SciShow Tangents

Be Advised! This episode was recorded before we decided to reset the scores for Season 2 and rename them Sambucks. Please don't tweet at us about this (and if you do tweet at us about it, be nice)!People absolutely love going places and doing stuff! And in our zeal to go places and do stuff even faster, we've invented some wild things. Come with us on journey of discovery as we sail the seven seas of science and fly the friendly skies of... innovation...? Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Loading Patternshttps://www.who.int/ith/mode_of_travel/tcd_aircraft/en/https://www.pnas.org/content/115/14/3623Reducing Fiber https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-you-should-fart-in-planes-2013-2Dirtiest Part of a Planehttps://www.travelmath.com/feature/airline-hygiene-exposed/[Fact Off]Ski lifthttps://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2953.htmPictures/info:https://books.google.com/books?id=slgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23https://books.google.com/books?id=XFgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38https://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/releases/heritage_and_steam/2006/0228_skilift.shtmlFlight suithttps://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/04/13/wiley-post-one-eyed-pilot-first-fly-solo-around-world-developed-first-pressure-suits-discovered-jet-stream/https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/si-98-15012hjpghttps://www.airspacemag.com/videos/category/new-label/this-pressure-suit-helped-pilots-survive-new/[Ask the Science Couch]License plate restrictionshttps://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/20/licence-plate-driving-bans-paris-ineffective-air-pollutionhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095756416000039https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967070X01000245?via%3DihubBraess’ Paradoxhttp://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Dietrich.Braess/Paradox-BNW.pdfhttps://phys.org/news/2010-09-scientist-braess-paradox-high-traffic.htmlRemoving roadshttps://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/nov/01/society.travelsenvironmentalimpacthttps://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/cheonggyecheon-stream-restoration[Butt One More Thing]Fart volumehttps://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-big-is-a-fart-somewhere-between-a-bottle-of-nail-polish-and-a-can-of-soda/

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Ancient man harnessing and wielding the elemental power of the flame was pretty cool, I guess, but I think this being Tangent's one year anniversary is a little cooler, honestly! Plus, we announce who won the first season, so actually this episode is sort of twice as important as fire if you think about it! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!  And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail]Fire-chasing beetleshttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0037627https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227016226_The_Photomechanic_Infrared_Receptor_for_the_Detection_of_Forest_Fires_in_the_Buprestid_Beetle_Melanophila_Acuminatahttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/how-a-half-inch-beetle-finds-fires-80-miles-away/https://www.jstor.org/stable/3998979?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contentshttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2012/05/27/fire-chasing-beetles-sense-infrared-radiation-from-fires-hundreds-of-kilometres-away/https://academic.oup.com/jee/article-abstract/36/2/341/2202937[Fact Off]Surgical fireshttps://www.livescience.com/65615-chest-cavity-fire-surgery.htmlhttps://www.ismp.org/resources/surgical-fires-caused-skin-preps-and-ointments-rare-dangerous-and-preventableDeath ray buildinghttps://twitter.com/tara_mulholland/status/374877389425086464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E374877389425086464&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinancialpost.com%2Fnews%2Flondons-fryscraper-owners-to-spend-millions-of-pounds-to-block-car-melting-beamhttps://www.pri.org/stories/2013-09-03/londons-walkie-talkie-skyscraper-blamed-melting-cars-starting-small-firehttps://www.livescience.com/39371-skyscraper-melts-cars-20-fenchurch.htmlhttps://www.mississauga.com/news-story/4067822-london-s-fryscaper-draws-crowd-on-hottest-day/https://www.cityam.com/exclusive-walkie-scorchie-melted-my-jag/[Ask the Science Couch]Flame Extinguishment Experiment (FLEX) https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/FLEX_Video.htmlhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/in-space-flames-behave-in-ways-nobody-thought-possible-132637810/Cool flameshttps://blogs.nasa.gov/ISS_Science_Blog/2013/11/25/cool-flames-on-the-international-space-station-an-anatomy-of-discovery/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010218012002131https://youtu.be/BxxqCLxxY3M[Butt One More Thing]Incinerating toiletshttp://www.nsf.org/consumer-resources/water-quality/wastewater-sewage-treatment/electrical-incinerating-toiletshttps://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-06/documents/incinera.pdf

SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear concludes with what is undeniably the scariest, most valid fear of any of those discussed... spiders! I'm not saying spiders will pour out of your headphones and into your ears when you listen to this, but I'm also not promising they won't.Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!  If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links![Truth or Fail]Recordshttps://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-10-weirdest-things-pressed-into-vinyl-records-this-year/https://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/462289635/bones-and-grooves-weird-secret-history-of-soviet-x-ray-musicTattooshttps://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/gwitchin-tattoo-skin-stitching-first-nations-1.3796606Canvaseshttps://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/07/cobwebportraits.htmlhttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-lost-art-of-painting-on-cobweb-canvaseshttps://phys.org/news/2010-05-scientists-goats-spider-silk.html[Fact Off][Ask the Science Couch]Web constructionhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-how-do-spiders-make-webs-180957426/https://sciencing.com/identify-spider-pattern-8635659.htmlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6053566/Making silkhttps://www.livescience.com/32582-how-do-spiders-make-silk.htmlhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/spidroins[Butt One More Thing]Trashline orb weavershttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-the-spiders-that-completely-defy-what-we-know-as-jet-lag/https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/trashline-orbweavers

SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear continues and… wait… do you feel it… the walls they’re... closing in around you! Crushing you!...were you scared? Well, if you were Hank you probably would have been because his fear is enclosed spaces! How is that related to science? Good question!Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail]Fire Extinguisherhttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/tuot-ncf041819.phpWater-Filled Suithttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552417301335Air Purifierhttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/space-station-mold-survives-200-times-radiation-dose-would-kill-human[Fact Off]Noc the beluga whalehttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/story-one-whale-who-tried-bridge-linguistic-divide-between-animals-humans-180951437/?page=1http://cell.com/current-biology/supplemental/S0960-9822%2812%2901009-3https://www.public.navy.mil/navwar/NIWC-Pacific/technology/Pages/mammals.aspxNormal beluga: https://dosits.org/resources/resource-categories/feature-sounds/beluga/Noc sound: https://www.nature.com/news/the-whale-that-talked-1.11635Dark flieshttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/14/fifty-seven-years-of-darkness/#.XaY74udKgW_https://phys.org/news/2016-02-evolution-dark-fly.htmlhttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160204111403.htm[Ask the Science Couch]Estimates of plant roomshttps://io9.gizmodo.com/how-many-plants-would-you-need-to-generate-oxygen-for-y-5955071http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-02/917906305.Bt.r.htmlhttps://everything2.com/title/How+much+plant+life+is+needed+to+keep+a+person+alive+in+a+sealed+room%253FPhotorespirationhttp://www.plantphysiol.org/content/155/1/56Biosphere 2http://biosphere2.org/visit/about-biosphere2/fast-factshttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/sunday-review/biosphere-2-climate-change.htmlhttps://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/68/9/722/5055575?searchresult=1[Butt One More Thing]Apollo 10 floating poophttps://www.vox.com/2015/5/26/8646675/apollo-10-turd-poophttps://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a410/AS10_CM.PDF

As the SciShow Tangents Month of Fear continues, your hosts get down into the wormy, slimy muck to discuss Ceri’s biggest fear: decomposition! Does that sound too generic to be truly terrifying? That’s what Sam thought too, and now he is also quite scared of decomposing! Boo!Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out this these links:[Truth or Fail]Straw Urinals - https://www.unreservedmedia.com/paris-open-air-urinals/Peepee Day - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/6554958/Urinate-on-the-compost-heap-to-save-the-planet-says-the-National-Trust.htmlhttps://grist.org/living/ask-umbra-can-i-pee-in-my-compost-pile/Human Composting - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/washington-first-state-allow-burial-method-human-composting-180972020/[Fact Off]Ocean viruses - https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/9/e1602565.fullhttps://www.ocean.washington.edu/courses/oc400/Arrigo2005.pdfBurying beetles - https://www.fws.gov/Midwest/endangered/insects/ambb/abb_fact.htmlhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/10/news-burying-beetle-nursery-bacteria-fungus-decomposition/[Ask the Science Couch]Food Safetyhttps://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/fsis-content/internet/main/topics/food-safety-education/get-answers/food-safety-fact-sheets/safe-food-handling/food-safety-tips-for-college-students/ct_indexhttps://food.unl.edu/will-reheating-food-make-it-safe-if-you-forget-refrigerate-ithttps://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/food-technology/bacterial-food-poisoning/https://www.fda.gov/food/consumers/what-you-need-know-about-foodborne-illnessesDecomposershttps://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/docs/tip-sheet-decomposer-id-cpts-id-f.pdfPizza (Quora answer)https://www.quora.com/Is-it-safe-to-eat-pizza-left-out-overnight[Butt One More Thing]A/V plughttp://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/deathly-doodle-leakagehttp://fluidpusher.blogspot.com/2009/10/questions-of-day-jenn-edition.html

SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear continues! This week, Stefan is confronted by his fear of sharks! Thrill as we weave a tale of nigh-immortal sharks! Feel the chills run down your spine as you learn about how weird shark penises are! Try not to scream when you hear about Sharkarado, the Shark Colorado! This episode... might be too scary!!!  Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Still Shark Eggshttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0052551Tiger Shark Siblingshttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/baby-sand-tiger-sharks-devour-their-siblings-while-still-in-the-womb-46192985/Thermal Ventshttps://www.livescience.com/61699-skates-eggs-thermal-vents.html[Fact Off]White Shark Caféhttps://schmidtocean.org/cruise/voyage-white-shark-cafe/#datahttp://whitesharkcafe.org/media/photos-videoshttps://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/28/613394086/great-white-sharks-have-a-secret-cafe-and-they-led-scientists-right-to-ithttps://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/Mysterious-great-white-shark-lair-discovered-in-13234068.phphttps://www.nature.com/articles/415035bGreenland sharks eating sealshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022098112001657?via%3Dihubhttps://animals.mom.me/seals-sleep-4736.htmlhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/6/120626-greenland-sharks-seals-sleeping-animals-science/[Ask the Science Couch]Intromittent organs/peniseshttps://academic.oup.com/icb/article/56/4/705/2198314https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/06/scienceshot-birds-disappearing-penisShark claspershttps://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/04/how-shark-penises-evolvedhttps://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7698https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/clasper[Butt One More Thing]Coprolite shark toothhttps://www.earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/fossils/that-time-a-prehistoric-shark-took-a-bite-out-of-a-turd/

Here at Tangents, we don't mess around when it comes to Halloween. So each week in October, the topic will be one of our greatest fears! Hank was apparently too afraid to even be on this episode, so instead special guest Caitlin Hofmeister confronts her fear of failure as we tell her tales of science gone wrong! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Bubble Wraphttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/accidental-invention-bubble-wrap-180971325/Whoopee Cushionhttps://torontoist.com/2013/04/toronto-invents-the-whoopee-cushion/Vaselinehttps://www.dummies.com/education/history/american-history/the-history-of-an-incredibly-useful-u-s-product-vaseline/https://www.damninteresting.com/nugget/story-of-vaseline/[Fact Off]Mosquito self-limiting geneFour Pests campaignhttp://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2014/02/26/mao-four-pests-china-disease/#.XKzfDOtKhxwhttps://io9.gizmodo.com/china-s-worst-self-inflicted-environmental-disaster-th-5927112https://chineseposters.net/themes/four-pests.phphttp://www.zonaeuropa.com/20061130_1.htmhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/[Ask the Science Couch]Killifishhttps://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6317/1305https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/against-tide-fish-adapts-quickly-lethal-levels-pollution/https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/science/atlantic-killifish-evolution-pollution.htmlRadiotrophic fungihttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/radiation-helps-fungi-grow/https://mbio.asm.org/content/7/6/e01483-16https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000457Birdshttps://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140424223057.htmhttps://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.12283https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/pdf/S0169-5347(16)00019-7.pdf[Butt One More Thing]Artificial poop pillshttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/sham-poo-washes-out/493811/https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/214/2/173/2572105

Plastic: space age wonder material or planet-destroying scourge? The real answer may lie... somewhere in the middle (but leaning more towards scourge). Plus, learn exactly how many LEGO minifigures you can eat before you die! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!  If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Milkhttps://blogs.getty.edu/iris/galalith-alchemy-in-the-age-of-plastic/https://www.chemistryworld.com/podcasts/casein/3007625.articlehttps://www.ganoksin.com/article/galalith-jewelry-milk-stone/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bring-science-home-milk-plastic/Bloodhttps://books.google.com/books?id=3uoiAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA9https://docsouth.unc.edu/nc/rjrtags/ill65.htmlhttps://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1261&context=beadshttps://materialdistrict.com/material/blood-plastic/https://surface.syr.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1261&context=beadspictures: https://www.hippohardware.com/blogs/news/at-deaths-door-a-history-of-hemaciteVenomhttp://www.t3db.ca/toxins/T3D2544[Fact Off]Bees and plastichttps://www.sciencealert.com/wild-bees-have-been-found-building-nests-entirely-out-of-plastic-for-the-first-timehttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13592-019-00635-6https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/pp-bsw030117.phphttps://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1890/ES13-00308.1Celluloid billiard balls http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_eye/2015/05/13/the_death_of_billiards_and_the_rise_of_plastic_on_99_invisible_with_roman.htmlhttps://www.liveabout.com/what-pool-balls-are-made-of-368742https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/once-upon-time-exploding-billiard-balls-were-everyday-thing-180962751/http://mentalfloss.com/article/64247/first-plastic-billiard-balls-routinely-exploded[Ask the Science Couch]Corn plastichttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/environmental-impact-of-corn-based-plastics/https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/corn-plastic-to-the-rescue-126404720/https://mcgillcompost.com/blog/recycling-number-7-pla-plastics[Butt One More Thing]Cigarette buttshttps://www.sciencealert.com/this-company-recycles-cigarette-butts-and-turns-them-into-plastic

For humans, the teenage years are marked by angst, self-discovery, and homework. For elephants, they’re marked by pus-weeping face glands, uncontrollable rage, and a green penis!Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:[Truth or Fail]Guevedoces:https://secondnexus.com/opinion/the-intersex-children-of-salinas/https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34290981https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/924291-overviewhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1365-2265.1991.tb03769.xCat scratch disease: https://www.sciencealert.com/a-case-of-schizophrenia-found-to-be-a-bad-case-of-cat-scratch-disease[Fact Off]Musichttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-teen-music-choices-fear-rules/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=%22Gregory+S.+Berns%22Elephant Musthhttps://www.bbcearth.com/blog/?article=teenage-elephants-need-a-father-figurehttp://www.rhinoresourcecenter.com/index.php?s=1&act=pdfviewer&id=1253211728&folder=125[Ask the Science Couch]Risk taking/brain developmenthttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3445337/https://opentextbc.ca/introductiontopsychology/chapter/6-3-adolescence-developing-independence-and-identity/Lyinghttp://www.jeffreyarnett.com/articles/articles/ARNETT_the_right_to_do_wrong.pdfhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0001691815300184https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0109591[Butt One More Thing]Koala paphttps://www.savethekoala.com/about-koalas/life-cycle-koalahttp://koalainfo.com/pap-the-first-solid-food-of-koalas