Acid Pop Podcast

Mummies

This week we dig up some stories about jerkified humans. Join us as we discuss fire mummies, honey mummies, sec diorama mummies, mummy medicine, and mummy paint.

Sources:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/mummy

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/necro-

https://www.dictionary.com/browse/necro-

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy_brown

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summum

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorruptibility

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kabayan_Mummies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_mummy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mummies_of_Guanajuato

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/museo-de-las-momias-de-guanajuato

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinchorro_mummies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellified_man

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/mummies-of-philippi

http://oldoperatingtheatre.com/blog/dr-thomas-joseph-pettigrew-a-k-a-mummy-pettigrew-a-short-biography

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canopic_jar

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/07/18/these-red-haired-chinese-mummies-come-from-all-over-eurasia-dna-reveals/#33aaf4ce3e2c

Archaeology

Nothing like looking back at the past to make you feel better about the here and now. Join us as we discuss some pitfalls of archeology such as telling the Queen of England about your artifact before checking it thoroughly, making up languages to sound cool, and assuming everything is about sex.

Sources:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/04/mass-child-human-animal-sacrifice-peru-chimu-science/

https://www.livescience.com/61989-famed-archaeologist-created-fakes.html

https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0508/S00224/mazur-getting-to-the-bottom-of-the-dorak-affair.htm

http://www.georgia-archaeology.org/EarlyGA/may2001/EarlyGeorgia_29_1_10.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runamo

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/written-rock-of-gelt-06984.html

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history/dealing-past-how-did-ancient-egyptians-get-nicotine-and-cocaine-009223

https://steemit.com/science/@deeallen/self-portraits-of-fertility-symbols-venus-figurines-of-upper-paleolithic-eurasia-nudity

https://www.livescience.com/25510-terracotta-warriors.html

https://knowledgenuts.com/2013/11/11/the-mysterious-tomb-of-qin-shi-huang/

https://www.cnn.com/2016/06/15/europe/ireland-bog-butter/index.html

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-feb-19-me-hoax19-story.html

https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/2018/03/francis-drakes-golden-plate-hoax-backfired/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-mummy-hoax-might-be-wrapped-up-in-a-modern-murder

Relics

This week we fix what needs fixing with the power of some dead guy's pinky. Join us as we discuss how to perform miracles, the popularity of severed body parts, and how easy it is to mistake animal bones for human ones.

Sources:

https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/galleries/10-strange-places-the-face-of-jesus-appeared.aspx

https://www.beliefnet.com/faiths/galleries/10-strange-places-the-face-of-jesus-appeared.aspx

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/jmbwzg/the-weird-and-fraudulent-world-of-catholic-relics-456

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_holy_foreskin/

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_shroud_of_turin/

http://hoaxes.org/archive/permalink/the_medieval_relic_trade/

http://www.forallthesaints.info/fakes.htm

https://www.livescience.com/19520-alleged-christian-relics-jesus.html

https://www.cracked.com/article_23314_the-5-most-unintentionally-disgusting-religious-artifacts.html

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2013/nov/18/st-peters-bones-christian-relics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relic#Christianity

https://historycollection.co/religious-relics-never-found/2/

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tomchivers/how-many-foreskins-does-one-god-need

Food Poisoning

We're coming to you live from inside our bathrooms as we went a bit too deep researching this week's episode. Join us as we discuss edible missteps such as raw egg ice cream, moldy peanuts, and hallucinogenic bread.

Sources:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/food

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=poison

https://www.fda.gov/food/recalls-outbreaks-emergencies/outbreaks-foodborne-illness

https://phobia.wikia.org/wiki/Cibophobia

https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/foodborne-germs.html

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/23413/illin-villain-foods-most-likely-poison-you

https://www.cdc.gov/campylobacter/faq.html

https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/general/index.html

https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/11/4/04-0739_article

https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/diseases/staphylococcal.html

https://www.cdc.gov/salmonella/index.html

https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/index.html

https://www.healthline.com/health/worst-foodborne-illness-outbreaks#emlisteriaem

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_Corporation_of_America

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/09/21/442335132/peanut-exec-gets-28-years-in-prison-for-deadly-salmonella-outbreak

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Jack_in_the_Box_E._coli_outbreak

https://www.foodsafetynews.com/2017/12/jack-in-the-box-e-coli-outbreak-25th-anniversary/

https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/28/justice/cantaloupe-listeria-deaths-sentencing/index.html

https://www.cdc.gov/listeria/pdf/listeriosis-timeline102711.pdf

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/558020/pont-saint-esprit-france-1951-bread-poisoning-mass-hallucinations

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ergotism

https://www.foodandwine.com/news/titanic-cast-crew-pcp-chowder

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_foodborne_illness_outbreaks_in_the_United_States

http://fsns.com/news/listeria-in-south-africa

Immortality

As your favorite podcast, we've decided to stick around forever. Just for you. Join us as we discuss some techniques that didn't work so well on the road to immortality such as drinking mercury, pumping bodies full of toxic chemicals before freezing them, and drinking the blood of children.

Sources:

https://www.seeker.com/seeking-immortality-so-have-others-1767387860.html

https://www.seeker.com/seeking-immortality-so-have-others-1767387860.html

https://io9.gizmodo.com/7-ways-that-people-died-trying-to-become-immortal-1691947345

https://ultraculture.org/blog/2014/05/05/5-ancient-legends-secret-immortality/

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150622-can-anything-live-forever

https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-many-rich-men-who-have-tried-to-live-forever

https://www.newsweek.com/2015/03/13/silicon-valley-trying-make-humans-immortal-and-finding-some-success-311402.html

https://www.inverse.com/article/29604-parabiosis-peter-thiel-blood

https://blog.ferrovial.com/en/2017/02/initiative-2045-or-the-moment-when-robots-will-overtake-humans/

https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/search-immortality-killed-emperor-china-0010207

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/01/14/the-history-of-blood

https://www.cryonics.org/about-us/myths/

https://alcor.org/Library/html/suspensionfailures.html

World Records

This week we enter the annuls of history as we explore what it means to be immortalized in the Guinness Book of World Records. Join us as we discuss some of the dumbest and most dangerous records ever, uh, recorded as we learn (yet again) that it's always a bad idea to break your own record.

Sources:

https://www.toptenz.net/top-10-deadliest-attempts-break-world-record.php

https://www.cracked.com/article_16893_8-guinness-world-record-attempts-that-failed-hilariously.html

https://www.therichest.com/the-biggest/fail-10-guinness-world-record-attempts-gone-wrong/

https://www.etymonline.com/word/world

https://www.etymonline.com/word/record#etymonline_v_7412

https://www.funkidslive.com/news/weirdest-world-records-in-new-guinness-world-records-book/

https://www.businessinsider.com/weirdest-world-records-2015-5#this-piece-of-luggage-unveiled-at-the-100th-chinese-export-commodities-fair-in-guangzhou-china-in-2006-has-been-certified-as-the-worlds-largest-by-the-guinness-world-records-and-stands-nearly-six-feet-tall-16

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/records/the-application-process/reasons-applications-are-rejected.html

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/first-confirmed-person-to-survive-two-nuclear-attacks/

https://www.businessinsider.com/weirdest-world-records-2015-5#a-group-of-1000-customers-receive-a-facial-massage-at-a-sports-center-in-jinan-china-may-4-2015-all-women-the-group-was-given-a-30-minutes-of-facial-beauty-treatment-together-that-achieved-a-guinness-record-for-the-largest-group-of-people-having-beauty-treatment-in-the-same-location-according-to-local-media-25

Vaccines

This week we tackle the age old debate around vaccines. Join us as we discuss the good, the bad, and the gross.

Sources:

https://www.etymonline.com/word/vaccination

http://common-phobias.com/trypano/phobia.htm

http://common-phobias.com/aichmo/phobia.htm

http://common-phobias.com/belone/phobia.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine-preventable_diseases

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variolation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smallpox

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Pasteur

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldemar_Haffkine

https://www.historyofvaccines.org/timeline#EVT_100

https://history.nih.gov/exhibits/history/docs/page_03.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Hilleman

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/1842844

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutter_Laboratories

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4599698/

https://www.historyofvaccines.org/content/articles/do-vaccines-cause-autism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epidemiology_of_measles

https://www.cdc.gov/measles/cases-outbreaks.html

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/19/health/anti-vax-harassment-eprise/index.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonas_Salk

Birth Control

This week we practice "safe" sex. Join us as we discuss some of the methods mankind has used to not get pregnant such as lemons, crocodile dung, sneezing, and our old friend mercury.

Sources:

https://allthatsinteresting.com/birth-control-history

https://time.com/3692001/birth-control-history-djerassi/

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/83685/9-forms-birth-control-used-ancient-world

https://mashable.com/2015/06/07/early-birth-control/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/discovery-where-babies-come-from

https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(16)34860-9/pdf

https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/biology-fields/ancient-egyptian-pregnancy-test-survived-millenia-because-it-worked.htm

https://www.plannedparenthood.org/learn/birth-control

https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/contraception/how-effective-contraception/

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3649591/

http://web.archive.org/web/20080517045452/http://www.plannedparenthood.org/resources/research-papers/bc-history-6547.htm

https://spafe.com.au/history-of-condoms/

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ae3qx8/the-perfect-birth-control-for-men-is-here-why-cant-we-use-it

Power Generation

We're charged up for this weeks topic. Seriously though, generating power kills lots of people. Join us as we discuss the myriad ways power generation is deadly such as burning alive on windmills, cooking birds mid flight for solar energy, and setting an ocean on fire as a diversion.

Sources:

https://www.etymonline.com/search?q=generate

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_engine

https://www.tva.com/Energy/Our-Power-System/Coal/How-a-Coal-Plant-Works

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/solar/solar-thermal-power-plants.php

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/how-nuclear-power-works

https://www.energy.gov/maps/how-does-wind-turbine-work

http://www.wvic.com/content/how_hydropower_works.cfm

https://www.top-ee.com/diesel-power-plant/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/k/kyoto.asp

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glossary_of_power_generation

https://www.brighthubengineering.com/power-plants/72369-compare-the-efficiency-of-different-power-plants/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_generation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benxihu_Colliery

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia_mine_fire

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Smog_of_London

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2018/01/25/natural-gas-and-the-new-deathprint-for-energy/#2d569485e197

https://www.thoughtco.com/environmental-consequences-of-oil-spills-1204088

https://www.cleanerseas.com/10-worst-oil-spills-in-world-history/

https://www.marineinsight.com/environment/11-major-oil-spills-of-the-maritime-world/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleveland_East_Ohio_Gas_explosion

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-solar-plant-accidentally-incinerates-up-to-6-000-birds-a-year

https://firsttoknow.com/in-october-2013-two-engineers-became-trapped-on-a-burning-wind-turbine-this-was-their-final-picture/

https://www.boredpanda.com/story-radioactive-boy-scout-david-hahn/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=organic

Scams

We've known each other a long time, right? That's how you know you can trust us. Join us as we discuss many promising money making techniques such as sending it to princes, paying your new job before they hire you, and buying lots and lots of itunes gift cards.

Sources:

https://www.businessinsider.com/scams-people-most-likely-fall-for-online-2019-10#5-phony-sweepstakes-lotteries-and-prizes-4

https://www.acfe.com/fraud-examiner.aspx?id=4294997223

https://www.scamwatch.gov.au/about-scamwatch/scam-statistics

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2019/02/top-frauds-2018

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/blogs/data-spotlight/2019/02/romance-scams-rank-number-one-total-reported-losses

https://www.iii.org/fact-statistic/facts-statistics-identity-theft-and-cybercrime

https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/features/feature-0035-pass-it-imposter-scams