SciShow Tangents

Before you listen, just take a moment to think about how sight works: Light comes out of the sun, bounces off of a tree (or whatever), goes inside of your head, and hits some nerves which send signals to your brain which turns that into an image of a tree (or whatever)... I wouldn't believe it if I weren't looking at this screen and typing these words right now! Also, what better medium to talk about seeing stuff than a podcast!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter!And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker!A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Tom Mosner for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen[Trivia Question]Colossal squid eye sizehttps://www.tepapa.govt.nz/discover-collections/read-watch-play/science/anatomy-colossal-squid/eyes-colossal-squidhttps://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/largest-eye-world-giant-squid[Fact Off]Climbing vine can mimic plastic plant leaveshttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-02229-8https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/the-sneaky-life-of-the-worlds-most-mysterious-plantOgre-faced spider eye membrane regeneration https://www.jstor.org/stable/77314https://australian.museum/learn/animals/spiders/how-spiders-see-the-world/https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/Creatures/MISC/SPIDERS/ogre_faced_spider_Deinopis_spinosa.htmhttps://bionumbers.hms.harvard.edu/bionumber.aspx?id=116061[Ask the Science Couch]Human visible spectrum & eye evolutionhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5093619/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/12/141218210100.htmhttps://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1004884https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/gb-2005-6-3-213https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2013.2995https://www.theguardian.com/science/2002/may/30/medicalscience.research[Butt One More Thing]Tadpole butt eye transplanthttp://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/6/1031https://slate.com/technology/2013/03/tadpole-eye-transplants-reveal-neuroplasticity-in-tufts-lab.html

This week, we investigate one of the more complicated, fraught, mysterious, and downright unpleasant ways we and lots of other living things navigate the world: pain.From headaches to scorpion stings, there's lots of ways to get hurt, but is anything as painful as Hank's Liam Neeson impression? Let's find out!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter!And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker!A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Tom Mosner for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen[Trivia Question]Walking on LEGOshttps://science.discoveryplace.org/blog/ever-wonder-why-it-hurts-when-you-step-on-a-lego-brickhttps://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/469467-farthest-distance-walking-on-lego-bricks[Fact Off]Bees making motivational trade-off based on pain & sugarhttps://www.science.org/content/article/bees-may-feel-painhttps://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2205821119Grasshopper mice block pain from scorpion venomhttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1236451https://www.nature.com/articles/nrn3404https://brill.com/view/journals/beh/99/3-4/article-p275_5.xml?language=enhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347205004318https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izizsAodOCk[Ask the Science Couch]Pain modulation & inhibition (with other pain or distraction)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jL9GgdsyHtAhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0987705320301465https://journals.lww.com/pain/Citation/2014/04000/Pain_modulation_profile_and_pain_therapy__Between.5.aspxhttps://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-26882/v3https://journals.lww.com/painrpts/Fulltext/2022/06000/Conditioned_pain_modulation_is_associated_with.10.aspxhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7689692/[Butt One More Thing]“Bubble Butt Syndrome” sea turtle injuryhttps://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/-/media/OEH/Corporate-Site/Documents/Animals-and-plants/Native-animals/rescued-sea-turtles-treatment-care-guidelines-210143.pdfhttps://cse.umn.edu/college/feature-stories/shoring-seemore-sea-turtles-shellhttps://www.turtlehospital.org/sea-turtle-injuries/

It's the day after Halloween, which means you might have a surplus of candy in your house. But before you start digging in to those sugary treat, spare a thought for your teeth, won't you? And to help you with that, today we have a classic episode all about your pearly whites! SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter!And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker!A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Tom Mosner for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen

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!Want more Sydnee and Justin? Check out https://www.blectar.com to find the whole McElroy family of podcasts, including Sawbones!Get your extra-scary SciShow Tangents Halloween Decal here! Tell 'em Spooky Sam sent you!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter!And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker!A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Tom Mosner for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen[This or That]Round 1 - Bat tonguehttps://www.livescience.com/52305-bat-tongues-move-like-human-bowels.htmlhttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1500525Round 2 - Ground finch beakhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-some-darwins-finches-evolved-drink-blood-180976814/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2408396?origin=crossrefhttps://microbiomejournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40168-018-0555-8https://gizmodo.com/meet-the-worlds-most-amiable-vampire-the-hood-mockingb-1742955703Round 3 - Snail proboscis https://bmcgenomics.biomedcentral.com/counter/pdf/10.1186/s12864-015-1648-4.pdfhttps://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527497https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/techniques/fluorescence/gallery/snailradulalarge.htmlhttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.2307/1541716Round 4 - Possum tonguehttps://www.dcceew.gov.au/sites/default/files/env/pages/a117ced5-9a94-4586-afdb-1f333618e1e3/files/33-ind.pdfhttps://www.uwa.edu.au/study/-/media/Faculties/Science/Docs/Features-of-the-honey-possum.pdfhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00360-011-0632-9https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s003600050257https://www.bushheritage.org.au/species/honey-possumRound 5 - Egg Substitutehttps://nordicfoodlab.wordpress.com/2014/01/07/2013-9-blood-and-egg/#_ftn4https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/biochemistry-genetics-and-molecular-biology/albuminhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/egg-albumen[Ask the Science Couch]Blood donation, IVs, & venepuncturehttps://www.fi.edu/heart/blood-vesselshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK138671/https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/neuroscience/median-cubital-veinhttps://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.res.22.6.737https://www.mountsinai.org/health-library/tests/arterial-stickhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK138661/https://pressbooks.bccampus.ca/clinicalproceduresforsaferpatientcaretrubscn/chapter/8-6-infusing-iv-fluids-by-gravity-or-an-electronic-infusion-device-pump/[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-pdfhttps://www.cresosnake.com/kingsnakes

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!From out of the pumpkin patch rises author, YouTuber, and podcaster Jackson Bird, here to thrill us with terrifying tales of the scariest produce of all: gourds! From pumpkins to watermelon, this versatile family of fruits nourishes and terrifies in equal measure!Get your extra-scary SciShow Tangents Halloween Decal here! Tell 'em Spooky Sam sent you!Looking for more Jackson Bird? You can buy his book, Sorted, listen to his podcast, Cool Stuff Ride Home, or check him out on YouTube! And if you want to know what this waffle business we were talking about is, check out his series Will It Waffle?!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter!And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker!A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Tom Mosner for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen[Truth or Fail]Squash bees and poison pollenhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7033150/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666515821000147https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33998650/https://lopezuribelab.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/SquashBeeBooklet-WEB_VERSION_FINAL.pdfField mice and cool cucumbershttps://horticulture.oregonstate.edu/oregon-vegetables/cucumbers-slicing-fresh-markethttps://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/tn/sfsm_opguide.pdfhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC396419/pdf/plntphys00196-0020.pdfCrickets and bottle gourd instrumentshttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00606086https://www.amentsoc.org/insects/glossary/terms/stridulation/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-are-cricket-gourds[Ask the Science Couch]Gourd cross-pollinationhttps://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/newsletters/hortupdate/hortupdate_archives/2005/apr05/Melons.htmlhttps://extension.sdstate.edu/saving-seed-pumpkins-squash-cucumbers-melons-and-gourdshttps://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/cross-pollination-between-vine-cropshttps://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/faq/will-cucumbers-cross-pollinate-other-vine-crops[Butt One More Thing]Aardvark cucumbers & dung pileshttps://ulovane.co.za/2017/03/16/ulovane-update-aardvark-cucumber/https://journals.co.za/doi/pdf/10.10520/AJA00423203_2648

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!This week, we've called upon the spirit of Radiolab and Terrestrials ghost host Lulu Miller to get down in the muck and talk about all the wormy, wriggly, slimy, little creatures that send shivers down our spines: creepy crawlies! Get your extra-scary SciShow Tangents Halloween Decal here! Tell 'em Spooky Sam sent you!https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents/products/scishow-tangents-halloween-logo-stickerLooking for more Lulu Miller? Check out Radiolab or Terrestrials if podcasts are your thing, or Why Fish Don't Exist if you're more of a book person! There's a little something for everyone!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter!And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker!A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Tom Mosner for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen

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!And to kick off Trick or Treat Month, we've summoned Simpsons writer, author and food reviewer extraordinaire Bill Oakley to talk about preserved food! How is preserved food spooky? I guess you'll just have to listen to find out! Want more Bill Oakley? You're in luck! You can follow him on Twitter or Instagram to check out his food reviews, get his audiobook, Space: 1969, here, and join his Patreon, The Steamed Hams Society, here! Become a Bill Oakley Superfan... today!Get your extra-scary SciShow Tangents Halloween Decal here! Tell 'em Spooky Sam sent you!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter!And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker!A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Tom Mosner for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen[Are You Gonna Eat That?]Old TwinkieSource:https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/twinkie-maine-40-years/story?id=40076223https://www.thespruceeats.com/the-twinkie-myth-1328772Old Hamhttps://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28299440Old Fruit Cakehttps://www.worldrecordacademy.org/world-records/food/oldest-fruitcake-143-year-old-fruitcake-sets-world-record-312432Old Picklehttps://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2020/05/20/springfield-pokin-around-man-pickle-family-heirloom-175-years/5212382002/Old WInehttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/worlds-oldest-wine-speyer-bottle[Ask the Science Couch]Chip bag slack fill & nitrogen gas as a preservativehttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/51993/why-are-potato-chip-bags-always-half-emptyhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/pts.2770070205 

It's almost October, and SciShow Tangents is getting ready for its month-long Halloween blowout! While we make final arrangements, please enjoy this classic, sound-filled journey through Tangents Manor! Try not to get too scared!!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter!And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker!A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Tom Mosner for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen

Popular culture makes radiation seem pretty scary, and frequently it is. But we encounter way more radiation in our day-to-day life than you might think, from radio waves to visible light. Come explore the whole spectrum of radiation on this week's Tangents!And we talk a LOT about The Vampire Diaries, too!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter!And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker!A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Tom Mosner for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen[Trivia Question]Cladosporium sphaerospermum fungus blockadehttps://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Cladosporium_sphaerospermumhttps://www.universetoday.com/153283/fungi-were-able-to-absorb-radiation-on-the-iss-could-astronauts-grow-their-own-radiation-shields-in-space/https://www.nature.com/news/2007/070521/full/news070521-5.html[Fact Off]Atomic energy Boy Scout badge & superfund sitehttps://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/https://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.htmlLouise Reiss and the Baby Tooth Surveyhttps://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/bone-seeker.htmlhttps://dhss.delaware.gov/dph/files/strontiumfaq.pdfhttps://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/health/decades-later-baby-tooth-survey-legacy-lives-on/article_c5ad9492-fd75-5aed-897f-850fbdba24ee.htmlhttps://www.prismjournal.org/uploads/1/2/5/6/125661607/v11-no1-a1.pdfhttps://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.134.3491.1669https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0721/ML072150423.pdf[Ask the Science Couch]Determining biological effects/lethal dose of radiationhttps://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/bio-effects-radiation.htmlhttps://www.science.org/content/article/how-atomic-bomb-survivors-have-transformed-our-understanding-radiation-s-impactshttps://www.rerf.or.jp/en/about/https://dceg.cancer.gov/research/how-we-study/exposure-assessment/nci-dose-estimation-predicted-cancer-risk-residents-marshall-islandshttps://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/genetic-effects-chernobyl-radiation-exposurehttps://www.radioactivity.eu.com/site/pages/Doses_Classification.htm[Butt One More Thing]Radioactive rabbit poop near Hanfordhttps://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/science/earth/15rabbit.html

From mighty lions to postal workers, presidents to pelicans, they all have one thing in common: they were once tiny little babies! And so, too, were all the Tangents panelists, who celebrate their humble, squishy, helpless origins this week by talking all things baby!Witness Hank learn about the "I'm baby" meme, thrill as you find out which Pokemon Yung Gravey most exemplifies, and almost puke at our grossest butt fact yet! Is this our best episode ever? Well, according to Hank it is! And he's the CEO of a company!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangentsto find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter!And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker!A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Tom Mosner for helping to make the show possible!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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen