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Plastic: space age wonder material or planet-destroying scourge? The real answer may lie... somewhere in the middle (but leaning more towards scourge). Plus, learn exactly how many LEGO minifigures you can eat before you die!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Milk
https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/galalith-alchemy-in-the-age-of-plastic/
https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/casein/3007625.article
https://www.ganoksin.com/article/galalith-jewelry-milk-stone/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-home-milk-plastic/
Blood
https://books.google.com/books?id=3uoiAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9
https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/rjrtags/ill65.htmlhttps://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1261&context=beads
https://materialdistrict.com/material/blood-plastic/
https://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1261&context=beads
pictures: https://www.hippohardware.com/blogs/news/at-deaths-door-a-history-of-hemacite
Venom
http://www.t3db.ca/toxins/T3D2544
[Fact Off]
Bees and plastic
https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-bees-have-been-found-building-nests-entirely-out-of-plastic-for-the-first-time
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13592-019-00635-6
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/pp-bsw030117.php
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/ES13-00308.1
Celluloid billiard balls
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/05/13/the_death_of_billiards_and_the_rise_of_plastic_on_99_invisible_with_roman.html
https://www.liveabout.com/what-pool-balls-are-made-of-368742
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/once-upon-time-exploding-billiard-balls-were-everyday-thing-180962751/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/64247/first-plastic-billiard-balls-routinely-exploded
[Ask the Science Couch]
Corn plastic
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/environmental-impact-of-corn-based-plastics/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/corn-plastic-to-the-rescue-126404720/
https://mcgillcompost.com/blog/recycling-number-7-pla-plastics
[Butt One More Thing]
Cigarette butts
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-company-recycles-cigarette-butts-and-turns-them-into-plastic
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Plastic: space age wonder material or planet-destroying scourge? The real answer may lie... somewhere in the middle (but leaning more towards scourge). Plus, learn exactly how many LEGO minifigures you can eat before you die!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Milk
https://blogs.getty.edu/iris/galalith-alchemy-in-the-age-of-plastic/
https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/casein/3007625.article
https://www.ganoksin.com/article/galalith-jewelry-milk-stone/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-home-milk-plastic/
Blood
https://books.google.com/books?id=3uoiAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9
https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/rjrtags/ill65.htmlhttps://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1261&context=beads
https://materialdistrict.com/material/blood-plastic/
https://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1261&context=beads
pictures: https://www.hippohardware.com/blogs/news/at-deaths-door-a-history-of-hemacite
Venom
http://www.t3db.ca/toxins/T3D2544
[Fact Off]
Bees and plastic
https://www.sciencealert.com/wild-bees-have-been-found-building-nests-entirely-out-of-plastic-for-the-first-time
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13592-019-00635-6
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/pp-bsw030117.php
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/ES13-00308.1
Celluloid billiard balls
http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/05/13/the_death_of_billiards_and_the_rise_of_plastic_on_99_invisible_with_roman.html
https://www.liveabout.com/what-pool-balls-are-made-of-368742
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/once-upon-time-exploding-billiard-balls-were-everyday-thing-180962751/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/64247/first-plastic-billiard-balls-routinely-exploded
[Ask the Science Couch]
Corn plastic
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/environmental-impact-of-corn-based-plastics/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/corn-plastic-to-the-rescue-126404720/
https://mcgillcompost.com/blog/recycling-number-7-pla-plastics
[Butt One More Thing]
Cigarette butts
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-company-recycles-cigarette-butts-and-turns-them-into-plastic
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.

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