SciShow Tangents

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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Monster Month: Monster Mash

Episode Date: October 27, 2020

Monster Month meets its ghoulish end, and we’re throwing it a swinging wake! This week, all the monsters we didn’t talk about during the rest of Octob...

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Monster Month: Vampires

Episode Date: October 20, 2020

Monster Month turns up the spooky sex appeal as we talk about the hunkiest monster in Monster Town: vampires!  What monster do you think is the hunkie...

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Monster Month: Living Dead

Episode Date: October 13, 2020

Monster Month shambles on! This week: the living dead! We’re talking zombies, we’re talking Frankensteins, we’re talking skeletons. And by the end, th...

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Monster Month: Ghosts!

Episode Date: October 6, 2020

It’s ba-ack! Fear Month is back from the dead in a hideous new form: Monster Month! This week we’re busting out the Ouija board and summoning forth so...

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Eyeballs

Episode Date: September 15, 2020

Jeepers creepers, today we’re talking about peepers!  I can't come up with anything that would really add to the above description of the episode, but...

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Cars

Episode Date: September 8, 2020

Beep beep, toot toot, etc. Cars are definitely one of the more common-place things we’ve talked about on Tangents… yet to some, including many on our...

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Black Holes

Episode Date: September 1, 2020

Does the Tangents crew know anything about black holes? Not really. But when has that ever stopped us? Let’s get theoretical! Follow us on Twitter @Sc...

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Milk

Episode Date: August 18, 2020

Milk is pretty normal, right? Boring even! But have you ever thought about it? Like, really thought about it? We have! And I gotta say, it led us to s...

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Listener Mailbag

Episode Date: August 11, 2020

We get A LOT of questions from our listeners! So this week we decided to put the competition on hold, open up the old Tangents Mailbag, and answer a f...

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Glowing Things

Episode Date: August 4, 2020

Glowing Things: is that a scientific topic? Yes, but not by much. In fact, we spend a lot of the episode figuring out of there even is a scientific de...

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Proteins

Episode Date: July 28, 2020

What do proteins do? Heck, an easier question to answer would be 'what don't they do?" No, seriously... I think they do, like, everything. Follow us o...

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Frogs

Episode Date: July 21, 2020

What’s a frog? Well, it’s not quite a fish, and it’s not quite a lizard, but put them together and you have a stout, slimy little pal that everyone ca...

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Diseases

Episode Date: July 7, 2020

From toenails to T-cells, human bodies have a whole lot of moving parts, which means there’s ample opportunity for things to go not-quite-according-to...

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Flying Machines

Episode Date: June 23, 2020

Humanity’s quest for flight has been, all things considered, extremely successful! Sure, we aren’t all zipping around in jetpacks yet… but honestly I...

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The Internet

Episode Date: June 16, 2020

From the joyful to the hateful to the extremely weird, the Internet is all of the complexity of human thought given shape! And boy do humans think abo...

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Allergies

Episode Date: June 9, 2020

From itchy and annoying to potentially deadly, allergies seem to make our lives worse for pretty much no discernible reason! [Truth or Fail]Hot Dog Al...