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 34: Natural Disasters
Natural disasters are a fact of life when you live on a giant ball of water, ice, and rock with a gooey magma center that’s hurtling through space… and all the pollution we’re pumping into the environment doesn’t really seem to be helping, either.
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Cloud seeding
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-935704-30-0_9
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/195/4274/139
Absorbent polymer
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5d.html
http://discovermagazine.com/2002/sep/featrain
Hail cannon
https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0477(1981)062%3C0368%3AHRTFHC%3E2.0.CO%3B2
https://www.businessinsider.com/volkswagen-hail-cannons-mexico-farmers-draught-2018-8
https://books.google.com/books?id=h-ADAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA548
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hail-cannons-the-devices-that-supposedly-blast-away-bad-weather
Soot
https://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/C5b.html
[Fact Off]
Year Without a Summer:
https://scied.ucar.edu/shortcontent/mount-tambora-and-year-without-summer
http://mentalfloss.com/article/73585/15-facts-about-year-without-summer
https://medium.com/@spencerbaum/the-year-without-summer-and-the-origins-of-frankenstein-13e6884c3ece
Tae Bo “earthquake:”
https://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/korean-skyscraper-shakes-from-17-middle-aged-people-doing-tae-bo-1405157/
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/07/117_91209.html
http://mentalfloss.com/article/31349/how-power-literally-rocked-house
[Ask the Science Couch]
Glass rain:
https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/alien-worlds/galaxy-of-horrors/
Cryovolcanoes:
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/media/cassini-20081215b.htmL
https://www.nature.com/news/2009/090325/full/news.2009.190.html
Ice quakes on Earth:
http://climate.missouri.edu/news/arc/mar2014b.php
http://time.com/5517690/frost-quakes-ice-polar-vortex-sounds/
[Butt One More Thing]
Hurricane Florence poop:
https://www.govtech.com/em/disaster/Hurricane-Florence-Bathed-North-Carolina-in-Raw-Sewage-New-Figures-Show-it-was-Even-Worse-than-we-Thought.html
https://www.livescience.com/63625-pig-manure-overflow-hurricane-florence.html