SciShow Tangents | Spit | SciShow Tangents Podcast @SciShowTangents | Uploaded February 2023 | Updated October 2024, 16 minutes ago.
You need to clean a smudge of your glasses? Use some spit! Gotta make some food moist so you can swallow it? Why not try spit? Lips too dry to whistle a tune? My friend, spit is the bodily excretion for you! Spit: don't leave home without it!
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[Trivia Question]
Minor salivary glands
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-may-have-discovered-new-organ-set-salivary-glands-hidden-your-head-180976104
[Fact Off]
Bowerbird making “paint” out of saliva
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996615
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2005.0908-8857.03549.x
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347213001097?via%3Dihub
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2005.0325
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/satin-bowerbird/
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/satin-bowerbird/
Spitting cobras evolved to defend against hominids throwing rocks
newsweek.com/how-it-feels-acobra-spits-face-revealed-excruciating-detail-1749490
earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/discoveries/spitting-cobras-may-have-evolved-unique-venom-to-defend-from-ancient-humans
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/01/study-did-cobras-first-spit-venom-scare-pre-humans
[Ask the Science Couch]
Compressing salivary glands aka “gleeking”
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542272
health.com/mind-body/what-is-gleeking
http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/pregastric/salivary.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Dung-spitting competitions
huffpost.com/entry/dung-spitting-contest-northern-ireland_n_55ae6aebe4b0a9b9485290c1
ripleys.com/weird-news/bokdrol-spoeg
sbnation.com/lookit/2014/8/1/5960987/spitting-antelope-poop-is-a-sport-kudu-bokdrol-spoeg
#scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents
You need to clean a smudge of your glasses? Use some spit! Gotta make some food moist so you can swallow it? Why not try spit? Lips too dry to whistle a tune? My friend, spit is the bodily excretion for you! Spit: don't leave home without it!
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 and Tom Mosner 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
[Trivia Question]
Minor salivary glands
smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-may-have-discovered-new-organ-set-salivary-glands-hidden-your-head-180976104
[Fact Off]
Bowerbird making “paint” out of saliva
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3996615
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.2005.0908-8857.03549.x
sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0003347213001097?via%3Dihub
royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsbl.2005.0325
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/satin-bowerbird/
https://australian.museum/learn/animals/birds/satin-bowerbird/
Spitting cobras evolved to defend against hominids throwing rocks
newsweek.com/how-it-feels-acobra-spits-face-revealed-excruciating-detail-1749490
earthtouchnews.com/discoveries/discoveries/spitting-cobras-may-have-evolved-unique-venom-to-defend-from-ancient-humans
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/01/study-did-cobras-first-spit-venom-scare-pre-humans
[Ask the Science Couch]
Compressing salivary glands aka “gleeking”
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK542272
health.com/mind-body/what-is-gleeking
http://www.vivo.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/pregastric/salivary.html
[Butt One More Thing]
Dung-spitting competitions
huffpost.com/entry/dung-spitting-contest-northern-ireland_n_55ae6aebe4b0a9b9485290c1
ripleys.com/weird-news/bokdrol-spoeg
sbnation.com/lookit/2014/8/1/5960987/spitting-antelope-poop-is-a-sport-kudu-bokdrol-spoeg
#scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents
