Games with Jo Firestone!

Do you want to play a game? Well, we sure do! We're joined by Sam's dream guest Jo Firestone, a comedian, podcaster, and game author and enthusiast to celebrate the joy (and evil) of playing games, especially the games on Tangents! SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! Head to www.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! A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible! And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch! 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 [Truth or Fail: Express] Researchers turned quitting smoking into competitive sport https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2024/novel-digital-pet-game-within-smoking-cessation-app-increases-user-engagement-with-apps-tools-to-quit-smoking/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37566442/ Scientists watch a hydrogel play pong https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/22/scientists-enable-hydrogel-to-play-and-improve-at-pong-video-game https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1063433 Bonus: Dead salmon FMRI study https://www.psychology.mcmaster.ca/bennett/psy710/readings/BennettDeadSalmon.pdf Oregon Trail decision model https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1063290 [The Gauntlet] Game Boy Pocket Sonar accessory https://www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/game-boy-fishing-sonar/ https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/21/nintendo-game-boy-25-facts-for-its-25th-anniversary https://gameboy.fandom.com/wiki/Game_Boy_Pocket_Sonar Foldit players solve puzzles with what molecules https://fold.it/about_foldit https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/press-release/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/foldit-gamers-solve-riddle/ AI neural network from floppy disk to electronic game http://www.20q.net/?history https://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/2006-Spring/announce.burgener.html https://openreview.net/pdf?id=FlR4Wyubayy Jenga name in Swahili https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/jenga-tale-randomness-and-design https://www.museumofplay.org/toys/jenga/ Candy Land disease epidemic https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/candy-land/ https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/history-disease-outbreaks-vaccine-timeline/polio https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/07/how-polio-inspired-the-creation-of-candy-land/594424/ Jeopardy https://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/03/19/jeopardy-has-first-3-way-tie/ https://www.npr.org/2009/12/20/121664528/sing-muse-of-the-jeopardy-three-way-tie https://j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=3578 https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/behind-scenes/breaking-down-four-rare-jeopardy-scenarios 100% win rate from high-speed robot https://ishikawa-vision.org/fusion/Janken/index-e.html [Ask the Science Couch] Game replayability reasons, impacts, and areas of future research https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED596614.pdf https://www.firstpersonscholar.com/the-games-people-replay/ https://research.vu.nl/ws/files/3135888/293191.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875952121000574 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X22002652 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1155/2024/5876780 Patreon bonus: Gamification, another facet of motivation psychology https://academictechnologies.it.miami.edu/support/course-design-assistance/game-based-learning/index.html https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475760/1/gamification_CHI2016_preprint.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875952119300953 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050921023255 https://online.nursing.georgetown.edu/blog/how-to-stop-procrastinating-there-is-a-science-to-it/ https://mcgraw.princeton.edu/undergraduates/resources/resource-library/understanding-and-overcoming-procrastination [Butt One More Thing] Original inventor of Scrabble was named Alfred Mosher Butts https://time.com/archive/6909539/scrabble/ https://www.museumofplay.org/toys/scrabble/ 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 .