Beaches
Beaches  
Podcast: SciShow Tangents
Published On: Tue Jun 14 2022
Description: Summer is here, which means it's time to visit everyone's favorite geological feature consisting of a strip of land covered in loose particles, existing exclusively alongside a body of water ! That's right, pack your trunks, cause today we're hitting the beach! 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 Hank: @hankgreen[Trivia Question]Goose-scaring droneshttps://www.livescience.com/39146-canada-geese-drone.html[Fact Off]Waterproof chemicals (PFASes) in tides https://www.inverse.com/science/sea-spray-is-toxichttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/937518https://massivesci.com/articles/pfas-chemical-ocean-mammals-fish-dolphins-wildlife/Salish wooly dogshttps://monova.ca/senaqwila-wyss-on-the-salish-woolly-dogs/https://hakaimagazine.com/features/the-dogs-that-grew-wool-and-the-people-who-love-themhttps://www.americanindianmagazine.org/story/a-woolly-talehttps://research.library.mun.ca/14680/1/thesis.pdfhttps://www.science.org/content/article/native-american-blankets-made-dog-hair[Ask the Science Couch]Beached cetaceans (and orcas/catfish that intentionally strand themselves)https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/why-do-whales-beach-themselveshttps://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/03/whales-mass-stranding-australia/556400/https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/774692https://hakaimagazine.com/news/salish-sea-killer-whales-have-a-surprising-new-way-of-hunting/https://cdnsciencepub.com/doi/10.1139/z91-383  https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-catfish-that-strands-itself-to-kill-pigeonshttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0050840[Butt One More Thing]Lugworm casts made of sandhttps://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/lugworm-poos-and-the-secrets-they-hold.htmlhttps://www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-explorer/marine/worms/lugworm