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: Diseases
From toenails to T-cells, human bodies have a whole lot of moving parts, which means there’s ample opportunity for things to go not-quite-according-to-plan!
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[Truth or Fail]
Salmonella
https://www.technologyreview.com/2007/09/25/223729/deadly-bacteria-from-outer-space/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/in-space-infectious-diseases-reveal-their-true-nature-19761956/)
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5515522/
UTI
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/technology/science/germs-in-space-tougher-and-deadlier/article694273/#:~:text=In%201970%2C%20Fred%20Haise%2C%20part,2006%20mission%2C%20including%20Pseudomonas%20aeruginosa.
https://history.nasa.gov/SP-350/ch-13-5.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23658630/
Green Muscle
https://extension.umd.edu/sites/extension.umd.edu/files/_docs/programs/poultry/IS1976%20Deep%20Pectoral%20Myopathy.pdf
Supplemental
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/547736/what-happens-when-astronaut-gets-sick-space#:~:text=Astronauts%20floating%20around%20in%20zero,can%20sometimes%20cause%20an%20injury.&text=That%20happened%20with%20spaceflight%2Dassociated,their%20eyes%20during%20space%20missions.
[Fact Off]
Fake Typhus epidemic
https://archive.org/stream/NavyMedicine198004/Navy%20Medicine%201980-04#page/n27/mode/2up
https://www.cdc.gov/typhus/epidemic/index.html
https://www.dshs.texas.gov/lab/serology_agg.shtm
https://amednews.com/article/20040705/profession/307059953/6/
https://academic.oup.com/trstmh/article-abstract/37/5/321/1898852?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Glaucoma T-cells
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/08/180810091530.htm
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05681-9