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 24: Trees
This Arbor Day, give your favorite tree the gift they really want: this tree-themed episode of SciShow Tangents. Just put the headphones around its trunk or in a knothole!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links!
[Truth or Fail]
Dragon’s Blood Tree
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/socotra-yemen-biodiversity-photography/
Dynamite Tree
https://youtu.be/lNlk2V9yFhM
https://rare.us/rare-news/science-and-nature/sandbox-tree-hura-crepitans/
Coconut Fatalities
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_coconut
[Fact Off]
Vampire stump
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(19)30146-4
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-07/cp-ats071819.php
https://www.livescience.com/66025-kauri-tree-superorganism-root-grafting.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/25/science/tree-stump-alive.html
Ghost redwoods
https://www.mercurynews.com/2010/11/28/albino-redwoods-hold-scientific-mystery/
https://sempervirens.org/discover-redwoods/ghost-redwoods-solving-the-albino-redwoods-mystery/
https://ucanr.edu/sites/Redwood2016/files/250645.pdf
https://ucanr.edu/sites/Redwood2016/files/243400.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Tree definition
https://www.americanforests.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/AF-Tree-Measuring-Guidelines_LR.pdf
Willows
https://oregonstate.edu/trees/broadleaf_genera/willow.html
https://www.thoughtco.com/worlds-smallest-tree-species-1343503
Bonsai / Pygmy Forests
https://www.pubs.ext.vt.edu/content/dam/pubs_ext_vt_edu/426/426-601/426-601_pdf.pdf
Other trees
https://extension.uga.edu/publications/detail.html?number=C944&title=Crape%20Myrtle%20Culture
http://www.pnwplants.wsu.edu/PlantDisplay.aspx?PlantID=169
[Butt One More Thing]
Butt rot
https://hortnews.extension.iastate.edu/2007/7-11/root_butt_rot.html
https://www.fs.usda.gov/Internet/FSE_DOCUMENTS/stelprdb5347109.pdf