SciShow Tangents

The hosts discuss batteries and their various uses, including experiments using snails as living batteries and creating batteries using crab shells. They also talk about national parks, battery age, and the concept of edible batteries. Additionally, they explore different types of batteries and innovative energy storage methods, as well as microbial batteries that extract energy from sewage waste.

Alexis Nikole Nelson, an expert in finding slimy, sticky, gross stuff that you can eat, joins the podcast for Trick or Treat Month. The hosts explore the fascinating world of slime, including slimy plants and animals. They also discuss using hagfish slime, corn roots, and okra slime for jewelry. Other topics include sneaky subscriptions, national parks, and slimy behaviors in organisms like glowing mucus and biofilms.

Guest Dan Schreiber, podcaster, author, and mad genius, talks about the weirdest, creepiest, most otherworldly theories ever devised. Topics include eccentric scientists, the friendship paradox, the Infinite Monkey Theorem, theory of mind, and the origins of 'anal retentive'.

Siobhan Thompson, Dimension 20's guide into the cursed catacombs of knowledge, leads the hosts in exploring the concept of tombs, discussing Copernicus' remains, speculating on a particle's identity, uncovering tomb hoaxes and fake artifacts, and exploring nature's adaptations after the Chernobyl disaster.

Topics discussed include teen names based on soda flavors, the history of tax tokens and fake beard tokens, shark behavior at cleaning stations, ancient hygiene practices, toxic shock syndrome and super absorbent tampons, and hygienic behavior in mandrels to avoid parasite-related illness.

Two Sams join Ceri and Hank in a team-based episode of Tangents. They talk about fitness challenges at Walt Disney World, perceptions of size, bizarre beasts, miniature organs, satellite launches, and the search for the smallest single-celled organism.

This podcast explores the fascinating world of dust, including its abundance in the universe, its presence on our bodies and in our homes, and even planets made of dust. It touches on topics such as moon dust's value and controversy, using spider webs to track microplastics, and the omnipresence of dust mites. Join the hosts as they uncover intriguing facts about this dusty phenomenon.

From trustworthy to calming, sad to steadfast, and, of course, jeans - the color blue means a lot of things to a lot of people. Join Team Tangents as we delve into this deceptively complicated primary color!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! A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible!And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!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:[Trivia Question]YInMn blue unnamed element https://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/chemistry-news-events/yinmn-bluehttps://chemistry.oregonstate.edu/impact/2017/09/hello-bluetiful-theres-a-new-yinmn-blue-inspired-crayonhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-blue-pigment-discovered-200-years-finally-sale-180976769/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/05/style/blue-pigment-YInMn.htmlhttps://colourlex.com/project/yinmn-blue/[Fact Off]Blue dye blocking ATP for spinal cord injurieshttps://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/blue-dye-may-hold-promise-in-treating-spinal-cord-injuryhttps://www.wired.com/2009/07/bluerats/https://www.sciencenews.org/article/brilliant-blue-spinehttps://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-07/good-news-animal-lovers-and-folks-spinal-injuries/Vivianite blue found on bones, shells, and other remainshttps://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/vivianite-blue-human-remainshttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9871987/https://www.kristineballard.com/vivianite-blue/https://www.uaf.edu/museum/press/spotlight/blue-babe/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X21001309https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/(SICI)1096-8644(199809)107:1%3C1::AID-AJPA1%3E3.0.CO;2-R[Ask the Science Couch]Color psychology: blue and marketing/logoshttps://today.yougov.com/topics/international/articles-reports/2015/05/12/why-blue-worlds-favorite-colorhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/09/20/the-face-of-facebookhttps://www.joehallock.com/?page_id=1281https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11747-010-0245-yhttps://www.jstor.org/stable/3151897https://www.emerald.com/insight/content/doi/10.1108/SJME-03-2018-005/full/html[Butt One More Thing]Evidence of blue cheese in Austrian paleofeceshttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/930931https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(21)01271-9https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/14/sophisticated-ancient-faeces-shows-humans-enjoyed-beer-and-blue-cheese-2700-years-ago# Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Take control of your finances today. Go to https://RocketMoney.com/TANGENTS to get started!It's easy to write off bacteria as no good, nasty, disease causing creeps, but consider this: without bacteria, we wouldn't have yogurt, or delicious sourdough bread, or a gut microbiome to digest those things! There are probably other good examples of ways bacteria are helpful to us, but I'm too hungry to think of them...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!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 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

From eggs to tacos to Ninja Turtles, some of the best things in life come in shells. So cozy on up inside the nearest conch as we regale you with tales of shells from all across the scientific spectrum!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!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]Golden ratio nautilus shellshttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00004-018-0419-3[Fact Off]Batteries made from crab shells https://www.cell.com/matter/fulltext/S2590-2385(22)00414-3https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220901135827.htmhttps://www.thedailybeast.com/the-future-of-renewable-energy-may-be-this-battery-made-from-crab-shellshttps://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/cycle-lifehttps://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2023/march/crab-shells-could-help-power-the-next-generation-of-rechargeable-batteries.htmlMicroplastics and hermit crab shellshttps://oceanographicmagazine.com/news/hermit-crab-behaviour-affected-by-microplastics/https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2020.0030https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32343937/[Ask the Science Couch]Mollusk shell development & secretion into spiral shapeshttps://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-seashells-take-shape/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-are-seashells-created/https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10126-005-6029-6https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0810311106https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/how-a-snails-shell-gets-its-twist[Butt One More Thing]Wood-boring bivalve that creates fecal chimneyshttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12526-022-01306-zhttps://www.fieldmuseum.org/blog/down-and-dirty-most-unusual-bivalve Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.