Thalia and Eva interrogate the one aspect of Disney World that no one else could be bothered to look into: Their air permit.

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Additional notes:

• Hello, Thalia here. There was one tiny little lie I forgot to correct myself on. In addition to the emergency generators, most coasters with magnetic breaks will also have batteries to ensure the ride comes to a safe stop in the event of power loss.
• Florida’s air permits can be searched here. I recommend searching by site name.
• More info on the Mickey Mouse Solar Farm.
• More info on Kilimanjaro Safaris.
• Okay, technically Disney isn’t the second biggest purchaser of artillery in America… it’s the second largest purchaser of explosives on the planet. Semantics.

See you next time, in the year 3026! Kinda! -Eva

Thalia educates Eva about how three bird species met their untimely extinction and how one man single-handedly saved a fourth by helping it get laid... by him??

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Additional notes:

• On Passenger Pigeons
  • A piece on what the flocks were like, the Lacey Act, and de-extinction advocates
  • On their extinction
• On the Great Auk
  • Much of this research comes from The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert
  • An online article on their extinction
  • A few corrections and clarifications: I cannot find any information on what, if anything, the first conservation law in 1500s England actually did. “Natural philosopher” was the correct term for a natural scientist in Cuvier’s time. The term “scientist” was coined a few years before the Great Auk’s extinction
• On Bison
  • Fun fact: the scientific name of the plains bison is “Bison bison bison.” This pairs with the grammatically correct sentence “Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.”
  • Most of this section comes from here
• Carolina Parakeet
  • Unfortunately, there isn’t as much known about the Carolina parakeet. Here’s a good place to start
  • On the fate of the last parakeet’s body, and the species as a whole
• George Archibald and Whooping Cranes
  • His book “My Life With Cranes” is worth checking out.
  • Fun(?) fact: Tex was killed by raccoons shortly after her chick hatched. Listen, this was a podcast on extinction. It felt grim enough without bringing this up.
  • More on George and Tex
  • An article on the ICF headquarters in Wisconsin, which is well worth a visit if you’re in Madison or the Dells
  • Seriously, though, George Archibald is a living legend, and the people and birds of Earth would surely be worse off without him.

See you next time, where I will be making magic extremely mundane. -Thalia