n * Press me! The buttons that lie to you (BBC Future)\n * For Exercise in New York Futility, Push Button (The New York Times)\n * Pushing That Crosswalk Button May Make You Feel Better, but … (The New York Times)\n * 5 facts about button-pushing, from a true expert (Popular Science)\n * Of War and Electric Death: A Brief History of Push-Button Anxiety (The MIT Press Reader)\n * When the Push Button Was New, People Were Freaked (JStor Daily)\n * Revisiting Milgram's shocking obedience experiments (The Conversation)\n * Dogs really are communicating via button boards, new research suggests (Popular Science)\n * Can dogs actually talk to humans? Researchers put these clever canines to the test (CBC News)\n * TikTok of Bunny the dog\n * Instagram Reel of Puppy Parker Posey\n * TikTok of Stella the dog\n * Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Keyboards\n * Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Computer Mice\n * Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Emergency Phone Numbers\n * Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Refrigerators\n\n",
"title": "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Buttons (For Pushing)"
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