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Mr. Yuk

2024/4/30
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Roman Mars 和 Gillian Jacobs 探讨了 Mr. Yuk 的起源、设计理念以及它在匹兹堡毒物控制中心中的作用。他们还讨论了美国毒物控制中心的演变，以及防儿童开启包装在降低儿童中毒死亡率方面的作用。Dr. Richard Moriarty 作为 Mr. Yuk 的创造者，他的观点是通过设计一个儿童更容易理解和记住的标志来提高儿童安全意识，并引导家长在孩子意外摄入危险物质时寻求专业帮助。Dr. Marion Moser-Jones 强调了 20 世纪初美国家用清洁剂的涌现以及由此带来的儿童中毒风险，以及防儿童开启包装在降低儿童中毒死亡率方面的关键作用。Dr. Alan Wolf 阐述了中毒控制中心在应对儿童意外中毒事件中的重要性，以及专业人员在提供及时有效帮助方面的作用。Lewis Godalman 作为美国首个毒物控制中心的创建者，他的工作为后来的毒物控制中心发展奠定了基础。

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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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