The day has arrived- this is our very last episode of Tangents ever! So of course, we had to talk about a topic that's near and dear to our hearts forever: Tangents. Ride down memory lane with us and returning original host Stefan Chin as we reminisce, try to remember what we've learned, and still learn new stuff in an episode that's the true encapsulation of everything we love about this show.
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[This or That: SciShow or Tangents or Both]
Eyedrops to deliver a drug called pilocarpine
https://nerdfighteria.info/v/ekmb6KQahuk/
African crested rat with toxin-loaded fur
https://www.livescience.com/crested-rats-have-poison-fur.html
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/27/938878618/for-rats-that-coat-themselves-in-poison-these-rodents-are-surprisingly-cuddly
https://nerdfighteria.info/v/CQAVcAJQsEM/
Spleen cells creating splenunculi
https://nerdfighteria.info/v/3xXyBCckWsM
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/12/13/505349283/meet-the-spleen-the-strange-little-organ-that-can-multiply
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27226272/
Car transmission failures due to endangered species act
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/04/17/archives/transmission-problems-in-cars-linked-to-ban-on-whale-killing.html
https://magazine.washington.edu/feature/the-innovation-file-solving-a-whale-of-a-problem/
https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-the-jojoba-plant-saved-the-sperm-whale-1716719552
https://www.nytimes.com/1975/05/15/archives/oil-from-a-shrub-found-in-desert-may-save-the-sperm-whale.html
https://www.lubesngreases.com/magazine/whale-oil-biobased-and-bygone/
[The Gauntlet]
Preventing snails from growing external shells
https://www.wired.com/2010/10/snails-slugs-shell-evolution/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101011090229.htm
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00433.x
Female mouse pee compound that decreases pain and increases stress in males
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abi9366
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/953803
Niagara falls 1969 project
https://www.niagarafallsinfo.com/niagara-falls-history/niagara-falls-geology/american-dry-falls/
https://slate.com/technology/2019/05/niagara-falls-june-1969-dewatering.html
https://m.ammoth.us/blog/2010/03/absent-rivers-ephemeral-parks/
Wolf puppies acting like domesticated dogs
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/824375
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(19)30557-7
Ethyl mercaptan-sniffing animals
https://nj.gov/health/eoh/rtkweb/documents/fs/0894.pdf
https://bedfordaudubon.org/2016/01/07/turkey-vulture-and-black-vulture/
https://www.birdnote.org/podcasts/birdnote-daily/turkey-vultures-and-gas-pipelines
Ika-tako computer virus
https://www.wired.co.uk/article/japanese-virus
https://www.computerworld.com/article/1343317/hacker-s-p2p-virus-replaces-files-with-sea-creature-manga.html
Frogs that don’t have middle ears but can still hear
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1302218110
https://phys.org/news/2013-09-frogs-ears-mouth.html
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3023005/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Mathematical uses for tangents
https://tutorial.math.lamar.edu/classes/calciii/TangentNormalVectors.aspx
http://www.braeunig.us/space/orbmech.htm
https://science.nasa.gov/learn/basics-of-space-flight/chapter4-1/
https://www.nasa.gov/ames-engineering/spaceflight-division/flight-dynamics/trajectory-design/
https://willkempartschool.com/compostional-mistakes-in-drawing/
[Butt One More Thing]
Young turquoise killifish gut microbes made old fish live longer
https://www.nature.com/news/young-poo-makes-aged-fish-l
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/120980v2
