Games with Jo Firestone!

Do you want to play a game? Well, we sure do! We're joined by Sam's dream guest Jo Firestone, a comedian, podcaster, and game author and enthusiast to celebrate the joy (and evil) of playing games, especially the games on Tangents! 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 subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible!And go to https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow-tangents to buy some great Tangents merch!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]Researchers turned quitting smoking into competitive sporthttps://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2024/novel-digital-pet-game-within-smoking-cessation-app-increases-user-engagement-with-apps-tools-to-quit-smoking/https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37566442/Scientists watch a hydrogel play ponghttps://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/aug/22/scientists-enable-hydrogel-to-play-and-improve-at-pong-video-gamehttps://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1063433Bonus: Dead salmon FMRI studyhttps://www.psychology.mcmaster.ca/bennett/psy710/readings/BennettDeadSalmon.pdfOregon Trail decision model https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1063290[The Gauntlet]Game Boy Pocket Sonar accessoryhttps://www.outdoorlife.com/fishing/game-boy-fishing-sonar/https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/21/nintendo-game-boy-25-facts-for-its-25th-anniversaryhttps://gameboy.fandom.com/wiki/Game_Boy_Pocket_SonarFoldit players solve puzzles with what moleculeshttps://fold.it/about_foldithttps://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/2024/press-release/https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/foldit-gamers-solve-riddle/AI neural network from floppy disk to electronic gamehttp://www.20q.net/?historyhttps://ecolloq.gsfc.nasa.gov/archive/2006-Spring/announce.burgener.htmlhttps://openreview.net/pdf?id=FlR4WyubayyJenga name in Swahilihttps://www.ox.ac.uk/news/science-blog/jenga-tale-randomness-and-designhttps://www.museumofplay.org/toys/jenga/Candy Land disease epidemichttps://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/candy-land/https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/history-disease-outbreaks-vaccine-timeline/poliohttps://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/07/how-polio-inspired-the-creation-of-candy-land/594424/Jeopardyhttps://www.chicagotribune.com/2007/03/19/jeopardy-has-first-3-way-tie/https://www.npr.org/2009/12/20/121664528/sing-muse-of-the-jeopardy-three-way-tiehttps://j-archive.com/showplayer.php?player_id=3578https://www.jeopardy.com/jbuzz/behind-scenes/breaking-down-four-rare-jeopardy-scenarios100% win rate from high-speed robothttps://ishikawa-vision.org/fusion/Janken/index-e.html[Ask the Science Couch]Game replayability reasons, impacts, and areas of future researchhttps://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED596614.pdfhttps://www.firstpersonscholar.com/the-games-people-replay/https://research.vu.nl/ws/files/3135888/293191.pdfhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875952121000574https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352250X22002652https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1155/2024/5876780Patreon bonus: Gamification, another facet of motivation psychologyhttps://academictechnologies.it.miami.edu/support/course-design-assistance/game-based-learning/index.htmlhttps://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1475760/1/gamification_CHI2016_preprint.pdfhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1875952119300953https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877050921023255https://online.nursing.georgetown.edu/blog/how-to-stop-procrastinating-there-is-a-science-to-it/https://mcgraw.princeton.edu/undergraduates/resources/resource-library/understanding-and-overcoming-procrastination[Butt One More Thing]Original inventor of Scrabble was named Alfred Mosher Buttshttps://time.com/archive/6909539/scrabble/https://www.museumofplay.org/toys/scrabble/ 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.