Poison | SciShow Tangents Podcast

[@IceMetalPunk]

5-year-old Ceri wants lots of bugs to study? This explains *so much* and I love it 😂 And no, Hank, I refuse to Google "the body hole with the most uses", and you know *exactly* why 😂

[@hannahhaugen1694]

Hi Ceri! (and the rest of the Tangents team!) I work at Biosphere 2! Thank you for the shoutout, I can confirm that there are SO MANY ants there. For those interested in more cool science facts, Biosphere 2 has it's own podcast, check it out!

[@SciShowTangents]

Whoa, amazing! We love Biosphere 2!

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Picturing Hank, covered in slime, riding around on a bicycle, while full grown, was HILARIOUS! 🤣

[@disky01]

Wait, is there a Tangents episode about slime? There should be. I feel like I could watch you guys talk about slime for a long time. A slime time. You could do a slime rhyme!

[@DrawnByDandy]

Hank that poem was such a banger omg

[@leelarson1952]

I don't think I've ever heard three Fun Fact questions where I absolutely knew the answers, without flipping a coin. TIL catching an actual premiere is the premier way to watch a new episode. (Chatting while watching and playing along was so much fun.) Sam's trivia answer logic (or lack thereof) always is interesting. Hank's Fact Off choices based on TikTok viability are always uniquely his own. "Snake Everclear" clearly needs to be a thing. No rolling in goat poop, got it!

[@amosbackstrom2699]

Yeah I was thinking, how the hell were you not already thinking about poisonous monarchs before he even finished the question, with the obvious conclusion that at least one bird species would have developed an immunity to it.

[@Dee-jp7ek]

You're always cheating Sam outta points Hank 😂 #JusticeforSam

[@Arwennigan]

This episode has one of my favorite science poems

[@ethan-loves]

This show is excellent. !!!

[@mrjoe332]

"driven" yes. That is definitely the word

[@Azerinth]

You got your spider in my virus! No sir, you got your virus in my spider!

[@alexisthinking]

So, I loved this episode as I love snakes and creepy crawlies. For the venom segment, to my understanding, your stomach acids do a great job of breaking down venoms and thus they are rarely poisonous. However, it’s still not recommended to eat them because if you have ulcers or other cuts in your esophagus or stomach, the venom can enter the bloodstream and have the same effect as being injected. Spot on with the difference between venoms and poisons, venoms are typically injected and poisons are ingested. There does become a fuzzy area like anything else, but Ceri nailed it with calling it “toxins” to be safe if you’re unsure. Also, there are a few snake species that are both venomous and poisonous. The poison is usually sequestered from eating poisonous toads or insects. Keelback snakes are one that is poisonous and hognose snakes are both poisonous and venomous. They are rear-fanged venomous though so they don’t deliver much venom and at worst it equates to about as bad as a bee sting. Although, depending on how liberal you are with your definition of venom, you could make a good argument that we are venomous, so there’s that. Lol. Ok, long enough comment, thanks for getting this far if you did. 😂

[@cottoncandypinkandblue]

That's a new thread. Are humans venomous? How liberally would we consider the term venomous? Would any other any other animals get reclassified? I'm thinking of the octopus with a coconut shell as having an exo skeleton. A dog with a knife in the mouth has a talon. I could be taking it out of proportion but I do amuse myself.

[@alexisthinking]

@@cottoncandypinkandblue Snake venoms contain both enzymes and non-enzymatic proteins which not only immobilize prey but also begins the digestion process. There are snakes that are rear fanged venomous that don’t use their venom to subdue prey and is primarily used to aid in digestion, but do still have a venom that if we were to be bitten by it wouldn’t be a good time. There’s also been hot debate with things like certain monitor lizards like the Komodo dragon which now appears to have venom, but death of its prey is generally slower and appears to often be a result of bacterial infection from the bite. If a human takes a bite out of something, including another human, a gnarly infection is likely to occur. Plus, the enzymes in our saliva start to pre digest food before it hits our stomach just like snakes venoms do. You’d have to be very liberally applying the term venom, but you can make the argument that we are venomous.

[@cottoncandypinkandblue]

@@alexisthinking thanks. Sorry for making a joke about your point. I didn't know anything about it. Thanks I know better.

[@alexisthinking]

@@cottoncandypinkandblue No need to apologize, the interwebs are a glorious place for learning and joking, and they aren’t mutually exclusive. 😁

[@OverlordMaggie]

Hey Hank, follow your dream! You can *craft* slime, find a recipe and upscale it, or support those friendos like you say. They might even like a collab. Those things that hang in there from childhood feel so good to finally do as an adult! For me it was an RC car, next on the bucket list is one of those 'hook up wires' kid's engineering kits, if anyone knows what I'm talking about.

[@KaitlinGaspar]

hey that hook up wires electronics kit is mine too!!

[@OverlordMaggie]

@@KaitlinGaspar I remember one where you had a board, all kinds of supertight coiled springs all over it, and you'd bend the spring to make room for the wires and that was how you did your connections... My brother got all the science stuff but I was super into it and he wasn't. I was a terrible gremlin though, so maybe arming me with cool gadgets would've made me too powerful! Make a list somewhere! Online, a paper or whiteboard hung on the wall, a digital Trello or Obsidian list, anything - get them things!It can be easy to forget you always were curious to have something when you have the time and money, the list does me wonders!

[@Bee-Gay]

I loved the poem this episode

[@chrisferrante9699]

Love your shows!!!!

[@gsarngad]

Like Sam was mentioning, there is a "viceroy" butterfly that avoids predators by looking like the poisonous monarch but isn't actually poisonous itself

[@imenhashim6943]

the cloaca, right? (hole with the most uses)

[@mayaenglish5424]

Sam was robbed I tell you, robbed of a tie rightfully earned! lol

[@MangindDerous]

You know that they're also making toad sausages and adding a nasty tasting compound to them and dropping them in the outback to try and stop native Quolls from eating the toads and dying too

[@michaelpytel3280]

The Whole with the most uses is the Whole Universe. 🕳

[@arthursamuel301]

You get a like for Sam singing 😁

[@perryallen9058]

Does the word "potable" as in potable water also come from the same root as poison then? They sound very similar!

[@hannahbrown2728]

Pat Springleaf in Seattle? Thats a long way to fly for him, I bet he had some of the worst jet lag of his life.

[@chloe.d178]

Hank get gelli baff it turns your whole bathtub into gelli or slime or goo

[@RoundHouseDictator]

The hole with the most uses is probably a USB port

[@RoundHouseDictator]

Or the ocean, if that's a wide hole

[@ariclawrence364]

Do black holes count? I realize they really aren’t holes per say, unless you look at them as a three dimensional hole that you can fall into from any angle. A hole seems to normally represent a lack of something while a black hole is a bunch of stuff compressed infinitely dense.

[@ariclawrence364]

Is a black hole a temporal hole? One in which you call to slower moving time and as you fall you experience the movement of universe accelerate around you. Vs a spacial hole where when you fall into it you see matter accelerate past you.

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@ariclawrence364 I mean, holes in the ground have a bottom, and are thus bowl-shaped, but are still considered holes. So I'd say a black hole is that kind of hole in spacetime itself, with the singularity acting as the bottom.

[@Robertmartines]

They need to feed the thing, recognizable as the toad, and feed them to the adults, and then see if the children just know.

[@corpsin123]

Slime side of youtube, only YOU can help make hanks dream come true

[@jebus456]

How often are people at the grocery store rude to Hank?!

[@egodeathwish]

none anymore

[@ArtichokeHunter]

just cook your milkweed (and eat in sustainable quantities to leave plenty for the butterflies)

[@Elientjepientje.]

Wait isn't a ham very big? I thought it was basically the whole leg of a pig? That's a very big chunk of meat. At least a couple of kilos. I have been vegetarian for a long long time so i could be wrong though

[@IceMetalPunk]

Leg? AFAIK, "ham" refers to *any* part of a pig... or so I thought.

[@wolfferoni]

I assume they're talking about a leg of ham which yes, is big. Some people eat a lot of meat though. A full orchestra of 80-100 people. A full leg is about 10kg. Portion of 250g each. 40 people per leg. About 2 legs of ham for a full orchestra. Deli slices of ham needs to be pork but I don't know if it legally has to be part of the leg.

[@nottsork]

Water is toxic in enough amounts ,so water toxicity is aching but water is neither a toxin or poison

[@maxinerosaler762]

formic acid ld50 for at least dogs is 4000 mg/kg or no more toxic than acetic acid

[@maxinerosaler762]

formic acid is not a poison if dilute amounts are ingested (their salts are no more toxic than table salt)

[@RonaldSheely]

A book on engineering for preschoolers

[@cottoncandypinkandblue]

The mouth. Everything and anything can have been done with the mouth.

[@IceMetalPunk]

I can think of two things which, if they're happening via the mouth, are simultaneously a *huge* medical problem and also nausea-inducing to think about....

[@cottoncandypinkandblue]

@@IceMetalPunk exactly. I thought many purposes can possibly be had via mouth. I believe the healthy use of my mouth would almost entirely focus on eating and drinking and occasionally breathing.

[@markgoggin2014]

I have a feeling I know what kinds of toys she buys

[@maxinerosaler762]

formic acid isn't any more of a poison than salt is (ld50 for both formic acid and common salt is 4000 mg/kg for dogs)

[@maxinerosaler762]

formic acid when ingested is not that much more toxic than acetic acid (ld50 for dogs acetic acid 4000 mg/kg same for formic acid at 4000 m/kg) thus not a poison but an irritant venom

[@Robertmartines]

They say French for poison and fish are the same, that’s like saying English for desert and dessert are the same…. French: poisson - fish poison - poison. (and the “oi” sound “wa” and the single s is “Z”)

[@santoast24]

Sam's fact was so cool that I completely forgot whatever Ceri's fact..... oh something about ants and holes...... anyway back to Sam

[@jebus456]

wudup!

[@chloe.d178]

Hank buy gelli baff

[@mooncowtube]

French for fish: poisson = PWA-SSOÑ French for poison: poison = PWA-ZOÑ Similar spelling, similar pronunciation, but neither is quite exactly the same.

[@RowieSundog]

Five year old me would get a kids book of the sort that lets kids know trans ppl are allowed to exist Tho considering that time I'm not sure discovering gender would help at all thru the trauma

[@drtrowb]

Habu Sake!!! 🐍