SciShow Tangents Trick or Treat Month: Blood with Justin and Sydnee McElroy!
Tangents' annual descent into horror returns with Trick or Treat Month! And this time, we brought some fiendish friends along! Join us for a whole month of spooky themes and special guest stars!
Trick or Treat Month reaches it's horrific, blood-soaked conclusion! And who better to help us wade through the pools of gore than Dr. Sydnee and Justin McElroy, co-hosts of the medical history podcast Sawbones? No one, that's who!
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[This or That]
Round 1 - Bat tongue
https://www.livescience.com/52305-bat-tongues-move-like-human-bowels.html
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1500525
Round 2 - Ground finch beak
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-some-darwins-finches-evolved-drink-blood-180976814/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2408396?origin=crossref
https://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-018-0555-8
https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-worlds-most-amiable-vampire-the-hood-mockingb-1742955703
Round 3 - Snail proboscis
https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s12864-015-1648-4.pdf
https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527497
https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/techniques/fluorescence/gallery/snailradulalarge.html
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/1541716
Round 4 - Possum tongue
https://www.uwa.edu.au/study/-/media/Faculties/Science/Docs/Features-of-the-honey-possum.pdf
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00360-011-0632-9
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s003600050257
https://www.bushheritage.org.au/species/honey-possum
Round 5 - Egg Substitute
https://nordicfoodlab.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/2013-9-blood-and-egg/#_ftn4
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/albumin
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/egg-albumen
[Ask the Science Couch]
Blood donation, IVs, & venepuncture
https://www.fi.edu/heart/blood-vessels
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK138671/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/median-cubital-vein
https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.res.22.6.737
https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/tests/arterial-stick
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK138661/
[Butt One More Thing]
Snakes and cloacal autohemorrhaging
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/florida-snake-id/snake/eastern-hog-nosed-snake/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/sdfe/pdf/download/eid/3-s2.0-B9780323482530001719/first-page-pdf