Feathers | SciShow Tangents Podcast

Check out http://rocketmoney.com/scishow to start managing your personal finances today. Thank you to Rocket Money for sponsoring today's video! #rocketmoney #personalfinance It may be well-known that hope is the thing with feathers, but how much is known about feathers themselves? Turns out, plenty! From shrub grouses to shuttlecocks and all the pea-babies (diminutive for peacocks, definitely for sure) in between, come soar on the delightfully complex wings of knowledge with us! 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 [Truth or Fail] Dermestid beetles on dino feather in amber https://www.science.org/content/article/feathered-dinosaurs-discovered https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/986124 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/lice-filled-dinosaur-feathers-found-trapped-100-million-year-old-amber-180973727/ https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/dermestid-beetles-feasted-on-dinosaur-feathers Badminton shuttlecock dino-birdie https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils/liaoning-diorama/a-feathered-tyrant https://australian.museum/learn/dinosaurs/fact-sheets/dilong-paradoxus/ https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1030468 Roboduck with dino feathers https://www.audubon.org/news/new-aquatic-dinosaur-find-strange-and-startling-avian-hodgepodge https://www.newscientist.com/article/2414147-dinosaurs-evolved-feathers-to-scare-prey-suggests-robot-experiment/ https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/02/robo-dinosaur-scares-grasshoppers-to-shed-light-on-why-dinos-evolved-feathers/ [Trivia Question] Speed of peacock tail feather shaking to signal interest to mates https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0152759 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0207247 https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/peacock-crests-are-vibration-sensors/578656/ https://gizmodo.com/the-physics-of-peacock-tail-feathers-is-even-more-dazzl-1772653586 [Fact Off] Turning waste chicken feathers into a flavorless, edible meat paste https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/animals-slaughtered-for-meat?time=latest https://phys.org/news/2017-09-bird-feathers-food.html https://lup.lub.lu.se/luur/download?func=downloadFile&recordOId=9055668&fileOId=9055675 https://www.thechemicalengineer.com/news/lund-team-turns-chicken-feathers-into-food/ https://www.rechargenews.com/energy-transition/chicken-feathers-can-help-generate-clean-energy-say-researchers/2-1-1539841?zephr_sso_ott=oZW4Dr Male sandgrouse belly feathers soak up water to carry back to their babies https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2022.0878 https://academic.oup.com/condor/article/69/4/323/5229138 https://ebird.org/species/namsan1 [Ask the Science Couch] Feather growth and development (and altricial vs. precocial baby birds) https://academy.allaboutbirds.org/feathers-article/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4380223/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6917565/ [Butt One More Thing] Fright molt: losing tail feathers as an antipredator adaptation https://academic.oup.com/beheco/article/17/6/1046/319763 #scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents