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 50: Vegetables
In the immortal words of Brian Wilson: "I'm gonna be round my vegetables, I'm gonna chow down my vegetables, I love you most of all... my favorite vegetable"
And he's right, too.
In this episode we get down in the dirt with our favorite veggies. Carrots... broccoli... and all the rest. All that, and Ceri tries out a fun new pun!
[Truth or Fail]
Sponge gourds
https://www.lewisginter.org/luffa-plant-exfoliate/
Grasspea
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6422318/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214514116300629
https://www.cwrdiversity.org/the-curious-case-of-the-grasspea/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20510335/
https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/CropFactSheets/grasspea.html
Wild carrots
http://www.carrotmuseum.co.uk/wild.html
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/poison-hemlock-identification-and-control
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6150177/
[Fact Off]
Spinach and growing organs
https://www.wpi.edu/news/wpi-team-grows-heart-tissue-spinach-leaves
https://api.nationalgeographic.com/distribution/public/amp/news/2017/03/human-heart-spinach-leaf-medicine-science?utm_source=reddit.com
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/03/27/scientists-convert-spinach-leaves-into-human-heart-tissue-that-beats/
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5a63bdefdc2b4ac54c102232/t/5a90cfc0ec212d945185b364/1519439811042/CYSJLabWinter2017.pdf#page=6
Beet smell geosmin
[Ask the Science Couch]
Asparagus pee
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1379935/pdf/brjclinpharm00087-0116.pdf
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1715705/pdf/brmedj00052-0020.pdf
https://academic.oup.com/chemse/article/36/1/9/442551
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20140818-mystery-of-asparagus-and-urine
https://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6071
https://www.livescience.com/57199-why-some-people-cant-smell-asparagus-pee.html
https://theconversation.com/that-distinctive-springtime-smell-asparagus-pee-94696
[Butt One More Thing]
Beeturia
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK537012/
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/319447#Beetroot-pigments