Rewind Ep. 11 - Mucus | SciShow Tangents Podcast

Original Airdate: January 22, 2019 Mucus grosses people out. Whether it’s coming out of your nose or slime oozing from an animal, it’s not really a pleasant substance. But scientifically, mucus is super cool—it can be used for protection, hunting, lubrication, or plain old stickiness. Why do some cephalopods spew out specialized mucus? Does slathering snail slime on your face actually do anything to your skin? And could eating boogers be… good? 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] http://science.sciencemag.org/content/328/5979/704 https://www.mbari.org/mbari-researchers-discover-what-vampire-squids-eat-its-not-what-you-think/ https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b94c/447075249a39cac514cbb3c6bf24c4e8306c.pdf https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4052311/ [Fact Off] Snail mucus: Parasitic worms: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2010/12/02/a-new-treatment-for-bowel-problems-eating-1000-parasitic-worm-eggs/#.W-ICt3pKgW8 https://www.ecco-ibd.eu/index.php/publications/congress-abstract-s/abstracts-2015/item/p389-a-double-blind-clinical-trial-on-trichuris-suis.html [Ask the Science Couch] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11465519 https://aem.asm.org/content/81/1/332.long https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/gene/727897 https://virologyj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1743-422X-3-99 [Butt One More Thing] https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/phenomena/2016/05/10/how-this-fish-survives-in-a-sea-cucumbers-bum/ #scishow #podcast #comedy #science #education #scishowtangents