Here at Tangents, we don't mess around when it comes to Halloween. So each week in October, the topic will be one of our greatest fears! Hank was apparently too afraid to even be on this episode, so instead special guest Caitlin Hofmeister confronts her fear of failure as we tell her tales of science gone wrong!
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If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Bubble Wrap
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/accidental-invention-bubble-wrap-180971325/
Whoopee Cushion
https://torontoist.com/2013/04/toronto-invents-the-whoopee-cushion/
Vaseline
https://www.damninteresting.com/nugget/story-of-vaseline/
[Fact Off]
Mosquito self-limiting gene
Four Pests campaign
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2014/02/26/mao-four-pests-china-disease/#.XKzfDOtKhxw
https://io9.gizmodo.com/china-s-worst-self-inflicted-environmental-disaster-th-5927112
https://chineseposters.net/themes/four-pests.php
http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20061130_1.htm
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/
[Ask the Science Couch]
Killifish
https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6317/1305
https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/against-tide-fish-adapts-quickly-lethal-levels-pollution/
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/science/atlantic-killifish-evolution-pollution.html
Radiotrophic fungi
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/radiation-helps-fungi-grow/
https://mbio.asm.org/content/7/6/e01483-16
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000457
Birds
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140424223057.htm
https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.12283
https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/pdf/S0169-5347(16)00019-7.pdf
[Butt One More Thing]
Artificial poop pills
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/sham-poo-washes-out/493811/