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 49: Wood
If you look out a window right now, you're probably going to see a tree. And that tree? Why, it's made out of wood, friend. And that's where things start to get interesting...
Get ready to meet Hank's newest alter-ego: Mr. Wood. He's basically Hank, but he just can't stop talking about wood! I had to cut like 3 different, very long stories he told about wood! The man LOVES wood!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Shipworms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shipworms
Dynamite
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/tunneling-clam-bedeviled-humans-sank-ships-conquered-oceans-180961288/
Bounty Gaming
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1902
[Fact Off]
Super Wood
Article: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180207151829.htm
Paper: https://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/pdf2018/fpl_2018_song001.pdf
Screwdriver test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BStJLI7WQ8g&ab_channel=VOANews
Ballistic test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVbczXDFe1Q&ab_channel=MarylandNanoCenter
Metallic Wood
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-01/uop-pe012819.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Splinters
http://www.aafp.org/afp/2003/0615/p2557.html
http://www.aafp.org/afp/2007/0901/p683.html
http://www.the-dermatologist.com/content/treating-rare-fungal-infections-sporotrichosis
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4082545/
[Butt One More Thing]
Toilet paper
https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/622513/reason-toilet-paper-always-white