SciShow Tangents

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  • Farming

    Learning is a little like farming, in a way. You sow your brain field with facts seeds, nurture those seeds into thoughts and ideas and voila: you're smart! So slap on your headphones and jump on that tractor: We've got a bumper crop of knowledge to harvest!

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    [Trivia Question]

    Circulation of 1938 Old Farmer’s Almanac

    https://www.almanac.com/history-old-farmers-almanac

    https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/how-the-old-farmers-almanac-previewed-the-information-age/415836/

    [Fact Off]

    Bradford watermelon seeds that people would die for

    https://bradfordwatermelons.com/2014/08/our-story-the-long-version/

    https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/71931/super-sweet-watermelon-has-deadly-history

    https://www.treehugger.com/bradford-watermelons-were-juicy-delicious-people-literally-die-4862619

    Hearing loss in farmed salmon because of weird otolith formation

    https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/farmed-salmon-are-deaf-and-now-we-know-why

    https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/220/16/2965/33518/Rapid-growth-causes-abnormal-vaterite-formation-in

    https://www.nature.com/articles/srep25249

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fvets.2021.709850/full

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Animal agriculture (ants, termites, pocket gophers)

    https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know/did-you-know-leafcutter-ants-are-farmers-who-grow-fungi

    https://asm.org/Articles/2017/September/the-leaf-cutter-ant-s-50-million-years-of-farming

    https://www.theverge.com/2016/6/25/12024324/termite-farming-25-million-years-ago-before-humans

    https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156847

    https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/957505

    https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)00915-0

    Video of pocket gopher pulling plant: https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/940458

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Pig sty latrines

    https://www.artic.edu/articles/629/pigsty-and-latrines

    https://www.sixthtone.com/news/1001550/seats%2C-squats%2C-and-leaves-a-brief-history-of-chinese-toilets

    https://www.google.com/books/edition/_/N5dN_A29v58C?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=fertilizer


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    40 min
  • Lasers

    In all of science, there are very few things conceptually cooler than lasers. A beam of light you can use to blast aliens? Heck yeah! But are lasers actually as cool in reality as they are in science fiction? Probably not! But I guess you'll have to listen to find out for sure.

    SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! 

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    [Truth or Fail]

    Gold-plated bacteria

    Contact lenses that shoot lasers

    Lead into gold with lasers

    [Trivia Question]

    Universal Product Code first scanned in grocery store

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-bar-code-180956704/

    [Fact Off]

    Laser cooking of printed chicken

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jct3f92rIOE

    https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-d-printed-chicken-dinner-cooked-by-lasers/

    Laser lightning rod for deflection/protection

    https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2023/devier-la-foudre-grace-au-paratonnerre-laser

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01139-z

    https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/lightning/faq/

    http://www.usfcam.usf.edu/cam/exhibitions/1998_12_mccollum/supplemental_didactics/21.uman2.pdf

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Long-distance lasers and masers 

    https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/lasers/hazards

    https://spie.org/news/12-09-laser-ranging?SSO=1

    http://ccom.unh.edu/theme/lidar

    https://www.icrar.org/megamaser/

    https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02523  

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Low-level laser therapy for butt (or any) tendons

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8886125/

    https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22960-gluteal-tendinopathy

    http://www.utahorthopediccenters.com/hip/gluteus-medius-tendinopathy-or-dead-butt-syndrome/


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    41 min
  • Poop

    The bodily function so universal, there's a kids book all about how everybody does it! But... is that kids book a lie?! Find out the answer to that and way more in this very overdue episode of Tangents!

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    [Trivia Question]

    Penguin poop distance traveled

    https://iposeogsekk.com/penguano.pdf

    https://improbable.com/ig/winners/#ig2005

    [Fact Off]

    AI listening to sounds of poop/diarrhea/fart

    https://www.newscientist.com/article/2350082-ai-listens-to-toilet-sounds-to-guess-whether-people-have-diarrhoea/

    https://www.inverse.com/innovation/fart-monitoring-ai

    Dagger made of frozen poop debunked (or, at the very least, not effective in lab conditions)

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X19305371

    https://nautil.us/the-problem-with-the-frozen-poop-knife-study-237572/

    https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/as-it-happens-friday-edition-1.5282456/why-scientists-tried-and-failed-to-make-a-knife-out-of-frozen-poop-1.5282458

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Period poops (progesterone/estrogen & prostaglandins)

    https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/articles/24411-prostaglandins

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3297513/

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3823955

    https://health.clevelandclinic.org/why-do-you-poop-more-on-your-period/


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    42 min
  • Mating

    In honor of Valentine's Day, that most cherished day of beauty and love, the Tangents crew gets real down and dirty by telling you more than you could ever want to know about sex harpoons, cannibalism, living sperm, and some other utterly un-romantic methods of copulation employed by the animal kingdom! 

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    43 min
  • Spit

    You need to clean a smudge of your glasses? Use some spit! Gotta make some food moist so you can swallow it? Why not try spit?  Lips too dry to whistle a tune? My friend, spit is the bodily excretion for you! Spit: don't leave home without it!

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    [Trivia Question]

    Minor salivary glands

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-may-have-discovered-new-organ-set-salivary-glands-hidden-your-head-180976104/

    [Fact Off]

    Bowerbird making “paint” out of saliva

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996615/

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2005.0908-8857.03549.x

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347213001097?via%3Dihub

    https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2005.0325

    https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/satin-bowerbird/

    https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/satin-bowerbird/

    Spitting cobras evolved to defend against hominids throwing rocks

    https://www.newsweek.com/how-it-feels-acobra-spits-face-revealed-excruciating-detail-1749490

    https://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/discoveries/spitting-cobras-may-have-evolved-unique-venom-to-defend-from-ancient-humans/

    https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/01/study-did-cobras-first-spit-venom-scare-pre-humans

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Compressing salivary glands aka “gleeking”

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542272/

    https://www.health.com/mind-body/what-is-gleeking

    http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/pregastric/salivary.html


     

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Dung-spitting competitions

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/dung-spitting-contest-northern-ireland_n_55ae6aebe4b0a9b9485290c1

    https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/bokdrol-spoeg/

    https://www.sbnation.com/lookit/2014/8/1/5960987/spitting-antelope-poop-is-a-sport-kudu-bokdrol-spoeg


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    39 min
  • SciShow Tangents Classics - Artificial Intelligence

    Original Airdate: February 19, 2019

    It seems like everyone's using Artificial Intelligence these days, so we thought we'd dip back into our archives for a little refresher on just what the heck AI even is. Plus, meet the character find of 2023: President Smartest Dog in the World!

     


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    39 min
  • Rubber

    You can bounce it, you can stretch it, heck... some people even chew it! That's right, it's rubber! And at long last, the Tangents team is finally talking about it! You all really wanted an episode about rubber, right? Well, we made it anyway, so you have to listen. 

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    [Definition]

    Mesoamerican rubber recipe

    https://news.mit.edu/2010/mayaball-0524

    [Trivia Question]

    Koosh ball filaments

    https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/73583/12-kooky-facts-about-koosh-balls

    [Fact Off]

    Mimicking birdsong with a rubber tube

    https://softmath.seas.harvard.edu/publication/controllable-biomimetic-birdsong/

    https://seas.harvard.edu/news/2011/01/simple-rubber-devices-mimic-complex-bird-songs

    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-12093906

    Mayan dental care & harvesting chicle as gum

    https://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1870-249X2018000100007

    https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1020&context=fieldandlab

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0008621500827755

    https://bda.org/museum/collections/teeth-and-dentures/mayan-tooth

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352409X22000980#b0200


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    38 min
  • Tails

    From a bunny’s seemingly-useless fluffy li’l puffball to a scorpion’s practical and deadly venom-filled stinger, the world is filled with all sorts of wonderful tails! And heck, some of them aren’t even tails at all, but that’s ok!

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    [Trivia Question]

    Seahorse square tail segments 

    https://today.ucsd.edu/story/why_the_seahorses_tail_is_square_and_how_it_could_be_an_inspiration

    [Fact Off]

    Swallowtail butterfly tails protect from attacking damage

    https://www.sciencenews.org/article/butterfly-wing-tail-loss-break-birds-escape

    https://phys.org/news/2022-06-evidence-butterflies-tails-distract-predators.html

    https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2022.0562

    Bird-of-paradise light-absorbing tail feathers

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02088-w

    https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/new-vogelkop-superb-bird-of-paradise-changes-up-the-old-song-and-dance/

    https://www.theverge.com/2019/8/20/20813054/vantablack-ultrablack-black-material-surrey-nanosystems-carbon-nanotubes-science-materials

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Evolutionary tail loss in some primates (apes)

    https://www.science.org/content/article/jumping-gene-may-have-erased-tails-humans-and-other-apes-and-boosted-our-risk-birth-defects

    https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.09.14.460388v1

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263034/

    https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/why-don-t-humans-have-tails

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Ant head mimicry on wasp tail/metasoma

    Image: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Posterior-metasomal-tergites-and-ovipositor-of-Clistopyga-caramba-sp-nov-holotype_fig2_281632324

    https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4013.2.9

    https://phys.org/news/2021-09-segments-scorpion-metasoma.html


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    40 min
  • Gas

    From precious oxygen to the lowly fart, every day we’re all wallowing around in an invisible soup of gas! Exciting, isn’t it? Tune in to go into an exciting adventure into the world of gas with Sam, Ceri, and Dr. Tubeboy!

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    [Trivia Question]

    Horace Wells and Nitrous Oxide/Laughing Gas

    https://pubs.asahq.org/anesthesiology/article/119/5/1014/13670/Horace-Wells-Demonstration-of-Nitrous-Oxide-in

    [Fact Off]

    History of the storage/transportation of gas (cylinders, gas holders, bamboo)

    https://afdc.energy.gov/fuels/natural_gas_basics.html

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/0471238961.0701190519160509.a01

    https://www.apga.org/apgamainsite/aboutus/facts/history-of-natural-gas

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/24969284

    https://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_2603

    https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/pdfplus/10.1086/349362

    https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/professional_theses/147/

    https://www.nortegas.es/en/our-business/distribution-of-natural-gas/history-of-natural-gas/

    Canaries to detect carbon monoxide in mines & resuscitating them with oxygen

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/story-real-canary-coal-mine-180961570/

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Fart/flatus noises from anal sphincter

    https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8601379/

    https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19545944/fart-noises/

    https://flatology.com/consider-the-sphincter/

    https://urogynecology.nm.org/anal-incontinence.html

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Snake cloacal popping 

    https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10.1086/377052


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    39 min
  • Memory

    It's the time of year for old acquaintances to be forgot, but SciShow Tangents has never been one to bow to convention! So this week, we're remembering all our dang acquaintances and way more as we dive deep on the concept of Memory! 

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    [Truth or Fail]

    Imprinting in general

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2021.736999/full

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4726915/

    Pekin duckling different eye, different memories

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347216302597?via%3Dihub

    https://phys.org/news/2016-11-ducklings-memory-banks-visual.html

    California condor puppet funerals

    https://www.nature.com/news/2007/070806/full/news070806-3.html#B1

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/zoo.20151

    Siberian cranes imprint for migration

    https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1377&context=nacwgproc

    https://savingcranes.org/learn/species-field-guide/siberian-crane/

    https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2006/apr/01/guardianobituaries.mainsection

    [Trivia Question]

    Chaser (Border Collie) remembering unique object names

    https://webs.wofford.edu/reidak/Pubs/Pilley%20and%20Reid%202011.pdf

    https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/2019/07/26/world-famous-dog-chaser-dies-at-15/4597342007/

    https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/2021/11/02/spartanburg-community-college-new-mascot-scc-chasers-chaser-the-border-collie-south-carolina/6199107001/

    [Fact Off]

    Taking Photos Makes Memory Worse 

    https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3079/taking-photos-can-impair-your-memory-of-events

    https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/05/1022041431/to-remember-the-moment-try-taking-fewer-photos

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Remembering commercial jingles rather than “important” names and dates 

    https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxge0001050

    https://muse.jhu.edu/article/269004

    https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0086170

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735611406578

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0305735611418553

    https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-35459-001

    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.896285/full

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Poop amnesia or vasovagal syncope

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6067056/

    https://www.iflscience.com/woman-loses-10-years-of-memories-due-to-bad-case-of-constipation-52589

    https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/constipated-woman-lost-10-years-of-memories-after-straining-too-hard/F5X2BVV6FWFXH7NNZZFG2IGEYA/

     


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