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 2: Ears
In the world of podcasting, one organ reigns supreme: the ear. This week, we give thanks to the orifice that allows us to enjoy SciShow Tangents and that also helps us balance for some reason!
Also this week, the world premier of Sam's new game! It's a real corker! Also you will be required to visualize an entire cob of corn, so you better start practicing now.
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Hear Ye Hear Ye]
Toadfish Calls courtesy of the Macaulay Library at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology: https://www.birds.cornell.edu/home
https://www.chesapeakebay.net/S=0/fieldguide/critter/oyster_toadfish
Sun Sonification
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2018/sounds-of-the-sun
Whistler-waves
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2017/nasa-listens-in-as-electrons-whistle-while-they-work
Jupiter Bowshock
https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/nasas-juno-spacecraft-enters-jupiters-magnetic-field
[Fact Off]
19th Century hearing devices
Pictures here: http://beckerexhibits.wustl.edu/did/19thcent/index.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/26/technology/hearing-aids-smaller-and-smarter.html
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/773357/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2582694/
Cheetah ears & vestibular organ
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2018/02/cheetah-inner-ear-speed-hunting-spd/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-018-20198-3
[Ask the Science Couch]
Hearing loss
https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/hearing_loss/how_does_loud_noise_cause_hearing_loss.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK11122/
https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hearing-loss/symptoms-causes/syc-20373072
https://stanmed.stanford.edu/listening/scientists-hope-cure-hearing-loss-studying-birds.html
https://psych.athabascau.ca/html/Psych289/Biotutorials/17/cochlea.shtml
https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/sites/default/files/Content%20Images/presbycusis.pdf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQEaiZ2j9oc