SciShow Tangents28 Feb 2023

Lasers

In all of science, there are very few things conceptually cooler than lasers. A beam of light you can use to blast aliens? Heck yeah! But are lasers actually as cool in reality as they are in science fiction? Probably not! But I guess you'll have to listen to find out for sure.

SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces!

Head to www.patreon.com/SciShowTangents to find out how you can help support SciShow Tangents, and see all the cool perks you’ll get in return, like bonus episodes and a monthly newsletter!

And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy your very own, genuine SciShow Tangents sticker!

A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley, Mike A, and Tom Mosner for helping to make the show possible!

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: Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @im_sam_schultz Hank: @hankgreen

[Truth or Fail]

Gold-plated bacteria

Contact lenses that shoot lasers

Lead into gold with lasers

[Trivia Question]

Universal Product Code first scanned in grocery store

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/history-bar-code-180956704/

[Fact Off]

Laser cooking of printed chicken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jct3f92rIOE

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/3-d-printed-chicken-dinner-cooked-by-lasers/

Laser lightning rod for deflection/protection

https://www.unige.ch/communication/communiques/en/2023/devier-la-foudre-grace-au-paratonnerre-laser

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41566-022-01139-z

https://www.nssl.noaa.gov/education/svrwx101/lightning/faq/

http://www.usfcam.usf.edu/cam/exhibitions/1998_12_mccollum/supplemental_didactics/21.uman2.pdf

[Ask the Science Couch]

Long-distance lasers and masers

https://www.faa.gov/about/initiatives/lasers/hazards

https://spie.org/news/12-09-laser-ranging?SSO=1

http://ccom.unh.edu/theme/lidar

https://www.icrar.org/megamaser/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.02523

[Butt One More Thing]

Low-level laser therapy for butt (or any) tendons

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8886125/

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/22960-gluteal-tendinopathy

http://www.utahorthopediccenters.com/hip/gluteus-medius-tendinopathy-or-dead-butt-syndrome/

Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Det här avsnittet är hämtat från ett öppet RSS-flöde och publiceras inte av Podme. Det kan innehålla reklam.

Avsnitt(338)

Spaaaace Compilation

To infinity, butt facts, and beyond! It's not a shock that we here at Tangents love space. This wide-ranging set of episodes takes us all over our seasons - and all throughout our universe - as we lea...

19 Sep 20253h 40min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 37

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on July 16, 2024 titled "Extra Special Crew Chat!"Original Patreon description: Tangents is made possible by people like you - who contribute to our...

16 Sep 202533min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 36

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on July 1, 2024 titled "June Bonus!"Original Patreon description: This is going be a gooooooood one! Here's some cut for time content from the banan...

12 Sep 20257min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 35

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on May 31, 2024 titled "Bonus Content!"Original Patreon description: This month we have a special cut-for-time bonus science couch question from our...

9 Sep 20259min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 34

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on April 25, 2024 titled "Bonus Episode Hygiene!"Original Patreon description: Rapid Fire Quesitons coming in HOT!SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go...

5 Sep 202530min

Superhero Tropes Compilation

It's a bird, it's a plane, it's another Tangents compilation! In these fantastic, superpowered episodes, we learn about the real-world ways these superhero tropes show up all around us. Strap on your ...

2 Sep 20252h 57min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 33

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on April 1, 2024 titled "Big vs. Small bonus questions!"SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!And go to https://comp...

29 Aug 202532min

Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Minions Movie Commentary

This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on February 14, 2024 titled "Minions. Commentary. + Announcement."Original Patreon description: Besties, Followers, Fangents, we've been so busy put...

26 Aug 20251h 34min