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 27: Surgery
This week, the Science Couch is more like the Science Operating Table. Get ready to have 33 minutes of pure, surgery-inspired science implanted directly into your brain, stat!
A note about this week’s episode: Ceri is moving, and the room she normally records in is completely empty. That’s why she sounds like she’s lost in space. Sorry about that!
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Sources:
[Fact Off]
Burn healing surgeries
https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/burns
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3408118
https://www.americanjournalofsurgery.com/article/S0002-9610(35)90119-2/fulltext
https://www.nature.com/articles/125058a0.pdf
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/003591574003400104
https://parjournal.net/article/view/1881/1348
https://nzhistory.govt.nz/people/sir-archibald-mcindoe
Video Game Surgeons
https://www.medtechdive.com/news/robotic-surgeries-surge-to-15-of-all-procedures-despite-limited-evidence/570370/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-04/uoo-hfa040121.php
[Ask the Science Couch]
Organ transplant DNA
https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/does-the-dna-of-a-transplanted-organ-change-to-that-of-the-recipient/
https://www.genome.gov/27544325/using-dna-sequencing-to-detect-early-organ-transplant-rejection
https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Cyclosporin-A
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18290564/
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/organ-transplants-without-life-long-drugs
[Butt One More Thing]
Louis XIV’s anal fistula
https://tidsskriftet.no/2016/08/sun-kings-anal-fistula
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1043148914000566