96 - Monster Month: Ghosts!
SciShow Tangents
English - October 06, 2020 16:00 - 28.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 1.4K ratingsSocial Sciences Science Education schultz comedy sam schultz education ceri riley science hank green stefan chin scishow tangents Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
It’s ba-ack! Fear Month is back from the dead in a hideous new form: Monster Month! This week we’re busting out the Ouija board and summoning forth some Ghostly science knowledge from beyond this earthly plane!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:
[Truth or Fail]
Bioluminescent/reflective animals
https://www.owlpages.com/owls/articles.php?a=18
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsta.2014.0206
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2015/07/150724-fireflies-glow-bugs-summer-nation-science/
Marsh gases
https://cen.acs.org/articles/92/i38/George-Washington-Scientist.html
https://www.popsci.com/jack-o-lanterns-marsh-lights/
https://discovernjhistory.org/magical-mud-microbes-and-methane/
https://www.nj.gov/state/historical/it-happened-here/ihhnj-er-first-science-ex.pdf
Pepper's ghost illusion
https://cosmosmagazine.com/physics/the-science-behind-the-pepper-s-ghost-illusion/
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/aekye5/the-science-behind-the-worlds-most-convincing-ghost-effect
[Fact Off]
Feeling of presence ghost robot
https://www.wired.com/2014/11/robot-ghost/
Ghost fleas and mercury
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/ghost-fleas-bring-toxic-mercury-depths-prairie-lakes
[Ask the Science Couch]
EMF readers
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/11/the-broken-technology-of-ghost-hunting/506627/
https://www.livescience.com/4261-shady-science-ghost-hunting.html
https://io9.gizmodo.com/meet-the-emf-meter-the-little-tool-that-ghost-hunters-5875212
[Butt One More Thing]
Ghost dog poop
It’s ba-ack! Fear Month is back from the dead in a hideous new form: Monster Month! This week we’re busting out the Ouija board and summoning forth some Ghostly science knowledge from beyond this earthly plane!
Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!
While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on Twitter: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen
If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these SciShowTangents.org!