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SciShow Tangents

SciShow Tangents

By: Complexly
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 SciShow Tangents is the lightly competitive knowledge showcase from the geniuses behind the YouTube series SciShow. Every other Tuesday, join Hank Green, Ceri Riley, and Sam Schultz as they try to one-up and amaze each other with weird and funny scientific research... while not getting distracted. There will be tangents about video games, music, weird smells, surprisingly deep insights about life, and of course, poop, but it always comes back to the science.Complexly Science
Episodes
  • Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 19

    Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 19
    Jun 27 2025

    This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on September 30, 2022 titled "Silly Little Bonus Pod."

    Original Patreon description: The Tangents team is back in know your team mode. Listen along to more great icebreakers and send us your answers in the discord!

    SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!

    And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!

    While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:
    Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social
    @rhinoceri on Instagram
    Sam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social
    @im_sam_schultz on Instagram
    Hank: @hankgreen on X
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    23 mins
  • Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 18

    Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 18
    Jun 24 2025

    This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on September 7, 2022 titled "Get to know the Tangents Team!"

    Original Patreon description: Think you know our hosts well? Listen as our lovely hosts dive in and answer some of the internet's best get-to-know-you questions.

    SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!

    And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!

    While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:
    Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social
    @rhinoceri on Instagram
    Sam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social
    @im_sam_schultz on Instagram
    Hank: @hankgreen on X
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    24 mins
  • Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 17

    Bonus Backlog Bonanza - Ep. 17
    Jun 20 2025

    This bonus episode was originally posted on Patreon on August 1, 2022 titled "SciShow Samgents: ANAGRAM."

    Original Patreon description: Listen and play along with the team in this month's bonus episode!

    SciShow Tangents is on YouTube! Go to www.youtube.com/scishowtangents!

    And go to https://complexly.store/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!

    While you're at it, check out the Tangents crew on socials:
    Ceri: @ceriley.bsky.social
    @rhinoceri on Instagram
    Sam: @im-sam-schultz.bsky.social
    @im_sam_schultz on Instagram
    Hank: @hankgreen on X
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    27 mins
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Whether they're talking about literal chemistry or not, they're such a joy to listen to and learn from.

Excellent science chemistry

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A wonderful show, where facts and knowledge meet fun. I follow Tangents for a while now, and it never disappoints.

Fun and smart

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This is one of the few podcasts that really works well with the free form conversation. You'll learn a lot from each episode, but the strange conversational detours to things like Minions is fantastic.

Hilarious nerds, surprisingly educational

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'Very fun and informative pod with a wide variety of topics. From microbes to the Universe itself. The show covers it all in a funny and informative Way.

A really good show!

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Across a vast array of topics, this podcast loosely follows a game show pattern. Hank Green, our charming host claims to hand out ‘Hank Bucks’ to the winners as he sees fit, and there are a couple of regularly appearing ’games’, for example; each episode the co-hosts present stories about the topic du jour, and Hank decides which story is cooler, then he presents two lies and a fact about the topic, and his co-hosts have to figure out which one is true. The topics range from the silly, Poop, Butts, etc…to interesting science, Elephants, Radiation, Gas, Pain, Ants.
It’s silly irreverent fun, and it’s all cool facts about science! Seriously, one of the best things in life!

Silly, science-y fun!

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