Games with Jo Firestone | SciShow Tangents Podcast

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! 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: 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/ #scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents