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 41: Eyeballs
Jeepers creepers, today we’re talking about peepers!
I can't come up with anything that would really add to the above description of the episode, but I also feel like I owe you guys more than that... so hey, what's up? Excited for Halloween? Watching any good shows? I'm sort of out of shows...
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Bat Eyes
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/78kwdz/bats-crash-into-each-other-all-the-time-high-speed-cameras-reveal
Guitarfish Eyes
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/instead-eyelids-fish-has-special-muscles-retract-its-eyeball-180957005/
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/sharks-rays/sharks#:~:text=Sharks%20have%20eyelids%2C%20but%20they,damage%20when%20fighting%20or%20feeding.&text=In%20addition%2C%20some%20species%20have,the%20eye%20in%20dicey%20situations.
Goat Eyes
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/08/07/430149677/eye-shapes-of-the-animal-world-hint-at-differences-in-our-lifestyles
[Fact Off]
Glowing Contacts
https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/glowing-contact-lens-could-prevent-leading-cause-blindness-82050
https://orionvisiongroup.com/blog/glow-in-the-dark-contact-treatment-diabetic-retinopathy/#:~:text=Diabetic%20Retinopathy%20%E2%80%93%20The%20Facts,the%20precursor%20to%20nerve%20death.
Cockeyed squids
https://today.duke.edu/2017/02/mismatched-eyes-help-squid-survive-ocean%E2%80%99s-twilight-zone
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2016.0069
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/this-squid-gives-better-side-eye-than-you
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-does-someone-get-two/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Eye shapes
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/90509/13-furry-facts-about-pallass-cat
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/7/e1500391
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/08/07/430149677/eye-shapes-of-the-animal-world-hint-at-differences-in-our-lifestyles
[Butt One More Thing]
Cow butt eye
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/painting-eyes-cow-butts-could-save-cow-and-lion-lives-180975601/
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/627983/save-cow-from-predators-paint-eyes-on-its-butt