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 7: Climate Control
This episode of SciShow Tangents was created in partnership with Bill Gates, inspired by his new book “How To Avoid A Climate Disaster,” available now. To learn more, visit http://gatesnot.es/3qNsH4k
From roaring fires to air conditioners to fuzzy slippers, humans have a knack for inventing things to keep them at just the right temperature. Unfortunately, they also have a knack for messing up the temperature of the planet…
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Fact Off]
Skinner Air Crib
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1037/1089-2680.3.3.155
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/skinner-air-crib
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-cribs-other-brilliant-bizarre-inventions-getting-babies-to-sleep-180972138/
https://psychology.fas.harvard.edu/people/b-f-skinner
Mountain goat cooling
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0225456
https://www.vice.com/en/article/epggvp/americas-iconic-mountain-goats-are-being-threatened-by-melting-ice-and-snow
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/wcs-mga121019.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Varied climates on planets
https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/
https://www.universetoday.com/35796/atmosphere-of-the-planets/
[Butt One More Thing]
Racecar butt air conditioning
https://jalopnik.com/the-nismo-gt-r-gt3-has-air-conditioning-for-your-butt-1682925080