Fear Month: Failure with Caitlin Hofmeister!

Here at Tangents, we don't mess around when it comes to Halloween. So each week in October, the topic will be one of our greatest fears! Hank was apparently too afraid to even be on this episode, so instead special guest Caitlin Hofmeister confronts her fear of failure as we tell her tales of science gone wrong! Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links: [Truth or Fail] Bubble Wrap https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/accidental-invention-bubble-wrap-180971325/ Whoopee Cushion https://torontoist.com/2013/04/toronto-invents-the-whoopee-cushion/ Vaseline https://www.dummies.com/education/history/american-history/the-history-of-an-incredibly-useful-u-s-product-vaseline/ https://www.damninteresting.com/nugget/story-of-vaseline/ [Fact Off] Mosquito self-limiting gene Four Pests campaign http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/bodyhorrors/2014/02/26/mao-four-pests-china-disease/#.XKzfDOtKhxw https://io9.gizmodo.com/china-s-worst-self-inflicted-environmental-disaster-th-5927112 https://chineseposters.net/themes/four-pests.php http://www.zonaeuropa.com/20061130_1.htm https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127087/ [Ask the Science Couch] Killifish https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6317/1305 https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/against-tide-fish-adapts-quickly-lethal-levels-pollution/ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/09/science/atlantic-killifish-evolution-pollution.html Radiotrophic fungi https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/radiation-helps-fungi-grow/ https://mbio.asm.org/content/7/6/e01483-16 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0000457 Birds https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/04/140424223057.htm https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1365-2435.12283 https://www.cell.com/trends/ecology-evolution/pdf/S0169-5347(16)00019-7.pdf [Butt One More Thing] Artificial poop pills https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/sham-poo-washes-out/493811/ https://academic.oup.com/jid/article/214/2/173/2572105 Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .