SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research… while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.
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Would it really be a conversation about plagues if noted plague-hater and tuberculosis-fighter John Green wasn't a part of it? In this episode John makes his Tangents debut at last, and we dig deep into whether we could fight an old, fat beaver and win, among other things.
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[Truth or Fail Express]
Hunter-gatherer from 5000 years ago infected with plague
https://www.livescience.com/5000-year-old-man-had-plague.html
Isaac Newton plague cure
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/isaac-newton-plague
Sewer pipes in Hanoi let plague-bearing rats breed
https://feralatlas.supdigital.org/poster/colonial-sewers-led-to-more-rats
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1902
[The Scientific Definition]
Four thieves vinegar
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7485289/
https://nutritionalgeography.faculty.ucdavis.edu/clove/
https://www.si.edu/es/object/die-mondsuchtigen:nmah_994026
The Vicary method / The live chicken treatment
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1472106/
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/665487
https://libguides.umn.edu/healthmisinformation
Zenexton
https://www.jstor.org/stable/44444207
https://archive.org/details/b30341681/page/n7/mode/2up
[Ask the Science Couch]
HIV resistance through genetic mutation and selective pressure (possibly from plagues)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1377146/
https://jmg.bmj.com/content/42/3/205
https://www.nature.com/news/2005/050307/full/news050307-15.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325234239.htm
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC299980/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16880184/
Plague doctors probably didn’t look like birds (until later / after theater)
https://deathscent.com/2020/05/15/the-redolent-plague-doctor/
https://www.livescience.com/plague-doctors.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Using pastes made with human feces to treat bubonic plague
https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/04/medieval-pandemic-cures-that-were-medieval/
Is it usefulness, accidental genius, or sheer dumb luck that produces inventions? Well, after this episode, we at least know for sure what Batman's answer would be. As for the rest of it, you'll just have to listen along while we dive into one of Ceri's dream topics: Inventions!
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[This or That]
Pacemaker
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3232561/
Snow globe
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-25298507
Stethoscope
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1570491/
https://www.thoughtco.com/rene-laenecc-stethoscope-1991647
[The Scientific Definition]
Pigeon Vest
https://americanhistory.si.edu/explore/stories/pigeons-bras-go-war
Bat Bomb
https://www.airandspaceforces.com/article/1090bats/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-almost-perfect-world-war-ii-plot-to-bomb-japan-with-bats
Chicken Eyeglasses
https://gizmodo.com/thousands-of-chickens-once-wore-glasses-to-stop-them-ki-1700343874
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1989/11/27/entrepreneur-wants-a-lens-in-every/
https://extension.psu.edu/poultry-cannibalism-prevention-and-treatment
https://patents.google.com/patent/US730918
Experiment (patent in category “Boats to ascend rivers”)
https://books.google.com/books?id=K1YdAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA120#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=z0Avt3ruFx0C&pg=PA294#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.uspto.gov/blog/the-search-for-lost-x
[Ask the Science Couch]
“Ahead of their time” inventions (Undersea cables, Antikythera mechanism, electric cars)
https://www.nps.gov/caco/learn/historyculture/french-transatlantic-cable.htm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84310-w
https://www.youtube.com/@clickspring
https://guides.loc.gov/chronicling-america-early-electric-cars
Patreon bonus: Patent law and whether you can apply without a prototype
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/100
https://www.legal.uillinois.edu/services/legal_guidance/inventions_and_patents
https://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/s2109.html
https://improbable.com/2014/02/21/the-blonsky-centrifugal-birthing-device-in-dublin/
[Butt One More Thing]
John Henry Kellog’s vibratory dining chair for bowel movements
https://www.museumofquackery.com/devices/k-chair.htm
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/health-nutrition-history-quackery/enigmatic-dr-kellogg
Do you want to play a game? Well, we sure do! We're joined by Sam's dream guest Jo Firestone, a comedian, podcaster, and game author and enthusiast to celebrate the joy (and evil) of playing games, especially the games on Tangents!
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[Truth or Fail: Express]
Researchers turned quitting smoking into competitive sport
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37566442/
Scientists watch a hydrogel play pong
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1063433
Bonus: Dead salmon FMRI study
https://www.psychology.mcmaster.ca/bennett/psy710/readings/BennettDeadSalmon.pdf
Oregon Trail decision model
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1063290
[The Gauntlet]
Game Boy Pocket Sonar accessory
https://www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/game-boy-fishing-sonar/
https://gameboy.fandom.com/wiki/Game_Boy_Pocket_Sonar
Foldit players solve puzzles with what molecules
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/press-release/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/foldit-gamers-solve-riddle/
AI neural network from floppy disk to electronic game
https://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/2006-Spring/announce.burgener.html
https://openreview.net/pdf?id=FlR4Wyubayy
Jenga name in Swahili
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/jenga-tale-randomness-and-design
https://www.museumofplay.org/toys/jenga/
Candy Land disease epidemic
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/candy-land/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/history-disease-outbreaks-vaccine-timeline/polio
Jeopardy
https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/03/19/jeopardy-has-first-3-way-tie/
https://www.npr.org/2009/12/20/121664528/sing-muse-of-the-jeopardy-three-way-tie
https://j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=3578
https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/behind-scenes/breaking-down-four-rare-jeopardy-scenarios
100% win rate from high-speed robot
https://ishikawa-vision.org/fusion/Janken/index-e.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Game replayability reasons, impacts, and areas of future research
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED596614.pdf
https://www.firstpersonscholar.com/the-games-people-replay/
https://research.vu.nl/ws/files/3135888/293191.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875952121000574
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X22002652
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1155/2024/5876780
Patreon bonus: Gamification, another facet of motivation psychology
https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475760/1/gamification_CHI2016_preprint.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875952119300953
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050921023255
https://online.nursing.georgetown.edu/blog/how-to-stop-procrastinating-there-is-a-science-to-it/
[Butt One More Thing]
Original inventor of Scrabble was named Alfred Mosher Butts
Is all life predestined, or is existence blown about by the whims of entropy? If we restarted the universe with the same world generating seed a la Minecraft, would it all play out the same??? These are ginormous questions that we do not get into in this episode! Instead, we're examining slightly more manageable examples of randomness in nature, in computing, and even in ourselves.
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]
The Lost Boarding Pass Problem
https://www.varsity.co.uk/science/23162
The Secretary Problem
https://www2.math.upenn.edu/~ted/210F10/References/Secretary.pdf
The Sleeping Beauty Problem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW27QJYNXtU
[Trivia Question]
Sum of numbers on a D120 vertex where 10 faces meet
[Fact Off]
Fastest computer worm in history was the random-scanning worm called Slammer (aka the Sapphire Worm)
https://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~savage/papers/IEEESP03.pdf
https://www.science.org/content/article/fastest-worm-ever
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/1523881
Effectiveness of randomly promoting employees in a business instead of promoting by merit
[Ask the Science Couch]
Humans are (maybe) bad at intuitively understanding or predicting randomness
https://cocosci.princeton.edu/tom/papers/hard.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5215234/
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5933241/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010027717302895
https://zhaolab.psych.ubc.ca/pdfs/Zhao_2014_JEPHPP.pdf
Patreon bonus: pseudorandom number generators and randomization seeds
https://www.random.org/randomness/
https://csrc.nist.gov/glossary/term/pseudorandom_number_generator
https://www.acsac.org/2003/papers/79.pdf
https://www.fourmilab.ch/hotbits/
[Butt One More Thing]
Dung beetles that attach themselves to butts to find poop non-randomly
Hello Tangents listeners! We are off this week to rest up and enjoy the holidays, so in place of a regular episode we have a super special treat from friends of the show that we're excited to share! We're dropping an episode of a new podcast series from Chalk and Blade Productions called "Our Big Shot."
What if we could build a disease free world? Well, we almost have. We are at a point in history where we have a Big Shot to make that happen. Dr Seema Yasmin, expert in disease control, brings you the stories of disease eradication, and the pioneers who can tell us how to finish the journey. These conversations will make you smarter, entertain and surprise you, and give you hope for the future of humanity.
SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces!
Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible!
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One year passes, another is just around the bend, so let's look back on the top 6 Tangents episodes of 2024!! From intriguing topics to spooky mystery guests, this compilation truly summarizes a wild, wonderful year for Tangents. We hope you enjoy reminiscing with us, and we look forward to all that's ahead!
Original episodes:
6. Feathers - airdate March 19, 2024
5. Glue - airdate May 14, 2024
4. Cheese - airdate February 6, 2024
3. Garbage - airdate March 5, 2024
2. Roller Coasters - airdate September 17, 2024
1. Caves - airdate October 1, 2024
Sources for each episode can be found in the descriptions of the original episodes on your preferred podcasting platform.
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Is a dream really a wish your heart makes? Or is it just that your brain is an organ that never really turns off? What do your dreams even mean??? These are just some of the perplexing questions this episode posed to us and our special return guest, Trace Dominguez!
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[Definition]
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2814941/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-control-dreams/
[The Scientific Definition]
Dreambooks
https://www.obafemio.com/uploads/5/1/4/2/5142021/dream_interpretation_in_ancient_china.pdf
Incubation
https://www.britannica.com/topic/dream-sleep-experience/Dreams-as-a-source-of-divination#ref984709
Ominous-Vapor Watcher
https://www.obafemio.com/uploads/5/1/4/2/5142021/dream_interpretation_in_ancient_china.pdf
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Zhouli
[Trivia Question]
Rapid eye movement (REM) saccade speed
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B9780080450469010895
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1985.tb01551.x
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-8986.1983.tb03008.x
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9406327/
[Fact Off]
Approximating dreams with generative AI
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/heres-how-ai-could-soon-decode-your-dreams
Lucid dreaming and the effects of video games on dreams
https://academic.oup.com/nc/article/2017/1/nix009/3859602
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-00817-001
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2F1053-0797.16.2.96
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2014-00817-001
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2008-19013-002
https://www.theverge.com/2014/1/21/5330636/video-games-effect-on-dreams
[Ask the Science Couch]
Neuroscience of fever dreams
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3830719/
https://journals.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/index.php/IJoDR/article/view/28492
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6997236/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033318268718077?via%3Dihub
https://www.accjournal.org/journal/view.php?number=1528
Patreon bonus: Recurring dream content and possible psychology
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2010-23497-001
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01812/full
https://psychiatryonline.org/doi/10.1176/ajp.134.12.1335
[Butt One More Thing]
Psychoanalyst Hans Thorner documenting a patient who dreamed of butt spiders
https://bgsp.edu/app/uploads/2014/12/Blechner-M-Patients-dreams-and-the-countertransference.pdf
Now you see it, now you don't - this episode is a true trick for the senses as we uncover the hidden wonders of Camouflage! From human ingenuity (?) to animal creativity, misdirection and subterfuge abound in this episode, so keep your eyes peeled, it's not one you'll want to miss!
SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces!
Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible!
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[This, That, or the Other: Disappearing Acts]
Stripes painted on ships and planes
Painting planes pink
Yehudi lights on planes
https://www.cnrs-scrn.org/northern_mariner/vol19/tnm_19_171-192.pdf
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1634902/
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/552503/the-secret-lives-of-color-by-kassia-st-clair/
https://books.google.com/books?id=DUkl5bH6k6EC&pg=PA62#v=onepage&q&f=false
[Trivia Question]
Color combinations of Bargibant's pygmy seahorses
https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Hippocampus-bargibanti
https://oceana.org/marine-life/pygmy-seahorse/
https://owlcation.com/stem/Camouflage-in-Animals-Pygmy-Seahorses
[Fact Off]
Trashline orb-weaver spiders that build self-portraits for camouflage https://web.archive.org/web/20160829062900/http://blog.perunature.com:80/2012/12/new-species-of-decoy-spider-likely.html
https://phys.org/news/2012-12-species-spider-fake-decoys.html
https://mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/trashline-orbweavers
https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article-abstract/10/4/372/2252323
Picture examples of stabilimenta: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilimentum
Tricking mice with scent camouflage by adding too much wheat smell
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abe4164
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-023-01127-3
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/camouflaging-wheat-smell-pest-control
[Ask the Science Couch]
Color-changing biology in invertebrates like octopuses vs. vertebrates like chameleons
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5804272/
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7368
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1039/c0pp00199f
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/how-octopuses-and-squids-change-color
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2936158/
Patreon bonus: Non-visual-spectrum camouflage or other senses
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.860137
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2008.0228
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00049-004-0274-4
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2019.0183
[Butt One More Thing]
Caterpillars, spiders, and moths that camouflage themselves as bird poop
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/citrus/giantswallowtail.htm
https://nhpbs.org/natureworks/viceroy.htm
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/bird-dropping-spider/
https://boingboing.net/2019/11/14/macrocilix-maia-a-moth-that-e.html
From one to four to none at all, stomachs enjoy a stunning variety across all the creatures who have (or don't have) them. And with our stomachs all happily full of spooky month treats, we thought it was the perfect time to learn all about this weird, wobbly, wonderful organ.
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[This, That, or the Other: Stomachs ROCK]
Bird with over 1% of their total body weight of gastroliths
Aquatic animal helps control buoyancy by swallowing silt
Animal eats its exoskeleton that stores calcium in stomach
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8342792/#bib0037
https://bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle/20.500.11811/2110
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4098635
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26818557/
[Trivia Question]
Mammal species without stomachs
https://www.livescience.com/41661-why-platypus-wont-regain-stomach.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.2669
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/obl4he/vertebratediversity/monotremes.html
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A5Rzx7yeh7c
[Fact Off]
Ghost crabs use their stomach teeth (gastric mills) to growl
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2019.1161
https://www.science.org/content/article/listen-ghost-crab-frighten-away-enemies-its-stomach-rumbles
Someone ate a shrew to study what human digestion does to rodent bones
[Ask the Science Couch]
Borborygmus and the biology of stomach rumbles
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-does-your-stomach-gro/
https://www.etymonline.com/word/borborygmus
https://www.nature.com/articles/nrgastro.2012.57
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpgi.00212.2015
Patreon bonus: Stomach and brain communication for hunger/satiety (or other things)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3174087/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK555906/
https://journals.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/ajpgi.00448.2003
https://www.livescience.com/health/food-diet/does-it-really-take-20-minutes-to-realize-youre-full
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/693111
[Butt One More Thing]
Florida carpenter ants swallow their own formic acid to help protect their stomachs
There's a chill in the air and a shudder in our bones...it's Spooky Month! Come along with us on a treacherous journey full of mischief, mayhem, and many marvelously mysterious guests! Steady yourself, for who knows what frights lurk around the corner...
Alas, our frightful fiends and friends, Spooky Month has nearly run its course - but not until we go out with a bang with our final ghoulish guest, Tom Lum! Join as we dare to tread amongst the creatures who belong to the night...nocturnal animals!
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[This, That, or the Other: Boys’ Night Out]
Male animals float and call out to females
Animals in ritualistic sparring matches for several hours
https://echidnawalkabout.com.au/how-kangaroos-fight/
Patrolling perimeter and building up poop piles
https://www.britannica.com/animal/kiwi-bird
https://www.livescience.com/57813-kiwi-facts.html
[Truth or Fail Express]
Hedgehogs inflate like a balloon
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-68833432
https://www.livescience.com/59994-balloon-syndrome-hedgehog.html
Bandicoots spin to defend themselves
https://crashbandicoot.fandom.com/wiki/Spin
Tasmanian devils are soothed by music
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ducking_the_Devil
https://animals.sandiegozoo.org/animals/tasmanian-devil
Pygmy tarsiers / gremlins rotating their heads
https://www.wired.com/2015/01/absurd-creature-of-the-week-tarsier/
https://primate.wisc.edu/primate-info-net/pin-factsheets/pin-factsheet-tarsier/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Vitamin D chemistry and nocturnal animals
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK56061/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8538717/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7761812/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12899852/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2095.2009.00722.x
https://www.mdpi.com/2571-841X/3/1/1
Patreon bonus: Teenage humans sleeping habits shifted towards night
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2820578/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10.1080/07420528.2023.2265480
https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2015/10/among-teens-sleep-deprivation-an-epidemic.html
https://publications.aap.org/pediatrics/article/134/3/642/74175/School-Start-Times-for-Adolescents
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6084759/
[Butt One More Thing]
Bats with false butts (but some sort of muscle)
https://www.instagram.com/batworldsanctuary/p/DAbKf45RDjW/
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mexican_free-tailed_bat_(8006850693).jpg
There's a chill in the air and a shudder in our bones...it's Spooky Month! Come along with us on a treacherous journey full of mischief, mayhem, and many marvelously mysterious guests! Steady yourself, for who knows what frights lurk around the corner...
Our next shocking mystery friend to join us is none other than Dylan Marron! Tread the floorboards of Tangents Manor with us in pursuit of the truth behind fortune-telling and future-predicting as we examine Psychics!
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[This, That, or the Other: Crystal Ball]
Weather forecast predictions
https://www.noaa.gov/stories/6-tools-our-meteorologists-use-to-forecast-weather
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/can-you-trust-farmers-almanacs-weather-predictions/
Flu shot planning
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/prevent/vaccine-selection.htm
Short-term volcanic eruption prediction
https://volcano.si.edu/faq/index.cfm?question=eruptionforecast
https://nap.nationalacademies.org/read/24650/chapter/6
[The Scientific Definition]
Spirit trumpet
https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/view/MS-SPR-TRUMPET/1
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/spirit-trumpets-dead-speak
The Barnum effect
https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110810104425651
https://bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2044-8260.1978.tb00271.x
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1977-21271-001
Table-turning
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-52954-2_6
https://www.ria.ie/blog/table-turning-a-victorian-fad/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Neuroscience or psychology explanations for deja vu
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00415-005-0677-3
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4251874/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810012000049
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420423/
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/the-psychology-of-deja-vu.html
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/deja-vu
Patreon bonus: Brain-computer interfaces and using technology to detect thoughts
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3497935/
https://www.theverge.com/2015/5/21/8639905/brain-control-robot-arm-paralyzed-quadriplegic
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaa5417
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-023-01304-9
[Butt One More Thing]
Scatomancy pseudoscience vs. fecal tests run by gastroenterologists
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/scatomancer_n_4309974
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/patientinstructions/000704.htm
https://www.columbiadoctors.org/news/how-know-your-colon-healthy
There's a chill in the air and a shudder in our bones...it's Spooky Month! Come along with us on a treacherous journey full of mischief, mayhem, and many marvelously mysterious guests! Steady yourself, for who knows what frights lurk around the corner...
In our first Spooky Month episode we dare to venture into the cold, dark world of caves. Joining us on our search for hidden knowledge deep within the earth is the estimably terrifying Brennan Lee Mulligan!
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[This, That, or the Other: Deep Trouble]
Optymistychna Cave in Ukraine
Plura Cave in Norway
Veryovkina Cave in Georgia (the country)
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36097300
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/veryovkina-cave-deepest
https://mineralseducationcoalition.org/minerals-database/gypsum/
https://saltworkconsultants.com/downloads/31.%20Dissolution%202-%20Caves.pdf
https://bora.uib.no/bora-xmlui/handle/1956/10413?locale-attribute=en https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-97292-3_9 https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2499&context=ijs
[The Gauntlet]
Madagascar cave graveyard
Armenia wine cave
Bosnia & Herzegovina cave barely moving animal
Devil’s Hole cave in Nevada
Cheese storage caves in the U.S.
Mexico cave with giant formations
[Ask the Science Couch]
Science of cave climate in cheese/wine production
https://www.wineenthusiast.com/culture/wine/underground-wine-caves-good/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2214289419306088#
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/missouri-cheese-caves-history
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/us-stockpile-cheese-missouri-caves/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213329116300260
Patreon bonus: “Subsurface access points” or caves in non-Earth places like the Moon and Mars
https://www.usgs.gov/centers/astrogeology-science-center/news/caves-across-solar-system
https://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/what-we-do/applications/subsurface-access/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-024-02302-y.epdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Indigenous Caribbean cave art from 1200-1400s, carved from moonmilk or painted using guano compounds
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440317301413?via%3Dihub
Get ready for a stomach-turning, heart-pounding, gravity-defying thrill ride as we plummet down, up, and all around the amazing world of roller coasters! We're joined by legendary podcaster, YouTuber, and roller coaster fanatic Tom Scott who wows us with his encyclopedic knowledge of these engineering marvels. So take a deep breath, strap in, and keep all your limbs inside the ride until the episode comes to a complete stop! Oh, and have fun!
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[This, That, or the Other: All Downhill from Here]
https://www.goldreefcity.co.za/theme-park/rides-and-attractions/tower-of-terror/
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20170005323/downloads/20170005323.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7663089/
https://www.ferrariworldabudhabi.com/en/rides/formula-rossa/worlds-fastest-rollercoaster
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8pJiV44hVM
https://www.iaapa.org/news/funworld/tmnt-shellraiser
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3281645/
[Trivia Question]
Annual deaths in roller coaster accidents in the United States
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1730261
https://www.weather.gov/safety/lightning-victims
https://www.cpsc.gov/cgibin/NEISSQuery/Data/Info%20Docs/2023%20NEISS%20Coding%20Manual.pdf
https://www.uspa.org/discover/faqs/safety
[Fact Off]
Riding roller coasters can help reduce perception of breathlessness/dyspnea
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0005796706001653
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0954611106003209
Riding in the back of Big Thunder Mountain Railroad can help dislodge kidney stones
[Ask the Science Couch]
Roller coaster stomach drop feeling and the enteric nervous system
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7495222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4367209/
https://www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/news/good-question-why-does-your-stomach-drop-on-a-roller-coaster/
https://www.visitkingsisland.com/blog/2020/may/roller-coaster-terminology-101
Patreon bonus: Motion sickness and relation to age
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK539706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4906308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11135238/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6241144/
[Butt One More Thing]
Dog-fart-themed steel roller coaster in Denmark’s BonBon-Land
The knowledge of our couch of finely-honed scientific minds didn't pop out of the ground fully-formed - it had to be planted, tended, and grown lovingly over a long period of time to flower into the beautiful curiosity tree it is today. But like so much of life, it started as just a tiny, humble seed - which is super convenient for the topic of this episode!
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[Definition]
https://www.nybg.org/planttalk/what-is-a-seed/
https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2020.00027
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/female-gametophyte
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/male-gametophyte
[This or That: Seed Numbers]
25: seed weight or germination time
2000: preserved species or oldest germinated seed
385 million: individual Amazonian trees or oldest seed-producing fossilized plant
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1155/2012/687832
https://www.nps.gov/parkhistory/online_books/science/12/chap5.htm
https://www.seedvault.no/about/the-seeds/
https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1153600
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/708279
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3309767/
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1102491
https://web.archive.org/web/20130608110356/http://sura.ots.ac.cr/local/florula3/docs/Hura.pdf
https://www.britannica.com/story/can-apple-seeds-kill-you
[Trivia Question]
2024 record for smallest creature to disperse ingested seeds
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1042977
https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.10519
https://bantam.earth/common-rough-woodlouse-porcellio-scaber/
[Fact Off]
HybriBots are a cyborg way to plant seeds, made from wild oats and human-made capsules
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.202313906 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34506974/
Video of wild oat fruits: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlUparIDfzE
Human urine does not protect acorns against predation by the wood mouse
[Ask the Science Couch]
Heirloom seeds and non-recently-hybridized plant cultivars (vs. hybrids vs. genetic modifications)
https://hort.extension.wisc.edu/articles/heirloom-vegetables/
https://extension.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/dkk-mg-seed-swap-hybrid-heirloom.pdf
https://ag.umass.edu/home-lawn-garden/fact-sheets/heirloom-vegetable-varieties
https://extension.illinois.edu/node/21430
https://hles.unl.edu/translating-language-seed-packets-hybrid-heirloom-non-gmo-and-more
https://www.fda.gov/food/agricultural-biotechnology/gmo-crops-animal-food-and-beyond
Patreon bonus: How seeds germinate and seeds that grow better after being digested
https://www.mdpi.com/2311-7524/9/4/462
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2005.00973.x
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1433831904700104
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eap.1667
[Butt One More Thing]
Mysterious tomato plant on the volcanic island Surtsey came from a seed in human poop
https://www.icelandreview.com/news/dirty-secret-uncovered-doing-business-surtsey/
Here in the remote vistas of the Tangents jungle, observe a group of mighty science communicators expertly stalking their primary prey: knowledge. Ever so tantalizing to behold, knowledge lounges in the shade of a fern, oblivious to the danger sneaking up behind it, ready to strike at a moment's notice! Truly, these must be the most fearsome of all predators!
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[This, That, or the Other: Munch Squad]
Barnacle and crab-eating animal in North American oceans
Bird-eating ungulate in captivity
Small mammal that ate raptor’s meat meal instead of being eaten
https://new.aquaticmammalsjournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/29-01_Courbis.pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10344-015-0980-y
[Fact Off]
Late-stage bamboo shark embryos have electroreception within their egg case
Collaborative hunting gestures in coral reef residents (e.g. groupers or coral trout and moray eels)
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.0040431
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2781
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(14)00885-9
[Ask the Science Couch]
Bioaccumulation and biomagnification of pollutants in the food web (including humans)
https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-story/toxic-killer-whales
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969722022549
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10212926/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160412021002671
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11356-013-1722-x
Patreon bonus: Sharks have cartilaginous skeletons
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK557576/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0944200606000080?via%3Dihub
https://magazine.scienceconnected.org/2015/12/preserving-soft-skeleton-backs-without-bones/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jfb.14444
[Butt One More Thing]
Coprolites show that Smok wawelski (an archosaur from the Late Triassic) was eating bones
For those who want a megadose of Tangents shenanigans, this compilation is for you! In the many seasons of Tangents we've covered lots of interconnected topics, and now you can listen to them back-to-back like the best podcast many-feature ever. This compilation has been handcrafted from premium ingredients, sifted and whisked together with care, and baked to podcast easy listening perfection. Bon Appetite!
Original episodes:
S1 E5 - Eggs, original airdate: December 11, 2018
S2 E18 - Sugar, original airdate: March 10, 2020
S2 E26 - Salt, original airdate: May 5, 2020
S2 E38 - Milk, original airdate: August 18, 2020
S3 E44 - Yeast, original airdate: January 18, 2022
Sources for each episode can be found in the descriptions of the original episodes.
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From our episode on Sweat, here's Ceri's brilliant rendition of "Why Do We Sweat?"
This song is a parody of Rusted Root's "Send Me On My Way."
Lyrics: Ceri Riley
Music: Joseph "Tuna" Metesh
Some are itchy, some are painful, some go totally unnoticed by us every single day...bugs have such variety in the ways they chomp, some chomps aren't even from bug mouths, but from bug butts! Join us while we debate, query, and learn all we can about the wide world of bug bites.
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[This, That, or the Other: These Ouches Are No Slouches]
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/cla.12103
https://www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/10878/sting-wild
[Trivia Question]
Size of giant toe-biting water bugs found in Cyprus
https://travaux.pensoft.net/article/94457/
https://blog.abchomeandcommercial.com/do-water-bugs-bite/
https://cyprus-mail.com/2024/03/20/massive-bug-sighted-keep-your-toes-out-of-the-water/
[Fact Off]
Epomis beetle larvae and adults eat frogs as role-reversal predators
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0025161
Bumble bees bite plant leaves to make them flower early
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aay0496
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bumblebees-bite-plants-to-force-them-to-flower-seriously/
https://wisconsinbumblebees.entomology.wisc.edu/about-bumble-bees/life-cycle-and-development/
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/67/17/4925/2197656
[Ask the Science Couch]
Causes of itchiness and how calamine lotion / zinc oxide works
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4862869/
https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/how-stop-bug-bites-itching
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9532860/
https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/immunology/articles/10.3389/fimmu.2019.02090/full
https://jsstd.org/calamine-lotion/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4120804/
Patreon bonus: Bugs with big mandibles or bite marks (even if they rarely bite humans)
https://pukaha.org.nz/the-wacky-world-of-new-zealand-weta/
https://newzealandecology.org/nzje/2995
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/stag-beetles.html
https://www.nps.gov/articles/giant-water-bug.htm
[Butt One More Thing]
Beaded lacewing (Lomamyia latipennis) larvae paralyze termites with farts before eating them
https://www.wired.com/2015/06/silent-deadly-fatal-farts-immobilize-prey/
Woo boy! It's hot out there, why don't ya grab a nice glass of ice cold lemonade and listen in on everything you did and didn't want to learn about sweat. Are humans the sweatiest of them all? Do fish sweat? What lives in the ecosystem between two people holding hands for the first time? What is it all even for!??
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Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
Sweat sucking spiders supplementing salts
Polar bears follow sweaty paw paths in search for love
A new bacteria-infecting cure for extra stinky sweaty feet
[Trivia Question]
NASA’s ECOSTRESS measures evapotranspiration aka plant sweating
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/watching-plants-water-use-is-no-sweat-for-ecostress
[Fact Off]
Charles Blagden experiments with “super-sauna” that cooked steak but made humans sweat
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/experiments-and-observations-in-a-heated-room-1774/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/106218?seq=1
https://royalsociety.org/about-us/who-we-are/history/
Antiperspirant made with propylene glycol that evaporates your sweat before it leaves the ducts
[Ask the Science Couch]
Non-water stuff in eccrine sweat (salt, urea, hormones, etc.)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6773238/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12817713/
https://www.penn.museum/sites/bulletin/1733/
https://ontarioarchaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/oa048-02_macdonald.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5941775/
Patreon bonus: Effects of stress/emotion on sweat composition and smell
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-2494.2007.00387.x
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9518869/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9246182/
[Butt One More Thing]
Treating hyperhidrosis in the perianal region with botox
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8436621/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11172190/
This summer's hottest North American bug is without question, the cicada. They've got everything: neon-colored wing veins, bendy-straw-style exoskeletons, an insatiable thirst for tree goo, and after 17 years of napping, they're bursting out of the ground ready to par-tay!
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[This or That: Cicadas or the Beatles]
https://www.science.org/content/article/secret-cicadas-chirp
https://cicadas.uconn.edu/behavior/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/698019
Algorithm to measure song changes over time
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/500262
https://www.science.org/content/article/computer-charts-evolution-beatles
Test signals in fiber optic cables
https://academic.oup.com/jinsectscience/article/23/6/3/7425398?login=false
Female flies responding to songs
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4932889/
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/cicadas-are-the-barry-white-of-the-insect-world/
Eroom’s Law principle related to drug development
https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/eroom-s-law
https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bmb.21617
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eroom%27s_law
[Trivia Question]
Bird hunting caterpillars on emergence and non-emergence years
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adi7426
https://www.vox.com/down-to-earth/24148209/cicadas-2024-periodical-brood-eat-ecosystem-impact
[Fact Off]
Brown bears digging up cicada nymphs in Japanese human-planted forests
https://eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp/dspace/handle/2115/86161
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/cjz-2020-0222
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ecy.4266
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1036064
Cicadas pee in a very mammal-like stream
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-cicadas-power-spray-their-pee/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cicada sound production using the tymbal, stridulation, or wing impacts
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4020-6359-6_4279
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118554
Patreon bonus: Periodical cicadas emerge after 13 or 17 (prime numbers) years
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2406585
https://www.livescience.com/14238-southern-cicadas-emerge-exact-prime-number-cycles.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2690011/
[Butt One More Thing]
Cicada nymph anal liquid is adhesive and mucus-like
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0044523104700686
It wouldn't be Pride at Tangents if we weren't getting into some science! We're joined by Owen Ever and Laine Kaplan-Levenson, the hosts of a new show from news outlet Canadaland called "Field Guide to Gay Animals." Our conversation ranged far and wide across a myriad of ways queerness is expressed in the animal world and the challenges and joys of studying it.
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Sources:
[Truth or Fail Express]
Sequentially hermaphroditic shrimp
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0218238
Nudibranch with male and female sex organs
https://www.livescience.com/27065-sea-slug-uses-disposable-penis.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3639767/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10164-018-0562-z?wt
Sparrows with white or tan stripes and functionally four genders
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-fascinating-and-complicated-sex-lives-white-throated-sparrows
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7725849/
[This or That: Bird or Bug?]
Male-male duo that dances together to attract a mate (blue-backed manakin)
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/51171525#page/225/mode/1up
https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/18/1/21/209396
Male-male pair that takes over a male-female pair’s nest (Japanese termites)
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/680968
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347216301233
Mating-related injuries on both male and female specimens (dragonflies)
https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16252041#page/48/mode/1up
[Ask the Science Couch]
History of sexual diversity in animals documented or not in zoology (e.g. Adelie penguins)
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/195/1/1/6568055
https://www.penguinscience.com/reprints/10%20Russell.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Aristotle’s History of Animals mentions female pigeons laying wind-eggs after same-sex sexual behavior
https://classics.mit.edu/Aristotle/history_anim.6.vi.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/found-an-egg-with-no-yolk
It's all right there on the tin - this episode is BANANAS. And not just because we have the most guests we've ever had in Tangents history. Not even just because one of them is a super special surprise RETURN friend of the pod. And not even because we check out some flowers that are way more uncomfortable to look at than you think. No, this episode is bananas because we're talking about (you guessed it) bananas!
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Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! 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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[Truth or Fail Express]
Banana peel pasta
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022023325
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220809141224.htm
Banana peel perfume adherent
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132323007679
Banana peel water filtration
https://www.livescience.com/13276-banana-peels-filter-toxic-metals.html
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ie101499e
[This or That: Yellow or Not Yellow?]
Banana fiddler crab
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-020-02899-w
Image: https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/753425
Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austruca_mjoebergi_coenobita.jpg
Banana galaxies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15232
Nokia 8110 aka the “banana phone”
https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/nokia-8110
https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/hmd-global-nokia-8110-4g
Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nokia_8110.jpg
Image of 4G: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nokia_8110_4G.png
[Ask the Science Couch]
Commercial banana cultivar genetics and Fusarium wilt or other disease risks
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article-abstract/4/1/87/588827
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0154448
https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/31/6/article-p838.xml
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01670-6
[Butt One More Thing]
Honey bee alarm pheromones contain the banana flavor isoamyl acetate
https://www.nature.com/articles/1951018b0
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.2653
It may seem like cloning really only shows up regularly in science fiction, but it turns out, it's been a sneaky, significant real-world process for a super long time! In this episode we learn about cloning found in nature, labs, and...this very podcast??
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[Truth or Fail]
Crayfish that’s been cloning itself might help us study prion diseases
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/science/mutant-crayfish-clones-europe.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/904708
Scientists envision a new insect repellant while cloning hemlock trees
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/801445
Athlete’s foot fungus rejects sex for cloning
https://today.duke.edu/2018/02/toenail-fungus-gives-sex-infect-human-hosts
https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/208/4/1657/6084243
https://gizmodo.com/the-fungi-that-cause-athletes-foot-have-given-up-on-sex-1823265768
[Trivia Question]
First cloned cat, which was named Copy Cat
https://vetmed.tamu.edu/news/press-releases/texas-am-says-goodbye-to-cc-worlds-first-cloned-cat/
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/08/813384347/remembering-cc-the-cloned-cat
[Fact Off]
Electric ant queens and males sexually reproduce but actually like two different clonal species
A 34-member “twin study” with Amazon molly fish clones
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1009151
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43069-6
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-defeating-enemy-evolution-clone-fish.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4919929/
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/twins-study/about/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cross-species cloning and back-breeding as de-extinction strategies
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK223960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC521203/
https://lsspjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2195-7819-10-3
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/species-revival-bringing-back-extinct-animals
[Butt One More Thing]
Portuguese man o’ war is a colony of zooid clones, including gastrozooids for digesting (and maybe pooping)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51842-1
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/portuguese-man-o-war.html
Humanity is bound together by so many qualities, and in this episode, we add Being Goopy to the list. What does that have to do with glue? A whole lot, it turns out - cue some ominous foreshadowing....Memento goopy!
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[Secret Ingredient]
Fibers mixed with water to make adhesive
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/1/pgac026/6549457
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/945194
Adhesive inspired by animal protein
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/945194
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.1c10936
Chinese bricks made with gluey substance
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chinese-architecture
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eem2.12143
[Trivia Question]
Year that the first adhesive stamp Penny Black was mailed
https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/how-a-single-postage-stamp-birthed-the-information-age
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-piece-of-mail-sent-using-a-stamp-auction-180983619/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-story-of-the-first-postage-stamp-14931961/
[Fact Off]
Reversible glue made with caffeic acid exposed to certain UV light wavelengths
Blood albumin glue used in plywood and pre-plastic resin objects
https://extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/FNR/FNR-154.pdf
https://foodeng.wisc.edu/images/publications/2010-9.pdf
https://plastiquarian.com/?page_id=14216
[Ask the Science Couch]
How glue adhesion/cohesion works and why glue (sometimes) doesn’t cure in the bottle
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01182#
https://www.uhu.com/en-en/glue-advice/adhesive-types
https://d-lab.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/D-Lab_Learn-It_Adhesives_Jul13.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0143749618300575
https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/CT07137
[Butt One More Thing]
Fibrin glue used to help seal anal fistulas
We do a lot of learning on Tangents, so naturally, we've got questions about what learning looks like...for machines! AI and machine learning science communicator Jordan Harrod (https://www.youtube.com/@jordanharrod) lends her expertise to this episode as we definitely for sure learn all there is to know and will ever need to be known about machine learning, algorithms, and AI. Definitely we got all of it, everyone.
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[Truth or Fail Express]
Racoon-inspired algorithm
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8552661
Dolphin-inspired algorithm
Pelican-inspired algorithm
[Trivia Question]
Using machine learning to measure plant vibration and sounds when they experience stress
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00262-3
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/plants-make-noises-when-stressed-study-finds-180981920/
[Fact Off]
Lenna (an image of a Playboy model) used as the standard for digital image processing
https://www.404media.co/lena-test-image-ieee-policy/
Tricking speech recognition systems with “neural voice camouflage”
https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/block-smartphone-microphone-speech-recognition-spying
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/16.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.07076.pdf
https://gizmodo.com/these-academics-spent-the-last-year-testing-whether-you-1826961188
[Ask the Science Couch]
AI image generator mistakes (hands, feet, teeth) and how they work (diffusion models)
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/ai-generated-art-hands-fingers-messed-up
https://hai.stanford.edu/news/what-dall-e-reveals-about-human-creativity
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/sohl-dickstein15.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Training machine learning models (convolutional neural networks) to classify poop images
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.10578.pdf
https://journals.lww.com/ajg/abstract/2022/07000/a_smartphone_application_using_artificial.24.aspx
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33275399/
Anal Recognition Paper
Devotees of the testudines rejoice! Whether you have one as a pet, admire them at the zoo, or giggle with the rest of the internet when they rock each other off logs, chances are high, we think, that you like turtles. We like turtles! And conveniently for us, turtle science is also extremely cool, so this was basically an ideal episode to make. Enjoy!
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[Truth or Fail]
Fossilized turtle poop showing green algae feast site
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/995472
https://www.science.org/content/article/sea-turtles-have-3000-year-old-routines
Crushing of fossilized turtle shells shows burial site age
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/science/turtle-shells-fossils-paleontology.html
Turtle fossil was actually a plant fossil
[Trivia Question]
Speed of a sand-digging robot modeled after a turtle hatchling
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/bot-inspired-by-baby-turtles-can-swim-under-the-sand-1
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aisy.202200404
[Fact Off]
Chinese soft-shelled turtles (basically) pee out their mouths
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121011090643.htm
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/aohc/63/2/63_2_181/_article
Microplastics in sand mess with sea turtle sex ratios
[Ask the Science Couch]
Turtle communication and vocalization
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24553
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14356-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33741-8 https://gizmodo.com/jurassic-parks-dinosaur-sound-effects-were-actually-ani-5994278
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/06/turtles-eat-south-america/
[Butt One More Thing]
Collecting loggerhead sea turtle fecal samples by making them custom swimsuits
https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/10/sea-turtles-don-swimsuits-science
Pictures:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/37175871@N06/albums/72157659326105212/
From expressing ourselves through fashion to protecting ourselves from the elements, textiles seem to be self-evidently significant to the human experience. But it's our goal on Tangents to always poke holes in the obvious, tear through distraction, and weave humor with knowledge - and the facts this episode will blow your cotton-poly blend socks off.
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[Truth or Fail Express]
Fabric shoe sole tariff
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/business/economy/columbia-sportswear-trump-trade-war.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45875405
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-is-why-your-converse-sneakers-have-felt-on-the-bottom-6016648/
Water-soluble fiber to prove original Finnish textile
https://www.perniaspopupshop.com/encyclopedia/karnataka/mysore-silk
https://www.ksicsilk.com/Home/About
https://news.mit.edu/2023/fiber-barcodes-can-make-clothing-labels-that-last-0321
Wool Acts: burial shroud requirements
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/england-wool-burial-shrouds
https://nursingclio.org/2020/05/21/weaving-wool-into-death-burial-in-17th-century-england/
https://www.hungerfordvirtualmuseum.co.uk/?view=article&id=961&catid=10
[Trivia Question]
“Cappers Act” of 1571 in England required males to wear woolen caps
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/81552
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O124661/cap/cap-unknown/?print=1
[Fact Off]
Indigenous Aymara weavers and pediatric cardiologists co-created a medical textile for congenital heart defects
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2674640
https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/video-player/16238899
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10329454/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3379209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470160/
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/cardiac-catheterization
https://www.ted.com/talks/franz_freudenthal_a_new_way_to_heal_hearts_without_surgery/transcript
Creating experimental antimicrobial underwear for astronauts or space laundry machines
https://www.livescience.com/astronauts-shared-underwear-upgrade.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-spacesuit-underwear.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/07/space_age_underwear_that_can_b.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-teams-tide-do-laundry-space-180978067/
https://apnews.com/article/laundry-wash-clothes-space-station-nasa-5a7f2795150f7dce81581cfb82cdd1f7
[Ask the Science Couch]
History of knitting machines
https://invention.si.edu/knitting-stockings-machine
http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/people/frameworkknitters.htm
Crochet vs. knit stitches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jecATRwHQP8
https://akaspar.pages.cba.mit.edu/textiles-recitation/background.html
Crocheting hyperbolic space models
https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/math-imagery/taimina
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/16/wertheim_henderson_taimina.php
https://www.theiff.org/oexhibits/oe1e.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Art project that extracted cellulose from cow manure to make a semi-synthetic fabric
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014181302300404X
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/poop-clothing_n_58e7d6f0e4b058f0a02efa77
https://jalilaessaidi.com/cowmanure/
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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?
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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!
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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...)
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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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No new episode this week! Come back next week, June 13, and every other week after that for a new episode.
To learn more about Hank's recent cancer diagnosis, check out his video here.
Thanks for you patience and we'll talk to you soon!
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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Get your extra-scary SciShow Tangents Halloween Decal here! Tell 'em Spooky Sam sent you!
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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/
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!
This week, we've called upon the spirit of Radiolab and Terrestrials ghost host Lulu Miller to get down in the muck and talk about all the wormy, wriggly, slimy, little creatures that send shivers down our spines: creepy crawlies!
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Looking for more Lulu Miller? Check out Radiolab or Terrestrials if podcasts are your thing, or Why Fish Don't Exist if you're more of a book person! There's a little something for everyone!
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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!
And to kick off Trick or Treat Month, we've summoned Simpsons writer, author and food reviewer extraordinaire Bill Oakley to talk about preserved food! How is preserved food spooky? I guess you'll just have to listen to find out!
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[Are You Gonna Eat That?]
Old Twinkie
Source:
https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/twinkie-maine-40-years/story?id=40076223
https://www.thespruceeats.com/the-twinkie-myth-1328772
Old Ham
https://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28299440
Old Fruit Cake
Old Pickle
Old WIne
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/worlds-oldest-wine-speyer-bottle
[Ask the Science Couch]
Chip bag slack fill & nitrogen gas as a preservative
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51993/why-are-potato-chip-bags-always-half-empty
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pts.2770070205
It's almost October, and SciShow Tangents is getting ready for its month-long Halloween blowout! While we make final arrangements, please enjoy this classic, sound-filled journey through Tangents Manor! Try not to get too scared!!
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Popular culture makes radiation seem pretty scary, and frequently it is. But we encounter way more radiation in our day-to-day life than you might think, from radio waves to visible light. Come explore the whole spectrum of radiation on this week's Tangents!
And we talk a LOT about The Vampire Diaries, too!
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[Trivia Question]
Cladosporium sphaerospermum fungus blockade
https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Cladosporium_sphaerospermum
https://www.nature.com/news/2007/070521/full/news070521-5.html
[Fact Off]
Atomic energy Boy Scout badge & superfund site
https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/
https://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
Louise Reiss and the Baby Tooth Survey
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/bone-seeker.html
https://dhss.delaware.gov/dph/files/strontiumfaq.pdf
https://www.prismjournal.org/uploads/1/2/5/6/125661607/v11-no1-a1.pdf
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.134.3491.1669
https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0721/ML072150423.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Determining biological effects/lethal dose of radiation
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/bio-effects-radiation.html
https://www.rerf.or.jp/en/about/
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/genetic-effects-chernobyl-radiation-exposure
https://www.radioactivity.eu.com/site/pages/Doses_Classification.htm
[Butt One More Thing]
Radioactive rabbit poop near Hanford
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/science/earth/15rabbit.html
From mighty lions to postal workers, presidents to pelicans, they all have one thing in common: they were once tiny little babies! And so, too, were all the Tangents panelists, who celebrate their humble, squishy, helpless origins this week by talking all things baby!
Witness Hank learn about the "I'm baby" meme, thrill as you find out which Pokemon Yung Gravey most exemplifies, and almost puke at our grossest butt fact yet! Is this our best episode ever? Well, according to Hank it is! And he's the CEO of a company!
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Summer is just about over, but we can all cling to those warm, tropical feelings for at least one more week as we strap on our scuba gear and take a dive into the wild world of coral reefs! Scuba!
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[Trivia Question]
Coral average sperm per bubble
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4950549/
[Fact Off]
Deep-sea coral help zooxanthellae photosynthesize
https://www.scuba.com/blog/explore-the-blue/faascinating-phenomenon-coral-fluorescence/
https://elifesciences.org/articles/73521
https://www.science.org/content/article/coral-reefs-scatter-light-forests
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-measure-glow-inside-coral-first-time
Snapping shrimp colonies with queens
https://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/25410/25410.pdf
https://phys.org/news/2018-03-tradeoffs-weaponry-fecundity-snapping-shrimp.html
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0193305
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1549235
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10937227/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Artificial reef pros and cons
https://www.doi.gov/blog/artificial-reefs-create-homes-sea-life
https://floridakeys.noaa.gov/artificialreefs/effects.html
https://daily.jstor.org/do-artificial-reefs-work/
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/for-artificial-coral-reefs-time-is-not-enough/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X2100610X
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00282/full
[Butt One More Thing]
Gastrovascular pores aka secret coral buttholes
https://hmr.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1007/BF02367177.pdf
Did you know that you can go to Patreon.com/SciShowTangents to become a Patron of the show and get cool stuff, like bonus episodes! See what you've been missing this week as we bring you an unlocked bonus episode featuring a devious game by Sam!
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Tall buildings, subways, bodegas, rats. These are just some of the things you'll find in cities. Another thing you'll find? Science! From the smelly yet impressive sewers to the smelly yet impressive pigeons, we're covering big city science this week, baby!
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Carbon gets a pretty bad rap these days, what with global climate change and, but every living thing on Earth owes their very existence to this multitalented little element! And heck, that's not even all it does! Click play to find out more.
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[Trivia Question] Gigatons of carbon in the atmosphere https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/736161 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336261451_A_Framework_for_Understanding_Whole-Earth_Carbon_Cycling/link/5d99c82da6fdccfd0e7bd8b6/download [Fact Off] Spider/silkworm silk reinforced by carbon https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1806805115 https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/spiders-graphene-silk/ https://newatlas.com/bionic-spider-silk-graphene/50908/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170915165253.htm https://phys.org/news/2016-10-silkworms-fed-carbon-nanotubes-graphene.html https://futurism.com/graphene-fed-silkworms-produce-a-super-strong-silk-that-conducts-electricity https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03597 Carbon foam made from burnt (pyrolyzed) bread https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/foam-material https://www.acsh.org/news/2016/07/08/burnt-bread-makes-an-excellent-carbon-foam https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsami.6b03985 https://www.fs.usda.gov/features/revolutionary-carbon-foam-wood https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016523701630256X http://www.cfoam.com/wp-content/uploads/Carbon-Foams-amp16111p029-3.pdf [Ask the Science Couch] Eating carbon (pure forms, organic compounds that are/aren’t toxic) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5307002/ https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002817.htm https://www.livescience.com/34190-what-happens-when-you-swallow-a-diamond.html http://www.nanomedicine.com/NMIIA/15.1.1.htm https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/natural-toxins-in-food https://med.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anatomy_and_Physiology/Book%3A_Human_Anatomy_and_Physiology_Preparatory_Course_(Liachovitzky)/03%3A_Molecular_Level-_Biomolecules_the_Organic_Compounds_Associated_With_Living_Organisms/3.01%3A_Organic_Compounds https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750019.html
When it comes to keeping all of your guts and blood inside, skin is second to none! Yet so often is it taken for granted. Today, we fix that by talking about skin for a whole 40 minutes! You're welcome, skin!
If you know a kid who loves science, have we go the show for you! It's called SciShow Kids, and it has all the great, rigorously-researched content you expect from SciShow, but for kids! Plus, it has puppets! Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/scishowkids!
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[Trivia Question]
Sebaceous gland development
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33354858/
https://www.britannica.com/science/sebaceous-gland
[Fact Off]
Thorny devil lizard skin capillary action
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170591
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/capillary-action-and-water
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00709-014-0715-z
Dolphins using corals for skincare
https://ryotanakajima.com/coral-reefs/the-role-of-coral-mucus-101
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/952463
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dolphins-rub-against-mucus-oozing-corals-to-soothe-skin/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Different regions of skin and skincare
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470464/#
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK482278/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/facial-skin
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2405915/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161018094117.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5849435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763764/
[Butt One More Thing]
Mulesing of merino sheep butts
https://www.csiro.au/en/research/animals/livestock/managing-flystrike-and-mulesing-in-sheep
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0734975016300167
10....9.... Hey gang, Kids Month is about ready to blast off into space ....8....7....6 but before it does, we have one more topic exploring the childlike wonder of science to cover ....5....4...3 Spaceships! And wouldn't you know it? There's one more seat on our rocket! Climb in! ....2...1.... Lift off!
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[Trivia Question]
Ariane 5 launches
https://www.space.com/39811-bad-coordinates-led-ariane-5-rocket-astray.html
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/launch.html
https://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html#whyAriane5
https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_history/Ariane_5_the_story_behind_the_100_launches
[Fact Off]
Cataloging junk around the Moon from Biosphere 2
https://news.arizona.edu/story/75m-effort-seeks-prevent-lunar-traffic-jams
Artificial gravity test during Gemini XI
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1966-081A
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/watch-the-first-artificial-gravity-experiment/
https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/capsule-gemini-xi/nasm_A19680260000
https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sept-14-1966-gemini-xi-artificial-gravity-experiment
[Ask the Science Couch]
Gyroscopes in spacecraft (Inertial Navigation Systems)
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2016/03/Gyroscopes_in_space
https://science.howstuffworks.com/gyroscope.htm
http://www.aerostudents.com/courses/avionics/InertialNavigationSystems.pdf
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20100021932
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/nmp/st6/TECHNOLOGY/mems.html
https://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/propulsion/2-what-is-attitude-control.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Project Mercury butt molds
https://www.wired.com/2009/08/astronautbutts/
https://www.wired.com/2010/07/nasa-archive-astronaut-butt-mold-inspection/
Kids Month floats on as we talk about possibly our lightest subject ever: bubbles! Pop in to learn what makes a simple soapy membrane so fascinating to kid and adult like!
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[Trivia Question]
Perfect bubble wand perimeter
[Fact Off]
Tadpole bubble-sucking to breathe
https://www.instagram.com/p/B9AO801nrJI/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200226130510.htm
Microscopic “rockets” propelled by a bubble and sound waves
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/634184
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax3084
http://brennen.caltech.edu/fluidbook/multiphase/Bubbleordroplettranslation/bjerknesforces.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Air bubbles in needles (unintentional or intentional)
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/air-embolism/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734897/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542192/
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/what-is-a-bubble-study
[Butt One More Thing]
Polymers in laxatives make big soap bubbles
https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.013304
Sometimes, when you're making a podcast with 3 hosts, one of those hosts is going to get sick for two weeks and totally mess up Kids Month. So this week, we humbly present a classic episode that happens to be about something kids love: candy! Grab your favorite snack and join us on this sugary journey to the past!
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Kids month continues with maybe THE most-beloved-by-children scientific topic of all time: dinosaurs! Come on a journey back in time to learn about the giant guys who used to stomp around and eat each other all over planet Earth!
And, as if that's not good enough, we're joined by Tangents editorial assistant Deboki Chakravarti! If you need more Deboki in your life, you can listen to her podcast, Tiny Matter, here: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/tiny-matters.html
If you know a kid who loves science, have we go the show for you! It's called SciShow Kids, and it has all the great, rigorously-researched content you expect from SciShow, but for kids! Plus, it has puppets! Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/scishowkids!
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[Trivia Question]
Mamenchisaurus pounds of plant life consumed per day
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/science/12dinosaurs.html
[Fact Off]
Prosthetic tails on chickens to study dinosaur gait
Possible supersonic whip-like tails in sauropods
https://daily.jstor.org/apatosaurus-tail-break-sound-barrier/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2401127?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/dinosaurs-in-motion
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2830450/
http://goriely.com/wp-content/uploads/2002-PRLwhip-1.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Dinosaurs that have changed names (apato/bronto, triceratops/torosaurus)
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brontosaurus-is-back1/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/571498
https://peerj.com/articles/857/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0081608
https://gizmodo.com/the-first-scientific-name-ever-given-to-a-dinosaur-foss-5955550
https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2018/08/31/why-do-scientific-names-change-kiokio-by-any-other-name/
This month on SciShow Tangents, we're celebrating the sense of childlike wonder present in science by discussing a bunch of stuff kids like! We're calling it Kids Month, naturally, and we're kicking it off by talking about a thing all kids (and lots of animals) love to do: play!
And if you know a kid who loves science, have we go the show for you! It's called SciShow Kids, and it has all the great, rigorously-researched content you expect from SciShow, but for kids! Plus, it has puppets! Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/scishowkids!
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We here on SciShow Tangents may have the market cornered on science podcasting, but that doesn't mean we know everything. Put us in a lab, and we're like fish in water! But put us in a library, with all those big tall shelves and the Dewey Decimal System, and we're like a fish not-in-water! So we called in our friend, podcast, theologian, and noted book-reader Vanessa Zoltan to help us learn more about books!
Learn more about Vanessa and her myriad of projects at her website, and follow her on Twitter @vanessamzoltan!
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Inspired by last week's episode about beaches, we decided to take the week off and catch some rays. Please enjoy this encore presentation of our episode on Waves, and we'll be back next week!
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Summer is here, which means it's time to visit everyone's favorite geological feature consisting of a strip of land covered in loose particles, existing exclusively alongside a body of water ! That's right, pack your trunks, cause today we're hitting the beach!
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[Trivia Question]
Goose-scaring drones
https://www.livescience.com/39146-canada-geese-drone.html
[Fact Off]
Waterproof chemicals (PFASes) in tides
https://www.inverse.com/science/sea-spray-is-toxic
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/937518
https://massivesci.com/articles/pfas-chemical-ocean-mammals-fish-dolphins-wildlife/
Salish wooly dogs
https://monova.ca/senaqwila-wyss-on-the-salish-woolly-dogs/
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-dogs-that-grew-wool-and-the-people-who-love-them
https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/a-woolly-tale
https://research.library.mun.ca/14680/1/thesis.pdf
https://www.science.org/content/article/native-american-blankets-made-dog-hair
[Ask the Science Couch]
Beached cetaceans (and orcas/catfish that intentionally strand themselves)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-do-whales-beach-themselves
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/whales-mass-stranding-australia/556400/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/774692
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/salish-sea-killer-whales-have-a-surprising-new-way-of-hunting/
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/z91-383
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-catfish-that-strands-itself-to-kill-pigeons
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050840
[Butt One More Thing]
Lugworm casts made of sand
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/lugworm-poos-and-the-secrets-they-hold.html
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/marine/worms/lugworm
Cars need it, trains need it, and guess what? People need it, too! Can you deduce the answer to my devious riddle? That's right, it's fuel! Fill up your tank, cause we're going on a trip to learn all about the things that keep other things going, from coal to tuna sandwiches and everything in between!
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[Trivia Question]
New York Times rocket fuel correction
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/95-years-ago-goddard-s-first-liquid-fueled-rocket
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/news/150th-anniversary-1851-2001-the-facts-that-got-away.html
[Fact Off]
Nuclear cars
https://www.autoweek.com/news/a1988761/are-laser-powered-cars-our-future/
Fuel cell breathalyzers
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-batteries-store-an/
https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/fuel-cells
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know-history/breathalyzer-there-was-drunkometer
https://blog.history.in.gov/tag/breathalyzer/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/breathalyzers-of-the-future-today/277249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5857179/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Chlorophyll in photovoltaic cells/solar power
https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_Report.cfm?Lab=NCER&dirEntryId=187266
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/chlorophyll/chlorophyll_h.htm
https://opentextbc.ca/biology/chapter/5-2-the-light-dependent-reactions-of-photosynthesis/
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01673-w
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/plants-versus-photovoltaics-at-capturing-sunlight/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/762519
[Butt One More Thing]
Human waste converted into biomethane fuel
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/fart-powered-vw-beetle-tested-in-uk/
When I was a kid, everything was on paper. Books were on paper, magazines were on paper, newspapers were on, you guessed it, paper. Nowadays, everything's on the internet, but you can still find paper if you know where to look!
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[Definition]
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/exhibitions/cover-to-cover/papyrus/
[Trivia Question]
Margaret E. Knight’s paper grocery bags
https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/11/03/in-the-bag/
https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/margaret-knight
https://www.invent.org/inductees/margaret-e-knight
[Fact Off]
Rag paper and mummy linen in the 1800s
https://uh.edu/engines/epi1227.htm
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=3874
https://bookpatrol.net/has-this-library-solved-the-mystery-of-the-mummy-paper/
Cellulose nanocrystal films from waste paper
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4639556/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13369-022-06609-8
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266689392100075X
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.625878/full#
Image of biodegrading film: https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/625878/fpls-12-625878-HTML/image_m/fpls-12-625878-g006.jpg
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/glitter
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-021-01135-8
[Ask the Science Couch]
Smell of new books and paper
https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/06/01/newoldbooksmell/
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/whats-that-smell-youre-reading
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/that-old-book-smell-is-a-mix-of-grass-and-vanilla-710038/
https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/PHS/PHS.aspx?phsid=669&toxid=124#
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1309104220302051
https://www.ucop.edu/risk-services/_files/bsas/safetymeetings/ozonefrprinters.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Gayetty’s medicated toilet paper
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.13400600
https://www.findagrave.com/photos/2013/61/106087826_136230829409.jpg
https://books.google.com/books?id=yXY0yQnvmmUC&pg=PA679#v=onepage&q&f=false
When, in nature, two little guys are benefiting off each other one way or another, we call that symbiosis. But, if you think about it too hard, you start to realize that everything in nature is benefitting off some other thing in nature somehow and come to the conclusion that all of Earth is a giant symbiotic relationship! To that I say: simply try not to think about it too hard!
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[Fact Off]
Figs and fig wasp cheating prevention
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1635526/
https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/fig_wasp.shtml
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/01/figs-kill-wasp-larvae-when-wasps-do-not-pollinate-figs
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2009.2157
Magnetotactic bacteria in tissues of animals with magnetoreception
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200914112224.htm
[Ask the Science Couch]
Symbioses with more than 2 organisms
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/species-interactions-and-competition-102131429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8331144/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17255511/
[Butt One More Thing]
Crab that lives in sea urchin rectum
Picture: https://www.marinelifephotography.com/marine/arthropods/crabs/echinoecus-pentagonus.htm
https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/11997
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022098178800070
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From big, slimy earthworms to microscopic C. elegans, worms are everywhere... or are they? It turns out, as is often the case on Tangents, that everything you thought you knew about worms is a lie, up to and including their very existence!
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[Trivia Question]
Dave the longest earthworm
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/04/uk-biggest-worm-record-breaking-in-cheshire
[Fact Off]
Geosmin smells like danger to C. elegans
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220405143530.htm
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35323022/
Ice worms in glaciers
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1097-4687(200012)246:3%3C192::AID-JMOR3%3E3.0.CO;2-B
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10930-020-09889-x
https://glaciers.nichols.edu/iceworm/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/amazing-ice-worms-threatened-melting-glaciers
[Ask the Science Couch]
Invasive earthworms in North America
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003807170600527X
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-006-9019-3
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038071720302510
https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Invasives/fact/jumpingWorm.html
Invasive flatworms that prey on earthworms
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5969052/
https://eastland.agrilife.org/invasive-hammerhead-flatworms/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3858619
[Butt One More Thing]
Largest human coprolite has parasitic worms
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lloyds-bank-coprolite
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/51Et55R_RuCmabtTgQllzQ
We're hard at work on a cool new project, but we needed a little extra time to work on it! So this week, please enjoy a rerun of the all-time classic Pee episode!
And did you know there's a video version of this episode? You can check it out here!
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Last week we talked about boring old rocks on the ground. This week, we're again talking rocks, but these are rocks... from SPACE!
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[Trivia Question]
2020 QG asteroid flyby
[Fact Off]
Libyan desert glass
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196362.stm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0022309384901777?via%3Dihub
https://www.mindat.org/min-39796.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X13004998
Hopewell asteroid event
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05758-y
[Ask the Science Couch]
Asteroid belt won’t become a planet
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-science-fiction-movies/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015IAUGA..2256597V/abstract
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/asteroids/in-depth/
https://lasp.colorado.edu/outerplanets/kbos_dwarfplanets.php
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/origin?show=hs_origin_story_jupiters-influence
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/k/Kirkwood+Gaps
[Butt One More Thing]
Meteorism medical condition farts
Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic... need I say more? Welcome to SciShow Tangents or, as I like to call it, Rock Talk.
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[Trivia Question]
Stonehenge sarsen vs. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
https://www.livescience.com/22427-stonehenge-facts.html
[Fact Off]
Microgranite used for curling stones
http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/505002/
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/91856/ailsa-craig
https://olympics.com/en/news/the-remarkable-properties-and-origins-of-the-olympic-curling-stone
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/getting-to-the-core-of-olympic-curling-stones/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0043164813000732
Solitary bees drilling into sandstone
https://eos.org/articles/rock-chomping-bees-burrow-into-sandstone
https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/busy-bee-new-species-bee-quarries-sandstone/
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/comments/S0960-9822(16)30902-2
[Ask the Science Couch]
Licking rocks or bone
https://www.discovery.com/science/Difference-Between-Rock-Fossil
https://www.clemson.edu/public/geomuseum/specimen_id/id_tool.html
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018WR023233
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/wettability
https://twitter.com/mikamckinnon/status/1030188006966214660?s=20&t=_yJPJKVlGOpjTIMLy4y4mg
https://voices.pomona.edu/2013/11/on-the-merits-of-licking-rocks/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stick-with-it-put-your-duct-tape-to-the-test/
[Butt One More Thing]
Limestone-eating and sand-pooping shipworm
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/incredible-rock-eating-shipworm-is-first-of-its-kind
Get a jump start on Earth Day by joining us as we discuss garbage's sexy, complicated little brother: recycling!
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[Trivia Question]
Minnesota paper waste ball
https://www.pca.state.mn.us/featured/worlds-largest-wad-paper-0
[Fact Off]
Palimpsests (reusing parchment, but also documenting microbes)
https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/the-history-of-vellum-and-parchment
http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/about/imaging/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170988
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-014-0481-7
Pressure-sensitive, reusable tape inspired by housefly feet
https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-is-adhesive-tape-made/
https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/biomechanics/172099/shoe-fly
https://cen.acs.org/articles/85/i42/Adhesive-Tape.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Sevier County (Dollywood and Gatlinburg) composting/waste management
https://www.seviersolidwaste.com/
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/dollywoods-environmental-solution/
https://www.zankerrecycling.com/sites/default/files/biocycle-nov-2010.pdf
https://www.biocycle.net/mixed-waste-composting-facilities-review-2/
https://greenblue.org/reloop-what-is-mixed-waste-processing-or-all-in-onedirty-mrf-recycling/
http://compost.css.cornell.edu/MSWFactSheets/msw.fs6.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Iron nutrient recycling through whale poop
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00356.x/abstract
Spring is a soft and fluffy time of year, what with all the baby chicks and bunnies bopping around, so we here at Tangents are seizing the opportunity to talk about the softest, cutest, most huggable science there is!
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[Trivia Question]
MLB baseball yarn yardage
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-wool
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/04/09/83408264.html?pageNumber=43
[Fact Off]
Saturn moon Methone and fluffy ice
https://gizmodo.com/the-weird-ways-nasa-thought-moon-dust-might-kill-apollo-1836459545
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23560-astrophile-saturns-egg-moon-methone-is-made-of-fluff/
Milk fiber (made from casein)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyLnKz7uNMQ
https://ecoworldonline.com/what-is-milk-fiber-yarn/
http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.ajee.20190902.02.html
https://www.milkgenomics.org/?splash=back-to-the-future-milk-fibers-in-the-21st-century
https://www.ijcmas.com/abstractview.php?ID=7406&vol=7-4-2018&SNo=140
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lanital-milk-dress-qmilch
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cat fur vs dog fur
https://cdn.citl.illinois.edu/courses/ANSC207/week2/hair_coat/web_data/slides_and_notes.htm
https://animaldiversity.org/collections/mammal_anatomy/hair/
https://www.uakron.edu/im/news/how-biomechanics-research-led-to-a-hairbrush-inspired-by-a-cat-tongue
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1809544115
https://texaswolfdogproject.org/resources/phenotyping/what-is-phenotyping/coat-and-color
[Butt One More Thing]
Moth coremata butt feathers
https://www.wired.com/2013/12/this-is-not-a-penis/
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/leps/bella_moth.htm
Picture:
Someone can get on your nerves. You can have nerves of steel. Heck, they can even be frayed! But have you ever wondered what nerves actually are? If so, you've come to the right place!
This week, our dear friend and contributor Deboki Chakravarti (@okidoki_boki) stops by to join the fun, and Ceri hosts for the first time ever! Don't miss it!
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[Truth or Fail]
Electric rays/low voltages to treat painful nerves
https://www.mjrheum.org/assets/files/792/file60_974.pdf
https://arthritis.ca/living-well/2019/women,-arthritis-and-neuropathic-pain
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/transcutaneous-electrical-nerve-stimulation-tens/
Mouse tail galvanoscope (sciatic nerve)
https://books.google.com/books?id=SJNMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309
https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympusmicd/galleries/brightfield/mousetail.html
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=85&contentid=p01382
Electrically stimulating tastebuds
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1307523/
http://longevity3.stanford.edu/design-challenge-winners-announced/
[Trivia Question]
Glaucoma retinal nerve fiber layer
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00417-022-05619-4
[Fact Off]
C. elegans auditory nerves
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220223103054.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/928925
[Ask the Science Couch]
Paresthesia aka pins and needles
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=1&ContentID=58
https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Paresthesia-Information-Page
https://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2015/march/paraesthesia-and-peripheral-neuropathy
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735610362950
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5384201/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/107385840200800209
[Butt One More Thing]
Sciatic butt nerve
https://www.scielo.br/j/acb/a/rwFj4BBy4p35XbfKDLNFLkx/?lang=en
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/12792-sciatica
It's Spring Breeeaaaak baby, and we're taking the day off! Enjoy this classic episode on Flowers so you'll know all you need to know when they start blooming! See you next week!
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From shells to hives to holes in the ground, most animals have a place to call home. And today, we're paying them all a visit! So open up, cause Science is knocking and it needs to use your bathroom!
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[Trivia Question]
Machine learning saving kilowatt-hours
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7765259/
[Fact Off]
Cichlid fish dream houses (for conservation)
https://www.mpg.de/14854482/3d-printing-cichlids
Devil’s garden - lemon ant & rainforest tree symbiosis
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/september28/devil-092805.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/437495a
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/606022?journalCode=an
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2124481/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2459556
[Ask the Science Couch]
Estimate of how many animals there are
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127
https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/61/5/871/1734723
Animals that are parasites
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0324
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/animals-evolution-parasites-ed-yong
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-brilliant-ways-parasitic-birds-terrorize-their-victims
Constructing homes (natural & artificial)
https://www.naturepl.com/pictures/pdfs/NPL_Architecture.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34269510/
[Butt One More Thing]
Snail shell poop + African swine fever virus
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35151121/
https://www.carnegiemnh.org/science/mollusks/dietbehavior.html
Grass... money... Ninja Turtles... some of the best things in the world are all the same color: green! This week, we're taking a deeper look at this most verdant of colors.
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[Definition]
[Truth or Fail]
[Trivia Question]
Green spaces reduce systolic blood pressure
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721075914?via%3Dihub
[Fact Off]
Green glacier mystery
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/859296
Emerald ash borer pest control by biomimicry and electrocution
https://ag.umass.edu/landscape/fact-sheets/emerald-ash-borer
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01496-8
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/femme-fatale-emerald-ash-borer-decoy-lures-kills-males/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1412810111
[Ask the Science Couch]
U.S. green paper money
https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/02/the-canadian-roots-of-the-greenback/
https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/artifact/hr-240-legal-tender-act-february-25-1862
https://www.moneyfactory.gov/resources/faqs.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/important-improvement-in-bank-note/
https://cite.case.law/barb/56/84/
https://cite.case.law/barb/56/96/
[Butt One More Thing]
Orb weaver butts
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4263&context=etd
Back in my day, a computer was a computer: It was big, tan, and was plugged into your living room wall. But now we've got computer cars, computer phones, even computer lightbulbs! And that's great! But I think we better keep an eye on them all, just in case...
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We kick off Season 4 by getting up close and personal with Earth's other, less popular, more mysterious neighbor: Venus!
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[Trivia Question]
Venera missions
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1970-060A
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chronology_venus.html
[Fact Off]
Venus tables & Maya Codex of Mexico
https://www.mesoweb.com/articles/Coe_etal/Fourth_Codex.pdf
https://www.brown.edu/news/2016-09-07/mayacodex
https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/017062/mayan-moment
Phosphene/ammonia on Venus (and microbial life possibility)
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/938538
https://news.mit.edu/2020/life-venus-phosphine-0914
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/science/venus-life-clouds.html
https://venuscloudlife.com/venus-life-finder-mission-study/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7381915/
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/52/e2110889118
[Ask the Science Couch]
Pictures of the surface of Venus
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/v09_lander_proc.html
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/venera-13/in-depth/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueMGZTezfY
https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/exploring-the-planets/online/solar-system/venus/magellan.cfm
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3728
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe-instruments
[Butt One More Thing]
Venus cloacina goddess
https://drainfast.co.uk/blog/cloacina-goddess-sewers/
https://books.google.com/books?id=SYqFBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128#v=onepage&q&f=false
Season 3 has come to a close, and the Tangents crew is taking a week off. While we scour the World Wide Web for all new, mind-blowing science facts, enjoy this classic episode about the Internet!
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It's all led up to this! We usually relegate our butt facts to the end of episodes, but this week we're giving butts the respect they deserve.
It's butts all the way down, baby!
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The Season 3 finale draws ever nearer, but before we get to that big beautiful Butt episode, we need to make a detour to those nifty tools on the ends of our limbs: hands and feet!
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[Trivia Question]
Heel-toe or toe-heel running
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31525171/
[Fact Off]
Trench foot and (possibly, tenuously) water balloons
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK482364/
https://www.wemjournal.org/article/S1080-6032(06)70334-9/fulltext
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD0666752
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012821606400017X
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2049243_2048654_2049039,00.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Nail care evolution/history
https://www.britannica.com/story/how-do-monkeys-and-apes-trim-their-fingernails
https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-why-do-we-have-fingernails-and-toenails-110989
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/ancient-primates-had-grooming-claws/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248417305134
https://tedium.co/2017/02/07/fingernail-trimming-history/
[Butt One More Thing]
Bidets and poopy hands
Season 3 of Tangents is drawing to a close, and we're celebrating by taking a long, top to bottom (literally) look at bodies! To kick us off, we'll be appreciating that brain-holding, eye-having, mouth-possessing orb on top of almost all necks on Earth: the head. Thank you, the head!
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[Trivia Question]
Embalming head diameter
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0021929009001444?via%3Dihub
[Fact Off]
Chicken heads for rabies oral vaccines
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2015/12/that-time-europe-air-dropped-vaccine-loaded-chicken-heads-to-bait-rabid-foxes/417951/ https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1439-0450.1982.tb01237.x
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31927421/
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.500.9910&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3614052/
Alligator stick hats
https://www.livescience.com/41898-alligators-crocodiles-use-tools.html
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/alligators-dont-play-pick-up-sticks-to-lure-lunch/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24750-zoologger-alligators-use-tools-to-lure-in-bird-prey/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Blood-brain barrier
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4292164/
https://www.rndsystems.com/research-area/blood--brain-barrier-permeability
https://bmcneurol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2377-9-S1-S3
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3494002/
[Butt One More Thing]
Amblyopsidae/cavefish head anus
The pointiest birds in the wild blue yonder finally get their due! Join us to learn all of these lethal birds killer secrets, and to discover their hidden softer sides. Some use teamwork! Some keep pets!
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[Definition]
[Trivia Question]
Alkyl mercury in goshawks
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10646-013-1128-z
[Fact Off]
Bald eagle cyanobacteria toxin mystery
https://www.livescience.com/eagle-killing-mystery-disease-solved.html
https://www.inverse.com/science/mystery-behind-mass-bald-eagle-deaths-solved
Screech owls & threadsnakes
https://www.audubon.org/news/what-would-screech-owl-want-blind-snake
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4218201?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
http://www.digimorph.org/specimens/Leptotyphlops_dulcis/
https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/eastern-screech-owl
[Ask the Science Couch]
Harris’s hawks (social raptors)
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Harriss_Hawk/overview
https://www.audubon.org/field-guide/bird/harriss-hawk
[Butt One More Thing]
Anthrax in raptor cloacas
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17347404/
These little, bubbly guys help us make such perennial favorites as 'bread' and 'beer.' If you're saying to yourself "what is yeast, Alex," I got good news for you: you're right! Come learn about the microscopic fungus amung us on this week's Tangents!
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[Trivia Question]
Yeast mitotic arrest
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4255140/
[Fact Off]
Stinking hellebore flower and yeast relationship
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871880/
Fruit fly and yeast relationship
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(14)00777-3
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0196440
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4556146/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0300962983906011
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(12)00075-9
[Ask the Science Couch]
History of yeast
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/yeasts
https://books.google.com/books?id=gy_SAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA228&lpg=PA228
https://books.google.com/books?id=XILwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA72&lpg=PA72
We're back, baby! And we're seeing double! Ring in the new-ish year with us as we reflect on mirrors!
Deboki is hosting a new podcast called Tiny Matters! It’s a science podcast about “the little stuff that makes the big stuff possible!” You can subscribe here! And be sure to follow her on Twitter: @okidoki_boki
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[The Scientific Definition]
Heliograph
https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2014/04/world-war-i-in-photos-technology/507305/
https://www.nps.gov/fobo/learn/historyculture/the-heliograph.htm
https://books.google.com/books?id=RBC2nY1rp5MC&q=heliograph&pg=PA211#v=snippet&q=heliograph&f=false
Pseudoscope
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/cinematic/3/
Etalon
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/phyopt/fabry.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/physics-and-astronomy/etalons
https://www.osapublishing.org/ao/abstract.cfm?uri=ao-5-6-985
Reflecting circle
https://amhistory.si.edu/navigation/type.cfm?typeid=5
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstl.1801.0019
Pictures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reflecting_instrument#Reflecting_circles
[Trivia Question]
James Webb Space Telescope mirrors
https://webb.nasa.gov/content/observatory/ote/mirrors/index.html
https://spaceplace.nasa.gov/telescopes/en/
[Fact Off]
Enantiomers (mirror versions of chemical compounds)
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/Spinoff2004/ch_4.html
https://www.wired.com/2003/11/newsugar/
The Venus Effect (mirror sight-lines)
https://www.bertamini.org/lab/venus.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Super efficient mirrors
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/what-is-the-physical-proc/
https://news.mit.edu/1998/mirror
http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/12/19/laser.surgery/index.html
https://physicsworld.com/a/crystalline-supermirrors-cut-optical-losses/
https://www.thorlabs.com/newgrouppage9.cfm?objectgroup_id=14069
[Butt One More Thing]
Mirror test IBS
SciShow Tangents is off again this week, but since it's a new year and all, we thought this was the perfect opportunity to rerun our episode all about ways humans have devised to measure time! See you for a new episode next week!
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SciShow Tangents is taking a couple weeks off for the holidays, but we aren't gonna leave you hanging! This week, we present an unlocked Patreon patron bonus episode in which we try to stump Ceri with a barrage of science and pop culture questions!
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The Tangents crew gets lightly festive as they talk about the increasingly-less-cold tippity-top and bippity-bottom of good old planet Earth!
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[Trivia Question]
Plant species in Arctic
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21988606/
[Fact Off]
Old Seeds!
https://www.pnas.org/content/109/10/4008
Camel ancestors living in Arctic
https://www.calacademy.org/explore-science/the-camel-an-arctic-animal
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/camel-ancestors-lived-arctic
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2516
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379111001661#
https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy/fun-facts-about-reindeer-and-caribou
[Ask the Science Couch]
Animals/plants in polar night
https://www.popsci.com/how-do-animals-survive-polar-night/
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/arctic-marine-life-polar-night/474870/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110526064627.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215014323
Animals/plants in midnight sun
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2921307/
https://www.livescience.com/62870-summer-solstice-animals.html
https://uphere.ca/articles/what-does-24-hours-light-do-animals
https://www.alaskacenters.gov/explore/attractions/midnight-sun/effects
https://beyondpenguins.ehe.osu.edu/issue/polar-plants/plants-of-the-arctic-and-antarctic
[Butt One More Thing]
Poop bacteria in Antarctica
We’ve talked about all sorts of living things. Bugs, for instance. And plants… elephants… the list goes on. But what we haven’t discussed is the thing that all of those animals are made of: cells! What are they? Why are they? Answers to half those questions await you!
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[Trivia Question]
B. natans number of genes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24502779/
https://www.genome.gov/human-genome-project/Completion-FAQ
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6085824/
[Fact Off]
Streptococcus disguises itself as red blood cells
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31801066/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/886535
Ciliate nuclei + genetics (O. trifallax/S. histriomuscorum)
https://www.wired.com/2014/09/oxytricha-encrypted-genome/
http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=427777
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(14)00984-2
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001473
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2647009/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3558436/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cell movement & motor proteins
https://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/microtubules-and-filaments-14052932/
https://www.pnas.org/content/108/51/20275
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4812444/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1893118/
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/comments/S0960-9822(98)70264-7
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26867/
[Butt One More Thing]
Buttock cells
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2787452/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12308-013-0175-y
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6888610/
Snakes get a bad rap. Sure they’re slithery, venomous, silent killers… but they have some nice qualities, too! We don’t talk about many of those nice qualities in this episode, but they do exist.
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[Trivia Question]
Gliding snakes jumping or not
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21816808/
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep44950
[Fact Off]
Kukuri snakes disembowel
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/639331
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/881934
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mvmk_PDzKw
https://snakesarelong.blogspot.com/2012/06/snakes-that-chew-their-food.html
Python heart growing and shrinking
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16002308/
https://www.nature.com/articles/434037a?proof=t
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/python-heart-food-news-animals
https://cob.silverchair-cdn.com/cob/content_public/journal/jeb/211/24/10.1242_jeb.023754/3/3767.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3383835/
https://www.livescience.com/16764-python-hearts-treat-human-cardiac-disease.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Snake locomotion
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCDDha9MxIDob8lOcy8UMC1g/videos
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7391877/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/01/180112132922.htm
[Butt One More Thing]
Snake cloaca “farting”
https://www.cabi.org/isc/FullTextPDF/2006/20063121845.pdf
Between now and the end of the year, people all over the world will be enjoying all sorts of holiday feasts, eating lots of cookies, and maybe even enjoying a sugar plum or two. In other words: it's food season, baby! And we've got a piping hot bowl of science stew for you! Don't forget to save room for desert: a big slice of butt pie!
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[Trivia Question]
Apple sweetness
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep44950
[Fact Off]
Yeast & vitamins advertising
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9105273/
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/magazine/the-healing-power-of-compressed-yeast
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015069802166&view=1up&seq=352
https://www.seriouseats.com/what-is-nutritional-yeast-nooch
Evolution of gourds
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2015/11/11/1516109112
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/517382
https://insider.si.edu/2015/11/dull-mastadon-taste-buds-once-helped-pumpkins-wild-ancestor-thrive/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Shark digestive systems
https://german.bio.uci.edu/images/PDF/Leigh%20et%20al.%20(2017)%20RFBF_online.pdf
https://dlnr.hawaii.gov/sharks/anatomy/the-shark-inside/
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=567
https://www.himb.hawaii.edu/ReefPredator/pH.htm
Vulture digestive systems
https://www.wintuaudubon.org/tag/turkey-vulture/
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-30216294
https://www.audubon.org/news/how-vultures-can-eat-rotten-meat-without-getting-sick
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature.2014.16345
Crocodile digestive systems
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/524150
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1Hgcr4VrDNgG0RFdVYtH0H3/wonder-facts-crocodiles
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13285-super-size-me-alligators-reveal-digestive-trick/
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/55/6/986/2363554
[Butt One More Thing]
Cow butt meat
Since the beginning of recorded history, people have been putting on lipstick, applying perfume, wearing fake nails, and just generally making themselves look nice for all sorts of reasons. Heck, there are even some animals in on it!
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[Definition]
https://www.fda.gov/cosmetics/cosmetics-laws-regulations/it-cosmetic-drug-or-both-or-it-soap
[Trivia Question]
Carthamus tinctorius L
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8126054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263051/
[Fact Off]
Vultures painting themselves red
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19076-zoologger-vultures-use-twigs-to-gather-wool-for-nests/
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ecy.1840
https://www.audubon.org/news/these-birds-wear-makeup
WWII nylon-replacing liquid leg makeup
https://books.google.com/books?id=OygDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30
https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_765873
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/nylon-a-revolution-in-textiles
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-nylon-stockings-changed-world-180955219/
http://www.cosmeticsandskin.com/ded/liquid-powder.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Dangerous cosmetics (lead, radium, atropine)
https://books.google.com/books?id=A3C_DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT26#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://books.google.com/books?id=LpplCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT67&hl=en#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://cosmeticsandskin.com/aba/glowing-complexion.php
https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/ethnobotany/Mind_and_Spirit/belladonna.shtml
[Butt One More Thing]
Butt hair forensics
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2020/AY/D0AY01068E
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128119082/coronary-artery-disease
Please enjoy this version of Ceri's smash hit Cnidarian Song, with musical accompaniment by our own maestro Joseph "Tuna" Metesh!
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Jellyfish, corals, anemones… they have a couple things in common. They’re all cnidarians, and they all seem like they don’t really have a whole lot going on. They just sort of float around! But looks can be deceiving: this mysterious, blobby phylum holds many secrets!
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[Trivia Question]
Jellyfish with or against current
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6937341/
[Fact Off]
Moon jelly vortex
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/626033
Boxer crabs and sea anemones
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5289105/
^ pictures in both these links
[Ask the Science Couch]
Peeing on jellyfish sting
Clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjTKKFSb9h8
https://www.mdpi.com/2072-6651/9/3/105/htm?xid=PS_smithsonian
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-fix-jellyfish-sting-180963582/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/whats-behind-that-jellyfish-sting-2844876/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4728541/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3773479/
[Butt One More Thing]
Coral - good poop (clam) bad poop (surgeonfish)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33841351/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33326418/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2020.621111/full
Turns out we needed a week off to recuperate from all the Halloween festivities, so please enjoy this very old episode about Flightless Birds in the meantime! Thanks for listening, and we'll see you next week!
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If you live in the Northern Hemisphere, you might be starting to notice a chill in the air. Let's all fondly reminisce about those warm, summer days that feel so long ago as we learn about heat!
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[Trivia Question]
Hot flashes
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/495671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4612529/
[Fact Off]
Thermogenic plants
https://www.natureinstitute.org/article/craig-holdrege/skunk-cabbage
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ849536.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21205176/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2634508/
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.186.4165.746
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2781904/
Superionic ice
https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-create-extraordinary-alien-form-of-super-hot-ice/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1114-6
[Ask the Science Couch]
Breath temperature changing
https://www.aa.washington.edu/sites/aa/files/faculty/breidenthal/pubs/Brazil.book_REB.pdf
http://scienceline.ucsb.edu/getkey.php?key=5530
http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/glossary/turbulent_flow.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Butt welding
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780857095107/welding-processes-handbook
https://www.sciencedirect.com/referencework/9780080965338/comprehensive-materials-processing
https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780815515814/handbook-of-plastics-joining
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/bitstream/10044/1/27516/9/Turrell_Ultra-fast%20collisional_NC.pdf
Ceri and Sam headed on down to the cemetery to dig Hank up for one more bone-chilling edition of It Was a Dark and Stormy Month! We hope you enjoy and have a happy and safe Halloween!
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[Trivia Question]
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969716324202?via%3Dihub
https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lam.12345
https://www.epa.gov/so2-pollution/sulfur-dioxide-basics
[Fact Off]
Spaceship debris graveyard
https://www.greenmatters.com/p/what-happens-to-rocket-boosters-after-launch
https://www.nature.com/articles/433095a.pdf?origin=ppub
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-19127713
Oleic acid as a death cue
https://web.stanford.edu/~dmgordon/previous/Gordon1983Dependence.pdf
https://www.pnas.org/content/106/20/8251
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-24054-2
https://www.ijbs.com/v09p0313.htm
http://www.researchtrends.net/tia/article_pdf.asp?in=0&vn=9&tid=20&aid=5289
[Ask the Science Couch]
Eco-friendly burial options
https://www.cremationassociation.org/page/alkalinehydrolysis
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4895712/New-type-cremation-DISSOLVES-bodies-LIQUID.html
https://conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/conl.12421
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWo2-LHwGMM
[Butt One More Thing]
“It Was A Dark & Stormy Month" rises from its grave once more to deliver knowledge so good... it's scary!
Hank accidentally buried himself alive again, so we are once again joined by Deboki Chakravarti to learn about Earth's little buddy, the Moon! This one's guaranteed to have you howling!
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[Fact Off]
Coral reef spawning by moonlight
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071019093814.htm
https://www.science.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.1145432
https://www.cell.com/fulltext/S0092-8674(03)00647-0
https://www.gbrmpa.gov.au/the-reef/corals/coral-reproduction
Earthshine on the Moon is less than before
https://gizmodo.com/earth-is-getting-dimmer-1847782399
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/04/weather/earth-dimming-climate/index.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/930069
[Ask the Science Couch]
Moon drifting away from the Earth
https://public.nrao.edu/ask/what-happens-as-the-moon-moves-away-from-the-earth/
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/education/explore/marvelMoon/background/moon-influence/
http://www.iea.usp.br/en/news/when-a-day-lasted-only-four-hours
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2012/11/28/3642932.htm
https://hpiers.obspm.fr/eop-pc/index.php
[Butt One More Thing]
Defecation collection devices on the Moon
https://history.nasa.gov/FINAL%20Catalogue%20of%20Manmade%20Material%20on%20the%20Moon.pdf
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“It Was A Dark & Stormy Month" lumbers along with more frightful topics and frightfully bad poetry!
This week, an oft-requested and much anticipated topic: cats! These weird little goblins can steal our hearts even while infesting us with behavior-altering, poop-dwelling parasites! We must really love 'em!
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[Truth or Fail]
Fact 1:
https://phys.org/news/2021-07-dogs-people-lying.html
Fact 2:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347296903206
https://theaggie.org/2021/09/14/study-finds-domestic-cats-prefer-freeloading-to-working-for-food/
Fact 3:
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/923830
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/07/cat-genomes/619587/
[Fact Off]
Cats in development of cochlear implants
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaotolaryngology/fullarticle/1688121
https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1931-04076-001
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/000348947308200407
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4921065/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3220685.pdf
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/cochlear-implants/about/pac-20385021
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cat tail movements
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/pages/article/animals-behavior-cats-tail-body-language
https://brill.com/view/journals/beh/56/1-2/article-p69_3.xml
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7696400/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2074215/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0166432897001010
http://www.architalbiol.org/index.php/aib/article/view/138271/
[Butt One More Thing]
Cats sitting and not flipping over litter boxes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0168159114002366?via%3Dihub
It’s October, so you know what that means: SciShow Tangents is about to get a little spooky! This year, we’re celebrating the Halloween season by talking about traditionally eerie subjects and writing bad collaborative poems! Welcome to “It Was A Dark & Stormy Tangents” month!
And to kick it off, we’re talking about the number one most scary of all types of weather: storms!
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[Fact Off]
Project Ice Storm - possible effects of stress on pregnancy
https://www.thoughtco.com/canadian-ice-storm-in-1998-508705
https://www.mcgill.ca/projetverglas/publications
https://www.mcgill.ca/projetverglas/icestorm
https://www.mcgill.ca/projetverglas/files/projetverglas/Laplante2007FunctionalPlay.pdf
Blood/red rain mystery in Spain
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/882233
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-20028490
https://www.livescience.com/62999-siberian-blood-rain-iron-oxide.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Aches before storms
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/internalmedicine/50/18/50_18_1923/_pdf
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/do-you-get-a-migraine-headache-when-it-rains/
https://theconversation.com/can-bad-weather-really-cause-headaches-158258
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00484-014-0859-8
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7659442/
[Butt One More Thing]
Lightning in plumbing
https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/faq.html
http://lightningsafety.com/nlsi_lls/lightning-caused-deaths.pdf (table 3)
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/how-hurricanes-form.html
Summer's over, which is a bummer, but now's the perfect time to remember that summer isn't all perfect. It brings sunburns, too-hot car seats, and, worst of all, blood-sucking mosquitos! So let's embrace the beginning of fall by talking some smack about those nasty, itchy, little guys!
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[Fact Off]
Millipede toxins as mosquito repellent
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1023/A:1026489826714
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00114-003-0427-2
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/05/science/for-monkeys-a-millipede-a-day-keeps-mosquitoes-away.html
https://www.mdedge.com/dermatology/article/198138/wounds/whats-eating-you-millipede-burns
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7504811/
Vampire jumping spiders eating mosquitoes
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/53382/meet-vampire-spider
https://www.livescience.com/5818-spiders-attracted-blood-perfume.html
https://www.livescience.com/1214-killer-spiders-prefer-malaria-mosquitoes.html
https://www.livescience.com/20800-vampire-spiders-blood-meal.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Attracting mosquitoes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S009286741400155X
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10886-015-0587-5
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(19)30215-5
https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/how-mosquitoes-smell-human-sweat
http://www.sciencepublishinggroup.com/journal/paperinfo?journalid=547&doi=10.11648/j.aje.20190302.13
https://academic.oup.com/jme/article/41/4/796/885285
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5949359/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982219306943
[Butt One More Thing]
Mosquito anus blood pre-urine
https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/20/science/how-hungry-mosquitoes-cool-themselves.html
This episode is brought to you by Gates Notes, the blog of Bill Gates. Go to gatesnotes.com to learn about the future of Alzheimer's research.
I don’t want to alarm you, but you’ve got a big ol’ glob of pink goop in between your ears right now, and it pretty much controls everything you do. In fact, it might BE you... But try not to think about that too much while you enjoy this episode!
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[Fact Off]
Cetacean brains staying warm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-84762-0
https://phys.org/news/2021-03-whale-dolphin-brains-specialfor-production.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-04-whale-dolphin-brains-lots.html
Brain blood flow measuring device
https://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/340906546/the-machine-that-tried-to-scan-the-brain-in-1882
https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/137/2/634/284537?login=true
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5536794/
https://www.ndcn.ox.ac.uk/divisions/fmrib/what-is-fmri/introduction-to-fmri
[Ask the Science Couch]
Brain evolution
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21128311-800-a-brief-history-of-the-brain/
https://www.karger.com/Article/Fulltext/320218
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3873165/
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-3-540-29678-2_3154
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2614228/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/worm-discovery-brain-evolution/
[Butt One More Thing]
Bony-eared assfish smallest vertebrate brain
https://www.fishbase.se/summary/Acanthonus-armatus.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.1987.0018
The days are getting shorter, the sweaters are coming out of the closet and the leaves are starting to take on just a hint of yellow... Fall is officially on its way. And speaking of trees, we spoke of trees at length last year! Please enjoy this encore presentation.
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The power required to get this podcast into your ears was brought to you in part by wind, water, coal, gas, and a generous contribution from the old sky guy himself: The Sun!
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[Fact Off]
Power from cheese & mayo (biogas)
https://epa.gov/anaerobic-digestion/basic-information-about-anaerobic-digestion-ad
https://www.eesi.org/papers/view/fact-sheet-biogasconverting-waste-to-energy
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/natural-gas/
https://statenews.com/article/2017/04/msu-uses-mayonnaise-anaerobic-digester
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a18700/french-power-plant-runs-on-cheese/
Sensorfish for dams
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/energy/a7459/the-robot-fish-that-led-to-better-dam-designs/
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a26135053/robotic-sensor-fish/
https://www.pnnl.gov/news/release.aspx?id=1046
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/827634
[Ask the Science Couch]
Micro hydro power
https://www.energy.gov/energysaver/microhydropower-systems
https://www.energy.gov/eere/water/types-hydropower-plants
https://energypedia.info/wiki/Micro_Hydro_Power_(MHP)_-_Pros_and_Cons
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/16/business/global/16iht-renmicro.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Pig poop ponds
This week we pay tribute to our big, wrinkly, grey friends with funky trunks: elephants!
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[Fact Off]
Elephants and bees
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/893601
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/632820
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2015/12/beehive-fences/
https://www.livescience.com/33261-elephants-afraid-of-mice-.html
Elephant skin wrinkles
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/607368
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06257-3
Computer simulation image: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-06257-3/figures/4
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2010JF001842
https://elephantconservation.org/elephants/just-for-kids/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Elephant communication/grief/etc.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/animal-grief/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/do-animals-experience-grief-180970124/
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2005/11/04/1497634.htm
https://www.audubon.org/news/how-do-elephants-talk-each-other
https://confluence.gallatin.nyu.edu/context/interdisciplinary-seminar/the-elephant-before-darwin
[Butt One More Thing]
Elephant gold enema
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442189/pdf
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/a-16th-century-pope-buried-his-pet-elephant-under-the-vatican
Time to take a big ol’ sip of science knowledge as we dive deep on that good, wet stuff we call water!
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[Fact Off]
Wet water (to fight fires)
https://www.biolinscientific.com/blog/what-is-a-wetting-agent-and-where-are-they-used
https://www.fireengineering.com/leadership/fighting-fires-with-wet-water/#gref
https://childrensmuseumatlanta.org/blog/how-does-water-put-out-a-fire/
http://fcfsd.com/wetting-agents.html
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10694-016-0640-0
Water to air communication
https://news.mit.edu/2018/wireless-communication-through-water-air-0822
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/489210
[Ask the Science Couch]
Water conducting electricity
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/water-universal-solvent
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6316/1131
[Butt One More Thing]
Hippo poop water
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-04391-6
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In this truly explosive episode that will have you erupting with laughter, we share our lava of volcanoes! This is a hot one, folks!
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Sources:
[Hear Ye]
Round 1 Audio
Source: NOAA Ocean Exploration
https://oceanexplorer.noaa.gov/explorations/06fire/logs/april29/media/movies/spectragram.html
Round 2 Audio
Audio Credit: Robin Matoza
Citation: Matoza, R.S., D. Fee, M.A. Garces, J.M. Seiner, P.A. Ramon, and M.A.H. Hedlin (2009), Infrasonic jet noise from volcanic eruptions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L08303, doi:10.1029/2008GL036486
Round 3 Audio
Audio Credit: Robin Matooza
Citation: Matoza, R.S., D. Fee, M.A. Garces, J.M. Seiner, P.A. Ramon, and M.A.H. Hedlin (2009), Infrasonic jet noise from volcanic eruptions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L08303, doi:10.1029/2008GL036486
Round 3 Audio - Airplane
Credit: PDX Aviation
PDX Aviation - https://www.youtube.com/user/buybygb
[Fact Off]
Elephant salt mining in extinct volcano
http://faculty.jsd.claremont.edu/dmcfarlane/MtElgon/index.htm
https://eawildlife.org/east-african-wildlife-societys-mount-elgon-elephant-project-eawls-meep/
https://volcano.oregonstate.edu/faq/how-volcano-defined-being-active-dormant-or-extinct
https://en.unesco.org/biosphere/africa/mount-elgon-uganda
Parícutin volcano
http://www.unmuseum.org/7wonders/mob/paricutin.htm
http://sci.sdsu.edu/how_volcanoes_work/Paricutin.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Preventing volcano eruptions
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/how-can-we-tell-when-a-volcano-will-erupt
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/865376
https://theconversation.com/explainer-why-volcanoes-erupt-44732
https://www.usgs.gov/faqs/can-we-drill-yellowstone-stop-it-erupting?qt-news_science_products=0
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02600367
https://www.usgs.gov/center-news/volcano-watch-did-aerial-bombing-stop-1935-mauna-loa-lava-flow
[Butt One More Thing]
Ardley island penguin poop
https://www.audubon.org/news/how-millennia-old-penguin-poo-led-scientists-volcanic-discovery
This episode was brought to you by Gates Notes, the blog of Bill Gates. Go to https://www.gatesnotes.com to learn more about the Reinvent the Toilet Challenge, which is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year!
Just because you poop and pee in them doesn’t mean that toilets don’t deserve your utmost respect! From the International Space Station to the comfort of your own home, these waste-disposing scientific wonders help make our lives cleaner and safer. So next time you see a toilet, say “thank you!”
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Sources:
[Fact Off]
Lemur Toilet Tree
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150513-these-animals-use-public-toilets
https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s00265-014-1810-z.pdf
https://www.dpz.eu/en/home/single-view/news/informativer-toilettengang.html
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn26392-zoologger-shy-lemurs-communicate-using-toilet-trees/
Super Slippery Toilet
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/739396
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlYc8RfqA3I&t=10s
[Ask the Science Couch]
https://science.howstuffworks.com/transport/flight/modern/question314.htm
https://iwaponline.com/wpt/article/13/1/157/38690/Vacuum-sewerage-systems-a-solution-for-fast
https://www.courtesyplumbers.com/blog/2016/december/three-types-of-flush-systems-the-pros-and-cons/
[Butt One More Thing]
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4320756A/en
https://www.adventip.com/blog/wackypatent/freshair-breathing-device
This week, the Science Couch is more like the Science Operating Table. Get ready to have 33 minutes of pure, surgery-inspired science implanted directly into your brain, stat!
A note about this week’s episode: Ceri is moving, and the room she normally records in is completely empty. That’s why she sounds like she’s lost in space. Sorry about that!
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Sources:
[Fact Off]
Burn healing surgeries
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/burns
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3408118
https://www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-9610(35)90119-2/fulltext
https://www.nature.com/articles/125058a0.pdf
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003591574003400104
https://parjournal.net/article/view/1881/1348
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/sir-archibald-mcindoe
Video Game Surgeons
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/uoo-hfa040121.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Organ transplant DNA
https://www.genome.gov/27544325/using-dna-sequencing-to-detect-early-organ-transplant-rejection
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Cyclosporin-A
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18290564/
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/organ-transplants-without-life-long-drugs
[Butt One More Thing]
Louis XIV’s anal fistula
https://tidsskriftet.no/2016/08/sun-kings-anal-fistula
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1043148914000566
Whether you're surfing, listening to the radio, getting an x-ray, or just looking at something, take a moment and thank waves for making it all possible!
Plus learn yet another shocking truth: all of reality is probably maybe waves! Uh oh!
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Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
[Fact Off]
Ruffed grouse sonic boom
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVfiIp3QGs4
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Ruffed_Grouse/sounds
https://www.nps.gov/articles/netn-species-spotlight-ruffed-grouse.htm
https://northernwoodlands.org/outside_story/article/bird-sound-barrier
https://www.nasa.gov/centers/armstrong/news/FactSheets/FS-016-DFRC.html
Meta-mirror
https://pratt.duke.edu/about/news/meta-mirror
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/du-rs030719.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Underwater waves
https://news.mit.edu/2013/the-oceans-hidden-waves-show-their-power-0108
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14399#affil-auth
https://research.cornell.edu/research/understanding-formation-underwater-waves
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0025322791900445
https://www.hydro-international.com/content/article/mysterious-underwater-waves
[Butt One More Thing]
Toilet waves
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/27377/why-does-toilet-water-move-when-its-windy-outside
It feels like this allergy season is never gonna end, so we decided to dig into the archives to learn a little more about the pollen, dander, and other tiny things currently making our lives a living heck! Achoo!
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Get ready to take a big old bite of science (and fun)! This week, we’re sinking our teeth… into teeth! Ouch!
Plus, Hank comes up with yet another Million Dollar Idea! You can’t afford to miss this episode!
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Sources:
[Tooth or Fail]
Chiton Teeth
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2021/05/rare-mineral-from-rocks-found-in-chiton-teeth/
Pink Sea Urchin Teeth
https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(19)30173-0
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/rock-munching-sea-urchins-have-self-sharpening-teeth
[Fact Off]
Piranha teeth
https://www.washington.edu/news/2019/10/15/piranha-fish-swap-old-teeth-for-new-simultaneously/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/ede.12306
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3670376/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/jmor.20380
https://theconversation.com/how-sharks-could-help-us-regrow-our-own-human-teeth-63531
Baby Dino Teeth
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(16)31269-6.pdf
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/gwu-ntn121516.php
https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/newly-discovered-dinosaur-species-lost-teeth-adults
Braces
https://www.healthline.com/health/how-do-braces-work
https://orthodonticassoc.com/braces/how-do-braces-work/
https://www.healthline.com/health/retainers-after-braces
[Butt One More Thing]
Fecal bacteria on toothbrushes
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/06/150602130650.htm
This week, Twitch streamer and science enthusiast AshleyRoboto joins us to talk about cyborgs! Get ready to radically broaden your definition of cyborgs all the way down to “person with glasses!”
Can’t get enough AshleyRoboto? Follow her @AshleyRoboto and check out her Twitch stream here: https://www.twitch.tv/ashleyroboto
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The Tangents team tackles one of the greatest controversies in science history: are tomatoes fruits?
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[Fact Off]
Thumping watermelons
https://www.ksre.k-state.edu/news/stories/2020/07/how-to-pick-a-ripe-melon.html
https://www.almanac.com/how-tell-if-watermelon-ripe
https://www.bksv.com/en/knowledge/blog/perspectives/ripe-watermelon
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-science-of-a-ripe-watermelon-1498828907
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4325046/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00779-013-0706-7
Animals eating moldy fruit
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05643-z
[Ask the Science Couch]
Ripening fruit biochemistry
https://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2018.00016
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/63/13/4741/484722
https://www.actahort.org/books/463/463_42.htm
[Butt One More Thing]
Medlar fruit
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210325-the-strange-medieval-fruit-the-world-forgot
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medlar-fruit-forgotten-butt-shape
Frankie Jonas stops by to chat with us about your best friend and mine, the humble dog! You'd think that in this, of all episodes, we'd be able to have a nice, simple definition of the topic. But guess what, no one even knows what a dog is apparently! Science!
If you want more Frankie Jonas, check out his TikTok! He's got a cute dog!
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Danger! High voltage episode! This week, we're zapping your earholes with electrifying knowledge that's sure to illuminate you!
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[Fact Off]
Space tethers to generate electricity
https://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtether.html
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-75.html
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/2.3563?journalCode=jsr
https://edisontechcenter.org/generators.html
https://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/2.3563?journalCode=jsr
Electric fish with dramatic pauses
ttps://www.fishbase.se/summary/5208
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/05/electric-fish-pause/618993/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/wuis-ef-051921.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Static electricity
https://www.utm.edu/staff/cerkal/electricity.htm
https://www.livescience.com/51656-static-electricity.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Manure electricity
It’s too nice outside to make a podcast this week, so instead, we’ve got a classic episode for you! Learn basically everything you need to know about cars before you set out on your epic summer road trip.
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This week, we’re joined by scientist and podcaster Amanda Wacker to talk about DNA, the building blocks of life! A blueprint for building a living thing, even!
Webster’s dictionary defines DNA as “any of various nucleic acids that are usually the molecular basis of heredity, are constructed of a double helix held together by hydrogen bonds.” I define it as the little wiggly guys inside us that make our cells and stuff. We’re both right, in our own way.
If you want more Amanda Wacker, check out her podcast, Triplicates! And check her out on Twitter: @AstroAma!
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[Ask the Science Couch]
Gene expression & cell type
https://www.cirm.ca.gov/our-progress/advanced-how-does-stem-cell-%E2%80%9Cknow%E2%80%9D-what-become
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26885/
https://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/fulltext/S0962-8924(20)30059-3
https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/our-cells-are-filled-with-junk-dna-heres-why-we-need-it
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05462-w
[Butt One More Thing]
Pooprints
If SciShow Tangents had a smell what would it be? It’s full of knowledge, so maybe a dusty old book? We talk a lot, so maybe all of our nasty breath? We talk about butts a lot… you know what? Podcasts don’t smell, and maybe that’s for the best.
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[Fact Off]
Rats smelling concepts
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uog-tso112520.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201125164455.htm
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.2327
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000628
Big cats and perfumes
https://www.thecut.com/2020/01/big-cats-love-calvin-kleins-obsession-for-men.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/100624-big-cats-cologne-vin-video
https://www.rsc.org/Merck-Index/monograph/m3604/civetone?q=unauthorize
https://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Viverricula_indica/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Smells & memory
https://www.livescience.com/why-smells-trigger-memories.html
https://www.discovery.com/science/Why-Smells-Trigger-Such-Vivid-Memories
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23147501/
[Butt One More Thing]
Indole smell
https://io9.gizmodo.com/why-is-a-compound-that-smells-like-feces-put-in-perfume-1717903411
Sticky seems easy, right? You step on gum, it sticks to your shoe, You put glue on paper, it sticks to other paper. It just works! But it turns out stickiness is one of those sneaky, impossible-to-explain science things that involves physics and atoms and stuff!
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[Fact Off]
Exploding ant butts with toxic goo
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A_nAQosWmC5o_jepXNJ0oc3RacjLK5qe1groWg34bL4/edit?usp=sharing
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/science/exploding-ants.html
https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=22661
Sticky rice mortar
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ar9001944
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11431-008-0317-0
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/amylopectin
[Ask the Science Couch]
Frog tongues
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5332565/
Picture of finger: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5332565/figure/RSIF20160764F1/
[Butt One More Thing]
Sucker-bum squid
https://australian.museum/blog-archive/science/sucker-bum-squid-and-other-intriguing-molluscs
A wiser man than me once said “worms make the dirt and the first makes the Earth.” And that’s true. Join us as we learn about the stuff everything on earth walks, sits, and poops on all day, every day! Thanks, dirt!
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[Fact Off]
Desert of Maine
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/travel/escapes/22down.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-desert-of-maine-freeport-maine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-desert-middle-maine-180951555/
Panic grass in geothermal dirt
https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2009/10/all-for-one-and-one-for-all.html
https://www.montana.edu/news/629/yellowstone-plant-reveals-secret-for-tolerating-high-temperatures
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/315/5811/513
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/316/5822/201.1
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10583964/
https://www.nps.gov/grte/learn/historyculture/upload/JFMeadow_Dissertation-red.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Rubbing dirt in wound
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/asu-amw051713.php/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0064068
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200427125205.htm
https://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2016/07/16/sports-rub-some-dirt-on-it/87184302/
[Butt One More Thing]
Pink fairy armadillo
Humans use tools to do work! It’s what separates us from the animals! Except for crows… and honeybees… and dolphins… octopuses… well, regardless, tools are great and so is this episode!
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Chatelaines
https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/the-killer-mobile-device-for-victorian-women/
https://toolbelts.com/tool-belt-history/
https://www.swissarmy.com/us/en/History/cms/history
New Caledonian crows
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uosa-cck120417.php
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2015.0278
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uosa-cck120417.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Oldest stone tools
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32804177
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14464
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/world-s-oldest-stone-tools-discovered-kenya
https://anthromuseum.missouri.edu/exhibit/oldowan-and-acheulean-stone-tools
Comedian, streamer, and YouTuber Kurtis Conner (@kurtisconner) stops by to talk to us about fish! Don’t be koi… give it a listen!
This episode has everything you could want: multiple poop facts, mind-blowing revalations, and a celebrity guest! It's the total package!
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[Definition]
Fish evolution
https://www.npr.org/2010/07/05/127937070/the-human-edge-finding-our-inner-fish
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210205210627.htm
[Ask the Science Couch]
Smelly fish
https://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/23/science/q-a-rotten-fish.html
https://nutrition.org/is-fish-smelly/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/24086628?seq=1
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/12/4461
https://cen.acs.org/articles/91/web/2013/09/Source-Fishy-Odors-Identified.html
https://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/trimethylaminuria/
[Butt One More Thing]
White sand beaches
We're taking a break this week to rest up and work on some exciting things! In the meantime, join us as we talk about fungus and Praise the Drungus!
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[Truth or Fail]
Fungal Pesticides:
https://agrochemicals.iupac.org/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=3&sobi2Id=31
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-virus-infested-fungus-chemical-pesticides.html
Tinder Fungi:
https://www.uab.cat/web/newsroom/news-detail-1345668003610.html?noticiaid=1345754508535
Egyptian Medicine:
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/nyregion/secrets-of-the-mummys-medicine-chest.html
[Fact Off]
Whiskey mold:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18065010
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5315285/
https://www.wired.com/2011/05/ff-angelsshare/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/78dyqb/kentuckys-whiskey-fungus-problem-is-out-of-control
Plastic-digesting fungus:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202047
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749117300295
[Ask the Science Couch]
“Zombie” ants:
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/47/12590
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0187170
It’s been said that April showers bring May flowers, but here’s the thing, gang: we couldn’t wait a whole month to talk about the darn things! Stop and smell the roses with us as we sniff out some of the finest flower facts!
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[Fact Off]
Bubble gun pollination
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(20)30373-4
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/drone-delivered-soap-bubbles-could-help-pollinate-flowers
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bubble-blowing-drones-may-one-day-aid-artificial-pollination
Fungus mimicking flowers
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1087184520301572
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2399434?refreqid=excelsior%3Ab21f9013c26e11394d09411860873d9f&seq=1
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-flower-is-really-a-fungus-in-disguise/
https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/insect-color-vision.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Carnivorous plants flowering
Picture of pitcher plant: http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3639
Picture of venus fly trap: https://theconversation.com/friend-or-food-why-venus-flytraps-dont-eat-their-pollinators-91620
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161010-how-insect-eating-plants-persuade-insects-to-pollinate-them
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep21065
[Butt One More Thing]
Dead horse lily
Picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicodiceros#/media/File:Dracunculus_muscivorus.jpg
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2003.00802.x
https://theconversation.com/the-secret-of-the-worlds-smelliest-flower-44439
G'day, mate! This week, we’re taking a trip Down Under (and to South, Central, and North America) to meet our weird mammalian cousins with built-in cargo pockets, the marsupials!
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Antechinus mating
https://www.wired.com/story/antechinus-climate-change/
https://www.livescience.com/51083-photos-antechinus-new-species.html
Alaskan marsupial fossil
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uoaf-ndm021819.php
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-ancient-night-marsupial-months-winter.html
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2018.1560369
https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app52-217.html
https://www.npca.org/articles/1822-the-only-marsupial-in-u-s-national-parks
[Ask the Science Couch]
Pouch cleaning
https://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/science/how-do-female-kangaroos-keep-their-pouches-clean.html
https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/08/05/1168902.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339227/
[Butt One More Thing]
Opossums and smelling dead
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/544902/facts-about-opossums
https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/opossums-so-darn-ugly-theyre-adorable.htm
Strap on your greaves and grab your gauntlets: It's time for the weekly science/comedy deathmatch that is SciShow Tangents!
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[Fact Off]
Sugar bacteria
https://newsroom.uvahealth.com/2019/06/27/found-a-sweet-way-to-make-things-almost-indestructible/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-06/uovh-fas062719.php
https://www.pasteur.fr/en/research-journal/news/shedding-light-almost-indestructible-archaeal-pili
Chiton armor (with embedded eyes)
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(11)00305-8.pdf
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6263/952?related-urls=yes&legid=sci;350/6263/952
Figure of their vision: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/350/6263/952/F3.large.jpg
http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/ChitonEyeCommentary.pdf
https://news.mit.edu/2015/sea-creature-armor-plating-transparent-ceramic-eyes-1119
https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/89839/890127373-MIT.pdf?sequence=2
[Ask the Science Couch]
Tail armor/weaponry
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2017.2299
https://news.ncsu.edu/2018/01/arbour-zanno-tail
[Butt One More Thing]
Snail shell
https://massivesci.com/articles/butt-escape-beetles-elegans-slugs-land-snails/
Hank mentions brahminy blind snakes being eaten and pooped out by frogs, but they are actually being eaten by toads. You can read more about that here:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170424-there-are-animals-that-can-survive-being-eaten
Get ready for the podcasting event of the year, and it's only March!
This week, we're talking urine in all sizes, colors, and consistencies!
Better yet, you can watch us talk about pee over on SciShow Pee! Follow that link to see the full, uncut, hour-long recording session we did for this episode! Witness what a mess we are before I edit us down into something listenable! Thrill to Hank drinking a big old soda! Scream at my disgustingly long hair!
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[Fact Off]
Astronaut urine in concrete
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/f-sf-aut032720.php
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619340478
https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/12/19/217244/purified-urine-in-space/
https://www.cement.org/cement-concrete/cement-and-concrete-basics-faqs
https://web.archive.org/web/20080316071908/http://www.admixtures.org.uk/publications.asp
Sugar ants eating pee, fighting climate change
https://cosmosmagazine.com/sugar-ants-love-pee-and-it-might-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uosa-sap020620.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200206102706.htm
https://cosmosmagazine.com/sugar-ants-love-pee-and-it-might-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Pee across the animal kingdom
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/569521/do-insects-pee
https://www.welcomewildlife.com/spider-basics/
https://cdn.ymaws.com/arav.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/Files/Proceedings_2000/2000_35.pdf
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/what-the-color-of-your-urine-says-about-you-infographic/
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/221/6/jeb151894
[Butt One More Thing]
Dinosaur cloaca
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/science/dinosaur-cloaca-fossil.html
https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/dinosaur-butt-fossil-discovery-cloaca.html
The Tangents crew blasts off beyond the Sun’s familiar orbit to check out all the weird, wild, possibly-inhabited exoplanets circling distant stars! Who needs our boring old solar system anyway?
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[Definition]
https://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/commissions/F2/info/documents/
[Fact Off]
Not-quite-sunscreen snow exoplanet
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aa899b
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/ps-ads102617.php
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Titanium-dioxide
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/61685
https://tdma.info/how-your-uv-protective-sunscreen-works/
Messages to Gliese-581c
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/gliese_581_feature.html
https://phys.org/news/2012-07-potential-habitable-exoplanets.html
https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4515
https://www.universetoday.com/19335/messages-from-earth-beamed-to-alien-world/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7660449.stm
https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071102/full/news.2007.212.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Exoplanets art
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/the-art-of-exoplanets
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-artists-portray-exoplanets-never-seen/
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/02/exoplanet-trappist-nasa/517590/
https://www.wired.com/2014/05/artist-rendering-exoplanets/
[Butt One More Thing]
Space poop challenge
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/space-poop-challenge
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/winners-of-space-poop-challenge-receive-30000
This week, we talk about the ol’ tippy top of the food pyramid: Candy!
When you get done with this tasty episode, you’ll be saying “how sweet it is!”
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[Fact Off]
Cotton candy blood vessels
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/vu-ccm020816.php
Cordite (forbidden gum)
Picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cordite_Filled_Cartridge.JPG
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3281990
https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/cordite/1010201.article
https://www.britannica.com/science/nitroglycerin
http://www.gumassociation.org/index.cfm/science-technology/ingredients-technology/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6954562.stm
http://pubsapp.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/85/8532sci2.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Candy preferences with age
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2764307/
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(17)30214-0
https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.30.1_supplement.418.6
https://now.tufts.edu/articles/craving-brain
[Butt One More Thing]
Sugar alcohol farts
This episode of SciShow Tangents was created in partnership with Bill Gates, inspired by his new book “How To Avoid A Climate Disaster,” available now. To learn more, visit http://gatesnot.es/3qNsH4k
From roaring fires to air conditioners to fuzzy slippers, humans have a knack for inventing things to keep them at just the right temperature. Unfortunately, they also have a knack for messing up the temperature of the planet…
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[Fact Off]
Skinner Air Crib
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1037/1089-2680.3.3.155
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/skinner-air-crib
https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/b-f-skinner
Mountain goat cooling
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0225456
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/wcs-mga121019.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Varied climates on planets
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/
https://www.universetoday.com/35796/atmosphere-of-the-planets/
[Butt One More Thing]
Racecar butt air conditioning
https://jalopnik.com/the-nismo-gt-r-gt3-has-air-conditioning-for-your-butt-1682925080
We're cracking open the mailbag once again to answer some dusty old questions you sent us a long time ago!
Ew, they're all rotten and goopy... well, we'll answer them anyway, because we care.
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Peat bogs
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/peatland
https://www.britannica.com/technology/peat
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/europe-bog-bodies-reveal-secrets-180962770/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305440320300881?dgcid=rss_sd_all
https://www.culture24.org.uk/places-to-go/south-west/bristol/art20488
Spiders
https://www.livescience.com/24054-why-spiders-have-eight-eyes.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/6/110603-spiders-spare-legs-webs-science-animals/
Laser eye surgery
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6249164
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22496438/
https://www.aao.org/munnerlyn-laser-surgery-center/laser-in-situ-keratomileusis-lasik-3
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/8586-corneal-disease
https://healthcare.utah.edu/the-scope/shows.php?shows=0_yrklfds0
Disease eradication
https://asm.org/Articles/2020/March/Disease-Eradication-What-Does-It-Take-to-Wipe-out
https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/index.html
Miner's egg
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003591572201501935
True immortality may be a scientific impossibility, but podcasts last forever. Whether you listen to this the day it comes out or 1,000 years from now when your brain’s been uploaded to a computer, SciShow Tangents will be here for you!
This week: Hank and Deboki are finally on an episode together! And Hank has yet another chaos-fuled game to present to us!
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[Fact Off]
Irradiating canned meat
WIll update ASAP!
Dermestid beetle larvae
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/178/4066/1210.full.pdf
https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article-abstract/64/1/149/28541?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002219108090027X
https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/warehouse-beetle-and-cabinet-beetle
Electron decay
https://gizmodo.com/electron-lifespan-is-at-least-5-quintillion-times-the-1747606990
https://physicsworld.com/a/electron-lifetime-is-at-least-66000-yottayears/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cryonics
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2729856/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2249453/
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/sep/30/egg-freezing-self-care-pregnancy-fertility
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130293211
No, you didn't wake up back in March 12, 2019, this is just a rerun of the classic Giant Rodent episode in honor of Groundhog Day. Be back with something exciting next week!
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[Truth or Fail]
https://www.apopo.info/en/tuberculosis-detection/projects
http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tb/background
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/23/rats-who-sniff-out-tubersulosis
[Fact Off]
Hippos & biggest rodent:
Beavers & carbon emissions:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoh-bha082918.php
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/07/what-role-do-beavers-play-climate-change
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13280-014-0575-y
[Ask the Science Couch]
Gigantism:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-king-kong-should-have-been-blue-whale-180962603/
https://www.nature.com/articles/482008d
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00534.x
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4358651/
[Butt One More Thing]
Capybara anal pouches:
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1984.tb05087.x
Our very own Josef 'Tuna' Metesh took Ceri's already exceptional sea shanty and turned it into a masterpiece!
Weather is an evergreen small talk topic, and after this episode of Tangents you will be fully equipped to blow the socks off every grocery store clerk, dental technician, and next door neighbor you meet with your in-depth knowledge of wind, precipitation, and more!
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[Brain Storm]
Falling animals
https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/can-it-rain-frogs-fish-and-other-objects
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lluvia-de-peces-the-rain-of-fish
https://www.thelocal.no/20150416/earthworms-rain-from-sky-over-southern-norway
Automated Weather Observing Systems
https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Automated_Weather_Observing_System_(AWOS)
https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_150_5220-16E.pdf
Cloud seeding
https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/03/25/270084/weather-engineering-in-china/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7899086.stm
https://web.archive.org/web/20111123025420/http://www.ceawmt.in/indian_history.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809515000484
https://www.ncm.ae/en/details.html?id=825&lid=575
https://www.popsci.com/smog-cloud-seeding-thailand/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/ncfa-wcs012606.php
https://journalofweathermodification.org/index.php/JWM/article/view/474
https://www.weathermod-bg.eu/index_en.php
[Fact Off]
Tempest Prognosticator
Pic here: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/07/tempest-prognosticator-predicting.html
https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/our-stories/cloud-watching-understanding-weather/
https://www.smithjournal.com.au/blogs/science/3898-can-you-predict-the-weather-with-leeches
https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-used-leaches-to-predict-the-weather
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/leeches-predict-weather-tempest-prognosticator
AMDAR
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL088613
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02198-4
https://community.wmo.int/activity-areas/aircraft-based-observations/amdar/about-amdar
https://amdar.noaa.gov/docs/bams/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Acid rain
https://www.epa.gov/acidrain/what-acid-rain
http://butane.chem.uiuc.edu/pshapley/GenChem1/L26/3.html
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/ocean-acidification
In the world of podcasting, one organ reigns supreme: the ear. This week, we give thanks to the orifice that allows us to enjoy SciShow Tangents and that also helps us balance for some reason!
Also this week, the world premier of Sam's new game! It's a real corker! Also you will be required to visualize an entire cob of corn, so you better start practicing now.
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[Hear Ye Hear Ye]
Toadfish Calls courtesy of the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home
https://www.chesapeakebay.net/S=0/fieldguide/critter/oyster_toadfish
Sun Sonification
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/sounds-of-the-sun
Whistler-waves
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-listens-in-as-electrons-whistle-while-they-work
Jupiter Bowshock
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-juno-spacecraft-enters-jupiters-magnetic-field
[Fact Off]
19th Century hearing devices
Pictures here: http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/did/19thcent/index.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/26/technology/hearing-aids-smaller-and-smarter.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/773357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2582694/
Cheetah ears & vestibular organ
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/02/cheetah-inner-ear-speed-hunting-spd/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20198-3
[Ask the Science Couch]
Hearing loss
https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hearing_loss/how_does_loud_noise_cause_hearing_loss.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11122/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hearing-loss/symptoms-causes/syc-20373072
https://stanmed.stanford.edu/listening/scientists-hope-cure-hearing-loss-studying-birds.html
https://psych.athabascau.ca/html/Psych289/Biotutorials/17/cochlea.shtml
https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/sites/default/files/Content%20Images/presbycusis.pdf
Tangents is back for a 3rd season, and things are going to get weird! So we’re embracing the weirdness by talking about some of the weirdest animals around: cephalopods!
In this episode: new games of dubious scientific value and quality! Classic Ceri music ignorance! Big Suckers! And, most importantly, laughs galore! We missed you guys!
[Rhyme Time]
I mean… what citation could there possibly be for this?
I guess ask Hank if you want to know more about Squid Ink and Big Suckers?
[Fact Off]
Bacteria RNA Edit
https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/11/20/bacteria-direct-hawaiian-squid/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uoha-bct111820.php
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-squid-genome-shines-light-on-symbiotic-evolution-20190219/
The SciShow Video
https://youtu.be/_XvgdNQsmVE?t=525
Octopus Apartment Building
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/10236244.2012.727617
[Stump the Science Couch]
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/why-don-t-octopuses-get-stuck-to-themselves/
SciShow Tangents is still on a break, but we have another Enhanced Classics for you! This week, a rerun of Experiments in Space with a brand new Ask the Science Couch and Butt Fact!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Chicken Fat
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/aafex_biofuels.html
Bone loss
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=187
Perfume
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/spacescents_feature.html
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff2002/ch_1.html
[Fact Off]
Wake Shield Facility
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19920014405
https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/pg46s95.html
https://uwaterloo.ca/molecular-beam-epitaxy/about/what-epitaxy
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/03jan_bioniceyes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0042207X01003839
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457650000148X
Image: https://archive.org/details/STS069-724-095
Mouse sperm experiment
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/23/5988
http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/theme/second/pmlatter/spacepup/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Rocket thrust
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/UEET/StudentSite/engines.html
https://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/390-rockets-and-thrust
https://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/rocket/rktth1.html
[Butt One More Thing]
ISS Toilet
SciShow Tangents is taking a short break, but we didn't want to totally leave you hanging! You're about to listen to a rerun of the Light episode, but with a special twist: we recorded a new Ask the Science Couch and Butt Fact!
Next week we'll be posting another of these Enhanced Classics, then we'll start releasing regular, full-length episodes again. Thanks for hanging with us!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
EROS
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25788334
MOZE
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0389-0
FReSH
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10428.html
[Fact Off]
Eidophor
https://www.earlytelevision.org/eidophor.html
https://hackaday.com/2016/03/15/retrotechtacular-eidophor-an-unknown-widely-used-projector/
http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f1/t004319.html
http://www.earlytelevision.org/yanczer_eidophor.html
Centennial light
http://www.centennialbulb.org/index.htm
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/66009/light-bulb-has-been-burning-1901
https://www.lampsplus.com/ideas-and-advice/how-an-incandescent-light-bulb-works/
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707188193/the-phoebus-cartel
[Ask the Science Couch]
Incandescence:
http://edisontechcenter.org/incandescent.html
https://physlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Planck_ref8.pdf
https://www.fi.edu/history-resources/edisons-lightbulb
LEDs:
https://www.circuitbasics.com/what-is-a-diode/
http://needtoknow.nas.edu/www7.nationalacademies.org/led-lighting/index-2.html
https://www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/nlpip/lightinganswers/led/color.asp
https://www.mrsec.psu.edu/content/light-emitting-diodes
[Butt One More Thing]
Fluorescent E.coli for colitis
Join us as we send Stefan off in grand style by talking a lot about the things that bring him great joy in life: getting yolked, going to the store, and dice. He’s a complicated fellow!
Stefan, it has been a great joy to co-host this silly show with you for the last two years! I know I speak for everyone when I say we will miss hearing your voice every week. Thank you for everything!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Spiders in cars
https://www.popsci.com/blog-network/eek-squad/why-do-spiders-apparently-cars-so-much/
http://delusion.ucdavis.edu/yellowsac.html
Artificial Christmas trees made from car scraps
https://www.aluminum.org/product-markets/automotive
https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/imlsmohai/id/14565/
https://books.google.com/books?id=OlmGjEU7qU4C&pg=PA178&
https://abcnews.go.com/US/ChristmasCountdown/story?id=1414607
Mailing heavy car pieces
https://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/bank-of-vernal.pdf
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_car
[Fact Off]
Wheaties jingle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJpeR6GvpC8
Workout clothing that regulates temperature
https://news.mit.edu/2017/moisture-responsive-workout-suit-0519
http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DiGRA_2020_paper_88.pdf
[Ask the Science Stefan Couch]
Random dice rolls
How random is dice rolling? http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8738/f63758598ca711c49817f9187f13c22a9893.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Farting games
http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DiGRA_2020_paper_88.pdf
This week, we celebrate the brains of this whole operation: Ceri!
This episode starts out incredibly wholesome! There are beagles, Pokemon, gardening… but, per usual, Ceri has to make it all about body horror in the end. Find out what terrible modifications she’d make to the human body!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Fact Off]
Pokemon memory study
Articles:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/su-abr050219.php
https://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18531287/pokemon-neuroscience-visual-cortex-brain-information
https://massivesci.com/articles/pokemon-detective-pikachu-brains-video-games/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7567-why-your-brain-has-a-jennifer-aniston-cell/
https://www.sciencealert.com/if-you-were-a-pokemon-whizz-as-a-kid-it-might-be-etched-in-your-brain
Paper:
Stanford Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEIuQRHElcQ&ab_channel=Stanford
SciShow Video:
Beagle & polar bear poop
http://cincinnatizoo.org/news-releases/can-a-canine-detect-polar-bear-pregnancy/
https://www.wvxu.org/post/no-cubs-anana-zoos-polar-bear-not-pregnant#stream/0
http://blog.cincinnatizoo.org/2014/09/01/how-can-you-tell-if-a-polar-bear-is-pregnant/
[Ask the Science Ceri Couch]
Oxygen tank organ
https://www.nature.com/news/making-the-most-of-muscle-oxygen-1.13202
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/14/2180
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/15/2455
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23160832/
Electrogenic organ
https://opentextbc.ca/anatomyandphysiologyopenstax/chapter/skeletal-muscle/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-electric-eels-gene
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/212/9/1351
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/13/2451
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/24jun_electrostatics
[Butt One More Thing]
Pigeon poop hair bleach
https://www.hji.co.uk/blonde/brief-history-of-blondes-hair-historian/
https://books.google.com/books?id=Yw_0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT48&lpg=PT48
The Tangents team faces their most complicated, multi-faceted, and mysterious topic yet: Sam. Who is he? Can anyone ever really know? Find out in this very special episode.
[Truth or Fail]
Mini terrariums
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-X4g_fCmKw
https://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/Experiment/exper/429
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-400/contents.htm
Baking powder submarines
https://books.google.com/books?id=F2ApK7QnbPUC&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://marinebio.org/creatures/tools/submarines/
Bo'sun whistle
https://telephone-museum.org/telephone-collections/capn-crunch-bosun-whistle/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/capn-crunch-whistle
https://garydrobson.com/2014/06/03/the-origins-of-phreaking/
[Fact Off]
Oxytocin in art class vs. board games
Article: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/bu-cca021219.php
The paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jomf.12556
3D print your own hermit crab
[Ask the Science Sam Couch]
D&D monster
Roving Mauler!
https://1d4chan.org/images/0/01/Roving_Mauler.jpg
[Butt One More Thing]
Beetle coming out of frog’s butt
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30842-3?_returnURL
Season 2 of SciShow Tangents is coming to a close, and to celebrate, we’re honoring each of our panelists with episodes about their favorite things! We’re starting, of course, with our fearless leader and professional liker-of-strange-and-amazing-things: Hank!
At the end of the month, we'll be naming the winner of this season and announcing the new name of the Tangents currency, so stay tuned!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Pressure-sensitive Adhesives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-sensitive_adhesive
Malaria Detector
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181029102828.htm
Urine-Powered Transmitter
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151211130103.htm
https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/preview/844724/Wearable-MFC%2010-7-15_unedited.pdf
[Fact Off]
Cats eating grass
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/mystery-solved-why-cats-eat-grass
Metal whiskers
http://thor.inemi.org/webdownload/newsroom/Presentations/SMTAI-04_tin_whiskers.pdf
https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/background/index.htm
https://phys.org/news/2012-12-doctoral-student-unravels-tin-whisker.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359646218300319
https://www.sharrettsplating.com/blog/alternatives-to-cadmium-for-plating-connectors/
[Ask the Science Hank Couch]
Wombat butts
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/wombat-poop-cube-why-is-it-square-shaped/
Caterpillar poop
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/03/frass-flies
Hydra butt
https://www.livescience.com/53980-terrifying-mouth-of-a-hydra.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Peru guano
https://www.audubon.org/news/holy-crap-trip-worlds-largest-guano-producing-islands
In the immortal words of Brian Wilson: "I'm gonna be round my vegetables, I'm gonna chow down my vegetables, I love you most of all... my favorite vegetable"
And he's right, too.
In this episode we get down in the dirt with our favorite veggies. Carrots... broccoli... and all the rest. All that, and Ceri tries out a fun new pun!
[Truth or Fail]
Sponge gourds
https://www.lewisginter.org/luffa-plant-exfoliate/
Grasspea
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6422318/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514116300629
https://www.cwrdiversity.org/the-curious-case-of-the-grasspea/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20510335/
https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/CropFactSheets/grasspea.html
Wild carrots
http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/wild.html
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/poison-hemlock-identification-and-control
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150177/
[Fact Off]
Spinach and growing organs
https://www.wpi.edu/news/wpi-team-grows-heart-tissue-spinach-leaves
Beet smell geosmin
[Ask the Science Couch]
Asparagus pee
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1379935/pdf/brjclinpharm00087-0116.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1715705/pdf/brmedj00052-0020.pdf
https://academic.oup.com/chemse/article/36/1/9/442551
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140818-mystery-of-asparagus-and-urine
https://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6071
https://www.livescience.com/57199-why-some-people-cant-smell-asparagus-pee.html
https://theconversation.com/that-distinctive-springtime-smell-asparagus-pee-94696
[Butt One More Thing]
Beeturia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537012/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319447#Beetroot-pigments
If you look out a window right now, you're probably going to see a tree. And that tree? Why, it's made out of wood, friend. And that's where things start to get interesting...
Get ready to meet Hank's newest alter-ego: Mr. Wood. He's basically Hank, but he just can't stop talking about wood! I had to cut like 3 different, very long stories he told about wood! The man LOVES wood!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Shipworms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipworms
Dynamite
Bounty Gaming
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1902
[Fact Off]
Super Wood
Article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180207151829.htm
Paper: https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf2018/fpl_2018_song001.pdf
Screwdriver test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BStJLI7WQ8g&ab_channel=VOANews
Ballistic test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVbczXDFe1Q&ab_channel=MarylandNanoCenter
Metallic Wood
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uop-pe012819.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Splinters
http://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0615/p2557.html
http://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0901/p683.html
http://www.the-dermatologist.com/content/treating-rare-fungal-infections-sporotrichosis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4082545/
[Butt One More Thing]
Toilet paper
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/622513/reason-toilet-paper-always-white
When you think architecture, you’re probably thinking blueprints, slide rules, maybe a compass or something, I don’t know. But it turns out some of our animal brethren can hold their own when it comes to building stuff, and they don’t have any of those fancy tools! They have, like, their mouths!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Blinds: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171130122759.htm
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.201703653
Algae: https://earthbuddies.net/algae-curtain/
Electric Bacteria: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/electric-bacteria-create-currents-out-thin-and-thick-air#:~:text=Generating%20electricity%20from%20thin%20air,there's%20moisture%20in%20the%20air.
[Fact Off]
Crystal in hornet nests
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2001/06/mystery-hornets-nest
https://geology.com/minerals/ilmenite.shtml
https://www.nature.com/articles/35079679
https://books.google.com/books?id=If229i4wRQEC&pg=PA25
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jemt.20168
Neolamprologus obscurus burrows
https://www.popsci.com/fish-teamwork-snare-shrimp/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-018-2566-7
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180306101713.htm
[Ask the Science Couch]
Concrete & environmental impacts
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earth
https://constructionclimatechallenge.com/2016/07/07/green-building-materials-that-are-alternatives-to-concrete/
https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/mar/04/making-concrete-green-reinventing-the-worlds-most-used-synthetic-material
https://www.ny-engineers.com/blog/how-can-concrete-construction-be-greener
[Butt One More Thing]
Japanese transparent public toilet
https://www.dezeen.com/2020/08/17/shigeru-ban-transparent-toyko-toilet-shibuya
https://tokyotoilet.jp/en/
It’s our 100th episode! And to celebrate our migration from double- to triple-digits, we’re talking about… animal migration... Ok, we forgot it was our 100th episode. But this is still a great episode!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Arrow Stork
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76208/how-stork-solved-scientific-mystery
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/02/19/the_weirdest_ideas_about_bird_migration.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/zoological-collection-of-the-university-of-rostock
https://labandfield.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/bird_migration/
[Fact Off]
American and European eel migration
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2449503?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37563100
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/208/7/1329
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms9705
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/mystery-of-the-vanishing-eels
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/10/e1501694
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sargassosea.html
Army ant bivouac
[Ask the Science Couch]
Forest migration
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/BorealMigration
https://daily.jstor.org/the-incredible-moving-forest/
[Butt One More Thing]
Starling poop
Monster Month bursts from the grave with one last shocking surprise! Enjoy this audio adventure through a haunted house, as Scary Ceri guides you through some of the spookiest sounds around! Be sure to wear your… deadphones! Ha ha ha ha ha!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Definition]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3181681/
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00761/full
[Natural Sounds]
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-the-ooze/201511/what-makes-house-feel-haunted
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-horror-films-scary-fear-neuroscience-psychology-2016-10
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-wolf-howling-effect-used-in-horror-movies
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/07/why-screams-are-so-scary
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)00737-X
[Music]
https://slate.com/culture/2012/06/in-scientific-studies-of-music-whats-missing-is-the-culture.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0374
https://arstechnica.com/science/2016/07/the-jaws-theme-might-not-be-scary-for-tsimane-people/
https://mcgovern.mit.edu/2020/06/16/universal-musical-harmony/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-16448-6
https://qz.com/quartzy/1429949/devils-interval-what-makes-music-sound-scary/
[Extreme Highs & Lows]
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00131/full
https://scienceline.org/2011/10/why-do-we-hate-the-sound-of-nails-on-a-chalkboard/
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Sound/infrasound.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077192#.X2kUu5NKhxw
http://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/ghost-in-machine.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-018-9673-7#Sec14
https://www.livescience.com/62165-how-to-overcome-embarrassment-fart-study.html
Monster Month meets its ghoulish end, and we’re throwing it a swinging wake! This week, all the monsters we didn’t talk about during the rest of October come together for a great big Monster Mash!
Halloween is my favorite time of year, and this one has been more than a little weird. But working on Monster Month helped make up for some of the creepy fun I'm missing out on, and I hope it did the same for you!
RIP Monster Month! For now...
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
King Kong suit experiments
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)00946-X
https://www.livescience.com/52209-apes-remember-ancitipate-scary-movie-scenes.html
Thieving puppet experiment
Parrots wasting food
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/science/why-parrots-waste-food.html
Social interaction puppet experiment
[Fact Off]
Birdcatcher tree
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-tree-seems-to-kill-birds-just-for-the-heck-of-it
https://www.academia.edu/16969627/_Birdlime_Sticky_Entrapments_in_Renaissance_Literature_
https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/16882829.birds-killed-illegal-glue-traps-horsham-nature-reserve/
Bloodsucking (Capri Son) ant
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/uoia-dap120618.php
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9dsINb64Q0&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=AntLab
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-03/pp-snd032814.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Organ transplants
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/transplant/programs/reconstructive_transplant/hand_transplant.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-019-0215-3
https://jbioleng.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13036-017-0089-9
Blood compatibility
https://www.rch.org.au/bloodtrans/about_blood_products/Blood_Groups_and_Compatibilities/
[Butt One More Thing]
Yeti poop actually bears
Monster Month turns up the spooky sex appeal as we talk about the hunkiest monster in Monster Town: vampires!
What monster do you think is the hunkiest? Or how about least-hunkiest (sort of tricky! They can all be hunks in their own way)? Send us a tweet and let us know!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Wireworms
https://extension.entm.purdue.edu/fieldcropsipm/insects/corn-wireworms.php
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1119566-overview
Vampire Ground Finch
http://blog.discoveringgalapagos.org.uk/vampire-finch/
Japanese Wild Boars
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2136652/wild-boars-are-taking-over-japans-small-towns-and-residents-are
[Fact Off]
Blood battery
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160429095849.htm
https://futurism.com/blood-is-helping-us-make-the-next-generation-of-batteries
Tick traumatic insemination
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/29/14682
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/08/immune-system-protects-female-bedbugs-traumatic-sex
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-female-bed-bugs-immune-stis.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Teeth/beak/etc puncture
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/c/common-vampire-bat/
https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7242.html
https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/11/2/154/204658
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2000.tb00583.x
Specialized mouthpiece straw
[Butt One More Thing]
Vampire bat poop
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/science/vampire-bats-blood.html
Monster Month shambles on! This week: the living dead! We’re talking zombies, we’re talking Frankensteins, we’re talking skeletons. And by the end, things get downright poignant!
Also in this episode, an all time Hank hot take about ghosts. I’d love to hash that one out more, so be sure to hit him up on Twitter so we can all figure out why he thinks ghosts are alive…
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Brazilian Treehoppers
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-brazilian-treehopper-may-be-the-strangest-creature-5975761
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/what-is-a-brazilian-treehopper/
Cicada Wing Flicking
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-02/uoc-iot022218.php
Protective Ant Fungus
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/ps-tzf050212.php
[Fact Off]
Neochromosomes (Frankenstein’s monster chromosomes) & cancer
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/giom-ssm110514.php
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4905327/
https://www.nature.com/articles/515314b
https://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(14)00373-0
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14493
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383574218300322
https://www.nature.com/articles/4401161
Glass knifefish brain transplant
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/njio-sb032420.php
https://news.njit.edu/simulated-frankenfish-brain-swaps-reveal-senses-control-body-movement
[Ask the Science Couch]
Trying to reanimate animal corpses
https://www.livescience.com/65542-zombies-real-resurrection-experiments.html
https://io9.gizmodo.com/real-life-scientists-who-meddled-with-life-and-death-5949176
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15595271/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003497500010912
Animal brains
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01216-4
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0006899374904788
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/168/3929/375
[Butt One More Thing]
Dead butt syndrome
It’s ba-ack! Fear Month is back from the dead in a hideous new form: Monster Month! This week we’re busting out the Ouija board and summoning forth some Ghostly science knowledge from beyond this earthly plane!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Bioluminescent/reflective animals
https://www.owlpages.com/owls/articles.php?a=18
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2014.0206
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/07/150724-fireflies-glow-bugs-summer-nation-science/
Marsh gases
https://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i38/George-Washington-Scientist.html
https://www.popsci.com/jack-o-lanterns-marsh-lights/
https://discovernjhistory.org/magical-mud-microbes-and-methane/
https://www.nj.gov/state/historical/it-happened-here/ihhnj-er-first-science-ex.pdf
Pepper's ghost illusion
https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/the-science-behind-the-pepper-s-ghost-illusion/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/aekye5/the-science-behind-the-worlds-most-convincing-ghost-effect
[Fact Off]
Feeling of presence ghost robot
https://www.wired.com/2014/11/robot-ghost/
Ghost fleas and mercury
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/ghost-fleas-bring-toxic-mercury-depths-prairie-lakes
[Ask the Science Couch]
EMF readers
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-broken-technology-of-ghost-hunting/506627/
https://www.livescience.com/4261-shady-science-ghost-hunting.html
https://io9.gizmodo.com/meet-the-emf-meter-the-little-tool-that-ghost-hunters-5875212
We're taking a short dirt nap this week in preparation for October's frightening festivities! Enjoy this classic, slightly spooky episode and join us next week as we kick off Monster Month!
It'll be worth the wait, I promise!
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[Poem]
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-pitcher-plants-call-bats-get-their-poo-180956014/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1141
[Truth or Fail]
Bats that spend time on the ground:
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/03/vampire-bats-keep-out-trouble-running-study-shows
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16621953
Diurnal bats:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/daytime-bats-help-explain-nocturnal-evolution/
https://blogs.plos.org/ecology/2017/06/29/bat-species-found-only-on-islands-in-trouble-worldwide/
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mamm.ahead-of-print/mammalia-2017-0128/mammalia-2017-0128.xml
Suction cup bats:
https://www.wired.com/2010/04/how-sucker-winged-bats-hang-on/
[Fact Off]
Bat & dolphin echolocation:
https://evolutionnews.org/2012/05/tangling_the_tr/
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/01/hear-bats-and-whales-share-sonar-protein
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(09)02073-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12511
Moth echolocation blocker:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/07/moths-block-bats-sonar
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/325/5938/325?keytype=ref&siteid=sci&ijkey=GbDjRlkoHfRnY
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2009/07/17/tiger-moths-jam-the-sonar-of-bats/
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/14/2416
[Ask the Science Couch]
White-nose syndrome:
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/bat_crisis_white-nose_syndrome/Q_and_A.html
https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/static-page/what-is-white-nose-syndrome
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02441-z
https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/4/2/48
[Butt One More Thing]
Bat guano gunpowder:
What would a podcast be without language? Perhaps a series of soothing tones? Maybe frog sounds? Wait… that sounds nice…
Need more sweet language knowledge?
Crash Course Linguistics: https://youtu.be/eDop3FDoUzk
Want more Deboki?
Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtu.be/17tug6T-4jc
Crash Course Organic Chemistry: https://youtu.be/bSMx0NS0XfY
And follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/okidoki_boki
And every other Tangents episode! She does a ton of behind the scenes work and we’d, frankly, be screwed without her! Thank you, Deboki!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Mustached bat sounds and syntax
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7962992/
Heaps Law
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/08/27/heaps-law/
Jackass penguin honks
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0589
https://www.livescience.com/jackass-penguin-linguistic-rules.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jackass-penguin-calls-follow-similar-rules-human-speech-180974139/
https://youtu.be/oTOcJj_NNUg
Speed dating communication
Prairie dog chatter
https://www.prairiedoghoogland.com/vocalizations
https://academic.oup.com/jmammal/article/79/3/887/859259
[Fact Off]
Facebook machine learning of language
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/uops-fuc030620.php
Hypothetical spaceship language
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200706145433.htm
https://zenodo.org/record/3747353#.X1j66nlKiJc
[Ask the Science Couch]
Human language efficiency
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2016/06/complex-languages/489389/
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaaw2594
http://www.ithkuil.net/00_intro.html
Computer languages
https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/
https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/compiled-versus-interpreted-languages/
[Butt One More Thing]
Pumpernickel
https://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-devilish-origins-of-pumpernickel/
Jeepers creepers, today we’re talking about peepers!
I can't come up with anything that would really add to the above description of the episode, but I also feel like I owe you guys more than that... so hey, what's up? Excited for Halloween? Watching any good shows? I'm sort of out of shows...
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[Truth or Fail]
Bat Eyes
Guitarfish Eyes
Goat Eyes
[Fact Off]
Glowing Contacts
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/glowing-contact-lens-could-prevent-leading-cause-blindness-82050
Cockeyed squids
https://today.duke.edu/2017/02/mismatched-eyes-help-squid-survive-ocean%E2%80%99s-twilight-zone
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2016.0069
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/this-squid-gives-better-side-eye-than-you
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-someone-get-two/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Eye shapes
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/90509/13-furry-facts-about-pallass-cat
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/7/e1500391
[Butt One More Thing]
Cow butt eye
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/627983/save-cow-from-predators-paint-eyes-on-its-butt
Beep beep, toot toot, etc.
Cars are definitely one of the more common-place things we’ve talked about on Tangents… yet to some, including many on our panel, they are even more mysterious and confusing than the human body or the fundamental forces of nature!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Freeze-drying
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/nuos-nit031820.php
Replacing human tissues
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/cuot-nrm031320.php
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b01924
Batteries
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140827151654.htm
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/RA/C4RA03888F#!divAbstract
[Fact Off]
Added engine noise
https://www.carthrottle.com/post/5-ways-that-manufacturers-enhance-the-sound-of-their-cars/
https://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a7923/the-rise-of-the-fake-engine-roar-11291754/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Wheels vs. tracks
https://litetrax.com/wheels-vs-tracks-advantages-disadvantages/
https://www.macallisterrentals.com/track-vs-wheeled-equipment-type-machine-rent/
3 vs. 4 wheels
https://thenewswheel.com/why-do-cars-have-four-wheels/
https://jalopnik.com/why-three-wheels-are-better-than-four-5950307
[Butt One More Thing]
https://www.fertstert.org/article/S0015-0282(07)01404-5/pdf
Does the Tangents crew know anything about black holes? Not really. But when has that ever stopped us? Let’s get theoretical!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Gravastar
https://www.universetoday.com/24299/types-of-stars/
https://web.archive.org/web/20061213095149/http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/archive/02-035.shtml
Blanet
https://www.sciencealert.com/we-have-ploonets-we-have-moonmoons-now-hold-onto-your-hats-for-blanets
https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15198
Massteroid
https://www.space.com/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.html
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/basics/primer/
[Fact Off]
Stealing energy from black hole
http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2011/ph240/nagasawa2/
https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_727690_en.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=73&v=ES2VxhRAkUM&feature=emb_title
https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-ergosphere
[Ask the Science Couch]
White holes
https://www.space.com/white-holes.html
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/white-holes-do-black-holes-have-mirror-images
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1HqOEbq2L4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aqGI1mSqo
[Butt One More Thing]
Carl Sagan BHA
Milk is pretty normal, right? Boring even! But have you ever thought about it? Like, really thought about it? We have! And I gotta say, it led us to some challenging places.
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
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We get A LOT of questions from our listeners! So this week we decided to put the competition on hold, open up the old Tangents Mailbag, and answer a few of them!
Get ready to learn some of our deepest secrets, like what Ceri thinks about yogurt and Stefan's milk conundrum! There are other, less dairy related things in this episode, too. Once again, thank you all for your support and for all of the amazing questions you ask us every week. We couldn't do it without you!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
Artificial sugars
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Aspartame.html
https://www.stevia.com/2016/10/03/how-is-stevia-leaf-extract-made/
https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/artificial-sweetener8.htm
http://www.yalescientific.org/2010/09/mythbusters-does-sugar-really-make-children-hyper/
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/391812
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7963081/
Photic sneezing
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-does-bright-light-cau/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03012675
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1042271/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41551-0
Milk and bones
Whale hearing
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118582
https://dosits.org/animals/sound-reception/marine-mammals-hear/hearing-in-cetaceans/
https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/how-to-see-what-whales-hear/
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/marine-mammals/keeping-ear-out-whale-evolution
http://repository.ias.ac.in/4651/1/321.pdf
Duck swimming
https://www.audubon.org/news/webbed-feet-are-evolutionary-hit
https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/110/3/543/2415604
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/uropygial-gland
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/feathers-article/
Multivitamins
[Butt One More Thing]
Anal pouches
https://books.google.com/books?id=IETMd3-lSlkC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99
https://www.wired.com/2015/01/creature-feature-10-fun-facts-fossa/
Glowing Things: is that a scientific topic? Yes, but not by much. In fact, we spend a lot of the episode figuring out of there even is a scientific definition of 'glow!' Very exciting!
Here's a little fun fact for all you Sam-heads out there: my favorite color is 'glow-in-the-dark green." That's right, I finally admit that I'm the one writing all these descriptions! I guess Ceri doesn't do everything after all, huh?!
Peace,
Sam
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[Truth or Fail]
Foxfire
Submarine
https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/david-bushnells-turtle-of-1776.html
There is a LOT about this submarine, and a lot of it is contradictory! A very fun Google rabbit hole to fall down.
[Fact Off]
Death fluorescence
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/blue-death-in-worms/
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001613
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3735983/
Picture: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3735983/figure/F1/
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6S3D8Fy8N4
Millipede glowing genitals
https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/187/1/117/5475011?searchresult=1
The Brain Scoop video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjNQUOYtZC0
[Ask the Science Couch]
Freezing glow sticks
https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/10/14/glowsticks/
https://www.thoughtco.com/how-do-lightsticks-work-607878
https://www2.chem.uic.edu/marek/apintropage/ap_notes/chapter18/rateseffectstempconcats.htm
[Butt One More Thing]
Glow Woims
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/16/science/glow-worms-new-zealand.html
What do proteins do? Heck, an easier question to answer would be 'what don't they do?" No, seriously... I think they do, like, everything.
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[Truth or Fail]
Protein game
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/victory-for-crowdsourced-biomolecule2/
Protein music
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190626125052.htm
Whey fabric
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/ded-ssa012317.php
[Fact Off]
Prions in wine yeast
Spider silk in vaccines
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180612185155.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/udg-ank061218.php
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961218302473?via%3Dihub
http://news.mit.edu/2019/spider-silk-humidity-robotic-muscle-0301
[Ask the Science Couch]
Complete proteins
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002467.htm
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002222.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/cfgr-utr031119.php
https://academic.oup.com/jn/article/134/6/1558S/4688841
[Butt One More Thing]
Sonic hedgehog anorectal malformation
What’s a frog? Well, it’s not quite a fish, and it’s not quite a lizard, but put them together and you have a stout, slimy little pal that everyone can agree on! Especially Ceri!
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Glue
Image of crucifix frog: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Cross_Frog.jpg
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05473-z
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6492-frog-glue-repairs-damaged-cartilage/
Sand
Image of tadpoles: https://www.thehindu.com/migration_catalog/article14128847.ece/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1200/31th-frog2.jpg
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160330-these-newly-discovered-frogs-have-really-weird-tadpoles
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151781
Suction
Image of paradox frog tadpole: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NHM_London_Paradoxical_frog_(Pseudis_paradoxa)_model.jpg
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31509/what-big-baby-life-and-times-paradox-frog
https://www.mtpr.org/post/field-notes-tale-montanas-strangest-frog
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Foam-nest frogs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D8b4e9nGwE
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0934
Frog cell robots
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200113175653.htm
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/4/1853
Video: https://movie-usa.glencoesoftware.com/video/10.1073/pnas.1910837117/video-1
[Ask the Science Couch]
Sticky frog tongues
https://theconversation.com/the-frog-tongue-is-a-high-speed-adhesive-72064
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2016.0764
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/watch-frog-s-tongue-ultrasoft-shock-absorber
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Frog skin buttock graft
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2355278/?page=1
The Tangents crew needed to get out and enjoy some summer sun, so this week we're reposting our classic Bees episode! Tune in next week for a new episode!
Do you ever just wonder, “are the bees doing okay?” They’re so important to our food industry and native ecosystems, and every couple of years it seems like something horribly bad is happening to them. So this week, we’re taking a look at the fascinating lives and deaths of bees! Can they recognize human faces or understand the concept of zero? Why are blister beetles mimicking sexy bee pheromones? And what do nightclubs and honeybee hives have in common?
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[Poem]
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/206/2/353.full.pdf
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[Fact Off]
Blister beetles:
Drunk bees:
[Ask the Science Couch]
CCD:
https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/colony-collapse-disorder
Glyphosate:
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/17/2799
https://www.glyphosate.eu/glyphosate-mechanism-action
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/41/10305
Native bees:
https://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/
http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Xerces_policy_statement_HB_Final.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722319/
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Isopentyl acetate:
https://www.extension.entm.purdue.edu/beehive/pdf/Breed_et_al.pdf
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/isoamyl_acetate#section=Top
From toenails to T-cells, human bodies have a whole lot of moving parts, which means there’s ample opportunity for things to go not-quite-according-to-plan!
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[Truth or Fail]
Salmonella
https://www.technologyreview.com/2007/09/25/223729/deadly-bacteria-from-outer-space/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5515522/
UTI
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-350/ch-13-5.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23658630/
Green Muscle
Supplemental
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Fake Typhus epidemic
https://archive.org/stream/NavyMedicine198004/Navy%20Medicine%201980-04#page/n27/mode/2up
https://www.cdc.gov/typhus/epidemic/index.html
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/lab/serology_agg.shtm
https://amednews.com/article/20040705/profession/307059953/6/
https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article-abstract/37/5/321/1898852?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Glaucoma T-cells
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180810091530.htm
The sea is filled with giant, super-smart aquatic mammals communicating across vast distances and using the stars to navigate. No jokes in this description! Whales are amazing!
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[Truth or Fail]
Dogs sniffing out poop
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4703337/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/meet-dogs-sniffing-out-whale-poop-science-180958050/
https://conservationbiology.uw.edu/research-programs/killer-whales/
https://www.biology.washington.edu/news/news/1504634400/tucker-orca-poop-detection-dog-seattlemet
Robots scooping poop
https://money.cnn.com/2016/09/30/technology/mit-robots-sewers/index.html
Whale litter box
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/faking-out-whales
[Fact Off]
Whale heartbeat
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/50/25329
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-11/su-rrf112219.php
Lunge feeding
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11135
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-05/uobc-gwh042815.php
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-ultimate-mouthful-lunge-feeding-in-rorqual-whales
https://www.popsci.com/whale-nerve-cells-can-stretch
https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0960982215002845
[Ask the Science Couch]
Whale navigation
https://www.wired.com/2011/04/humpback-whale-migration/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2011.0279
https://www.livescience.com/63791-underwater-volcanoes-tasmania.html
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Anal syrup
http://whitelab.biology.dal.ca/rwb/kogiastat.pdf
Humanity’s quest for flight has been, all things considered, extremely successful! Sure, we aren’t all zipping around in jetpacks yet… but honestly I don’t think we’re ready for jetpacks.
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[Truth or Fail]
Donut-shaped aircraft
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/flying-saucer-patents-alexander-weygers
https://patents.google.com/patent/US2377835A/en
Williams X-Jet
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4447024
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2000/sep/14/technology2
More pictures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Williams_X-Jet#/media/File:Williams_X-Jet_-_side_view.jpg
Flying magic carpet
https://books.google.com/books?id=biYDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA94&lpg=PA94&
https://www.theverge.com/2011/11/3/2504531/jetpack-history-future-passed
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First aerial photograph
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/dec/23/books-felix-nadar-france-photography-flight
https://papa.clubexpress.com/content.aspx?page_id=22&club_id=808138&module_id=158950
Drone organ transport
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/uomm-uom042619.php
https://www.jems.com/2020/01/29/new-partnership-in-drone-delivery-system-for-human-organs/
https://weare.techohio.ohio.gov/2019/10/30/vyrtx-pioneers-air-corridor-for-drone-delivery-of-organs/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Alberto Santos-Dumont
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alberto-Santos-Dumont
https://www.cnet.com/news/were-the-wright-brothers-really-first-not-in-brazil/
https://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/12/10/brazil.santosdumont.reut/
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Airplane stinky poop
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/article/31908620/ba-flight-forced-to-land-early-because-of-smelly-poo
From the joyful to the hateful to the extremely weird, the Internet is all of the complexity of human thought given shape! And boy do humans think about cats and sex a lot!
I hope you're all doing well!
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From itchy and annoying to potentially deadly, allergies seem to make our lives worse for pretty much no discernible reason!
[Truth or Fail]
Hot Dog Allergy
https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/hot-dog-allergie
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1994783/
Cat-Pork
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3594363/
Parent Spit
[Fact Off]
Thunderstorm asthma
https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/106/3/207/1565254
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cea.12709
Langerhans cells
https://www.popsci.com/allergy-immunotherapy-toothpaste/
https://allovate.com/how-allerdent-works/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Allergies & public horticulture
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/seasonal-allergies-blame-male-trees
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016920461100137X
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/asoa-hpc082615.php
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Milk allergy fecal transplant
Are you suffering from mild boredom, a grumpy frown, and a general lack of extremely niche scientific knowledge? Well, SciShow Tangents has the cure for what ails you!
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[Truth or Fail]
Cleaner Shrimp
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180823092057.htm
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00227-018-3379-y
Dolphin letter
Stressed Mice
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/07/050729063608.htm
https://www.fda.gov/consumers/consumer-updates/hyperbaric-oxygen-therapy-dont-be-misled
[Fact Off]
Ant Medics
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/ajp.1350160407
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/02/matabele-ants-rescue-heal-injured-soldiers/
https://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-paramedic-ants-20180216-story.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2017.2457
Two-Headed Flatworms
https://www.cell.com/biophysj/fulltext/S0006-3495(17)30427-7
https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002481
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005273612000855
[Ask the Science Couch]
Scar tissue vs. normal tissue
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07430-w
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3840475/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4352699/
Reducing scarring
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3842869/
Fetal wound healing
https://hsci.harvard.edu/skin-regeneration-and-rejuvenation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4229131/
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Cow poop poultice
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/poultice
Kicking the ball, passing another type of ball, running around the big arena and making a point! SciShow Tangents knows one thing and that one thing is SPORTS!
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[Truth or Fail]
Crowd Noise
https://www.earq.com/hearing-health/articles/going-to-a-football-game
RoboCup
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=350&v=H8xc6LpiNVs&feature=emb_title
https://www.robocup.org/leagues/3
HudGlasses
https://newatlas.com/form-ar-swim-goggles/60985/
https://www.dcrainmaker.com/2018/04/everysight-cycling-display.html
[Fact Off]
Rats playing hide-and-seek
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/09/lab-rats-play-hide-and-seek-fun-it-new-study-shows
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/so-you-think-you-know-why-animals-play/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/07/science/animals-play-games.html
https://science.sciencemag.org/lookup/doi/10.1126/science.aax4705
Empathy video game
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uow-avg080918.php
https://news.wisc.edu/a-video-game-can-change-the-brain-may-improve-empathy-in-middle-schoolers/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Getting competitive about games
www.nbcnews.com/better/pop-culture/why-board-games-bring-out-worst-us-ncna828726
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-06/uoc--yga061314.php
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/ucl-ddm053116.php
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/s-tsh062818.php
Parasocial relationships & sports fans
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1963&context=thesesdissertations
https://surface.syr.edu/thesis/358/
https://www.units.miamioh.edu/psybersite/fans/sit.shtml
https://digitalscholarship.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2368&context=thesesdissertations
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Butt controller
https://phys.org/news/2013-12-valve-mouth-mouse-butt-gadgets-video.html
Mammals pretty much have the market cornered on hair, and you know all the other types of animals are jealous of us. Imagine a little lizard with bangs or something? It just wouldn’t be right. Sorry!
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[Truth or Fail]
Camarillo white horse
https://vgl.ucdavis.edu/services/horse/CamarilloWhite.php
https://www.camarillowhitehorses.org/history_camarillo_white_horses.html
African crested rat
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2011.1169
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/08/case-poisonous-rat
https://www.livescience.com/15360-crested-rat-poison-hairs-kills.html
Malabar giant squirrel
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2019/04/indian-giant-squirrels-colors-camouflage/
[Fact Off]
Hyena poop hair preservation
Graphene hair dye
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-03/nu-gfn031218.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Grey hair
www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-does-hair-turn-gray/
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/307/5710/720
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(05)00293-X?
https://www.fasebj.org/doi/full/10.1096/fj.08-125435
Stress
www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jan/22/stress-speeds-up-hair-greying-process-science-confirms
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-1935-3
https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/hair-turn-gray-2017091812226
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Trichobezoar
Salt: a mineral so nice that much of early human civilization was based on its procurement! Now we put big chunks of it on tasty pretzels at the mall!
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[Truth or Fail]
Lake Peigneur
https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/
https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/sinkhole-swallowed-11-barges/
Brinacles
https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/underwater-brinicles.htm
Salt Hotel
[Fact Off]
Coconut water IV
http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/14/12/5144
https://podcasts.ufhealth.org/can-coconut-water-mimic-human-plasma/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735675700900627
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK154437/
Salt flats for satellite calibration
https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/172/1/31/2081107
https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071130/full/news.2007.315.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Salt in a wound history
https://books.google.com/books?id=29gV_kCmZrIC&pg=PA141
https://www.abc.net.au/life/will-sea-water-help-heal-open-sores/11279036
http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abestwa8t.html
Saline solution
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4794509/
Nociception
https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/m/s2/chapter06.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK32659/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2903433/
[Butt One More Thing]
Rectal salt glands
https://www.jstor.org/stable/1541076?seq=1
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5216465/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00364827.1963.10410275?journalCode=ssar20
Humans have been digging deep holes for fun and profit since time began, and some animals have been doing it for way longer than that! And all of those holes can't hold a candle to some of the natural holes the Earth's got going on. And those are nothing compared to space, which some (Sam) would argue is the biggest hole of all!
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[Truth or Fail]
Band of holes: https://www.sciencealert.com/is-this-mile-long-strip-of-holes-an-ancient-inca-tax-system
Molecular drills: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.9b22595#
Roman skin cream: http://cenblog.org/artful-science/2013/01/14/ancient-roman-cosmetics-skin-cream-from-the-2nd-century-a-d/
[Fact Off]
Ant colony fallen through hole
Pictures in this paper: https://jhr.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=9096&display_type=element&element_type=4&element_id=43&element_name=
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s000400050022
https://www.popsci.com/story/science/ant-colony-escape/
https://jhr.pensoft.net/article/38972/
Star-nosed mole nose holes
The video!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMz0Q7VbT9w
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/26/science/26bubble.html
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10834-star-nosed-mole-can-sniff-underwater-videos-reveal/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171120090051.htm
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/04/170424084028.htm
[Ask the Science Couch]
Sinkholes / blue holes
https://www.whoi.edu/oceanus/feature/blue-holes-and-hurricanes/
http://geology.wlu.edu/intro3d/sinkhole/sinkhole.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/explore-worlds-deepest-blue-holes-180959977/
Flooded pit caves
Mariana trench
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/activity/mariana-trench-deepest-place-earth/
Kola Superdeep Borehole
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Scorpion anus
This Arbor Day, give your favorite tree the gift they really want: this tree-themed episode of SciShow Tangents. Just put the headphones around its trunk or in a knothole!
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[Truth or Fail]
Dragon’s Blood Tree
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/socotra-yemen-biodiversity-photography/
Dynamite Tree
https://rare.us/rare-news/science-and-nature/sandbox-tree-hura-crepitans/
Coconut Fatalities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_coconut
[Fact Off]
Vampire stump
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(19)30146-4
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/cp-ats071819.php
https://www.livescience.com/66025-kauri-tree-superorganism-root-grafting.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/science/tree-stump-alive.html
Ghost redwoods
https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/11/28/albino-redwoods-hold-scientific-mystery/
https://sempervirens.org/discover-redwoods/ghost-redwoods-solving-the-albino-redwoods-mystery/
https://ucanr.edu/sites/Redwood2016/files/250645.pdf
https://ucanr.edu/sites/Redwood2016/files/243400.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Tree definition
https://www.americanforests.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/AF-Tree-Measuring-Guidelines_LR.pdf
Willows
https://oregonstate.edu/trees/broadleaf_genera/willow.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/worlds-smallest-tree-species-1343503
Bonsai / Pygmy Forests
https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/pubs_ext_vt_edu/426/426-601/426-601_pdf.pdf
Other trees
https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.html?number=C944&title=Crape%20Myrtle%20Culture
http://www.pnwplants.wsu.edu/PlantDisplay.aspx?PlantID=169
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Butt rot
https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/2007/7-11/root_butt_rot.html
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5347109.pdf
Real robots have more and more in common with science fiction robots every day. Not enough that you need to worry about them rising up against humans, but you should maybe consider being nicer to your smartphone...
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[Truth or Fail]
Plesiosaur Swimming
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/odd-swimming-style-plesiosaurs-decoded-robot
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.0951
RangerBot
https://www.hakaimagazine.com/news/rangerbot-programmed-to-kill/
https://www.sciencealert.com/rangerbot-great-barrier-reef-conservation-crown-of-thorns-starfish
https://www.qut.edu.au/news?id=137688
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7zjKTvj0lB4
Firefighting Robot
https://www.theverge.com/2015/2/5/7986345/firefighting-robot-saffir-prototype-us-navy
Lifeguard Robot
https://mentitude.com/ocean-alpha-dolphin-1-unmanned-usrv/
[Fact Off]
Clothing robot
http://www.news.gatech.edu/2018/05/14/robot-teaches-itself-how-dress-people
https://futurism.com/pr2-ai-robot-dressing-gown
https://robots.ieee.org/robots/pr2/
Video of the dressing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYj7gHQ_fwY
Parasitic turtle robots
https://phys.org/news/2017-05-parasitic-robot-waypoint-turtle.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Synthetic skin
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=85&contentid=P01336
https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/4/32/eaax2198
https://www.tum.de/nc/en/about-tum/news/press-releases/details/35732/
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8812712
OmniSkin
https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/3/22/eaat1853
https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/24/17895328/robotic-skin-flexible-soft-robotics-yale-nasa-space
[Butt One More Thing]
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-robotic-rectum-lets-doctors-get-a-feel-for-prostate-exams
It's Spring here in the Northern Hemisphere, and the rivers swell with crystal clear snowmelt from tall mountain peaks... and we're all stuck inside and can't really look at it! Dang it! So I guess close your eyes and imagine floating down a beautiful river with your favorite podcast hosts as they drone on and on about bridges and salmon and stuff.
Again, a big thanks for choosing us as the thing to spend your time with! Be well, everyone!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links!
[Truth or Fail]
Kites
http://www.kitehistory.com/Miscellaneous/Homan_Walsh.htm
https://www.uu.edu/dept/physics/scienceguys/2004Apr.cfm
https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Kite_that_Bridged_Two_Nations.html?id=7tukmQEACAAJ
Stone-carving
https://www.asce.org/project/five-stone-arch-bridges/
Explosions
http://www.bbc.com/travel/sponsored/story/20160815-the-buddha-that-calmed-the-seas
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/02/why-is-ottawa-blowing-up-its-river/338889/
https://www.nap.edu/read/6289/chapter/3#16
[Fact Off]
Salmon & sea lions
https://wildlife.org/sea-lions-to-be-culled-to-protect-salmon/
https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2018/03/battle_of_species_pits_protect.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/killing-sea-lions-save-salmon/581740/
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/fish-ladder.html
Wildebeest bones
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/29/7647
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.00031/full#h6
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352249618300429?via%3Dihub
https://news.uga.edu/animal-carcasses-source-river-nutrients/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Rivers on Titan
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-mysterious-lakes-on-saturns-moon-titan
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/cassini-explores-a-methane-sea-on-titan
https://www.space.com/36904-titan-evolution-more-like-mars-than-earth.html
[Butt One More Thing]
The Great Stink
Ducks! Basically a joke of an animal, if we're being perfectly honest. They make silly noises, they waddle around, they are extremely cute and goofy looking, and they love to swim around in big piles of money!
And look, you might see the title and think 'a duck isn't science.' Well i've learned a thing or two from those eggheads on the science couch and I can definitely say that you are wrong! It turns out, everything is science! Seems like a cop out, but it's true.
Anyway, we sincerely hope everyone out there is doing well and staying safe! Love you guys!
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[Definition]
Duck mating
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2009.2139
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000418
https://www.nature.com/articles/news.2009.1159
[Truth or Fail]
Sperm
https://www.livescience.com/1279-rival-sperm-hook-cooperate.html
Mallard Bills
https://www.livescience.com/13681-duck-ejaculate-sperm-antibiotic-beaks-110412.html
[Fact Off]
Duck Imprinting
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/getting-ducklings-row-look-inside-animal-mind-2/
http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2017/getting-ducklings-row-look-inside-animal-mind-2/
Duck hearing
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/uod-wdd092518.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Quacks
sounds: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Mallard/sounds
https://www.ducks.org/conservation/waterfowl-research-science/waterfowl-vocalizations
Syrinx
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/bird-voice-box-one-kind-animal-kingdom
Duck quack echoes
sounds: http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acoustics_info/duck/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3086890.stm
[Butt One More Thing]
Fly that only breeds in duck poop
This episode has a little bit of everything: the French Revolution, haunted amulets, mummies (maybe??)... why, it's like a regular Night at the Museum! Have fun!
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[Truth or Fail]
Da Vinci’s Faces
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100715090917.htm
First Museum:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-story-behind-the-worlds-oldest-museum-built-by-a-b-5805358
Woman Hit By Meteorite
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1995LPI....26.1133P/0001133.000.html?high=484678bbd531063
[Fact Off]
Blaschka glass scientific models
http://www.cmog.org/article/blaschkas-glass-models-invertebrate-animals-1863-1890
https://web.archive.org/web/20160411221330/http://www.journalofantiques.com/Feb04/featurefeb04.htm
These three links include info + pictures:
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/blaschka
http://hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers
https://hmnh.harvard.edu/fruits-decay
[Ask the Science Couch]
Painting restoration
https://www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care/conservation_meaning.html
https://www.invaluable.com/blog/the-science-behind-art-restoration/
Sculptures
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/modern-chemistry-techniques-save-ancient-art/
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/the-art-of-conservation/3009092.article
Bacteria
https://www.wired.com/2011/11/st-artrestoremicro/
[Butt One More Thing]
Coprolite inside another fossil
Space… it’s big, it’s confusing, and there isn’t any gravity! That’s why we have a dedicated team of people up in the International Space Station running all kinds of experiments to try and figure out just what the heck is even going on up there.
You truly have no idea how much of us ordering Popeye’s I had to cut out of this. This was definitely our longest recording session ever and I was livid!
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[Truth or Fail]
Chicken Fat
https://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/aafex_biofuels.html
Bone loss
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=187
Perfume
https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/spacescents_feature.html
https://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff2002/ch_1.html
[Fact Off]
Wake Shield Facility
https://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19920014405
https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/pg46s95.html
https://uwaterloo.ca/molecular-beam-epitaxy/about/what-epitaxy
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/03jan_bioniceyes
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0042207X01003839
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457650000148X
Image: https://archive.org/details/STS069-724-095
Mouse sperm experiment
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/23/5988
http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/theme/second/pmlatter/spacepup/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Human pregnancy
https://emergency.cdc.gov/radiation/pdf/prenatal.pdf
https://www.livescience.com/33047-space-sex-pregnancy.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/can-women-get-pregnant-in-space-3072590
NASA sperm study
https://futurism.com/sperm-space-nasa
Space childbirth startup
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/space-childbirth-babies/579064/
Other animal development
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/what-space-jellyfish-tell-us-about-interplanetary-travel/
https://www.popsci.com/article/technology/space-born-jellyfish-hate-life-earth/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wnjkkw/making-babies-in-space-may-be-a-terrible-idea
[Butt One More Thing]
Flatworms in space
SciShow Tangents editorial assistant/genius Deboki Chakravarti joins us once more to talk about that sweet sand we all love so much: sugar!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Definition]
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2548255
https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/big-sugar-isnt-to-blame-for-steering-us-away-from-fat.html
[Truth or Fail]
Nicotine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434031/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/nicotine.htm
Hearing Flowers
City Bee, Country Bee
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/ncsu-njd051816.php
[Fact Off]
Honeypot ants
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/honey-ant-adaptations-wbt/
https://www.nature.com/articles/025405a0
https://books.google.com/books?id=E_6-pGOLUgcC&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://abt.ucpress.edu/content/48/6/335
Picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HoneyAnt.jpg
Picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_ant#/media/File:Honey_Ants_(7344580116).jpg
Sugar dust explosion
[Ask the Science Couch]
Hanger
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4788579/
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Femo0000422
Hyperactivity
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002221948301600604
https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/what-is-the-feingold-diet#1
https://www.livescience.com/55754-does-sugar-make-kids-hyper.html
Addiction
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/14/910
https://news.psu.edu/story/141336/2006/01/16/research/probing-question-sugar-addictive
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sugar-addiction-drug_n_4173632
Orexin system
https://www.wired.com/2011/12/why-sugar-makes-us-sleepy-and-protein-wakes-us-up/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2551664/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/cp-nme052506.php
https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/52/1/111.long
Memory
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16225962
https://books.google.com/books?id=Mf3lxvWfA9oC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113
[Butt One More Thing]
Rectal prolapse
http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/MBCP/ReduceYourRectalProlapse.pdf
Viruses are the subject of confusion & misinformation. Luckily, we have a friend who knows a lot about them! We sit down with microbiology genius Deboki Chakravarti to talk viruses.
Be sure to check out more of Deboki’s work on Journey to the Microcosmos, and the upcoming Crash Course Organic Chemistry!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Tulips
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/11/science/broken-tulips.html
https://amsterdamtulipmuseumonline.com/blogs/tulip-facts/broken-tulips-the-beautiful-curse
Coffins
https://blogs.weta.org/boundarystones/2016/12/21/then-there-were-no-coffinshttps://www.acf.org/the-american-chestnut/
[Fact Off]
Multicomponent Viruses
https://www.cell.com/cell-host-microbe/fulltext/S1931-3128(16)30310-9
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160825141714.htm
Polydnaviruses
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4424053/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3758193/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123846846000264
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780123848581000096
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4553618/
[Butt One More Thing]
Caribou poop frozen virus
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2014/10/virus-resurrected-700-year-old-caribou-dung
Oceans: they cover 70% of the planet, but what do we really know about them? Like what’s with all the salt, huh? And just what is the difference between a ‘sea’ and an ocean anyway?! I have questions!
This one has a real doozy of a Stefan poem. I cut out a lot of us interrupting him with raucous laughter!
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[Truth or Fail]
Boat cloak
https://www.rmg.co.uk/discover/behind-the-scenes/blog/boat-cloak-or-cloak-boat
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/NENZC18511220.2.5
Image: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/50/Halkett_Boat_Cloak.jpg
Water chair
https://archive.org/details/watercurejournal12newy/page/1/mode/2up
Images: https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/this-ridiculous-victorian-era-rocking-bath-wasnt-just-f-1515091109
Modesty barrel
https://www.messynessychic.com/2014/04/15/victorian-prudes-beachside-bathing-machines/
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-strange-and-wonderful-history-of-diving-suits-from-1262529336
https://devonassoc.org.uk/devoninfo/john-lethbridge-and-his-diving-machine-1880/
[Fact Off]
Pumice rafts
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145490/a-raft-of-rockhttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/dbnl-hxh052317.php
Albatross tracking system
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/01/31/albatross-marine-poaching/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Salty ocean
Things get a little weird this episode, and by ‘little’ I mean very little!
One thing I learned in this episode is that everything in the universe is touching each other, yet the particles in your body never truly touch! Mama Mia!
Well anyway, I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for listening!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
https://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html#Time
https://history.fnal.gov/meson.html
pictures: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/felicia-ferret-particle-accelerator-fermilab
[Fact Off]
Surface plasmon resonance
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13746
Dark matter supercold water
[Ask the Science Couch]
Do atoms touch?
https://www.sciencealert.com/99-9999999-of-your-body-is-empty-space
https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/04/16/do-atoms-ever-actually-touch-each-other/
https://www.britannica.com/science/Pauli-exclusion-principle
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/pauli.html
https://www.britannica.com/science/fermion
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/23/5766
[Butt One More Thing]
Proton-powered poops
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080109104251.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867407014791
This Valentine’s Day, what could be better than cuddling up with someone special and listening to the Tangents Crew talk about various medical procedures in gory detail! Pucker up!
They say the fastest way to a man’s heart is through his stomach, but I think if you ask a doctor they would probably say that’s wrong! But what do I know?
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Dr. Clarence Walton Lillehei and Heart Surgery
https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002950.htm
https://www.healthline.com/health/open-heart-surgery#when-it's-needed
http://www.understandinganimalresearch.org.uk/why/human-health/history-of-the-heart-lung-machine/
https://www.texasheart.org/heart-health/heart-information-center/frequently-asked-patient-questions/how-is-the-heart-stopped-during-open-heart-surgery/
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circ.102.suppl_4.IV-87
Cold Operating Room
https://www.jtcvs.org/article/S0022-5223(11)00421-1/pdf
https://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/0003-4975(89)90151-3/pdf
Patient-Donor Pump
https://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/S0003-4975(09)01080-7/pdf
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/01.CIR.100.13.1364
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/10.1161/circ.102.suppl_4.IV-87
https://www.jtcvs.org/article/S0022-5223(04)00093-5/pdf
https://books.google.com/books?id=M5sbCxd5cioC
[Fact Off]
Chopin’s heart
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/06/arts/chopin-heart-tuberculosis.html
https://apnews.com/bc0f09217f564329ae6fa2aefa6349a6/chopins-heart-exhumed-secret-relic
https://www.livescience.com/60953-chopin-pickled-heart-reveals-cause-of-death.html
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(17)31025-2/abstract
https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(17)31278-0/abstract
Heart catheterization
https://www.annalsthoracicsurgery.org/article/0003-4975(90)90272-8/pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/clc.4960150715
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1956/forssmann/facts/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/cardiac-catheterization/about/pac-20384695
[Ask the Science Couch]
Non-human hearts (octopuses, earthworms, etc.)
https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/why-does-an-octopus-have-more-than-one-heart/
https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~rlenet/Earthworms.html
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)60870-7/fulltext
Humans multiple hearts
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20131122-can-humans-have-two-hearts
https://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/circulatory/two-lungs-one-heart1.htm
[Butt One More Thing]
Poo-phoria
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/02/18/poo-phoria-passing-a-stool_n_4808627.html
Meat... seems pretty simple on the surface, but what do we really know about it? Like.. are living things made of meat? Or is meat only meat once it's being eaten? What was the first meat? What was the first thing to eat the first meat? Is eating prehistoric meat a good idea? Do we find the answer to any of these questions in this episode? I can't remember, frankly, but probably a few.
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Foal
Bison
https://www.uaf.edu/museum/press/spotlight/blue-babe/
https://historythings.com/aged-beef-delicacy-eating-meat-36000-year-old-bison/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-bison-stew-blue-babe-alaska
Crocodile
[Fact Off]
Carnivorous Herbivores
https://www.outdoornews.com/2015/03/19/who-knew-tape-shows-deer-raiding-birds-nests/
Dyeing Salmon
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=738
https://nextnature.net/2012/06/dyeing-salmon-pink-for-farms-and-profit
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/The-salmon-struggle-A-fish-by-any-other-color-is-1115339.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Gamey meat
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0309174015301376
https://extension.umn.edu/preserving-and-preparing/cooking-venison-flavor-and-safety
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6154429/
https://bastyr.edu/news/general-news-health-tips-spotlight-1/2015/08/why-choose-grass-fed-meat
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.361.2312&rep=rep1&type=pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Pork butt
https://www.southernliving.com/bbq/why-is-it-called-boston-butt
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/22382/how-9-cuts-meat-got-their-names
So look, Stefan sings a song in this episode, so I’m not sure what more you need. He looked cool as heck when he was doing it and I was really proud of him!
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[Truth or Fail]
Music & Creativity
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/lu-hlt022619.php
Inspirational Music & Sports performance
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-01/f-mmi012918.php
Music & Driving
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-08/aabu-tdm082213.php
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/e5b0/98e4ef211279d26a14d7502a80232a90dc2d.pdf
[Fact Off]
Nanoguitar
Telharmonium
http://synthmuseum.com/magazine/0102jw.html
http://120years.net/the-telharmonium-thaddeus-cahill-usa-1897/
http://www.csun.edu/~dwh50750/Classes/MUS191/Emusic_readings/ECenturyPartI.html
Scientific american article: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0c/Telharmonium_-_Scientific_American_1907.png
[Ask the Science Couch]
Timbre
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Sound/timbre.html
https://cecm.indiana.edu/etext/acoustics/chapter1_timbre.shtml
Beetlejuice
https://twitter.com/VoiceSLPChris/status/1111285302352625665/video/1
[Butt One More Thing]
Brown note
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ppv35z/in-search-of-the-brown-noise
From diet, to shoes, to movement efficiency, people devote their lives to researching and perfecting the art of running. Meanwhile, cheetahs run 75 mph and they sleep all day. No fair!
Ceri caught a plane to run a marathon right after we recorded this! I probably went home and watched TV for four hours. Oh well!
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Wise men have long pondered how magnets work. We all know the answer is “magic,” but Ceri and Hank have to keep up the illusion that science is real, so please humor them.
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[Truth or Fail]
Magnet Therapy
https://www.livescience.com/40174-magnetic-therapy.html
God Machine
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2003/godonbrain.shtml
https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/inside-the-mind/human-brain/brain-religion2.htm
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/2153599X.2017.1403952
https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2018/01/test-of-god-helmet-at-music-fest-yields-strange-results/
Electro-Metabograph
Radium Ore Revigator
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/1/100118-radiation-toxic-water-revigator/
[Fact Off]
Airport runways/WMM
https://www.wired.com/story/airports-rename-runways-magnetic-shift/
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/airport-runway-names-shift-magnetic-field
https://cires.colorado.edu/news/airport-runway-names-shift-earth%E2%80%99s-magnetic-field
https://flightsafety.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/asw_may08_p18-22.pdf
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/geomag/GeomagneticPoles.shtml
https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/news/world-magnetic-model-2020-released
Ferrofluids
http://aerospace.mtu.edu/research/ionic-liquid-ferrofluid-microthrusters/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/ferrofluid
https://aip.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.4985141
[Ask the Science Couch]
Demagnetizing
https://www.wired.com/story/the-physics-of-falling-magnets-in-stranger-things-season-3/
https://nationalmaglab.org/education/magnet-academy/plan-a-lesson/demagnetizing
http://www.magmamagnets.com/electromagnets-solenoids/
[Butt One More Thing]
Magnetic anal sphincter
Listening to Tangents is like making an investment with your brain. And the dividend? Knowledge. Invest today, won't you?
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[Truth or Fail]
Supernotes
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/23/magazine/23counterfeit.html
https://www.uscurrency.gov/history
Counterfeit $1 bills
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/finding-mr-880-case-1-counterfeit-article-1.109016
https://www.nysun.com/on-the-town/little-old-moneymaker/9282/
pictures: https://thehustle.co/worst-counterfeiter-in-history-mr-880/
https://www.secretservice.gov/about/history/events/
Costume jewelry scam
https://books.google.com/books?id=ELgiAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA85&lpg=PA85
https://o.canada.com/technology/nigerian-email-scams-royally-obvious-for-good-reason-study-says-3
[Fact Off]
Xerox machine anti-counterfeiting
Yap stone money
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0012186
[Ask the Science Couch]
Plastic vs. paper bills
https://www.banknoteworld.com/blog/the-pros-and-cons-of-polymer-banknotes/
https://www.euronews.com/2018/05/16/polymer-vs-paper-banknotes-which-one-is-better-for-environment-
https://www.moneyboat.co.uk/blog/paper-vs-polymer/
Composting or washing U.S. money
https://www.cnet.com/news/cash-to-trash-watch-millions-of-dollars-turn-into-compost/
[Butt One More Thing]
Penny swallowing
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-12-01-9812010102-story.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/12/981201033841.htm
SciShow Tangents’ exploration of the electromagnetic spectrum continues with good old, dependable light! What is it? Where does it come from? Only Ceri knows (sort of)!
Also, happy New Year to all of our amazing listeners! Thank you for your support over the last year, and here's to another year of laughing and learning with all of you!
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[Truth or Fail]
E. coli
https://arxiv.org/abs/1104.3113
https://phys.org/news/2014-04-bacterial-fm-radio.html
Cactus Radio
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1shcxHWQas
Frequency Comb
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/19/9181
[Fact Off]
Battle of the Beams
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/63/a3714563.shtml
https://www.nytimes.com/1997/12/19/us/r-v-jones-science-trickster-who-foiled-nazis-dies-at-86.html
http://vc.airvectors.net/ttwiz_07.html
W5LFL
https://amsat-uk.org/2013/01/19/amateur-radio-on-bbc-between-the-ears-space-ham/#more-12135
https://www.amsat.org/owen-k-garriott-w5lfl/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Analog radio
https://public.wsu.edu/~bryan.mclaughlin/Radio/Who_Invented_Radio.html
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/tryit/radio/radiorelayer.html
Digital/HD radio
https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/digital-radio
https://electronics.howstuffworks.com/hd-radio.htm
https://hdradio.com/trademark/
https://www.cnet.com/news/digital-radio-all-you-need-to-know/
[Butt One More Thing]
Pigeon poop / cosmic microwave background
Humans have wielded the power of radio waves for more than a century, but what exactly are they and how do we use them to transmit information? It turns out, even geniuses like Hank and Ceri have a hard time explaining that!
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[Truth or Fail]
EROS
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25788334
MOZE
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0389-0
FReSH
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10428.html
[Fact Off]
Eidophor
https://www.earlytelevision.org/eidophor.html
https://hackaday.com/2016/03/15/retrotechtacular-eidophor-an-unknown-widely-used-projector/
http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f1/t004319.html
http://www.earlytelevision.org/yanczer_eidophor.html
Centennial light
http://www.centennialbulb.org/index.htm
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/66009/light-bulb-has-been-burning-1901
https://www.lampsplus.com/ideas-and-advice/how-an-incandescent-light-bulb-works/
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracy
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707188193/the-phoebus-cartel
[Ask the Science Couch]
Brightest artificial light
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/brightest-light-ever-computer-chips
https://www.nature.com/articles/nphoton.2017.100
https://www.unl.edu/diocles/home
[Butt One More Thing]
Firefly butt vs. LED
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0030402619300452?via%3Dihub
https://www.futurity.org/light-bulbs-leds-fireflies-1988062/
Jingle Bells, Frosty the Snowman, Let it Snow; the timeless sounds of the holiday. And to that pantheon of greats is added another track: this 30-minute-long, spoken-word science podcast!
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[Truth or Fail]
Poinsettia monopoly
https://www.npr.org/2017/12/22/573046507/how-poinsettias-became-synonymous-with-christmas
http://www.mobileranger.com/blog/the-plant-of-christmas-the-poinsettia/
https://www.actahort.org/books/226/226_34.htm
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2008-dec-23-me-poinsettia23-story.html
https://pubag.nal.usda.gov/download/12136/PDF
Vanilla flavor
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-cream-bananas_n_55f8d911e4b0d6492d638853
https://www.webmd.com/children/features/is-poinsettia-really-poisonous
Latex/rubber
https://web.extension.illinois.edu/poinsettia/facts.cfm
http://www.industrialrubbergoods.com/natural-rubber.html
https://www.thespruce.com/facts-about-poinsettias-that-may-surprise-you-2132343
[Fact Off]
Tinniculite
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134%2FS1075701517070078
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/msa/ammin/article/102/2/466/264546/new-mineral-names
https://www.mdpi.com/2075-163X/9/6/373/htm
Pine needle recycling
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/329280439_Fuels_and_Value-Added_Chemicals_from_Biomass
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1876610217350713
[Ask the Science Couch]
Natural vs. artificial tree
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/26/business/energy-environment/fake-christmas-tree-vs-real-tree.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Mistletoe
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/metro/urban-jungle/pages/121218.html
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/culturing-science/mistletoe-natural-history/
https://www.etymonline.com/word/mistletoe
https://www.etymonline.com/word/missel?ref=etymonline_crossreference
From ancient clay pots to the heat-proof panels on the space shuttle, ceramics have been an integral part of human technology from the very beginning. I can’t even think of any jokes about ceramic! It’s just cool!
More importantly! Over the last week or so, Hank has absolutely ruined everyones’ Twitter timelines with one simple question: “is butt legs?” In this episode, you get to bear ear-witness to the genesis of this wretched, society-shattering question! #buttislegs
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[Truth or Fail]
Non-deflatable football
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflategate
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Air-Bag.html
Strong water
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Aluminum-oxide#section=Mechanism-of-Action
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.470.4214&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Pajamas
https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/tb12
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3699878/
[Fact Off]
Moon art
Magnetic field
https://www.livescience.com/57868-earth-magnetic-field-spike-ancient-times.html
https://www.space.com/43173-earth-magnetic-field-flips-when.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Glazes
https://edu.rsc.org/feature/the-chemistry-of-pottery/2020245.article
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/glaze
Specific materials (tin, salt, etc.)
https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/ceramic-and-glaze-fluxes-2745860
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1560&context=open_access_etds
https://www.britannica.com/art/tin-glazed-earthenware
[Butt One More Thing]
Ceramic butt wiping
Bones… seems like a simple enough topic, right? Well, would you believe me if I told you that scientists can’t even agree on how and why bones evolved in the first place?! And teeth? Don’t even get us started on teeth...
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[Truth or Fail]
Bone Conduction
https://www.kqed.org/science/1926248/how-elephants-listen-with-their-feet
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2001/03/010312071729.htm
Chew Bones
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/07/giraffes-eat-skeletons-bones-spd/
Glowing Bones
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/01/chameleon-bones-florescent-ultraviolet-light-spd/
[Fact Off]
Myotragus goat
https://www.pnas.org/content/106/48/20354
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1325260/
https://phys.org/news/2009-11-extinct-goat-cold-blooded.html
pics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myotragus
Subvocalization remote
https://dam-prod.media.mit.edu/x/2018/03/23/p43-kapur_BRjFwE6.pdf
https://www.sciencealert.com/silent-voice-headset-subvocalisation-computer-interface-mit
[Ask the Science Couch]
Bone evolution:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3237026/
https://austhrutime.com/bone.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC509207/
Aspidin:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6109381/
Teeth:
https://www.nature.com/news/fossil-scans-reveal-origins-of-teeth-1.13964
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn24268-fish-fossil-suggests-our-skeleton-evolved-face-first/
[Butt One More Thing]
Lizard Tails:
https://www.futurity.org/salamanders-lizards-tails-regeneration-1838762/
When it comes to proper nutrition, just about the only thing everyone can agree on is that people need to eat food. Everything else, from eggs to carbs to vitamins, is basically up in the air!
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[Fact Off]
Osedax worms
https://sfamjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2005.00824.x
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0967063707001483
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/305/5684/668/tab-pdf
“Vitamin” B17 aka. Laetrile
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.3322/canjclin.31.2.91?sid=nlm%3Apubmed
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/hp/laetrile-pdq#_10
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK65988/
https://www.amboss.com/us/knowledge/Vitamins
[Ask the Science Couch]
History of nutrition science
https://www.bmj.com/content/361/bmj.k2392
Nutrition research is complicated
https://www.vox.com/2016/1/14/10760622/nutrition-science-complicated
[Butt One More Thing]
Sewage sludge protein
https://www.feednavigator.com/Article/2017/04/06/Sewage-sludge-to-animal-feed
Be Advised! This episode was recorded before we decided to reset the scores for Season 2 and rename them Sambucks. Please don't tweet at us about this (and if you do tweet at us about it, be nice)!
People absolutely love going places and doing stuff! And in our zeal to go places and do stuff even faster, we've invented some wild things. Come with us on journey of discovery as we sail the seven seas of science and fly the friendly skies of... innovation...?
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[Truth or Fail]
Loading Patterns
https://www.who.int/ith/mode_of_travel/tcd_aircraft/en/
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/14/3623
Reducing Fiber
https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-you-should-fart-in-planes-2013-2
Dirtiest Part of a Plane
https://www.travelmath.com/feature/airline-hygiene-exposed/
[Fact Off]
Ski lift
https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2953.htm
Pictures/info:https://books.google.com/books?id=slgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23
https://books.google.com/books?id=XFgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38
https://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/releases/heritage_and_steam/2006/0228_skilift.shtml
Flight suit
https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/si-98-15012hjpg
https://www.airspacemag.com/videos/category/new-label/this-pressure-suit-helped-pilots-survive-new/
[Ask the Science Couch]
License plate restrictions
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095756416000039
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967070X01000245?via%3Dihub
Braess’ Paradox
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Dietrich.Braess/Paradox-BNW.pdf
https://phys.org/news/2010-09-scientist-braess-paradox-high-traffic.html
Removing roads
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/nov/01/society.travelsenvironmentalimpact
https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/cheonggyecheon-stream-restoration
[Butt One More Thing]
Fart volume
YRHA WJ, XAWOQT KXTAQOQCT! XP DEW TEKIQ LD TWJQC TQNCQA LQTTHVQ, AYQQA LQ "KEEMT KXMQ TAECLD YQHARQC" HOF DEW YXKK SQ XOFWNAQF XOAE ARQ THL NHFQAT, LD OQY QZNKWTXIQ PHO NKWS!
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Ancient man harnessing and wielding the elemental power of the flame was pretty cool, I guess, but I think this being Tangent's one year anniversary is a little cooler, honestly! Plus, we announce who won the first season, so actually this episode is sort of twice as important as fire if you think about it!
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[Truth or Fail]
Fire-chasing beetles
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0037627
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/how-a-half-inch-beetle-finds-fires-80-miles-away/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3998979?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://academic.oup.com/jee/article-abstract/36/2/341/2202937
[Fact Off]
Surgical fires
https://www.livescience.com/65615-chest-cavity-fire-surgery.html
Death ray building
https://www.livescience.com/39371-skyscraper-melts-cars-20-fenchurch.html
https://www.mississauga.com/news-story/4067822-london-s-fryscaper-draws-crowd-on-hottest-day/
https://www.cityam.com/exclusive-walkie-scorchie-melted-my-jag/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Flame Extinguishment Experiment (FLEX)
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/FLEX_Video.html
Cool flames
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010218012002131
[Butt One More Thing]
Incinerating toilets
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-06/documents/incinera.pdf
SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear concludes with what is undeniably the scariest, most valid fear of any of those discussed... spiders! I'm not saying spiders will pour out of your headphones and into your ears when you listen to this, but I'm also not promising they won't.
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[Truth or Fail]
Records
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-10-weirdest-things-pressed-into-vinyl-records-this-year/
Tattoos
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/gwitchin-tattoo-skin-stitching-first-nations-1.3796606
Canvases
https://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/07/cobwebportraits.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-lost-art-of-painting-on-cobweb-canvases
https://phys.org/news/2010-05-scientists-goats-spider-silk.html
[Fact Off]
[Ask the Science Couch]
Web construction
https://sciencing.com/identify-spider-pattern-8635659.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6053566/
Making silk
https://www.livescience.com/32582-how-do-spiders-make-silk.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/spidroins
[Butt One More Thing]
Trashline orb weavers
https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/trashline-orbweavers
SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear continues and… wait… do you feel it… the walls they’re... closing in around you! Crushing you!
...were you scared? Well, if you were Hank you probably would have been because his fear is enclosed spaces! How is that related to science? Good question!
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[Truth or Fail]
Fire Extinguisher
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/tuot-ncf041819.php
Water-Filled Suit
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552417301335
Air Purifier
[Fact Off]
Noc the beluga whale
http://cell.com/current-biology/supplemental/S0960-9822%2812%2901009-3
https://www.public.navy.mil/navwar/NIWC-Pacific/technology/Pages/mammals.aspx
Normal beluga: https://dosits.org/resources/resource-categories/feature-sounds/beluga/
Noc sound: https://www.nature.com/news/the-whale-that-talked-1.11635
Dark flies
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/14/fifty-seven-years-of-darkness/#.XaY74udKgW_
https://phys.org/news/2016-02-evolution-dark-fly.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160204111403.htm
[Ask the Science Couch]
Estimates of plant rooms
https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-many-plants-would-you-need-to-generate-oxygen-for-y-5955071
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-02/917906305.Bt.r.html
Photorespiration
http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/155/1/56
Biosphere 2
http://biosphere2.org/visit/about-biosphere2/fast-facts
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/sunday-review/biosphere-2-climate-change.html
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/68/9/722/5055575?searchresult=1
[Butt One More Thing]
Apollo 10 floating poop
As the SciShow Tangents Month of Fear continues, your hosts get down into the wormy, slimy muck to discuss Ceri’s biggest fear: decomposition! Does that sound too generic to be truly terrifying? That’s what Sam thought too, and now he is also quite scared of decomposing! Boo!
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[Truth or Fail]
Straw Urinals - https://www.unreservedmedia.com/paris-open-air-urinals/
https://grist.org/living/ask-umbra-can-i-pee-in-my-compost-pile/
Human Composting - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/washington-first-state-allow-burial-method-human-composting-180972020/
[Fact Off]
Ocean viruses - https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/9/e1602565.full
https://www.ocean.washington.edu/courses/oc400/Arrigo2005.pdf
Burying beetles - https://www.fws.gov/Midwest/endangered/insects/ambb/abb_fact.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Food Safety
https://food.unl.edu/will-reheating-food-make-it-safe-if-you-forget-refrigerate-it
https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/food-technology/bacterial-food-poisoning/
https://www.fda.gov/food/consumers/what-you-need-know-about-foodborne-illnesses
Decomposers
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/docs/tip-sheet-decomposer-id-cpts-id-f.pdf
Pizza (Quora answer)
https://www.quora.com/Is-it-safe-to-eat-pizza-left-out-overnight
[Butt One More Thing]
A/V plug
http://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/deathly-doodle-leakage
http://fluidpusher.blogspot.com/2009/10/questions-of-day-jenn-edition.html
SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear continues! This week, Stefan is confronted by his fear of sharks! Thrill as we weave a tale of nigh-immortal sharks! Feel the chills run down your spine as you learn about how weird shark penises are! Try not to scream when you hear about Sharkarado, the Shark Colorado! This episode... might be too scary!!!
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[Truth or Fail]
Still Shark Eggs
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0052551
Tiger Shark Siblings
Thermal Vents
https://www.livescience.com/61699-skates-eggs-thermal-vents.html
[Fact Off]
White Shark Café
https://schmidtocean.org/cruise/voyage-white-shark-cafe/#data
http://whitesharkcafe.org/media/photos-videos
https://www.nature.com/articles/415035b
Greenland sharks eating seals
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022098112001657?via%3Dihub
https://animals.mom.me/seals-sleep-4736.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Intromittent organs/penises
https://academic.oup.com/icb/article/56/4/705/2198314
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/06/scienceshot-birds-disappearing-penis
Shark claspers
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-shark-penises-evolved
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7698
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/clasper
[Butt One More Thing]
Coprolite shark tooth
Here at Tangents, we don't mess around when it comes to Halloween. So each week in October, the topic will be one of our greatest fears! Hank was apparently too afraid to even be on this episode, so instead special guest Caitlin Hofmeister confronts her fear of failure as we tell her tales of science gone wrong!
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[Truth or Fail]
Bubble Wrap
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/accidental-invention-bubble-wrap-180971325/
Whoopee Cushion
https://torontoist.com/2013/04/toronto-invents-the-whoopee-cushion/
Vaseline
https://www.damninteresting.com/nugget/story-of-vaseline/
[Fact Off]
Mosquito self-limiting gene
Four Pests campaign
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2014/02/26/mao-four-pests-china-disease/#.XKzfDOtKhxw
https://io9.gizmodo.com/china-s-worst-self-inflicted-environmental-disaster-th-5927112
https://chineseposters.net/themes/four-pests.php
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20061130_1.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Killifish
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6317/1305
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/against-tide-fish-adapts-quickly-lethal-levels-pollution/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/science/atlantic-killifish-evolution-pollution.html
Radiotrophic fungi
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/radiation-helps-fungi-grow/
https://mbio.asm.org/content/7/6/e01483-16
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000457
Birds
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140424223057.htm
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.12283
https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/pdf/S0169-5347(16)00019-7.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Artificial poop pills
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/sham-poo-washes-out/493811/
Plastic: space age wonder material or planet-destroying scourge? The real answer may lie... somewhere in the middle (but leaning more towards scourge). Plus, learn exactly how many LEGO minifigures you can eat before you die!
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[Truth or Fail]
Milk
https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/galalith-alchemy-in-the-age-of-plastic/
https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/casein/3007625.article
https://www.ganoksin.com/article/galalith-jewelry-milk-stone/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-home-milk-plastic/
Blood
https://books.google.com/books?id=3uoiAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9
https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/rjrtags/ill65.htmlhttps://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1261&context=beads
https://materialdistrict.com/material/blood-plastic/
https://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1261&context=beads
pictures: https://www.hippohardware.com/blogs/news/at-deaths-door-a-history-of-hemacite
Venom
http://www.t3db.ca/toxins/T3D2544
[Fact Off]
Bees and plastic
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13592-019-00635-6
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/pp-bsw030117.php
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/ES13-00308.1
Celluloid billiard balls
https://www.liveabout.com/what-pool-balls-are-made-of-368742
http://mentalfloss.com/article/64247/first-plastic-billiard-balls-routinely-exploded
[Ask the Science Couch]
Corn plastic
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/environmental-impact-of-corn-based-plastics/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/corn-plastic-to-the-rescue-126404720/
https://mcgillcompost.com/blog/recycling-number-7-pla-plastics
[Butt One More Thing]
Cigarette butts
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-company-recycles-cigarette-butts-and-turns-them-into-plastic
For humans, the teenage years are marked by angst, self-discovery, and homework. For elephants, they’re marked by pus-weeping face glands, uncontrollable rage, and a green penis!
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[Truth or Fail]
Guevedoces:
https://secondnexus.com/opinion/the-intersex-children-of-salinas/
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34290981
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/924291-overview
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2265.1991.tb03769.x
Cat scratch disease: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-case-of-schizophrenia-found-to-be-a-bad-case-of-cat-scratch-disease
[Fact Off]
Music
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-teen-music-choices-fear-rules/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%22Gregory+S.+Berns%22
Elephant Musth
https://www.bbcearth.com/blog/?article=teenage-elephants-need-a-father-figure
http://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/index.php?s=1&act=pdfviewer&id=1253211728&folder=125
[Ask the Science Couch]
Risk taking/brain development
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3445337/
Lying
http://www.jeffreyarnett.com/articles/articles/ARNETT_the_right_to_do_wrong.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691815300184
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0109591
[Butt One More Thing]
Koala pap
New York Fashion Week is in full swing, and the world's most stylish science podcast is celebrating by exploring the intersection of fashion and science!
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[Truth or Fail]
Beards & miasma theory
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/plague-know/
https://mentalfloss.com/article/31056/why-did-people-wear-powdered-wigs
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-science-behind-todays-plague-doctor-costume-1737404375
Lightning rods
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9256546/lubbock_morning_avalanche/
https://books.google.com/books?id=UEH1AgAAQBAJ&pg=PA184
https://books.google.com/books?id=g6cwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA190
Pictures: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning_rod_fashion
Bulletproof silk
https://jaoa.org/article.aspx?articleid=2578879
http://mentalfloss.com/article/24039/brief-history-bulletproof-vests
[Fact Off]
Julie and ear grass
Lizards and human shirts
[Ask the Science Couch]
Bamboo
Hemp
https://slate.com/technology/2011/04/hemp-versus-cotton-which-is-better-for-the-environment.html
Wool
https://www.iwto.org/news/environmental-impacts-wool-textiles
Linen
https://econation.co.nz/linen/
Mass production (dyeing, burning)
https://e360.yale.edu/features/can_waterless_dyeing_processes_clean_up_clothing_industry_pollution
[Butt One More Thing]
Cow manure clothes
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/poop-clothing_n_58e7d6f0e4b058f0a02efa77
Wether it's a human trying to figure out the quickest way to the airport, a salmon returning to the waters where they were born, or a dog trying to figure out the perfect place to poop, almost everyliving thing uses some sort of innate or technological navigation system every day.
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[Truth or Fail]
Orientation of mental maps:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0135803
Humans sensing magnetic fields:
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/can-humans-sense-the-magnetic-field--65611
[Fact Off]
Marine chronometer
http://www.jgiesen.de/LunarDistance/index.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3087198?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://timeandnavigation.si.edu/navigating-at-sea/longitude-problem
https://archive.org/details/principlesmrhar00unkngoog/page/n22
https://www.timeandwatches.com/p/the-detent-escapement-from-marine.html
Etak navigator
[Ask the Science Couch]
Sunstone/calcite:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/11/viking-sunstone-revealed
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.172187
https://www.nature.com/news/2011/110131/full/news.2011.58.html
Image of calcite: https://www.sciencesource.com/Doc/TR1_WATERMARKED/6/9/f/3/SS2509789.jpg?d63642476241
Almost all of human culture and economics is structured around a handful of pretty metals that we have arbitrarily assigned value to!
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[Truth or Fail]
Silver nanoparticles
https://jnanobiotechnology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12951-017-0254-9
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/osu-elc051418.php
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/07/embryo-inspired-bandage-17-times-stickier-band-aid
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/ez-pnf021419.php
Copper
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK225400/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/copper-toxicity
Platinum
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29632935
[Fact Off]
Alchemy and phosphorus:
https://phys.org/news/2019-01-phosphorus-years-discovery-vital-element.html
Gold vein earthquakes:
https://www.nature.com/news/earthquakes-make-gold-veins-in-an-instant-1.12615
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earthquakes-are-basically-gold-factories-4659100/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Nickel allergy/reactivity:
https://www.nickelinstitute.org/about-nickel/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4783936/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3047925/
https://books.google.com/books?id=CpAM1U1efqcC&pg=PA120
Gold allergy/reactivity:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11244133
https://books.google.com/books?id=1mk3lFVtBSQC&pg=PA104
Implant metals:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9440845
[Butt One More Thing]
Metals in poop:
Extremophiles are tough little guys that not only survive but thrive in the harshest environments on Earth; unforgiving places like volcanic vents at the bottom of the sea, lakes of acid, and your bellybutton
To learn more about extremophiles and a whole universe of other microscopic creatures, check out Journey to the Microcosmos at https://www.youtube.com/microcosmos
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[Truth or Fail]
Single-species Ecosystem
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10336-gold-mine-holds-life-untouched-by-the-sun/
Extremophile Cheese
https://www.businessinsider.com/belly-button-innie-inside-cheese-bacteria-lint-fungi-2019-7
Fluffy Pink Golden Fungus
[Fact Off]
Berkeley pit extremophiles:
https://medium.com/vision-2018/life-from-the-pit-70d3e0fbc0f6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEnWZcG3Nzk
PCR & Taq polymerase:
https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Polymerase-Chain-Reaction-Fact-Sheet
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/probe/docs/techpcr/
https://www.thermofisher.com/order/catalog/product/10342020
https://www.yellowstonepark.com/things-to-do/yellowstone-bacteria-beer-science
[Ask the Science Couch]
Extremophiles:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4187170/
Bacteria vs. Archaea:
http://bio1520.biology.gatech.edu/biodiversity/prokaryotes-bacteria-archaea-2/
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/archaea/archaea.html
Archaea characteristics:
https://learn.genetics.utah.edu/content/astrobiology/environments/
https://microbiologyonline.org/about-microbiology/introducing-microbes/archaea
https://ucmp.berkeley.edu/archaea/archaeamm.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Pompeii worm:
https://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/marinesymbiosis/pompeii.html
This week, the Other Couch's high-school-level understanding of chemistry is really put to the test as we talk about acid! What is it? How does it dissolve things? It has something to do... with protons? It seems way simpler in the movies!
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[Truth or Fail]
Formic acid (general):
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Formic-acid
Fire ant antivenom:
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/343/6174/1014.abstract
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-rise-of-the-crazy-ants/
Bone-house wasps:
https://www.wired.com/2014/07/the-spider-eating-bone-house-wasp/
Electricity-generating wasps:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/12/101221-solar-power-hornet-science-animals/
[Fact Off]
Internal sensor:
https://www.seeker.com/when-swallowed-this-sensor-is-powered-by-stomach-acid-2248294501.html
Pregnancy gif:
https://giphy.com/gifs/pregnancy-baby-fetus-WS91RYT47sA6I
https://imgur.com/gallery/d7n3eIH
Moss bandage:
https://images.app.goo.gl/TWkw555pqQcRF4Ap8
[Ask the Science Couch]
Battery energy storage:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-batteries-store-an/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV4IUsholjg&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtPHzzYuWy6fYEaX9mQQ8oGr
Lead-acid batteries:
https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/lead_based_batteries
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/leadacid.html
You might think you know everything there is to know about deserts: big, sandy, hot, etc. But between the alien mummies and the ice blades, we're guessing there's a lot you don't know. All that and you get to see Hank just totally embarrass himself while trying to talk about Pokemon.
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[Truth or Fail]
Atacama Desert:
Ata:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/22/science/ata-mummy-alien-chile.html
Ice Blades:
Microbes:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-35051-w
https://earthsky.org/earth/mars-like-atacanda-desert-rain-brings-death
[Fact Off]
Thorny devil lizard:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsos.170591
Libyan Desert glass:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196362.stm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0022309384901777
https://theconversation.com/how-we-solved-the-mystery-of-libyan-desert-glass-117253
[Ask the Science Couch]
Sand depth:
https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-9213-9_325-1
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-65661-8_10
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/92232/grand-erg-oriental-algeria
https://www.nps.gov/zion/learn/nature/sand-dunes-sandstone.htm
[Butt One More Thing]
Dung beetles:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/uotw-bud101912.php
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2812%2901061-5
When you think metamorphosis, you might think a beautiful butterfly coming out of its cocoon. However, lots of things metamorphose in much less graceful, much more sticky, gooey, unsettling, and potentially dangerous ways!
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[Truth or Fail]
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/uoc-sbb010308.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4460030.stm
Kind of gross but very cool, highly recommend this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCo2uCLXvhk
[Fact Off]
Cryptometamorphosis:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/11/science/snail-metamorphosis.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2018.1099#sec-3
Figure from paper: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/cms/attachment/12748a2e-c968-4fff-912a-9f9cd2c3d514/rspb20181099f01.gif
Wax moths and plastic:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28441558
[Ask the Science Couch]
Grasshoppers/locusts:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/57104/whats-difference-between-grasshoppers-and-locusts
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/when-grasshoppers-go-bibl/
(includes picture) https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/01/serotonin-makes-locusts-swarm
Plants and animals get all the glory, but fungi are out there every day, breaking down leaf litter, making our bread nice and fluffy, and fermenting alcohols. They deserve a little thanks, so we did a whole episode about them!
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[Truth or Fail]
Fungal Pesticides:
https://agrochemicals.iupac.org/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=3&sobi2Id=31
https://phys.org/news/2019-02-virus-infested-fungus-chemical-pesticides.html
Tinder Fungi:
https://www.uab.cat/web/newsroom/news-detail-1345668003610.html?noticiaid=1345754508535
Egyptian Medicine:
https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/nyregion/secrets-of-the-mummys-medicine-chest.html
[Fact Off]
Whiskey mold:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18065010
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5315285/
https://www.wired.com/2011/05/ff-angelsshare/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/78dyqb/kentuckys-whiskey-fungus-problem-is-out-of-control
Plastic-digesting fungus:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202047
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749117300295
[Ask the Science Couch]
“Zombie” ants:
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/47/12590
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0187170
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204140/
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Zygomycota:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0003237
From 1961 to 1972, thousands of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, seamstresses, pilots, and even a child or two worked on the Apollo Program, collaborating to bring humanity to the moon. Today, Tangents celebrates this unparalleled work of collective science and engineering!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Golf Club:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/objects-of-intrigue-alan-shepards-golf-club
Family Photo:
https://www.businessinsider.com/apollo-16-hidden-family-portrait-on-the-moon-2015-10
Ashes:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eugene-shoemaker-buried-moon-celestis-nasa
https://www2.jpl.nasa.gov/sl9/news82.html
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Greg Force: Boy Hero:
https://www.honeysucklecreek.net/other_stations/guam/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/space/07/20/apollo11.irpt/index.html
Spacesuit seamstresses:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/82726/how-playtex-helped-win-space-race
https://www.racked.com/2018/9/5/17771270/spacesuit-girdles-playtex-seamstresses-nasa
https://gizmodo.com/how-to-sew-a-spacesuit-5788241
[Ask the Science Couch]
Michael Collins lonely:
https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2009/jul/HQ_09-164_Collins_statement.html
https://www.space.com/16971-michael-collins-apollo-11.html
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/missions/apollo/apollo_11/overview/
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Moon poop bacteria:
https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2019/3/22/18236125/apollo-moon-poop-mars-science
Living things are so full of complicated systems of cells and DNA, that things are bound to go wrong. And sometimes when things go wrong, cancer is the result. Today on Tangents we talk about the causes, health impacts, and potential cures (both real and fake) of cancer.
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Norman Baker
https://historycollection.co/norman-baker-man-claimed-cure-cancer/
Cow War
Animal Testes Transplant
The Philosophy of Success Book
https://archive.org/details/Law_Of_Success_in_16_Lessons
[Fact Off]
Turtle fossil bone cancer:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2723578
Parasite-human cancer transmission:
https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2015/p1104-parasite-tumors.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/tapeworm-spreads-deadly-cancer-to-human/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190325110313.htm
[Ask the Science Couch]
General:
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/infectious-agents/hpv-and-cancer
https://www.popsci.com/transmissible-cancers-animals/
Tasmanian devil:
https://www.tcg.vet.cam.ac.uk/about/DFTD
https://www.nature.com/articles/onc2009350
https://elifesciences.org/articles/35314
Clams:
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(15)00243-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature18599
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Farts & cancer:
https://time.com/2976464/scientists-say-smelling-farts-might-prevent-cancer/
https://pubs.rsc.org/En/content/articlelanding/2014/md/c3md00323j#!divAbstract
Natural disasters are a fact of life when you live on a giant ball of water, ice, and rock with a gooey magma center that’s hurtling through space… and all the pollution we’re pumping into the environment doesn’t really seem to be helping, either.
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Cloud seeding
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-935704-30-0_9
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/195/4274/139
Absorbent polymer
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5d.html
http://discovermagazine.com/2002/sep/featrain
Hail cannon
https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0477(1981)062%3C0368%3AHRTFHC%3E2.0.CO%3B2
https://www.businessinsider.com/volkswagen-hail-cannons-mexico-farmers-draught-2018-8
https://books.google.com/books?id=h-ADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA548
Soot
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5b.html
[Fact Off]
Year Without a Summer:
https://scied.ucar.edu/shortcontent/mount-tambora-and-year-without-summer
http://mentalfloss.com/article/73585/15-facts-about-year-without-summer
https://medium.com/@spencerbaum/the-year-without-summer-and-the-origins-of-frankenstein-13e6884c3ece
Tae Bo “earthquake:”
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/07/117_91209.html
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31349/how-power-literally-rocked-house
[Ask the Science Couch]
Glass rain:
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/galaxy-of-horrors/
Cryovolcanoes:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20081215b.htmL
https://www.nature.com/news/2009/090325/full/news.2009.190.html
Ice quakes on Earth:
http://climate.missouri.edu/news/arc/mar2014b.php
http://time.com/5517690/frost-quakes-ice-polar-vortex-sounds/
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Hurricane Florence poop:
https://www.livescience.com/63625-pig-manure-overflow-hurricane-florence.html
Fossils: a profound link to our Earth’s past… some are profound... some are beautiful… some are poop! Kallie Moore, host of PBS Eons joins the Tangents crew to talk old stone bones, fraudulent fossils, and a dinosaur so well preserved, we may be able to figure out what its last meal was.
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
If you want more Kallie Moore, check out PBS Eons:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzR-rom72PHN9Zg7RML9EbA
And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Pseudofossils:
http://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/Pseudofossils-1663.aspx
Underwater cave:
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/bitstream/handle/2246/6440/N3779.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/6920
Amber:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/00379271.2010.10697637
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Opalized fossils:
Super preserved Ankylosaur:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2017/06/dinosaur-nodosaur-fossil-discovery/
https://www.livescience.com/65640-opal-dinosaur-herd-bones.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Zircon:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/scientists-may-have-found-earliest-evidence-life-earth
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/09/news-earth-rocks-sediment-first-life-zircon/
Tully monster:
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/tully-monster-still-a-mystery/
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Fake poop:
Birds singing, dogs barking, computers sending and receiving data, you reading this description: at the end of the day, it’s all communication. This week, we sit down with Vanessa Hill, host of the YouTube channel Braincraft, and do a little communicating about communication!
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If you want more Vanessa Hill, check out BrainCraft: https://www.youtube.com/user/braincraftvideo
And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
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Languages & ecological risk:
Evolved antenna:
https://ti.arc.nasa.gov/m/pub-archive/1244h/1244%20(Hornby).pdf
http://www.genetic-programming.org/gecco2004hc/lohn-paper.pdf
https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/nmp/st5/ABOUT/about-index.php
Picture of ST5 antenna: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/nmp/st5/TECHNOLOGY/antenna.html
Evolution of antenna: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/2-Sequence-of-evolved-antennas-leading-up-to-antenna-ST5-331427_fig2_226537559
[Ask the Science Couch]
Animal communication:
http://pandora.cii.wwu.edu/vajda/ling201/test1materials/Animalchart.htm
http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/spackled/2009readings/Slobodchikoff%202009.PDF
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1834009/
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150512-birds-hold-the-key-to-language
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FRTs:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/11/farting-fish-keep-touch
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsbl.2003.0107
Everybody eats, and everybody poops, but in between… that’s where the magic happens! This week we’re talking about everyone’s favorite organic method of removing nutrients from food: digestion!
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And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Fact Off]
Throat to small intestine:
Phytobezoars:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4400622/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2673384/
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apt.12141
[Ask the Science Couch]
Gum composition:
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/102/2/e22.long
https://patents.google.com/patent/US6986907B2/en
https://pslc.ws/macrog/pib.htm
Swallowed gum:
https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/swallowed-gum.html
http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/basics/transit.html
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Everlasting pill:
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/antimony-metallic-cleanse-middle-ages
Be they big or small, purposeful or accidental, innocuous or potentially-planet-destroying, there is no question that humans are great at making messes and not so great at cleaning them up. Joe Hanson, host of the PBS channel Hot Mess, joins us to talk about some of the more notable messes we’ve made, and what, if anything, we can do to be less messy in the future.
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out themes for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out this episode’s page at scishowtangents.org!
So,right off the bat, basically all you need to know about this episode is that Hank sings this week's Science Poem. Beyond that, we delve into the eternal mystery that is 'sleep.' Where do oursdreams come from? How does sleeping help rejuvenate our brains and bodies? Why do some people need less sleep than others? Turns out, no one really knows yet, but it's still fun to talk about!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Sleeping and Idea Generation:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/05/sleep-creativity-theory/560399/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/12763/11-creative-breakthroughs-people-had-their-sleep
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/02/08/mendeleev-periodic-table-dream/
https://www.inverse.com/article/3696-5-dreams-that-led-to-scientific-breakthroughs
[Fact Off]
Auto activation deficit:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24026624
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/09/130911211923.htm
Narcolepsy and dogs:
https://med.stanford.edu/narcolepsy/narcolepsyhistory.html
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12026-014-8513-4
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3625934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9481825
https://med.stanford.edu/content/dam/sm/psychiatry/documents/narcolepsy/latestnews/cell98.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Naturally short sleepers:
https://www.ucsf.edu/news/2018/03/410051/scientists-discover-how-gene-mutation-reduces-need-sleep
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/13/3434.short?rss=1
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3589707/
Circadian rhythms:
http://healthysleep.med.harvard.edu/healthy/science/variations/individual-variation-genetics
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/having-this-gene-may-make-some-people-night-owls/
Flies:
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1007098
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Dormant butt syndrome:
https://wexnermedical.osu.edu/blog/your-dormant-butt-might-be-to-blame-for-knee-hip-or-back-pain
Every day, billions of people perform vital, life sustaining chemistry right in their homes! Baking, frying, boiling, fermenting… all cooking is science, and the way it weaves into our lives and cultures makes it uniquely fascinating! Join us this week to learn why the heck there’s iodine in your salt, what happens if you forget where in the bog you buried your cask of meat, and why baking a cake at high elevations can be so frustrating!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Hartshorn salt:
https://www.thespruceeats.com/ammonium-carbonate-hartshorn-hirschhornsalz-1446913
https://library.ndsu.edu/grhc/foods/recipe/ammonia.html
Bog butter:
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/for-peat-s-safe-bog-butter-unearthed-with-turf-1.583009
https://www.nature.com/news/1998/040315/full/news040315-5.html
Turnspit:
https://books.google.com/books?id=FVF_PhTjK7cC&pg=PA316#v=onepage&q&f=false
[Fact Off]
Iodine in salt:
https://www.nber.org/papers/w19233
Hank’s notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/13t4UeMlNg5bH3v1HpkixBa_PYT6AB8NtCFqIBEw9XQk/edit?ts=5cbfd777
Graphene vegetable oil:
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms14217
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cooking at high elevation:
https://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/icooks/article-3-03.html
https://extension.colostate.edu/docs/pubs/foodnut/p41.pdf
https://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/bread/bread_science.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6098858/
[Butt One More Thing]
Baby poop meat:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0309174013005263?via%3Dihub
https://www.livescience.com/43465-baby-poop-sausage-probiotic.html
From countless stories of little green men to colonization plans and endless rover and satellite missions, humans are sort of obsessed with Mars. One of those obsessed humans is Hank Green! This week he finally gets to put all his knowledge about his favorite planet to good use: winning fake points on a game show he made up!
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And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12swg6fcCIZYuQh4q9vmW6SBwMoLwnb7jq3s2qT9_Djg/edit?usp=sharing
[Fact Off]
First Mars image:
The picture: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA14033
Plutonium-238:
https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/plutonium-production-space-exploration/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Earth tectonics:
https://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/parks/pltec/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/science/plate-tectonics-continents-earth.html
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-plate-tectonics-earth.html
Mars (lack of) tectonics:
https://marsed.asu.edu/mep/tectonics
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Poop-eating bacteria:
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/03/582968023/making-space-food-with-space-poop
We couldn’t make podcasts without the science of sound. There’s a lot of technology involved in capturing the vibrations we’re making with our vocal folds so that we can share them with the whole Internet! So this week, we’re fine-tuning our knowledge of sound. Do scientists even know why music makes us feel emotions? Is the ocean really as silent as it seems, or are fish partying down there? And how did computer nerds send each other video games and Christmas cards through radio broadcasts?
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out themes for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Butterfly Hearing:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/these-butterflies-boost-their-hearing-unusual-strategy
[Fact Off]
Coral reef sounds:
Computer program cassettes:
https://qz.com/emails/quartz-obsession/1156672/
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Audio/tape2.html
http://artsites.ucsc.edu/EMS/music/tech_background/TE-16/teces_16.html
https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_fifty.html
https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1976-02/1976_02_BYTE_00-06_Color_Graphics#page/n73/mode/1up
http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/cass_data.html
http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio
[Ask the Science Couch]
General Feelings & Physiological Effects:
https://www.nature.com/news/why-dissonant-music-strikes-the-wrong-chord-in-the-brain-1.11791
https://www.pnas.org/content/109/48/19858
https://www.nature.com/news/neuroaesthetics-is-killing-your-soul-1.12640
Chills:
https://www.wired.com/2011/01/the-neuroscience-of-music/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.2726 https://scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/03/10/scan.nsw009.abstract?cited-by=yes&legid=scan;nsw009v1
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735615572358
Harmony:
https://arxiv.org/html/1202.4212v1/#sec_2_3_2
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20930-why-harmony-pleases-the-brain/
https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.108103
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Fart noises:
This week, we’re joined by Trace Dominguez from the YouTube channel Uno Dos of Trace to talk about genetic mutations! Tiny changes in an organism’s DNA sequence can lead to big variations or absolutely nothing. It’s just a roll of the dice! So what mutations have shown up in modern humans—different bones, livers, or even eyeballs? What is “foreign DNA” and where does it even come from? And can anybody name as many X-Men as Sam?
If you want to know more about any of the topics discussed today, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Hypoxia:
https://www.sciencealert.com/indonesian-bajau-genetic-changes-adapt-them-to-aquatic-lifestyle-2
Bones:
https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook-old/the-worlds-densest-bones-47155
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa013444
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28893644
Smoking:
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-17-mn-51362-story.html
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Tetrachromats:
Colchicine and watermelons:
https://csuvth.colostate.edu/poisonous_plants/Plants/Details/79
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4656054/
https://scialert.net/fulltextmobile/?doi=jbs.2013.277.282
https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/CAT71326739/PDF
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/for-plants-polyploidy-is-not-a-four-letter-word/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Foreign DNA:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/uonc-ahc111815.php
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/290835.php
https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-015-0607-3
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2009.1679
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7934/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6177113/
[Butt One More Thing]
Beautiful buttocks:
https://www.nature.com/news/2002/020917/full/news020916-3.html
A bunch of things are considered agricultural science, from planting crops and raising sheep for wool to food safety and developing fertilizers. This week, we’re skimming the surface of agriculture, with a little detour into animals that sort of farm too. What accidental evolutionary pressures turned weeds into popular crops? Why are seed vaults so important to humanity? And what made Big Mike basically go extinct, and are we worried about it happening with other crops? (Big Mike is a banana, by the way.)
Want to know more about our topics? Check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
https://india.mongabay.com/2018/10/farmer-termites-bury-invaders-alive-to-protect-fungus-farms/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10886-017-0902-4
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00040-010-0092-3
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156847
[Fact Off]
Vavilovian mimicry:
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02858881
http://labs.eeb.utoronto.ca/barrett/pdf/schb_54.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00140.x
Leningrad seed vault:
[Ask the Science Couch]
Bananas:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/25/banana-farming-danger-cavendish-crop-genetics
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/12/27/banana-fungus-panama-disease/#.XIgdQFNKhxw
https://www.apsnet.org/about/newsroom/releases/Pages/03Banana.aspx
https://fusariumwilt.org/index.php/en/about-fusarium-wilt/
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44712034
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Night soil:
Pregnancy is, biologically speaking, extremely weird! A pregnant animal’s body goes through so many hormonal and physical changes to make sure a zygote has everything it needs to grow. This week, we’re talking about a few of those things, like why pregnant people get nauseated and other animals might not. So is pseudopregnancy a real thing, or are pandas just tricking zookeepers to get extra treats? Why is there a patent for a birthing machine that looks like a horrible carnival ride? And what the heck is a stone baby?
Want to know more about our topics? Check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
https://patents.google.com/patent/US3216423A/en
https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/failbetter/apparatusfacilitatingbirthchildcentrifugalforce/
[Fact Off]
Panda pseudopregnancy:
Lithopedion:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3979976/
https://alumni.amc.edu/pages/archives/archives---the-stone-baby
https://utmb.influuent.utsystem.edu/en/publications/lithopedion-stone-baby
https://www.health.harvard.edu/womens-health/calcium-beyond-the-bones
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4750627/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Morning sickness:
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2000/05/morning-sickness-protects-mothers-and-their-unborn
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3676933/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2664252?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/resources/literature-review/symptoms-of-nvp-in-animals/
https://www.livescience.com/32301-do-pregnant-animals-get-morning-sickness.html
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Meconium:
This week, we’re joined by Blake de Pastino from the YouTube channel PBS Eons to talk about how plants, animals, and geologic events used to be so… huge. There are still blue whales and massive natural disasters, but the days of the Megalodon have passed. So were those big tunnels in South America really dug out by giant ground sloths? Where is the largest impact crater in the Solar System? And did humans really huddle under the skeletal remains of the giant armadillo-like Glyptodon?
To learn more about this week's topic, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
https://natural-history.uoregon.edu/collections/web-galleries/saber-toothed-salmon
https://cals.arizona.edu/classes/ento596c/topic/session9.html
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10420940.2016.1223654?scroll=top&needAccess=true&
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/03/28/paleoburrows-south-america/#.XFC3uc9Khxz
http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/044_Paleotocas_ING.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Glyptodon carapaces:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/ancient-armadillos-grew-big-vw-beetles
https://books.google.com/books?id=kUAKgNfiAvoC&pg=PA184#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://www.jstor.org/stable/971990?read-now=1&seq=6#page_scan_tab_contents
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/2055556315Z.00000000031?journalCode=ypal20
https://books.google.com/books?id=2tk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223
[Butt One More Thing]
Stegosaurus butt brain misconception:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-double-dinosaur-brain-myth-12155823/
Bats have a bad reputation because of the ones that drink blood or spread disease, but these furry flying critters can be pretty cute! This week, we’re talking about everything from echolocation to weird potential uses for bat poop. Are there really bats with suction cups on their wings or is that just a cool toy idea? What is white nose syndrome and could vaping mushroom compounds… help? And what do you really think about Hank’s Dracula impression?
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out themes for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Poem]
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-pitcher-plants-call-bats-get-their-poo-180956014/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1141
[Truth or Fail]
Bats that spend time on the ground:
http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/03/vampire-bats-keep-out-trouble-running-study-shows
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16621953
Diurnal bats:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/daytime-bats-help-explain-nocturnal-evolution/
https://blogs.plos.org/ecology/2017/06/29/bat-species-found-only-on-islands-in-trouble-worldwide/
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mamm.ahead-of-print/mammalia-2017-0128/mammalia-2017-0128.xml
Suction cup bats:
https://www.wired.com/2010/04/how-sucker-winged-bats-hang-on/
[Fact Off]
Bat & dolphin echolocation:
https://evolutionnews.org/2012/05/tangling_the_tr/
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/01/hear-bats-and-whales-share-sonar-protein
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(09)02073-9
https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12511
Moth echolocation blocker:
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/07/moths-block-bats-sonar
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/325/5938/325?keytype=ref&siteid=sci&ijkey=GbDjRlkoHfRnY
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2009/07/17/tiger-moths-jam-the-sonar-of-bats/
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/14/2416
[Ask the Science Couch]
White-nose syndrome:
https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/bat_crisis_white-nose_syndrome/Q_and_A.html
https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/static-page/what-is-white-nose-syndrome
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02441-z
https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/4/2/48
[Butt One More Thing]
Bat guano gunpowder:
You might know him from his greatest hits: natural selection, Galápagos finches, and eating lots of the animals he studied… it’s Charles Darwin! This week, we’re talking about this famous biologist and some of the weirder science he did. What kind of books did he write after he published On the Origin of Species? Why was he so disgusted by fish spitting out seeds? And was it normal to write a letter to a scientist friend and ask detailed questions about barnacle sex?
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/4x38gj/darwins-monsters-parasitoid-wasps
[Fact Off]
Seeds & fish:
http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F1683&viewtype=text&pageseq=1
https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-1681.xml
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/11/17/darwin-bird-vomit/#.XBlv3c9Khxw
https://academic.oup.com/botlinnean/article/161/1/20/2418329
Barnacles:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574338/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Darwin’s understanding vs. ours:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20141017-how-flowers-conquered-the-world
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-darwin-didnt-know-45637001/
https://www.wired.com/2014/12/fantastically-wrong-thing-evolution-darwin-really-screwed/
http://www.esp.org/books/darwin/variation/facsimile/contents/darwin-variation-chap-27-i.pdf
http://www.blc.arizona.edu/courses/schaffer/449/Soft%20Inhertance/Geison%20-%20Pangenesis.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Darwin bark spider:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151126-the-worlds-biggest-spider-web-can-span-an-entire-river
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0011234
If you think about it, we’re all time travelers moving forward at one second per second… right? This week, we try really hard to define time, get sort of existential about it, and then talk about the science of timekeeping, from circadian rhythms to weird mechanical clocks. What happens to someone’s sense of time if you put them in a big bunker locked away from the outside world? How did we decide there would be 60 seconds in a minute, and did we ever try to measure time with a decimal system? And if a human were to instantaneously dissolve into a pile of goo because their time was up, what would it sound like?
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
https://mechanism.ucsd.edu/teaching/F11/philbiology2011/aschoff.circadianrhythmsinman.1965.pdf
https://www.mpg.de/943613/S003_Flashback_060_061.pdf
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/6216073/Maurizio-Montalbini.html
[Fact Off]
Music & walking:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0067932
Castle Clock:
https://www.ee.columbia.edu/not-your-father%E2%80%99s-analog-computer-professor-yannis-tsividis
Animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz7soHvy-Pw
[Ask the Science Couch]
60 seconds/minutes:
https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1487,00.html
https://gizmodo.com/why-there-are-24-hours-in-a-day-5926491
http://mentalfloss.com/article/32127/decimal-time-how-french-made-10-hour-day
[Butt One More Thing]
Speed of poop:
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/sm/c6sm02795d/unauth#!divAbstract
When can you start calling a rodent “giant?” When it’s twice the average size of its species? When you’re not grossed out by it? When it could be a mascot for a family fun center? We don’t really have a precise answer to that… but this week, we’re exploring the science of big ol’ rodents! Turns out, giant rodents have shaped the environment in lots of ways, from ancient megafauna stomping through South American wetlands to beavers affecting the climate. And even though they sound kind of scary, giant rats might be able to save human lives. But the real question is: what’s up with capybara anal pouches?
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
https://www.apopo.info/en/tuberculosis-detection/projects
http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tb/background
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/23/rats-who-sniff-out-tubersulosis
[Fact Off]
Hippos & biggest rodent:
Beavers & carbon emissions:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoh-bha082918.php
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/07/what-role-do-beavers-play-climate-change
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13280-014-0575-y
[Ask the Science Couch]
Gigantism:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-king-kong-should-have-been-blue-whale-180962603/
https://www.nature.com/articles/482008d
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00534.x
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4358651/
[Butt One More Thing]
Capybara anal pouches:
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1984.tb05087.x
For our very first live show at PodCon 2, we were joined by Elah Feder, the co-host and producer of the podcast Undiscovered! Podcasting on a stage with a live audience meant we really had to bring our A-game, so we swapped stories of famous actors, politicians, and other celebrities who also dabbled in science.
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
http://ancientolympics.arts.kuleuven.be/eng/TC003EN.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/old-world-high-tech-141284744/
[Fact Off]
Julia Child:
https://appliedecology.cals.ncsu.edu/absci/wp-content/uploads/Stroud-et-al-2014.pdf
https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/4935
https://faculty.washington.edu/sisneros/Sisneros%20and%20Nelson%202001.pdf
Zeppo Marx:
[Ask the Science Couch]
Brian May’s thesis:
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/295744.pdf
https://www.space.com/5692-queen-guitarist-publishes-astrophysics-thesis.html
http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_classroom/cosmic_reference/zodydust.html
http://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1994IAUS..160..127D
[Butt One More Thing]
Dr. Rush’s Bilious Pills:
https://io9.gizmodo.com/archaeologists-tracked-lewis-and-clark-by-following-the-1727887223
Do you ever just wonder, “are the bees doing okay?” They’re so important to our food industry and native ecosystems, and every couple of years it seems like something horribly bad is happening to them. So this week, we’re taking a look at the fascinating lives and deaths of bees! Can they recognize human faces or understand the concept of zero? Why are blister beetles mimicking sexy bee pheromones? And what do nightclubs and honeybee hives have in common?
Sources:
[Poem]
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/jexbio/206/2/353.full.pdf
[Truth or Fail]
[Ask the Science Couch]
CCD:
https://www.epa.gov/pollinator-protection/colony-collapse-disorder
Glyphosate:
http://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/17/2799
https://www.glyphosate.eu/glyphosate-mechanism-action
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/41/10305
Native bees:
https://www.wired.com/2015/04/youre-worrying-wrong-bees/
http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Xerces_policy_statement_HB_Final.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5722319/
[Butt One More Thing]
Isopentyl acetate:
https://www.extension.entm.purdue.edu/beehive/pdf/Breed_et_al.pdf
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/isoamyl_acetate#section=Top
We’ve all heard about “The Algorithms” that affect our lives, making decisions for and about us. And artificial intelligence systems are recommending podcasts, picking out targeted ads, and playing games against humans every single day. This week, we’re going to skim the surface of AI and chat about everything from Siri to personality prediction software. How are these tools used to help the world, or are we mostly heading toward a dystopian future? What’s the Turing test and is it even a useful measure of artificial intelligence? And if a poem is written with software… is it really art? (We don’t know either.)
Sources:
AI-
[Poem]
[Truth or Fail]
https://www.zdnet.com/article/google-ai-vs-siri-vs-bing-iq-tests-show-one-is-smartest-by-a-mile/
https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.10242
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-38390798
[Fact Off]
Anti-poaching:
https://www.inverse.com/article/52203-ai-camera-poacher-watch
Eye tracking:
[Ask the Science Couch]
Turing test:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/turing-test/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20865-software-tricks-people-into-thinking-it-is-human/
https://www.wired.com/2012/06/flawed-turing-test/
[Butt One More Thing]
Artificial anus:
This week, our producer Caitlin Hofmeister is joining the pod to talk about the Sun, and lending her expertise as a host of the YouTube channel SciShow Space. The Sun affects pretty much everything we do here on Earth, from our weather to our technology. So what schemes have scientists been cooking up to shield the Earth from the Sun? How have solar flares affected humans… and should we be afraid of them? And is “Guy” really a good nickname, or is this star more special than that?
Sources:
[Definition]
https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/~pberlind/atlas/htmls/note.html
[Truth or Fail]
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/geoengineering-solution-no-9-the-fl-2008-09-08/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/blocking-the-sun-is-no-plan-b-for-global-warming/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_sunshade
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uoa-ssm110306.php
[Fact Off]
Ocean mines:
https://vva.vietnam.ttu.edu/repositories/2/digital_objects/83295
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018SW002024
http://www.navweaps.com/Weapons/WAMUS_Mines.php#Vietnam_War_%22Destructor%22_Mines
http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-068.php#Magnetic_Mines
2012 solar storm:
[Ask the Science Couch]
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/iris/multimedia/layerzoo.html
https://www.space.com/17160-sun-atmosphere.html
https://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/objects/sun1.html
[Butt One More Thing]
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/georges-bataille-the-solar-anus
Are you one of those people who doesn’t feel awake until you have caffeine coursing through your bloodstream? Well, you can choose to ingest some chemical stimulants, but they’re also something your body makes! Just think about the adrenaline rush before a public speech. This week, we’re going to dig into what science actually says about caffeine and dehydration. Why did some people try to ban coffee, and how dangerous was the pick-me-up given to some Antarctic explorers? And why the heck did researchers think gerbils could help with airport security?
Sources:
[Fact Off]
Gerbils:
Forced March:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736%2810%2962153-8/fulltext
https://granta.com/shackletons-medical-kit/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1279970/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Dehydration:
http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/33/2/167
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12187618
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/640f/49f096f9a01e2c3ef103945a39830a12cd5c.pdf
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/health/nutrition/04real.html?_r=2
[Butt One More Thing]
Civet poop coffee:
https://www.businessinsider.com/kopi-luwak-cat-poop-worlds-most-expensive-coffee-taste-test-2018-11
At some point, we’ve all probably looked up at birds and wished we could fly. And some curious people took that wish and did science! From the biology of flying animals to machines that help humans take to the skies, this week, we’re exploring the science of flight. Why do we travel by plane instead of floating on airships? How long can some birds fly before landing? And what else do they get up to in midair… eating? ...sex? ...sleeping?
[Truth or Fail]
[Fact Off]
Swifts:
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(16)31063-6
Frigate birds:
[Ask the Science Couch]
https://www.airships.net/dirigible/
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-us/products/hybrid-airship.html
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/01/19/the-uss-akron-disaster/
[Butt One More Thing]
http://www.airpowerworld.info/other-military-aircraft/supermarine-stranraer.htm
Mucus grosses people out. Whether it’s coming out of your nose or slime oozing from an animal, it’s not really a pleasant substance. But scientifically, mucus is super cool—it can be used for protection, hunting, lubrication, or plain old stickiness. Why do some cephalopods spew out specialized mucus? Does slathering snail slime on your face actually do anything to your skin? And could eating boogers be… good?
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/328/5979/704
https://www.mbari.org/mbari-researchers-discover-what-vampire-squids-eat-its-not-what-you-think/
https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b94c/447075249a39cac514cbb3c6bf24c4e8306c.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4052311/
[Fact Off]
Snail mucus:
Parasitic worms:
[Ask the Science Couch]
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11465519
https://aem.asm.org/content/81/1/332.long
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/727897
https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-422X-3-99
[Butt One More Thing]
Some small, magical corner of your heart wants dragons to be real, right? Well... sorry. They’re not. But this week, we wanted to celebrate some science adjacent to dragons, from fruit and animals named after them to giant flying predators that probably terrified humans.
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
[Fact Off]
Fire Hawks:
Haast’s Eagles:
[Ask the Science Couch]
[Butt One More Thing]
https://www.wired.com/2013/12/the-secret-underwater-world-of-dragons/
From sugary snow cones to WWII plans for an aircraft carrier made of ice and wood pulp, humans have had big dreams for frozen water. So this week, we’re exploring the science of snow and ice across the globe. Turns out, there are ancient refrigerators in the dry Iranian desert and abandoned military bases under the Greenland ice sheet. And even though Japanese snow monkeys seem all cozy and chill in their hot springs, what mischief do they get up to in their free time?
Sources:
[Truth Or Fail]
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10329-015-0492-0
https://www.researchgate.net/blog/post/japans-monkeys-wash-their-potatoes-and-ride-deer-like-horses
[Fact Off]
Camp Century:
http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/research/drill_analysing/history_drilling/drill_bedrock/
http://www.iceandclimate.nbi.ku.dk/about_centre/history/
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Paleoclimatology_OxygenBalance
Iceboxes:
http://eartharchitecture.org/?p=570
[Ask the Science Couch]
http://www.ccmr.cornell.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/11/Ice-Alloys.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
https://www.livescience.com/61018-turtles-breathe-through-butt.html
A new year means New Year’s resolutions! Lots of people are probably getting their fitness on, whether it’s by joining a gym or putting on yoga YouTube videos. So this week, we’re stretching our muscles to explore the science of exercise!
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1498/
Increased blood volume:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17630597/
New brain cells:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/nwsu-eib111217.php
[Fact Off]
Thinking about muscles:
https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00386.2014
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-grow-stronger-without-lifting-weights/
Animals on wheels:
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1786/20140210.full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4760155/
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/09/14/409409.full.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Flexibility:
http://web.mit.edu/tkd/stretch/stretching_2.html
http://web.mit.edu/tkd/stretch/stretching_3.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3273886/
[Butt One More Thing]
Space underwear:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-underwear-idUSTRE52M6ER20090323
This week, we’re joined by evolutionary biologist and science communicator Dr. Sally LePage to talk all about parasites! How did we deal with them before modern medicine? Are there any parasites bigger than their hosts? And is parasite-ception a thing!?
Sources:
[Fact Off]
Fruit fly fungus:
Frog flatworm:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/02/13/a-flurry-of-frog-legs/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330773/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00436-011-2451-z
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/13/us/many-reports-of-deformities-among-frogs-are-puzzling.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636111/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cuckoos:
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-brilliant-ways-parasitic-birds-terrorize-their-victims
https://web.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Brood_Parasitism.html
Plants:
http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7496.html
https://csfs.colostate.edu/forest-management/common-forest-insects-diseases/dwarf-mistletoe/
[Butt One More Thing] - pick the one that we end up using (probably Hank’s)
Tick anus:
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/717730_2
Poop bean sprout:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192079/
From website banners to scratch-and-sniff magazine spreads, you’ve probably been the target of thousands of ads. Like, you’re even going to hear one during this podcast—we gotta eat! At this point, you might feel like you’re immune to advertising, because there’s no way a ridiculous infomercial could make you want a reusable juice box. But the psychology behind advertising has always been powerful. So this week, we’re diving into the science of when ads work, when they don’t, and when they’ve led to some pretty serious problems like the opioid epidemic.
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0956797613502732
https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article-abstract/44/4/877/3829544?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/uom-ita031116.php
[Fact Off]
Brand partnerships:
Opioid epidemic:
https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1508818
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5125194/
[Ask the Science Couch]
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/uoia-scs051817.php
http://www.nber.org/papers/w20171.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
https://thequackdoctor.com/index.php/dr-youngs-rectal-dilators/
Eggs have tons of different sizes, textures, and protective shells, from giant ostrich eggs to squishy fish egg clusters. But, scientifically, they all boil down to the same thing: an egg is just a reproductive cell that can be fertilized by a sperm to make an embryo. This week, we’re cracking the science of eggs wide open!
[Truth or Fail]
Brown trouts:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150214-fake-orgasms-and-other-sex-lies
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347200915859?via%3Dihub
Octopuses:
https://www.mbari.org/deep-sea-octopus-broods-eggs-for-over-four-years-longer-than-any-known-animal/
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0103437
Trilobites:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/01/170124124905.htm
[Fact Off]
Stick insect eggs:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/ku-tsi052318.php
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/10/stick-insects-lure-ants-fatty-knobs
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/05/science/stick-insects-eggs-birds.html
Humsters:
http://www.stillhq.com/pdfdb/000360/data.pdf
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/mrd.1120230307
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-3310-0_5
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1725451
[Ask the Science Couch]
Egg shape:
https://galapagosconservation.org.uk/whale-shark-reproduction/
https://books.google.com/books?id=zg1mDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT158&lpg=PT158
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/356/6344/1249
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160304-one-animal-has-more-babies-than-any-other
Have you ever wanted to lick the Moon and find out what that grey dust tastes like? If so, you’re in luck. This week, we’re sampling the science of taste, from the Apollo 16 mission reports to how the flavor compounds in amniotic fluid may affect babies’ food preferences. Apparently, it can get garlicky in there. But can non-human animals develop a sense of taste? And is “pine mouth” a real thing, or is it just what happens when Hank eats mysterious seeds he finds in the forest?
What do the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Space Station, and the Moon have in common? They’re all satellites that orbit the Earth! This week, we’re going extraterrestrial to talk about the dreams, discoveries, and debacles that went into Mir and other weirdly cool human-made satellites. Plus, we dig into burning questions, like whether the Sun can be considered a satellite. And we’re big enough space nerds that we try to explain some celestial mechanics.
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
https://www.wired.com/2014/07/orange-juice-toothpaste/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684458/
[Fact Off]
Moon dust:
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/30jan_smellofmoondust
Bees and Pesticides:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180828204911.htm
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1885/20180655
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/187907/the-more-pesticides-bees-more-they/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Developing taste:
https://www.npr.org/2011/08/08/139033757/babys-palate-and-food-memories-shaped-before-birth
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7583013
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/107/6/e88.full
[Butt One More Thing]
Sea cucumber eating:
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/03/14/giant-sea-cucumber-eats-with-its-anus/
With American Thanksgiving around the corner, turkey is on everyone’s mind! So this week, we’re taking a closer look at flightless birds of all shapes and sizes! What prevents some birds from using their wings to fly? Did Australians really start a war against emus? Plus, we’ll answer your burning questions about the sex lives of many, many different kinds of birds! Wow!
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
Inaccessible Island rail:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790318301763?via%3Dihub
https://gizmodo.com/how-a-tiny-flightless-bird-ended-up-on-an-island-in-the-1830188012
Ostrich egg globes:
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/08/130821-ostrich-globe-map-discovery-science-nation/
Emu War:
[Fact Off]
Crested penguins:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/s-ppi021016.php
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00265-016-2060-z
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uod-ppc062816.php
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep28785
Ratite reproduction:
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2011.00858.x
http://mentalfloss.com/article/80394/10-facts-about-cassowaries
https://www.merckvetmanual.com/exotic-and-laboratory-animals/ratites/reproduction-of-ratites
[Ask the Science Couch]
Kākāpō:
https://phys.org/news/2015-11-rimu-berry-game-changer-kakapo.html
https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/news/060401_kakapo
[Butt One More Thing]
Ostrich urine & feces:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1095643303000060
We’re delving into the complicated world of scientific hoaxes. Some are just goofs that went a little too far, but others have had serious negative impacts on public health.
Welcome, traveler, to the first episode! This is Sam from December of 2020. I can't believe, more two years later, we're still playing this goofy game!
If you're starting here, you have a long and grand adventure ahead of you. It only gets way better from here!
If you're working your way backwards... well, you did it! Hopefully a new episode will be coming out soon, otherwise what will you listen to while you do your chores??
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
Cello Scrotum:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1610985/
https://www.bmj.com/content/338/bmj.b379
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7853564.stm
Surfer’s Ear:
http://ent.uci.edu/more-at-uc-irvine/conditions/surfers-ears.asp
Jeep Butt:
https://publichealth.gwu.edu/departments/healthpolicy/CHPR/downloads/mil_prep042605.pdf
http://www.academia.edu/19875506/Pilonidal_sinus_Jeeps_disease_An_improved_model_of_care
[Fact Off]
Mary Toft:
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/exhibns/month/aug2009.html
https://academic.oup.com/past/article/238/1/43/4822513
Parapsychology:
http://www.tricksterbook.com/truzzi/ZS-Issues-PDFs/ZeteticScholarNos12-13.pdf
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.617.9791&rep=rep1&type=pdf
https://www.csicop.org/uploads/files/martin-gardner-pdfs/landmark-pk-hoax.pdf
https://web.archive.org/web/20060503224225/http://www.banachek.org/nonflash/project_alpha.htm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1S5CRcqJQo
[Ask the Science Couch]
Andrew Wakefield:
https://www.bmj.com/content/342/bmj.c5347
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3136032/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2323045/
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/mmr/public/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/jan/28/andrew-wakefield-mmr-vaccine
[Butt One More Thing]
Fake coprolite:
Introducing the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, Stefan Chin, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.
En liten tjänst av I'm With Friends. Finns även på engelska.
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