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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episode 7: Parasites with Sally Le Page
This week, we’re joined by evolutionary biologist and science communicator Dr. Sally LePage to talk all about parasites! How did we deal with them before modern medicine? Are there any parasites bigger than their hosts? And is parasite-ception a thing!?
Sources:
[Fact Off]
Fruit fly fungus:
Frog flatworm:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/02/13/a-flurry-of-frog-legs/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330773/
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00436-011-2451-z
https://www.nytimes.com/1996/10/13/us/many-reports-of-deformities-among-frogs-are-puzzling.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636111/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cuckoos:
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-brilliant-ways-parasitic-birds-terrorize-their-victims
https://web.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Brood_Parasitism.html
Plants:
http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7496.html
https://csfs.colostate.edu/forest-management/common-forest-insects-diseases/dwarf-mistletoe/
[Butt One More Thing] - pick the one that we end up using (probably Hank’s)
Tick anus:
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/717730_2
Poop bean sprout:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192079/