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.
https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com
episode 3: Satellites
What do the Hubble Space Telescope, the International Space Station, and the Moon have in common? They’re all satellites that orbit the Earth! This week, we’re going extraterrestrial to talk about the dreams, discoveries, and debacles that went into Mir and other weirdly cool human-made satellites. Plus, we dig into burning questions, like whether the Sun can be considered a satellite. And we’re big enough space nerds that we try to explain some celestial mechanics.
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
https://www.wired.com/2014/07/orange-juice-toothpaste/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3354153/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684458/
http://wayback.archive-it.org/7993/20171114232622/https://www.fda.gov/Food/RecallsOutbreaksEmergencies/SafetyAlertsAdvisories/ucm247099.htm
[Fact Off]
Moon dust:
https://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2006/30jan_smellofmoondust
Bees and Pesticides:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180828204911.htm
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/285/1885/20180655
https://www.imperial.ac.uk/news/187907/the-more-pesticides-bees-more-they/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Developing taste:
https://www.npr.org/2011/08/08/139033757/babys-palate-and-food-memories-shaped-before-birth
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7583013
http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/107/6/e88.full
[Butt One More Thing]
Sea cucumber eating:
https://blog.nationalgeographic.org/2013/03/14/giant-sea-cucumber-eats-with-its-anus/