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    "botany",
    "surgery",
    "ether",
    "nitrous oxide",
    "History",
    "chloroform",
    "Science",
    "medicine",
    "anesthesia",
    "Katie Goldin",
    "Alex Schmidt",
    "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)",
    "Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery by Ira Rutkow",
    "Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development (The Lancet)",
    "The Mystery Behind Anesthesia (MIT Technology Review)",
    "How does anesthesia work? Experts still have questions. (Popular Science)",
    "Medical Treatments: Anesthesia (Cleveland Clinic)",
    "Tests & Procedures: General anesthesia (Mayo Clinic)",
    "Anesthetists, At Least, Report That Only an Unlucky Few Are Aware During Surgery (Smithsonian Magazine)",
    "Is the Unconscious Mind Aware of Its Surroundings? New Research Suggests Anesthetized Brains Can Process Overheard Words (Smithsonian Magazine)",
    "Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious? (The New York Times)",
    "What Sedated Plants Can Teach Scientists About Anesthetizing People (Smithsonian Magazine)",
    "The art of anaesthesia (London Science Museum)",
    "Painless Dreams: In the 19th century, chemical oblivion replaced liquor, opiates, and bleeding as the numbing agent of choice for surgeons. (Science History Institute Philadelphia)",
    "Anesthesia in the Civil War (National Museum of Civil War Medicine)",
    "Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990 (NobelPrize.org)",
    "First Heart Transplant Performed 35 Years Ago (U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration)",
    "The Ether Dome -- Boston, Massachusetts (Atlas Obscura)",
    "Ether in Surgery (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)",
    "A short history of fires and explosions caused by anaesthetic agents (British Journal of Anesthesia)",
    "Dr. Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis: The Unrecognized Pioneer of Aseptic Practices (Cureus)",
    "Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Lucy Jones",
    "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Deja Vu"
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  "textContent": "Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why anesthesia is 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  * Empire of the Scalpel: The History of Surgery by Ira Rutkow\n  * Global Surgery 2030: evidence and solutions for achieving health, welfare, and economic development (The Lancet)\n  * The Mystery Behind Anesthesia (MIT Technology Review)\n  * How does anesthesia work? Experts still have questions. (Popular Science)\n  * Medical Treatments: Anesthesia (Cleveland Clinic)\n  * Tests & Procedures: General anesthesia (Mayo Clinic)\n  * Anesthetists, At Least, Report That Only an Unlucky Few Are Aware During Surgery (Smithsonian Magazine)\n  * Is the Unconscious Mind Aware of Its Surroundings? New Research Suggests Anesthetized Brains Can Process Overheard Words (Smithsonian Magazine)\n  * Sedate a Plant, and It Seems to Lose Consciousness. Is It Conscious? (The New York Times)\n  * What Sedated Plants Can Teach Scientists About Anesthetizing People (Smithsonian Magazine)\n  * The art of anaesthesia (London Science Museum)\n  * Painless Dreams: In the 19th century, chemical oblivion replaced liquor, opiates, and bleeding as the numbing agent of choice for surgeons. (Science History Institute Philadelphia)\n  * Anesthesia in the Civil War (National Museum of Civil War Medicine)\n  * Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1990 (NobelPrize.org)\n  * First Heart Transplant Performed 35 Years Ago (U.S. Health Resources & Services Administration)\n  * The Ether Dome -- Boston, Massachusetts (Atlas Obscura)\n  * Ether in Surgery (The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)\n  * A short history of fires and explosions caused by anaesthetic agents (British Journal of Anesthesia)\n  * Dr. Ignaz Phillip Semmelweis: The Unrecognized Pioneer of Aseptic Practices (Cureus)\n  * Matrescence: On Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Motherhood by Lucy Jones\n  * Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Deja Vu\n\n",
  "title": "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Anesthesia"
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