SciShow Tangents | Rewind Ep. 7 - Parasites with Sally Le Page | SciShow Tangents Podcast @SciShowTangents | Uploaded September 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Welcome to SciShow Tangents Rewind! Each week, we'll be bringing you an old episode of the show, in original airing order. Whether you're listening through for the first time or rediscovering old favorites, there's something for everyone! Enjoy!
We’re joined by evolutionary biologist and science communicator Dr. Sally LePage to talk all about parasites! How did we deal with them before modern medicine? Are there any parasites bigger than their hosts? And is parasite-ception a thing!?
Original Airdate: December 25, 2018
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[Fact Off]
Fruit fly fungus:
Frog flatworm:
nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/02/13/a-flurry-of-frog-legs
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330773
link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00436-011-2451-z
nytimes.com/1996/10/13/us/many-reports-of-deformities-among-frogs-are-puzzling.html
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636111
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cuckoos:
audubon.org/news/the-brilliant-ways-parasitic-birds-terrorize-their-victims
https://web.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Brood_Parasitism.html
Plants:
http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7496.html
https://csfs.colostate.edu/forest-management/common-forest-insects-diseases/dwarf-mistletoe/
[Butt One More Thing] - pick the one that we end up using (probably Hank’s)
Tick anus:
medscape.com/viewarticle/717730_2
Poop bean sprout:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192079
Welcome to SciShow Tangents Rewind! Each week, we'll be bringing you an old episode of the show, in original airing order. Whether you're listening through for the first time or rediscovering old favorites, there's something for everyone! Enjoy!
We’re joined by evolutionary biologist and science communicator Dr. Sally LePage to talk all about parasites! How did we deal with them before modern medicine? Are there any parasites bigger than their hosts? And is parasite-ception a thing!?
Original Airdate: December 25, 2018
Want more SciShow Tangents? Check out hundreds more episodes of our podcast here: https://scishow-tangents.simplecast.com, or wherever you get your podcasts!
Head to patreon.com/SciShowTangents to 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 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
#scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents
[Fact Off]
Fruit fly fungus:
Frog flatworm:
nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2013/02/13/a-flurry-of-frog-legs
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4330773
link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00436-011-2451-z
nytimes.com/1996/10/13/us/many-reports-of-deformities-among-frogs-are-puzzling.html
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4636111
[Ask the Science Couch]
Cuckoos:
audubon.org/news/the-brilliant-ways-parasitic-birds-terrorize-their-victims
https://web.stanford.edu/group/stanfordbirds/text/essays/Brood_Parasitism.html
Plants:
http://ipm.ucanr.edu/PMG/PESTNOTES/pn7496.html
https://csfs.colostate.edu/forest-management/common-forest-insects-diseases/dwarf-mistletoe/
[Butt One More Thing] - pick the one that we end up using (probably Hank’s)
Tick anus:
medscape.com/viewarticle/717730_2
Poop bean sprout:
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3192079
