SciShow Tangents Complexly
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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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Garbage
Trash, rubbish, waste, refuse...we have a lot of words for the gunk that goes on the truck, because whether we like it or not, humans make a lot of garbage. Get comfy with some grossness as we root around in garbage's past, present, and future. We're all on a path, you guys!
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Hormones
Oops, all science this episode! Erstwhile editorial assistant Deboki Chakravarti steps in for erstwhile everyman Sam Schultz as we parse through fundamental puzzles about humanity: what makes us, us, and if it is hormones, does that make us cocktails or cauldrons?
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Cheese
It's the long-awaited cheese-stravaganza! And it's every bit as melty, crumbly, stretchy, and stinky as hoped for. We dip into some fetamology, we stretch our nokkeledge of cheese applications, and we unwrap the shocking tartrutho about a cheese we thought we knew!*
*Here are the real cheese names I butchered into puns: feta, nokkelost, tartuffo. All delicious, go try some! -
Darkness
The question plaguing us this episode is, how dark can it really get? Turns out (according to some), not that dark! Unless you're at the bottom of the ocean or floating in the all too-eerie void of deep space, you're always gonna have some photons hitting your face. (I'm pretty sure I accidentally stole this rhyme right out of Hank's poem, but you'll just have to listen to know for sure...)
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Refrigeration
In this not-so-chill episode, everybody gets a little unsettled by the concepts around refrigeration. Quantum computers, thermoacoustics, molecular chemistry, elephants, the phantom letter "d" that gets added to the shortening of refrigeration...it's all just. So much.
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Quiet
Do you hear what I hear? Probably not, because in this episode, we're bringing things down several notches to learn about quiet. Does it have a scientific definition? Is it all just relative? Should crickets have podcasts? Join us as we (ok, maybe not so) quietly contemplate quiet.
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This show is my happy place. I learn something new every single episode.
TANGENTS…
I normally do not write reviews, in fact I never have, but I find this is too special not to. This podcast has been my favorite without a doubt for months, it has fun trivia-even if I forget the next day (though I swear one day someone will ask me about the monkeys that ride deer and I will be prepared), likable hosts, and SOOO MUCH more humor than I was expecting. Each one of the hosts shine in their own ways and bring out the best in each other; there’s no way I could ever pick a favorite: but I choose Sam, Sam is my favorite. Even so all of the hosts have only gotten better as the podcast has progressed. My only regret is I just recently found out there was more show after the main show ended; like a post credit scene in a marvel movie, but before, back when they were actually good. If you have the time or simply wish to stop doom scrolling in that endless abyss of meaningless content, CHECK OUT THIS SHOW, you won’t regret it! And if you do it’s you, you have bad taste and I’m sorry for your loss.
Helped me win trivia!
I’ve been binge listening to all of the episodes since I learned about the podcast a month or so ago. In one round of bar trivia tonight the podcast helped me get two answers right! One obscure one about molasses 😅 I LOVE the show. I’m always learning new things and laughing along the way.