SciShow Tangents

Summer is just about over, but we can all cling to those warm, tropical feelings for at least one more week as we strap on our scuba gear and take a dive into the wild world of coral reefs! Scuba!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, Tom Mosner, Daisy Whitfield, and Allison Owen 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]Coral average sperm per bubblehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4950549/[Fact Off]Deep-sea coral help zooxanthellae photosynthesizehttps://www.scuba.com/blog/explore-the-blue/faascinating-phenomenon-coral-fluorescence/https://elifesciences.org/articles/73521https://www.science.org/content/article/coral-reefs-scatter-light-forestshttps://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-measure-glow-inside-coral-first-timeSnapping shrimp colonies with queenshttps://decapoda.nhm.org/pdfs/25410/25410.pdfhttps://phys.org/news/2018-03-tradeoffs-weaponry-fecundity-snapping-shrimp.htmlhttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0193305https://www.jstor.org/stable/1549235https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10937227/https://www.vims.edu/research/units/legacy/marine_biodiversity/resources/Synalpheus%20teaching%20resources.pdf[Ask the Science Couch]Artificial reef pros and conshttps://www.doi.gov/blog/artificial-reefs-create-homes-sea-lifehttps://floridakeys.noaa.gov/artificialreefs/effects.htmlhttps://daily.jstor.org/do-artificial-reefs-work/https://hakaimagazine.com/news/for-artificial-coral-reefs-time-is-not-enough/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0025326X2100610Xhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00282/full[Butt One More Thing]Gastrovascular pores aka secret coral buttholeshttps://hmr.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1007/BF02367177.pdf

Did you know that you can go to Patreon.com/SciShowTangents to become a Patron of the show and get cool stuff, like bonus episodes! See what you've been missing this week as we bring you an unlocked bonus episode featuring a devious game by Sam!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, Tom Mosner, Daisy Whitfield, and Allison Owen 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

Tall buildings, subways, bodegas, rats. These are just some of the things you'll find in cities. Another thing you'll find? Science! From the smelly yet impressive sewers to the smelly yet impressive pigeons, we're covering big city science this week, baby!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, Tom Mosner, Daisy Whitfield, and Allison Owen 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

Carbon gets a pretty bad rap these days, what with global climate change and, but every living thing on Earth owes their very existence to this multitalented little element! And heck, that's not even all it does! Click play to find out more. 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, Tom Mosner, Daisy Whitfield, and Allison Owen 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] Gigatons of carbon in the atmosphere https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/736161 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336261451_A_Framework_for_Understanding_Whole-Earth_Carbon_Cycling/link/5d99c82da6fdccfd0e7bd8b6/download [Fact Off] Spider/silkworm silk reinforced by carbon https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1806805115 https://www.digitaltrends.com/cool-tech/spiders-graphene-silk/ https://newatlas.com/bionic-spider-silk-graphene/50908/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/09/170915165253.htm https://phys.org/news/2016-10-silkworms-fed-carbon-nanotubes-graphene.html https://futurism.com/graphene-fed-silkworms-produce-a-super-strong-silk-that-conducts-electricity https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03597 Carbon foam made from burnt (pyrolyzed) bread https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/foam-material https://www.acsh.org/news/2016/07/08/burnt-bread-makes-an-excellent-carbon-foam https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsami.6b03985 https://www.fs.usda.gov/features/revolutionary-carbon-foam-wood https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S016523701630256X http://www.cfoam.com/wp-content/uploads/Carbon-Foams-amp16111p029-3.pdf [Ask the Science Couch] Eating carbon (pure forms, organic compounds that are/aren’t toxic) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5307002/ ​​https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/002817.htm https://www.livescience.com/34190-what-happens-when-you-swallow-a-diamond.html http://www.nanomedicine.com/NMIIA/15.1.1.htm https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/natural-toxins-in-food https://med.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Anatomy_and_Physiology/Book%3A_Human_Anatomy_and_Physiology_Preparatory_Course_(Liachovitzky)/03%3A_Molecular_Level-_Biomolecules_the_Organic_Compounds_Associated_With_Living_Organisms/3.01%3A_Organic_Compounds https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/ershdb/emergencyresponsecard_29750019.html

When it comes to keeping all of your guts and blood inside, skin is second to none! Yet so often is it taken for granted. Today, we fix that by talking about skin for a whole 40 minutes! You're welcome, skin!If you know a kid who loves science, have we go the show for you! It's called SciShow Kids, and it has all the great, rigorously-researched content you expect from SciShow, but for kids! Plus, it has puppets! Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/scishowkids!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, Tom Mosner, Daisy Whitfield, and Allison Owen 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]Sebaceous gland development https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33354858/https://www.britannica.com/science/sebaceous-gland[Fact Off]Thorny devil lizard skin capillary actionhttps://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170591https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/219/21/3473/15569/Cutaneous-water-collection-by-a-moisturehttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/this-lizard-can-drink-by-standing-still-in-sand/506288/https://www.usgs.gov/special-topics/water-science-school/science/capillary-action-and-waterhttps://organismalbio.biosci.gatech.edu/nutrition-transport-and-homeostasis/plant-transport-processes-i/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00709-014-0715-zDolphins using corals for skincarehttps://ryotanakajima.com/coral-reefs/the-role-of-coral-mucus-101https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/952463https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/dolphins-rub-against-mucus-oozing-corals-to-soothe-skin/[Ask the Science Couch]Different regions of skin and skincarehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470464/#https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK482278/https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/facial-skinhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2732395/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2405915/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/10/161018094117.htmhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5849435/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2763764/[Butt One More Thing]Mulesing of merino sheep buttshttps://www.csiro.au/en/research/animals/livestock/managing-flystrike-and-mulesing-in-sheephttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0734975016300167

10....9.... Hey gang, Kids Month is about ready to blast off into space ....8....7....6 but before it does, we have one more topic exploring the childlike wonder of science to cover ....5....4...3 Spaceships! And wouldn't you know it? There's one more seat on our rocket! Climb in!  ....2...1.... Lift off!If you know a kid who loves science, have we go the show for you! It's called SciShow Kids, and it has all the great, rigorously-researched content you expect from SciShow, but for kids! Plus, it has puppets! Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/scishowkids!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, Tom Mosner, Daisy Whitfield, and Allison Owen 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]Ariane 5 launcheshttps://www.space.com/39811-bad-coordinates-led-ariane-5-rocket-astray.htmlhttps://webb.nasa.gov/content/about/launch.htmlhttps://jwst.nasa.gov/content/about/faqs/faq.html#whyAriane5https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/01/all-hail-the-ariane-5-rocket-which-doubled-the-webb-telescopes-lifetime/https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESA_history/Ariane_5_the_story_behind_the_100_launches[Fact Off]Cataloging junk around the Moon from Biosphere 2https://news.arizona.edu/story/75m-effort-seeks-prevent-lunar-traffic-jamsArtificial gravity test during Gemini XIhttp://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/space-exploration/gemini/m-equals-1-all-up-mission-gemini-xi-part-2/https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1966-081Ahttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/watch-the-first-artificial-gravity-experiment/https://airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/capsule-gemini-xi/nasm_A19680260000https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/sept-14-1966-gemini-xi-artificial-gravity-experiment[Ask the Science Couch]Gyroscopes in spacecraft (Inertial Navigation Systems)https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2016/03/Gyroscopes_in_spacehttps://science.howstuffworks.com/gyroscope.htmhttp://www.aerostudents.com/courses/avionics/InertialNavigationSystems.pdfhttps://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20100021932https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/nmp/st6/TECHNOLOGY/mems.htmlhttps://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/projects/vss/docs/propulsion/2-what-is-attitude-control.html[Butt One More Thing]Project Mercury butt moldshttps://www.wired.com/2009/08/astronautbutts/https://www.wired.com/2010/07/nasa-archive-astronaut-butt-mold-inspection/

Kids Month floats on as we talk about possibly our lightest subject ever: bubbles! Pop in to learn what makes a simple soapy membrane so fascinating to kid and adult like! If you know a kid who loves science, have we go the show for you! It's called SciShow Kids, and it has all the great, rigorously-researched content you expect from SciShow, but for kids! Plus, it has puppets! Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/scishowkids!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, Tom Mosner, Daisy Whitfield, and Allison Owen 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 Deboki: @okidoki_boki[Trivia Question]Perfect bubble wand perimeterhttps://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2018/august/researchers-uncover-the-science-behind-blowing-bubbles.htmlhttps://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/theres-now-an-even-more-precise-recipe-for-blowing-the-perfect-bubble/[Fact Off]Tadpole bubble-sucking to breathehttps://www.instagram.com/p/B9AO801nrJI/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200226130510.htmMicroscopic “rockets” propelled by a bubble and sound waveshttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/634184https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax3084http://brennen.caltech.edu/fluidbook/multiphase/Bubbleordroplettranslation/bjerknesforces.pdf[Ask the Science Couch]Air bubbles in needles (unintentional or intentional)https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/air-embolism/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734897/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542192/https://starship.org.nz/guidelines/agitated-saline-bubble-study-for-the-detection-of-an-intrapulmonary-or/https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/what-is-a-bubble-study[Butt One More Thing]Polymers in laxatives make big soap bubbleshttps://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/physicists-discover-why-this-bubble-solution-makes-monster-bubbles​https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/physicists-determine-the-optimal-soap-recipe-for-blowing-gigantic-bubbles/https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.013304

Sometimes, when you're making a podcast with 3 hosts, one of those hosts is going to get sick for two weeks and totally mess up Kids Month. So this week, we humbly present a classic episode that happens to be about something kids love: candy! Grab your favorite snack and join us on this sugary journey to the past!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, Tom Mosner, Daisy Whitfield, and Allison Owen 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

Kids month continues with maybe THE most-beloved-by-children scientific topic of all time: dinosaurs! Come on a journey back in time to learn about the giant guys who used to stomp around and eat each other all over planet Earth!And, as if that's not good enough, we're joined by Tangents editorial assistant Deboki Chakravarti! If you need more Deboki in your life, you can listen to her podcast, Tiny Matter, here: https://www.acs.org/content/acs/en/pressroom/tiny-matters.htmlIf you know a kid who loves science, have we go the show for you! It's called SciShow Kids, and it has all the great, rigorously-researched content you expect from SciShow, but for kids! Plus, it has puppets! Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/scishowkids!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, Tom Mosner, Daisy Whitfield, and Allison Owen 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 Deboki: @okidoki_boki[Trivia Question]Mamenchisaurus pounds of plant life consumed per dayhttps://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/science/12dinosaurs.html[Fact Off]Prosthetic tails on chickens to study dinosaur gaitPossible supersonic whip-like tails in sauropods https://daily.jstor.org/apatosaurus-tail-break-sound-barrier/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2401127?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contentshttps://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/dinosaurs-in-motionhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2830450/http://goriely.com/wp-content/uploads/2002-PRLwhip-1.pdf[Ask the Science Couch]Dinosaurs that have changed names (apato/bronto, triceratops/torosaurus)https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brontosaurus-is-back1/https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/571498https://peerj.com/articles/857/https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0081608https://gizmodo.com/the-first-scientific-name-ever-given-to-a-dinosaur-foss-5955550https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2018/08/31/why-do-scientific-names-change-kiokio-by-any-other-name/

This month on SciShow Tangents, we're celebrating the sense of childlike wonder present in science by discussing a bunch of stuff kids like! We're calling it Kids Month, naturally, and we're kicking it off by talking about a thing all kids (and lots of animals) love to do: play! And if you know a kid who loves science, have we go the show for you! It's called SciShow Kids, and it has all the great, rigorously-researched content you expect from SciShow, but for kids! Plus, it has puppets! Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/scishowkids!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, Tom Mosner, Daisy Whitfield, and Allison Owen 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