Ancient man harnessing and wielding the elemental power of the flame was pretty cool, I guess, but I think this being Tangent's one year anniversary is a little cooler, honestly! Plus, we announce who won the first season, so actually this episode is sort of twice as important as fire if you think about it!
Ancient man harnessing and wielding the elemental power of the flame was pretty cool, I guess, but I think this being Tangent's one year anniversary is a little cooler, honestly! Plus, we announce who won the first season, so actually this episode is sort of twice as important as fire if you think about it!
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And if you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Fire-chasing beetles
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0037627
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/artful-amoeba/how-a-half-inch-beetle-finds-fires-80-miles-away/
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3998979?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
https://academic.oup.com/jee/article-abstract/36/2/341/2202937
[Fact Off]
Surgical fires
https://www.livescience.com/65615-chest-cavity-fire-surgery.html
Death ray building
https://www.livescience.com/39371-skyscraper-melts-cars-20-fenchurch.html
https://www.mississauga.com/news-story/4067822-london-s-fryscaper-draws-crowd-on-hottest-day/
https://www.cityam.com/exclusive-walkie-scorchie-melted-my-jag/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Flame Extinguishment Experiment (FLEX)
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/FLEX_Video.html
Cool flames
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010218012002131
[Butt One More Thing]
Incinerating toilets
https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-06/documents/incinera.pdf