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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Tails

Episode Date: January 17, 2023

From a bunny’s seemingly-useless fluffy li’l puffball to a scorpion’s practical and deadly venom-filled stinger, the world is filled with all sorts of...

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Gas

Episode Date: January 10, 2023

From precious oxygen to the lowly fart, every day we’re all wallowing around in an invisible soup of gas! Exciting, isn’t it? Tune in to go into an ex...

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Memory

Episode Date: January 3, 2023

It's the time of year for old acquaintances to be forgot, but SciShow Tangents has never been one to bow to convention! So this week, we're rememberin...

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Cold

Episode Date: December 20, 2022

Jack frost ain't just nipping at our noses where we live, he's basically biting them off! Ouch! So we thought we'd learn a little about what "cold" ev...

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Poison

Episode Date: December 6, 2022

It's said that the dose makes the poison, but that doesn't change the fact that some poison is just more poison-y than others. This week, we get a let...

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Wings with Stefan Chin

Episode Date: November 22, 2022

It's just about Thanksgiving here in the US; a special time during which we count our blessings. And this year, Tangents is giving you an extra thing...

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Sight

Episode Date: November 15, 2022

Before you listen, just take a moment to think about how sight works: Light comes out of the sun, bounces off of a tree (or whatever), goes inside of...

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Pain

Episode Date: November 8, 2022

This week, we investigate one of the more complicated, fraught, mysterious, and downright unpleasant ways we and lots of other living things navigate...

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Radiation

Episode Date: September 20, 2022

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 thi...

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Babies

Episode Date: September 13, 2022

From mighty lions to postal workers, presidents to pelicans, they all have one thing in common: they were once tiny little babies! And so, too, were a...

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Coral Reefs

Episode Date: September 6, 2022

Summer is just about over, but we can all cling to those warm, tropical feelings for at least one more week as we strap on our scuba gear and take a d...