Darkness | SciShow Tangents Podcast

Head to https://manukora.com/tangents to get 3 FREE Gifts with your Starter Kit - a $25 value! The question plaguing us this episode is, how dark can it really get? Turns out (according to some), not that dark! Unless you're at the bottom of the ocean or floating in the all too-eerie void of deep space, you're always gonna have some photons hitting your face. (I'm pretty sure I accidentally stole this rhyme right out of Hank's poem, but you'll just have to listen to know for sure...) 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 https://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! And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to find great SciShow Tangents merch! A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley 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 [The Gauntlet] Next December 23rd winter solstice SOLAR spacecraft went down Reorientation of sun instrument 23.5°S latitude alternate name Tapetum lucidum color Hormone in darkness Famous winter solstice sunlight site [Trivia Question] Last December 23rd winter solstice https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/december-solstice.html [Fact Off] Carrots can help you make rhodopsin but not improve night vision https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/do-carrots-help-you-see-in-the-dark https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/do-carrots-really-help-you-see-in-the-dark https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10484191/ https://www.livescience.com/carrots-see-in-the-dark.html https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fact-or-fiction-carrots-improve-your-vision/ Dogs are more likely to steal food disobediently when it’s dark https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10071-012-0579-6 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130211090840.htm https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/en/persons/juliane-kaminski/publications/ [Butt One More Thing] English words for excrement collectors (gong farmer, night soil men) https://www.oed.com/dictionary/night-soil_n?tab=etymology https://www.oed.com/dictionary/gong-farmer_n?tab=meaning_and_use#992848879 https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/when-american-cities-were-full-of-crap https://ojs.ethnobiology.org/index.php/ebl/article/view/1351/705 #scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents