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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! 

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[Truth or Fail]

Fungal Pesticides:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/12/522068205/fungal-pesticides-offer-a-growing-alternative-to-traditional-chemicals

https://agrochemicals.iupac.org/index.php?option=com_sobi2&sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=3&sobi2Id=31

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-virus-infested-fungus-chemical-pesticides.html

Tinder Fungi:

https://www.uab.cat/web/newsroom/news-detail-1345668003610.html?noticiaid=1345754508535

Egyptian 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/18065010

https://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-control

Plastic-digesting fungus:

https://www.unenvironment.org/news-and-stories/story/fungi-research-lifts-lid-shy-organisms-break-down-plastic

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0202047

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0269749117300295

http://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/114/47/12590

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0187170

https://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/

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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!

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[Fact Off]

Bubble gun pollination

https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(20)30373-4

https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/drone-delivered-soap-bubbles-could-help-pollinate-flowers

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bubble-blowing-drones-may-one-day-aid-artificial-pollination

Fungus mimicking flowers

Image: https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/1BF8FBA2-1A97-4962-BDF7425878CF9454_source.jpg

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1087184520301572

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2399434?refreqid=excelsior%3Ab21f9013c26e11394d09411860873d9f&seq=1

https://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 flowering

Picture of pitcher plant: http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3639

Picture of venus fly trap: https://theconversation.com/friend-or-food-why-venus-flytraps-dont-eat-their-pollinators-91620

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161010-how-insect-eating-plants-persuade-insects-to-pollinate-them

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep21065

[Butt One More Thing]

Dead horse lily

Picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicodiceros#/media/File:Dracunculus_muscivorus.jpg

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2003.00802.x

https://theconversation.com/the-secret-of-the-worlds-smelliest-flower-44439

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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! 

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Antechinus mating

https://www.wired.com/story/antechinus-climate-change/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-a-little-mammal-has-so-much-sex-that-it-disintegrates

https://www.livescience.com/51083-photos-antechinus-new-species.html

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-08-17/search-for-endangered-antechinus-after-bushfires-on-gold-coast/12564958

Alaskan marsupial fossil

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/uoaf-ndm021819.php

https://phys.org/news/2019-02-ancient-night-marsupial-months-winter.html

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14772019.2018.1560369

https://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.pdf

https://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.html

https://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2004/08/05/1168902.htm

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5339227/

[Butt One More Thing]

Opossums and smelling dead

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/544902/facts-about-opossums

https://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/opossums-so-darn-ugly-theyre-adorable.htm

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Strap on your greaves and grab your gauntlets: It's time for the weekly science/comedy deathmatch that is SciShow Tangents!

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[Fact Off]

Sugar bacteria

https://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.php

https://www.pasteur.fr/en/research-journal/news/shedding-light-almost-indestructible-archaeal-pili

Chiton armor (with embedded eyes)

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/S0960-9822(11)00305-8.pdf

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/350/6263/952?related-urls=yes&legid=sci;350/6263/952

Figure of their vision: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/350/6263/952/F3.large.jpg

http://web.mit.edu/cortiz/www/ChitonEyeCommentary.pdf

https://news.mit.edu/2015/sea-creature-armor-plating-transparent-ceramic-eyes-1119

https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/89839/890127373-MIT.pdf?sequence=2

[Ask the Science Couch]

Tail armor/weaponry

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2017.2299

https://eartharchives.org/articles/why-don-t-we-see-more-animals-with-tail-weapons-like-stegosaurus-or-ankylosaurus/index.html

https://news.ncsu.edu/2018/01/arbour-zanno-tail

[Butt One More Thing]

Snail shell

https://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

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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!

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[Fact Off]

Astronaut urine in concrete

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/f-sf-aut032720.php

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652619340478

https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/12/19/217244/purified-urine-in-space/

https://www.cement.org/cement-concrete/cement-and-concrete-basics-faqs

https://web.archive.org/web/20080316071908/http://www.admixtures.org.uk/publications.asp

Sugar ants eating pee, fighting climate change
https://cosmosmagazine.com/sugar-ants-love-pee-and-it-might-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-02/uosa-sap020620.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200206102706.htm

https://cosmosmagazine.com/sugar-ants-love-pee-and-it-might-reduce-greenhouse-gas-emissions/

[Ask the Science Couch]

Pee across the animal kingdom

https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/569521/do-insects-pee

https://www.welcomewildlife.com/spider-basics/

https://cdn.ymaws.com/arav.site-ym.com/resource/resmgr/Files/Proceedings_2000/2000_35.pdf

https://www.health.harvard.edu/diseases-and-conditions/when-should-i-be-concerned-about-the-color-of-my-urine

https://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 cloaca

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/19/science/dinosaur-cloaca-fossil.html

https://slate.com/technology/2020/10/dinosaur-butt-fossil-discovery-cloaca.html

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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? 

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[Definition]

https://www.iau.org/science/scientific_bodies/commissions/F2/info/documents/

[Fact Off]

Not-quite-sunscreen snow exoplanet

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-3881/aa899b

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/ps-ads102617.php

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Titanium-dioxide

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/61685

https://tdma.info/how-your-uv-protective-sunscreen-works/

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/120529-global-warming-titanium-dioxide-balloons-earth-environment-science

Messages to Gliese-581c

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/gliese_581_feature.html

https://phys.org/news/2012-07-potential-habitable-exoplanets.html

https://arxiv.org/abs/1207.4515

https://www.universetoday.com/19335/messages-from-earth-beamed-to-alien-world/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7660449.stm

https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071102/full/news.2007.212.html

[Ask the Science Couch]

Exoplanets art

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/the-art-of-exoplanets

https://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 challenge

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/space-poop-challenge

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/winners-of-space-poop-challenge-receive-30000

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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!” 

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[Fact Off]

Cotton candy blood vessels

https://www.designnews.com/stub/synthetic-capillary-networks-artificial-organs-developed-using-cotton-candy-machine

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/vu-ccm020816.php

Cordite (forbidden gum)

Picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cordite_Filled_Cartridge.JPG

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/3281990

https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/cordite/1010201.article

https://www.britannica.com/science/nitroglycerin

http://www.gumassociation.org/index.cfm/science-technology/ingredients-technology/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6954562.stm

http://pubsapp.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/85/8532sci2.html

[Ask the Science Couch]

Candy preferences with age

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

https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(17)30214-0

https://faseb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1096/fasebj.30.1_supplement.418.6

https://now.tufts.edu/articles/craving-brain

[Butt One More Thing]

Sugar alcohol farts

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5093271/#

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From 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… 

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[Fact Off]

Skinner Air Crib

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1037/1089-2680.3.3.155

https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/skinner-air-crib

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-cribs-other-brilliant-bizarre-inventions-getting-babies-to-sleep-180972138/

https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/b-f-skinner

Mountain goat cooling

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0225456

https://www.vice.com/en/article/epggvp/americas-iconic-mountain-goats-are-being-threatened-by-melting-ice-and-snow

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/wcs-mga121019.php

[Ask the Science Couch]

Varied climates on planets

https://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

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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.

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Peat bogs

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/peatland

https://www.britannica.com/technology/peat

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/europe-bog-bodies-reveal-secrets-180962770/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0305440320300881?dgcid=rss_sd_all

https://www.culture24.org.uk/places-to-go/south-west/bristol/art20488

Spiders

https://www.livescience.com/24054-why-spiders-have-eight-eyes.html

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/6/110603-spiders-spare-legs-webs-science-animals/

Laser eye surgery

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6249164

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22496438/

https://www.aao.org/munnerlyn-laser-surgery-center/laser-in-situ-keratomileusis-lasik-3

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/8586-corneal-disease

https://healthcare.utah.edu/the-scope/shows.php?shows=0_yrklfds0

Disease eradication

https://asm.org/Articles/2020/March/Disease-Eradication-What-Does-It-Take-to-Wipe-out

https://www.cdc.gov/smallpox/index.html

https://www.oie.int/en/for-the-media/press-releases/detail/article/eradication-isnt-the-end-of-the-rinderpest-story/#

Miner's egg

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003591572201501935

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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!  

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[Fact Off]

Irradiating canned meat

WIll update ASAP!

Dermestid beetle larvae

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/sci/178/4066/1210.full.pdf

https://academic.oup.com/aesa/article-abstract/64/1/149/28541?redirectedFrom=fulltext

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002219108090027X

https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/warehouse-beetle-and-cabinet-beetle

Electron decay

https://gizmodo.com/electron-lifespan-is-at-least-5-quintillion-times-the-1747606990

https://physicsworld.com/a/electron-lifetime-is-at-least-66000-yottayears/

[Ask the Science Couch]

Cryonics

https://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-fertility

https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=130293211

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