Health & Fitness
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! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! 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://www.researchgate.net/publication/227016226_The_Photomechanic_Infrared_Receptor_for_the_Detection_of_Forest_Fires_in_the_Buprestid_Beetle_Melanophila_Acuminata 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://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2012/05/27/fire-chasing-beetles-sense-infrared-radiation-from-fires-hundreds-of-kilometres-away/ 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 https://www.ismp.org/resources/surgical-fires-caused-skin-preps-and-ointments-rare-dangerous-and-preventable Death ray building https://twitter.com/tara_mulholland/status/374877389425086464?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E374877389425086464&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ffinancialpost.com%2Fnews%2Flondons-fryscraper-owners-to-spend-millions-of-pounds-to-block-car-melting-beam https://www.pri.org/stories/2013-09-03/londons-walkie-talkie-skyscraper-blamed-melting-cars-starting-small-fire 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 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/in-space-flames-behave-in-ways-nobody-thought-possible-132637810/ Cool flames https://blogs.nasa.gov/ISS_Science_Blog/2013/11/25/cool-flames-on-the-international-space-station-an-anatomy-of-discovery/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0010218012002131 https://youtu.be/BxxqCLxxY3M [Butt One More Thing] Incinerating toilets http://www.nsf.org/consumer-resources/water-quality/wastewater-sewage-treatment/electrical-incinerating-toilets https://www.epa.gov/sites/production/files/2015-06/documents/incinera.pdf