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 25: Radiation
Popular culture makes radiation seem pretty scary, and frequently it is. But we encounter way more radiation in our day-to-day life than you might think, from radio waves to visible light. Come explore the whole spectrum of radiation on this week's Tangents!
And we talk a LOT about The Vampire Diaries, too!
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[Trivia Question]
Cladosporium sphaerospermum fungus blockade
https://microbewiki.kenyon.edu/index.php/Cladosporium_sphaerospermum
https://www.universetoday.com/153283/fungi-were-able-to-absorb-radiation-on-the-iss-could-astronauts-grow-their-own-radiation-shields-in-space/
https://www.nature.com/news/2007/070521/full/news070521-5.html
[Fact Off]
Atomic energy Boy Scout badge & superfund site
https://harpers.org/archive/1998/11/the-radioactive-boy-scout/
https://www.dangerouslaboratories.org/radscout.html
Louise Reiss and the Baby Tooth Survey
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/basic-ref/glossary/bone-seeker.html
https://dhss.delaware.gov/dph/files/strontiumfaq.pdf
https://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/health/decades-later-baby-tooth-survey-legacy-lives-on/article_c5ad9492-fd75-5aed-897f-850fbdba24ee.html
https://www.prismjournal.org/uploads/1/2/5/6/125661607/v11-no1-a1.pdf
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.134.3491.1669
https://www.nrc.gov/docs/ML0721/ML072150423.pdf
[Ask the Science Couch]
Determining biological effects/lethal dose of radiation
https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/fact-sheets/bio-effects-radiation.html
https://www.science.org/content/article/how-atomic-bomb-survivors-have-transformed-our-understanding-radiation-s-impacts
https://www.rerf.or.jp/en/about/
https://dceg.cancer.gov/research/how-we-study/exposure-assessment/nci-dose-estimation-predicted-cancer-risk-residents-marshall-islands
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/nih-research-matters/genetic-effects-chernobyl-radiation-exposure
https://www.radioactivity.eu.com/site/pages/Doses_Classification.htm
[Butt One More Thing]
Radioactive rabbit poop near Hanford
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/science/earth/15rabbit.html