Health & Fitness
It's Spring here in the Northern Hemisphere, and the rivers swell with crystal clear snowmelt from tall mountain peaks... and we're all stuck inside and can't really look at it! Dang it! So I guess close your eyes and imagine floating down a beautiful river with your favorite podcast hosts as they drone on and on about bridges and salmon and stuff. Again, a big thanks for choosing us as the thing to spend your time with! Be well, everyone! 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] Kites http://www.kitehistory.com/Miscellaneous/Homan_Walsh.htm https://www.uu.edu/dept/physics/scienceguys/2004Apr.cfm https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Kite_that_Bridged_Two_Nations.html?id=7tukmQEACAAJ Stone-carving https://www.asce.org/project/five-stone-arch-bridges/ Explosions http://www.bbc.com/travel/sponsored/story/20160815-the-buddha-that-calmed-the-seas https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2011/02/why-is-ottawa-blowing-up-its-river/338889/ https://www.nap.edu/read/6289/chapter/3#16 [Fact Off] Salmon & sea lions https://wildlife.org/sea-lions-to-be-culled-to-protect-salmon/ https://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/2018/03/battle_of_species_pits_protect.html https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/killing-sea-lions-save-salmon/581740/ https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/endangered-species-conservation/adult-upstream-passage-west-coast https://oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/fish-ladder.html Wildebeest bones https://www.pnas.org/content/114/29/7647 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2020.00031/full#h6 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352249618300429?via%3Dihub https://news.uga.edu/animal-carcasses-source-river-nutrients/ [Ask the Science Couch] Rivers on Titan https://www.nasa.gov/feature/the-mysterious-lakes-on-saturns-moon-titan https://www.nasa.gov/feature/jpl/cassini-explores-a-methane-sea-on-titan https://www.space.com/36904-titan-evolution-more-like-mars-than-earth.html [Butt One More Thing] The Great Stink http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/trail/victorian_britain/social_conditions/victorian_urban_planning_04.shtml https://www.open.edu/openlearn/science-maths-technology/engineering-technology/how-london-got-its-victorian-sewers