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 13: Flowers
It’s been said that April showers bring May flowers, but here’s the thing, gang: we couldn’t wait a whole month to talk about the darn things! Stop and smell the roses with us as we sniff out some of the finest flower facts!
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[Fact Off]
Bubble gun pollination
https://www.cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S2589-0042(20)30373-4
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/06/drone-delivered-soap-bubbles-could-help-pollinate-flowers
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/bubble-blowing-drones-may-one-day-aid-artificial-pollination
Fungus mimicking flowers
Image: https://static.scientificamerican.com/sciam/cache/file/1BF8FBA2-1A97-4962-BDF7425878CF9454_source.jpg
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1087184520301572
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2399434?refreqid=excelsior%3Ab21f9013c26e11394d09411860873d9f&seq=1
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/this-flower-is-really-a-fungus-in-disguise/
https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/insect-color-vision.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Carnivorous plants flowering
Picture of pitcher plant: http://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/h-3639
Picture of venus fly trap: https://theconversation.com/friend-or-food-why-venus-flytraps-dont-eat-their-pollinators-91620
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20161010-how-insect-eating-plants-persuade-insects-to-pollinate-them
https://www.nature.com/articles/srep21065
[Butt One More Thing]
Dead horse lily
Picture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicodiceros#/media/File:Dracunculus_muscivorus.jpg
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1365-2435.2003.00802.x
https://theconversation.com/the-secret-of-the-worlds-smelliest-flower-44439