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 5: Ceramics
From ancient clay pots to the heat-proof panels on the space shuttle, ceramics have been an integral part of human technology from the very beginning. I can’t even think of any jokes about ceramic! It’s just cool!
More importantly! Over the last week or so, Hank has absolutely ruined everyones’ Twitter timelines with one simple question: “is butt legs?” In this episode, you get to bear ear-witness to the genesis of this wretched, society-shattering question! #buttislegs
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Non-deflatable football
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflategate
http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Air-Bag.html
Strong water
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Aluminum-oxide#section=Mechanism-of-Action
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.470.4214&rep=rep1&type=pdf
Pajamas
https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/tb12
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3699878/
https://www.espn.com/espnw/life-style/story/_/id/23315114/we-tried-do-tom-brady-recovery-pajamas-live-their-name
[Fact Off]
Moon art
Magnetic field
https://www.livescience.com/57868-earth-magnetic-field-spike-ancient-times.html
https://www.space.com/43173-earth-magnetic-field-flips-when.html
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/14/515032512/iron-age-potters-carefully-recorded-earths-magnetic-field-by-accident
https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/earths-mysterious-magnetic-field-stored-in-a-jar?verso=true
[Ask the Science Couch]
Glazes
https://edu.rsc.org/feature/the-chemistry-of-pottery/2020245.article
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/glaze
Specific materials (tin, salt, etc.)
https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/ceramic-and-glaze-fluxes-2745860
https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1560&context=open_access_etds
https://www.britannica.com/art/tin-glazed-earthenware
[Butt One More Thing]
Ceramic butt wiping
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/toilet-tissue-anthropologists-uncover-all-the-ways-weve-wiped/
https://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e8287.full