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It may be well-known that hope is the thing with feathers, but how much is known about feathers themselves? Turns out, plenty! From shrub grouses to shuttlecocks and all the pea-babies (diminutive for peacocks, definitely for sure) in between, come soar on the delightfully complex wings of knowledge with us!
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[Truth or Fail]
Dermestid beetles on dino feather in amber
https://www.science.org/content/article/feathered-dinosaurs-discovered
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/986124
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/dermestid-beetles-feasted-on-dinosaur-feathers
Badminton shuttlecock dino-birdie
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils/liaoning-diorama/a-feathered-tyrant
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/dilong-paradoxus/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1030468
Roboduck with dino feathers
https://www.audubon.org/news/new-aquatic-dinosaur-find-strange-and-startling-avian-hodgepodge
[Trivia Question]
Speed of peacock tail feather shaking to signal interest to mates
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0152759
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207247
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/peacock-crests-are-vibration-sensors/578656/
https://gizmodo.com/the-physics-of-peacock-tail-feathers-is-even-more-dazzl-1772653586
[Fact Off]
Turning waste chicken feathers into a flavorless, edible meat paste
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/animals-slaughtered-for-meat?time=latest
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-bird-feathers-food.html
https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9055668&fileOId=9055675
https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/lund-team-turns-chicken-feathers-into-food/
Male sandgrouse belly feathers soak up water to carry back to their babies
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.0878
https://academic.oup.com/condor/article/69/4/323/5229138
https://ebird.org/species/namsan1
[Ask the Science Couch]
Feather growth and development (and altricial vs. precocial baby birds)
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/feathers-article/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4380223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6917565/
[Butt One More Thing]
Fright molt: losing tail feathers as an antipredator adaptation
Trash, rubbish, waste, refuse...we have a lot of words for the gunk that goes on the truck, because whether we like it or not, humans make a lot of garbage. Get comfy with some grossness as we root around in garbage's past, present, and future. We're all on a path, you guys!
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Garbage
[The Scientific Definition]
Neptune balls
Laser broom
Wishcycling
[Trivia Question]
Eugene Poubelle garbage can ordinance in France
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poubelle
https://doodles.google/doodle/eugene-poubelles-190th-birthday/
[Fact Off]
Sulfur-crested cockatoos opening garbage cans because of social learning
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe7808
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/963482
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01285-4
Hermit crabs are using plastic trash as shells
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723075885
[Ask the Science Couch]
Waste-to-energy methods: power plants/incineration, gasification, landfill gas, anaerobic digestion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652617317316?via%3Dihub
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/biomass/waste-to-energy-in-depth.php
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780857090119500090
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5530419
https://www.epa.gov/lmop/basic-information-about-landfill-gas
https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2804
https://www.epa.gov/agstar/how-does-anaerobic-digestion-work
[Butt One More Thing]
Poop composition of gull flocks that eat garbage from landfills
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004313541730489X?via%3Dihub
Oops, all science this episode! Erstwhile editorial assistant Deboki Chakravarti steps in for erstwhile everyman Sam Schultz as we parse through fundamental puzzles about humanity: what makes us, us, and if it is hormones, does that make us cocktails or cauldrons?
SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces!
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Hormones
[Truth or Fail]
https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/trust-hormone-oxytocin-helps-old-muscle-work-new-study-finds
[Trivia Question]
Hormone-injected Judas goats to kill invasive species in Project Isabella
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092746/
https://modernfarmer.com/2013/09/killing-goats-galapagos/
[Fact Off]
Bones make osteocalcin, which might be a hormone involved in stress reactions
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(19)30441-3
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6335246/
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1008361
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1008714
Chrononutrition and breast milk hormones training babies? circadian rhythms
[Ask the Science Couch]
Hormones (vs. neurotransmitters) and how they affect emotions
Serotonin
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK545168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5864293/
Testosterone
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033318213001333?via%3Dihub
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/andr.12867
Estrogen
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3753111/
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/210086
Thyroid
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7612998/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378512215006064
Puberty in general
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5192018/
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/umurj/article/id/1383/
[Butt One More Thing]
Golden spiny mice poop hormones show that they've evolved to be nocturnal (even though they can be diurnal)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0023446
It's the long-awaited cheese-stravaganza! And it's every bit as melty, crumbly, stretchy, and stinky as hoped for. We dip into some fetamology, we stretch our nokkeledge of cheese applications, and we unwrap the shocking tartrutho about a cheese we thought we knew!*
*The real cheese names I butchered into puns: feta, nokkelost, tartuffo. All delicious, go try some!
SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces!
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[The Scientific Definition]
Cornish Yarg?s rind
Pule animal milk
Emmental cheese surroundings
[Trivia Question]
One of the oldest unopened cans of Cougar Gold cheese
https://archive.news.wsu.edu/news/2010/08/14/oldest-cougar-gold-cracked-open-still-tasty/
https://creamery.wsu.edu/about-us/history/
[Fact Off]
Using cheese to study the neuroscience of disgust because it?s not dangerous/unethical
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5065955/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/disgust
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687907/
Environmental remediation in Emeryville, CA using cottage cheese whey
[Ask the Science Couch]
?Addictive? qualities of cheese (contextualizing casomorphin and the endogenous opioid system)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0117959
https://www.acs.org/molecule-of-the-week/archive/b/bovine-beta-casomorphin-7.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8345738/
https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2009.231r
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10486734/
[Butt One More Thing]
Cheese mites are pests but also delicacies in Mimolette and Milbenkäse
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030210003644
The question plaguing us this episode is, how dark can it really get? Turns out (according to some), not that dark! Unless you're at the bottom of the ocean or floating in the all too-eerie void of deep space, you're always gonna have some photons hitting your face. (I'm pretty sure I accidentally stole this rhyme right out of Hank's poem, but you'll just have to listen to know for sure...)
SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces!
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[The Gauntlet]
Next December 23rd winter solstice
SOLAR spacecraft went down
Reorientation of sun instrument
23.5°S latitude alternate name
Tapetum lucidum color
Hormone in darkness
Famous winter solstice sunlight site
[Trivia Question]
Last December 23rd winter solstice
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/december-solstice.html
[Fact Off]
Carrots can help you make rhodopsin but not improve night vision
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/do-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/do-carrots-really-help-you-see-in-the-dark
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10484191/
https://www.livescience.com/carrots-see-in-the-dark.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-carrots-improve-your-vision/
Dogs are more likely to steal food disobediently when it?s dark
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-012-0579-6
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130211090840.htm
https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/juliane-kaminski/publications/
[Butt One More Thing]
English words for excrement collectors (gong farmer, night soil men)
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/night-soil_n?tab=etymology
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/gong-farmer_n?tab=meaning_and_use#992848879
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-american-cities-were-full-of-crap
https://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/1351/705
In this not-so-chill episode, everybody gets a little unsettled by the concepts around refrigeration. Quantum computers, thermoacoustics, molecular chemistry, elephants, the phantom letter "d" that gets added to the shortening of refrigeration...it's all just. So much.
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[This or That: Fridge or Not Fridge]
Ballpoint-pen-sized device with twisted nickel-titanium and water
Credit-card-sized device plugged into your phone with lithium bromide
Two large metal balls with ammonia and water
[Trivia Question]
Frigidaire had an elephant stand on their refrigerator as a strength test
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75945/15-icy-cool-facts-about-refrigeration
[Fact Off]
Dilution refrigeration and ultra-cold LEGOs
https://twist.phys.virginia.edu/work/Formal_Paper.pdf
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/the-coolest-lego-in-the-universe
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55616-7#Fig1
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a30337510/lego-bricks-heat-tolerance-quantum-computer/
Thermoacoustic refrigeration and the James Webb Space Telescope
[Ask the Science Couch]
Freezer smells and dehydration/oxidation affecting food taste
https://extension.umn.edu/preserving-and-preparing/science-freezing-foods
https://extension.psu.edu/understanding-the-process-of-freezing
https://theconversation.com/heres-why-your-freezer-smells-so-bad-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-203058
[Butt One More Thing]
USB drive found in volunteer-collected frozen leopard seal poop
https://niwa.co.nz/news/they-were-defrosting-leopard-seal-pooyou-wont-believe-what-happened-next
Do you hear what I hear? Probably not, because in this episode, we're bringing things down several notches to learn about quiet. Does it have a scientific definition? Is it all just relative? Should crickets have podcasts? Join us as we (ok, maybe not so) quietly contemplate quiet.
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[Truth or Fail]
Larval reef fish bury their heads in the sand to reduce noise
Quieter Bison bulls get more mates
Dolphins quiet their clicks to ambush each other
[Trivia Question]
Loudness of lead singer in Billboard Hot 100 from 1946-2020
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/986837
[Fact Off]
Water-based sound suppression systems for rocket launches
https://www.nas.nasa.gov/SC15/demos/demo10.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022460X23003528
Small tree crickets use leaves to amplify their chirps
[Ask the Science Couch]
Quietest period in history of the Earth (of all time & anthropocene)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-017-0051-y
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X13000506?via%3Dihub
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd2438
[Butt One More Thing]
Unplanned 9/11 study shows whale poop stress levels associated with ship noise
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2011.2429
Oil: it's a ubiquitous substance humans have been relying on for longer than you might think. We cook with it, we moisturize with it, we run machines with it - it keeps slipping into places we least expect to find it, for good and for ill...
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[The Gauntlet]
Original Crisco oil plant
Company that produces Crisco
Process to turn liquid oil into solid
Fair Packaging and Labeling Act decade
Upton Sinclair book
Two oils in modern Crisco
Kream Krisp vs. Crisco
[Trivia Question]
Value of Spanish extra virgin olive oil stolen in August 2023
[Fact Off]
Russell Martin Bliss contaminated Times Beach, Missouri with waste oil to stop dust
Using human/animal hair to adsorb oil spills
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3298/7/7/52
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213343715000330
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/04/980424032349.htm
https://time.com/6262631/philippines-oil-spill-cleanup-hair/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Saturated/unsaturated fat chemistry and how they influence bloodstream lipids
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/how-its-made-cholesterol-production-in-your-body
https://openheart.bmj.com/content/5/2/e000871
[Butt One More Thing]
Mineral oil used as a lubricant laxative
https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/laxative-oral-route/before-using/drg-20070683?p=1
What's that you spy on the horizon, just out of sight? If you have a telescope handy, you can hone your gaze on...more telescopes! From pocket spyglasses to Extremely Large (a real telescope name), join us and special guest Julian Huguet as we set our sights on the far-reaching world of these incredible devices. How we wonder what they are...
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[Truth or Fail]
Finding llamas with telescope vibration
Predicting weather with telescopes and clouds
Tracking bees with LIDAR
[Trivia Question]
Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road, and Sea (or STTARS) length https://www.nasa.gov/universe/how-to-ship-the-worlds-largest-space-telescope-5800-miles-across-the-ocean/
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/follow-the-sttars-to-find-nasas-webb-telescope/
[Fact Off]
Artificial guide stars made from lasers for optical telescopes on Earth
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/811748
https://www.llnl.gov/news/guide-star-leads-sharper-astronomical-images
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/aot-2014-0025/html
Gravitational lensing and turning space itself into a telescope
[Ask the Science Couch]
The history of radio telescopes (first non-optical telescope)
https://massivesci.com/articles/radio-astronomy-sagittarius-karl-jansky/
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2005ASPC..345....3J
https://public.nrao.edu/news/silent-as-the-night-why-radio-astronomy-doesnt-listen-to-the-sky
https://science.nasa.gov/ems/05_radiowaves/
[Butt One More Thing]
Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) & Gamma-Ray Urgent Archiver for Novel Opportunities (GUANO)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...900...35T/abstract
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2004-047A
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Batteries are all around us, in things we use all the time, and in all different shapes and sizes, so of course we know exactly how they all work, right? Nope! Not even close! The bizarre breadth of our battery banter includes Ben Franklin, tiny computers, and...shrimp?
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[Trivia Question]
Oxford Electric Bell battery lifespan
https://archwww.physics.ox.ac.uk/history/Exhibit1.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mystery-continuously-functioning-battery-1840-180954028/
https://x.com/UniofOxford/status/1610593348464640001?s=20
[Fact Off]
Edible battery for sustainability (and maybe child safety)
https://academic.oup.com/jimb/article/45/5/313/5996662
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/researchers-craft-a-fully-edible-battery/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36919977/
https://www.popsci.com/technology/edible-battery-prototype/
Platypus electroreception study using batteries
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3945317/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-12-vw-18644-story.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/56002?typeAccessWorkflow=login
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/202/10/1447/8186/Electroreception-in-monotremes
[Ask the Science Couch]
Grid-scale storage with batteries
https://www.iea.org/energy-system/electricity/grid-scale-storage
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/74426.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032122001368
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352152X17304437
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032113005418?via%3Dihub
[Butt One More Thing]
Microbial battery with exoelectrogens and poop water
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1307327110
https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/19/4747532/scientists-use-poop-to-generate-electricity
Trick or Treat Month returns... and this time it's personal! Join us for another month of spooky themes and special surprise guest apparitions! Try not to get too scared!
And so we close the ancient, flesh-bound spell book on another Trick or Treat Month... but we're going out on top, baby! Alexis Nikole Nelson has appeared, as if by magic, to lead us into the deep, dark woods and point out all the slimy, sticky, gross stuff on the ground that she says we can eat. I guess I trust her!
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[This or That]
Round 1 - Blue glowing slime
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/tube-worm-slime-displays-long-lasting-self-powered-glow
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5103273/
Round 2 - Eating parents? slime
https://animalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s42523-023-00243-x
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/caecilians-limbless-amphibian-skin-feeding-young-cloaca
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101029104603.htm
https://analyticalsciencejournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pmic.200500591
Round 3 - Snottites
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3246232/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/see-the-ugly-beauty-that-lives-in-a-toxic-cave
Round 4 - Mating plug
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1005596707591
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1564092/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/mrd.22689
[Trivia Tiebreaker]
Hagfish slime on road
[Ask the Science Couch]
Slime molds and biocomputers
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/physarum-polycephalum
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55749-9
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5755296/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12668-014-0156-3
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23713-slime-mould-could-make-memristors-for-biocomputers/
https://techhq.com/2023/04/biocomputers-an-alternative-to-quantum-computing/
[Butt One More Thing]
Bird nestling fecal sac / mucus membrane
https://www.audubon.org/news/what-are-fecal-sacs-bird-diapers-basically
Trick or Treat Month returns... and this time it's personal! Join us for another month of spooky themes and special surprise guest apparitions! Try not to get too scared!
Our yearly cavalcade of terror rolls on with a new Grand Marshall of Terror: podcaster, author, and mad genius Dan Schreiber! And he's here to tell us about the weirdest, creepiest, most otherworldly theories ever devised of! There are lots of science-y ideas out there, and not all of them can be right, after all!
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[Trivia Question]
The Classification of Quasithin Groups page number
https://www.livescience.com/33628-funny-physics-theorems-names.html
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Classification_of_Quasithin_Groups.html?id=KC0ZAQAAIAAJ
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20893-prize-awarded-for-largest-mathematical-proof/
[Fact Off]
Infinite monkey theorem test in a zoo
https://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2013/12/10/249726951/the-infinite-monkey-theorem-comes-to-life
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3013959.stm
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2003/may/09/science.arts
Nostradamus: predictions & jam & benzoic acid
[Ask the Science Couch]
Theory of mind & false belief tests
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3629913/
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-18540-002
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-1698-3_91
[Butt One More Thing]
Freudian developmental theory & the anal stage
Trick or Treat Month returns... and this time it's personal! Join us for another month of spooky themes and special surprise guest apparitions! Try not to get too scared!
This year's ghastly Grand Guignol of science and screams begins at the end: the tomb! And we dug up an old friend, Dimension 20's Siobhan Thompson, to guide us deep into the cursed catacombs of knowledge!
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A big part of being a human is that you get progressively more gross as the day goes on. Various parts start stinking, hair grows all over your face, you're touching who-knows-what... luckily for all of us, someone a long time ago decided to invent hygiene! Otherwise we'd have to lick ourselves like cats!
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[Definition]
History of hygiene https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2542893/ [Trivia Question] Pelagic thresher sharks visit blue-streaked cleaner wrasse stations https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0014755 https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/sharks-rays-and-climate-change-impacts-habitat-prey-distribution-and-health
[Fact Off]
Bronze Age ivory lice comb with Canaanite language
https://jjar.huji.ac.il/sites/default/files/jjar/files/jjar2_art4_lachish_p76-119_2022-10-12_01.pdf https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/4000-year-old-head-lice-comb-found-inscribed-with-phrase-using-the-alphabet https://www.sciencenews.org/article/canaanite-comb-lice-israel-alphabet
Tampon Task Force & menstrual hygiene https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5436965/ https://catalystjournal.org/index.php/catalyst/article/view/28788/_9 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYXUQDzSg4o&feature=youtu.be https://srh.bmj.com/content/early/2023/07/03/bmjsrh-2023-201895 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/997629
[Ask the Science Couch]
Antiperspirant aluminum compounds - how they work & are they harmful
https://cen.acs.org/articles/90/i27/Deodorants-Antiperspirants.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3813027/ https://www.webmd.com/breast-cancer/features/antiperspirant-facts-safety https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-advertisers-convinced-americans-they-smelled-bad-12552404/
[Butt One More Thing]
Mandrills teach their children hygienic behaviors to avoid peri-anal parasites
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.2349 https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/979546
Sam's out this week, but worry not: he found another Sam to replace him! Sam Jones, host of the podcast Tiny Matters that is! Sam and her co-host, our own Deboki Chakravarti, join Ceri and Hank in our first ever team-based episode of Tangents! Two teams enter, one team leaves!
What more Tiny Matters? Check out the podcast here: https://www.acs.org/pressroom/tiny-matters.html!
And check out Deboki at https://twitter.com/okidoki_boki , and Sam at https://twitter.com/samjscience
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[Truth or Fail Express]
Project Gasbuggy
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,899941,00.html
Operation Big Itch
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13623699908409460
https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/biological/bigitch.pdf
Operation North Pole (Project Cirrus)
https://www.ge.com/news/reports/cool-science-vonnegut-ge-research
Brilliant Pebbles
https://www.llnl.gov/archives/1980s/brilliant-pebbles
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/clementine/in-depth/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Smallest organisms: ultramicrobacteria and Candidate Phyla Radiation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9297842/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0026261712040054
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC243725/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsme2/16/2/16_2_67/_article
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7372
https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/02/27/ultra-small-bacteria/
[Butt One More Thing]
Big-bottomed ants (Atta laevigata / hormiga culona)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/big-bottomed-ants-hormigas-culonas
https://books.google.com/books?id=NebIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT187&lpg=PT187
https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/ark-of-taste-slow-food/da-tradurreformica-culona/
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The universe is dusty AF, frankly. It's on your body, in every nook in cranny of your house, some planets are just made entirely of dust pretty much, and space is full of it! It's everywhere, so I guess we might as well learn something about it...
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[Trivia Question]
Apollo 11 moon dust sample at auction
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/apollo-11-lunar-dust-auction
[Fact Off]
Spiderwebs collecting microplastic dust as sensors
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969722021015
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-microplastics-spider-webs.html
Martian concrete made from dust, blood, and urea (also potato starch and salt)
https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/76/3/62/2868070/Building-on-Mars-with-human-blood-and
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590006421000442
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018EGUGA..20.4453Z/abstract
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/982978
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/eng-2022-0390/html
[Ask the Science Couch]
House dust mite allergens
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11845577/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7464922/
https://www.jacionline.org/article/0021-8707(67)90045-7/fulltext
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12016-018-8693-0
[Butt One More Thing]
Fecal dust air pollutant from cow and horse manure
https://fee.org/articles/the-great-horse-manure-crisis-of-1894/
From trustworthy to calming, sad to steadfast, and, of course, jeans - the color blue means a lot of things to a lot of people. Join Team Tangents as we delve into this deceptively complicated primary color!
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Sources:
[Trivia Question]
YInMn blue unnamed element
https://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/chemistry-news-events/yinmn-blue
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/style/blue-pigment-YInMn.html
https://colourlex.com/project/yinmn-blue/
[Fact Off]
Blue dye blocking ATP for spinal cord injuries
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/blue-dye-may-hold-promise-in-treating-spinal-cord-injury
https://www.wired.com/2009/07/bluerats/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/brilliant-blue-spine
https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-07/good-news-animal-lovers-and-folks-spinal-injuries/
Vivianite blue found on bones, shells, and other remains
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vivianite-blue-human-remains
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9871987/
https://www.kristineballard.com/vivianite-blue/
https://www.uaf.edu/museum/press/spotlight/blue-babe/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X21001309
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199809)107:1%3C1::AID-AJPA1%3E3.0.CO;2-R
[Ask the Science Couch]
Color psychology: blue and marketing/logos
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebook
https://www.joehallock.com/?page_id=1281
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11747-010-0245-y
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3151897
https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/SJME-03-2018-005/full/html
[Butt One More Thing]
Evidence of blue cheese in Austrian paleofeces
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/930931
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01271-9
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It's easy to write off bacteria as no good, nasty, disease causing creeps, but consider this: without bacteria, we wouldn't have yogurt, or delicious sourdough bread, or a gut microbiome to digest those things! There are probably other good examples of ways bacteria are helpful to us, but I'm too hungry to think of them...
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From eggs to tacos to Ninja Turtles, some of the best things in life come in shells. So cozy on up inside the nearest conch as we regale you with tales of shells from all across the scientific spectrum!
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[Trivia Question]
Golden ratio nautilus shells
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00004-018-0419-3
[Fact Off]
Batteries made from crab shells
https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(22)00414-3
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220901135827.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/cycle-life
Microplastics and hermit crab shells
https://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/hermit-crab-behaviour-affected-by-microplastics/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0030
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32343937/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Mollusk shell development & secretion into spiral shapes
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-seashells-take-shape/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-are-seashells-created/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10126-005-6029-6
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0810311106
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-a-snails-shell-gets-its-twist
[Butt One More Thing]
Wood-boring bivalve that creates fecal chimneys
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12526-022-01306-z
https://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/down-and-dirty-most-unusual-bivalve
This week we're talking about our old friend, Mr. Distance-Over-Time himself: Speed! From the speediest hedgehog to the slowiest slug, we all have speed, and we can all come together and listen to this podcast to learn more about how and why that is.
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[Trivia Question]
Walter Arnold first ever speeding ticket
https://automotivehistory.org/january-28-1896-the-first-speeding-ticket-2/
https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Walter-Arnold-Worlds-First-Speeding-Ticket/
[Fact Off]
The Oh-My-God particle (high-energy cosmic ray)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-particle-that-broke-a-cosmic-speed-limit-20150514/
https://www.science.org/content/article/oh-my-god-its-real-particle
https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9410067
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/858169
Needlefish jump-hunting of underwater prey
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71727/first-fish-needlefish-attack-prey-air
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2019-01-03/why-do-fish-jump-and-how/10519986
[Ask the Science Couch]
Fastest human body speeds & extreme g-forces (aviation, land speed, etc.)
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/glenn/shuttlestation/station/microgex.html
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/science/hyper.html
https://books.google.nl/books?id=9-FXAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA71&dq=horse+riding+uterus+prolapse+train
https://airandspace.si.edu/stories/editorial/man-behind-high-speed-safety-standards
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/star-wars-science-light-speed/
[Butt One More Thing]
Skipper caterpillar flinging frass pellets with anal plates
Whether you're tracking the orbit of satellites, looking at your phone, or picking out a dozen fresh-baked donuts, the chances are pretty good that right this second, YOU are using numbers! Hate to break it to you, bud, but math is actually pretty important after all!
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From the planet Earth to the humble pizza pie, some of the most important things in the whole universe have crusts! Including, most likely, the ears that are listening to this! Twitch streamer and friend of the show Ashley Roboto stops by to pick at the crusty scabs of knowledge with us!
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"Oh, glass, big deal" you might be saying. Well guess what: if you're reading this, you're looking through glass right now to read about this episode about glass. You might even be touching glass to make this glass episode play! It's glass's world, you're just living in it!
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Color: it's not just for art anymore. From red dwarfs to green algae to... uh... brown squirrels, science is chock full of color, too!
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Sources:
[Trivia Question]
Longest-lasting rainbow
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/9-hour-rainbow-sets-new-guinness-record-180968527/
[Fact Off]
Crustacean larvae camouflaged glass eyes
https://slate.com/technology/2023/02/shrimp-larvae-eye-glitter-nanotechnology.html
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/glassy-eyes-young-crustaceans-predators
Brainbows (fluorescent cell visualization using lots of colors)
https://blog.addgene.org/evolution-of-brainbow-using-cre-lox-for-multicolor-labeling-of-neurons
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-19-1352-5_6
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/698637
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/619298
[Ask the Science Couch]
Color psychology and emotional responses
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00368/full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2831986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4880552/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1612362/pdf/brmedj02002-0030.pdf
https://www.nature.com/articles/435293a
[Butt One More Thing]
Caca-dauphin, the fashionable baby poop color
Spring is upon us, which means a whoooole bunch of junk is going to start growing, such as flowers, grass, and little baby animals. So this week, Tangents is hacking into that growth mindset being displayed by mother nature to talk all about the science of stuff getting bigger!
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Sources:
[Trivia Question]
Nishinoshima meters of growth spurt in 2020
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146935/nishinoshima-belches-ash-and-lava
[Fact Off]
Jackalope myth from Shope papilloma virus
https://gizmodo.com/rabbits-with-horns-meet-the-human-papillomavirus-5795996
http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Skin_diseases/Viral_diseases/Pap/Papilloma.htm
Electroculture: lightning strikes helping shiitake mushrooms grow
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ab7627
https://phys.org/news/2010-04-lightning-mushrooms.html
https://physicsworld.com/a/artificial-lightning-strikes-encourage-growth-of-shiitake-mushrooms/
https://www.ishs.org/ishs-article/29_34
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2255657
[Ask the Science Couch]
Measures of growth in kids (bone age or bone plate closure, sugar preference)
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2021.580314/full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4397276/
https://training.seer.cancer.gov/anatomy/skeletal/growth.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/09/26/140753048/kids-sugar-cravings-might-be-biological
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2764307/pdf/nihms100732.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Bat guano pile growth over 4,300 years
https://news.agu.org/press-release/poop-core-records-4300-years-of-bat-diet-and-environment/
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JG006026
If you are on the planet Earth right now, there's probably a pretty good chance you're near an ant right now. So spare a thought for those hard working little fellows and unplug your headphones so they can hear this episode about ants (featuring special guest Maddie Sofia) and learn more about themselves!
Want more Maddie Sofia in your life? Check them out on Twitter @maddie_sofia, watch the episode of PBS's Deep Look that inspired their poem, or go to Maddie's website to find countless more projects!
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[Trivia Question]
First commercial formicarium
https://www.dartmouth.edu/library/Library_Bulletin/Apr1993/LB-A93-Cramer.html?mswitch-redir=classic
https://www.usinflationcalculator.com/
[Fact Off]
Ants stealing food from a pitcher plant
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2011.01937.x
Marauder ants and major worker piggyback rides
https://content.ucpress.edu/chapters/10359.ch01.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4155725/
https://sib.illinois.edu/suarez/local/suarez/uploads/2020/01/Wills_etal_2018_ARE.pdf
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_75-1
https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/10.1146/annurev-ento-020117-043357
[Ask the Science Couch]
Ant size/strength
https://www.wired.com/video/watch/why-humans-cant-lift-as-much-as-ants
https://askdruniverse.wsu.edu/2017/07/20/how_ants_are_strong/
[Butt One More Thing]
Parasitic beetle disguised as ant butt
https://bmczool.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40850-016-0010-x
Original Airdate: January 26, 2021
SciShow Tangents will be back next week with a new season and very special guest! Until then, please enjoy this beloved classic episode about Weather! Because it's spring and the weather is changing, you see!
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Every millisecond of every day, you, everyone you know, every rock on the ground, every star in the sky... they're all aging. And podcasts are no exception. In fact, Tangents is hitting a milestone in its aging as we bring season 4 to a close with this episode! You can't hear the dull roar of time lurching ever onward if you're listening to a funny show, so come listen!
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[Trivia Question]
Epigenetic clock of dog years vs. human years
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/theres-new-better-formula-calculating-dog-years-180973575/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32619550/
[Fact Off]
Brown-Séquard and using testicle injections to reverse aging
https://archive.org/details/Brown-sequardC.-e.TheEffectProducedOnManBySubcutaneousInjectionsOfA
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/140/5/1525/3760152
https://www.jci.org/articles/view/57089
Sperm aging/senescence in toads and other vertebrates
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050820
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/683429
https://support.webb.uu.se/digitalAssets/52/a_52297-f_BeckyTREE.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21332857/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Causing/reversing aging in mice through epigenetics (ICE - inducible changes to epigenome)
https://hms.harvard.edu/news/loss-epigenetic-information-can-drive-aging-restoration-can-reverse
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)01570-7
https://newatlas.com/biology/epigenetic-reboot-reverse-aging-extend-lifespan
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.01.04.522507v1
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2975-4
[Butt One More Thing]
C. elegans rapid senescence (kind of lactation)
Learning is a little like farming, in a way. You sow your brain field with facts seeds, nurture those seeds into thoughts and ideas and voila: you're smart! So slap on your headphones and jump on that tractor: We've got a bumper crop of knowledge to harvest!
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[Trivia Question]
Circulation of 1938 Old Farmer?s Almanac
https://www.almanac.com/history-old-farmers-almanac
[Fact Off]
Bradford watermelon seeds that people would die for
https://bradfordwatermelons.com/2014/08/our-story-the-long-version/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71931/super-sweet-watermelon-has-deadly-history
https://www.treehugger.com/bradford-watermelons-were-juicy-delicious-people-literally-die-4862619
Hearing loss in farmed salmon because of weird otolith formation
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/farmed-salmon-are-deaf-and-now-we-know-why
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep25249
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2021.709850/full
[Ask the Science Couch]
Animal agriculture (ants, termites, pocket gophers)
https://asm.org/Articles/2017/September/the-leaf-cutter-ant-s-50-million-years-of-farming
https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/25/12024324/termite-farming-25-million-years-ago-before-humans
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156847
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/957505
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00915-0
Video of pocket gopher pulling plant: https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/940458
[Butt One More Thing]
Pig sty latrines
https://www.artic.edu/articles/629/pigsty-and-latrines
https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/N5dN_A29v58C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=fertilizer
In all of science, there are very few things conceptually cooler than lasers. A beam of light you can use to blast aliens? Heck yeah! But are lasers actually as cool in reality as they are in science fiction? Probably not! But I guess you'll have to listen to find out for sure.
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[Truth or Fail]
Gold-plated bacteria
Contact lenses that shoot lasers
Lead into gold with lasers
[Trivia Question]
Universal Product Code first scanned in grocery store
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-bar-code-180956704/
[Fact Off]
Laser cooking of printed chicken
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jct3f92rIOE
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-d-printed-chicken-dinner-cooked-by-lasers/
Laser lightning rod for deflection/protection
https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2023/devier-la-foudre-grace-au-paratonnerre-laser
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01139-z
https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/lightning/faq/
http://www.usfcam.usf.edu/cam/exhibitions/1998_12_mccollum/supplemental_didactics/21.uman2.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Long-distance lasers and masers
https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/lasers/hazards
https://spie.org/news/12-09-laser-ranging?SSO=1
http://ccom.unh.edu/theme/lidar
https://www.icrar.org/megamaser/
https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02523
[Butt One More Thing]
Low-level laser therapy for butt (or any) tendons
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8886125/
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22960-gluteal-tendinopathy
http://www.utahorthopediccenters.com/hip/gluteus-medius-tendinopathy-or-dead-butt-syndrome/
The bodily function so universal, there's a kids book all about how everybody does it! But... is that kids book a lie?! Find out the answer to that and way more in this very overdue episode of Tangents!
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[Trivia Question]
Penguin poop distance traveled
https://iposeogsekk.com/penguano.pdf
https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2005
[Fact Off]
AI listening to sounds of poop/diarrhea/fart
https://www.inverse.com/innovation/fart-monitoring-ai
Dagger made of frozen poop debunked (or, at the very least, not effective in lab conditions)
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X19305371
https://nautil.us/the-problem-with-the-frozen-poop-knife-study-237572/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Period poops (progesterone/estrogen & prostaglandins)
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24411-prostaglandins
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3297513/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3823955
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-do-you-poop-more-on-your-period/
In honor of Valentine's Day, that most cherished day of beauty and love, the Tangents crew gets real down and dirty by telling you more than you could ever want to know about sex harpoons, cannibalism, living sperm, and some other utterly un-romantic methods of copulation employed by the animal kingdom!
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You need to clean a smudge of your glasses? Use some spit! Gotta make some food moist so you can swallow it? Why not try spit? Lips too dry to whistle a tune? My friend, spit is the bodily excretion for you! Spit: don't leave home without it!
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[Trivia Question]
Minor salivary glands
[Fact Off]
Bowerbird making ?paint? out of saliva
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996615/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2005.0908-8857.03549.x
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347213001097?via%3Dihub
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2005.0325
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/satin-bowerbird/
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/satin-bowerbird/
Spitting cobras evolved to defend against hominids throwing rocks
https://www.newsweek.com/how-it-feels-acobra-spits-face-revealed-excruciating-detail-1749490
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/01/study-did-cobras-first-spit-venom-scare-pre-humans
[Ask the Science Couch]
Compressing salivary glands aka ?gleeking?
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542272/
https://www.health.com/mind-body/what-is-gleeking
http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/pregastric/salivary.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Dung-spitting competitions
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dung-spitting-contest-northern-ireland_n_55ae6aebe4b0a9b9485290c1
Original Airdate: February 19, 2019
It seems like everyone's using Artificial Intelligence these days, so we thought we'd dip back into our archives for a little refresher on just what the heck AI even is. Plus, meet the character find of 2023: President Smartest Dog in the World!
You can bounce it, you can stretch it, heck... some people even chew it! That's right, it's rubber! And at long last, the Tangents team is finally talking about it! You all really wanted an episode about rubber, right? Well, we made it anyway, so you have to listen.
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[Definition]
Mesoamerican rubber recipe
https://news.mit.edu/2010/mayaball-0524
[Trivia Question]
Koosh ball filaments
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/73583/12-kooky-facts-about-koosh-balls
[Fact Off]
Mimicking birdsong with a rubber tube
https://softmath.seas.harvard.edu/publication/controllable-biomimetic-birdsong/
https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2011/01/simple-rubber-devices-mimic-complex-bird-songs
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-12093906
Mayan dental care & harvesting chicle as gum
https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1870-249X2018000100007
https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=fieldandlab
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0008621500827755
https://bda.org/museum/collections/teeth-and-dentures/mayan-tooth
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X22000980#b0200
From a bunny?s seemingly-useless fluffy li?l puffball to a scorpion?s practical and deadly venom-filled stinger, the world is filled with all sorts of wonderful tails! And heck, some of them aren?t even tails at all, but that?s ok!
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[Trivia Question]
Seahorse square tail segments
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/why_the_seahorses_tail_is_square_and_how_it_could_be_an_inspiration
[Fact Off]
Swallowtail butterfly tails protect from attacking damage
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/butterfly-wing-tail-loss-break-birds-escape
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-evidence-butterflies-tails-distract-predators.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.0562
Bird-of-paradise light-absorbing tail feathers
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02088-w
[Ask the Science Couch]
Evolutionary tail loss in some primates (apes)
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.14.460388v1
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263034/
https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/why-don-t-humans-have-tails
[Butt One More Thing]
Ant head mimicry on wasp tail/metasoma
https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4013.2.9
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-segments-scorpion-metasoma.html
From precious oxygen to the lowly fart, every day we?re all wallowing around in an invisible soup of gas! Exciting, isn?t it? Tune in to go into an exciting adventure into the world of gas with Sam, Ceri, and Dr. Tubeboy!
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[Trivia Question]
Horace Wells and Nitrous Oxide/Laughing Gas
[Fact Off]
History of the storage/transportation of gas (cylinders, gas holders, bamboo)
https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/natural_gas_basics.html
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/0471238961.0701190519160509.a01
https://www.apga.org/apgamainsite/aboutus/facts/history-of-natural-gas
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24969284
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_2603
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/349362
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/professional_theses/147/
https://www.nortegas.es/en/our-business/distribution-of-natural-gas/history-of-natural-gas/
Canaries to detect carbon monoxide in mines & resuscitating them with oxygen
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/story-real-canary-coal-mine-180961570/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Fart/flatus noises from anal sphincter
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8601379/
https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19545944/fart-noises/
https://flatology.com/consider-the-sphincter/
https://urogynecology.nm.org/anal-incontinence.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Snake cloacal popping
It's the time of year for old acquaintances to be forgot, but SciShow Tangents has never been one to bow to convention! So this week, we're remembering all our dang acquaintances and way more as we dive deep on the concept of Memory!
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[Truth or Fail]
Imprinting in general
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2021.736999/full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4726915/
Pekin duckling different eye, different memories
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347216302597?via%3Dihub
https://phys.org/news/2016-11-ducklings-memory-banks-visual.html
California condor puppet funerals
https://www.nature.com/news/2007/070806/full/news070806-3.html#B1
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/zoo.20151
Siberian cranes imprint for migration
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1377&context=nacwgproc
https://savingcranes.org/learn/species-field-guide/siberian-crane/
https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2006/apr/01/guardianobituaries.mainsection
[Trivia Question]
Chaser (Border Collie) remembering unique object names
https://webs.wofford.edu/reidak/Pubs/Pilley%20and%20Reid%202011.pdf
https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/2019/07/26/world-famous-dog-chaser-dies-at-15/4597342007/
[Fact Off]
Taking Photos Makes Memory Worse
https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3079/taking-photos-can-impair-your-memory-of-events
[Ask the Science Couch]
Remembering commercial jingles rather than ?important? names and dates
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxge0001050
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/269004
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0086170
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735611406578
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0305735611418553
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-35459-001
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.896285/full
[Butt One More Thing]
Poop amnesia or vasovagal syncope
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6067056/
https://www.iflscience.com/woman-loses-10-years-of-memories-due-to-bad-case-of-constipation-52589
There are no two ways about it: winter is a great time to sleep. In fact, the Tangents crew all decided to sleep this entire week, which is what this episode is a rerun! See you next week/year!
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Jack frost ain't just nipping at our noses where we live, he's basically biting them off! Ouch! So we thought we'd learn a little about what "cold" even is, and you may not be too surprised to hear that the answer is way, way more complicated than you'd think. Bundle up and take a listen!
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[Trivia Question]
Coldest temperature - Bremen drop tower height
https://www.livescience.com/coldest-temperature-ever
[Fact Off]
Freeze dried potato made by the Altiplano
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJrOJg2a-_Y
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/chunos-potatoes-feet
Caloric reflex/vestibular test
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003429.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/caloric-vestibular-test
sniff sniff... What is that awful smell? Ah, it's our stinky, old games! I mean, just look at Truth or Fail! It's all covered in mold! Good thing Deboki's here this week to try out some fresh, exciting new games with us!
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It's said that the dose makes the poison, but that doesn't change the fact that some poison is just more poison-y than others. This week, we get a lethal dose of venomous knowledge!
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Sources:
[Definition]
Toxin vs. poison vs. venom
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12062
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/whats-in-a-name-venoms-vs-poisons-toxinology-101
[Dead or Not Dead]
[Trivia Question]
Belgian musicians getting sick from botulism
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5133258/#b01
https://www.jstor.org/stable/30099331
[Fact Off]
Ants disinfect using their butt poison
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31147-3
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/736123
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982212013784
https://www2.palomar.edu/users/warmstrong/Antintro.htm
https://elifesciences.org/articles/60287
Bacteriophage that stole spider venom protein
https://www.livescience.com/56443-black-widow-spider-dna-found-inside-virus.html
https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/10/11/virus-carrying-dna-of-black-widow-spider-toxin-discovered/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2108671-virus-steals-black-widow-poison-gene-to-help-it-attack/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Effects of ingesting venom
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6266834/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273230014003419?via%3Dihub
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7985199/
https://www.jem-journal.com/article/S0736-4679(15)01377-3/fulltext
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3349795/
[Butt One More Thing]
Goats can deactivate poisonous plant compounds
https://calag.ucanr.edu/Archive/?article=ca.v046n03p4
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031938409002510?via%3Dihub
In a universe of chaos, one scrappy form of highly-ordered solid matter dares to be different: crystals! And crystal expert Tyler Thrasher is here to tell us all we need to know about them!
Want more Tyler Thrasher (and who wouldn't?!)? Check out https://tylerthrasher.com to learn more about his myriad of other projects!
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It's just about Thanksgiving here in the US; a special time during which we count our blessings. And this year, Tangents is giving you an extra thing to be thankful for: Stefan's our special guest!
Our long lost co-host returns to talk to us about wings: birds love to use 'em, people love to eat 'em, and planes need them too, I guess. Sit around the table with us, won't you, as we pass out some heaping helpings of science knowledge. Pass the gravy!
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[Trivia Question]
Number of bird wings in the Burke Museum
https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/ornithology
https://www.audubon.org/news/behind-scenes-worlds-largest-bird-wing-collection
[Fact Off]
Club-winged manakins use wing feathers to chirp/sing
Video & audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSHjhCN6NC0
Audio-only clips: https://ebird.org/species/clwman1
Picture of feathers: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PipraWing.jpg
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/singing-with-his-wings-the-club-winged-manakins-display/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440988/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Planes flying upside down
https://www1.grc.nasa.gov/beginners-guide-to-aeronautics/what-is-lift/
https://www.popsci.com/flying-upside-down-physics/
https://www.flyingmag.com/why-can-airplanes-fly-upside-down/
https://howthingsfly.si.edu/ask-an-explainer/how-do-planes-fly-upside-down
[Butt One More Thing]
Airplane and wing butt lines
http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/q0289.shtml
https://www.aircraftsystemstech.com/p/location-numbering-systems-even-on.html
Before you listen, just take a moment to think about how sight works: Light comes out of the sun, bounces off of a tree (or whatever), goes inside of your head, and hits some nerves which send signals to your brain which turns that into an image of a tree (or whatever)... I wouldn't believe it if I weren't looking at this screen and typing these words right now!
Also, what better medium to talk about seeing stuff than a podcast!
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[Trivia Question]
Colossal squid eye size
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/largest-eye-world-giant-squid
[Fact Off]
Climbing vine can mimic plastic plant leaves
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02229-8
Ogre-faced spider eye membrane regeneration
https://www.jstor.org/stable/77314
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/how-spiders-see-the-world/
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/Creatures/MISC/SPIDERS/ogre_faced_spider_Deinopis_spinosa.htm
https://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=116061
[Ask the Science Couch]
Human visible spectrum & eye evolution
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5093619/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141218210100.htm
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1004884
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2005-6-3-213
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.2995
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2002/may/30/medicalscience.research
[Butt One More Thing]
Tadpole butt eye transplant
This week, we investigate one of the more complicated, fraught, mysterious, and downright unpleasant ways we and lots of other living things navigate the world: pain.
From headaches to scorpion stings, there's lots of ways to get hurt, but is anything as painful as Hank's Liam Neeson impression? Let's find out!
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[Trivia Question]
Walking on LEGOs
https://science.discoveryplace.org/blog/ever-wonder-why-it-hurts-when-you-step-on-a-lego-brick
https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/469467-farthest-distance-walking-on-lego-bricks
[Fact Off]
Bees making motivational trade-off based on pain & sugar
https://www.science.org/content/article/bees-may-feel-pain
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2205821119
Grasshopper mice block pain from scorpion venom
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1236451
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3404
https://brill.com/view/journals/beh/99/3-4/article-p275_5.xml?language=en
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347205004318
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izizsAodOCk
[Ask the Science Couch]
Pain modulation & inhibition (with other pain or distraction)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL9GgdsyHtA
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0987705320301465
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-26882/v3
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7689692/
[Butt One More Thing]
?Bubble Butt Syndrome? sea turtle injury
https://cse.umn.edu/college/feature-stories/shoring-seemore-sea-turtles-shell
It's the day after Halloween, which means you might have a surplus of candy in your house. But before you start digging in to those sugary treat, spare a thought for your teeth, won't you? And to help you with that, today we have a classic episode all about your pearly whites!
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Tangents' annual descent into horror returns with Trick or Treat Month! And this time, we brought some fiendish friends along! Join us for a whole month of spooky themes and special guest stars!
Trick or Treat Month reaches it's horrific, blood-soaked conclusion! And who better to help us wade through the pools of gore than Dr. Sydnee and Justin McElroy, co-hosts of the medical history podcast Sawbones? No one, that's who!
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[This or That]
Round 1 - Bat tongue
https://www.livescience.com/52305-bat-tongues-move-like-human-bowels.html
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1500525
Round 2 - Ground finch beak
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-some-darwins-finches-evolved-drink-blood-180976814/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2408396?origin=crossref
https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-018-0555-8
https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-worlds-most-amiable-vampire-the-hood-mockingb-1742955703
Round 3 - Snail proboscis
https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s12864-015-1648-4.pdf
https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527497
https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/techniques/fluorescence/gallery/snailradulalarge.html
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/1541716
Round 4 - Possum tongue
https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/-/media/Faculties/Science/Docs/Features-of-the-honey-possum.pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00360-011-0632-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s003600050257
https://www.bushheritage.org.au/species/honey-possum
Round 5 - Egg Substitute
https://nordicfoodlab.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/2013-9-blood-and-egg/#_ftn4
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/albumin
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/egg-albumen
[Ask the Science Couch]
Blood donation, IVs, & venepuncture
https://www.fi.edu/heart/blood-vessels
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK138671/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/median-cubital-vein
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.res.22.6.737
https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/tests/arterial-stick
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK138661/
[Butt One More Thing]
Snakes and cloacal autohemorrhaging
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-snake-id/snake/eastern-hog-nosed-snake/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/sdfe/pdf/download/eid/3-s2.0-B9780323482530001719/first-page-pdf
Tangents' annual descent into horror returns with Trick or Treat Month! And this time, we brought some fiendish friends along! Join us for a whole month of spooky themes and special guest stars!
From out of the pumpkin patch rises author, YouTuber, and podcaster Jackson Bird, here to thrill us with terrifying tales of the scariest produce of all: gourds! From pumpkins to watermelon, this versatile family of fruits nourishes and terrifies in equal measure!
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[Truth or Fail]
Squash bees and poison pollen
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7033150/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666515821000147
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33998650/
https://lopezuribelab.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/SquashBeeBooklet-WEB_VERSION_FINAL.pdf
Field mice and cool cucumbers
https://horticulture.oregonstate.edu/oregon-vegetables/cucumbers-slicing-fresh-market
https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/tn/sfsm_opguide.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC396419/pdf/plntphys00196-0020.pdf
Crickets and bottle gourd instruments
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00606086
https://www.amentsoc.org/insects/glossary/terms/stridulation/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-cricket-gourds
[Ask the Science Couch]
Gourd cross-pollination
https://extension.sdstate.edu/saving-seed-pumpkins-squash-cucumbers-melons-and-gourds
https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/cross-pollination-between-vine-crops
https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/faq/will-cucumbers-cross-pollinate-other-vine-crops
[Butt One More Thing]
Aardvark cucumbers & dung piles
https://ulovane.co.za/2017/03/16/ulovane-update-aardvark-cucumber/