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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SciShow Tangents Classics - Giant Rodents
No, you didn't wake up back in March 12, 2019, this is just a rerun of the classic Giant Rodent episode in honor of Groundhog Day. Be back with something exciting next week!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2015/02/making-teeth-tough-beavers-show-way-to-improve-our-enamel-
http://www.sci-news.com/biology/science-biswamoyopterus-laoensis-new-species-flying-squirrel-laos-01361.html
https://www.apopo.info/en/tuberculosis-detection/projects
http://www.treatmentactiongroup.org/tb/background
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/23/rats-who-sniff-out-tubersulosis
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140816-rats-tuberculosis-smell-disease-health-animals-world/
[Fact Off]
Hippos & biggest rodent:
Beavers & carbon emissions:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoh-bha082918.php
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/07/what-role-do-beavers-play-climate-change
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs13280-014-0575-y
[Ask the Science Couch]
Gigantism:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-king-kong-should-have-been-blue-whale-180962603/
https://www.nature.com/articles/482008d
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05/120521-killer-mice-birds-gough-island-endangered-animals-science/
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1469-1795.2012.00534.x
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4358651/
[Butt One More Thing]
Capybara anal pouches:
https://zslpublications.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1984.tb05087.x