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Music

• Dance PM from Horishi Yoshimura
• Amor – C.B. Rework by Clark
• Here’s What You’re Missin by Bing and Ruth
• Meredith Monk’s Ellis Island as played by Bruce Brubaker
• Alto Paraiso by Aukai
• Opening from Nathaniel Bartlett
• Rivers That you Cannot See by North Americans
• First of the Tide by Erland Cooper featuring Benge

Notes

• The episode old episode I mention in the credits as a companion to this one is here.
• Most of the biographical details in this were found in the official biography written for the National Academy of Sciences by his Uranium-hunting colleague, George Tilton, and a terrific, entertaining oral history interview.
• Also, if you’ve left episode in the mode where you’d just like to know some more, I came across this old Mental Floss article by Lucas Reilly that I thought did a particularly good job of weaving a lot of the back story (some of which I’d covered before in the Midgely episode linked above) into Patterson’s story. Just wanted to shine a light on it.

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Music

• Time Beat by Ray Cathode
• Rabbits of the Void by Tomaga
• Weightless by the Neil Cowley Trio
• Scenes from the Poet’s Dreams I: Racing Through the Stars by The Lark Quartet
• Switchcraft by Chilly Gonzalez
• Sky Breaking, Clouds Falling by Mason Lindahl

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Music

• By the Ash Tree and Semolina by Slow Meadow
• Opals by Catching Flies
• Mechanical Fair by Ola Kvernberg and the Trondheim Singers
• La Copla by the great Atahualpa Yupanqui
• Holm Sound by Erland Cooper

Notes

• You can find the original recordings, photos, and film clips taken on the 1935 expedition and after in the remarkable online library of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
• Of the many books on the Ivory Billed Woodpecker, the one I enjoyed and relied upon most here is Phillip Hoose’s The Race to Save the Good Lord Bird.

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• The Bundt Diaries from Ludwig Goransson’s score to Everything, Everything.
• Kola (Lighthouse Version) by Amiina.
• Snow Canon by Group Listening.
• The Morning After by the Chico Hamilton Quintet. (Man, I just watched The Sweet Smell of Success recently; the Chico Hamilton Quintet makes the best, sustained appearance in a great, great movie).
• Colleen’s Geometria del Universo.
• Bug’s Walk by Peter Storby Jutbring.
• Touch Me & Die by Kara-Lis Coverdale
• The Last Tears of a Deceased by the inimitable Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou.

A Correction: 

• I misspeak in the episode: Disneyland was celebrating its 30th Anniversary.

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Music
* Start off with Lacrymae, from Melodium.
* Go to a chopped up Fables, by Girls in Airports.
* Finish off with the eternal Sunflower River Blues by John Fahey.

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Notes
* Several essays were very helpful in researching this. Among those were:
–http://pittmed.health.pitt.edu/jan_2001/butterflies.pdf
–http://www.thenation.com/article/secret-history-lead/
–http://www.wired.com/2013/01/looney-gas-and-lead-poisoning-a-short-sad-history/
* I found William J. Kovarik’s Dissertation, The Ethyl Controversy: How the News Media Set the Agenda for a Public Health Controversy over the use of Leaded Gasoline, 1924-1926, completely fascinating.
* I relied on a number of papers from the W.H.O. when researching the health effects of lead and ozone depletion.
* Here’s the New York Times original expose about the House of Butterflies.
* Finally, Thomas Midgely, IV’s biography of his grandfather, From the Periodic Table to Production: The Life of Thomas Midgely, Jr., inventor of Leaded Gasoline and Freon Refrigerants, is, while unsurprisingly hagiographic, both well-researched and highly readable.

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