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.
https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com
episode 20: Museums
This episode has a little bit of everything: the French Revolution, haunted amulets, mummies (maybe??)... why, it's like a regular Night at the Museum! Have fun!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Da Vinci’s Faces
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/07/100715090917.htm
First Museum:
https://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-ennigaldi-nanna-curator-of-the-worlds-first-museum-116431
https://io9.gizmodo.com/the-story-behind-the-worlds-oldest-museum-built-by-a-b-5805358
Woman Hit By Meteorite
http://www.slate.com/blogs/atlas_obscura/2015/06/02/the_hodges_meteorite_is_one_of_the_few_space_to_ever_strike_a_human.html?wpisrc=obnetwork
http://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu//full/1995LPI....26.1133P/0001133.000.html?high=484678bbd531063
[Fact Off]
Blaschka glass scientific models
http://www.cmog.org/article/blaschkas-glass-models-invertebrate-animals-1863-1890
https://web.archive.org/web/20160411221330/http://www.journalofantiques.com/Feb04/featurefeb04.htm
These three links include info + pictures:
https://digital.library.cornell.edu/collections/blaschka
http://hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers
https://hmnh.harvard.edu/fruits-decay
[Ask the Science Couch]
Painting restoration
https://www.si.edu/mci/english/learn_more/taking_care/conservation_meaning.html
https://www.invaluable.com/blog/the-science-behind-art-restoration/
Sculptures
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/modern-chemistry-techniques-save-ancient-art/
https://www.chemistryworld.com/features/the-art-of-conservation/3009092.article
Bacteria
https://www.wired.com/2011/11/st-artrestoremicro/
[Butt One More Thing]
Coprolite inside another fossil
https://peerj.com/articles/1191/
https://www.forbes.com/sites/shaenamontanari/2015/08/21/spectacular-flying-reptile-fossil-discovered-along-with-its-last-meal-and-something-surprising/#7ca22283bf22