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September 5, 2023 48 mins

Sam's out this week, but worry not: he found another Sam to replace him! Sam Jones, host of the podcast Tiny Matters that is! Sam and her co-host, our own Deboki Chakravarti, join Ceri and Hank in our first ever team-based episode of Tangents! Two teams enter, one team leaves! 

What more Tiny Matters? Check out the podcast here: https://www.acs.org/pressroom/tiny-matters.html

And check out Deboki at https://twitter.com/okidoki_boki , and Sam at https://twitter.com/samjscience

SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents to check out this episode with the added bonus of seeing our faces! 

Head to 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! A big thank you to Patreon subscribers Garth Riley and Glenn Trewitt for helping to make the show possible!

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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]

Project Gasbuggy 

https://www.nytimes.com/1970/02/22/archives/project-gasbuggy-and-catch85-thats-krypton85-one-of-the-radioactive.html

https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,899941,00.html

https://books.google.com/books?id=g9QDAAAAMBAJ&dq=%22project+gasbuggy%22&pg=PA102#v=onepage&q=%22project%20gasbuggy%22&f=false

Operation Big Itch

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13623699908409460

https://documents.theblackvault.com/documents/biological/bigitch.pdf

Operation North Pole (Project Cirrus)

https://www.ge.com/news/reports/cool-science-vonnegut-ge-research

https://alachuacounty.us/Depts/epd/EPAC/General%20Electric%20History%20Of%20Project%20Cirrus%20July%201952%20ORIGINAL.pdf

Brilliant Pebbles

https://www.llnl.gov/archives/1980s/brilliant-pebbles

https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/clementine/in-depth/

https://highfrontier.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/The-Rise-and-Fall-of-Brilliant-Pebbles-Baucom.pdf

[Ask the Science Couch]

Smallest organisms: ultramicrobacteria and Candidate Phyla Radiation

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9297842/

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1134/S0026261712040054

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC243725/

https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jsme2/16/2/16_2_67/_article

https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms7372

https://newscenter.lbl.gov/2015/02/27/ultra-small-bacteria/  

[Butt One More Thing]

Big-bottomed ants (Atta laevigata / hormiga culona) 

https://www.atlasobscura.com/foods/big-bottomed-ants-hormigas-culonas

https://books.google.com/books?id=NebIEAAAQBAJ&pg=PT187&lpg=PT187


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