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 7: Recycling
Get a jump start on Earth Day by joining us as we discuss garbage's sexy, complicated little brother: recycling!
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[Trivia Question]
Minnesota paper waste ball
https://www.pca.state.mn.us/featured/worlds-largest-wad-paper-0
[Fact Off]
Palimpsests (reusing parchment, but also documenting microbes)
https://www.abaa.org/blog/post/the-history-of-vellum-and-parchment
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/07/how-monks-remixed-technology-in-the-middle-ages/373956/
http://www.archimedespalimpsest.org/about/imaging/
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsos.170988
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00248-014-0481-7
Pressure-sensitive, reusable tape inspired by housefly feet
https://www.howitworksdaily.com/how-is-adhesive-tape-made/
https://www.naturalhistorymag.com/biomechanics/172099/shoe-fly
https://cen.acs.org/articles/85/i42/Adhesive-Tape.html
[Ask the Science Couch]
Sevier County (Dollywood and Gatlinburg) composting/waste management
https://www.seviersolidwaste.com/
http://www.louisianaweekly.com/dollywoods-environmental-solution/
https://www.zankerrecycling.com/sites/default/files/biocycle-nov-2010.pdf
https://www.biocycle.net/mixed-waste-composting-facilities-review-2/
https://greenblue.org/reloop-what-is-mixed-waste-processing-or-all-in-onedirty-mrf-recycling/
http://compost.css.cornell.edu/MSWFactSheets/msw.fs6.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Iron nutrient recycling through whale poop
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-2979.2010.00356.x/abstract
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16370118