Bubbles | SciShow Tangents Podcast

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!
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[@muhmuhmonahan4919]

I can't BELIEVE the cute little bubble tadpoles didn't take it. I vote for you, Sam!

[@thomast6741]

SciShow matters! I routinely pick things I've learned from SciShow to share with my daughter who's 9. Connecting with her through science entertainment has been an incredible experience. Thank you! Too often we're in a world where information is just handed to us, but there's now awe or understanding of how things work. SciShow helps share this with my family.

[@SciShowTangents]

that's the kind of story that makes it all worth it!

[@IceMetalPunk]

That poem has real Manic Pixie Dream Astronomer energy 😂

[@slwrabbits]

My rabbit yelled at me for listening to everyone laughing at the poem instead of petting her. She was affronted that she was not occupying all of my attention. Also, the other important thing about herring farts is when they were mistaken for Russian submarines for several years.

[@aleshakant]

Should I be going to sleep? Yes. Am I gonna instead watch this entire episode? Also yes.

[@elainebelzDetroit]

Not that anyone will see this a year after, but based on this one alone, I now want a book collection of the poems from this pod.

[@ethan-loves]

That poem was so delightful 🤣

[@Aeleas]

I'd say if it forms in a liquid it continues to be a bubble even if that liquid then hardens into a solid.

[@SciShowTangents]

I totally agree - Sam

[@muhmuhmonahan4919]

Agreed. If the film is liquid enough for the inner pocket to try to make a sphere before it cools, I'd call it a bubble.

[@ilessthan3bees]

For some reason this podcast makes me miss scishow quiz show. Are we getting any more scishow quiz show anytime soon?

[@slwrabbits]

Me too :( but I will enjoy this while we have it

[@kyle-silver]

Same :/ but at least the existing back catalog is over 12 hours of content… I still like going back through old episodes. I think if they reboot it they don’t need Hank in every single episode

[@cameronhunt5967]

I wish you had talked about antibubbles. Normal bubbles, like from a bubble wand, are a membrane of water around a packet of air, floating in air. Anti bubbles are a membrane of air around a packet of water, floating in water. The physics girl has a video on them.

[@chillsahoy2640]

The origin of bubble is so interesting. In Spanish it's "burbuja" which, when you pronounce it, really does sound like a bunch of bubbles coming out of the water.

[@thegameres816]

"I'm not touching myself..." 😳 "I'm not touching anyone else"😅😂 you got me good

[@irifhir]

At 11:48 Hank describes de Buba-Kiki effect, which henceforth should be called "bubble-kiki"

[@Shatterpath]

I wish I knew a thousand people I could convince to watch this show! I love it so much and look forward to every episode. and yes, I rewatch them as well. 😉

[@NekoMimmi]

A few years ago I used to go to a small lake when I was very sad and I look at the salamanders do that biting a bubble from the bottom surface thing! It used to really cheer me up! ❤️

[@leelarson1952]

Been a fan of SciShow basically since inception and as each new endeavor launched, I became hooked/subscribed. Tangents kind of snuck up on me. With a backlog of pre-video podcasts to catch up on, for quite a while, I used Tangents as a way to wind down at the end of my day, as a part of my routine for preparing to sleep. Which meant I had my eyes closed and became fully immersed in each weekly topic as my mind's eye pictured you all. I miss Stefan being part of the Tangents shows, BTW--but everything evolves, and I digress, tangentially. Now that I'm caught up on pre-video Tangents, I enjoy watching you all very much. Kudos to everyone involved in making SciShow content. As Thomas T said, SciShow matters!

[@seandoherty8858]

Them flirting turtles are like Whoo look at my farts, aren't they sexy?

[@pattiwicksteed3731]

A couple of Christmases back I was having a socially distanced picnic with friends on Christmas Day. One of my friends is easy to buy for: anything that makes bubbles! And, we made this amazing discovery. Seagulls are frightened of bubbles! We got to eat in peace by just blowing a bubble or two any time one of them came back. :D

[@jebus456]

I came here for the bubble sucking... not disappointed.

[@voluptuousvince6522]

Sam you crack me the fk up dude, you seem like you have so much fun in life and make people smile.

[@una_10bananas]

I love the way his voice has a smile in it

[@laibarehman8005]

18:01 in-sync adorabubble “oh-no!”

[@dianeb.8242]

This was truly the most inspirational poem about bubbles I have ever heard. Thank goodness Hank is such an insightful, creative poet. Anyways, thank you for doing all this hard work! I've been listening to this podcast for a few years and, for some weird reason, have a very specific memory of listening to your episode about frogs and LOSING MY MIND over frog facts while brushing my hair. I love your show and all the love and joy in each episode.

[@KY_CPA]

I still always think of the over-reactive fish in Finding Nemo, in the aquarium at the dentist's office screaming BUBBLES! anytime I see a bubble 😂

[@OrchidWine]

Another awesome video!!! Great job guys

[@calebgibbons-eyre8602]

My definition of Bubble: A shape created by inflating a substance with a gas. (this includes glass bubbles and bubblewrap)

[@theperfectbotsteve4916]

I can imagine that eventually when the sun dies we could help out all life and fly away or something considering we are probably the only Species that can or its just impossible and we all die there in the sun

[@beamteammom5431]

The nurse who gave my kids their vaccines always snapped the syringe with her fingers before giving the needle to get rid of air bubbles. Loved Hank’s poem, too!

[@raymondgilbert7887]

Thanks for the science!

[@alec4672]

"gas ex needs to pop muh bubbles" God I wish I could like this twice 😂😂

[@bananatassium7009]

sam has very nice hair tbh

[@injunsun]

@SciShow Tangents, On bubbles: If it only counts when it is a liquid around a gas, then before styrofoam or bubble wrap solidifies, they qualify, same as a soap bubble qualifies, until it is frozen. Is a frozen soap bubble then not a bubble? If this scenario applies, then the first two are bubbles, if the temperature is hot enough. @22 minutes in, you're saying the tadpoles pinch off a tiny air biscuit?

[@Cosmo-Young]

Wonderful poem

[@dixon_481]

I don't kno if I want more, to be Ceri or know her. One of those two things tho.

[@mfiesta4634]

Great episode, but I also got a Best Western ad right before it 😂

[@SciShowTangents]

I basically only get VRBO ads these days. I'd kill for a Best Western ad!

[@morwynn35]

Sam was robbed!! Glad you’re feeling better Hank. Fun episode!

[@kyle-silver]

Glass bubbles form when the glass is in a liquid phase… do the bubbles stop being bubbles just because the molten glass hardens??

[@SciShowTangents]

I think Ceri was way off base here, personally - Sam

[@muhmuhmonahan4919]

You've done fish and oceans, but how about a shark episode? Someone asked me what my favorite shark was and I didn't have an immediate answer and that's sad.

[@SciShowTangents]

I'll put it on my 'episode ideas' list!

[@darcieclements4880]

If a bubble forms in a liquid and then is trapped as the liquid solidifies, is it still a bubble? The debate is real.

[@darcieclements4880]

Also cavitation... How dose this really related? Sequel episode!

[@thomaswade3072]

Styrofoam is millions of microscopic bubbles in a bit of plastic. It's a foam, that's been frozen in place.

[@ditzfough]

Blown glass is a bubble in a liquid. Then cooled into a solid. Its still a bubble. As much as i love ceri. I think she is incorrect in bubble definition

[@thomaswade3072]

@@ditzfough Specifically, per Meriam Webster dictionary, the definitions C & D describe exactly what we're talking about.

[@ditzfough]

@@thomaswade3072 agreed although mirriam webster specifically states 'transparent' and i dont agree with that. A block of swiss cheese has bubbles in it. You may not see them until you cut a slice. But they are still there.

[@thomaswade3072]

@@ditzfough agreed!

[@possumpatch02]

BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY!!!!! I GO THERE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@possumpatch02]

proud that my school does good lizard research

[@shadebug]

Worth keeping in mind that while 1 metre is about 3 feet, 1 cubic metre is much more than 3 cubic feet because maths hates you. Thinking of it as yards will get you closer but 1 cubic metre, wolfram alpha tells me, is 35 cubic feet

[@SciShowTangents]

I'm screenshooting this - Sam

[@markedis5902]

We are evolutionarily preprogrammed to not understand huge distances or huge a of time. If we as humans could actually understand and truly imagine the distances involved in astronomy or geological timescales we would go insane as we would then understand how truly insignificant we actually are .

[@dumottin]

My friend can make and blow spit bubbles