Salt

Salt: a mineral so nice that much of early human civilization was based on its procurement! Now we put big chunks of it on tasty pretzels at the mall! 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: Stefan: @itsmestefanchin Ceri: @ceriley Sam: @slamschultz Hank: @hankgreen If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out these links! [Truth or Fail] Lake Peigneur https://www.damninteresting.com/lake-peigneur-the-swirling-vortex-of-doom/ https://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/08/sinkhole-swallowed-11-barges/ Brinacles https://science.howstuffworks.com/environmental/earth/oceanography/underwater-brinicles.htm Salt Hotel https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/bolivia/articles/welcome-to-the-hotel-thats-made-entirely-from-salt/ [Fact Off] Coconut water IV http://www.mdpi.com/1420-3049/14/12/5144 https://podcasts.ufhealth.org/can-coconut-water-mimic-human-plasma/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0735675700900627 https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2011/08/15/139638930/saved-by-the-coconut-water-parsing-coconut-waters-medical-claims https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK154437/ Salt flats for satellite calibration https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Characterization-of-the-Salar-de-Uyuni-for-in-orbit-Lamparelli-Ponzoni/6b6a5037f838a2342d5681b642944fd68c775551 https://academic.oup.com/gji/article/172/1/31/2081107 https://www.nature.com/news/2007/071130/full/news.2007.315.html [Ask the Science Couch] Salt in a wound history https://books.google.com/books?id=29gV_kCmZrIC&pg=PA141 https://www.abc.net.au/life/will-sea-water-help-heal-open-sores/11279036 http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abestwa8t.html Saline solution https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2018/03/31/597666140/why-did-sterile-salt-water-become-the-iv-fluid-of-choice https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4794509/ Nociception https://nba.uth.tmc.edu/neuroscience/m/s2/chapter06.html https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK32659/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2903433/ [Butt One More Thing] Rectal salt glands https://www.jstor.org/stable/1541076?seq=1 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5216465/ https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00364827.1963.10410275?journalCode=ssar20 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 .