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 4: Homes
From shells to hives to holes in the ground, most animals have a place to call home. And today, we're paying them all a visit! So open up, cause Science is knocking and it needs to use your bathroom!
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[Trivia Question]
Machine learning saving kilowatt-hours
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7765259/
[Fact Off]
Cichlid fish dream houses (for conservation)
https://www.mpg.de/14854482/3d-printing-cichlids
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/if-fish-could-build-its-own-home-what-would-it-look-like-180976172/
Devil’s garden - lemon ant & rainforest tree symbiosis
https://news.stanford.edu/news/2005/september28/devil-092805.html
https://www.nature.com/articles/437495a
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/606022?journalCode=an
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2124481/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2459556
[Ask the Science Couch]
Estimate of how many animals there are
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/newsletters/animals/article/how-many-species-have-not-found-december-26
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.1001127
https://academic.oup.com/sysbio/article/61/5/871/1734723
Animals that are parasites
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2016.0324
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/animals-evolution-parasites-ed-yong
https://www.audubon.org/news/the-brilliant-ways-parasitic-birds-terrorize-their-victims
Constructing homes (natural & artificial)
https://www.naturepl.com/pictures/pdfs/NPL_Architecture.pdf
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34269510/
[Butt One More Thing]
Snail shell poop + African swine fever virus
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35151121/
https://www.carnegiemnh.org/science/mollusks/dietbehavior.html