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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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...

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Healing

Episode Date: May 26, 2020

Are you suffering from mild boredom, a grumpy frown, and a general lack of extremely niche scientific knowledge? Well, SciShow Tangents has the cure f...

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Games

Episode Date: May 19, 2020

Kicking the ball, passing another type of ball, running around the big arena and making a point! SciShow Tangents knows one thing and that one thing i...

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Salt

Episode Date: May 5, 2020

Salt: a mineral so nice that much of early human civilization was based on its procurement! Now we put big chunks of it on tasty pretzels at the mall!...

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Holes

Episode Date: April 28, 2020

Humans have been digging deep holes for fun and profit since time began, and some animals have been doing it for way longer than that! And all of thos...

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Trees

Episode Date: April 21, 2020

This Arbor Day, give your favorite tree the gift they really want: this tree-themed episode of SciShow Tangents. Just put the headphones around its tr...

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Robots

Episode Date: April 14, 2020

Real robots have more and more in common with science fiction robots every day. Not enough that you need to worry about them rising up against humans,...

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Rivers

Episode Date: April 7, 2020

It's Spring here in the Northern Hemisphere, and the rivers swell with crystal clear snowmelt from tall mountain peaks... and we're all stuck inside a...

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Ducks

Episode Date: March 31, 2020

Ducks! Basically a joke of an animal, if we're being perfectly honest. They make silly noises, they waddle around, they are extremely cute and goofy l...

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Experiments in Space

Episode Date: March 17, 2020

Space… it’s big, it’s confusing, and there isn’t any gravity! That’s why we have a dedicated team of people up in the International Space Station runn...

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Oceans

Episode Date: February 25, 2020

Oceans: they cover 70% of the planet, but what do we really know about them? Like what’s with all the salt, huh? And just what is the difference betwe...

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Subatomic

Episode Date: February 18, 2020

Things get a little weird this episode, and by ‘little’ I mean very little! One thing I learned in this episode is that everything in the universe is...

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Hearts

Episode Date: February 11, 2020

This Valentine’s Day, what could be better than cuddling up with someone special and listening to the Tangents Crew talk about various medical procedu...

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Meat

Episode Date: February 4, 2020

Meat... seems pretty simple on the surface, but what do we really know about it? Like.. are living things made of meat? Or is meat only meat once it's...

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Music

Episode Date: January 28, 2020

So look, Stefan sings a song in this episode, so I’m not sure what more you need. He looked cool as heck when he was doing it and I was really proud o...

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Running

Episode Date: January 21, 2020

From diet, to shoes, to movement efficiency, people devote their lives to researching and perfecting the art of running. Meanwhile, cheetahs run 75 mp...

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Magnets

Episode Date: January 14, 2020

Wise men have long pondered how magnets work. We all know the answer is “magic,” but Ceri and Hank have to keep up the illusion that science is real,...