Tue. 07/13 - A Cache of Metal Type Found in Korea

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Reggie Risseeuw and Marques Pfaff

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4.6 • 732 Ratings

🗓️ 13 July 2021

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Archeologists dig up a massive cache of 15th century metal printing type in South Korea, a baby beaver is born in Exmoor, what if ice cream but also macaroni and cheese, a video-game breaks records and may indicate a sales bubble, and Nic Cage’s Pig: probably good? Sponsors: Credit Karma, creditkarma.com/podcast Indeed, Get a free $75 credit at Indeed.com/goodnews Links: Earliest Hangeul metal movable type blocks excavated in Seoul (Korea Times) Goryeo Metal Type (918–1392 era) (National Museum of Korea) Seoul lifts development ban on Insa-dong (Korea Herald) Want to know about Hangeul? (National Institute of Korean Language) Baby beaver born on Exmoor for first time in 400 years (The Guardian) First baby beaver born on Exmoor in 400 years (BBC News) ‘Drivers of change’: beavers released on National Trust land to ease flooding risk (The Guardian) Van Leeuwen and Kraft debut mac and cheese-flavored ice cream (New York Post) Sealed Mario 64’s Record-Breaking $1.5M Sale Has Retro Experts Skeptical Ultra-Rare Zelda Cart Fetching 6 Digits Before Auction Even Begins (Update: Sold For $870,000) (Kotaku) Kelsey Lewin on Super Mario 64 sale (Twitter) Pat Contri on Super Mario 64 sale (Twitter) Nicolas Cage on his legacy, his philosophy of acting and his metaphorical — and literal — search for the Holy Grail. (Hollywood Reporter) Pig is so much richer and stranger than the Nicolas Cage revenge thriller it appears to be (AV Club) Strandbeest Glenn on Twitter The Tiny Type Museum & Time Capsule Glenn’s type artifact photos (Flickr) See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:35.3	Welcome to the Kotke Ride Home for July 13th, 2021.
0:40.1	I'm Glenn Fleischman in for Jackson Bird, who is on vacation.
0:44.8	Archaeologists dig up a massive cache of 15th century metal printing type in South Korea.
0:50.5	A baby beaver is born in X-More for the first time in centuries.
0:57.8	What if ice cream, but also macaroni and cheese.
1:03.4	A video game breaks records and may indicate a sales bubble and Nick Cage's pig.
1:04.4	Probably good.
1:08.1	Here are some of the cool things from the news today.
1:14.6	1600 pieces of metal characters used for printing were unearthed in South Korea recently.
1:20.6	This discovery of movable type, characters that can be used to print, rearranged into different words and used again, has excited scholars of early printing.
1:24.6	That's not because they offer the first archaeological proof of printing before
1:28.6	Johannes Gutenberg, the so-called inventor of printing with movable type that has long existed,
1:34.7	but because of the sheer quantity and diversity of characters. While the type still needs to be
1:40.5	authenticated, it's believed to date to 1443. It would be the largest set of early
1:46.4	metal ever discovered, even though the use of metal type pieces is recorded in Korea by 1377,
1:52.4	and almost certainly before that, based on examination of surviving books. Only two pieces of type
1:59.0	are thought to predate this latest discovery. The type and other
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