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 35: Frogs
What’s a frog? Well, it’s not quite a fish, and it’s not quite a lizard, but put them together and you have a stout, slimy little pal that everyone can agree on! Especially Ceri!
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[Truth or Fail]
Glue
Image of crucifix frog: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Holy_Cross_Frog.jpg
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-05473-z
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn6492-frog-glue-repairs-damaged-cartilage/
Sand
Image of tadpoles: https://www.thehindu.com/migration_catalog/article14128847.ece/ALTERNATES/LANDSCAPE_1200/31th-frog2.jpg
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160330-these-newly-discovered-frogs-have-really-weird-tadpoles
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0151781
Suction
Image of paradox frog tadpole: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NHM_London_Paradoxical_frog_(Pseudis_paradoxa)_model.jpg
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/31509/what-big-baby-life-and-times-paradox-frog
https://www.mtpr.org/post/field-notes-tale-montanas-strangest-frog
[Fact Off]
Foam-nest frogs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1D8b4e9nGwE
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2009.0934
Frog cell robots
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200113175653.htm
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/4/1853
Video: https://movie-usa.glencoesoftware.com/video/10.1073/pnas.1910837117/video-1
[Ask the Science Couch]
Sticky frog tongues
https://theconversation.com/the-frog-tongue-is-a-high-speed-adhesive-72064
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2016.0764
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/01/watch-frog-s-tongue-ultrasoft-shock-absorber
[Butt One More Thing]
Frog skin buttock graft
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2355278/?page=1