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 15: Subatomic
Things get a little weird this episode, and by ‘little’ I mean very little!
One thing I learned in this episode is that everything in the universe is touching each other, yet the particles in your body never truly touch! Mama Mia!
Well anyway, I hope you enjoy it! Thanks for listening!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
https://history.fnal.gov/felicia.html#Time
https://history.fnal.gov/meson.html
pictures: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/felicia-ferret-particle-accelerator-fermilab
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/stocking-series-part-1-wartime-rationing-and-nylon-riots-25391066/
[Fact Off]
Surface plasmon resonance
https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2016/12/nist-device-detecting-subatomic-scale-motion-has-potential-robotics
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms13746
Dark matter supercold water
[Ask the Science Couch]
Do atoms touch?
https://www.sciencealert.com/99-9999999-of-your-body-is-empty-space
https://wtamu.edu/~cbaird/sq/2013/04/16/do-atoms-ever-actually-touch-each-other/
https://www.britannica.com/science/Pauli-exclusion-principle
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/pauli.html
https://www.britannica.com/science/fermion
https://www.pnas.org/content/114/23/5766
[Butt One More Thing]
Proton-powered poops
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080109104251.htm
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0092867407014791