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580- Mr Yuk

2024/4/30
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Roman Mars 介绍了 Mr. Yuck 的形象和作用，并引出了 Gillian Jacobs 对其家乡匹兹堡的特殊意义。Gillian Jacobs 深入讲述了 Mr. Yuck 的设计初衷、设计过程以及推广方式，并解释了其在匹兹堡的特殊意义以及未能成为全国性标志的原因。Dr. Richard Moriarty 的访谈片段阐述了创建 Mr. Yuck 的初衷和目标。Dr. Marion Moser-Jones 分析了 20 世纪初美国家庭清洁用品激增以及标签不规范导致儿童意外中毒事件频发的原因，以及《毒物预防包装法案》的实施对降低儿童中毒死亡率的重要作用。Dr. Alan Wolf 讲述了毒物控制中心的工作环境和挑战，以及专业人员在处理紧急情况中的重要性。 Gillian Jacobs 详细描述了 Mr. Yuck 的设计过程，包括颜色选择、设计竞赛以及名字的由来。她还探讨了 Mr. Yuck 的有效性，以及一些研究对其有效性的质疑。她还提到了其他毒物控制标志，例如 Officer Ugg、No-Syop the Snake 和 Uncle Barf，并分析了这些标志未能普及的原因。她总结了 Mr. Yuck 的历史意义和在匹兹堡的特殊地位。

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Mr. Yuk is a neon green circular sticker with a cartoon face on it. His face is scrunched up with his eyes squeezed tight and his tongue is sticking out of its mouth. It's the face you make when you taste something disgusting. He's the pictorial embodiment of the sentiment of *yuck. *Aptly enough: he was designed to be the symbol for hazardous substances, aimed at deterring children from ingesting them. The idea what that if you saw a Mr. Yuk sticker on something around the house, it meant that that something was poison.

Friend of the show, Gillian Jacobs, is a BIG FAN of Mr Yuk, who turns out to be a hometown hero of her beloved Pittsburgh, and talked Roman through the origins of the mean, green face that was meant to save children from their worst impulses.

Plus, we revisit another story about warning symbols from our archive: the quest to find a symbol that would warn future humans of dangerous radiation 10,000 years in the future.

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