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.
https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com
episode 30: Allergies
From itchy and annoying to potentially deadly, allergies seem to make our lives worse for pretty much no discernible reason!
[Truth or Fail]
Hot Dog Allergy
https://spoonuniversity.com/lifestyle/hot-dog-allergie
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/1994783/
Cat-Pork
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3594363/
Parent Spit
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/05/06/180817114/parents-saliva-on-pacifiers-could-ward-off-babys-allergies
[Fact Off]
Thunderstorm asthma
https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/106/3/207/1565254
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cea.12709
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/thunderstorm-asthma-the-night-a-deadly-storm-took-melbournes-breath-away-20170308-gut8ur.html
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/nov/27/thunderstorm-asthma-oure-talking-an-event-equivalent-to-a-terrorist-attack
Langerhans cells
https://www.popsci.com/allergy-immunotherapy-toothpaste/
https://allovate.com/how-allerdent-works/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Allergies & public horticulture
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/seasonal-allergies-blame-male-trees
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016920461100137X
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-08/asoa-hpc082615.php
[Butt One More Thing]
Milk allergy fecal transplant
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-018-0324-z