SciShow Tangents Immortality with Deboki Chakravarti
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!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Deboki: @okidoki_boki Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[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.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