Episodes
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We here on SciShow Tangents may have the market cornered on science podcasting, but that doesn't mean we know everything. Put us in a lab, and we're like fish in water! But put us in a library, with all those big tall shelves and the Dewey Decimal System, and we're like a fish not-in-water! So we called in our friend, podcast, theologian, and noted book-reader Vanessa Zoltan to help us learn more about books!
Learn more about Vanessa and her myriad of projects at her website, and follow her on Twitter @vanessamzoltan!
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Inspired by last week's episode about beaches, we decided to take the week off and catch some rays. Please enjoy this encore presentation of our episode on Waves, and we'll be back next week!
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Summer is here, which means it's time to visit everyone's favorite geological feature consisting of a strip of land covered in loose particles, existing exclusively alongside a body of water ! That's right, pack your trunks, cause today we're hitting the beach!
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[Trivia Question]
Goose-scaring drones
https://www.livescience.com/39146-canada-geese-drone.html
[Fact Off]
Waterproof chemicals (PFASes) in tides
https://www.inverse.com/science/sea-spray-is-toxic
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/937518
https://massivesci.com/articles/pfas-chemical-ocean-mammals-fish-dolphins-wildlife/
Salish wooly dogs
https://monova.ca/senaqwila-wyss-on-the-salish-woolly-dogs/
https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-dogs-that-grew-wool-and-the-people-who-love-them
https://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/a-woolly-tale
https://research.library.mun.ca/14680/1/thesis.pdf
https://www.science.org/content/article/native-american-blankets-made-dog-hair
[Ask the Science Couch]
Beached cetaceans (and orcas/catfish that intentionally strand themselves)
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-do-whales-beach-themselves
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/whales-mass-stranding-australia/556400/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/774692
https://hakaimagazine.com/news/salish-sea-killer-whales-have-a-surprising-new-way-of-hunting/
https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/z91-383
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-catfish-that-strands-itself-to-kill-pigeons
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050840
[Butt One More Thing]
Lugworm casts made of sand
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/lugworm-poos-and-the-secrets-they-hold.html
https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/marine/worms/lugworm
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Cars need it, trains need it, and guess what? People need it, too! Can you deduce the answer to my devious riddle? That's right, it's fuel! Fill up your tank, cause we're going on a trip to learn all about the things that keep other things going, from coal to tuna sandwiches and everything in between!
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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]
New York Times rocket fuel correction
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/95-years-ago-goddard-s-first-liquid-fueled-rocket
https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/14/news/150th-anniversary-1851-2001-the-facts-that-got-away.html
[Fact Off]
Nuclear cars
https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1066000_txchnologist-thorium-lasers-thoroughly-plausible-for-nuclear-cars
https://www.thedrive.com/news/41103/heres-why-the-nuclear-powered-1958-ford-nucleon-never-entered-production
https://www.autoweek.com/news/a1988761/are-laser-powered-cars-our-future/
Fuel cell breathalyzers
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-do-batteries-store-an/
https://www.energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/fuel-cells
https://www.mcgill.ca/oss/article/did-you-know-history/breathalyzer-there-was-drunkometer
https://blog.history.in.gov/tag/breathalyzer/
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2013/06/breathalyzers-of-the-future-today/277249/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5857179/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Chlorophyll in photovoltaic cells/solar power
https://cfpub.epa.gov/si/si_public_record_Report.cfm?Lab=NCER&dirEntryId=187266
http://www.chm.bris.ac.uk/motm/chlorophyll/chlorophyll_h.htm
https://opentextbc.ca/biology/chapter/5-2-the-light-dependent-reactions-of-photosynthesis/
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-01673-w
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/plants-versus-photovoltaics-at-capturing-sunlight/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/762519
[Butt One More Thing]
Human waste converted into biomethane fuel
https://www.npr.org/2016/01/01/461692939/from-poop-to-power-colorado-explores-new-sources-of-renewable-energy
https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/fart-powered-vw-beetle-tested-in-uk/
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When I was a kid, everything was on paper. Books were on paper, magazines were on paper, newspapers were on, you guessed it, paper. Nowadays, everything's on the internet, but you can still find paper if you know where to look!
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[Definition]
https://www.adelaide.edu.au/library/special/exhibitions/cover-to-cover/papyrus/
[Trivia Question]
Margaret E. Knight’s paper grocery bags
https://www.moma.org/learn/moma_learning/margaret-e-knight-and-charles-b-stilwell-flat-bottomed-paper-bag-1870s-1880s/
https://www.moma.org/explore/inside_out/2010/11/03/in-the-bag/
https://lemelson.mit.edu/resources/margaret-knight
https://www.invent.org/inductees/margaret-e-knight
[Fact Off]
Rag paper and mummy linen in the 1800s
https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2019/12/europes-morbid-mummy-craze-has-been-an-obsession-for-centuries
https://uh.edu/engines/epi1227.htm
https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?entryid=3874
https://bookpatrol.net/has-this-library-solved-the-mystery-of-the-mummy-paper/
Cellulose nanocrystal films from waste paper
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4639556/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13369-022-06609-8
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266689392100075X
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2021.625878/full#
Image of biodegrading film: https://www.frontiersin.org/files/Articles/625878/fpls-12-625878-HTML/image_m/fpls-12-625878-g006.jpg
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/glitter
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41563-021-01135-8
[Ask the Science Couch]
Smell of new books and paper
https://www.compoundchem.com/2014/06/01/newoldbooksmell/
https://www.sciencehistory.org/distillations/whats-that-smell-youre-reading
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/that-old-book-smell-is-a-mix-of-grass-and-vanilla-710038/
https://wwwn.cdc.gov/TSP/PHS/PHS.aspx?phsid=669&toxid=124#
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1309104220302051
https://www.ucop.edu/risk-services/_files/bsas/safetymeetings/ozonefrprinters.pdf
https://help.brother-usa.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/58097/~/the-printer-produces-a-faint-smell-or-odor-when-printing.-what-can-i-do%3F
[Butt One More Thing]
Gayetty’s medicated toilet paper
https://www.loc.gov/resource/rbpe.13400600
https://www.findagrave.com/photos/2013/61/106087826_136230829409.jpg
https://books.google.com/books?id=yXY0yQnvmmUC&pg=PA679#v=onepage&q&f=false
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When, in nature, two little guys are benefiting off each other one way or another, we call that symbiosis. But, if you think about it too hard, you start to realize that everything in nature is benefitting off some other thing in nature somehow and come to the conclusion that all of Earth is a giant symbiotic relationship! To that I say: simply try not to think about it too hard!
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[Fact Off]
Figs and fig wasp cheating prevention
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1635526/
https://www.fs.fed.us/wildflowers/pollinators/pollinator-of-the-month/fig_wasp.shtml
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2010/01/figs-kill-wasp-larvae-when-wasps-do-not-pollinate-figs
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2009.2157
Magnetotactic bacteria in tissues of animals with magnetoreception
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/09/200914112224.htm
[Ask the Science Couch]
Symbioses with more than 2 organisms
https://www.nature.com/scitable/knowledge/library/species-interactions-and-competition-102131429/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8331144/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17255511/
https://www.princeton.edu/news/2019/06/27/sea-slugs-use-algaes-bacterial-weapons-factory-three-way-symbiotic-relationship
https://www.purdue.edu/newsroom/releases/2016/Q3/yeast-emerges-as-hidden-third-partner-in-lichen-symbiosis.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-drives-a-sloths-ritualistic-trek-to-poop-180949419/
[Butt One More Thing]
Crab that lives in sea urchin rectum
Picture: https://www.marinelifephotography.com/marine/arthropods/crabs/echinoecus-pentagonus.htm
https://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125/11997
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022098178800070
https://askabiologist.asu.edu/sea-urchin-anatomy
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From big, slimy earthworms to microscopic C. elegans, worms are everywhere... or are they? It turns out, as is often the case on Tangents, that everything you thought you knew about worms is a lie, up to and including their very existence!
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[Trivia Question]
Dave the longest earthworm
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/04/uk-biggest-worm-record-breaking-in-cheshire
[Fact Off]
Geosmin smells like danger to C. elegans
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/04/220405143530.htm
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35323022/
Ice worms in glaciers
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/1097-4687(200012)246:3%3C192::AID-JMOR3%3E3.0.CO;2-B
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10930-020-09889-x
https://glaciers.nichols.edu/iceworm/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/amazing-ice-worms-threatened-melting-glaciers
https://www.npr.org/2021/07/13/1011376403/its-summer-and-that-means-the-mysterious-return-of-glacier-ice-worms
[Ask the Science Couch]
Invasive earthworms in North America
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S003807170600527X
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10530-006-9019-3
http://genesee.cce.cornell.edu/agriculture/natural-resources/invasive-pests/jumping-worm-amynthas-spp
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0038071720302510
https://dnr.wisconsin.gov/topic/Invasives/fact/jumpingWorm.html
Invasive flatworms that prey on earthworms
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5969052/
https://eastland.agrilife.org/invasive-hammerhead-flatworms/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3858619
[Butt One More Thing]
Largest human coprolite has parasitic worms
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lloyds-bank-coprolite
https://www.theguardian.com/careers/2016/may/12/paleoscatologists-dig-up-stools-as-precious-as-the-crown-jewels
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/objects/51Et55R_RuCmabtTgQllzQ
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We're hard at work on a cool new project, but we needed a little extra time to work on it! So this week, please enjoy a rerun of the all-time classic Pee episode!
And did you know there's a video version of this episode? You can check it out here!
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Last week we talked about boring old rocks on the ground. This week, we're again talking rocks, but these are rocks... from SPACE!
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[Trivia Question]
2020 QG asteroid flyby
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/asteroid-makes-the-closest-earth-flyby-a-space-rock-has-ever-survived/
[Fact Off]
Libyan desert glass
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196362.stm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0022309384901777?via%3Dihub
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/47/7/609/570318/Overestimation-of-threat-from-100-Mt-class?redirectedFrom=fulltext
https://www.mindat.org/min-39796.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0012821X13004998
Hopewell asteroid event
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-debris-from-a-comet-airburst-devastate-an-early-native-american-culture-180979523/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-05758-y
https://www.uc.edu/news/articles/2022/02/did-comets-fiery-destruction-lead-to-downfall-of-ancient-hopewell.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Asteroid belt won’t become a planet
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/in-science-fiction-movies/
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2015IAUGA..2256597V/abstract
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/asteroids/in-depth/
https://lasp.colorado.edu/outerplanets/kbos_dwarfplanets.php
https://www.missionjuno.swri.edu/origin?show=hs_origin_story_jupiters-influence
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-asteroid-belt-wreckage-of-a-destroyed-planet-or-something-else
https://astronomy.swin.edu.au/cosmos/k/Kirkwood+Gaps
[Butt One More Thing]
Meteorism medical condition farts
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK430851/
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meteorism
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Igneous, sedimentary, metamorphic... need I say more? Welcome to SciShow Tangents or, as I like to call it, Rock Talk.
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[Trivia Question]
Stonehenge sarsen vs. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson
https://www.livescience.com/22427-stonehenge-facts.html
[Fact Off]
Microgranite used for curling stones
http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/505002/
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/91856/ailsa-craig
https://olympics.com/en/news/the-remarkable-properties-and-origins-of-the-olympic-curling-stone
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/getting-to-the-core-of-olympic-curling-stones/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0043164813000732
Solitary bees drilling into sandstone
https://eos.org/articles/rock-chomping-bees-burrow-into-sandstone
https://www.earthmagazine.org/article/busy-bee-new-species-bee-quarries-sandstone/
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/comments/S0960-9822(16)30902-2
[Ask the Science Couch]
Licking rocks or bone
https://www.discovery.com/science/Difference-Between-Rock-Fossil
https://www.clemson.edu/public/geomuseum/specimen_id/id_tool.html
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2018WR023233
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/earth-and-planetary-sciences/wettability
https://twitter.com/mikamckinnon/status/1030188006966214660?s=20&t=_yJPJKVlGOpjTIMLy4y4mg
https://voices.pomona.edu/2013/11/on-the-merits-of-licking-rocks/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stick-with-it-put-your-duct-tape-to-the-test/
[Butt One More Thing]
Limestone-eating and sand-pooping shipworm
https://www.sciencealert.com/a-newly-discovered-genus-of-shipworm-eats-holes-into-rocks-and-poops-out-sand
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/incredible-rock-eating-shipworm-is-first-of-its-kind
https://seahistory.org/sea-history-for-kids/ship-worm-clam/
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Get a jump start on Earth Day by joining us as we discuss garbage's sexy, complicated little brother: recycling!
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[Trivia Question]
Minnesota paper waste ball
https://www.pca.state.mn.us/featured/worlds-largest-wad-paper-0
[Fact Off]
Palimpsests (reusing parchment, but also documenting microbes)
https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/the-history-of-vellum-and-parchment
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/how-monks-remixed-technology-in-the-middle-ages/373956/
http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/about/imaging/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170988
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-014-0481-7
Pressure-sensitive, reusable tape inspired by housefly feet
https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-is-adhesive-tape-made/
https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/biomechanics/172099/shoe-fly
https://cen.acs.org/articles/85/i42/Adhesive-Tape.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Sevier County (Dollywood and Gatlinburg) composting/waste management
https://www.seviersolidwaste.com/
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/dollywoods-environmental-solution/
https://www.zankerrecycling.com/sites/default/files/biocycle-nov-2010.pdf
https://www.biocycle.net/mixed-waste-composting-facilities-review-2/
https://greenblue.org/reloop-what-is-mixed-waste-processing-or-all-in-onedirty-mrf-recycling/
http://compost.css.cornell.edu/MSWFactSheets/msw.fs6.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Iron nutrient recycling through whale poop
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00356.x/abstract
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16370118
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Spring is a soft and fluffy time of year, what with all the baby chicks and bunnies bopping around, so we here at Tangents are seizing the opportunity to talk about the softest, cutest, most huggable science there is!
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[Trivia Question]
MLB baseball yarn yardage
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/20-things-you-didnt-know-about-wool
https://bleacherreport.com/articles/1676509-the-evolution-of-the-baseball-from-the-dead-ball-era-through-today
https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1958/04/09/83408264.html?pageNumber=43
[Fact Off]
Saturn moon Methone and fluffy ice
https://gizmodo.com/the-weird-ways-nasa-thought-moon-dust-might-kill-apollo-1836459545
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/moons/saturn-moons/overview/?page=0&per_page=40&order=name+asc&search=&placeholder=Enter+moon+name&condition_1=38%3Aparent_id&condition_2=moon%3Abody_type%3Ailike
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23560-astrophile-saturns-egg-moon-methone-is-made-of-fluff/
Milk fiber (made from casein)
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyLnKz7uNMQ
https://ecoworldonline.com/what-is-milk-fiber-yarn/
http://article.sapub.org/10.5923.j.ajee.20190902.02.html
https://www.milkgenomics.org/?splash=back-to-the-future-milk-fibers-in-the-21st-century
https://www.ijcmas.com/abstractview.php?ID=7406&vol=7-4-2018&SNo=140
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/lanital-milk-dress-qmilch
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cat fur vs dog fur
https://cdn.citl.illinois.edu/courses/ANSC207/week2/hair_coat/web_data/slides_and_notes.htm
https://animaldiversity.org/collections/mammal_anatomy/hair/
https://www.uakron.edu/im/news/how-biomechanics-research-led-to-a-hairbrush-inspired-by-a-cat-tongue
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1809544115
https://texaswolfdogproject.org/resources/phenotyping/what-is-phenotyping/coat-and-color
[Butt One More Thing]
Moth coremata butt feathers
https://www.wired.com/2013/12/this-is-not-a-penis/
https://entnemdept.ufl.edu/creatures/beneficial/leps/bella_moth.htm
Picture:
https://www.mothidentification.com/creatonotos-gangis.htm
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Someone can get on your nerves. You can have nerves of steel. Heck, they can even be frayed! But have you ever wondered what nerves actually are? If so, you've come to the right place!
This week, our dear friend and contributor Deboki Chakravarti (@okidoki_boki) stops by to join the fun, and Ceri hosts for the first time ever! Don't miss it!
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[Truth or Fail]
Electric rays/low voltages to treat painful nerves
https://www.mjrheum.org/assets/files/792/file60_974.pdf
https://arthritis.ca/living-well/2019/women,-arthritis-and-neuropathic-pain
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/treatments/15840-transcutaneous-electrical-nerve-stimulation-tens
https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/transcutaneous-electrical-nerve-stimulation-tens/
Mouse tail galvanoscope (sciatic nerve)
https://books.google.com/books?id=SJNMAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA309&lpg=PA309
https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/olympusmicd/galleries/brightfield/mousetail.html
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?contenttypeid=85&contentid=p01382
Electrically stimulating tastebuds
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1307523/
http://longevity3.stanford.edu/design-challenge-winners-announced/
[Trivia Question]
Glaucoma retinal nerve fiber layer
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00417-022-05619-4
[Fact Off]
C. elegans auditory nerves
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220223103054.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/928925
[Ask the Science Couch]
Paresthesia aka pins and needles
https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/encyclopedia/content.aspx?ContentTypeID=1&ContentID=58
https://www.ninds.nih.gov/Disorders/All-Disorders/Paresthesia-Information-Page
https://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2015/march/paraesthesia-and-peripheral-neuropathy
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0305735610362950
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5384201/
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/107385840200800209
[Butt One More Thing]
Sciatic butt nerve
https://www.scielo.br/j/acb/a/rwFj4BBy4p35XbfKDLNFLkx/?lang=en
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/sciatica/symptoms-causes/syc-20377435#:~:text=The%20sciatic%20nerves%20branches%20from,one%20side%20of%20your%20body.
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/12792-sciatica
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It's Spring Breeeaaaak baby, and we're taking the day off! Enjoy this classic episode on Flowers so you'll know all you need to know when they start blooming! See you next week!
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From shells to hives to holes in the ground, most animals have a place to call home. And today, we're paying them all a visit! So open up, cause Science is knocking and it needs to use your bathroom!
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[Trivia Question]
Machine learning saving kilowatt-hours
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7765259/
[Fact Off]
Cichlid fish dream houses (for conservation)
https://www.mpg.de/14854482/3d-printing-cichlids
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/if-fish-could-build-its-own-home-what-would-it-look-like-180976172/
Devil’s garden - lemon ant & rainforest tree symbiosis
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/september28/devil-092805.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/437495a
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/606022?journalCode=an
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2124481/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2459556
[Ask the Science Couch]
Estimate of how many animals there are
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/newsletters/animals/article/how-many-species-have-not-found-december-26
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127
https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/61/5/871/1734723
Animals that are parasites
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0324
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/animals-evolution-parasites-ed-yong
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-brilliant-ways-parasitic-birds-terrorize-their-victims
Constructing homes (natural & artificial)
https://www.naturepl.com/pictures/pdfs/NPL_Architecture.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34269510/
[Butt One More Thing]
Snail shell poop + African swine fever virus
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35151121/
https://www.carnegiemnh.org/science/mollusks/dietbehavior.html
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Grass... money... Ninja Turtles... some of the best things in the world are all the same color: green! This week, we're taking a deeper look at this most verdant of colors.
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[Definition]
https://www.wired.com/2012/06/the-crayola-fication-of-the-world-how-we-gave-colors-names-and-it-messed-with-our-brains-part-ii/
[Truth or Fail]
[Trivia Question]
Green spaces reduce systolic blood pressure
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0048969721075914?via%3Dihub
https://www.cdc.gov/bloodpressure/about.htm#:~:text=The%20second%20number%2C%20called%20diastolic,%E2%80%9C120%2F80%20mmHg.%E2%80%9D
[Fact Off]
Green glacier mystery
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/icebergs-can-be-emerald-green-now-we-know-why?loggedin=true
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/859296
Emerald ash borer pest control by biomimicry and electrocution
https://ag.umass.edu/landscape/fact-sheets/emerald-ash-borer
https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/resources/pests-diseases/hungry-pests/the-threat/emerald-ash-borer/emerald-ash-borer-beetle
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-01496-8
https://www.psu.edu/news/research/story/femme-fatale-emerald-ash-borer-decoy-lures-kills-males/
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.1412810111
[Ask the Science Couch]
U.S. green paper money
https://www.bankofcanadamuseum.ca/2019/02/the-canadian-roots-of-the-greenback/
https://www.visitthecapitol.gov/exhibitions/artifact/hr-240-legal-tender-act-february-25-1862
https://www.moneyfactory.gov/resources/faqs.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/important-improvement-in-bank-note/
https://cite.case.law/barb/56/84/
https://cite.case.law/barb/56/96/
[Butt One More Thing]
Orb weaver butts
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spider_-_Eriophora_nephiloides,_Caves_Branch_Jungle_Lodge,_Belmopan,_Belize.jpg
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4263&context=etd
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Back in my day, a computer was a computer: It was big, tan, and was plugged into your living room wall. But now we've got computer cars, computer phones, even computer lightbulbs! And that's great! But I think we better keep an eye on them all, just in case...
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We kick off Season 4 by getting up close and personal with Earth's other, less popular, more mysterious neighbor: Venus!
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[Trivia Question]
Venera missions
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=1970-060A
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/chronology_venus.html
[Fact Off]
Venus tables & Maya Codex of Mexico
https://www.mesoweb.com/articles/Coe_etal/Fourth_Codex.pdf
https://www.brown.edu/news/2016-09-07/mayacodex
https://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/7497-inah-ratifica-al-codice-maya-de-mexico-antes-llamado-grolier-como-el-manuscrito-autentico-mas-antiguo-de-america
https://www.news.ucsb.edu/2016/017062/mayan-moment
Phosphene/ammonia on Venus (and microbial life possibility)
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/938538
https://news.mit.edu/2020/life-venus-phosphine-0914
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/14/science/venus-life-clouds.html
https://news.mit.edu/2021/newer-nimbler-faster-mission-venus-search-signs-life-clouds-sulfuric-acid-1210
https://venuscloudlife.com/venus-life-finder-mission-study/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7381915/
https://www.pnas.org/content/118/52/e2110889118
[Ask the Science Couch]
Pictures of the surface of Venus
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/object_page/v09_lander_proc.html
https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/venera-13/in-depth/
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2022/sun/parker-solar-probe-captures-its-first-images-of-venus-surface-in-visible-light-confirmed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ueMGZTezfY
https://airandspace.si.edu/exhibitions/exploring-the-planets/online/solar-system/venus/magellan.cfm
https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3728
https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/parker-solar-probe-instruments
[Butt One More Thing]
Venus cloacina goddess
https://drainfast.co.uk/blog/cloacina-goddess-sewers/
https://books.google.com/books?id=SYqFBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA128#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Season 3 has come to a close, and the Tangents crew is taking a week off. While we scour the World Wide Web for all new, mind-blowing science facts, enjoy this classic episode about the Internet!
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It's all led up to this! We usually relegate our butt facts to the end of episodes, but this week we're giving butts the respect they deserve.
It's butts all the way down, baby!
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