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 45: Monster Month: Vampires
Monster Month turns up the spooky sex appeal as we talk about the hunkiest monster in Monster Town: vampires!
What monster do you think is the hunkiest? Or how about least-hunkiest (sort of tricky! They can all be hunks in their own way)? Send us a tweet and let us know!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Wireworms
https://extension.entm.purdue.edu/fieldcropsipm/insects/corn-wireworms.php
https://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1119566-overview
Vampire Ground Finch
http://blog.discoveringgalapagos.org.uk/vampire-finch/
Japanese Wild Boars
https://www.nal.usda.gov/fsrio/research-projects/silver-nanoparticles-pesticide-agricultural-applications#:~:text=Silver%20nanoparticles%20have%20received%20significant,resistance%20to%20existing%20chemical%20pesticides.
https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/east-asia/article/2136652/wild-boars-are-taking-over-japans-small-towns-and-residents-are
[Fact Off]
Blood battery
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160429095849.htm
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/Scientists-create-bio-batteries-which-can-be-charged-with-human-sweat/articleshow/40198217.cms
https://futurism.com/blood-is-helping-us-make-the-next-generation-of-batteries
Tick traumatic insemination
https://www.pnas.org/content/116/29/14682
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2011/08/immune-system-protects-female-bedbugs-traumatic-sex
https://phys.org/news/2019-07-female-bed-bugs-immune-stis.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Teeth/beak/etc puncture
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/mammals/c/common-vampire-bat/
https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7242.html
https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/11/2/154/204658
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-7998.2000.tb00583.x
Specialized mouthpiece straw
https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/06/07/480653821/watch-mosquitoes-use-6-needles-to-suck-your-blood
https://web.natur.cuni.cz/parasitology/vyuka/LekEnt_CV/The%20Biology%20of%20Blood-Sucking%20in%20Insects.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Vampire bat poop
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/22/science/vampire-bats-blood.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-018-0476-8