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 46: The North & South Poles
The Tangents crew gets lightly festive as they talk about the increasingly-less-cold tippity-top and bippity-bottom of good old planet Earth!
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[Trivia Question]
Plant species in Arctic
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21988606/
[Fact Off]
Old Seeds!
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/120221-oldest-seeds-regenerated-plants-science?loggedin=true
https://www.pnas.org/content/109/10/4008
Camel ancestors living in Arctic
https://www.calacademy.org/explore-science/the-camel-an-arctic-animal
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/camel-ancestors-lived-arctic
https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms2516
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277379111001661#
https://www.fda.gov/animal-veterinary/animal-health-literacy/fun-facts-about-reindeer-and-caribou
[Ask the Science Couch]
Animals/plants in polar night
https://www.popsci.com/how-do-animals-survive-polar-night/
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/03/arctic-marine-life-polar-night/474870/
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110526064627.htm
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/why-are-reindeer-eyes-golden-in-summer-but-blue-in-winter
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982215014323
Animals/plants in midnight sun
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2921307/
https://www.livescience.com/62870-summer-solstice-animals.html
https://uphere.ca/articles/what-does-24-hours-light-do-animals
https://www.alaskacenters.gov/explore/attractions/midnight-sun/effects
https://beyondpenguins.ehe.osu.edu/issue/polar-plants/plants-of-the-arctic-and-antarctic
[Butt One More Thing]
Poop bacteria in Antarctica
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25451839/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4908950/