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    Science

    SciShow Tangents

    SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research… while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.

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    Mars May 14, 2019
    Show notes

    From countless stories of little green men to colonization plans and endless rover and satellite missions, humans are sort of obsessed with Mars. One of those obsessed humans is Hank Green! This week he finally gets to put all his knowledge about his favorite planet to good use: winning fake points on a game show he made up!

    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]

    https://docs.google.com/document/d/12swg6fcCIZYuQh4q9vmW6SBwMoLwnb7jq3s2qT9_Djg/edit?usp=sharing

    [Fact Off]

    First Mars image:

    The picture: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA14033

    Plutonium-238:

    https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/mbyz4v/scientists-are-automating-plutonium-production-so-nasa-can-explore-deep-space

    https://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-news/plutonium-production-space-exploration/

    https://www.greenwichtime.com/technology/businessinsider/article/NASA-s-deep-space-nuclear-power-crisis-may-soon-13530374.php

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Earth tectonics:

    https://geomaps.wr.usgs.gov/parks/pltec/

    https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/science/plate-tectonics-continents-earth.html

    https://phys.org/news/2018-09-plate-tectonics-earth.html

    Mars (lack of) tectonics:

    https://marsed.asu.edu/mep/tectonics

    https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/exploring-the-planets/online/solar-system/mars/surface/volcanoes/

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Poop-eating bacteria:

    https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/02/03/582968023/making-space-food-with-space-poop


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    Sound May 07, 2019
    Show notes

    We couldn’t make podcasts without the science of sound. There’s a lot of technology involved in capturing the vibrations we’re making with our vocal folds so that we can share them with the whole Internet! So this week, we’re fine-tuning our knowledge of sound. Do scientists even know why music makes us feel emotions? Is the ocean really as silent as it seems, or are fish partying down there? And how did computer nerds send each other video games and Christmas cards through radio broadcasts?

    Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out themes 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]

    Butterfly Hearing:

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/10/these-butterflies-boost-their-hearing-unusual-strategy

    [Fact Off]

    Coral reef sounds:

    Computer program cassettes:

    https://qz.com/emails/quartz-obsession/1156672/

    http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/Audio/tape2.html

    http://artsites.ucsc.edu/EMS/music/tech_background/TE-16/teces_16.html

    https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/storage/storage_fifty.html

    https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1976-02/1976_02_BYTE_00-06_Color_Graphics#page/n73/mode/1up

    http://www.retrotechnology.com/restore/cass_data.html

    http://www.kotaku.co.uk/2014/10/13/people-used-download-games-radio

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    General Feelings & Physiological Effects:

    https://www.nature.com/news/why-dissonant-music-strikes-the-wrong-chord-in-the-brain-1.11791

    https://www.pnas.org/content/109/48/19858

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00140130600899104?scroll=top&needAccess=true&journalCode=terg20

    https://www.nature.com/news/neuroaesthetics-is-killing-your-soul-1.12640

    Chills:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-look-what-happens-brain-when-music-causes-chills-180959481/

    https://www.wired.com/2011/01/the-neuroscience-of-music/

    https://www.nature.com/articles/nn.2726 https://scan.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2016/03/10/scan.nsw009.abstract?cited-by=yes&legid=scan;nsw009v1

    https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735615572358

    Harmony:

    https://arxiv.org/html/1202.4212v1/#sec_2_3_2

    https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20930-why-harmony-pleases-the-brain/

    https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.108103

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Fart noises:

    https://www.menshealth.com/health/a19545944/fart-noises/


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    Mutation with Trace Dominguez Apr 30, 2019
    Show notes

    This week, we’re joined by Trace Dominguez from the YouTube channel Uno Dos of Trace to talk about genetic mutations! Tiny changes in an organism’s DNA sequence can lead to big variations or absolutely nothing. It’s just a roll of the dice! So what mutations have shown up in modern humans—different bones, livers, or even eyeballs? What is “foreign DNA” and where does it even come from? And can anybody name as many X-Men as Sam?

    If you want to know more about any of the topics discussed today, check out these links:

    [Truth or Fail]

    Hypoxia:

    https://www.sciencealert.com/indonesian-bajau-genetic-changes-adapt-them-to-aquatic-lifestyle-2

    Bones:

    https://www.the-scientist.com/notebook-old/the-worlds-densest-bones-47155

    https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejmoa013444

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28893644

    Smoking:

    https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-10-17-mn-51362-story.html

    [Fact Off]

    Tetrachromats:

    Colchicine and watermelons:

    https://csuvth.colostate.edu/poisonous_plants/Plants/Details/79

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4656054/

    https://scialert.net/fulltextmobile/?doi=jbs.2013.277.282

    https://naldc.nal.usda.gov/download/CAT71326739/PDF

    https://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/newsletters/hortupdate/hortupdate_archives/2000/may00/h5may00.html

    https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/for-plants-polyploidy-is-not-a-four-letter-word/

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Foreign DNA:

    https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-11/uonc-ahc111815.php

    https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/290835.php

    https://genomebiology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13059-015-0607-3

    https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2009.1679

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK7934/

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6177113/

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Beautiful buttocks:

    https://www.nature.com/news/2002/020917/full/news020916-3.html


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    Agriculture Apr 23, 2019
    Show notes

    A bunch of things are considered agricultural science, from planting crops and raising sheep for wool to food safety and developing fertilizers. This week, we’re skimming the surface of agriculture, with a little detour into animals that sort of farm too. What accidental evolutionary pressures turned weeds into popular crops? Why are seed vaults so important to humanity? And what made Big Mike basically go extinct, and are we worried about it happening with other crops? (Big Mike is a banana, by the way.)

    Want to know more about our topics? Check out these links:

    [Truth or Fail]

    https://india.mongabay.com/2018/10/farmer-termites-bury-invaders-alive-to-protect-fungus-farms/

    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs10886-017-0902-4

    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00040-010-0092-3

    https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0156847

    [Fact Off]

    Vavilovian mimicry:

    https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/weed-science/article/vavilovian-mimicry-nikolai-vavilov-and-his-littleknown-impact-on-weed-science/1B0263622E208DA4548BF0BCB918F255

    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02858881

    http://labs.eeb.utoronto.ca/barrett/pdf/schb_54.pdf

    https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1752-4571.2010.00140.x

    Leningrad seed vault:

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Bananas:

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/oct/25/banana-farming-danger-cavendish-crop-genetics

    https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2018/jun/18/scientists-scramble-to-stop-bananas-being-killed-off

    http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/12/27/banana-fungus-panama-disease/#.XIgdQFNKhxw

    https://www.apsnet.org/about/newsroom/releases/Pages/03Banana.aspx

    https://fusariumwilt.org/index.php/en/about-fusarium-wilt/

    https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-44712034

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Night soil:

    https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/05/07/182010827/is-it-safe-to-use-compost-made-from-treated-human-waste


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    Pregnancy Apr 16, 2019
    Show notes

    Pregnancy is, biologically speaking, extremely weird! A pregnant animal’s body goes through so many hormonal and physical changes to make sure a zygote has everything it needs to grow. This week, we’re talking about a few of those things, like why pregnant people get nauseated and other animals might not. So is pseudopregnancy a real thing, or are pandas just tricking zookeepers to get extra treats? Why is there a patent for a birthing machine that looks like a horrible carnival ride? And what the heck is a stone baby?

    Want to know more about our topics? Check out these links:

    [Truth or Fail]

    https://patents.google.com/patent/US3216423A/en

    https://dublin.sciencegallery.com/failbetter/apparatusfacilitatingbirthchildcentrifugalforce/

    [Fact Off]

    Panda pseudopregnancy:

    Lithopedion:

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3979976/

    https://alumni.amc.edu/pages/archives/archives---the-stone-baby

    https://utmb.influuent.utsystem.edu/en/publications/lithopedion-stone-baby

    https://www.health.harvard.edu/womens-health/calcium-beyond-the-bones

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4750627/

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Morning sickness:

    http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2000/05/morning-sickness-protects-mothers-and-their-unborn

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3676933/

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/2664252?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

    https://www.pregnancysicknesssupport.org.uk/resources/literature-review/symptoms-of-nvp-in-animals/

    https://www.livescience.com/32301-do-pregnant-animals-get-morning-sickness.html

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Meconium:

    http://science.sciencemag.org/content/112/2901/150.long

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18281199


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    Ancient Mega with Blake de Pastino Apr 09, 2019
    Show notes

    This week, we’re joined by Blake de Pastino from the YouTube channel PBS Eons to talk about how plants, animals, and geologic events used to be so… huge. There are still blue whales and massive natural disasters, but the days of the Megalodon have passed. So were those big tunnels in South America really dug out by giant ground sloths? Where is the largest impact crater in the Solar System? And did humans really huddle under the skeletal remains of the giant armadillo-like Glyptodon?

    To learn more about this week's topic, check out these links:

    [Truth or Fail]

    https://natural-history.uoregon.edu/collections/web-galleries/saber-toothed-salmon

    https://cals.arizona.edu/classes/ento596c/topic/session9.html

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10420940.2016.1223654?scroll=top&needAccess=true&

    http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/03/28/paleoburrows-south-america/#.XFC3uc9Khxz

    http://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/044_Paleotocas_ING.pdf

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Glyptodon carapaces:

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/02/ancient-armadillos-grew-big-vw-beetles

    https://books.google.com/books?id=kUAKgNfiAvoC&pg=PA184#v=onepage&q&f=false

    https://www.jstor.org/stable/971990?read-now=1&seq=6#page_scan_tab_contents

    https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1179/2055556315Z.00000000031?journalCode=ypal20

    https://books.google.com/books?id=2tk_AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA223&lpg=PA223

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Stegosaurus butt brain misconception:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-double-dinosaur-brain-myth-12155823/


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    Bats Apr 02, 2019
    Show notes

    Bats have a bad reputation because of the ones that drink blood or spread disease, but these furry flying critters can be pretty cute! This week, we’re talking about everything from echolocation to weird potential uses for bat poop. Are there really bats with suction cups on their wings or is that just a cool toy idea? What is white nose syndrome and could vaping mushroom compounds… help? And what do you really think about Hank’s Dracula impression?

    Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out themes 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:

    [Poem]

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-pitcher-plants-call-bats-get-their-poo-180956014/

    https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rsbl.2010.1141

    [Truth or Fail]

    Bats that spend time on the ground:

    http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2005/03/vampire-bats-keep-out-trouble-running-study-shows

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16621953

    https://www.australiangeographic.com.au/blogs/creatura-blog/2018/01/why-fly-when-you-can-shuffle-the-lesser-short-tailed-bat-prefers-the-ground/

    Diurnal bats:

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/daytime-bats-help-explain-nocturnal-evolution/

    https://blogs.plos.org/ecology/2017/06/29/bat-species-found-only-on-islands-in-trouble-worldwide/

    https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mamm.ahead-of-print/mammalia-2017-0128/mammalia-2017-0128.xml

    Suction cup bats:

    https://www.wired.com/2010/04/how-sucker-winged-bats-hang-on/

    [Fact Off]

    Bat & dolphin echolocation:

    https://evolutionnews.org/2012/05/tangling_the_tr/

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2010/01/hear-bats-and-whales-share-sonar-protein

    https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(09)02073-9

    https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12511

    https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/tetrapod-zoology/refined-fine-tuned-placental-mammal-family-tree/

    Moth echolocation blocker:

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/07/moths-block-bats-sonar

    http://science.sciencemag.org/content/325/5938/325?keytype=ref&siteid=sci&ijkey=GbDjRlkoHfRnY

    https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2009/07/17/tiger-moths-jam-the-sonar-of-bats/

    http://jeb.biologists.org/content/214/14/2416

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    White-nose syndrome:

    https://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/bat_crisis_white-nose_syndrome/Q_and_A.html

    https://www.whitenosesyndrome.org/static-page/what-is-white-nose-syndrome

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-bats-could-bounce-back-devastating-white-nose-syndrome-180969378/

    https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-02441-z

    https://www.mdpi.com/2309-608X/4/2/48

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Bat guano gunpowder:

    https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/dkc09


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    Charles Darwin Mar 26, 2019
    Show notes

    You might know him from his greatest hits: natural selection, Galápagos finches, and eating lots of the animals he studied… it’s Charles Darwin! This week, we’re talking about this famous biologist and some of the weirder science he did. What kind of books did he write after he published On the Origin of Species? Why was he so disgusted by fish spitting out seeds? And was it normal to write a letter to a scientist friend and ask detailed questions about barnacle sex?

    Sources:

    [Truth or Fail]

    https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/4x38gj/darwins-monsters-parasitoid-wasps

    https://books.google.com/books?id=lIcoAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA179&lpg=PA179&dq=charles+darwin+eyebrows&source=bl&ots=YrNkw9VczZ&sig=ACfU3U06m2pYFahEfpPveHOyT8auD0ZeXw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwivsMeU4LvgAhUbJzQIHUaoA5wQ6AEwFXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=charles%20darwin%20eyebrows&f=false

    [Fact Off]

    Seeds & fish:

    http://darwin-online.org.uk/content/frameset?itemID=F1683&viewtype=text&pageseq=1

    https://www.darwinproject.ac.uk/letter/DCP-LETT-1681.xml

    http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/11/17/darwin-bird-vomit/#.XBlv3c9Khxw

    https://academic.oup.com/botlinnean/article/161/1/20/2418329

    Barnacles:

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3574338/

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Darwin’s understanding vs. ours:

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/earth/story/20141017-how-flowers-conquered-the-world

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-darwin-didnt-know-45637001/

    https://www.wired.com/2014/12/fantastically-wrong-thing-evolution-darwin-really-screwed/

    http://www.esp.org/books/darwin/variation/facsimile/contents/darwin-variation-chap-27-i.pdf

    http://www.blc.arizona.edu/courses/schaffer/449/Soft%20Inhertance/Geison%20-%20Pangenesis.pdf

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Darwin bark spider:

    http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20151126-the-worlds-biggest-spider-web-can-span-an-entire-river

    https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0011234


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    Timekeeping Mar 19, 2019
    Show notes

    If you think about it, we’re all time travelers moving forward at one second per second… right? This week, we try really hard to define time, get sort of existential about it, and then talk about the science of timekeeping, from circadian rhythms to weird mechanical clocks. What happens to someone’s sense of time if you put them in a big bunker locked away from the outside world? How did we decide there would be 60 seconds in a minute, and did we ever try to measure time with a decimal system? And if a human were to instantaneously dissolve into a pile of goo because their time was up, what would it sound like?

    Sources:

    [Truth or Fail]

    https://mechanism.ucsd.edu/teaching/F11/philbiology2011/aschoff.circadianrhythmsinman.1965.pdf

    https://www.mpg.de/943613/S003_Flashback_060_061.pdf

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/science-obituaries/6216073/Maurizio-Montalbini.html

    [Fact Off]

    Music & walking:

    https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0067932

    Castle Clock:

    http://muslimheritage.com/article/al-jazari%E2%80%99s-castle-water-clock-analysis-its-components-and-functioning

    https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/al-jazari-s-book-of-knowledge-of-ingenious-mechanical-devices-the-castle-water-clock/DgF6LT4UYXvU4A

    https://www.ee.columbia.edu/not-your-father%E2%80%99s-analog-computer-professor-yannis-tsividis

    Animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qz7soHvy-Pw

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    60 seconds/minutes:

    https://www.theguardian.com/notesandqueries/query/0,5753,-1487,00.html

    http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/161-our-solar-system/the-earth/day-night-cycle/761-why-is-a-day-divided-into-24-hours-intermediate

    https://gizmodo.com/why-there-are-24-hours-in-a-day-5926491

    http://mentalfloss.com/article/32127/decimal-time-how-french-made-10-hour-day

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Speed of poop:

    https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/04/speed-of-poop-big-or-small-mammals-drop-a-deuce-in-12-secs-study-finds/

    https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2017/sm/c6sm02795d/unauth#!divAbstract


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    Giant Rodents Mar 12, 2019
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    When can you start calling a rodent “giant?” When it’s twice the average size of its species? When you’re not grossed out by it? When it could be a mascot for a family fun center? We don’t really have a precise answer to that… but this week, we’re exploring the science of big ol’ rodents! Turns out, giant rodents have shaped the environment in lots of ways, from ancient megafauna stomping through South American wetlands to beavers affecting the climate. And even though they sound kind of scary, giant rats might be able to save human lives. But the real question is: what’s up with capybara anal pouches?

    Sources:

    [Truth or Fail]

    https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2015/02/making-teeth-tough-beavers-show-way-to-improve-our-enamel-

    http://www.sci-news.com/biology/science-biswamoyopterus-laoensis-new-species-flying-squirrel-laos-01361.html

    https://www.apopo.info/en/tuberculosis-detection/projects

    http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tb/background

    https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/23/rats-who-sniff-out-tubersulosis

    https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140816-rats-tuberculosis-smell-disease-health-animals-world/

    [Fact Off]

    Hippos & biggest rodent:

    Beavers & carbon emissions:

    https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoh-bha082918.php

    https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/07/what-role-do-beavers-play-climate-change

    https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13280-014-0575-y

    [Ask the Science Couch]

    Gigantism:

    https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-king-kong-should-have-been-blue-whale-180962603/

    https://www.nature.com/articles/482008d

    https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120521-killer-mice-birds-gough-island-endangered-animals-science/

    https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00534.x

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4358651/

    [Butt One More Thing]

    Capybara anal pouches:

    https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1984.tb05087.x


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