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 18: Sugar with Deboki Chakravarti
SciShow Tangents editorial assistant/genius Deboki Chakravarti joins us once more to talk about that sweet sand we all love so much: sugar!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Definition]
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/13/493739074/50-years-ago-sugar-industry-quietly-paid-scientists-to-point-blame-at-fat
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/2548255
https://slate.com/technology/2018/03/big-sugar-isnt-to-blame-for-steering-us-away-from-fat.html
[Truth or Fail]
Nicotine
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5434031/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/terms/nicotine.htm
Hearing Flowers
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/01/flowers-can-hear-bees-and-make-their-nectar-sweeter/?utm_source=reddit.com#close
City Bee, Country Bee
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/ncsu-njd051816.php
[Fact Off]
Honeypot ants
https://www.nationalgeographic.org/media/honey-ant-adaptations-wbt/
https://www.nature.com/articles/025405a0
https://books.google.com/books?id=E_6-pGOLUgcC&pg=PA25#v=onepage&q&f=false
https://abt.ucpress.edu/content/48/6/335
Picture: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HoneyAnt.jpg
Picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeypot_ant#/media/File:Honey_Ants_(7344580116).jpg
Sugar dust explosion
[Ask the Science Couch]
Hanger
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4788579/
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Femo0000422
https://qz.com/work/1302394/why-do-people-get-hangry-a-study-suggests-it-involves-more-than-low-blood-sugar/
Hyperactivity
https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/88/5/960.long?sso=1&sso_redirect_count=1&nfstatus=401&nftoken=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000&nfstatusdescription=ERROR%3a+No+local+token
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/002221948301600604
https://www.webmd.com/add-adhd/childhood-adhd/what-is-the-feingold-diet#1
https://www.livescience.com/55754-does-sugar-make-kids-hyper.html
Addiction
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2235907/
https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/52/14/910
https://news.psu.edu/story/141336/2006/01/16/research/probing-question-sugar-addictive
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sugar-addiction-drug_n_4173632
Orexin system
https://www.wired.com/2011/12/why-sugar-makes-us-sleepy-and-protein-wakes-us-up/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2551664/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-05/cp-nme052506.php
https://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/52/1/111.long
Memory
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16225962
https://books.google.com/books?id=Mf3lxvWfA9oC&pg=PA113&lpg=PA113
[Butt One More Thing]
Rectal prolapse
http://www.med.umich.edu/1libr/MBCP/ReduceYourRectalProlapse.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9287900