SciShow Tangents

Sam's Favorite Things

Episode Summary

The Tangents team faces their most complicated, multi-faceted, and mysterious topic yet: Sam. Who is he? Can anyone ever really know? Find out in this very special episode.

Episode Notes

The Tangents team faces their most complicated, multi-faceted, and mysterious topic yet: Sam. Who is he? Can anyone ever really know? Find out in this very special episode. 

[Truth or Fail]

Mini terrariums

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-X4g_fCmKw

https://lsda.jsc.nasa.gov/Experiment/exper/429

https://history.nasa.gov/SP-400/contents.htm

Baking powder submarines

http://torgo.org/bpsubs/

https://books.google.com/books?id=F2ApK7QnbPUC&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q&f=false

https://marinebio.org/creatures/tools/submarines/

Bo'sun whistle

https://telephone-museum.org/telephone-collections/capn-crunch-bosun-whistle/

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/capn-crunch-whistle

https://garydrobson.com/2014/06/03/the-origins-of-phreaking/

[Fact Off]

Oxytocin in art class vs. board games

Article: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-02/bu-cca021219.php

The paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/jomf.12556

3D print your own hermit crab

[Ask the Science Sam Couch]

D&D monster

Roving Mauler!

https://1d4chan.org/images/0/01/Roving_Mauler.jpg

[Butt One More Thing]

Beetle coming out of frog’s butt

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/after-being-swallowed-alive-water-beetle-stages-backdoor-escape-from-frogs-gut/

https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(20)30842-3?_returnURL