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SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.
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Cooler Than Homework is a Disney Channel Original Movie Podcast. Produced by Snark Squad, Cooler Than Homework is a show where four friends – Nicole Sweeney, Matthew Gaydos, Marines Alvarez, and Ceri Riley – get together to watch and discuss every DCOM. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Every week on Butter No Parsnips, your hosts Emily Moyers and Kyle Imperatore take you on an adventure through the weird, wacky, wonderful, and sometimes wicked history of one wayside word. Strange characters, delightful bits, and general joyousness abound, join them as they test each other's etymological expertise!
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Gonzovation is the invention of artist, Ralph Steadman and writer Ceri Levy. Its core belief is compassion for nature and the world around us. In this podcast series, Ralph has sent Ceri to talk to an eclectic group of artists, writers, poets, musicians and conservationists about their passion for wildlife and our environment. Disappear into our guests’ worlds and discover their points of inspiration in the natural world. They share different adventures, perspectives and loves of nature and ...
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Emily and Kyle are joined by science communicator, worm-enthusiast, and SciShow Tangents co-host Ceri Riley. Together they look at the science of randomness, as they explore the tricky yet versatile word stochastic. The trio looks at this word’s older uses in Greek and Latin, particularly by a few well-known mathematicians bearing the name Bernoull…
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Woo boy! It's hot out there, why don't ya grab a nice glass of ice cold lemonade and listen in on everything you did and didn't want to learn about sweat. Are humans the sweatiest of them all? Do fish sweat? What lives in the ecosystem between two people holding hands for the first time? What is it all even for!?? SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go…
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It’s the 100th episode of Butter No Parsnips and what better way to celebrate than poring over the sacred Lexiconicon while Seth has his back turned. And that’s just what Emily and Kyle did when, in the middle of their secretive studies, they found the notably numerable word ‘centiloquium.’ In order to get his ancient text back, Seth must first lea…
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This summer's hottest North American bug is without question, the cicada. They've got everything: neon-colored wing veins, bendy-straw-style exoskeletons, an insatiable thirst for tree goo, and after 17 years of napping, they're bursting out of the ground ready to par-tay! SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to che…
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CORRECTION: Alex was mistaken when telling the story about Ruben Gotay. While still a true story, he was actually explaining Jordany Valdespin's career. Kyle and Emily are joined by Alex Corigliano, co-host of the podcast dedicated to the New York Mets, the Mets Legends Cast. Emily takes everyone out to the ball game to chat about the meaning and o…
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Emily and Kyle go back to school and chat with author, purveyor of grammar and writing tips, and host of the Grammar Bee at your next corporate event, Ellen Jovin! Jovin talks about her passion for language–going all the way back to sentence diagramming in her school days, and continuing into co-founding a company teaching courses in writing and sp…
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Gay Animals with Field Guide to Gay Animals
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It wouldn't be Pride at Tangents if we weren't getting into some science! We're joined by Owen Ever and Laine Kaplan-Levenson, the hosts of a new show from news outlet Canadaland called "Field Guide to Gay Animals." Our conversation ranged far and wide across a myriad of ways queerness is expressed in the animal world and the challenges and joys of…
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Kyle and Emily jump from modern song writing to classical composing, as they explore the distinctly musical word appoggiatura. They talk about appoggiatura’s roots in Italian and beyond. Its meaning was originally related to ‘support,’ but the word later came to be associated with embellishments in classical music. Kyle tells Emily about the techni…
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What might Eloise Bridgerton and Eloise at the Plaza have in common? Aside from a name, Emily and Kyle learn that both can be described by this week’s word, hoyden! Our hosts discuss the many theories surrounding this word: a Dutch origin, a connection to pagan heathens and unkempt heaths, and even a religious connotation. Emily talks about the his…
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It's all right there on the tin - this episode is BANANAS. And not just because we have the most guests we've ever had in Tangents history. Not even just because one of them is a super special surprise RETURN friend of the pod. And not even because we check out some flowers that are way more uncomfortable to look at than you think. No, this episode…
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This week, our hosts chat about families of all kinds--biological and marital, real and mythical, loving and… strained, as they explore the history of the word privign. Kyle reveals some little-known Latin words that came before modern words like “stepson” and “stepdaughter.” He talks about how these step- words became common, and what a “stepmom” …
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Another wild teaser appears! This little snippet is from a bonus, cut-for-time question from our episode on Turtles! You can listen to the rest, and also a bunch more bonus content, on our Patreon. It's one of the best ways you can support the show and keep Tangents going and free for everyone. Head over to Patreon.com/scishowtangents and join in a…
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This week, Emily stumps Kyle with a word whose spelling and pronunciation defy all expectations… umquhile. Emily reveals umquhile’s many definitions, including everything from “late” to “sometimes” to “eventually.” She keeps Kyle in suspense about the word’s spelling for a while, starting with a dive into the um- prefix and its use in British mytho…
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It may seem like cloning really only shows up regularly in science fiction, but it turns out, it's been a sneaky, significant real-world process for a super long time! In this episode we learn about cloning found in nature, labs, and...this very podcast?? SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episod…
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Kyle and Emily trek around the world, and through the wetlands, as they wade into the history of the word vlei. Our hosts begin with this word’s journey through valleys in the Netherlands and swamps in South Africa. They talk about some of the impacts of Dutch colonialism, and the formation of the South African language Afrikaans. Kyle spins beauti…
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Emily takes Kyle from the ocean to the sky this week with the seafaring (and spacefaring) word dunsel. With three potential etymologies, the duo takes a brief stay in a Dutch origin before expanding ever outward to those glorious and historical ships of yore, paintings of which have left viewers with eternal questions such as, “What do all those sa…
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Humanity is bound together by so many qualities, and in this episode, we add Being Goopy to the list. What does that have to do with glue? A whole lot, it turns out - cue some ominous foreshadowing....Memento goopy! SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our fac…
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Kyle grabs the doorknob with his tongue this week to let Emily into the world of the word fomite. And if you’re still around after reading that sentence, then you’ll have no fear of what follows as Kyle decides to plunge us all head first into the subject of disease transmission. Not before, of course, introducing us to that household name Girolamo…
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Introducing Crash Course Pods: The Universe
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No, your eyes and ears don't deceive you - this is, in fact, a super special cross-feed treat from our friends over at Crash Course in the form of the first episode of their brand new show, "Crash Course Pods: The Universe." Hosted by novelist John Green and astrophysicist Dr. Katie Mack, "The Universe" is a podcast about the history of the entire …
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PATREON UNLOCKED - Butter'd Parsnips, ep. 18: "The 'Blog' of 'Unnecessary' Quotation Marks"
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Kyle and Emily are taken on another journey through some misused and abused punctuation—this time with a particularly Y2K bent. They sit down with the founder of the “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks Bethany Keeley-Jonker to discuss blogging, the internet of the aughts, and quotation marks used for emphasis(?) From the quilt of niche blogs st…
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We do a lot of learning on Tangents, so naturally, we've got questions about what learning looks like...for machines! AI and machine learning science communicator Jordan Harrod (https://www.youtube.com/@jordanharrod) lends her expertise to this episode as we definitely for sure learn all there is to know and will ever need to be known about machine…
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Emily calls out to Kyle like a songbird this week to introduce him to the amply avian word roup. Soaring through the word’s Scottish and English uses, Emily shows Kyle the “roups”. From those simple nothing phrases upon which we force alliteration to roup’s somewhat mysterious origins, Kyle discovers just what kind of grave difference the definite …
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Another wild teaser appears! This little snippet is the first part of our revisit of Hygiene and answering even more questions that we didn't get to in the episode. You can listen to the rest, and also a bunch more bonus content, on our Patreon. It's one of the best ways you can support the show and keep Tangents going and free for everyone. Head o…
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