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  "tags": [
    "France",
    "plaster",
    "Canada",
    "drywall",
    "Maine",
    "Mars",
    "Paris",
    "Katie Goldin",
    "Alex Schmidt",
    "geology",
    "gypsum",
    "Science",
    "minerals",
    "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)",
    "Naica’s crystal cave captivates chemists (Chemical & Engineering News)",
    "Common Minerals: Gypsum (University Of Minnesota)",
    "National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory: Fact Sheet: Gypsum (U.S. Department of Agriculture)",
    "Minerals: Gypsum -- selenite (Ohio Department of Natural Resources)",
    "Gypsum: an old product with a new use (Iowa State University Extension and Outreach)",
    "Versatile Gypsum Minerals (Rock & Gem Magazine)",
    "White Sands National Park: Geology: Gypsum (U.S. National Park Service)",
    "Desert Rose: Crystals, Types, and Where to Found it (GeologyIn.com)",
    "Gypsum Flowers (National Speleological Society)",
    "This Mexican Mineral Looks Like a Shimmering Serpent (Atlas Obscura)",
    "\"gypsum\"",
    "\"gypsy\"",
    "Gypsum Conservation (Knossos Scientific Committee)",
    "An Exciting History of Drywall (The Atlantic)",
    "Augustine Sackett (National Inventors Hall Of Fame)",
    "How the Paris Catacombs Solved a Cemetery Crisis (JStor Daily)",
    "The man who saved Paris from sinking (Radio France Internationale)",
    "Parts of Paris, Built Over Old Gy psum Quarries, Are Sinking (The New York Times)",
    "The geology of Paris (Geo-Sports.org)",
    "Plaster of Paris–Short History of Casting and Injured Limb Immobilzation (Open Orthopaedics Journal)",
    "Chilean gypsum could help us find biosignatures on Mars (Astronomy Magazine)",
    "This Desert Crystal Keeps Organisms Alive for Eons. It Could Be Key to Finding Extraterrestrial Life. (Popular Mechanics)",
    "Gypsum on Earth and Mars (NASA)",
    "Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820 (The Canadian Historical Review)",
    "200 years ago, anti-American sentiment may have caused eagles at N.S. Legislature to lose their heads (CBC News)",
    "Object: The Main Question (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)",
    "Plaster War of 1820 (Mining Association of Nova Scotia)",
    "Nova Scotia’s unique gypsum karst: An interview with Sean Blaney (Nova Scotia Nature Trust)",
    "Maine's Border Treaty (Maine State Archives)",
    "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Salt",
    "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Popcorn Ceilings"
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  "textContent": "Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why gypsum 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  * Naica’s crystal cave captivates chemists (Chemical & Engineering News)\n  * Common Minerals: Gypsum (University Of Minnesota)\n  * National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory: Fact Sheet: Gypsum (U.S. Department of Agriculture)\n  * Minerals: Gypsum -- selenite (Ohio Department of Natural Resources)\n  * Gypsum: an old product with a new use (Iowa State University Extension and Outreach)\n  * Versatile Gypsum Minerals (Rock & Gem Magazine)\n  * White Sands National Park: Geology: Gypsum (U.S. National Park Service)\n  * Desert Rose: Crystals, Types, and Where to Found it (GeologyIn.com)\n  * Gypsum Flowers (National Speleological Society)\n  * This Mexican Mineral Looks Like a Shimmering Serpent (Atlas Obscura)\n  * Online Etymology Dictionary entries for \"gypsum\" and \"gypsy\"\n  * Gypsum Conservation (Knossos Scientific Committee)\n  * An Exciting History of Drywall (The Atlantic)\n  * Augustine Sackett (National Inventors Hall Of Fame)\n  * How the Paris Catacombs Solved a Cemetery Crisis (JStor Daily)\n  * The man who saved Paris from sinking (Radio France Internationale)\n  * Parts of Paris, Built Over Old Gy psum Quarries, Are Sinking (The New York Times)\n  * The geology of Paris (Geo-Sports.org)\n  * Plaster of Paris–Short History of Casting and Injured Limb Immobilzation (Open Orthopaedics Journal)\n  * Chilean gypsum could help us find biosignatures on Mars (Astronomy Magazine)\n  * This Desert Crystal Keeps Organisms Alive for Eons. It Could Be Key to Finding Extraterrestrial Life. (Popular Mechanics)\n  * Gypsum on Earth and Mars (NASA)\n  * Borderland Smuggling: Patriots, Loyalists, and Illicit Trade in the Northeast, 1783-1820 (The Canadian Historical Review)\n  * 200 years ago, anti-American sentiment may have caused eagles at N.S. Legislature to lose their heads (CBC News)\n  * Object: The Main Question (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)\n  * Plaster War of 1820 (Mining Association of Nova Scotia)\n  * Nova Scotia’s unique gypsum karst: An interview with Sean Blaney (Nova Scotia Nature Trust)\n  * Maine's Border Treaty (Maine State Archives)\n  * Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Salt\n  * Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Popcorn Ceilings\n\n",
  "title": "Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Gypsum"
}