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 51: Hands & Feet
The Season 3 finale draws ever nearer, but before we get to that big beautiful Butt episode, we need to make a detour to those nifty tools on the ends of our limbs: hands and feet!
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[Trivia Question]
Heel-toe or toe-heel running
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31525171/
[Fact Off]
Trench foot and (possibly, tenuously) water balloons
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK482364/
https://www.wemjournal.org/article/S1080-6032(06)70334-9/fulltext
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/AD0666752
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B978012821606400017X
http://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2049243_2048654_2049039,00.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Nail care evolution/history
https://www.britannica.com/story/how-do-monkeys-and-apes-trim-their-fingernails
https://theconversation.com/curious-kids-why-do-we-have-fingernails-and-toenails-110989
https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/ancient-primates-had-grooming-claws/
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0047248417305134
https://tedium.co/2017/02/07/fingernail-trimming-history/
[Butt One More Thing]
Bidets and poopy hands
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29709985/