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 50: Fear Month: Claustrophobia
SciShow Tangents' Month of Fear continues and… wait… do you feel it… the walls they’re... closing in around you! Crushing you!
...were you scared? Well, if you were Hank you probably would have been because his fear is enclosed spaces! How is that related to science? Good question!
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]
Fire Extinguisher
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-04/tuot-ncf041819.php
Water-Filled Suit
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214552417301335
Air Purifier
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/06/space-station-mold-survives-200-times-radiation-dose-would-kill-human
[Fact Off]
Noc the beluga whale
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/story-one-whale-who-tried-bridge-linguistic-divide-between-animals-humans-180951437/?page=1
http://cell.com/current-biology/supplemental/S0960-9822%2812%2901009-3
https://www.public.navy.mil/navwar/NIWC-Pacific/technology/Pages/mammals.aspx
Normal beluga: https://dosits.org/resources/resource-categories/feature-sounds/beluga/
Noc sound: https://www.nature.com/news/the-whale-that-talked-1.11635
Dark flies
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2012/03/14/fifty-seven-years-of-darkness/#.XaY74udKgW_
https://phys.org/news/2016-02-evolution-dark-fly.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160204111403.htm
[Ask the Science Couch]
Estimates of plant rooms
https://io9.gizmodo.com/how-many-plants-would-you-need-to-generate-oxygen-for-y-5955071
http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/1999-02/917906305.Bt.r.html
https://everything2.com/title/How+much+plant+life+is+needed+to+keep+a+person+alive+in+a+sealed+room%253F
Photorespiration
http://www.plantphysiol.org/content/155/1/56
Biosphere 2
http://biosphere2.org/visit/about-biosphere2/fast-facts
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/29/sunday-review/biosphere-2-climate-change.html
https://academic.oup.com/bioscience/article/68/9/722/5055575?searchresult=1
[Butt One More Thing]
Apollo 10 floating poop
https://www.vox.com/2015/5/26/8646675/apollo-10-turd-poop
https://www.hq.nasa.gov/alsj/a410/AS10_CM.PDF