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From ancient clay pots to the heat-proof panels on the space shuttle, ceramics have been an integral part of human technology from the very beginning. I can’t even think of any jokes about ceramic! It’s just cool!   More importantly! Over the last week or so, Hank has absolutely ruined everyones’ Twitter timelines with one simple question: “is butt legs?” In this episode, you get to bear ear-witness to the genesis of this wretched, society-shattering question! #buttislegs   Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions!    If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links:   [Truth or Fail]   Non-deflatable football https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deflategate http://www.madehow.com/Volume-1/Air-Bag.html   Strong water https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/Aluminum-oxide#section=Mechanism-of-Action http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.470.4214&rep=rep1&type=pdf   Pajamas https://www.underarmour.com/en-us/tb12 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3699878/ https://www.espn.com/espnw/life-style/story/_/id/23315114/we-tried-do-tom-brady-recovery-pajamas-live-their-name   [Fact Off]   Moon art https://www.moma.org/collection/works/62272 https://www.pbs.org/opb/historydetectives/investigation/moon-museum/ https://garage.vice.com/en_us/article/zmabk4/moon-museum   Magnetic field https://www.livescience.com/57868-earth-magnetic-field-spike-ancient-times.html https://www.space.com/43173-earth-magnetic-field-flips-when.html https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/14/515032512/iron-age-potters-carefully-recorded-earths-magnetic-field-by-accident https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/earths-mysterious-magnetic-field-stored-in-a-jar?verso=true   [Ask the Science Couch]   Glazes https://edu.rsc.org/feature/the-chemistry-of-pottery/2020245.article https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/materials-science/glaze   Specific materials (tin, salt, etc.)  https://www.thesprucecrafts.com/ceramic-and-glaze-fluxes-2745860 https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1560&context=open_access_etds https://www.britannica.com/art/tin-glazed-earthenware   [Butt One More Thing]   Ceramic butt wiping https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/toilet-tissue-anthropologists-uncover-all-the-ways-weve-wiped/ https://www.bmj.com/content/345/bmj.e8287.full