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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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...

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Cities

Episode Date: August 23, 2022

Tall buildings, subways, bodegas, rats. These are just some of the things you'll find in cities. Another thing you'll find? Science! From the smelly y...

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Carbon

Episode Date: August 16, 2022

Carbon gets a pretty bad rap these days, what with global climate change and, but every living thing on Earth owes their very existence to this multit...

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Skin

Episode Date: August 9, 2022

When it comes to keeping all of your guts and blood inside, skin is second to none! Yet so often is it taken for granted. Today, we fix that by talkin...

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Spaceships

Episode Date: August 2, 2022

10....9.... Hey gang, Kids Month is about ready to blast off into space ....8....7....6 but before it does, we have one more topic exploring the child...

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Bubbles

Episode Date: July 26, 2022

Kids Month floats on as we talk about possibly our lightest subject ever: bubbles! Pop in to learn what makes a simple soapy membrane so fascinating t...

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Dinosaurs

Episode Date: July 12, 2022

Kids month continues with maybe THE most-beloved-by-children scientific topic of all time: dinosaurs! Come on a journey back in time to learn about th...

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Play

Episode Date: July 5, 2022

This month on SciShow Tangents, we're celebrating the sense of childlike wonder present in science by discussing a bunch of stuff kids like! We're cal...

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Books with Vanessa Zoltan

Episode Date: June 28, 2022

We here on SciShow Tangents may have the market cornered on science podcasting, but that doesn't mean we know everything. Put us in a lab, and we're l...

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Beaches

Episode Date: June 14, 2022

Summer is here, which means it's time to visit everyone's favorite geological feature consisting of a strip of land covered in loose particles, existi...

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Fuel

Episode Date: June 7, 2022

Cars need it, trains need it, and guess what? People need it, too! Can you deduce the answer to my devious riddle? That's right, it's fuel! Fill up yo...

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Paper

Episode Date: May 31, 2022

When I was a kid, everything was on paper. Books were on paper, magazines were on paper, newspapers were on, you guessed it, paper. Nowadays, everythi...

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Symbiosis

Episode Date: May 24, 2022

When, in nature, two little guys are benefiting off each other one way or another, we call that symbiosis. But, if you think about it too hard, you st...