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 47: Migration
It’s our 100th episode! And to celebrate our migration from double- to triple-digits, we’re talking about… animal migration... Ok, we forgot it was our 100th episode. But this is still a great episode!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Arrow Stork
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/76208/how-stork-solved-scientific-mystery
https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2018/02/19/the_weirdest_ideas_about_bird_migration.html
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/zoological-collection-of-the-university-of-rostock
https://labandfield.wordpress.com/2013/11/03/bird_migration/
[Fact Off]
American and European eel migration
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2449503?seq=3#metadata_info_tab_contents
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37563100
https://jeb.biologists.org/content/208/7/1329
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms9705
https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/mystery-of-the-vanishing-eels
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/2/10/e1501694
https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/sargassosea.html
Army ant bivouac
[Ask the Science Couch]
Forest migration
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/features/BorealMigration
https://www.npr.org/2020/07/28/896030567/believe-it-or-not-forests-migrate-but-not-fast-enough-for-climate-change
https://daily.jstor.org/the-incredible-moving-forest/
[Butt One More Thing]
Starling poop
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-05/rome-is-drowning-in-the-droppings-of-a-million-migrating-starlings