Curiosity Daily Podcast: Dying People Can Probably Hear You, Mapmakers Catch Copycats with Paper Towns, and How Woodpeckers Shut Down a NASA Launch
Learn about how mapmakers catch copycats with paper towns and trap streets; why people on their deathbed can probably hear their loved ones pay their last respects; and that time some woodpeckers shut down NASA’s plan to launch the space shuttle Discovery.
August 26, 2020
Episode Show Notes:
Paper Towns and Trap Streets Are How Mapmakers Catch Copycats by Reuben Westmaas
- Goblu and Beatosu, Ohio. (2017). Weird Universe. http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/goblu_and_beatosu_ohio
- Jacobs, F. (2014, February 12). Agloe: How a Completely Made Up New York Town Became Real. Big Think; Big Think. https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/643-agloe-the-paper-town-stronger-than-fiction
- NESTER’S MAP & GUIDE CORP | 796 F.Supp. 729 (1992) | upp72911403 | Leagle.com. (1992, June 30). Leagle. https://www.leagle.com/decision/19921525796fsupp72911403
Dying loved ones can probably hear you give your last respects by Grant Currin
- UBC research shows hearing persists at end of life. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uobc-urs070720.php
- Blundon, E. G., Gallagher, R. E., & Ward, L. M. (2020). Electrophysiological evidence of preserved hearing at the end of life. Scientific Reports, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-67234-9
That Time Some Woodpeckers Shut Down A NASA Space Shuttle Launch by Joanie Faletto
- Lovesick Woodpeckers Poke Hole in a Shuttle’s Schedule. (1995, June 2). The New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/1995/06/03/us/lovesick-woodpeckers-poke-hole-in-a-shuttle-s-schedule.html
- NASA - STS-70. (2010). Nasa.gov. https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-70.html
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