SciShow Tangents

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4.9
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255 episodes
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Explicit
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Date created
2018/11/04
Average duration
47 min.
Release period
14 days

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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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Hormones
2024/02/20
Oops, all science this episode! Erstwhile editorial assistant Deboki Chakravarti steps in for erstwhile everyman Sam Schultz as we parse through fundamental puzzles about humanity: what makes us, us, and if it is hormones, does that make us cocktails or cauldrons?
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Cheese
2024/02/06
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 stretch our nokkeledge of cheese applications, and we unwrap the shocking tartrutho about a cheese we thought we knew!* *Here are the real cheese names I butchered into puns: feta, nokkelost, tartuffo. All delicious, go try some!
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Darkness
2024/01/23
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 ocean or floating in the all too-eerie void of deep space, you're always gonna have some photons hitting your face. (I'm pretty sure I accidentally stole this rhyme right out of Hank's poem, but you'll just have to listen to know for sure...)
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Refrigeration
2024/01/09
In this not-so-chill episode, everybody gets a little unsettled by the concepts around refrigeration. Quantum computers, thermoacoustics, molecular chemistry, elephants, the phantom letter "d" that gets added to the shortening of refrigeration...it's all just. So much.
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Quiet
2023/12/26
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 scientific definition? Is it all just relative? Should crickets have podcasts? Join us as we (ok, maybe not so) quietly contemplate quiet.
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Oil
2023/12/12
Oil: it's a ubiquitous substance humans have been relying on for longer than you might think. We cook with it, we moisturize with it, we run machines with it - it keeps slipping into places we least expect to find it, for good and for ill...
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Telescopes
2023/11/28
What's that you spy on the horizon, just out of sight? If you have a telescope handy, you can hone your gaze on...more telescopes! From pocket spyglasses to Extremely Large (a real telescope name), join us and special guest Julian Huguet as we set our sights on the far-reaching world of these incredible devices. How we wonder what they are...
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Batteries
2023/11/14
Batteries are all around us, in things we use all the time, and in all different shapes and sizes, so of course we know exactly how they all work, right? Nope! Not even close! The bizarre breadth of our battery banter includes Ben Franklin, tiny computers, and...shrimp?
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Trick or Treat Month: Slime with Alexis Nikole Nelson!
2023/10/31
Trick or Treat Month returns... and this time it's personal! Join us for another month of spooky themes and special surprise guest apparitions! Try not to get too scared! And so we close the ancient, flesh-bound spell book on another Trick or Treat Month... but we're going out on top, baby! Alexis Nikole Nelson has appeared, as if by magic, to lead us into the deep, dark woods and point out all the slimy, sticky, gross stuff on the ground that she says we can eat. I guess I trust her!
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Trick or Treat Month: Theories with Dan Schreiber!
2023/10/17
Trick or Treat Month returns... and this time it's personal! Join us for another month of spooky themes and special surprise guest apparitions! Try not to get too scared! Our yearly cavalcade of terror rolls on with a new Grand Marshall of Terror: podcaster, author, and mad genius Dan Schreiber! And he's here to tell us about the weirdest, creepiest, most otherworldly theories ever devised of! There are lots of science-y ideas out there, and not all of them can be right, after all!
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Trick or Treat Month: Tombs with Siobhan Thompson!
2023/10/03
Trick or Treat Month returns... and this time it's personal! Join us for another month of spooky themes and special surprise guest apparitions! Try not to get too scared! This year's ghastly Grand Guignol of science and screams begins where most human lives end: the tomb! And we dug up an old friend, Dimension 20's Siobhan Thompson, to guide us deep into the cursed catacombs of knowledge!
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Hygiene
2023/09/19
A big part of being a human is that you get progressively more gross as the day goes on. Various parts start stinking, hair grows all over your face, you're touching who-knows-what... luckily for all of us, someone a long time ago decided to invent hygiene! Otherwise we'd have to lick ourselves like cats!
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4.9 out of 5
1392 reviews
Stilts17 2024/02/06
Sweet Cheeses
This show is my happy place. I learn something new every single episode.
Dr.Skyeler 2024/01/07
TANGENTS…
I normally do not write reviews, in fact I never have, but I find this is too special not to. This podcast has been my favorite without a doubt for mo...
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coryrusin 2023/12/29
Helped me win trivia!
I’ve been binge listening to all of the episodes since I learned about the podcast a month or so ago. In one round of bar trivia tonight the podcast h...
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A Velocicrapter 2023/12/06
Always Entertaining
I have been listening to this podcast since 2019. I have listened to every episode more than once and still find every episode funny, enlightening, an...
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TheStephanieMartin 2023/11/01
I laugh AND I learn!
This podcast is so good. The hosts poke fun at themselves and at each other all while being nerdy about cool science stuff. I really enjoy the banter....
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Kducks36 2023/10/11
Love this show!
I found this gem of a podcast a couple of weeks ago and have been listening to the older episodes first. It’s hysterical and informative at the same ...
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LucretiaG 2023/09/30
Amazing! Please keep it up!
This podcast is the highlight to our breakfast! We listen to an episode every morning on the weekend as we sit outside and have a blast learning and l...
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cbearcircle 2023/09/09
A million stars. Please do Wasps.
LOVE. The day i discovered this podcast i listened to it for six hours straight on a long drive. The craziest fact i have learned is that Orin is like...
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Jack101% 2023/08/29
Bright squirrels!
Just listened to cities episode. Sorry, I’m not on twitter so hopefully this comment will make it to you this way. Squirrels are bright colors, just n...
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Kay Rego 2023/08/09
This podcast makes running way less miserable
This podcast has been a regular part of my running routine for a few years now, as it fits nicely into the overlap of funny and entertaining while als...
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