Big vs Small with Tiny Matters
SciShow Tangents
Introduction
Introduction of science experts and discussion of a personal story about attending a CrossFit class before cancer treatment.
Sam's out this week, but worry not: he found another Sam to replace him! Sam Jones, host of the podcast Tiny Matters that is! Sam and her co-host, our own Deboki Chakravarti, join Ceri and Hank in our first ever team-based episode of Tangents! Two teams enter, one team leaves!
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[Truth or Fail Express]
Project Gasbuggy
https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,899941,00.html
Operation Big Itch
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13623699908409460
https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/biological/bigitch.pdf
Operation North Pole (Project Cirrus)
https://www.ge.com/news/reports/cool-science-vonnegut-ge-research
Brilliant Pebbles
https://www.llnl.gov/archives/1980s/brilliant-pebbles
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/clementine/in-depth/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Smallest organisms: ultramicrobacteria and Candidate Phyla Radiation
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9297842/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0026261712040054
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC243725/
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsme2/16/2/16_2_67/_article
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7372
https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/02/27/ultra-small-bacteria/
[Butt One More Thing]
Big-bottomed ants (Atta laevigata / hormiga culona)
https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/big-bottomed-ants-hormigas-culonas
https://books.google.com/books?id=NebIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT187&lpg=PT187
https://www.fondazioneslowfood.com/en/ark-of-taste-slow-food/da-tradurreformica-culona/
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