Blue | SciShow Tangents Podcast

From trustworthy to calming, sad to steadfast, and, of course, jeans - the color blue means a lot of things to a lot of people. Join Team Tangents as we delve into this deceptively complicated primary color!

A big thank you to Patreon subscriber Garth Riley for helping to make the show possible!

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[Trivia Question]

YInMn blue unnamed element

[Fact Off]

Blue dye blocking ATP for spinal cord injuries

Vivianite blue found on bones, shells, and other remains

[Ask the Science Couch]

Color psychology: blue and marketing/logos

[Butt One More Thing]

Evidence of blue cheese in Austrian paleofeces

[RockelLin]

Sam's song somehow turned I'm Blue into an Owl City song and I'm enjoying it immensely.

[Jenny-fkke]

I love the science poem way too much. “There’s also blueberry pie” made my day.

[Trethan]

So I used to live in Japan, and Japanese is one of the languages that did not have separate words for blue and green for a long time. Midori (緑) is their word for green but it is fairly new, popularized only in the last century. Before that they mostly used Ao (青) for both blues and greens

This has caused a couple interesting quirks in the language. The literal translation for a green traffic light is still blue light, even though the actual light color looks no different from other stoplights around the world.

A common last name is Aoyama, which translated literally means Blue Mountain. While this might seem strange to us now, this probably just means that these people lived by a lush GREEN mountain when they got their last name.

[morgagnomic]

OMG Sam! The song remix OMG. Ok, that's it, this song, and Ceri's Shanty, and Hank's Sleep song are just *chef's kiss* and need to be collected into an album! I love you folx so much!

[disky]

Cap'n Crunch, DRY?! Hank, you maniac.

Sam's poem is the best, most correct and only possible choice for this episode, deserving of the highest honors in science and the arts.

[sheilathepotter]

I'm a potter, and I make porcelain tableware in a variety of colours. My most popular items are always the blue ones. I make and sell double the amount of blue compared to other colours (red, yellow, green, etc). Green is my second most popular. Orange is by far the least popular colour. I frequently ask people their favourite colours and it is almost always blue or green. My favourite colour is yellow though. 💛

[TheLeftAlone]

I usually listen to their podcast on Spotify but this time I need to go on here to express how much i love Sam's opening song

[andyanderson]

Ive got to pause to say, Sam, that blue song will be sung with tears shed and smiles spread at my funeral, and I'll ascend on gossamer threads of the purest aquamarine. Thank you.

[SamLugo]

My dog, Blue, was very excited that you made an episode about him. Or he may have been excited because I kept saying his name. But I like to think it was the podcast episode.

[Kaitybardot]

Wait Ceri and Hank completely skipped over recognizing how great the song was! I’m gonna have faith and just assume Sam edited it out out of humility with a touch of embarrassment?

Edit: after going back and watching closely I don’t think so. So thank you for that amazingness Sam!

[theperfectbotsteve]

woa woa woa i dont usually watch the YouTube videos but instead lisen to it on google podcasts if every poem comes with video now like the blue dancing aliens im going to rewatch every episode just to see that

[GrayskiesBlackclouds]

I listened to the podcast on my way to work, but I had to come to the video to see a visual of the poem. It did not disappoint.

[SuperNerdKid]

The opening song science poem scene made me glad I switched from just listening to the pod to watching it.

[mariafranceschini]

Sam! Your Blue, remix song is *chefs kiss*
Sam thinks, "I've done all the poems I can think of." "Time to take it up a notch!"

"But, with great power comes great responsibility." - Spiderman

"You are not in control of the notches."
- John Green

[ponyote]

Ceri represents the Scooby-Doo fandom so well. Thank you!

[MrARock]

That blue dye #1 fact was wild! I immediately imagined an episode of House where a patient comes in with a broken spine and House goes to the hospital break room and grabs a vial of blue food coloring and then just squirts it into the saline bag.

[charlotteb]

literally only just up to sam's song but had to like JUST for that what a momenttt

[stephonthemoon]

Did Sam’s song just cure my seasonal depression?! No, but it sure lifted my mood!

Seriously though, I’m so glad I found this podcast.

[cottoncandy-tk]

I like the example of snow. I believe Joshua Weissman visited iceland and a local had so many words for ice. My mind was blown. I only know ice. But it means so many different things to the locals.

[heatherjohnson]

The blue song tho! Good job Sam you made me smile and giggle thank you. 🥰