SciShow Tangents

The Tangents team tackles one of the greatest controversies in science history: are tomatoes fruits? Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsA big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen[Fact Off]Thumping watermelonshttps://www.ksre.k-state.edu/news/stories/2020/07/how-to-pick-a-ripe-melon.htmlhttps://www.almanac.com/how-tell-if-watermelon-ripehttps://www.bksv.com/en/knowledge/blog/perspectives/ripe-watermelonhttps://www.wsj.com/articles/the-science-of-a-ripe-watermelon-1498828907https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4325046/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00779-013-0706-7Animals eating moldy fruithttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05643-z[Ask the Science Couch]Ripening fruit biochemistryhttps://kids.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frym.2018.00016https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/all-fruit-and-vegetables-are-not-created-equal-when-it-comes-to-proper-storage-conditionshttps://academic.oup.com/jxb/article/63/13/4741/484722https://www.actahort.org/books/463/463_42.htm[Butt One More Thing]Medlar fruithttps://www.bbc.com/future/article/20210325-the-strange-medieval-fruit-the-world-forgothttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/medlar-fruit-forgotten-butt-shape Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsA big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Danger! High voltage episode! This week, we're zapping your earholes with electrifying knowledge that's sure to illuminate you!Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsA big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Fact Off]Space tethers to generate electricity https://www-spof.gsfc.nasa.gov/Education/wtether.htmlhttps://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-75.htmlhttps://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/2.3563?journalCode=jsrhttps://edisontechcenter.org/generators.htmlhttps://arc.aiaa.org/doi/abs/10.2514/2.3563?journalCode=jsrhttps://digitalcommons.usu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=https://en.wikipedia.org/&httpsredir=1&article=2532&context=smallsatElectric fish with dramatic pausesttps://www.fishbase.se/summary/5208https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/05/electric-fish-pause/618993/https://www.pennlive.com/life/2021/05/new-research-shows-that-electric-fish-pause-before-sharing-something-meaningful.htmlhttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-05/wuis-ef-051921.php[Ask the Science Couch]Static electricityhttps://www.utm.edu/staff/cerkal/electricity.htmhttps://www.livescience.com/51656-static-electricity.htmlhttps://intranet.birmingham.ac.uk/hr/documents/public/hsu/information/electrical/staticelectricity.pdf[Butt One More Thing]Manure electricityhttps://apnews.com/article/ap-top-news-sports-science-technology-business-3ad8a6b9b1cb4100a9db1b2e406ad14dhttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-equestrian-manure-energy/poo-power-horse-manure-from-world-cup-powers-helsinki-homes-idUSKBN1X70QX Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsA big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsA big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Ask the Science Couch]Gene expression & cell typehttps://www.cirm.ca.gov/our-progress/advanced-how-does-stem-cell-%E2%80%9Cknow%E2%80%9D-what-becomehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK26885/https://www.cell.com/trends/cell-biology/fulltext/S0962-8924(20)30059-3https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/our-cells-are-filled-with-junk-dna-heres-why-we-need-ithttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05462-w[Butt One More Thing]Pooprintshttps://www.cnbc.com/2018/12/19/pooprints-brings-in-millions-testing-dog-poop-dna-to-snag-non-scoopers.html Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsA big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Fact Off]Rats smelling conceptshttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uog-tso112520.phphttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/11/201125164455.htmhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2020.2327https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3000628Big cats and perfumeshttps://www.thecut.com/2020/01/big-cats-love-calvin-kleins-obsession-for-men.htmlhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/100624-big-cats-cologne-vin-videohttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/thoughtful-animal/youe28099ll-never-guess-how-biologists-lure-jaguars-to-camera-traps/https://www.rsc.org/Merck-Index/monograph/m3604/civetone?q=unauthorizehttps://animaldiversity.org/accounts/Viverricula_indica/[Ask the Science Couch]Smells & memoryhttps://www.livescience.com/why-smells-trigger-memories.htmlhttps://www.discovery.com/science/Why-Smells-Trigger-Such-Vivid-Memorieshttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23147501/[Butt One More Thing]Indole smellhttps://io9.gizmodo.com/why-is-a-compound-that-smells-like-feces-put-in-perfume-1717903411 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsA big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Fact Off]Exploding ant butts with toxic goohttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1A_nAQosWmC5o_jepXNJ0oc3RacjLK5qe1groWg34bL4/edit?usp=sharinghttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/animals-ants-borneo-exploding-defense?loggedin=truehttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/23/science/exploding-ants.htmlhttps://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=22661Sticky rice mortarhttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/ar9001944https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11431-008-0317-0https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/newsreleases/2010/may/revealing-the-ancient-chinese-secret-of-sticky-rice-mortar.htmlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/amylopectin[Ask the Science Couch]Frog tongueshttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/01/special-spit-is-the-secret-of-uniquely-sticky-frog-tongues-study-revealshttps://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 squidhttps://australian.museum/blog-archive/science/sucker-bum-squid-and-other-intriguing-molluscs Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsA big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Fact Off]Desert of Mainehttps://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/travel/escapes/22down.htmlhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/places/the-desert-of-maine-freeport-mainehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/why-desert-middle-maine-180951555/https://theculturetrip.com/north-america/usa/maine/articles/the-true-story-of-how-maine-got-its-desert/Panic grass in geothermal dirthttps://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2009/10/all-for-one-and-one-for-all.htmlhttps://www.montana.edu/news/629/yellowstone-plant-reveals-secret-for-tolerating-high-temperatureshttps://science.sciencemag.org/content/315/5811/513https://science.sciencemag.org/content/316/5822/201.1https://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 woundhttps://www.popsci.com/science/article/2013-05/antibacterial-clays-can-kill-antibiotic-resistant-e-coli-and-mrsa/https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/asu-amw051713.php/https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0064068https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/04/200427125205.htmhttps://www.freep.com/story/sports/mlb/tigers/2016/07/16/sports-rub-some-dirt-on-it/87184302/[Butt One More Thing]Pink fairy armadillohttps://www.wired.com/2014/01/absurd-creature-of-the-week-pink-fairy-armadillo-crawls-out-of-the-desert-and-into-our-hearts/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsA big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:Chatelaineshttps://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/historyNew Caledonian crowshttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uosa-cck120417.phphttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2015.0278https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uosa-cck120417.php[Ask the Science Couch]Oldest stone toolshttps://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-32804177https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14464https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/world-s-oldest-stone-tools-discovered-kenyahttps://anthromuseum.missouri.edu/exhibit/oldowan-and-acheulean-stone-tools Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsIf you can’t get enough Kurtis Conner, check out his YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7zsxKqd5MicTf4VhS9Y74gA big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Definition]Fish evolutionhttps://www.npr.org/2010/07/05/127937070/the-human-edge-finding-our-inner-fishhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/02/210205210627.htm[Ask the Science Couch]Smelly fishhttps://www.nytimes.com/2000/05/23/science/q-a-rotten-fish.htmlhttps://nutrition.org/is-fish-smelly/https://www.jstor.org/stable/24086628?seq=1https://www.pnas.org/content/111/12/4461https://cen.acs.org/articles/91/web/2013/09/Source-Fishy-Odors-Identified.htmlhttps://rarediseases.org/rare-diseases/trimethylaminuria/[Butt One More Thing]White sand beacheshttps://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sand.html Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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! Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsA big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Fungal Pesticides:https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/12/522068205/fungal-pesticides-offer-a-growing-alternative-to-traditional-chemicalshttps://agrochemicals.iupac.org/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=3&sobi2Id=31https://phys.org/news/2019-02-virus-infested-fungus-chemical-pesticides.htmlTinder Fungi:https://www.uab.cat/web/newsroom/news-detail-1345668003610.html?noticiaid=1345754508535Egyptian 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/18065010https://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-controlPlastic-digesting fungus:https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/fungi-research-lifts-lid-shy-organisms-break-down-plastichttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202047https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749117300295http://blog.worldagroforestry.org/index.php/2017/09/12/scientists-find-fungus-appetite-plastic-rubbish-dump/[Ask the Science Couch]“Zombie” ants:https://www.pnas.org/content/114/47/12590https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0187170https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3204140/https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/how-the-zombie-fungus-takes-over-ants-bodies-to-control-their-minds/545864/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsA big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Fact Off]Bubble gun pollinationhttps://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(20)30373-4https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/drone-delivered-soap-bubbles-could-help-pollinate-flowershttps://www.sciencenews.org/article/bubble-blowing-drones-may-one-day-aid-artificial-pollinationFungus mimicking flowersImage: https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/1BF8FBA2-1A97-4962-BDF7425878CF9454_source.jpghttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1087184520301572https://www.jstor.org/stable/2399434?refreqid=excelsior%3Ab21f9013c26e11394d09411860873d9f&seq=1https://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 floweringPicture of pitcher plant: http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3639Picture of venus fly trap: https://theconversation.com/friend-or-food-why-venus-flytraps-dont-eat-their-pollinators-91620http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161010-how-insect-eating-plants-persuade-insects-to-pollinate-themhttps://www.nature.com/articles/srep21065[Butt One More Thing]Dead horse lilyPicture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicodiceros#/media/File:Dracunculus_muscivorus.jpghttps://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2003.00802.xhttps://theconversation.com/the-secret-of-the-worlds-smelliest-flower-44439 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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! Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsA big thank you to Patreon subscriber Eclectic Bunny for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:Antechinus matinghttps://www.wired.com/story/antechinus-climate-change/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-a-little-mammal-has-so-much-sex-that-it-disintegrateshttps://www.livescience.com/51083-photos-antechinus-new-species.htmlhttps://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-17/search-for-endangered-antechinus-after-bushfires-on-gold-coast/12564958Alaskan marsupial fossilhttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uoaf-ndm021819.phphttps://phys.org/news/2019-02-ancient-night-marsupial-months-winter.htmlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2018.1560369https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app52-217.html https://www.blm.gov/sites/blm.gov/files/documents/files/PublicRoom_AK_Dinosaurs-on-NorthSlope_booklet_2018.pdfhttps://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.htmlhttps://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/08/05/1168902.htmhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339227/[Butt One More Thing]Opossums and smelling deadhttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/544902/facts-about-opossumshttps://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/opossums-so-darn-ugly-theyre-adorable.htm Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Strap on your greaves and grab your gauntlets: It's time for the weekly science/comedy deathmatch that is SciShow Tangents!Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsThank you to Patreon Patron Eclectic Bunny for helping make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Fact Off]Sugar bacteriahttps://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.phphttps://www.pasteur.fr/en/research-journal/news/shedding-light-almost-indestructible-archaeal-piliChiton armor (with embedded eyes)https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(11)00305-8.pdfhttps://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6263/952?related-urls=yes&legid=sci;350/6263/952Figure of their vision: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/350/6263/952/F3.large.jpghttp://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/ChitonEyeCommentary.pdfhttps://news.mit.edu/2015/sea-creature-armor-plating-transparent-ceramic-eyes-1119https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/89839/890127373-MIT.pdf?sequence=2[Ask the Science Couch]Tail armor/weaponryhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2017.2299https://eartharchives.org/articles/why-don-t-we-see-more-animals-with-tail-weapons-like-stegosaurus-or-ankylosaurus/index.htmlhttps://news.ncsu.edu/2018/01/arbour-zanno-tail[Butt One More Thing]Snail shellhttps://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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsThank you to Patreon Patron Eclectic Bunny for helping make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Fact Off]Astronaut urine in concretehttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/f-sf-aut032720.phphttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619340478https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/12/19/217244/purified-urine-in-space/https://www.cement.org/cement-concrete/cement-and-concrete-basics-faqshttps://web.archive.org/web/20080316071908/http://www.admixtures.org.uk/publications.aspSugar ants eating pee, fighting climate changehttps://cosmosmagazine.com/sugar-ants-love-pee-and-it-might-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions/https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uosa-sap020620.phphttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200206102706.htmhttps://cosmosmagazine.com/sugar-ants-love-pee-and-it-might-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions/[Ask the Science Couch]Pee across the animal kingdomhttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/569521/do-insects-peehttps://www.welcomewildlife.com/spider-basics/https://cdn.ymaws.com/arav.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/Files/Proceedings_2000/2000_35.pdfhttps://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/when-should-i-be-concerned-about-the-color-of-my-urinehttps://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 cloacahttps://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/science/dinosaur-cloaca-fossil.htmlhttps://slate.com/technology/2020/10/dinosaur-butt-fossil-discovery-cloaca.html Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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? Head to the link below 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! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsFollow 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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Definition]https://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/commissions/F2/info/documents/[Fact Off]Not-quite-sunscreen snow exoplanethttps://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aa899bhttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/ps-ads102617.phphttps://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Titanium-dioxidehttps://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/61685https://tdma.info/how-your-uv-protective-sunscreen-works/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/120529-global-warming-titanium-dioxide-balloons-earth-environment-scienceMessages to Gliese-581chttps://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/gliese_581_feature.htmlhttps://phys.org/news/2012-07-potential-habitable-exoplanets.htmlhttps://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4515https://www.universetoday.com/19335/messages-from-earth-beamed-to-alien-world/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7660449.stmhttps://www.nature.com/news/2007/071102/full/news.2007.212.html[Ask the Science Couch]Exoplanets arthttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/the-art-of-exoplanetshttps://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 challengehttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/space-poop-challengehttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/winners-of-space-poop-challenge-receive-30000 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!” And we’ve got some big news! SciShow Tangents has a Patreon now! Head to the link below to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, such as bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter! https://www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsWe love making this show, and with your help we can make it even better!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Fact Off]Cotton candy blood vesselshttps://www.designnews.com/stub/synthetic-capillary-networks-artificial-organs-developed-using-cotton-candy-machinehttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/vu-ccm020816.phpCordite (forbidden gum)Picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cordite_Filled_Cartridge.JPGhttps://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3281990https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/cordite/1010201.articlehttps://www.britannica.com/science/nitroglycerinhttp://www.gumassociation.org/index.cfm/science-technology/ingredients-technology/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6954562.stmhttp://pubsapp.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/85/8532sci2.html[Ask the Science Couch]Candy preferences with agehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2764307/https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(17)30214-0https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.30.1_supplement.418.6https://now.tufts.edu/articles/craving-brain[Butt One More Thing]Sugar alcohol fartshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5093271/# Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/3qNsH4kFrom 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… 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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Fact Off]Skinner Air Cribhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1037/1089-2680.3.3.155https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/skinner-air-cribhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-cribs-other-brilliant-bizarre-inventions-getting-babies-to-sleep-180972138/https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/b-f-skinnerMountain goat coolinghttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0225456https://www.vice.com/en/article/epggvp/americas-iconic-mountain-goats-are-being-threatened-by-melting-ice-and-snowhttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/wcs-mga121019.php[Ask the Science Couch]Varied climates on planetshttps://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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:Peat bogshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/peatlandhttps://www.britannica.com/technology/peathttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/europe-bog-bodies-reveal-secrets-180962770/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305440320300881?dgcid=rss_sd_allhttps://www.culture24.org.uk/places-to-go/south-west/bristol/art20488Spidershttps://www.livescience.com/24054-why-spiders-have-eight-eyes.htmlhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/6/110603-spiders-spare-legs-webs-science-animals/Laser eye surgeryhttps://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6249164https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22496438/https://www.aao.org/munnerlyn-laser-surgery-center/laser-in-situ-keratomileusis-lasik-3https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/8586-corneal-diseasehttps://healthcare.utah.edu/the-scope/shows.php?shows=0_yrklfds0Disease eradicationhttps://asm.org/Articles/2020/March/Disease-Eradication-What-Does-It-Take-to-Wipe-outhttps://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/index.htmlhttps://www.oie.int/en/for-the-media/press-releases/detail/article/eradication-isnt-the-end-of-the-rinderpest-story/#Miner's egghttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003591572201501935 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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! 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: Deboki: @okidoki_boki Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Fact Off]Irradiating canned meatWIll update ASAP!Dermestid beetle larvaehttps://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/178/4066/1210.full.pdfhttps://academic.oup.com/aesa/article-abstract/64/1/149/28541?redirectedFrom=fulltexthttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002219108090027Xhttps://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/warehouse-beetle-and-cabinet-beetleElectron decayhttps://gizmodo.com/electron-lifespan-is-at-least-5-quintillion-times-the-1747606990https://physicsworld.com/a/electron-lifetime-is-at-least-66000-yottayears/[Ask the Science Couch]Cryonicshttps://www.newscientist.com/article/2095072-a-visual-tour-of-the-weird-world-of-the-cryogenically-frozen/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-fertilityhttps://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130293211 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2015/02/making-teeth-tough-beavers-show-way-to-improve-our-enamel-http://www.sci-news.com/biology/science-biswamoyopterus-laoensis-new-species-flying-squirrel-laos-01361.htmlhttps://www.apopo.info/en/tuberculosis-detection/projectshttp://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tb/backgroundhttps://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/23/rats-who-sniff-out-tubersulosishttps://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140816-rats-tuberculosis-smell-disease-health-animals-world/[Fact Off]Hippos & biggest rodent:Beavers & carbon emissions:https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoh-bha082918.phphttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/07/what-role-do-beavers-play-climate-changehttps://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/482008dhttps://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120521-killer-mice-birds-gough-island-endangered-animals-science/https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00534.xhttps://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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Our very own Josef 'Tuna' Metesh took Ceri's already exceptional sea shanty and turned it into a masterpiece! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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! 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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Brain Storm]Falling animalshttps://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/can-it-rain-frogs-fish-and-other-objectshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/strange-rain-why-fish-frogs-and-golf-balls-fall-skies-180956527/https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lluvia-de-peces-the-rain-of-fishhttps://www.thelocal.no/20150416/earthworms-rain-from-sky-over-southern-norwayAutomated Weather Observing Systemshttps://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Automated_Weather_Observing_System_(AWOS)https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_150_5220-16E.pdfCloud seedinghttps://www.technologyreview.com/2008/03/25/270084/weather-engineering-in-china/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7899086.stmhttps://web.archive.org/web/20111123025420/http://www.ceawmt.in/indian_history.htmlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809515000484https://www.ncm.ae/en/details.html?id=825&lid=575https://www.popsci.com/smog-cloud-seeding-thailand/https://web.archive.org/web/20161105045733/http://thainews.prd.go.th/website_en/news/news_detail/WNEVN5903040010016https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/ncfa-wcs012606.phphttps://journalofweathermodification.org/index.php/JWM/article/view/474https://www.weathermod-bg.eu/index_en.phphttps://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-fires-siberia/russia-seeds-clouds-in-siberia-to-douse-raging-wildfires-idUSKBN24B1JT[Fact Off]Tempest PrognosticatorPic here: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/07/tempest-prognosticator-predicting.htmlhttps://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-leecheshttps://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/19/weatherwatch-forecasting-tempest-prognosticator-storm-leechhttps://interestingengineering.com/scientists-used-leaches-to-predict-the-weatherhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/leeches-predict-weather-tempest-prognosticatorAMDARhttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL088613https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02198-4https://community.wmo.int/activity-areas/aircraft-based-observations/amdar/about-amdarhttps://amdar.noaa.gov/docs/bams/[Ask the Science Couch]Acid rainhttps://www.epa.gov/acidrain/what-acid-rainhttp://butane.chem.uiuc.edu/pshapley/GenChem1/L26/3.htmlhttps://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/acid-rain-and-water?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objectshttps://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/ocean-acidification Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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.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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Hear Ye Hear Ye]Toadfish Calls courtesy of the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/homehttps://www.chesapeakebay.net/S=0/fieldguide/critter/oyster_toadfishSun Sonificationhttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/sounds-of-the-sunWhistler-waveshttps://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-listens-in-as-electrons-whistle-while-they-workJupiter Bowshockhttps://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.htmhttps://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/26/technology/hearing-aids-smaller-and-smarter.htmlhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/773357/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2582694/Cheetah ears & vestibular organhttps://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 losshttps://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hearing_loss/how_does_loud_noise_cause_hearing_loss.htmlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11122/https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hearing-loss/symptoms-causes/syc-20373072https://stanmed.stanford.edu/listening/scientists-hope-cure-hearing-loss-studying-birds.htmlhttps://psych.athabascau.ca/html/Psych289/Biotutorials/17/cochlea.shtmlhttps://www.nidcd.nih.gov/sites/default/files/Content%20Images/presbycusis.pdfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQEaiZ2j9oc Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 Edithttps://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/11/20/bacteria-direct-hawaiian-squid/https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uoha-bct111820.phphttps://www.quantamagazine.org/new-squid-genome-shines-light-on-symbiotic-evolution-20190219/The SciShow Video https://youtu.be/_XvgdNQsmVE?t=525Octopus Apartment Buildinghttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/10236244.2012.727617https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/why-octopuses-are-building-small-cities-off-the-coast-of-australia/[Stump the Science Couch]https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/why-don-t-octopuses-get-stuck-to-themselves/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-dont-octopus-suckers-stick-their-own-skin-180951465/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Chicken Fathttps://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/aafex_biofuels.htmlBone losshttps://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=187Perfumehttps://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/spacescents_feature.htmlhttps://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff2002/ch_1.html[Fact Off]Wake Shield Facilityhttps://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19920014405https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/pg46s95.htmlhttps://uwaterloo.ca/molecular-beam-epitaxy/about/what-epitaxyhttps://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/03jan_bioniceyeshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0042207X01003839https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457650000148XImage: https://archive.org/details/STS069-724-095 Mouse sperm experimenthttps://www.pnas.org/content/114/23/5988http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/theme/second/pmlatter/spacepup/[Ask the Science Couch]Rocket thrusthttps://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/UEET/StudentSite/engines.htmlhttps://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/390-rockets-and-thrusthttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/228785798_The_merits_of_cold_gas_micropropulsion_in_state-of-the-art_space_missionshttps://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/rocket/rktth1.html[Butt One More Thing]ISS Toilet Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]EROShttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25788334MOZEhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0389-0FReSHhttp://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10428.html[Fact Off]Eidophorhttps://www.earlytelevision.org/eidophor.htmlhttps://hackaday.com/2016/03/15/retrotechtacular-eidophor-an-unknown-widely-used-projector/http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f1/t004319.htmlhttp://www.earlytelevision.org/yanczer_eidophor.htmlCentennial lighthttp://www.centennialbulb.org/index.htmhttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/66009/light-bulb-has-been-burning-1901https://www.lampsplus.com/ideas-and-advice/how-an-incandescent-light-bulb-works/https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracyhttps://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707188193/the-phoebus-cartel[Ask the Science Couch]Incandescence: http://edisontechcenter.org/incandescent.htmlhttps://physlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Planck_ref8.pdfhttps://www.fi.edu/history-resources/edisons-lightbulbLEDs:https://www.circuitbasics.com/what-is-a-diode/http://needtoknow.nas.edu/www7.nationalacademies.org/led-lighting/index-2.htmlhttps://www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/nlpip/lightinganswers/led/color.asphttps://www.mrsec.psu.edu/content/light-emitting-diodes[Butt One More Thing]Fluorescent E.coli for colitishttps://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/msb.20167416 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail]Spiders in carshttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/04/mazda-issues-recall-because-spiders-invade-fuel-tank-causing-fire-risk.htmlhttps://www.popsci.com/blog-network/eek-squad/why-do-spiders-apparently-cars-so-much/http://delusion.ucdavis.edu/yellowsac.htmlhttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/toyota-is-recalling-more-than-800-000-cars-because-of-spiders/280694/Artificial Christmas trees made from car scrapshttps://www.aluminum.org/product-markets/automotivehttps://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=1414607Mailing heavy car pieceshttps://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/bank-of-vernal.pdfhttps://www.deseret.com/2014/11/24/20553427/legend-of-vernal-bank-built-by-bricks-sent-through-post-office-partly-truehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_car[Fact Off]Wheaties jinglehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJpeR6GvpC8Workout clothing that regulates temperaturehttps://news.mit.edu/2017/moisture-responsive-workout-suit-0519http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DiGRA_2020_paper_88.pdf[Ask the Science Stefan Couch]Random dice rollsHow random is dice rolling? http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8738/f63758598ca711c49817f9187f13c22a9893.pdf[Butt One More Thing]Farting gameshttp://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DiGRA_2020_paper_88.pdf Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Fact Off]Pokemon memory studyArticles:https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/su-abr050219.phphttps://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18531287/pokemon-neuroscience-visual-cortex-brain-informationhttps://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-brainPaper:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332900464_Extensive_childhood_experience_with_Pokemon_suggests_eccentricity_drives_organization_of_visual_cortexStanford Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEIuQRHElcQ&ab_channel=StanfordSciShow Video:https://youtu.be/UWEZiOZZ0uABeagle & polar bear poophttp://cincinnatizoo.org/news-releases/can-a-canine-detect-polar-bear-pregnancy/https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/11/12/elvis-the-dog-sniffs-out-pregnant-polar-bears/?utm_source=reddit.comhttps://www.wvxu.org/post/no-cubs-anana-zoos-polar-bear-not-pregnant#stream/0http://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-1.13202https://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/14/2180https://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/15/2455https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23160832/https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/112428/12953_2004_Article_18.pdf;jsessionid=BF3DFABDCA9CECAFF34406DB7BF9BE50?sequence=1Electrogenic organhttps://opentextbc.ca/anatomyandphysiologyopenstax/chapter/skeletal-muscle/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-electric-eels-genehttps://jeb.biologists.org/content/212/9/1351https://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/13/2451https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/24jun_electrostatics[Butt One More Thing]Pigeon poop hair bleachhttps://www.hji.co.uk/blonde/brief-history-of-blondes-hair-historian/https://books.google.com/books?id=Yw_0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT48&lpg=PT48 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 terrariumshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-X4g_fCmKwhttps://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/Experiment/exper/429https://history.nasa.gov/SP-400/contents.htmBaking powder submarineshttp://torgo.org/bpsubs/https://books.google.com/books?id=F2ApK7QnbPUC&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=falsehttps://marinebio.org/creatures/tools/submarines/Bo'sun whistlehttps://telephone-museum.org/telephone-collections/capn-crunch-bosun-whistle/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/capn-crunch-whistlehttps://garydrobson.com/2014/06/03/the-origins-of-phreaking/[Fact Off]Oxytocin in art class vs. board gamesArticle: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/bu-cca021219.phpThe paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jomf.125563D print your own hermit crab[Ask the Science Sam Couch]D&D monsterRoving Mauler!https://1d4chan.org/images/0/01/Roving_Mauler.jpg[Butt One More Thing]Beetle coming out of frog’s butthttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/after-being-swallowed-alive-water-beetle-stages-backdoor-escape-from-frogs-gut/https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30842-3?_returnURL Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Pressure-sensitive Adhesiveshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-sensitive_adhesiveMalaria Detectorhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181029102828.htmUrine-Powered Transmitterhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151211130103.htmhttps://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/preview/844724/Wearable-MFC%2010-7-15_unedited.pdf[Fact Off]Cats eating grasshttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/mystery-solved-why-cats-eat-grassMetal whiskershttp://thor.inemi.org/webdownload/newsroom/Presentations/SMTAI-04_tin_whiskers.pdfhttps://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/background/index.htmhttps://phys.org/news/2012-12-doctoral-student-unravels-tin-whisker.htmlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359646218300319https://www.sharrettsplating.com/blog/alternatives-to-cadmium-for-plating-connectors/[Ask the Science Hank Couch]Wombat buttshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/10/06/wombats-have-buns-of-steel-and-they-might-literally-be-deadly/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/wombat-poop-cube-why-is-it-square-shaped/Caterpillar poophttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/03/frass-fliesHydra butthttps://www.livescience.com/53980-terrifying-mouth-of-a-hydra.html[Butt One More Thing]Peru guanohttps://www.audubon.org/news/holy-crap-trip-worlds-largest-guano-producing-islandshttps://www.bbc.com/news/business-11153967 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 gourdshttps://www.lewisginter.org/luffa-plant-exfoliate/Grasspeahttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6422318/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514116300629https://www.cwrdiversity.org/the-curious-case-of-the-grasspea/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20510335/https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/CropFactSheets/grasspea.htmlWild carrotshttp://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/wild.htmlhttps://www.canr.msu.edu/news/poison-hemlock-identification-and-controlhttps://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-leaveshttps://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/news/2017/03/human-heart-spinach-leaf-medicine-science?utm_source=reddit.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/27/scientists-convert-spinach-leaves-into-human-heart-tissue-that-beats/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a63bdefdc2b4ac54c102232/t/5a90cfc0ec212d945185b364/1519439811042/CYSJLabWinter2017.pdf#page=6Beet smell geosmin[Ask the Science Couch]Asparagus peehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1379935/pdf/brjclinpharm00087-0116.pdfhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1715705/pdf/brmedj00052-0020.pdfhttps://academic.oup.com/chemse/article/36/1/9/442551https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140818-mystery-of-asparagus-and-urinehttps://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6071https://www.livescience.com/57199-why-some-people-cant-smell-asparagus-pee.htmlhttps://theconversation.com/that-distinctive-springtime-smell-asparagus-pee-94696[Butt One More Thing]Beeturiahttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537012/https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319447#Beetroot-pigments Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Shipwormshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShipwormsDynamitehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/tunneling-clam-bedeviled-humans-sank-ships-conquered-oceans-180961288/Bounty Gaminghttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1902[Fact Off]Super WoodArticle: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180207151829.htmPaper: https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf2018/fpl_2018_song001.pdfScrewdriver test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BStJLI7WQ8g&ab_channel=VOANewsBallistic test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVbczXDFe1Q&ab_channel=MarylandNanoCenterMetallic Woodhttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uop-pe012819.php[Ask the Science Couch]Splintershttp://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0615/p2557.htmlhttp://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0901/p683.htmlhttp://www.the-dermatologist.com/content/treating-rare-fungal-infections-sporotrichosishttps://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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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: @hankgreenIf 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.htmhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.201703653Algae: 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 nestshttps://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 burrowshttps://www.popsci.com/fish-teamwork-snare-shrimp/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-018-2566-7https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180306101713.htm[Ask the Science Couch]Concrete & environmental impactshttps://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earthhttps://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-materialhttps://www.ny-engineers.com/blog/how-can-concrete-construction-be-greener [Butt One More Thing]Japanese transparent public toilethttps://www.dezeen.com/2020/08/17/shigeru-ban-transparent-toyko-toilet-shibuya https://tokyotoilet.jp/en/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail]Arrow Storkhttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76208/how-stork-solved-scientific-mysteryhttps://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/02/19/the_weirdest_ideas_about_bird_migration.htmlhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/places/zoological-collection-of-the-university-of-rostockhttps://labandfield.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/bird_migration/[Fact Off]American and European eel migrationhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/2449503?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contentshttps://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37563100https://jeb.biologists.org/content/208/7/1329https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms9705https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/mystery-of-the-vanishing-eelshttps://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/10/e1501694https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sargassosea.htmlArmy ant bivouac [Ask the Science Couch]Forest migrationhttps://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/BorealMigrationhttps://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/896030567/believe-it-or-not-forests-migrate-but-not-fast-enough-for-climate-changehttps://daily.jstor.org/the-incredible-moving-forest/[Butt One More Thing]Starling poop https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-05/rome-is-drowning-in-the-droppings-of-a-million-migrating-starlings Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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: @hankgreenIf 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-hauntedhttps://www.businessinsider.com/why-horror-films-scary-fear-neuroscience-psychology-2016-10https://www.quora.com/Why-is-the-wolf-howling-effect-used-in-horror-movieshttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/07/why-screams-are-so-scaryhttps://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2015/july/researchers-find-the-acoustic-signature-of-screams.htmlhttps://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.htmlhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2012.0374https://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/s41467-020-16448-6https://qz.com/quartzy/1429949/devils-interval-what-makes-music-sound-scary/[Extreme Highs & Lows]https://www.newscientist.com/article/2123018-the-feeling-you-get-when-nails-scratch-a-blackboard-has-a-name/https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00131/fullhttps://scienceline.org/2011/10/why-do-we-hate-the-sound-of-nails-on-a-chalkboard/http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Sound/infrasound.htmlhttp://www.nbcnews.com/id/3077192#.X2kUu5NKhxwhttp://www.richardwiseman.com/resources/ghost-in-machine.pdfhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110929142806/http://www.psy.herts.ac.uk/ghost/Something-in-the-Cellar.pdf[Butt One More Thing]https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11031-018-9673-7#Sec14https://www.livescience.com/62165-how-to-overcome-embarrassment-fart-study.html Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail]King Kong suit experimentshttps://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)00946-Xhttps://www.livescience.com/52209-apes-remember-ancitipate-scary-movie-scenes.html Thieving puppet experimenthttps://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/research-with-thieving-puppets-demonstrates-toddlers-caring-sides/Parrots wasting foodhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/science/why-parrots-waste-food.htmlSocial interaction puppet experimenthttps://munewsarchives.missouri.edu/news-releases/2015/0210-babies-can-identify-complex-social-situations-and-react-accordingly-2/ [Fact Off] Birdcatcher treehttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-tropical-ecology/article/dispersal-and-germination-of-seeds-of-pisonia-grandis-an-indopacific-tropical-tree-associated-with-insular-seabird-colonies/60178D05BB8FFDED4565F2EB72E9061Dhttps://www.sciencealert.com/this-tree-seems-to-kill-birds-just-for-the-heck-of-ithttps://www.academia.edu/16969627/_Birdlime_Sticky_Entrapments_in_Renaissance_Literature_https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/this-tree-lures-birds-with-a-free-lunch-and-then-kills-them/2017/03/31/27aa04c0-1309-11e7-9e4f-09aa75d3ec57_story.htmlhttps://www.theargus.co.uk/news/16882829.birds-killed-illegal-glue-traps-horsham-nature-reserve/ Bloodsucking (Capri Son) anthttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/uoia-dap120618.phphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9dsINb64Q0&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=AntLabhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dracula-ants-snapping-jaws-are-fastest-known-appendage-any-animal-180971061/#:~:text=According%20to%20Hannah%20Devlin%20of,them%20%E2%80%9Cfull%20of%20holes.%E2%80%9Dhttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/shadow-labyrinth-mirror-new-species-of-child-eating-dracula-ants-get-cool-ninja-names/https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-03/pp-snd032814.php [Ask the Science Couch] Organ transplantshttps://www.cedars-sinai.org/programs/transplant-center/programs/kidney-pancreas/abo-incompatibility.htmlhttps://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/transplant/programs/reconstructive_transplant/hand_transplant.htmlhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-019-0215-3https://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/https://www.cedars-sinai.org/programs/transplant-center/programs/kidney-pancreas/abo-incompatibility.html [Butt One More Thing] Yeti poop actually bearshttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/11/yeti-legends-real-animals-dna-bears-himalaya-science/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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! 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] Wirewormshttps://extension.entm.purdue.edu/fieldcropsipm/insects/corn-wireworms.phphttps://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1119566-overview Vampire Ground Finchhttp://blog.discoveringgalapagos.org.uk/vampire-finch/ Japanese Wild Boarshttps://www.nal.usda.gov/fsrio/research-projects/silver-nanoparticles-pesticide-agricultural-applications#:~:text=Silver%20nanoparticles%20have%20received%20significant,resistance%20to%20existing%20chemical%20pesticides.https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2136652/wild-boars-are-taking-over-japans-small-towns-and-residents-are [Fact Off] Blood batteryhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160429095849.htmhttps://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Scientists-create-bio-batteries-which-can-be-charged-with-human-sweat/articleshow/40198217.cmshttps://futurism.com/blood-is-helping-us-make-the-next-generation-of-batteries Tick traumatic insemination https://www.pnas.org/content/116/29/14682https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/08/immune-system-protects-female-bedbugs-traumatic-sexhttps://phys.org/news/2019-07-female-bed-bugs-immune-stis.html [Ask the Science Couch] Teeth/beak/etc puncturehttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/c/common-vampire-bat/https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7242.htmlhttps://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/11/2/154/204658https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2000.tb00583.x Specialized mouthpiece strawhttps://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/07/480653821/watch-mosquitoes-use-6-needles-to-suck-your-bloodhttps://web.natur.cuni.cz/parasitology/vyuka/LekEnt_CV/The%20Biology%20of%20Blood-Sucking%20in%20Insects.pdf [Butt One More Thing] Vampire bat poophttps://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/science/vampire-bats-blood.htmlhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0476-8 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Brazilian Treehoppershttps://io9.gizmodo.com/the-brazilian-treehopper-may-be-the-strangest-creature-5975761https://www.sciencefocus.com/nature/what-is-a-brazilian-treehopper/Cicada Wing Flickinghttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-02/uoc-iot022218.phpProtective Ant Fungushttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/ps-tzf050212.php[Fact Off]Neochromosomes (Frankenstein’s monster chromosomes) & cancerhttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-11/giom-ssm110514.phphttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4905327/https://www.nature.com/articles/515314bhttps://www.cell.com/cancer-cell/fulltext/S1535-6108(14)00373-0https://www.nature.com/articles/nature14493https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1383574218300322https://www.nature.com/articles/4401161Glass knifefish brain transplanthttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/njio-sb032420.phphttps://news.njit.edu/simulated-frankenfish-brain-swaps-reveal-senses-control-body-movement[Ask the Science Couch]Trying to reanimate animal corpseshttps://www.livescience.com/65542-zombies-real-resurrection-experiments.htmlhttps://io9.gizmodo.com/real-life-scientists-who-meddled-with-life-and-death-5949176https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15595271/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003497500010912Animal brainshttps://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-01216-4https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0006899374904788https://science.sciencemag.org/content/168/3929/375 [Butt One More Thing] Dead butt syndromehttps://www.healthline.com/health/dead-butt-syndrome Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Bioluminescent/reflective animalshttps://www.owlpages.com/owls/articles.php?a=18https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2014.0206https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/07/150724-fireflies-glow-bugs-summer-nation-science/Marsh gaseshttps://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i38/George-Washington-Scientist.htmlhttps://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.pdfhttps://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/rocky-hill-experiment/Pepper's ghost illusionhttps://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/the-science-behind-the-pepper-s-ghost-illusion/http://www.theatrecrafts.com/pages/home/glossary-of-technical-theatre-terms/more-about-peppers-ghost/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/aekye5/the-science-behind-the-worlds-most-convincing-ghost-effect[Fact Off]Feeling of presence ghost robothttps://www.wired.com/2014/11/robot-ghost/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-robot-messes-with-your-brain-until-you-feel-a-ghostly-presence/Ghost fleas and mercuryhttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/ghost-fleas-bring-toxic-mercury-depths-prairie-lakeshttps://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/26294/20200701/ghost-fleas-act-mercury-elevators-bring-toxin-up-depths-lake.htm[Ask the Science Couch]EMF readershttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-broken-technology-of-ghost-hunting/506627/https://www.livescience.com/4261-shady-science-ghost-hunting.htmlhttps://io9.gizmodo.com/meet-the-emf-meter-the-little-tool-that-ghost-hunters-5875212 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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!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: @hankgreenIf 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-showshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16621953https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2018/01/why-fly-when-you-can-shuffle-the-lesser-short-tailed-bat-prefers-the-ground/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.xmlSuction 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-proteinhttps://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(09)02073-9https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12511https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/refined-fine-tuned-placental-mammal-family-tree/Moth echolocation blocker:https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/07/moths-block-bats-sonarhttp://science.sciencemag.org/content/325/5938/325?keytype=ref&siteid=sci&ijkey=GbDjRlkoHfRnYhttps://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.htmlhttps://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/static-page/what-is-white-nose-syndromehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-bats-could-bounce-back-devastating-white-nose-syndrome-180969378/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02441-zhttps://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/4/2/48[Butt One More Thing]Bat guano gunpowder:https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dkc09 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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/eDop3FDoUzkWant more Deboki? Journey to the Microcosmos: https://youtu.be/17tug6T-4jcCrash Course Organic Chemistry: https://youtu.be/bSMx0NS0XfYAnd follow her on Twitter: https://twitter.com/okidoki_bokiAnd every other Tangents episode! She does a ton of behind the scenes work and we’d, frankly, be screwed without her! Thank you, Deboki!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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail]Mustached bat sounds and syntaxhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7962992/ Heaps Lawhttps://www.johndcook.com/blog/2019/08/27/heaps-law/ Jackass penguin honkshttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0589https://www.livescience.com/jackass-penguin-linguistic-rules.htmlhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/jackass-penguin-calls-follow-similar-rules-human-speech-180974139/https://youtu.be/oTOcJj_NNUg Speed dating communicationhttps://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2012/04/30/151550273/to-predict-dating-success-the-secrets-in-the-pronouns Prairie dog chatterhttps://www.prairiedoghoogland.com/vocalizationshttps://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.phpHypothetical spaceship languagehttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200706145433.htmhttps://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/eaaw2594http://www.ithkuil.net/00_intro.htmlComputer languages https://thenewstack.io/which-programming-languages-use-the-least-electricity/https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/compiled-versus-interpreted-languages/[Butt One More Thing]Pumpernickelhttps://www.visualthesaurus.com/cm/wordroutes/the-devilish-origins-of-pumpernickel/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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... 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] Bat Eyeshttps://www.vice.com/en_us/article/78kwdz/bats-crash-into-each-other-all-the-time-high-speed-cameras-reveal Guitarfish Eyeshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/instead-eyelids-fish-has-special-muscles-retract-its-eyeball-180957005/ https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/sharks#:~:text=Sharks%20have%20eyelids%2C%20but%20they,damage%20when%20fighting%20or%20feeding.&text=In%20addition%2C%20some%20species%20have,the%20eye%20in%20dicey%20situations. Goat Eyeshttps://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/08/07/430149677/eye-shapes-of-the-animal-world-hint-at-differences-in-our-lifestyles [Fact Off] Glowing Contactshttps://www.caltech.edu/about/news/glowing-contact-lens-could-prevent-leading-cause-blindness-82050https://orionvisiongroup.com/blog/glow-in-the-dark-contact-treatment-diabetic-retinopathy/#:~:text=Diabetic%20Retinopathy%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Facts,the%20precursor%20to%20nerve%20death. Cockeyed squidshttps://today.duke.edu/2017/02/mismatched-eyes-help-squid-survive-ocean%E2%80%99s-twilight-zonehttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2016.0069https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/this-squid-gives-better-side-eye-than-youhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-someone-get-two/ [Ask the Science Couch] Eye shapeshttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/90509/13-furry-facts-about-pallass-cathttps://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/7/e1500391https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/08/07/430149677/eye-shapes-of-the-animal-world-hint-at-differences-in-our-lifestyles [Butt One More Thing] Cow butt eyehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/painting-eyes-cow-butts-could-save-cow-and-lion-lives-180975601/https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/627983/save-cow-from-predators-paint-eyes-on-its-butt Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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! 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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail]Freeze-dryinghttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/nuos-nit031820.phpReplacing human tissueshttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/cuot-nrm031320.phphttps://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsnano.9b01924Batterieshttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140827151654.htmhttps://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2014/RA/C4RA03888F#!divAbstract [Fact Off]Added engine noisehttps://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15117726/faking-it-engine-sound-enhancement-explained-tech-dept/https://www.carthrottle.com/post/5-ways-that-manufacturers-enhance-the-sound-of-their-cars/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/americas-best-selling-cars-and-trucks-are-built-on-lies-the-rise-of-fake-engine-noise/2015/01/21/6db09a10-a0ba-11e4-b146-577832eafcb4_story.htmlhttps://www.popularmechanics.com/cars/a7923/the-rise-of-the-fake-engine-roar-11291754/https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a15107374/this-is-why-various-engine-types-sound-so-different-feature/ [Ask the Science Couch]Wheels vs. trackshttps://litetrax.com/wheels-vs-tracks-advantages-disadvantages/https://www.macallisterrentals.com/track-vs-wheeled-equipment-type-machine-rent/3 vs. 4 wheelshttps://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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Does the Tangents crew know anything about black holes? Not really. But when has that ever stopped us? Let’s get theoretical! 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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail]Gravastarhttps://www.universetoday.com/24299/types-of-stars/https://web.archive.org/web/20061213095149/http://www.lanl.gov/news/releases/archive/02-035.shtmlBlanethttps://www.sciencealert.com/we-have-ploonets-we-have-moonmoons-now-hold-onto-your-hats-for-blanetshttps://arxiv.org/abs/2007.15198Massteroidhttps://www.space.com/51-asteroids-formation-discovery-and-exploration.htmlhttps://solarsystem.nasa.gov/basics/primer/ [Fact Off]Stealing energy from black holehttp://large.stanford.edu/courses/2011/ph240/nagasawa2/https://www.sciencealert.com/an-experiment-has-just-demonstrated-how-energy-could-be-extracted-from-a-black-holehttps://www.gla.ac.uk/news/headline_727690_en.htmlhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=73&v=ES2VxhRAkUM&feature=emb_titlehttps://science.howstuffworks.com/dictionary/astronomy-terms/black-hole.htm#:~:text=The%20Schwarzschild%20black%20hole%20is,singularity%20and%20an%20event%20horizon.&text=The%20Kerr%20black%20hole%2C%20which,it%20was%20formed%20was%20rotating.https://www.quora.com/What-is-an-ergospherehttps://www.howmusicworks.org/103/Sound-and-Music/Amplitude-and-Frequency#:~:text=There%20are%20two%20main%20properties,how%20loud%20the%20sound%20is.&text=A%20frequency%20of%201%20Hz%20means%20one%20wave%20cycle%20per%20second.[Ask the Science Couch]White holeshttps://www.space.com/white-holes.htmlhttps://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/white-holes-do-black-holes-have-mirror-imageshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1HqOEbq2L4https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4aqGI1mSqo [Butt One More Thing]Carl Sagan BHAhttps://www.engadget.com/2014-02-26-when-carl-sagan-sued-apple-twice.html#:~:text=In%20the%20wake%20of%20Sagan's,first%20place%20is%20beyond%20comical. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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! While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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! 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:Artificial sugarshttp://www.madehow.com/Volume-3/Aspartame.htmlhttps://sucralose.org/sucralose-facts/#:~:text=Sucralose%20is%20made%20by%20a,%2C%20but%20is%20calorie%2Dfree.https://www.stevia.com/2016/10/03/how-is-stevia-leaf-extract-made/https://science.howstuffworks.com/innovation/edible-innovations/artificial-sweetener8.htmhttp://www.yalescientific.org/2010/09/mythbusters-does-sugar-really-make-children-hyper/https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/391812https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7963081/Photic sneezinghttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-does-bright-light-cau/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF03012675https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1042271/https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-41551-0Milk and bonesWhale hearinghttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0118582https://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-evolutionhttp://repository.ias.ac.in/4651/1/321.pdfDuck swimming https://www.audubon.org/news/webbed-feet-are-evolutionary-hithttps://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article/110/3/543/2415604https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/veterinary-science-and-veterinary-medicine/uropygial-glandhttps://academy.allaboutbirds.org/feathers-article/Multivitamins[Butt One More Thing]Anal poucheshttps://books.google.com/books?id=IETMd3-lSlkC&pg=PA99&lpg=PA99https://www.wired.com/2015/01/creature-feature-10-fun-facts-fossa/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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 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 SciShowTangents.org! [Truth or Fail] Foxfire https://allthatsinteresting.com/foxfire-bioluminescence#:~:text=Foxfire%20is%20the%20informal%20term,together%20to%20form%20a%20glow. Submarine https://www.warhistoryonline.com/instant-articles/david-bushnells-turtle-of-1776.html https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/s/submarine-turtle-naval-documents.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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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. 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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links![Truth or Fail]Protein gamehttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/victory-for-crowdsourced-biomolecule2/Protein musichttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190626125052.htmWhey fabrichttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-01/ded-ssa012317.php[Fact Off]Prions in wine yeasthttps://phys.org/news/2014-08-prions-trigger-stuck-wine-fermentations.html#:~:text=Working%20through%20a%20prion%E2%80%94an,without%20altering%20the%20yeast's%20DNA.Spider silk in vaccineshttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/06/180612185155.htmhttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-06/udg-ank061218.phphttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0142961218302473?via%3Dihubhttp://news.mit.edu/2019/spider-silk-humidity-robotic-muscle-0301[Ask the Science Couch]Complete proteinshttps://goaskalice.columbia.edu/answered-questions/complete-and-incomplete-proteins-grains-and-vegetableshttps://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002467.htmhttps://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002222.htmhttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-03/cfgr-utr031119.phphttps://academic.oup.com/jn/article/134/6/1558S/4688841[Butt One More Thing]Sonic hedgehog anorectal malformationhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1850556/ Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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! 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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links! [Truth or Fail]GlueImage of crucifix frog: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Cross_Frog.jpghttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05473-zhttps://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6492-frog-glue-repairs-damaged-cartilage/SandImage of tadpoles: https://www.thehindu.com/migration_catalog/article14128847.ece/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1200/31th-frog2.jpghttp://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160330-these-newly-discovered-frogs-have-really-weird-tadpoleshttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151781SuctionImage of paradox frog tadpole: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NHM_London_Paradoxical_frog_(Pseudis_paradoxa)_model.jpghttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31509/what-big-baby-life-and-times-paradox-froghttps://www.mtpr.org/post/field-notes-tale-montanas-strangest-frog[Fact Off]Foam-nest frogshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D8b4e9nGwEhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0934Frog cell robotshttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200113175653.htmhttps://www.pnas.org/content/117/4/1853Video: https://movie-usa.glencoesoftware.com/video/10.1073/pnas.1910837117/video-1[Ask the Science Couch]Sticky frog tongueshttps://theconversation.com/the-frog-tongue-is-a-high-speed-adhesive-72064https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2016.0764https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/watch-frog-s-tongue-ultrasoft-shock-absorber[Butt One More Thing]Frog skin buttock grafthttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2355278/?page=1 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.