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 51: Hank's Favorite Things
Season 2 of SciShow Tangents is coming to a close, and to celebrate, we’re honoring each of our panelists with episodes about their favorite things! We’re starting, of course, with our fearless leader and professional liker-of-strange-and-amazing-things: Hank!
At the end of the month, we'll be naming the winner of this season and announcing the new name of the Tangents currency, so stay tuned!
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]
Pressure-sensitive Adhesives
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pressure-sensitive_adhesive
Malaria Detector
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181029102828.htm
Urine-Powered Transmitter
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151211130103.htm
https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/preview/844724/Wearable-MFC%2010-7-15_unedited.pdf
[Fact Off]
Cats eating grass
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/08/mystery-solved-why-cats-eat-grass
Metal whiskers
http://thor.inemi.org/webdownload/newsroom/Presentations/SMTAI-04_tin_whiskers.pdf
https://nepp.nasa.gov/whisker/background/index.htm
https://phys.org/news/2012-12-doctoral-student-unravels-tin-whisker.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1359646218300319
https://www.sharrettsplating.com/blog/alternatives-to-cadmium-for-plating-connectors/
[Ask the Science Hank Couch]
Wombat butts
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/10/06/wombats-have-buns-of-steel-and-they-might-literally-be-deadly/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2018/11/wombat-poop-cube-why-is-it-square-shaped/
Caterpillar poop
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2003/03/frass-flies
Hydra butt
https://www.livescience.com/53980-terrifying-mouth-of-a-hydra.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Peru guano
https://www.audubon.org/news/holy-crap-trip-worlds-largest-guano-producing-islands
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-11153967