SciShow Tangents

Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic... need I say more? Welcome to SciShow Tangents or, as I like to call it, Rock Talk. Note: The podcast ad for the IMPACT app is unscripted and being recorded live. It may contain some slight differences. Please visit https://impact.interactivebrokers.com/ for full details of products and services. Interactive Brokers, LLC member FINRA/SIPC.The projections or other information generated by IMPACT app regarding the likelihood of various investment outcomes are hypothetical in nature, do not reflect actual investment results and are not guarantees of future results. Please note that results may vary with use of the tool over time.The paid ad host experiences and testimonials within the Podcast may not be representative of the experiences of other customers and are not to be considered guarantees of future performance or success. The opinions provided within the ad belong to the host alone.Head to https://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]Stonehenge sarsen vs. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnsonhttps://www.livescience.com/22427-stonehenge-facts.html[Fact Off]Microgranite used for curling stoneshttp://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/505002/https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/91856/ailsa-craighttps://olympics.com/en/news/the-remarkable-properties-and-origins-of-the-olympic-curling-stonehttps://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/getting-to-the-core-of-olympic-curling-stones/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0043164813000732Solitary bees drilling into sandstonehttps://eos.org/articles/rock-chomping-bees-burrow-into-sandstonehttps://www.earthmagazine.org/article/busy-bee-new-species-bee-quarries-sandstone/https://www.cell.com/current-biology/comments/S0960-9822(16)30902-2[Ask the Science Couch]Licking rocks or bonehttps://www.discovery.com/science/Difference-Between-Rock-Fossilhttps://www.clemson.edu/public/geomuseum/specimen_id/id_tool.htmlhttps://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018WR023233https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/wettabilityhttps://twitter.com/mikamckinnon/status/1030188006966214660?s=20&t=_yJPJKVlGOpjTIMLy4y4mghttps://voices.pomona.edu/2013/11/on-the-merits-of-licking-rocks/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stick-with-it-put-your-duct-tape-to-the-test/[Butt One More Thing]Limestone-eating and sand-pooping shipwormhttps://www.sciencealert.com/a-newly-discovered-genus-of-shipworm-eats-holes-into-rocks-and-poops-out-sandhttps://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/incredible-rock-eating-shipworm-is-first-of-its-kindhttps://seahistory.org/sea-history-for-kids/ship-worm-clam/

Get a jump start on Earth Day by joining us as we discuss garbage's sexy, complicated little brother: recycling! Grab the NordVPN deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/TANGENTSTry it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!Head to https://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]Minnesota paper waste ballhttps://www.pca.state.mn.us/featured/worlds-largest-wad-paper-0[Fact Off]Palimpsests (reusing parchment, but also documenting microbes)https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/the-history-of-vellum-and-parchmenthttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/how-monks-remixed-technology-in-the-middle-ages/373956/http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/about/imaging/https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170988https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-014-0481-7Pressure-sensitive, reusable tape inspired by housefly feethttps://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-is-adhesive-tape-made/https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/biomechanics/172099/shoe-flyhttps://cen.acs.org/articles/85/i42/Adhesive-Tape.html[Ask the Science Couch]Sevier County (Dollywood and Gatlinburg) composting/waste managementhttps://www.seviersolidwaste.com/http://www.louisianaweekly.com/dollywoods-environmental-solution/https://www.zankerrecycling.com/sites/default/files/biocycle-nov-2010.pdfhttps://www.biocycle.net/mixed-waste-composting-facilities-review-2/https://greenblue.org/reloop-what-is-mixed-waste-processing-or-all-in-onedirty-mrf-recycling/http://compost.css.cornell.edu/MSWFactSheets/msw.fs6.html[Butt One More Thing]Iron nutrient recycling through whale poophttp://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00356.x/abstracthttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16370118

Spring is a soft and fluffy time of year, what with all the baby chicks and bunnies bopping around, so we here at Tangents are seizing the opportunity to talk about the softest, cutest, most huggable science there is!Head to https://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]MLB baseball yarn yardagehttps://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-woolhttps://bleacherreport.com/articles/1676509-the-evolution-of-the-baseball-from-the-dead-ball-era-through-todayhttps://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/04/09/83408264.html?pageNumber=43[Fact Off]Saturn moon Methone and fluffy icehttps://gizmodo.com/the-weird-ways-nasa-thought-moon-dust-might-kill-apollo-1836459545https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=name+asc&search=&placeholder=Enter+moon+name&condition_1=38%3Aparent_id&condition_2=moon%3Abody_type%3Ailikehttps://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23560-astrophile-saturns-egg-moon-methone-is-made-of-fluff/Milk fiber (made from casein)Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyLnKz7uNMQhttps://ecoworldonline.com/what-is-milk-fiber-yarn/http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.ajee.20190902.02.htmlhttps://www.milkgenomics.org/?splash=back-to-the-future-milk-fibers-in-the-21st-centuryhttps://www.ijcmas.com/abstractview.php?ID=7406&vol=7-4-2018&SNo=140https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lanital-milk-dress-qmilch[Ask the Science Couch]Cat fur vs dog furhttps://cdn.citl.illinois.edu/courses/ANSC207/week2/hair_coat/web_data/slides_and_notes.htmhttps://animaldiversity.org/collections/mammal_anatomy/hair/https://www.uakron.edu/im/news/how-biomechanics-research-led-to-a-hairbrush-inspired-by-a-cat-tonguehttps://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1809544115https://texaswolfdogproject.org/resources/phenotyping/what-is-phenotyping/coat-and-color[Butt One More Thing]Moth coremata butt feathershttps://www.wired.com/2013/12/this-is-not-a-penis/https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/leps/bella_moth.htmPicture: https://www.mothidentification.com/creatonotos-gangis.htm

Someone can get on your nerves. You can have nerves of steel. Heck, they can even be frayed! But have you ever wondered what nerves actually are? If so, you've come to the right place! This week, our dear friend and contributor Deboki Chakravarti (@okidoki_boki) stops by to join the fun, and Ceri hosts for the first time ever! Don't miss it!Grab the NordVPN deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/TANGENTS Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee!Head to https://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]Electric rays/low voltages to treat painful nerveshttps://www.mjrheum.org/assets/files/792/file60_974.pdfhttps://arthritis.ca/living-well/2019/women,-arthritis-and-neuropathic-painhttps://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/15840-transcutaneous-electrical-nerve-stimulation-tenshttps://www.nhs.uk/conditions/transcutaneous-electrical-nerve-stimulation-tens/Mouse tail galvanoscope (sciatic nerve)https://books.google.com/books?id=SJNMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympusmicd/galleries/brightfield/mousetail.htmlhttps://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=85&contentid=p01382Electrically stimulating tastebuds https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1307523/http://longevity3.stanford.edu/design-challenge-winners-announced/[Trivia Question]Glaucoma retinal nerve fiber layerhttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00417-022-05619-4[Fact Off]C. elegans auditory nerveshttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220223103054.htmhttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/928925[Ask the Science Couch]Paresthesia aka pins and needles https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=1&ContentID=58https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Paresthesia-Information-Pagehttps://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2015/march/paraesthesia-and-peripheral-neuropathyhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735610362950https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5384201/https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/107385840200800209[Butt One More Thing]Sciatic butt nervehttps://www.scielo.br/j/acb/a/rwFj4BBy4p35XbfKDLNFLkx/?lang=enhttps://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sciatica/symptoms-causes/syc-20377435#:~:text=The%20sciatic%20nerves%20branches%20from,one%20side%20of%20your%20body.https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/12792-sciatica

It's Spring Breeeaaaak baby, and we're taking the day off! Enjoy this classic episode on Flowers so you'll know all you need to know when they start blooming! See you next week!Note: The podcast ad for the IMPACT app is unscripted and being recorded live. It may contain some slight differences. Please visit https://impact.interactivebrokers.com/ for full details of products and services. Interactive Brokers, LLC member FINRA/SIPC.The projections or other information generated by IMPACT app regarding the likelihood of various investment outcomes are hypothetical in nature, do not reflect actual investment results and are not guarantees of future results. Please note that results may vary with use of the tool over time.The paid ad host experiences and testimonials within the Podcast may not be representative of the experiences of other customers and are not to be considered guarantees of future performance or success. The opinions provided within the ad belong to the host alone.Head to https://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

From shells to hives to holes in the ground, most animals have a place to call home. And today, we're paying them all a visit! So open up, cause Science is knocking and it needs to use your bathroom!Head to https://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]Machine learning saving kilowatt-hourshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7765259/[Fact Off]Cichlid fish dream houses (for conservation) https://www.mpg.de/14854482/3d-printing-cichlidshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/if-fish-could-build-its-own-home-what-would-it-look-like-180976172/Devil’s garden - lemon ant & rainforest tree symbiosis  https://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/september28/devil-092805.htmlhttps://www.nature.com/articles/437495ahttps://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/606022?journalCode=anhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2124481/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2459556[Ask the Science Couch]Estimate of how many animals there are​​https://www.nationalgeographic.com/newsletters/animals/article/how-many-species-have-not-found-december-26https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/61/5/871/1734723Animals that are parasites https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0324https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/animals-evolution-parasites-ed-yonghttps://www.audubon.org/news/the-brilliant-ways-parasitic-birds-terrorize-their-victimsConstructing homes (natural & artificial)https://www.naturepl.com/pictures/pdfs/NPL_Architecture.pdfhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34269510/  [Butt One More Thing]Snail shell poop + African swine fever virushttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35151121/https://www.carnegiemnh.org/science/mollusks/dietbehavior.html

Grass... money... Ninja Turtles... some of the best things in the world are all the same color: green! This week, we're taking a deeper look at this most verdant of colors. Head to https://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[Definition]https://www.wired.com/2012/06/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-ii/  [Truth or Fail][Trivia Question]Green spaces reduce systolic blood pressurehttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721075914?via%3Dihubhttps://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/about.htm#:~:text=The%20second%20number%2C%20called%20diastolic,%E2%80%9C120%2F80%20mmHg.%E2%80%9D[Fact Off]Green glacier mysteryhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/icebergs-can-be-emerald-green-now-we-know-why?loggedin=truehttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/859296Emerald ash borer pest control by biomimicry and electrocutionhttps://ag.umass.edu/landscape/fact-sheets/emerald-ash-borerhttps://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/resources/pests-diseases/hungry-pests/the-threat/emerald-ash-borer/emerald-ash-borer-beetlehttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01496-8https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/femme-fatale-emerald-ash-borer-decoy-lures-kills-males/https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1412810111[Ask the Science Couch]U.S. green paper moneyhttps://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/02/the-canadian-roots-of-the-greenback/https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/artifact/hr-240-legal-tender-act-february-25-1862https://www.moneyfactory.gov/resources/faqs.htmlhttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/important-improvement-in-bank-note/https://cite.case.law/barb/56/84/https://cite.case.law/barb/56/96/[Butt One More Thing]Orb weaver buttshttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spider_-_Eriophora_nephiloides,_Caves_Branch_Jungle_Lodge,_Belmopan,_Belize.jpghttps://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4263&context=etd

Back in my day, a computer was a computer: It was big, tan, and was plugged into your living room wall. But now we've got computer cars, computer phones, even computer lightbulbs! And that's great! But I think we better keep an eye on them all, just in case...Head to https://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

We kick off Season 4 by getting up close and personal with Earth's other, less popular, more mysterious neighbor: Venus!Head to https://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]Venera missionshttps://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1970-060Ahttps://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chronology_venus.html[Fact Off]Venus tables & Maya Codex of Mexicohttps://www.mesoweb.com/articles/Coe_etal/Fourth_Codex.pdfhttps://www.brown.edu/news/2016-09-07/mayacodexhttps://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/7497-inah-ratifica-al-codice-maya-de-mexico-antes-llamado-grolier-como-el-manuscrito-autentico-mas-antiguo-de-americahttps://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/017062/mayan-momentPhosphene/ammonia on Venus (and microbial life possibility)https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/938538https://news.mit.edu/2020/life-venus-phosphine-0914https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/science/venus-life-clouds.htmlhttps://news.mit.edu/2021/newer-nimbler-faster-mission-venus-search-signs-life-clouds-sulfuric-acid-1210https://venuscloudlife.com/venus-life-finder-mission-study/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7381915/https://www.pnas.org/content/118/52/e2110889118[Ask the Science Couch]Pictures of the surface of Venushttps://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/v09_lander_proc.htmlhttps://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/venera-13/in-depth/https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/sun/parker-solar-probe-captures-its-first-images-of-venus-surface-in-visible-light-confirmedhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueMGZTezfYhttps://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/exploring-the-planets/online/solar-system/venus/magellan.cfmhttps://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3728https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe-instruments[Butt One More Thing]Venus cloacina goddesshttps://drainfast.co.uk/blog/cloacina-goddess-sewers/https://books.google.com/books?id=SYqFBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128#v=onepage&q&f=false

Season 3 has come to a close, and the Tangents crew is taking a week off. While we scour the World Wide Web for all new, mind-blowing science facts, enjoy this classic episode about the Internet!Head to https://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 subscriber Garth Riley 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