SciShow Tangents

It's the time of year for old acquaintances to be forgot, but SciShow Tangents has never been one to bow to convention! So this week, we're remembering all our dang acquaintances and way more as we dive deep on the concept of Memory! Want more Deboki? Check her out at https://twitter.com/okidoki_boki to find info on all of the many projects she works on!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]Imprinting in generalhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fphys.2021.736999/fullhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4726915/Pekin duckling different eye, different memorieshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347216302597?via%3Dihubhttps://phys.org/news/2016-11-ducklings-memory-banks-visual.htmlCalifornia condor puppet funeralshttps://www.nature.com/news/2007/070806/full/news070806-3.html#B1https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/zoo.20151Siberian cranes imprint for migrationhttps://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1377&context=nacwgprochttps://savingcranes.org/learn/species-field-guide/siberian-crane/https://amp.theguardian.com/news/2006/apr/01/guardianobituaries.mainsection[Trivia Question]Chaser (Border Collie) remembering unique object nameshttps://webs.wofford.edu/reidak/Pubs/Pilley%20and%20Reid%202011.pdfhttps://www.goupstate.com/story/news/2019/07/26/world-famous-dog-chaser-dies-at-15/4597342007/https://www.goupstate.com/story/news/2021/11/02/spartanburg-community-college-new-mascot-scc-chasers-chaser-the-border-collie-south-carolina/6199107001/[Fact Off]Taking Photos Makes Memory Worse https://www.binghamton.edu/news/story/3079/taking-photos-can-impair-your-memory-of-eventshttps://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2021/08/05/1022041431/to-remember-the-moment-try-taking-fewer-photos[Ask the Science Couch]Remembering commercial jingles rather than “important” names and dates https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fxge0001050https://muse.jhu.edu/article/269004https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0086170https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735611406578https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0305735611418553https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2018-35459-001https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnbeh.2022.896285/full[Butt One More Thing]Poop amnesia or vasovagal syncopehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6067056/https://www.iflscience.com/woman-loses-10-years-of-memories-due-to-bad-case-of-constipation-52589https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/constipated-woman-lost-10-years-of-memories-after-straining-too-hard/F5X2BVV6FWFXH7NNZZFG2IGEYA/ 

There are no two ways about it: winter is a great time to sleep. In fact, the Tangents crew all decided to sleep this entire week, which is what this episode is a rerun! See you next week/year!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

Jack frost ain't just nipping at our noses where we live, he's basically biting them off! Ouch! So we thought we'd learn a little about what "cold" even is, and you may not be too surprised to hear that the answer is way, way more complicated than you'd think. Bundle up and take a listen!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]Coldest temperature - Bremen drop tower heighthttps://www.livescience.com/coldest-temperature-ever[Fact Off]Freeze dried potato made by the Altiplanohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tJrOJg2a-_Yhttps://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210715-chuno-the-andean-secret-to-making-potatoes-last-decadeshttps://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/chunos-potatoes-feetCaloric reflex/vestibular testhttps://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/003429.htmhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/medicine-and-dentistry/caloric-vestibular-testhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10863/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4325576/

sniff sniff... What is that awful smell? Ah, it's our stinky, old games! I mean, just look at Truth or Fail! It's all covered in mold! Good thing Deboki's here this week to try out some fresh, exciting new games with us!scWant more Deboki? Check her out at https://twitter.com/okidoki_boki to find info on all of the many projects she works on!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

It's said that the dose makes the poison, but that doesn't change the fact that some poison is just more poison-y than others. This week, we get a lethal dose of venomous knowledge!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: @hankgreenSources:[Definition]Toxin vs. poison vs. venomhttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/brv.12062https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/whats-in-a-name-venoms-vs-poisons-toxinology-101[Dead or Not Dead][Trivia Question]Belgian musicians getting sick from botulismhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5133258/#b01https://www.jstor.org/stable/30099331[Fact Off]Ants disinfect using their butt poisonhttps://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(18)31147-3https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/736123https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982212013784https://www2.palomar.edu/users/warmstrong/Antintro.htmhttps://elifesciences.org/articles/60287https://www.mississippientomologicalmuseum.org.msstate.edu/Researchtaxapages/Formicidaepages/genericpages/Lasius.neglectus.htmBacteriophage that stole spider venom proteinhttps://evolution.berkeley.edu/evo-news/black-widow-virus-results-from-evolution-not-genetic-engineering/https://www.livescience.com/56443-black-widow-spider-dna-found-inside-virus.htmlhttps://news.vanderbilt.edu/2016/10/11/virus-carrying-dna-of-black-widow-spider-toxin-discovered/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2108671-virus-steals-black-widow-poison-gene-to-help-it-attack/[Ask the Science Couch]Effects of ingesting venomhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6266834/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0273230014003419?via%3Dihubhttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7985199/https://www.jem-journal.com/article/S0736-4679(15)01377-3/fulltexthttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3349795/[Butt One More Thing]Goats can deactivate poisonous plant compoundshttps://calag.ucanr.edu/Archive/?article=ca.v046n03p4https://agresearchfoundation.oregonstate.edu/sites/agresearchfoundation.oregonstate.edu/files/bionaz_2014-16_final.pdfhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031938409002510?via%3Dihub

In a universe of chaos, one scrappy form of highly-ordered solid matter dares to be different: crystals! And crystal expert Tyler Thrasher is here to tell us all we need to know about them!Want more Tyler Thrasher (and who wouldn't?!)? Check out https://tylerthrasher.com to learn more about his myriad of other projects!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

It's just about Thanksgiving here in the US; a special time during which we count our blessings. And this year, Tangents is giving you an extra thing to be thankful for: Stefan's our special guest! Our long lost co-host returns to talk to us about wings: birds love to use 'em, people love to eat 'em, and planes need them too, I guess. Sit around the table with us, won't you, as we pass out some heaping helpings of science knowledge. Pass the gravy!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]Number of bird wings in the Burke Museum https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/ornithologyhttps://www.audubon.org/news/behind-scenes-worlds-largest-bird-wing-collectionhttps://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/biology/ornithology/collections-database/results.php?l=20&o=0&n=40653&m=32557&f=&g=&s=17h%7EIymyNd1yIp&w=PfHdywfPYczv2Y01KbF0&wo=PHdywPYjdyhNdQIY1KbF[Fact Off]Club-winged manakins use wing feathers to chirp/singVideo & audio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSHjhCN6NC0Audio-only clips: https://ebird.org/species/clwman1Picture of feathers: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:PipraWing.jpghttps://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/07/rare-south-american-bird-sings-its-feathers-attract-mate-cornell-researcher-findshttps://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/singing-with-his-wings-the-club-winged-manakins-display/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3440988/[Ask the Science Couch]Planes flying upside downhttps://www1.grc.nasa.gov/beginners-guide-to-aeronautics/what-is-lift/https://www.popsci.com/flying-upside-down-physics/https://www.flyingmag.com/why-can-airplanes-fly-upside-down/https://howthingsfly.si.edu/ask-an-explainer/how-do-planes-fly-upside-down[Butt One More Thing]Airplane and wing butt lineshttp://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/design/q0289.shtmlhttps://www.aircraftsystemstech.com/p/location-numbering-systems-even-on.htmlhttps://aviation.stackexchange.com/questions/72611/what-is-the-difference-between-a-wing-station-and-wing-buttock-linehttp://www.techdrawingtools.com/24/l2402.htm

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