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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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Nerves

Episode Date: April 5, 2022

Someone can get on your nerves. You can have nerves of steel. Heck, they can even be frayed! But have you ever wondered what nerves actually are? If s...

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Homes

Episode Date: March 22, 2022

From shells to hives to holes in the ground, most animals have a place to call home. And today, we're paying them all a visit! So open up, cause Scien...

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Green

Episode Date: March 15, 2022

Grass... money... Ninja Turtles... some of the best things in the world are all the same color: green! This week, we're taking a deeper look at this m...

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Computers

Episode Date: March 8, 2022

Back in my day, a computer was a computer: It was big, tan, and was plugged into your living room wall. But now we've got computer cars, computer phon...

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Venus

Episode Date: March 1, 2022

We kick off Season 4 by getting up close and personal with Earth's other, less popular, more mysterious neighbor: Venus!Head to https://www.patreon.co...

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Butts

Episode Date: February 15, 2022

It's all led up to this! We usually relegate our butt facts to the end of episodes, but this week we're giving butts the respect they deserve. It's bu...

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Hands & Feet

Episode Date: February 8, 2022

The Season 3 finale draws ever nearer, but before we get to that big beautiful Butt episode, we need to make a detour to those nifty tools on the ends...

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Heads

Episode Date: February 1, 2022

Season 3 of Tangents is drawing to a close, and we're celebrating by taking a long, top to bottom (literally) look at bodies! To kick us off, we'll be...

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Birds of Prey

Episode Date: January 25, 2022

The pointiest birds in the wild blue yonder finally get their due! Join us to learn all of these lethal birds killer secrets, and to discover their hi...

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Yeast

Episode Date: January 18, 2022

These little, bubbly guys help us make such perennial favorites as 'bread' and 'beer.' If you're saying to yourself "what is yeast, Alex," I got good...

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Mirrors

Episode Date: January 11, 2022

We're back, baby! And we're seeing double! Ring in the new-ish year with us as we reflect on mirrors!Deboki is hosting a new podcast called Tiny Matte...

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The North & South Poles

Episode Date: December 21, 2021

The Tangents crew gets lightly festive as they talk about the increasingly-less-cold tippity-top and bippity-bottom of good old planet Earth!Head to h...

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Cells

Episode Date: December 14, 2021

We’ve talked about all sorts of living things. Bugs, for instance. And plants… elephants… the list goes on. But what we haven’t discussed is the thing...

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Snakes

Episode Date: December 7, 2021

Snakes get a bad rap. Sure they’re slithery, venomous, silent killers… but they have some nice qualities, too! We don’t talk about many of those nice...

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Food

Episode Date: November 30, 2021

Between now and the end of the year, people all over the world will be enjoying all sorts of holiday feasts, eating lots of cookies, and maybe even en...

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Cosmetics

Episode Date: November 23, 2021

Since the beginning of recorded history, people have been putting on lipstick, applying perfume, wearing fake nails, and just generally making themsel...