Plagues with John Green | SciShow Tangents Podcast

Would it really be a conversation about plagues if noted plague-hater and tuberculosis-fighter John Green wasn't a part of it? In this episode John makes his Tangents debut at last, and we dig deep into whether we could fight an old, fat beaver and win, among other things. 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] Hunter-gatherer from 5000 years ago infected with plague https://www.livescience.com/5000-year-old-man-had-plague.html https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/oldest-strain-of-black-death-bacteria-found-in-5000-year-old-human-remains#Less-deadly-and-less-contagious Isaac Newton plague cure https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/sir-isaac-newtons-plague-prescription-toad-vomit-lozenges-180975039/ https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/isaac-newton-plague Sewer pipes in Hanoi let plague-bearing rats breed https://feralatlas.supdigital.org/poster/colonial-sewers-led-to-more-rats https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/hanoi-rat-massacre-1902 [The Scientific Definition] Four thieves vinegar https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7485289/ https://nutritionalgeography.faculty.ucdavis.edu/clove/ https://www.si.edu/es/object/die-mondsuchtigen:nmah_994026 The Vicary method / The live chicken treatment https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1472106/ https://muse.jhu.edu/article/665487 https://libguides.umn.edu/healthmisinformation Zenexton https://www.jstor.org/stable/44444207 https://archive.org/details/b30341681/page/n7/mode/2up [Ask the Science Couch] HIV resistance through genetic mutation and selective pressure (possibly from plagues) https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC1377146/ https://jmg.bmj.com/content/42/3/205 https://www.nature.com/news/2005/050307/full/news050307-15.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050325234239.htm https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC299980/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16880184/ Plague doctors probably didn’t look like birds (until later / after theater) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Paul_F%C3%BCrst,_Der_Doctor_Schnabel_von_Rom_(Holl%C3%A4nder_version).png https://deathscent.com/2020/05/15/the-redolent-plague-doctor/ https://www.livescience.com/plague-doctors.html [Butt One More Thing] Using pastes made with human feces to treat bubonic plague https://blogs.loc.gov/loc/2021/04/medieval-pandemic-cures-that-were-medieval/ https://hosted.lib.uiowa.edu/histmed/plague/ #scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents