Podcast:SciShow Tangents Published On: Tue May 05 2020 Description: Salt: a mineral so nice that much of early human civilization was based on its procurement! Now we put big chunks of it on tasty pretzels at the mall! 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]Lake Peigneurhttps://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/sinkhole-swallowed-11-barges/Brinacleshttps://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/underwater-brinicles.htmSalt Hotelhttps://theculturetrip.com/south-america/bolivia/articles/welcome-to-the-hotel-thats-made-entirely-from-salt/[Fact Off]Coconut water IVhttp://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/14/12/5144https://podcasts.ufhealth.org/can-coconut-water-mimic-human-plasma/https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735675700900627https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/08/15/139638930/saved-by-the-coconut-water-parsing-coconut-waters-medical-claimshttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK154437/Salt flats for satellite calibrationhttps://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Characterization-of-the-Salar-de-Uyuni-for-in-orbit-Lamparelli-Ponzoni/6b6a5037f838a2342d5681b642944fd68c775551https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/172/1/31/2081107https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071130/full/news.2007.315.html[Ask the Science Couch]Salt in a wound historyhttps://books.google.com/books?id=29gV_kCmZrIC&pg=PA141https://www.abc.net.au/life/will-sea-water-help-heal-open-sores/11279036http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abestwa8t.htmlSaline solutionhttps://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/31/597666140/why-did-sterile-salt-water-become-the-iv-fluid-of-choicehttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4794509/Nociceptionhttps://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/m/s2/chapter06.htmlhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK32659/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2903433/[Butt One More Thing]Rectal salt glandshttps://www.jstor.org/stable/1541076?seq=1https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5216465/https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00364827.1963.10410275?journalCode=ssar20