SciShow Tangents

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Sep 16, 2025 • 34min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 37

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on July 16, 2024 titled "Extra Special Crew Chat!"Original Patreon description: Tangents is made possible by people like you - who contribute to our Patreon which makes this show free for everyone! This week we are in the midst of our campaign to grow our Patreon by 200 supporters. If you can support at $8/month - we just added ad-free podcasts! But our podcast is also made possible by the PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES. And today we have a special bonus for you - questions from our patrons, answers from our crew! Please enjoy the delightful people who make this podcast possible, and check out Patreon.com/scishowtangents to support at any level you’re able, to keep our show going!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social@rhinoceri on InstagramSam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social@im_sam_schultz on InstagramHank: @hankgreen on X Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Sep 12, 2025 • 8min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 36

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on July 1, 2024 titled "June Bonus!"Original Patreon description: This is going be a gooooooood one! Here's some cut for time content from the bananas episode!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social@rhinoceri on InstagramSam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social@im_sam_schultz on InstagramHank: @hankgreen on X Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Sep 9, 2025 • 9min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 35

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on May 31, 2024 titled "Bonus Content!"Original Patreon description: This month we have a special cut-for-time bonus science couch question from our Turtles episode!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social@rhinoceri on InstagramSam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social@im_sam_schultz on InstagramHank: @hankgreen on X Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Sep 5, 2025 • 31min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 34

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on April 25, 2024 titled "Bonus Episode Hygiene!"Original Patreon description: Rapid Fire Quesitons coming in HOT!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social@rhinoceri on InstagramSam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social@im_sam_schultz on InstagramHank: @hankgreen on X Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Sep 2, 2025 • 2h 57min

Superhero Tropes Compilation

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's another Tangents compilation! In these fantastic, superpowered episodes, we learn about the real-world ways these superhero tropes show up all around us. Strap on your utility belt and flutter your cape, we're off to do some heroic stuff!Episodes in this compilation:S1 E25 - Mutation, original airdate: April 30, 2019S2 E37 - Glowing Things, original airdate: August 4, 2020S3 E4 - Immortality, original airdate: February 9, 2021S3 E21 - Cyborgs, original airdate: June 29, 2021S4 E25 - Radiation, original airdate: September 20, 2022Sources for each episode can be found in the descriptions of the original episodes on your preferred podcasting platform.SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social@rhinoceri on InstagramSam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social@im_sam_schultz on InstagramHank: @hankgreen on X Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Aug 29, 2025 • 32min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 33

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on April 1, 2024 titled "Big vs. Small bonus questions!"SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social@rhinoceri on InstagramSam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social@im_sam_schultz on InstagramHank: @hankgreen on X Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Aug 26, 2025 • 1h 34min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Minions Movie Commentary

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on February 14, 2024 titled "Minions. Commentary. + Announcement."Original Patreon description: Besties, Followers, Fangents, we've been so busy putting the final touches on this GLORIOUS Minions Movie Commentary and planning for our time on the Project for Awesome livestream, that we won't be able to do a bonus podcast episode this month. You'll probably be too busy queueing up your copy of the Minions movie to enjoy one anyway, but we seriously hope the shenanigans of the livestream make up for how much you'll miss us this month and we'll be back to our regular programming next month.SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social@rhinoceri on InstagramSam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social@im_sam_schultz on InstagramHank: @hankgreen on X Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Aug 22, 2025 • 33min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 32

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on December 22, 2023 titled "Dust Questions, Lightning Round (and baseball sounds)."Original Patreon description: We're back at it again with more fast answers to all the questions that wouldn't fit in our normal episode, and we got some fun sound effects to boot!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social@rhinoceri on InstagramSam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social@im_sam_schultz on InstagramHank: @hankgreen on X Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Aug 19, 2025 • 35min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 31

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on November 9, 2023 titled "Blue Questions (Lightning Round)."Original Patreon description: We're back at it again with more fast answers to all the questions that wouldn't fit in our normal episode, and we got some fun sound effects to boot!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social@rhinoceri on InstagramSam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social@im_sam_schultz on InstagramHank: @hankgreen on X Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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Aug 15, 2025 • 33min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 30

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on September 14, 2023 titled "Bacteria Questions (Lightning Round)."Original Patreon description: Up the stakes y'all, we've got a challenge: we're answering your bacteria questions as fast as we can with as much accuracy as possible.SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social@rhinoceri on InstagramSam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social@im_sam_schultz on InstagramHank: @hankgreen on X Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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