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 3: Weather
Weather is an evergreen small talk topic, and after this episode of Tangents you will be fully equipped to blow the socks off every grocery store clerk, dental technician, and next door neighbor you meet with your in-depth knowledge of wind, precipitation, and more!
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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Brain Storm]
Falling animals
https://www.loc.gov/everyday-mysteries/item/can-it-rain-frogs-fish-and-other-objects
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/strange-rain-why-fish-frogs-and-golf-balls-fall-skies-180956527/
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/lluvia-de-peces-the-rain-of-fish
https://www.thelocal.no/20150416/earthworms-rain-from-sky-over-southern-norway
Automated Weather Observing Systems
https://www.skybrary.aero/index.php/Automated_Weather_Observing_System_(AWOS)
https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Advisory_Circular/AC_150_5220-16E.pdf
Cloud seeding
https://www.technologyreview.com/2008/03/25/270084/weather-engineering-in-china/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7899086.stm
https://web.archive.org/web/20111123025420/http://www.ceawmt.in/indian_history.html
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169809515000484
https://www.ncm.ae/en/details.html?id=825&lid=575
https://www.popsci.com/smog-cloud-seeding-thailand/
https://web.archive.org/web/20161105045733/http://thainews.prd.go.th/website_en/news/news_detail/WNEVN5903040010016
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/ncfa-wcs012606.php
https://journalofweathermodification.org/index.php/JWM/article/view/474
https://www.weathermod-bg.eu/index_en.php
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-fires-siberia/russia-seeds-clouds-in-siberia-to-douse-raging-wildfires-idUSKBN24B1JT
[Fact Off]
Tempest Prognosticator
Pic here: https://www.amusingplanet.com/2019/07/tempest-prognosticator-predicting.html
https://blogs.slv.vic.gov.au/our-stories/cloud-watching-understanding-weather/
https://www.smithjournal.com.au/blogs/science/3898-can-you-predict-the-weather-with-leeches
https://www.theguardian.com/news/2015/apr/19/weatherwatch-forecasting-tempest-prognosticator-storm-leech
https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-used-leaches-to-predict-the-weather
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/leeches-predict-weather-tempest-prognosticator
AMDAR
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL088613
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02198-4
https://community.wmo.int/activity-areas/aircraft-based-observations/amdar/about-amdar
https://amdar.noaa.gov/docs/bams/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Acid rain
https://www.epa.gov/acidrain/what-acid-rain
http://butane.chem.uiuc.edu/pshapley/GenChem1/L26/3.html
https://www.usgs.gov/special-topic/water-science-school/science/acid-rain-and-water?qt-science_center_objects=0#qt-science_center_objects
https://ocean.si.edu/ocean-life/invertebrates/ocean-acidification