Bubbles
Bubbles  
Podcast: SciShow Tangents
Published On: Tue Jul 26 2022
Description: Kids Month floats on as we talk about possibly our lightest subject ever: bubbles! Pop in to learn what makes a simple soapy membrane so fascinating to kid and adult like! If you know a kid who loves science, have we go the show for you! It's called SciShow Kids, and it has all the great, rigorously-researched content you expect from SciShow, but for kids! Plus, it has puppets! Check it out at https://www.youtube.com/scishowkids!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/SciShowTangentsto 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, Tom Mosner, Daisy Whitfield, and Allison Owen 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 Deboki: @okidoki_boki[Trivia Question]Perfect bubble wand perimeterhttps://www.nyu.edu/about/news-publications/news/2018/august/researchers-uncover-the-science-behind-blowing-bubbles.htmlhttps://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/theres-now-an-even-more-precise-recipe-for-blowing-the-perfect-bubble/[Fact Off]Tadpole bubble-sucking to breathehttps://www.instagram.com/p/B9AO801nrJI/https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/02/200226130510.htmMicroscopic “rockets” propelled by a bubble and sound waveshttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/634184https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aax3084http://brennen.caltech.edu/fluidbook/multiphase/Bubbleordroplettranslation/bjerknesforces.pdf[Ask the Science Couch]Air bubbles in needles (unintentional or intentional)https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/air-embolism/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734897/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542192/https://starship.org.nz/guidelines/agitated-saline-bubble-study-for-the-detection-of-an-intrapulmonary-or/https://www.health.harvard.edu/heart-health/what-is-a-bubble-study[Butt One More Thing]Polymers in laxatives make big soap bubbleshttps://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/physicists-discover-why-this-bubble-solution-makes-monster-bubbles​https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/physicists-determine-the-optimal-soap-recipe-for-blowing-gigantic-bubbles/https://journals.aps.org/prfluids/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevFluids.5.013304