Monster Month: Monster Mash
Monster Month: Monster Mash  
Podcast: SciShow Tangents
Published On: Tue Oct 27 2020
Description: Monster Month meets its ghoulish end, and we’re throwing it a swinging wake! This week, all the monsters we didn’t talk about during the rest of October come together for a great big Monster Mash!Halloween is my favorite time of year, and this one has been more than a little weird. But working on Monster Month helped make up for some of the creepy fun I'm missing out on, and I hope it did the same for you!RIP Monster Month! For now...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: @hankgreenIf you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail]King Kong suit experimentshttps://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(15)00946-Xhttps://www.livescience.com/52209-apes-remember-ancitipate-scary-movie-scenes.html Thieving puppet experimenthttps://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/research-with-thieving-puppets-demonstrates-toddlers-caring-sides/Parrots wasting foodhttps://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/02/science/why-parrots-waste-food.htmlSocial interaction puppet experimenthttps://munewsarchives.missouri.edu/news-releases/2015/0210-babies-can-identify-complex-social-situations-and-react-accordingly-2/ [Fact Off] Birdcatcher treehttps://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-tropical-ecology/article/dispersal-and-germination-of-seeds-of-pisonia-grandis-an-indopacific-tropical-tree-associated-with-insular-seabird-colonies/60178D05BB8FFDED4565F2EB72E9061Dhttps://www.sciencealert.com/this-tree-seems-to-kill-birds-just-for-the-heck-of-ithttps://www.academia.edu/16969627/_Birdlime_Sticky_Entrapments_in_Renaissance_Literature_https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/this-tree-lures-birds-with-a-free-lunch-and-then-kills-them/2017/03/31/27aa04c0-1309-11e7-9e4f-09aa75d3ec57_story.htmlhttps://www.theargus.co.uk/news/16882829.birds-killed-illegal-glue-traps-horsham-nature-reserve/ Bloodsucking (Capri Son) anthttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/uoia-dap120618.phphttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9dsINb64Q0&feature=youtu.be&ab_channel=AntLabhttps://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dracula-ants-snapping-jaws-are-fastest-known-appendage-any-animal-180971061/#:~:text=According%20to%20Hannah%20Devlin%20of,them%20%E2%80%9Cfull%20of%20holes.%E2%80%9Dhttps://blogs.scientificamerican.com/running-ponies/shadow-labyrinth-mirror-new-species-of-child-eating-dracula-ants-get-cool-ninja-names/https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-03/pp-snd032814.php [Ask the Science Couch] Organ transplantshttps://www.cedars-sinai.org/programs/transplant-center/programs/kidney-pancreas/abo-incompatibility.htmlhttps://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/transplant/programs/reconstructive_transplant/hand_transplant.htmlhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s41423-019-0215-3https://jbioleng.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13036-017-0089-9 Blood compatibility https://www.rch.org.au/bloodtrans/about_blood_products/Blood_Groups_and_Compatibilities/https://www.cedars-sinai.org/programs/transplant-center/programs/kidney-pancreas/abo-incompatibility.html [Butt One More Thing] Yeti poop actually bearshttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/11/yeti-legends-real-animals-dna-bears-himalaya-science/