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 8: Exercise
A new year means New Year’s resolutions! Lots of people are probably getting their fitness on, whether it’s by joining a gym or putting on yoga YouTube videos. So this week, we’re stretching our muscles to explore the science of exercise!
Sources:
[Truth or Fail]
Myostatin-related muscle hypertrophy:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK1498/
Increased blood volume:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17630597/
New brain cells:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/nwsu-eib111217.php
[Fact Off]
Thinking about muscles:
https://www.physiology.org/doi/full/10.1152/jn.00386.2014
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-to-grow-stronger-without-lifting-weights/
Animals on wheels:
http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1786/20140210.full
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4760155/
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2018/09/14/409409.full.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Flexibility:
http://web.mit.edu/tkd/stretch/stretching_2.html
http://web.mit.edu/tkd/stretch/stretching_3.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3273886/
[Butt One More Thing]
Space underwear:
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-space-underwear-idUSTRE52M6ER20090323