Secretly Incredibly Fascinating - BONUS SHOW 261: "2 Stories Of A Teenager And Their Parent Doing Amazing Glow-In-The-Dark Science"
Update: 2025-09-08
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This is the bonus show for Episode 261! (Glow-In-The-Dark Stuff)
Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore the obviously incredibly fascinating topic of a teenager inventing such a handy product they got antagonized by NASA, and a teenager solving a medical mystery of the U.S. Civil War.
RESEARCH SOURCES:
- Girl Finds Way to Write in Dark (The New York Times)
- Inventor does what NASA fails to do (The Pleasanton Express)
- How the youngest female inventor changed the glow-in-the-dark market (TheHustle.co)
- Inventing Daylight: On the evolution and growth of fluorescent colors in modern culture—especially in bright, neon, DayGlo form. (Tedium.co)
- Why Some Civil War Soldiers Glowed in the Dark (Mental Floss)
- SciShow: "The Strange Blue Glow That Saved Lives" (YouTube)
- The Battle of Shiloh, a.k.a. the Battle of Pittsburg Landing (American Battlefield Trust)
- Here is the Wikipedia entry for the 1996 film 'Shiloh'.
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