55: Evolving Electricity & What's "Women's Work"?

How did eels evolve electricity? And when is "women's work" neither women's nor work?Images we Talk About:SocksMore SocksThimbleBagCrochet ArtTimestamps:(00:00:00) Intro(00:03:26) Evolving Electricity(00:51:13) "Women's Work"(01:38:46) OutroSupport us with a Max Fun Membership!Join our Discord!We also learn about: Happy moisturizer to all who celebrate, Ella’s just here for moral support, when did they put batteries in eels, someone's just statically charging these eels, what did we call electric eels before electricity? why would we think lightning and a fish are the same thing? the necrotizing torpedo and the torpor eel, Aristotle was a shite time traveler, “in all of humanity, if people think they can pout it up their asshole they will”, Allessandro Volta what a convenient name, electric fish gave us the battery not the other way around, the electric organ, when did electricity evolve? electric organ discharge, electrogenesis, it’s not an eel! get in line with the other animals that need their names fixed, 90% of an eel is electric organ, what does it feel like? turning fish to stone, shocks can function like a neurotoxin, the electric doublet can make fish twitch, Ella has a revelation, the physics is the biology, it’s all electric baby, magnetic animals 2 electric boogaloo, the domestic arts, This Woman’s Work, it was never always women’s work, old socks, but what does this have to do with men?? Ella predicts the British stealing a sock, male knitting guilds, knitting fishermen makes perfect sense, knitting was “compatible” with many kinds of life, mechanized knitting made it feminized,   of course it’s always intersectionality, you know what’s appropriate for a woman is to do this thing we don’t need anymore, being demoted as an art form, “male art vs female craft”, Caroline’s just doing this topic to show their crochet is art, weaponizing the male ego to bring back knitting, bequeathing a valuable and symbolic thimble, Tom gets emotional over a salacious thimble, if that’s not art what is, also I can't believe you actually read all these thanks Sources:The Amazing Paper: The Torpedo Effect in MedicineAtlantic on Electric EelsAristotle on Electric EelsGreg Gbur on Electric Eels and PhysicsPiccolino's Great Paper on the History of Volta's ExperimentationNational Zoo Electric Eel FactsNYTimes on Electric Eel ShocksTremendous Eel Behavior Writeup from Kenneth CataniaReuters on Electric Eel EvolutionScience Paper on Electric Eel EvolutionAmber Plante on Electric CellsElectric Bacteria---Melissa Hilliard Potter TalkV&A: The history of hand-knittingThe Crafty Gentleman: The History of KnittingThis Is Gendered: Knitting"2012 Paper: Knitting as Dissent: Female Resistance in America Since theRevolutionary War"Cooper Hewitt: A Revolution In StockingsBrooklyn Museum: Women’s WorkArt Margins: Recrafting Futures: Feminist Practices of Material EngagementV&A Blog: ‘A Stitch in Time: Home Sewing Before 1900’NGV: The Power of ‘Women’s Work’: CraftivismPBS: Stitch by Stitch, A Brief History of Knitting and ActivismUniversity of Bath: #BreakTheBias: Is knitting a feminist issue?Harpy: The Art of Embroidery2014 Paper: Craftivism: The Role of Feminism in Craft ActivismThe Daily Utah Chronical: Lien: Female Rebellion and Why Craft Matters2016 Paper: Quiet Activism and the New Amateur Thanks to everyone who participated in this year's MaxFunDrive! Still want to get in on the action? Follow this link to support this show (and get in on our limited-time keychain sale to benefit the Center for Constitutional Rights): https://maximumfun.org/joinlearn