Spring is upon us, which means a whoooole bunch of junk is going to start growing, such as flowers, grass, and little baby animals. So this week, Tangents is hacking into that growth mindset being displayed by mother nature to talk all about the science of stuff getting bigger! 

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Sources:

[Trivia Question]

Nishinoshima meters of growth spurt in 2020

https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/146935/nishinoshima-belches-ash-and-lava

[Fact Off]

Jackalope myth from Shope papilloma virus

https://gizmodo.com/rabbits-with-horns-meet-the-human-papillomavirus-5795996

http://www.medirabbit.com/EN/Skin_diseases/Viral_diseases/Pap/Papilloma.htm

Electroculture: lightning strikes helping shiitake mushrooms grow

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1361-6463/ab7627

https://phys.org/news/2010-04-lightning-mushrooms.html

https://physicsworld.com/a/artificial-lightning-strikes-encourage-growth-of-shiitake-mushrooms/

https://www.ishs.org/ishs-article/29_34

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2255657

[Ask the Science Couch]

Measures of growth in kids (bone age or bone plate closure, sugar preference)

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fped.2021.580314/full

Picture: https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/580314/fped-09-580314-HTML/image_m/fped-09-580314-g001.jpg

https://www.hopkinsallchildrens.org/Patients-Families/Health-Library/HealthDocNew/X-Ray-Exam-Bone-Age-Study

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4397276/

https://training.seer.cancer.gov/anatomy/skeletal/growth.html

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2011/09/26/140753048/kids-sugar-cravings-might-be-biological

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2764307/pdf/nihms100732.pdf

[Butt One More Thing]

Bat guano pile growth over 4,300 years 

https://news.agu.org/press-release/poop-core-records-4300-years-of-bat-diet-and-environment/

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2020JG006026