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 13: Meat
Meat... seems pretty simple on the surface, but what do we really know about it? Like.. are living things made of meat? Or is meat only meat once it's being eaten? What was the first meat? What was the first thing to eat the first meat? Is eating prehistoric meat a good idea? Do we find the answer to any of these questions in this episode? I can't remember, frankly, but probably a few.
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[Truth or Fail]
Foal
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-extracted-liquid-blood-42000-year-old-foal-found-siberian-permafrost-180971979/
Bison
https://www.uaf.edu/museum/press/spotlight/blue-babe/
https://historythings.com/aged-beef-delicacy-eating-meat-36000-year-old-bison/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-bison-stew-blue-babe-alaska
Crocodile
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-egyptians-hunted-then-mummified-crocodiles-180973197/
[Fact Off]
Carnivorous Herbivores
https://bioone.org/journals/Northwestern-Naturalist/volume-99/issue-3/NWN18-05.1/Scavenging-By-Snowshoe-Hares-iLepus-americanusi-In-Yukon-Canada/10.1898/NWN18-05.1.short
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/when-herbivores-arent-poor-chicken-got-eaten-cow-180951115/
https://bioone.org/journals/Northwestern-Naturalist/volume-99/issue-3/NWN18-05.1/Scavenging-By-Snowshoe-Hares-iLepus-americanusi-In-Yukon-Canada/10.1898/NWN18-05.1.short
https://www.outdoornews.com/2015/03/19/who-knew-tape-shows-deer-raiding-birds-nests/
Dyeing Salmon
https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=wildlifenews.view_article&articles_id=738
https://nextnature.net/2012/06/dyeing-salmon-pink-for-farms-and-profit
https://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/The-salmon-struggle-A-fish-by-any-other-color-is-1115339.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Gamey meat
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0309174015301376
https://extension.umn.edu/preserving-and-preparing/cooking-venison-flavor-and-safety
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6154429/
https://bastyr.edu/news/general-news-health-tips-spotlight-1/2015/08/why-choose-grass-fed-meat
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.361.2312&rep=rep1&type=pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Pork butt
https://www.southernliving.com/bbq/why-is-it-called-boston-butt
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/22382/how-9-cuts-meat-got-their-names