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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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Sweat

Episode Date: July 23, 2024

Woo boy! It's hot out there, why don't ya grab a nice glass of ice cold lemonade and listen in on everything you did and didn't want to learn about sw...

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Cicadas

Episode Date: July 9, 2024

This summer's hottest North American bug is without question, the cicada. They've got everything: neon-colored wing veins, bendy-straw-style exoskelet...

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Gay Animals with Field Guide to Gay Animals

Episode Date: June 25, 2024

It wouldn't be Pride at Tangents if we weren't getting into some science! We're joined by Owen Ever and Laine Kaplan-Levenson, the hosts of a new show...

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Bananas

Episode Date: June 11, 2024

It's all right there on the tin - this episode is BANANAS. And not just because we have the most guests we've ever had in Tangents history. Not even j...

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Teaser: Turtles Cut For Time Question

Episode Date: June 5, 2024

Another wild teaser appears! This little snippet is from a bonus, cut-for-time question from our episode on Turtles! You can listen to the rest, and a...

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Cloning

Episode Date: May 28, 2024

It may seem like cloning really only shows up regularly in science fiction, but it turns out, it's been a sneaky, significant real-world process for a...

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Glue

Episode Date: May 14, 2024

Humanity is bound together by so many qualities, and in this episode, we add Being Goopy to the list. What does that have to do with glue? A whole lot...

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Introducing Crash Course Pods: The Universe

Episode Date: May 7, 2024

No, your eyes and ears don't deceive you - this is, in fact, a super special cross-feed treat from our friends over at Crash Course in the form of the...

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Machine Learning

Episode Date: April 30, 2024

We do a lot of learning on Tangents, so naturally, we've got questions about what learning looks like...for machines! AI and machine learning science...

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Teaser: Hygiene Patreon Bonus Episode

Episode Date: April 26, 2024

Another wild teaser appears! This little snippet is the first part of our revisit of Hygiene and answering even more questions that we didn't get to i...

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Turtles

Episode Date: April 16, 2024

Devotees of the testudines rejoice! Whether you have one as a pet, admire them at the zoo, or giggle with the rest of the internet when they rock each...

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Teaser: Big vs. Small Patreon Bonus Episode

Episode Date: April 3, 2024

A wild teaser appears! This little snippet is the first part of our revisit of Big vs. Small and answering even more questions that we didn't get to i...

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Textiles

Episode Date: April 2, 2024

From expressing ourselves through fashion to protecting ourselves from the elements, textiles seem to be self-evidently significant to the human exper...

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Feathers

Episode Date: March 19, 2024

It may be well-known that hope is the thing with feathers, but how much is known about feathers themselves? Turns out, plenty! From shrub grouses to s...

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Garbage

Episode Date: March 5, 2024

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 ga...

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Hormones

Episode Date: February 20, 2024

Oops, all science this episode! Erstwhile editorial assistant Deboki Chakravarti steps in for erstwhile everyman Sam Schultz as we parse through funda...

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Cheese

Episode Date: February 6, 2024

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 str...

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Darkness

Episode Date: January 23, 2024

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...

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Refrigeration

Episode Date: January 9, 2024

In this not-so-chill episode, everybody gets a little unsettled by the concepts around refrigeration. Quantum computers, thermoacoustics, molecular ch...

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Quiet

Episode Date: December 26, 2023

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 scient...

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