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 51: Fear Month: Spiders!
SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear concludes with what is undeniably the scariest, most valid fear of any of those discussed... spiders! I'm not saying spiders will pour out of your headphones and into your ears when you listen to this, but I'm also not promising they won't.
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links!
[Truth or Fail]
Records
https://thevinylfactory.com/features/the-10-weirdest-things-pressed-into-vinyl-records-this-year/
https://www.npr.org/2016/01/09/462289635/bones-and-grooves-weird-secret-history-of-soviet-x-ray-music
Tattoos
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/gwitchin-tattoo-skin-stitching-first-nations-1.3796606
Canvases
https://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2008/07/cobwebportraits.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-lost-art-of-painting-on-cobweb-canvases
https://phys.org/news/2010-05-scientists-goats-spider-silk.html
[Fact Off]
[Ask the Science Couch]
Web construction
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ask-smithsonian-how-do-spiders-make-webs-180957426/
https://sciencing.com/identify-spider-pattern-8635659.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6053566/
Making silk
https://www.livescience.com/32582-how-do-spiders-make-silk.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/engineering/spidroins
[Butt One More Thing]
Trashline orb weavers
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-the-spiders-that-completely-defy-what-we-know-as-jet-lag/
https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/trashline-orbweavers