SciShow Tangents

Tangents is back for a 3rd season, and things are going to get weird! So we’re embracing the weirdness by talking about some of the weirdest animals around: cephalopods! In this episode: new games of dubious scientific value and quality! Classic Ceri music ignorance! Big Suckers! And, most importantly, laughs galore! We missed you guys![Rhyme Time]I mean… what citation could there possibly be for this?I guess ask Hank if you want to know more about Squid Ink and Big Suckers?[Fact Off]Bacteria RNA Edithttps://www.hawaii.edu/news/2020/11/20/bacteria-direct-hawaiian-squid/https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-11/uoha-bct111820.phphttps://www.quantamagazine.org/new-squid-genome-shines-light-on-symbiotic-evolution-20190219/The SciShow Video https://youtu.be/_XvgdNQsmVE?t=525Octopus Apartment Buildinghttp://www.tandfonline.com/doi/10.1080/10236244.2012.727617https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/why-octopuses-are-building-small-cities-off-the-coast-of-australia/[Stump the Science Couch]https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/octopus-chronicles/why-don-t-octopuses-get-stuck-to-themselves/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-dont-octopus-suckers-stick-their-own-skin-180951465/ 

SciShow Tangents is still on a break, but we have another Enhanced Classics for you! This week, a rerun of Experiments in Space with a brand new Ask the Science Couch and Butt Fact!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: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Chicken Fathttps://www.nasa.gov/topics/aeronautics/features/aafex_biofuels.htmlBone losshttps://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/experiments/explorer/Investigation.html?#id=187Perfumehttps://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/9-12/features/spacescents_feature.htmlhttps://spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff2002/ch_1.html[Fact Off]Wake Shield Facilityhttps://ntrs.nasa.gov/search.jsp?R=19920014405https://er.jsc.nasa.gov/seh/pg46s95.htmlhttps://uwaterloo.ca/molecular-beam-epitaxy/about/what-epitaxyhttps://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2002/03jan_bioniceyeshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0042207X01003839https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S009457650000148XImage: https://archive.org/details/STS069-724-095 Mouse sperm experimenthttps://www.pnas.org/content/114/23/5988http://iss.jaxa.jp/en/kiboexp/theme/second/pmlatter/spacepup/[Ask the Science Couch]Rocket thrusthttps://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/UEET/StudentSite/engines.htmlhttps://www.sciencelearn.org.nz/resources/390-rockets-and-thrusthttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/228785798_The_merits_of_cold_gas_micropropulsion_in_state-of-the-art_space_missionshttps://www.grc.nasa.gov/www/k-12/rocket/rktth1.html[Butt One More Thing]ISS Toilet

SciShow Tangents is taking a short break, but we didn't want to totally leave you hanging! You're about to listen to a rerun of the Light episode, but with a special twist: we recorded a new Ask the Science Couch and Butt Fact! Next week we'll be posting another of these Enhanced Classics, then we'll start releasing regular, full-length episodes again. Thanks for hanging with us!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: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]EROShttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25788334MOZEhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-019-0389-0FReSHhttp://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature10428.html[Fact Off]Eidophorhttps://www.earlytelevision.org/eidophor.htmlhttps://hackaday.com/2016/03/15/retrotechtacular-eidophor-an-unknown-widely-used-projector/http://www.film-tech.com/ubb/f1/t004319.htmlhttp://www.earlytelevision.org/yanczer_eidophor.htmlCentennial lighthttp://www.centennialbulb.org/index.htmhttps://www.mentalfloss.com/article/66009/light-bulb-has-been-burning-1901https://www.lampsplus.com/ideas-and-advice/how-an-incandescent-light-bulb-works/https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/dawn-of-electronics/the-great-lightbulb-conspiracyhttps://www.npr.org/2019/03/27/707188193/the-phoebus-cartel[Ask the Science Couch]Incandescence: http://edisontechcenter.org/incandescent.htmlhttps://physlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Planck_ref8.pdfhttps://www.fi.edu/history-resources/edisons-lightbulbLEDs:https://www.circuitbasics.com/what-is-a-diode/http://needtoknow.nas.edu/www7.nationalacademies.org/led-lighting/index-2.htmlhttps://www.lrc.rpi.edu/programs/nlpip/lightinganswers/led/color.asphttps://www.mrsec.psu.edu/content/light-emitting-diodes[Butt One More Thing]Fluorescent E.coli for colitishttps://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/msb.20167416

Join us as we send Stefan off in grand style by talking a lot about the things that bring him great joy in life: getting yolked, going to the store, and dice. He’s a complicated fellow!Stefan, it has been a great joy to co-host this silly show with you for the last two years! I know I speak for everyone when I say we will miss hearing your voice every week. Thank you for everything!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: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail]Spiders in carshttps://slate.com/news-and-politics/2014/04/mazda-issues-recall-because-spiders-invade-fuel-tank-causing-fire-risk.htmlhttps://www.popsci.com/blog-network/eek-squad/why-do-spiders-apparently-cars-so-much/http://delusion.ucdavis.edu/yellowsac.htmlhttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/10/toyota-is-recalling-more-than-800-000-cars-because-of-spiders/280694/Artificial Christmas trees made from car scrapshttps://www.aluminum.org/product-markets/automotivehttps://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/digital/collection/imlsmohai/id/14565/https://books.google.com/books?id=OlmGjEU7qU4C&pg=PA178&https://abcnews.go.com/US/ChristmasCountdown/story?id=1414607Mailing heavy car pieceshttps://about.usps.com/who-we-are/postal-history/bank-of-vernal.pdfhttps://www.deseret.com/2014/11/24/20553427/legend-of-vernal-bank-built-by-bricks-sent-through-post-office-partly-truehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kit_car[Fact Off]Wheaties jinglehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJpeR6GvpC8Workout clothing that regulates temperaturehttps://news.mit.edu/2017/moisture-responsive-workout-suit-0519http://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DiGRA_2020_paper_88.pdf[Ask the Science Stefan Couch]Random dice rollsHow random is dice rolling? http://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/8738/f63758598ca711c49817f9187f13c22a9893.pdf[Butt One More Thing]Farting gameshttp://www.digra.org/wp-content/uploads/digital-library/DiGRA_2020_paper_88.pdf

This week, we celebrate the brains of this whole operation: Ceri! This episode starts out incredibly wholesome! There are beagles, Pokemon, gardening… but, per usual, Ceri has to make it all about body horror in the end. Find out what terrible modifications she’d make to the human body!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: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Fact Off]Pokemon memory studyArticles:https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-05/su-abr050219.phphttps://www.theverge.com/2019/5/6/18531287/pokemon-neuroscience-visual-cortex-brain-informationhttps://massivesci.com/articles/pokemon-detective-pikachu-brains-video-games/https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7567-why-your-brain-has-a-jennifer-aniston-cell/https://www.sciencealert.com/if-you-were-a-pokemon-whizz-as-a-kid-it-might-be-etched-in-your-brainPaper:https://www.researchgate.net/publication/332900464_Extensive_childhood_experience_with_Pokemon_suggests_eccentricity_drives_organization_of_visual_cortexStanford Video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEIuQRHElcQ&ab_channel=StanfordSciShow Video:https://youtu.be/UWEZiOZZ0uABeagle & polar bear poophttp://cincinnatizoo.org/news-releases/can-a-canine-detect-polar-bear-pregnancy/https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/11/12/elvis-the-dog-sniffs-out-pregnant-polar-bears/?utm_source=reddit.comhttps://www.wvxu.org/post/no-cubs-anana-zoos-polar-bear-not-pregnant#stream/0http://blog.cincinnatizoo.org/2014/09/01/how-can-you-tell-if-a-polar-bear-is-pregnant/[Ask the Science Ceri Couch]Oxygen tank organ https://www.nature.com/news/making-the-most-of-muscle-oxygen-1.13202https://jeb.biologists.org/content/218/14/2180https://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/15/2455https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23160832/https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/112428/12953_2004_Article_18.pdf;jsessionid=BF3DFABDCA9CECAFF34406DB7BF9BE50?sequence=1Electrogenic organhttps://opentextbc.ca/anatomyandphysiologyopenstax/chapter/skeletal-muscle/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-electric-eels-genehttps://jeb.biologists.org/content/212/9/1351https://jeb.biologists.org/content/216/13/2451https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2005/24jun_electrostatics[Butt One More Thing]Pigeon poop hair bleachhttps://www.hji.co.uk/blonde/brief-history-of-blondes-hair-historian/https://books.google.com/books?id=Yw_0DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT48&lpg=PT48

The Tangents team faces their most complicated, multi-faceted, and mysterious topic yet: Sam. Who is he? Can anyone ever really know? Find out in this very special episode. [Truth or Fail]Mini terrariumshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-X4g_fCmKwhttps://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/Experiment/exper/429https://history.nasa.gov/SP-400/contents.htmBaking powder submarineshttp://torgo.org/bpsubs/https://books.google.com/books?id=F2ApK7QnbPUC&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=falsehttps://marinebio.org/creatures/tools/submarines/Bo'sun whistlehttps://telephone-museum.org/telephone-collections/capn-crunch-bosun-whistle/https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/capn-crunch-whistlehttps://garydrobson.com/2014/06/03/the-origins-of-phreaking/[Fact Off]Oxytocin in art class vs. board gamesArticle: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/bu-cca021219.phpThe paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jomf.125563D print your own hermit crab[Ask the Science Sam Couch]D&D monsterRoving Mauler!https://1d4chan.org/images/0/01/Roving_Mauler.jpg[Butt One More Thing]Beetle coming out of frog’s butthttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/after-being-swallowed-alive-water-beetle-stages-backdoor-escape-from-frogs-gut/https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30842-3?_returnURL

Season 2 of SciShow Tangents is coming to a close, and to celebrate, we’re honoring each of our panelists with episodes about their favorite things! We’re starting, of course, with our fearless leader and professional liker-of-strange-and-amazing-things: Hank!  At the end of the month, we'll be naming the winner of this season and announcing the new name of the Tangents currency, so stay tuned!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: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Pressure-sensitive Adhesiveshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-sensitive_adhesiveMalaria Detectorhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181029102828.htmUrine-Powered Transmitterhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151211130103.htmhttps://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/preview/844724/Wearable-MFC%2010-7-15_unedited.pdf[Fact Off]Cats eating grasshttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/mystery-solved-why-cats-eat-grassMetal whiskershttp://thor.inemi.org/webdownload/newsroom/Presentations/SMTAI-04_tin_whiskers.pdfhttps://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/background/index.htmhttps://phys.org/news/2012-12-doctoral-student-unravels-tin-whisker.htmlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359646218300319https://www.sharrettsplating.com/blog/alternatives-to-cadmium-for-plating-connectors/[Ask the Science Hank Couch]Wombat buttshttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/10/06/wombats-have-buns-of-steel-and-they-might-literally-be-deadly/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/wombat-poop-cube-why-is-it-square-shaped/Caterpillar poophttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/03/frass-fliesHydra butthttps://www.livescience.com/53980-terrifying-mouth-of-a-hydra.html[Butt One More Thing]Peru guanohttps://www.audubon.org/news/holy-crap-trip-worlds-largest-guano-producing-islandshttps://www.bbc.com/news/business-11153967

In the immortal words of Brian Wilson: "I'm gonna be round my vegetables, I'm gonna chow down my vegetables, I love you most of all... my favorite vegetable"And he's right, too. In this episode we get down in the dirt with our favorite veggies. Carrots... broccoli... and all the rest. All that, and Ceri tries out a fun new pun![Truth or Fail]Sponge gourdshttps://www.lewisginter.org/luffa-plant-exfoliate/Grasspeahttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6422318/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514116300629https://www.cwrdiversity.org/the-curious-case-of-the-grasspea/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20510335/https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/CropFactSheets/grasspea.htmlWild carrotshttp://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/wild.htmlhttps://www.canr.msu.edu/news/poison-hemlock-identification-and-controlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150177/[Fact Off]Spinach and growing organs https://www.wpi.edu/news/wpi-team-grows-heart-tissue-spinach-leaveshttps://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/news/2017/03/human-heart-spinach-leaf-medicine-science?utm_source=reddit.comhttps://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/27/scientists-convert-spinach-leaves-into-human-heart-tissue-that-beats/https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a63bdefdc2b4ac54c102232/t/5a90cfc0ec212d945185b364/1519439811042/CYSJLabWinter2017.pdf#page=6Beet smell geosmin[Ask the Science Couch]Asparagus peehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1379935/pdf/brjclinpharm00087-0116.pdfhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1715705/pdf/brmedj00052-0020.pdfhttps://academic.oup.com/chemse/article/36/1/9/442551https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140818-mystery-of-asparagus-and-urinehttps://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6071https://www.livescience.com/57199-why-some-people-cant-smell-asparagus-pee.htmlhttps://theconversation.com/that-distinctive-springtime-smell-asparagus-pee-94696[Butt One More Thing]Beeturiahttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537012/https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319447#Beetroot-pigments

If you look out a window right now, you're probably going to see a tree. And that tree? Why, it's made out of wood, friend. And that's where things start to get interesting... Get ready to meet Hank's newest alter-ego: Mr. Wood. He's basically Hank, but he just can't stop talking about wood! I had to cut like 3 different, very long stories he told about wood! The man LOVES wood!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: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Shipwormshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ShipwormsDynamitehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/tunneling-clam-bedeviled-humans-sank-ships-conquered-oceans-180961288/Bounty Gaminghttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1902[Fact Off]Super WoodArticle: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180207151829.htmPaper: https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf2018/fpl_2018_song001.pdfScrewdriver test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BStJLI7WQ8g&ab_channel=VOANewsBallistic test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVbczXDFe1Q&ab_channel=MarylandNanoCenterMetallic Woodhttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uop-pe012819.php[Ask the Science Couch]Splintershttp://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0615/p2557.htmlhttp://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0901/p683.htmlhttp://www.the-dermatologist.com/content/treating-rare-fungal-infections-sporotrichosishttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4082545/[Butt One More Thing]Toilet paper https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/622513/reason-toilet-paper-always-white

When you think architecture, you’re probably thinking blueprints, slide rules, maybe a compass or something, I don’t know. But it turns out some of our animal brethren can hold their own when it comes to building stuff, and they don’t have any of those fancy tools! They have, like, their mouths!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: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Blinds: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171130122759.htmhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/adma.201703653Algae: https://earthbuddies.net/algae-curtain/Electric Bacteria: https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/02/electric-bacteria-create-currents-out-thin-and-thick-air#:~:text=Generating%20electricity%20from%20thin%20air,there's%20moisture%20in%20the%20air.[Fact Off]Crystal in hornet nestshttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2001/06/mystery-hornets-nest https://geology.com/minerals/ilmenite.shtml https://www.nature.com/articles/35079679 https://books.google.com/books?id=If229i4wRQEC&pg=PA25 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jemt.20168 Neolamprologus obscurus burrowshttps://www.popsci.com/fish-teamwork-snare-shrimp/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-018-2566-7https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/03/180306101713.htm[Ask the Science Couch]Concrete & environmental impactshttps://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earthhttps://constructionclimatechallenge.com/2016/07/07/green-building-materials-that-are-alternatives-to-concrete/https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/2016/mar/04/making-concrete-green-reinventing-the-worlds-most-used-synthetic-materialhttps://www.ny-engineers.com/blog/how-can-concrete-construction-be-greener [Butt One More Thing]Japanese transparent public toilethttps://www.dezeen.com/2020/08/17/shigeru-ban-transparent-toyko-toilet-shibuya https://tokyotoilet.jp/en/