Fear Month: Decomposition!

As the SciShow Tangents Month of Fear continues, your hosts get down into the wormy, slimy muck to discuss Ceri’s biggest fear: decomposition! Does that sound too generic to be truly terrifying? That’s what Sam thought too, and now he is also quite scared of decomposing! Boo!Follow us on Twitter @SciShowTangents, where we’ll tweet out topics for upcoming episodes and you can ask the science couch questions! If you want to learn more about any of our main topics, check out this these links:[Truth or Fail]Straw Urinals - https://www.unreservedmedia.com/paris-open-air-urinals/Peepee Day - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/earthnews/6554958/Urinate-on-the-compost-heap-to-save-the-planet-says-the-National-Trust.htmlhttps://grist.org/living/ask-umbra-can-i-pee-in-my-compost-pile/Human Composting - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/washington-first-state-allow-burial-method-human-composting-180972020/[Fact Off]Ocean viruses - https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/9/e1602565.fullhttps://www.ocean.washington.edu/courses/oc400/Arrigo2005.pdfBurying beetles - https://www.fws.gov/Midwest/endangered/insects/ambb/abb_fact.htmlhttps://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/10/news-burying-beetle-nursery-bacteria-fungus-decomposition/[Ask the Science Couch]Food Safetyhttps://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/wcm/connect/fsis-content/internet/main/topics/food-safety-education/get-answers/food-safety-fact-sheets/safe-food-handling/food-safety-tips-for-college-students/ct_indexhttps://food.unl.edu/will-reheating-food-make-it-safe-if-you-forget-refrigerate-ithttps://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/food-technology/bacterial-food-poisoning/https://www.fda.gov/food/consumers/what-you-need-know-about-foodborne-illnessesDecomposershttps://www1.nyc.gov/assets/dsny/docs/tip-sheet-decomposer-id-cpts-id-f.pdfPizza (Quora answer)https://www.quora.com/Is-it-safe-to-eat-pizza-left-out-overnight[Butt One More Thing]A/V plughttp://www.orderofthegooddeath.com/deathly-doodle-leakagehttp://fluidpusher.blogspot.com/2009/10/questions-of-day-jenn-edition.html Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.