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 2: Transportation
Be Advised! This episode was recorded before we decided to reset the scores for Season 2 and rename them Sambucks. Please don't tweet at us about this (and if you do tweet at us about it, be nice)!
People absolutely love going places and doing stuff! And in our zeal to go places and do stuff even faster, we've invented some wild things. Come with us on journey of discovery as we sail the seven seas of science and fly the friendly skies of... innovation...?
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]
Loading Patterns
https://www.who.int/ith/mode_of_travel/tcd_aircraft/en/
https://www.pnas.org/content/115/14/3623
Reducing Fiber
https://www.businessinsider.com/heres-why-you-should-fart-in-planes-2013-2
Dirtiest Part of a Plane
https://www.travelmath.com/feature/airline-hygiene-exposed/
[Fact Off]
Ski lift
https://www.uh.edu/engines/epi2953.htm
Pictures/info:https://books.google.com/books?id=slgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA23&lpg=PA23
https://books.google.com/books?id=XFgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA38&lpg=PA38
https://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/releases/heritage_and_steam/2006/0228_skilift.shtml
Flight suit
https://www.thevintagenews.com/2016/04/13/wiley-post-one-eyed-pilot-first-fly-solo-around-world-developed-first-pressure-suits-discovered-jet-stream/
https://airandspace.si.edu/multimedia-gallery/si-98-15012hjpg
https://www.airspacemag.com/videos/category/new-label/this-pressure-suit-helped-pilots-survive-new/
[Ask the Science Couch]
License plate restrictions
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2014/mar/20/licence-plate-driving-bans-paris-ineffective-air-pollution
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095756416000039
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0967070X01000245?via%3Dihub
Braess’ Paradox
http://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/Dietrich.Braess/Paradox-BNW.pdf
https://phys.org/news/2010-09-scientist-braess-paradox-high-traffic.html
Removing roads
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2006/nov/01/society.travelsenvironmentalimpact
https://www.landscapeperformance.org/case-study-briefs/cheonggyecheon-stream-restoration
[Butt One More Thing]
Fart volume
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-big-is-a-fart-somewhere-between-a-bottle-of-nail-polish-and-a-can-of-soda/