Episódios
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It's all right there on the tin - this episode is BANANAS. And not just because we have the most guests we've ever had in Tangents history. Not even just because one of them is a super special surprise RETURN friend of the pod. And not even because we check out some flowers that are way more uncomfortable to look at than you think. No, this episode is bananas because we're talking about (you guessed it) bananas!
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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! 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 subscribers Garth Riley and Glenn Trewitt for helping to make the show possible!
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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!
[Truth or Fail Express]
Banana peel pasta
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022023325
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220809141224.htm
Banana peel perfume adherent
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0360132323007679
https://www.scopus.com/record/display.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85021229177&origin=inward&txGid=4b400d048de28231cfb5cce2c0ee924a
Banana peel water filtration
https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2011/acs-presspac-april-13-2011/banana-peels-get-a-second-life-as-water-purifier.html
https://www.livescience.com/13276-banana-peels-filter-toxic-metals.html
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/ie101499e
[This or That: Yellow or Not Yellow?]
Banana fiddler crab
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00265-020-02899-w
Image: https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/753425
Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Austruca_mjoebergi_coenobita.jpg
Banana galaxies
https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.15232
Nokia 8110 aka the “banana phone”
https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/nokia-8110
https://www.mobilephonemuseum.com/phone-detail/hmd-global-nokia-8110-4g
Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nokia_8110.jpg
Image of 4G: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Nokia_8110_4G.png
[Ask the Science Couch]
Commercial banana cultivar genetics and Fusarium wilt or other disease risks
https://academic.oup.com/jxb/article-abstract/4/1/87/588827
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0154448
https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/31/6/article-p838.xml
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/11/462375558/our-favorite-banana-may-be-doomed-can-new-varieties-replace-it
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01670-6
[Butt One More Thing]
Honey bee alarm pheromones contain the banana flavor isoamyl acetate
https://www.nature.com/articles/1951018b0
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2017.2653
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Another wild teaser appears! This little snippet is from a bonus, cut-for-time question from our episode on Turtles! You can listen to the rest, and also a bunch more bonus content, on our Patreon. It's one of the best ways you can support the show and keep Tangents going and free for everyone. Head over to Patreon.com/scishowtangents and join in all the learning and shenanigans! Thank you so much to all our Patrons - we genuinely would not get to do this without you, and we really like doing this, so it rocks that we can. THANK YOU!
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It may seem like cloning really only shows up regularly in science fiction, but it turns out, it's been a sneaky, significant real-world process for a super long time! In this episode we learn about cloning found in nature, labs, and...this very 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!
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[Truth or Fail]
Crayfish that’s been cloning itself might help us study prion diseases
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/05/science/mutant-crayfish-clones-europe.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/904708
Scientists envision a new insect repellant while cloning hemlock trees
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/801445
Athlete’s foot fungus rejects sex for cloning
https://today.duke.edu/2018/02/toenail-fungus-gives-sex-infect-human-hosts
https://academic.oup.com/genetics/article/208/4/1657/6084243
https://gizmodo.com/the-fungi-that-cause-athletes-foot-have-given-up-on-sex-1823265768
[Trivia Question]
First cloned cat, which was named Copy Cat
https://vetmed.tamu.edu/news/press-releases/texas-am-says-goodbye-to-cc-worlds-first-cloned-cat/
https://www.npr.org/2020/03/08/813384347/remembering-cc-the-cloned-cat
[Fact Off]
Electric ant queens and males sexually reproduce but actually like two different clonal species
A 34-member “twin study” with Amazon molly fish clones
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1009151
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-43069-6
https://phys.org/news/2021-02-defeating-enemy-evolution-clone-fish.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4919929/
https://www.nasa.gov/humans-in-space/twins-study/about/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cross-species cloning and back-breeding as de-extinction strategies
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK223960/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4157387/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC521203/
https://lsspjournal.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/2195-7819-10-3
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/article/species-revival-bringing-back-extinct-animals
https://www.fws.gov/press-release/2021-02/genetic-research-boosts-black-footed-ferret-conservation-efforts
[Butt One More Thing]
Portuguese man o’ war is a colony of zooid clones, including gastrozooids for digesting (and maybe pooping)
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-51842-1
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/portuguese-man-o-war.html
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Humanity is bound together by so many qualities, and in this episode, we add Being Goopy to the list. What does that have to do with glue? A whole lot, it turns out - cue some ominous foreshadowing....Memento goopy!
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[Secret Ingredient]
Fibers mixed with water to make adhesive
https://academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/article/1/1/pgac026/6549457
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/945194
Adhesive inspired by animal protein
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/945194
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.1c10936
Chinese bricks made with gluey substance
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/chinese-architecture
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/eem2.12143
[Trivia Question]
Year that the first adhesive stamp Penny Black was mailed
https://www.sothebys.com/en/articles/how-a-single-postage-stamp-birthed-the-information-age
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-piece-of-mail-sent-using-a-stamp-auction-180983619/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-story-of-the-first-postage-stamp-14931961/
[Fact Off]
Reversible glue made with caffeic acid exposed to certain UV light wavelengths
Blood albumin glue used in plywood and pre-plastic resin objects
https://extension.purdue.edu/extmedia/FNR/FNR-154.pdf
https://foodeng.wisc.edu/images/publications/2010-9.pdf
https://asmedigitalcollection.asme.org/fluidsengineering/article-abstract/54/11/15/1162589/Blood-Albumin-and-the-Woodworking-Industry?redirectedFrom=PDF
https://plastiquarian.com/?page_id=14216
[Ask the Science Couch]
How glue adhesion/cohesion works and why glue (sometimes) doesn’t cure in the bottle
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.macromol.1c01182#
https://www.uhu.com/en-en/glue-advice/adhesive-types
https://d-lab.mit.edu/sites/default/files/inline-files/D-Lab_Learn-It_Adhesives_Jul13.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0143749618300575
https://goldbook.iupac.org/terms/view/CT07137
[Butt One More Thing]
Fibrin glue used to help seal anal fistulas
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12682544/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1782483/
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No, your eyes and ears don't deceive you - this is, in fact, a super special cross-feed treat from our friends over at Crash Course in the form of the first episode of their brand new show, "Crash Course Pods: The Universe." Hosted by novelist John Green and astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack, "The Universe" is a podcast about the history of the entire universe, from its explosive beginnings to its mysterious, but inevitable, end. In this first episode Dr. Mack walks John through the Big Bang and the very first micro-moments of the universe, and some of the ways that that ancient event is actually still connected to us, here, today. It's great, we really like it, we're really proud of the Crash Course team, and we thought you guys would also really enjoy the show! So to make it easy, we put the entire first episode right here! The rest of John and Dr. Mack's conversation will cover 11 episodes airing every other week on the Crash Course YouTube channel at youtube.com/crashcourse or wherever you get your podcasts. Give it a listen, and we hope you enjoy!
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We do a lot of learning on Tangents, so naturally, we've got questions about what learning looks like...for machines! AI and machine learning science communicator Jordan Harrod (https://www.youtube.com/@jordanharrod) lends her expertise to this episode as we definitely for sure learn all there is to know and will ever need to be known about machine learning, algorithms, and AI. Definitely we got all of it, everyone.
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 subscribers Garth Riley and Glenn Trewitt for helping to make the show possible!
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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!
[Truth or Fail Express]
Racoon-inspired algorithm
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/8552661
Dolphin-inspired algorithm
Pelican-inspired algorithm
[Trivia Question]
Using machine learning to measure plant vibration and sounds when they experience stress
https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(23)00262-3
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/plants-make-noises-when-stressed-study-finds-180981920/
[Fact Off]
Lenna (an image of a Playboy model) used as the standard for digital image processing
https://www.404media.co/lena-test-image-ieee-policy/
Tricking speech recognition systems with “neural voice camouflage”
https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/news/block-smartphone-microphone-speech-recognition-spying
https://web.stanford.edu/~jurafsky/slp3/16.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2112.07076.pdf
https://www.vox.com/2018/7/20/17594074/phone-spying-wiretap-microphone-smartphone-northeastern-dave-choffnes-christo-wilson-kara-swisher
https://gizmodo.com/these-academics-spent-the-last-year-testing-whether-you-1826961188
[Ask the Science Couch]
AI image generator mistakes (hands, feet, teeth) and how they work (diffusion models)
https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/why-ai-generated-hands-are-the-stuff-of-nightmares-explained-by-a-scientist
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/ai-generated-art-hands-fingers-messed-up
https://hai.stanford.edu/news/what-dall-e-reveals-about-human-creativity
https://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/sohl-dickstein15.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Training machine learning models (convolutional neural networks) to classify poop images
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1903.10578.pdf
https://journals.lww.com/ajg/abstract/2022/07000/a_smartphone_application_using_artificial.24.aspx
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33275399/
Anal Recognition Paper
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41551-020-0534-9
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Another wild teaser appears! This little snippet is the first part of our revisit of Hygiene and answering even more questions that we didn't get to in the episode. You can listen to the rest, and also a bunch more bonus content, on our Patreon. It's one of the best ways you can support the show and keep Tangents going and free for everyone. Head over to Patreon.com/scishowtangents and join in all the learning and shenanigans! Thank you so much to all our Patrons - we genuinely would not get to do this without you, and we really like doing this, so it rocks that we can. THANK YOU!
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Devotees of the testudines rejoice! Whether you have one as a pet, admire them at the zoo, or giggle with the rest of the internet when they rock each other off logs, chances are high, we think, that you like turtles. We like turtles! And conveniently for us, turtle science is also extremely cool, so this was basically an ideal episode to make. Enjoy!
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 subscribers Garth Riley and Glenn Trewitt for helping to make the show possible!
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[Truth or Fail]
Fossilized turtle poop showing green algae feast site
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/995472
https://www.science.org/content/article/sea-turtles-have-3000-year-old-routines
Crushing of fossilized turtle shells shows burial site age
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/science/turtle-shells-fossils-paleontology.html
https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geosphere/article/18/5/1524/616297/Crushed-turtle-shells-Proxies-for-lithification
Turtle fossil was actually a plant fossil
https://www.livescience.com/animals/120-million-year-old-plants-turn-out-to-be-ultra-rare-fossilized-baby-turtles
[Trivia Question]
Speed of a sand-digging robot modeled after a turtle hatchling
https://today.ucsd.edu/story/bot-inspired-by-baby-turtles-can-swim-under-the-sand-1
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/aisy.202200404
[Fact Off]
Chinese soft-shelled turtles (basically) pee out their mouths
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/215/21/3723/19178/The-Chinese-soft-shelled-turtle-Pelodiscus
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121011090643.htm
https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/aohc/63/2/63_2_181/_article
https://theconversation.com/no-overwintering-turtles-dont-breathe-through-their-butts-getting-to-the-bottom-of-a-popular-misconception-224331
Microplastics in sand mess with sea turtle sex ratios
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/06/230623210244.htm#:~:text=Warmer%20temperatures%20are%20known%20to,before%20their%20sex%20is%20set.
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/temperature-dependent.html#:~:text=This%20is%20called%20temperature%2Ddependent,the%20hatchlings%20will%20be%20female.
[Ask the Science Couch]
Turtle communication and vocalization
https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ar.24553
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-14356-3
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-022-33741-8 https://gizmodo.com/jurassic-parks-dinosaur-sound-effects-were-actually-ani-5994278
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/01/06/turtles-eat-south-america/
[Butt One More Thing]
Collecting loggerhead sea turtle fecal samples by making them custom swimsuits
https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2015/10/sea-turtles-don-swimsuits-science
Pictures:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/37175871@N06/albums/72157659326105212/
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A wild teaser appears! This little snippet is the first part of our revisit of Big vs. Small and answering even more questions that we didn't get to in the episode. You can listen to the rest, and also a bunch more bonus content, on our Patreon. It's one of the best ways you can support the show and keep Tangents going and free for everyone. Head over to Patreon.com/scishowtangents and join in all the learning and shenanigans! Thank you so much to all our Patrons - we genuinely would not get to do this without you, and we really like doing this, so it rocks that we can. THANK YOU!
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From expressing ourselves through fashion to protecting ourselves from the elements, textiles seem to be self-evidently significant to the human experience. But it's our goal on Tangents to always poke holes in the obvious, tear through distraction, and weave humor with knowledge - and the facts this episode will blow your cotton-poly blend socks off.
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 subscribers Garth Riley and Glenn Trewitt for helping to make the show possible!
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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!
[Truth or Fail Express]
Fabric shoe sole tariff
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/23/business/economy/columbia-sportswear-trump-trade-war.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-45875405
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-is-why-your-converse-sneakers-have-felt-on-the-bottom-6016648/
Water-soluble fiber to prove original Finnish textile
https://www.perniaspopupshop.com/encyclopedia/karnataka/mysore-silk
https://www.ksicsilk.com/Home/About
https://news.mit.edu/2023/fiber-barcodes-can-make-clothing-labels-that-last-0321
Wool Acts: burial shroud requirements
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/england-wool-burial-shrouds
https://nursingclio.org/2020/05/21/weaving-wool-into-death-burial-in-17th-century-england/
https://www.hungerfordvirtualmuseum.co.uk/?view=article&id=961&catid=10
[Trivia Question]
“Cappers Act” of 1571 in England required males to wear woolen caps
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/81552
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/minor-british-institutions-the-flat-cap-1926708.html
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O124661/cap/cap-unknown/?print=1
[Fact Off]
Indigenous Aymara weavers and pediatric cardiologists co-created a medical textile for congenital heart defects
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2674640
https://edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/video-player/16238899
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10329454/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3379209/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK470160/
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/cardiac-catheterization
https://www.ted.com/talks/franz_freudenthal_a_new_way_to_heal_hearts_without_surgery/transcript
Creating experimental antimicrobial underwear for astronauts or space laundry machines
https://www.livescience.com/astronauts-shared-underwear-upgrade.html
https://www.cnet.com/science/astronauts-share-spacesuit-underwear-but-keeping-it-clean-is-a-challenge/
https://phys.org/news/2021-05-spacesuit-underwear.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2009/07/space_age_underwear_that_can_b.html
https://www.iflscience.com/space-laundry-how-will-astronauts-keep-their-underwear-clean-on-the-moon-70058
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/nasa-teams-tide-do-laundry-space-180978067/
https://apnews.com/article/laundry-wash-clothes-space-station-nasa-5a7f2795150f7dce81581cfb82cdd1f7
[Ask the Science Couch]
History of knitting machines
https://invention.si.edu/knitting-stockings-machine
http://www.nottsheritagegateway.org.uk/people/frameworkknitters.htm
Crochet vs. knit stitches
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jecATRwHQP8
https://akaspar.pages.cba.mit.edu/textiles-recitation/background.html
Crocheting hyperbolic space models
https://www.ams.org/publicoutreach/math-imagery/taimina
https://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/16/wertheim_henderson_taimina.php
https://www.theiff.org/oexhibits/oe1e.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Art project that extracted cellulose from cow manure to make a semi-synthetic fabric
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014181302300404X
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/poop-clothing_n_58e7d6f0e4b058f0a02efa77
https://jalilaessaidi.com/cowmanure/
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen
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It may be well-known that hope is the thing with feathers, but how much is known about feathers themselves? Turns out, plenty! From shrub grouses to shuttlecocks and all the pea-babies (diminutive for peacocks, definitely for sure) in between, come soar on the delightfully complex wings of knowledge with us!
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 subscribers Garth Riley and Glenn Trewitt 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: @hankgreen
[Truth or Fail]
Dermestid beetles on dino feather in amber
https://www.science.org/content/article/feathered-dinosaurs-discovered
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/986124
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lice-filled-dinosaur-feathers-found-trapped-100-million-year-old-amber-180973727/
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/dermestid-beetles-feasted-on-dinosaur-feathers
Badminton shuttlecock dino-birdie
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils/liaoning-diorama/a-feathered-tyrant
https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/dilong-paradoxus/
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1030468
Roboduck with dino feathers
https://www.audubon.org/news/new-aquatic-dinosaur-find-strange-and-startling-avian-hodgepodge
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2414147-dinosaurs-evolved-feathers-to-scare-prey-suggests-robot-experiment/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/robo-dinosaur-scares-grasshoppers-to-shed-light-on-why-dinos-evolved-feathers/
[Trivia Question]
Speed of peacock tail feather shaking to signal interest to mates
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0152759
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207247
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/peacock-crests-are-vibration-sensors/578656/
https://gizmodo.com/the-physics-of-peacock-tail-feathers-is-even-more-dazzl-1772653586
[Fact Off]
Turning waste chicken feathers into a flavorless, edible meat paste
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/animals-slaughtered-for-meat?time=latest
https://phys.org/news/2017-09-bird-feathers-food.html
https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9055668&fileOId=9055675
https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/lund-team-turns-chicken-feathers-into-food/
https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/chicken-feathers-can-help-generate-clean-energy-say-researchers/2-1-1539841?zephr_sso_ott=oZW4Dr
Male sandgrouse belly feathers soak up water to carry back to their babies
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.0878
https://academic.oup.com/condor/article/69/4/323/5229138
https://ebird.org/species/namsan1
[Ask the Science Couch]
Feather growth and development (and altricial vs. precocial baby birds)
https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/feathers-article/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4380223/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6917565/
[Butt One More Thing]
Fright molt: losing tail feathers as an antipredator adaptation
https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/17/6/1046/319763
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Trash, rubbish, waste, refuse...we have a lot of words for the gunk that goes on the truck, because whether we like it or not, humans make a lot of garbage. Get comfy with some grossness as we root around in garbage's past, present, and future. We're all on a path, you guys!
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Garbage
[The Scientific Definition]
Neptune balls
Laser broom
Wishcycling
[Trivia Question]
Eugene Poubelle garbage can ordinance in France
https://www.connexionfrance.com/article/Mag/French-Facts/Dustbins-are-named-after-French-recycling-innovator
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/poubelle
https://doodles.google/doodle/eugene-poubelles-190th-birthday/
[Fact Off]
Sulfur-crested cockatoos opening garbage cans because of social learning
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abe7808
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/963482
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01285-4
Hermit crabs are using plastic trash as shells
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723075885
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hermit-crabs-using-trash-as-shells-across-the-world-scientists-find-180983701/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Waste-to-energy methods: power plants/incineration, gasification, landfill gas, anaerobic digestion
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652617317316?via%3Dihub
https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/biomass/waste-to-energy-in-depth.php
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780857090119500090
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5530419
https://www.epa.gov/lmop/basic-information-about-landfill-gas
https://www.nature.com/articles/nclimate2804
https://www.epa.gov/agstar/how-does-anaerobic-digestion-work
[Butt One More Thing]
Poop composition of gull flocks that eat garbage from landfills
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S004313541730489X?via%3Dihub
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/558545
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Oops, all science this episode! Erstwhile editorial assistant Deboki Chakravarti steps in for erstwhile everyman Sam Schultz as we parse through fundamental puzzles about humanity: what makes us, us, and if it is hormones, does that make us cocktails or cauldrons?
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Hormones
[Truth or Fail]
https://vcresearch.berkeley.edu/news/trust-hormone-oxytocin-helps-old-muscle-work-new-study-finds
[Trivia Question]
Hormone-injected Judas goats to kill invasive species in Project Isabella
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092746/
https://modernfarmer.com/2013/09/killing-goats-galapagos/
[Fact Off]
Bones make osteocalcin, which might be a hormone involved in stress reactions
https://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(19)30441-3
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6335246/
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1008361
https://journals.plos.org/plosgenetics/article?id=10.1371/journal.pgen.1008714
Chrononutrition and breast milk hormones training babies’ circadian rhythms
[Ask the Science Couch]
Hormones (vs. neurotransmitters) and how they affect emotions
Serotonin
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK545168/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5864293/
Testosterone
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0033318213001333?via%3Dihub
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/andr.12867
Estrogen
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3753111/
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/fullarticle/210086
Thyroid
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7612998/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0378512215006064
Puberty in general
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5192018/
https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/umurj/article/id/1383/
[Butt One More Thing]
Golden spiny mice poop hormones show that they've evolved to be nocturnal (even though they can be diurnal)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0023446
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It's the long-awaited cheese-stravaganza! And it's every bit as melty, crumbly, stretchy, and stinky as hoped for. We dip into some fetamology, we stretch our nokkeledge of cheese applications, and we unwrap the shocking tartrutho about a cheese we thought we knew!*
*The real cheese names I butchered into puns: feta, nokkelost, tartuffo. All delicious, go try some!
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[The Scientific Definition]
Cornish Yarg’s rind
Pule animal milk
Emmental cheese surroundings
[Trivia Question]
One of the oldest unopened cans of Cougar Gold cheese
https://archive.news.wsu.edu/news/2010/08/14/oldest-cougar-gold-cracked-open-still-tasty/
https://creamery.wsu.edu/about-us/history/
[Fact Off]
Using cheese to study the neuroscience of disgust because it’s not dangerous/unethical
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5065955/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/psychology/disgust
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4687907/
Environmental remediation in Emeryville, CA using cottage cheese whey
[Ask the Science Couch]
“Addictive” qualities of cheese (contextualizing casomorphin and the endogenous opioid system)
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0117959
https://www.acs.org/molecule-of-the-week/archive/b/bovine-beta-casomorphin-7.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8345738/
https://efsa.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.2903/j.efsa.2009.231r
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10486734/
[Butt One More Thing]
Cheese mites are pests but also delicacies in Mimolette and Milbenkäse
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022030210003644
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10493-016-0040-7
https://microbialfoods.org/microbe-guide-cheese-mites/
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The question plaguing us this episode is, how dark can it really get? Turns out (according to some), not that dark! Unless you're at the bottom of the ocean or floating in the all too-eerie void of deep space, you're always gonna have some photons hitting your face. (I'm pretty sure I accidentally stole this rhyme right out of Hank's poem, but you'll just have to listen to know for sure...)
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[The Gauntlet]
Next December 23rd winter solstice
SOLAR spacecraft went down
Reorientation of sun instrument
23.5°S latitude alternate name
Tapetum lucidum color
Hormone in darkness
Famous winter solstice sunlight site
[Trivia Question]
Last December 23rd winter solstice
https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/december-solstice.html
[Fact Off]
Carrots can help you make rhodopsin but not improve night vision
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/do-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/do-carrots-really-help-you-see-in-the-dark
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10484191/
https://www.livescience.com/carrots-see-in-the-dark.html
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-carrots-improve-your-vision/
Dogs are more likely to steal food disobediently when it’s dark
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-012-0579-6
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130211090840.htm
https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/juliane-kaminski/publications/
[Butt One More Thing]
English words for excrement collectors (gong farmer, night soil men)
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/night-soil_n?tab=etymology
https://www.oed.com/dictionary/gong-farmer_n?tab=meaning_and_use#992848879
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-american-cities-were-full-of-crap
https://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/1351/705
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In this not-so-chill episode, everybody gets a little unsettled by the concepts around refrigeration. Quantum computers, thermoacoustics, molecular chemistry, elephants, the phantom letter "d" that gets added to the shortening of refrigeration...it's all just. So much.
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[This or That: Fridge or Not Fridge]
Ballpoint-pen-sized device with twisted nickel-titanium and water
Credit-card-sized device plugged into your phone with lithium bromide
Two large metal balls with ammonia and water
[Trivia Question]
Frigidaire had an elephant stand on their refrigerator as a strength test
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/75945/15-icy-cool-facts-about-refrigeration
https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/cgi-bin/colorado?a=d&d=STP19390511.2.109&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN%7ctxCO%7ctxTA--------0------
[Fact Off]
Dilution refrigeration and ultra-cold LEGOs
https://nanoscience.oxinst.com/assets/uploads/NanoScience/Brochures/Principles%20of%20dilution%20refrigeration_Sept15.pdf
https://twist.phys.virginia.edu/work/Formal_Paper.pdf
https://www.lancaster.ac.uk/news/the-coolest-lego-in-the-universe
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-55616-7#Fig1
https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a30337510/lego-bricks-heat-tolerance-quantum-computer/
Thermoacoustic refrigeration and the James Webb Space Telescope
[Ask the Science Couch]
Freezer smells and dehydration/oxidation affecting food taste
https://extension.umn.edu/preserving-and-preparing/science-freezing-foods
https://extension.psu.edu/understanding-the-process-of-freezing
https://theconversation.com/heres-why-your-freezer-smells-so-bad-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-203058
https://www.fsis.usda.gov/food-safety/safe-food-handling-and-preparation/emergencies/removing-odors-refrigerators-and
[Butt One More Thing]
USB drive found in volunteer-collected frozen leopard seal poop
https://niwa.co.nz/news/they-were-defrosting-leopard-seal-pooyou-wont-believe-what-happened-next
https://www.leopardseals.org/scat-poo-collection/
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Do you hear what I hear? Probably not, because in this episode, we're bringing things down several notches to learn about quiet. Does it have a scientific definition? Is it all just relative? Should crickets have podcasts? Join us as we (ok, maybe not so) quietly contemplate quiet.
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[Truth or Fail]
Larval reef fish bury their heads in the sand to reduce noise
Quieter Bison bulls get more mates
Dolphins quiet their clicks to ambush each other
[Trivia Question]
Loudness of lead singer in Billboard Hot 100 from 1946-2020
https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jel/article/3/4/043201/2885300/Lead-vocal-level-in-recordings-of-popular-music
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/986837
[Fact Off]
Water-based sound suppression systems for rocket launches
https://pubs.aip.org/asa/jasa/article/142/4_Supplement/2489/603382/Sixty-years-of-launch-vehicle-acoustics
https://www.nas.nasa.gov/SC15/demos/demo10.html
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/space-launch-systems-sound-suppression-system-final-test-at-kennedy/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022460X23003528
Small tree crickets use leaves to amplify their chirps
[Ask the Science Couch]
Quietest period in history of the Earth (of all time & anthropocene)
https://www.curtin.edu.au/news/media-release/earths-mid-life-crisis-new-research-backs-lull-geologic-record/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-017-0051-y
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1342937X13000506?via%3Dihub
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/07/23/1005574/lockdown-was-the-longest-period-of-quiet-in-human-history/
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd2438
[Butt One More Thing]
Unplanned 9/11 study shows whale poop stress levels associated with ship noise
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/unplanned-911-analysis-links-noise-whale-stress/2012/02/14/gIQAmQnlPR_story.html
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full/10.1098/rspb.2011.2429
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Oil: it's a ubiquitous substance humans have been relying on for longer than you might think. We cook with it, we moisturize with it, we run machines with it - it keeps slipping into places we least expect to find it, for good and for ill...
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[The Gauntlet]
Original Crisco oil plant
Company that produces Crisco
Process to turn liquid oil into solid
Fair Packaging and Labeling Act decade
Upton Sinclair book
Two oils in modern Crisco
Kream Krisp vs. Crisco
[Trivia Question]
Value of Spanish extra virgin olive oil stolen in August 2023
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/09/19/olive-oil-prices-surge-over-100percent-leading-to-cooking-oil-thefts.html
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/spanish-police-seize-74-tonnes-stolen-olives-amid-soaring-prices-2023-10-06/
[Fact Off]
Russell Martin Bliss contaminated Times Beach, Missouri with waste oil to stop dust
Using human/animal hair to adsorb oil spills
https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3298/7/7/52
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2213343715000330
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/04/980424032349.htm
https://time.com/6262631/philippines-oil-spill-cleanup-hair/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Saturated/unsaturated fat chemistry and how they influence bloodstream lipids
https://bio.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_and_General_Biology/Book%3A_General_Biology_(Boundless)/03%3A_Biological_Macromolecules/3.03%3A_Lipid_Molecules_-_Introduction#
https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/how-its-made-cholesterol-production-in-your-body
https://openheart.bmj.com/content/5/2/e000871
[Butt One More Thing]
Mineral oil used as a lubricant laxative
https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/laxative-oral-route/before-using/drg-20070683?p=1
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2804525/
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What's that you spy on the horizon, just out of sight? If you have a telescope handy, you can hone your gaze on...more telescopes! From pocket spyglasses to Extremely Large (a real telescope name), join us and special guest Julian Huguet as we set our sights on the far-reaching world of these incredible devices. How we wonder what they are...
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[Truth or Fail]
Finding llamas with telescope vibration
Predicting weather with telescopes and clouds
Tracking bees with LIDAR
[Trivia Question]
Space Telescope Transporter for Air, Road, and Sea (or STTARS) length https://www.nasa.gov/universe/how-to-ship-the-worlds-largest-space-telescope-5800-miles-across-the-ocean/
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/webb/follow-the-sttars-to-find-nasas-webb-telescope/
[Fact Off]
Artificial guide stars made from lasers for optical telescopes on Earth
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/811748
https://www.llnl.gov/news/guide-star-leads-sharper-astronomical-images
https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/aot-2014-0025/html
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1953PASP...65..229B&data_type=PDF_HIGH
Gravitational lensing and turning space itself into a telescope
[Ask the Science Couch]
The history of radio telescopes (first non-optical telescope)
https://massivesci.com/articles/radio-astronomy-sagittarius-karl-jansky/
https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/pdf/2005ASPC..345....3J
https://public.nrao.edu/news/silent-as-the-night-why-radio-astronomy-doesnt-listen-to-the-sky
https://science.nasa.gov/ems/05_radiowaves/
[Butt One More Thing]
Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) & Gamma-Ray Urgent Archiver for Novel Opportunities (GUANO)
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2020ApJ...900...35T/abstract
https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraft/display.action?id=2004-047A
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Batteries are all around us, in things we use all the time, and in all different shapes and sizes, so of course we know exactly how they all work, right? Nope! Not even close! The bizarre breadth of our battery banter includes Ben Franklin, tiny computers, and...shrimp?
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[Trivia Question]
Oxford Electric Bell battery lifespan
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/52147/what%E2%80%99s-world%E2%80%99s-longest-running-science-experiment
https://archwww.physics.ox.ac.uk/history/Exhibit1.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mystery-continuously-functioning-battery-1840-180954028/
https://x.com/UniofOxford/status/1610593348464640001?s=20
[Fact Off]
Edible battery for sustainability (and maybe child safety)
https://academic.oup.com/jimb/article/45/5/313/5996662
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/05/researchers-craft-a-fully-edible-battery/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36919977/
https://www.popsci.com/technology/edible-battery-prototype/
https://www.connecticutchildrens.org/ear-nose-and-throat/what-to-do-if-your-child-swallows-or-ingests-a-button-battery/#:~:text=Every%20year%2C%20about%202%2C500%20kids,stomach%2C%20it%20can%20be%20fatal.
https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/08/31/491947946/how-an-edible-battery-could-power-medical-robots-you-swallow
Platypus electroreception study using batteries
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/3945317/
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-03-12-vw-18644-story.html
https://www.jstor.org/stable/56002?typeAccessWorkflow=login
https://journals.biologists.com/jeb/article/202/10/1447/8186/Electroreception-in-monotremes
[Ask the Science Couch]
Grid-scale storage with batteries
https://www.iea.org/energy-system/electricity/grid-scale-storage
https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy19osti/74426.pdf
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1364032122001368
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352152X17304437
https://www.science.org/content/article/new-generation-flow-batteries-could-eventually-sustain-grid-powered-sun-and-wind
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364032113005418?via%3Dihub
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rechargeable-molten-salt-battery-freezes-energy-in-place-for-long-term-storage/
[Butt One More Thing]
Microbial battery with exoelectrogens and poop water
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1307327110
https://www.theverge.com/2013/9/19/4747532/scientists-use-poop-to-generate-electricity
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